Charter school finalists announced
The Georgia Charter Schools Association has named three finalists for charter school of the year: Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School, Brighten Academy in Douglasville and Oglethorpe Charter School in Savannah.
The winner of the award, established to honor excellence in education in Georgia public charter schools, will receive a $50,000 grant from The Coca-Cola Foundation.
Atlanta’s Drew Charter School was honored with the award last year.
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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.
