Friday, February 24, 2012
As part of the decision, Smyrna's Brown Elementary School will close in Aug. 2013 and Mableton's Sky View Elementary School will close in Aug. 2012.
Cobb Board of Education voted unanimously Thursday to approve the proposed south Cobb redistricting plan; a decision that will close Mableton’s Sky View Elementary School in Aug. 2012 and Smyrna’s Brown Elementary School in Aug. 2013. Under the approved plan, Brown Elementary School students will be zoned for the new Smyrna elementary school beginning in Aug. 2013. Students at Fitzhugh Lee H.A.V.E.N. Academy will use the Brown facility beginning in Jan. 2014 after it undergoes a renovation. Students zoned for Sky View will attend Mableton Elementary School beginning fall 2012. At that time, Austell Primary and Austell Intermediate Schools become traditional kindergarten through fifth grade elementary schools. A public hearing regarding …
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Tonight's meeting completes the south Cobb redistricting process that began almost a year ago.
Cobb County School Board members will decide at their meeting Thursday night whether to close Brown Elementary School and Sky View Elementary School as part of the school district’s proposed redistricting plan. If the redistricting plan is approved, Smyrna’s Brown Elementary School would close in August 2013 and Fitzhugh Lee H.A.V.E.N Academy would relocate to Brown’s campus at 3265 Brown Road in January 2014. In Mableton, Sky View Elementary School would close at the end of the 2011-2012 school year and Austell Primary and Austell Intermediate would be converted into traditional kindergarten through fifth grade elementary schools in August 2012. Parents, students and teachers will have an opportunity to voice their favor or opposition to …
Thursday, January 26, 2012
The Cobb Board of Education will hear from parents, students and community members affected by the proposed closures of Brown and Sky View elementary schools.
The Cobb County School Board will hold its first public school closure hearing Thursday at 5:30 p.m. to receive feedback from parents and community members about the proposed closures of Brown and Sky View elementary schools. The hearing will be held at the district's Central Office at 514 Glover St. in Marietta. Students at Brown, which is proposed to close in the fall of 2013, will attend the new Smyrna elementary school. Smyrna’s Fitzhugh Lee H.A.V.E.N. Academy will be moved to the Brown Elementary location. School district officials are still seeking input from parents concerning the fourth south Cobb elementary school redistricting map that it released in late December. As it stands now, no more public forums will be scheduled. …
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Patch is live at South Cobb High covering the forum.
Patch is live covering the final forum for parents in South Cobb and Smyrna to offer input about the redistricting of elementary schools in their areas. The Cobb County School District officials and Cobb Board of Education members will be in attendance to listen and to answer any questions. As part of Round 3 of the redistricting process, CCSD officials have developed a single proposal using community feedback and research. The latest proposed map is an amalgamation of Maps A and B that were presented in September on the redistricting website and at informational meetings for the affected communities. The Round 3 draft plan may change depending on the feedback received from the community via email, the district's commenting wall and at …
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
The recently released alternative redistricting maps, as well as data related to those maps, will be discussed Wednesday evening at Smyrna's Campbell High School.
The second public forum this week regarding Cobb’s elementary school redistricting proposal will be held tonight at Campbell High beginning at 6:30 p.m. The first was held Tuesday evening at Pebblebrook High. Russell Elementary was the only Smyrna area school affected by last night’s gathering. See here for South Cobb Patch’s coverage of the public forum for Phase 1 schools, which will be affected by the process beginning in August. Phase 2 schools, which won’t be affected until August 2013, will be discussed this evening and those schools include Argyle, Belmont Hills, Brown, Green Acres, Harmony Leland, King Springs, LaBelle, New Smyrna, Milford, Nickajack, Norton Park and Teasley. It has been recommended that Brown and Fitzhugh Lee H.A.…
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Brown Elementary proposed to close; two public forums scheduled for next week.
After speculating all summer, students, parents and teachers have a better idea of how South Cobb elementary schools will be redistricted for the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 school years. Tuesday the Cobb County School District posted two maps to its website each outlining the redistricting alternatives for elementary schools in the south part of the county. Both alternatives propose closing Sky View Elementary School in Mableton. They also propose closing Brown Elementary School as a traditional elementary school. The H.A.V.E.N. Academy, a special education program that is currently located at Fitzhugh Lee School, would be relocated to the old Brown Elementary site. The maps split the southern portion of the county into halves: Phase 1, which…
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
District officials are putting the finishing touches on three redistricting plans created over the summer.
Smyrna-Vinings and South Cobb parents will soon be able to choose between three options for school redistricting in their area. The redistricting process continues as the district prepares to open three replacement elementary schools, Mableton and Clarkdale elementary schools to open in fall 2012 and a Smyrna elementary school to be completed a year later. Ultimately, the redistricting plan will affect 27 elementary schools and will most likely include school closings. Doug Shepard, chief SPLOST administrative officer for the Cobb County School District, said the maps are undergoing “last-minute refinements,” and will be likely be unveiled within the next two weeks. Over the summer, various people–including school board members David …
Thursday, September 1, 2011
New elementary school will now be LEED certified. Next meeting on other school changes comes in October; area redistricting meeting later this month.
Green initiatives appear to be taking root in Smyrna as the Cobb County School District recently announced that the city’s new elementary school will be LEED certified thanks to a new program at Southern Polytechnic State University. SPSU’s recently launched International Knowledge Resource Center for Green Building partnered with Cobb County School District to defray the cost of LEED certification for the new Smyrna elementary school. Doug Shepherd, Cobb County School’s chief administrator for SPLOST projects, said that the school was originally going to be built to green standards, but not officially certified through the U.S. Green Building Council because of cost. “I’m really pleased that we can partner with Southern Poly and really …
Michelle
3:19 pm on Saturday, February 25, 2012
Well by all means...your effort to head up a group to do this would have been nice. I don't recall hearing any such effort made by you. Sorry, it's always easier to be the sideline coach. Just saying. more ›