According the the Cherokee Ledger….The Cherokee County Board of Education voted unanimously Sept. 6 to deny a charter school planned for Woodstock, but organizers of the effort say board members left the door open for them to try again.
Imagine Schools Non-Profit (ISNP) sponsored the private business venture to offer a taxpayer-supported alternative K-8 school to Cherokee students that claimed it would offer bilingual education and an International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum. Horsley said, however, that Imagine will wait to see whether HB 881, introduced last year by Rep. Jan Jones (R-Alpharetta) which would establish an independent Georgia Charter Schools Commission that would approve charter school petitions, passes this year’s legislature. She said asking a school board of education to approve a charter effort was almost like asking them to discredit what it offers.
“It’s like going to McDonald’s and asking them to endorse Burger King,” she said.
