Small turnout for last forum on school attendance lines
About 70 people attended the last public forum over the largest redistricting in the history of the Cobb County Schools.
The new attendance lines in South Cobb will take effect over the next two years if the school board approves them in February. The changes would touch over 15,000 students at about 20 schools.
Parents at Wednesday's meeting at South Cobb High School were concerned that their neighborhood, Cheney Woods, had been drawn out of the attendance zone for the new Smyrna Area Elementary School. The school is being built at a cost of $19.6 million.
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Ty Tagami is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since joining the newspaper in 2002, he has written about everything from hurricanes to homelessness. He has deep experience covering local government and education, and can often be found under the Gold Dome when lawmakers meet or in a school somewhere in the state.
