DeKalb Board Dumps Consideration of 6-12th Grade School Structure From Its 5-Year Proposal
There will be five public meetings on DeKalb's five-year school organization draft proposal in January, including one at Miller Grove High School in Lithonia.
After hearing from the public on specifics in its five-year school organization draft proposal, the DeKalb County Board of Education has decided it will not consider repurposing some schools into a sixth through twelfth grade structure. At Thursday's called meeting at the school board headquarters in Stone Mountain, DeKalb County School District (DCSD) superintendent Cheryl Atkinson said they've "heard loud and clear" about the issue: folks didn't like it. "We've made a lot of adjustments," to the proposal, she said. Also gone from consideration is the K-8 school set-up. See attached: A PDF of the revised draft five-year school organization proposal. DCSD says it must submit the draft proposal on school organization by January 2013 so it …
