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New high school in North Atlanta on the table with potential SPLOST money

Oct 25, 2011

Atlanta Board of Education member Nancy M. Meister will host a community meeting tonight [Tuesday] from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. in the auditorium of North Atlanta High School, 2875 Northside Dr.

The purpose of the meeting is to provide the community with information about the new North Atlanta High School and SPLOST IV.

Atlanta Public Schools will get more than $513 million if voters approve a local 1-cent-on-the-dollar sales tax Nov. 8.

A new high school in North Atlanta would cost $45 million.

Superintendent Erroll Davis is scheduled to attend the meeting

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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.

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