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Applications currently are being accepted for Connected Academy, a Fulton County charter high school opening in August 2007. This unique school focuses on flexibility and integrating
education with real-world concepts. Classes are individualized to students' interests and geared toward "connecting" the classroom to the real world.
The new school is located at the Milton Center (formerly Milton High School) at 86 School Drive in Alpharetta.
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Fulton County Schools stakeholders now can watch the school system's cable channel, FCSTV, through the school system web site.
Last spring, the Fulton County School System began videostreaming School Board meetings. The popularity of being able to watch school system events from the comfort of a home
computer quickly caught on, compelling the Broadcast and Video Technology Department to expand FCSTV cable programming to the internet.
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Fulton voters went to the polls March 20 and overwhelmingly approved continuation of the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax for an additional five years. More than 80% of the
voters supported the SPLOST continuation, and the referendum passed in every precinct within the Fulton County School System.
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While SPLOST III funds future construction projects, work is continuing on new schools and renovations funded through SPLOST I and II. In August, the school system opens a new elementary school in Union City (pictured), a new middle school in Fairburn, and a replacement building for East Point's Woodland Middle. Connected Academy, Fulton County's first system-sponsored start-up charter school, also opens in Alpharetta. Additions will be completed this summer at Woodland and High Point elementary schools in Sandy Springs and at Roswell High School. New science wings also will be completed at six middle schools. Summer work projects include front office renovations, roofing and general contracting work across the district. All of the projects are expected to be complete before staff return in August. |
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Called SALE (Summer Accelerated Learning Experience), Fulton County offers summer school opportunities for elementary and middle school students needing extra academic assistance in order to be promoted to the next grade.
At the high school level, summer school is available for students desiring opportunities to get ahead, for course recovery, and for those needing remedial assistance.
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With the goal of making Georgia a world-class leader in education, the state is completely revising the curriculum taught to students in kindergarten through grade 12 in the core subjects of Language Arts, Science, Mathematics and Social Studies. The new Georgia Performance Standards (GPS) are much more rigorous than the previous curriculum, called the Quality Core Curriculum (QCC) and also much more relevant for today's students. The massive implementation is being phased in over a seven-year period and began in 2005-06. New standards will be introduced next year in the following subjects and grades: science (kindergarten, grades 1-2 and grade 8), social studies (grades 6- 12), and math (grades 3-5 and grade 8). |
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Next year's Fulton County school calendar includes five early release days, when students will attend for half a day and teachers will spend the remainder of the day in
professional development. The dates are: September 19, October 24, November 28, February 27, and March 26.
Parents are encouraged to plan ahead. For example, you may want to use this time to schedule routine doctor's, dentist's or orthodontist's appointments rather than having to check your child out during regular school hours. Day care and after school providers also are being notified so that they can offer child care services on early release days. Another change involves Fulton's two year-round schools. Beginning next year, both College Park and Parklane elementary schools will stop following a year-round calendar and will convert to the regular Fulton County school calendar. |
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Georgia requires students to be immunized against measles, mumps, polio, rubella, whooping cough, tetanus, diphtheria, hepatitis B, haemophilus influenza, and varicella.
Beginning July 1, changes in Georgia law now require the following for pre- kindergarten and kindergarten students as well as rising sixth graders.
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'Connections' is an informational publication produced quarterly by the school system's Communications Department. Your email address came from information you supplied to your child's school. Thisinformation will not be shared or provided to any organization outside the Fulton County School System without your permission. If you change your email address, please notify the data clerk at your local school.
It is the policy of the Fulton County School System not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age or disability in any employment
practice, educational program, or any program, activity or service. If you wish to make a complaint or request accommodation or modification due to discrimination in any
program, activity or service, contact the Compliance Coordinator (Ron Wade) at 786 Cleveland Avenue SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30315, or by phone at
404-763-4585; TTY 1-800-255-0135.
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