Avery Elementary Inducts Junior Beta Club Members

Fifty students at the local school received the honor.

Avery Elementary School inducted 50 students in to the National Junior Beta Club late last month. Students received this honor by demonstrating worthy character, academic excellence, and a consistent commendable attitude. The Club’s purpose is to promote scholarship, leadership, and citizenship at the school and in the community.  Cherokee County School Board Chair Janet Read, who is seated onstage, was the ceremony’s guest speaker. Inductees pictured include: Lilly Steiner, Collin Thomas, Matthew Thompson, Sarah Thompson, Lyriel Todd, Hannah West, Alyssa Williams, Alex Young, John Zarzycki and Dilyn Zertuche.

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Kennesaw State Names Creekiew's Solon Outstanding Honors Student

The senior at Creekview High will have 52 college credit hours by the time she graduates in May in her dual enrollment.

A Cherokee County high school senior has been named Kennesaw State University’s Outstanding Dual Enrollment Honors Student for 2012-2013. Emily Solon, a senior at Creekview High School, began taking classes at Kennesaw State during her junior year. She has a 3.9 GPA and is on track to earn 52 college credit hours by the time she graduates from Creekview in May. The award will be presented during a ceremony in April. Solon has been accepted into Georgia Tech, where she will pursue a degree in biomedical engineering. She is an environmental science and pre-calculus supplemental instruction leader at Kennesaw State and also also has been a tutor in the school’s math lab. Outside of school, she works part-time at Walgreens. Solon enjoys …

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Hunter Gives Scare at Cherokee School, Causing Code Red Alert

Buses were diverted from their routes to Mountain Road Elementary and the school was locked down until police determined a bow hunter caused the scare.

Hunter Give Scare at Cherokee School, Causing Code Red Alert

Buses were diverted from their routes to Mountain Road Elementary and the school was locked down until police determined a bow hunter caused the scare.

A bow hunter on property near Mountain Road Elementary had the school's administrative team activating a "Code Red" alert that diverted buses to an area high school, locked down the school and brought police to the scene. At 6:50 a.m. the administrative staff at the school responded to the sighting of a man believed to be carrying a weapon near the school After diverting the buses that were en route to the school, the staff worked with the Cherokee County School District's Police Department, the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office, the school district's Transportation Department and the Office of School Operations. "We were able to assess the situation in a relatively quick manner and determine there was no threat to the safety of our …

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Charter High Prepares to Fight Fulton's School Closure Push

Fulton Science Academy High School's governing board meets Thursday to make its decision on whether they want a hearing before the Fulton County Board of Education.

Fulton Science Academy High School's governing board will decide whether the school will ask for a hearing to fight a push by Fulton County Schools to close the school by terminating its charter contract. Principal Namik Sercan said the public school's governing board is working on its written response to each allegation raised in the IAG audit. The formal decision to appeal will be made Thurdsay, Dec. 13, he said, while the response will take a few more days to finalize. Sercan, responding to questions about the audit report's claims that Fulton Science Academy High failed to meet enrollment requirements, said its enrollment has grown for five years out of seven. The two years that showed declining enrollment were when its charter renewal…

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Board Votes for Closure of Fulton Science Academy High School

The public charter school's own board can request a hearing to be held Dec. 18, but the ultimate decision on the charter rests with the Georgia Department of Education.

  The Fulton County Board of Education today, Dec. 11, approved a recommendation to start the process to close Fulton Science Academy High School at the end of the school year. Superintendent Robert Avossa first made the recommendation to terminate the school's charter at a school board work session on Dec. 4. Avossa based his recommendation on what staff reports call "a history of insufficient governance capacity and poor decision-making on the part of the school’s governance board." An independent audit released to the school board on Dec. 4 was said to show the Fulton School System has had concerns with the school throughout its seven-year history. The audit also found similar management issues to those discovered with the June 2012 …

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Holly Springs Elementary STEM Academy recognizes Science Fair Winners

All of the school's sixth graders participated in the event, with the winners heading to the Regional Science Fair in February 2013.

Holly Springs Elementary School STEM Academy recently recognized its Science Fair Winners.  All sixth graders at the school participated in the event, and the winners were announced on Dec. 4.  The first-place winners will represent the school at the Regional Science Fair at Forsyth High School on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013.  The winners are: Human/Behavioral/Health Sciences Engineering & Sports Sciences Life Science Physical Science Earth Science

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