Four Middle Georgia school systems will get a total of more than $15 million from the Race to the Top grant during the next four school years.

Bibb, Jones, Peach and Pulaski schools will benefit from the federal school-improvement grants. Bibb will get the largest chunk, more than $13 million.

According to the state Department of Education, Peach will get nearly $1.2 million, Jones about $570,000 and Pulaski about $338,000.

The Bibb County district says Superintendent Sylvia McGee and other representatives from Bibb County attended a meeting at the Georgia Department of Education about the grant.

They say allocations for the 26 participating districts are based on the federal Title I formula, which counts the number of needy children in the district.

According to the GaDOE, that means Bibb County will receive $13,297,398 during the next four years.

The man who runs Bleckley County government stepped down Thursday, says Sheriff Harold Lancaster.

Sole County Commissioner Mike Polsky left a letter for him, Polsky's secretary and the county's probate judge, saying that he resigned effective at midnight Thursday, said Lancaster.

The sheriff says Polsky cited "health problems and family problems and all the flak he'd been taking about having to raise taxes."

Polsky, commissioner for six years, could not be reached for comment.

"He had done an outstanding job, but he had some health problems," said Lancaster. The sheriff said Polsky had seen his cardiologist earlier in the week, "and he told him he had to slow down."

He said Polsky was not on the job Friday.

Probate judge Kenneth Powell will fill in as sole commissioner until a special election can be held. Lancaster said that probably won't be until March.