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New charter school opening in Atlanta’s Westside community
Westside Atlanta Charter School plans to open to students for the first time Monday.
The new charter school in west Atlanta will emphasize language and literacy, initially serving students in kindergarten through second grade.
The school plans to grow by one grade each year until it’s educating students through eight grade, with about 40 students per grade level.
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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.
