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Georgia Charter Schools Association is excited to announce Malcom Mitchell as a keynote speaker for the 2020 Georgia Charter Schools Conference! Mitchell is a Super Bowl Champion, a UGA football star, author and founder of a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of students through literacy. Read more about our amazing keynote speaker in […]

Participants from across the nation traveled to Atlanta in October for the national El Education conference. Amana Academy and Brighten Academy, hosted pre-conference events on Wednesday, Oct. 16, to showcase the exemplary work that’s taking place within both public charter schools. Amana Academy held a full-day event to highlight the school’s Expeditionary STEM curriculum for […]

We are excited to announce that the Georgia Charter Schools Association has negotiated a preferred Workplace Essentials contract with Staples®.  Member schools can start saving as early as Monday, Nov. 4. In a price comparison analysis, we were able to save 15 percent on a wide assortment of products, as well as access some beneficial […]

Georgia Charter Schools Association congratulates the public charter schools that outperformed the state and their local districts on the College and Career Ready Performance Index in 2019. This year, the overall CCRPI score for the state of Georgia fell to 75.9. That’s down from 76.6 in 2018. The numbers below are single CCRPI scores for […]

The State Charter Schools Commission of Georgia (SCSC) 2020 Petition Application is now available on the SCSC website. For the 2020 Start-Up Charter School Application Cycle, new start-up charter schools must plan to open in the 2021-2022 school year or later. Interested parties should review the petitioner resources and important reminders below. Petitioner Resources General Information: We encourage applicants to explore the Start […]

On Wednesday, Oct. 9, GCSA hosted “The State of Georgia Charter Schools” at Savannah Classical Academy in Savannah. The event was the last of three informational forums GCSA held statewide in collaboration with the Georgia Department of Education (Charter Schools Division) and the State Charter Schools Commission of Georgia. Attendees were welcomed to the event […]

In 2019, more than a dozen charter high schools surpassed the state graduation rate of 82 percent, and many also outperformed their local districts. Two charter high schools, Fulton Leadership Academy (FLA) and Academy for Classical Education (ACE), tied with 18 other schools for the number one graduation rate in the state. Both schools had […]

International Charter School of Atlanta (ICSAtlanta) is a multilingual, multicultural, World IB School that serves students in Kindergarten through the eighth grades. The dual-language immersion public charter school is authorized by the State Charter Schools Commission of Georgia and opened in the fall of 2015. ICSAtlanta elementary students can take dual-language immersion tracks in Mandarin, […]

On Friday, Sept. 27, parents, students, supporters and board members of Resurgence Hall Charter School gathered to celebrate the school’s new building on Washington Road in East Point. During the grand opening ceremony, the K-8 public charter school celebrated the move from its original building in College Park to its current location this fall. The […]

16 students from Mountain Education Charter High School (MECHS) traveled to Washington D.C. during the week of Sept. 11. The annual all-expenses-paid trip is designed as an educational experience to help students gain a better understanding of our nation’s history, governmental structure and operations. During the trip, students visited the U.S. Capitol, the Smithsonian museums […]

Last month, students at Fulton Academy of Science and Technology (FAST) in Roswell, Georgia, collected donations for Hurricane Dorian victims in the Bahamas. Families gave more than 200 canned goods; fans; cleaning and school supplies; personal hygiene items and other food products. Over a three-day period, members of FAST’s Student Council arrived early to collect […]

During a special ceremony held on Friday, Sept. 20, Wesley International Academy received the Green Flag Award. It’s the highest level of achievement in the National Wildlife Federation’s Eco-Schools USA program. Wesley International is the first in Atlanta Public Schools and the second in the state of Georgia to receive the sustainability honor. “This is […]