Schools

District to Consider Charter Petition Thursday

The district had announced a special meeting on June 30. Cherokee Charter Academy is now on the June 16 agenda.

A decision on the fate of the county's first charter school could come Thursday.

The Cherokee County School District was to discuss the Cherokee Charter Academy during a specially called meeting at 7:30 p.m. June 30. That gathering may not be necessary. According to the agenda for the June 16 Cherokee County Board of Education meeting, school board member Kim Cochran will bring up the item.

With the beginning of Cherokee Charter's inaugural school year just months away, .

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Cherokee Charter Academy's quest to gain approval last week when the district threatened to report the school to the Georgia Attorney General's Office for not responding to a .

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As the , , readers have asked to see the petition that the board will use to make its decision.

Click on the PDFs on this page for the petition as well as the school's response to the board's 2010 denial of its charter.


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