Board members criticize the school's Governing Board and management over noncompliance, bond issues.
Fulton Science Academy Middle School lost its appeal to the state Board of Education for a charter this morning, so the school will be closed in July. The school's charter through Fulton County Schools expires June 30. Angela Lasseter, a representative of the school's Governing Board asked the state board to wait 30 days to make their decision so all the information could be heard and documents read. "It impacts so many of our parents, including me. "Hearing both sides and all of the documentation is critical to making an informed objective opinion," she said. But the board members said Department of Education staff have been working with the school's administration for months, ever since the December 2011 charter renewal application …
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At a key Dec. 20 vote, Fulton County Schools Superintendent Robert Avossa is urging the Board of Education to vote down Fulton Science Academy Middle School's charter to operate for eight more years.
At a key Dec. 20 vote, Fulton County Schools Superintendent Robert Avossa is urging the Board of Education to vote down Fulton Science Academy Middle School's request to operate for eight more years in Alpharetta. "It has never been my intention to close the school," Avossa said at a press briefing a day before the BOE vote. But he argued that an eight-year extension is inappropriate for financial reasons, and insisted on a three-year extension. Yet a three-year extension is not one of the BOE's options in the vote scheduled for Tuesday. The charter school insists on eight years, and that's what their application says. So the BOE must either discard Avossa's advice and charter for eight years, or kill it altogether and wait for a new …
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7:57 am on Saturday, December 31, 2011
You are right. You are matching wits with someone who is unencumbered by thought. In poor economic times the weak rely on rumor and innuendo to disparage classes of people that are different. Edmund Burke said, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act". The action of the legislative delegation is a first step. Good men and women won't remain silent. Justice prevails. I hope you have a blessed and… more ›
MarkMunoz
6:45 pm on Monday, May 14, 2012
Yawn When will you give up the pathetic online comments that are thinly disguised to create propaganda for Gulen "inspired" schools? It isn't working. more ›