Davis Plan Keeps Buckhead School Districts in Place

Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Erroll B. Davis Jr. late Sunday night released his preliminary redistricting plan, which said "there will be no boundary changes" for elementary schools in the cluster.

Along with meeting community demands that no neighborhoods be moved to different schools, Davis' plan says that construction on a new will begin in the fall of 2013, also the time when the new North Atlanta High is to open on Northside Parkway. students will move to the present North Atlanta building that fall, and E. Rivers students will move to the present Sutton building for 18 months.

The plan says that the " and populations will be monitored, and decisions on temporary versus long-term solutions will be determined at the appropriate time."

Davis also said that the Sutton site may eventually be "repurposed as a sixth grade academy for the cluster."

In another issue that had drawn neighborhood opposition, Centennial Place Elementary school is not included in the North Atlanta cluster, one of 10 around the city in a proposed new system that will replace the division into four School Reform teams. Centennial Place will be in the Grady cluster.

Here is the link to Davis' complete report, which will be received by the Atlanta Board of Education at its Monday meeting. The report is also available in the attached PDF. A on Davis' plan will be March 12 at North Atlanta.

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