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26 | APRIL 19— MAY2,2013 | www.ReporterNewspapers.net
COMMUNITY
BCN endorses new
Atlanta Classical Academy
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school’s charter petition.
Two members representing Garden
Hills and Buckhead Forest on the BCN
abstained from voting.
Charter schools have more autono
my than traditional public schools but
are expected to meet higher academ
ic standards. Atlanta Classical will use a
classical education learning model, one
that promotes literacy in Western tradi
tions and the classics.
Buckhead Forest pressed for more in
formation on where the school would
be located. Matthew Kirby, chairman
of the group, said the group is declin
ing to release this information “till the
11th hour.”
“You can understand our dilemma,”
Kirby told BCN members. “We are try
ing to put an asset in place that would
serve the community. We don’t have ap
proval yet and landlords, it turns out, are
pretty smart and so it’s very difficult to
negotiate your best and final deal, using
public dollars I might add, if you have to
disclose where you hope to be ahead of
time. So there’s a taxpayer perspective to
this thing. It’s not in any of our interests
to disclose this before we are approved.”
Kirby had previously said the school
facility itself would be paid for with pri
vate donations. Asked to clarify, Kirby
said the charter school would lease space
initially, but that private donations will
pay for a permanent building.
Under the current proposal, Atlanta
Classical Academy will be a K-10 school
with an enrollment of 700 students.
If the state and Atlanta Board of Edu
cation approves the school’s charter, it
could open in 2014.
Buckhead attorney Glenn Delk pre
sented the letter, though he was not op
timistic about its chances of the charter
petition being approved by the Atlanta
Board of Education.
“If I had to make a prediction right
“If I had to make
a prediction right
now, the Atlanta
Board of Education
will deny the
petition.”
- GLENN DELK
ATTORNEY
now, the Atlanta Board of Educa
tion will deny the petition,” Delk said.
“I don’t believe they’re going to grant
any more district-authorized charters.
They’re going to force them to go to the
state commission.”
Board of Education member Nancy
Meister, who represents the North Atlan
ta cluster of schools, said charter approvals
can be difficult. “Nothing has come be
fore the board yet,” Meister said. “I’m
not opposed to opening charter schools.
It’s got to go through the process. It has
to have the parent community support.”
Meister said she did not feel that the
North Atlanta cluster will face capacity
problems, something that Atlanta Clas
sical Academy supporters say would be
a benefit of opening the school. Atlan
ta Public Schools plan to open the new
North Atlanta High this fall.
“There is no capacity issue at the
middle and high school levels, and we
feel like we have a plan in place for the
elementary schools as well,” Meister
said. “We do have vacant buildings we
have in other parts of the city that we
can open up to charter schools.”
E. Rivers PTA case nearing
a resolution
BY DAN WHISHT
danwhisenhunt@reporternewspapers.net
A member of the E. Rivers Elementa
ry Parent Teacher Association accused of
stealing association funds is negotiating
a plea, Fulton County District Attorney
Paul Howard said.
Howard spoke at the April 11 Buck-
head Council of Neighborhoods meet
ing and answered a question about the
case. In April 2012, Maryam Arjomand
was arrested on charges of felony theft.
Arjomand was accused of stealing more
than $57,000 from the PTA. Police al
lege that Arjomand received checks
from donors to the Buckhead school
group and deposited the checks into a
personal account.
Howard said the DA’s office investi
gated the matter to make sure that there
was no additional money slated for the
PTA that didn’t make it into the orga
nization’s bank account. Arjomand paid
the money back, Howard said.
“Right now they are negotiating a
plea and as soon as we get that done, we
hope to have that done probably with
in the next 30 to 45 days,” Howard said.
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