In the coming years, 10 Atlanta schools will be managed by charter school operators, closed or consolidated.

More could face similar changes, Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Meria Carstarphen said Thursday.

Making those changes would depend on school performance trends and community input, according to a district presentation.

It's all part of the district's ambitious plans to improve Atlanta's lowest performing schools.

“I’ve got to see how the implementation’s going before I say I want to open up the door.”

But “are we going to do more over time?” Carstarphen said. “Absolutely.”

She said too that preliminary state data suggest that improvement efforts at some some of the two dozen or so Atlanta schools at risk of potential state takeover because of poor performance likely have improved enough to avoid that fate.

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