Wednesday, January 25, 2012
After its charter petition was denied by the Gwinnett school system, the all-girls school in Peachtree Corners will seek to become a State Charter Special School.
The room was filled to capacity Monday night as Ivy Preparatory Academy founder and executive director Nina Gilbert explained the school's next move after being denied a five-year charter with Gwinnett County Public Schools. Gilbert announced that Ivy Preparatory Academy, founded in 2008, will seek to become a State Charter Special School with the state of Georgia. "We will now seek state approval, and look forward to working closely with the Georgia Department of Education to ensure that our instructional program is not disrupted, and that none of our scholars are displaced," announced Gilbert in a statement posted on the school's website. "We have always known that this outcome was possible, and we stand prepared to transition to a State…
Friday, January 20, 2012
The Peachtree Corners charter school is in its first year with the school system. A proposed boys' charter school application also is denied.
The Gwinnett school system and Ivy Prep of Peachtree Corners are in limbo again. The GCPS board voted Thursday in Suwanee not to renew the all-girls charter school's contract; Ivy Prep had sought a five-year contract after receiving a one-year deal for 2011-12. However, the system gave the Peachtree Corners school 30 days to address "deficiencies" cited if it wishes to reapply. A GCPS statement said Ivy Prep's petition "does not clearly identify a unique and innovative curriculum design and instructional program to address the needs of female students." Also, the GCPS said sufficient documentation was not provided to indicate "need or parent support," only "community-based partner support." And the proposed budget was "greater than the …
Monday, July 18, 2011
The Peachtree Corners charter school will be one of five charter schools to operate in 2011-12 as part of the Gwinnett County Public School system.
Gwinnett County Public Schools recently announced that Ivy Preparatory Academy, a former commissioned charter school located in Peachtree Corners, will join GCPS's four other charter schools that operate as part of the county's public school system. Ivy Prep, an all-girls school with some 480 students, had been operating as one of 16 Georgia Charter Commissioned Schools since opening in the fall of 2008. However, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled May 16 that the Georgia Charter Schools Commission did not have the authority to establish schools and direct local monies to fund commission-approved schools. The Gwinnett County school board had offered a charter school contract to Nina Gilbert, Head of School for Ivy Prep, on June 16, which she …
