(WXIA) -- Tuesday is National Pancake Day, and all Atlanta-area IHOP locations are celebrating by offering free short stacks to customers who support Children's Miracle Network.

Every year, IHOP restaurants raise money for children's hospitals nationwide, including Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, on National Pancake Day. Diners have the option of making a donation in exchange for free buttermilk pancakes.

Reigning Miss Georgia Maggie Bridges stopped by the IHOP in Chamblee Tuesday morning, where she served breakfast and spoke with Children's Miracle Network Champion Sutton Burnett. Other local Miracle Children visited the IHOP restaurants in Peachtree City, Smyrna and Woodstock.

Visit ihoppancakeday.com to find a participating IHOP location near you.

ATLANTA -- A former Delta Air Lines managerial employee will spend time in federal prison after pleading guilty to his part in a scheme to defraud the company.

Paul Anderson, 57, was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. He must also pay more than $36 million in restitution and forfeit his retirement accounts.

Prosecutors said Anderson and a co-defendant, 62-year-old Michael Yedor, submitted false invoices to Delta for work that was never performed. The invoices came from Airborne Voice and Data, a company Yedor claimed to own.

Anderson was hired by Northwest Airlines in 1979 and began defrauding the airline as early as 1999, according to investigators. Delta bought Northwest in 2008, and Anderson became a Minneapolis-based Delta employee a year later, when the two companies merged.

(WXIA) -- Georgia Connections Academy, a free statewide virtual K-12 school, will begin accepting applications for the 2015-16 school year next month.

Enrollment opens Mar. 3. The school can support 4,000 students; spaces are limited and families are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

A free parent information session will be held Tuesday, Mar. 10 at 6 p.m. at the Hampton Inn Atlanta-Perimeter Center, which is located at 769 Hammond Drive in Sandy Springs. Teachers and currently enrolled families will answer questions and go over the school's curriculum at the session.

For more information about Georgia Connections Academy, visit connectionsacademy.com.