Schools

Cherokee Charter Gains Key Approval

Charter committee recommends the Georgia Board of Education approve the school on Tuesday.

Three days after theΒ , a committee of the state Board of Education has recommended it for approval.

"The charter committee is recommending approval to the full state board," said Justin Pauly, a spokesman with the Georgia Department of Education. "Cherokee is in that group to be voted as a state-chartered special school."

The full board will meet by conference call at 9 a.m. Tuesday to decide the fate of Cherokee Charter and 10 other state-commissioned schools still in the lurch after aΒ .

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The call will be held at the Georgia Department of Education on the 20th floor of the East Tower. The department is located at 205 Jesse Hill Jr. Drive SE, Atlanta


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