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Remembering 9/11 Students, cities recall Sept. 11 attacks By JONATHAN COPSEY jonathan@northfulton.com
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Milton High School held a ceremony Sep.t 11 to honor the victims for the 9-11 attacks. Inset: Fire Capt. Mark Stephens explains how important it is to remember the lives lost.
NORTH FULTON, Ga. – North Fulton was awash with tributes and memorials remembering the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. Several local schools – Roswell, Cambridge, Milton and Alpharetta high schools – held tributes and placed flags out front. Some held memorials. In Milton, students at the school have led the program every year for several years. The school event has become the de facto official city event, with police, firefighters and city officials paying their respects on the front lawn, in front of a field of small American flags. Savannah Bailey, who took
State denies FSA charter School to seek new charters with Fulton BY CANDY WAYLOCK candy@northfulton.com ATLANTA – Officials with Fulton Science Academy High School (FSAHS) and Fulton Sunshine Academy elementary (FSAES) are pinning their hopes on Fulton school leaders to keep their charter status after a thumbs down vote from the state. Last month the State Charter School Commission (SCSC) cited management and operational concerns in denying state charter status to the two
Alpharetta-based schools. Currently both schools are nearing the end of their 5-year charters from the Fulton Board of Education (FCBOE). If the charters are not renewed beyond their June end date, the options to remain open become limited. “With the state options now gone, the boards [of both schools] are 100 percent focused on doing whatever it takes to retain their charters with Fulton County,” said David Rubinger, a spokesman for FSAHS and FSAES. He expressed disappointment with the SCSC which offered no comment in its decision to deny a charter to the two schools, despite evidence the schools are performing well and providing a
positive educational option to the area. The two schools were among nine petitions considered during the Aug. 27 meeting of the commission; five were approved. During a presentation to the SCSC prior to their vote, Maria Beug-Deeb, chair of the FSAHS governing board, outlined changes to the board including the addition of two new members with experience in legal and financial issues. “I assure you we are an effective board and we have worked hard to expand our effectiveness,” said BeugDeeb. “With the collaboration of the Georgia Charter School Association, [we have] devised a detailed transition plan designed to meet the stringent requirements of the State Charter School Com-
over Milton’s program from her older brother, said it was important to keep the memory of Sept. 11, 2001 in the minds of her peers, some of whom were 3 years old at the time of the attacks. “If we don’t continue this tradition, it will just be something in the past and not an active memory we think about,” Bailey said. Kids are entering high school next year who may have been born on Sept. 11, 2001 as the attacks were happening, said Capt. Mark Stephens of the Milton Fire Department. “Our job is to remember and teach what happened that day,” said Stephens. Among the other victims, 343 firefighters and 60 police officers in New York died at the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. “Terror is the only word that I can come up with when
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I assure you we are an effective board and we have worked hard to expand our effectiveness.” MARIA BEUG-DEEB Chair of the FSAHS governing board
mission.” The school currently enrolls 276 students, with the majority of the students in the 9th grade. The school opened 10 years ago.
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