Welcome to the Imagine Main Street Academy Website. It is our hope to have a new public Kindergarten-5th grade (possibly K-8th) charter school for the Tri-Cities area of East Point, College Park and Hapeville for the 2009 school year. The intention of this site is to help inform you of our progress as well as educate.
THE LATEST INFORMATION:
Fulton County Board of Education Work Session- UPDATE - May 5th
Once again, the date and time has changed to show our support to the Fulton
County BOE for Imagine Main Street Academy's charter school petition.
We now do not need you to attend the May 6th, 6:30pm work session meeting. Our
presentation to the Fulton County BOE has been moved to 2:00pm, May 6th.
You may want to attend this meeting to obtain more information about Imagine
Main Street Academy, Our Charter School however we will need you to show your
support at the May BOE meeting on Thursday, 5/15, 6:30p @ Dunwoody Springs
Charter Elementary School. The vote will take place at the June 12th BOE
meeting.
The charter petition for Imagine Main Street Academy, A Charter School has
made it through two out of three rounds of review by Fulton County. The
Fulton County Charter Liaison representative informed us that the remaining
number of charter school petitions is four. Seven charter petitions were
submitted. We do not know at this time how many of the petitions are from
South Fulton or North Fulton.
Thank you for your understanding of all of the changes and for your support!
Click Here for the latest pdf flyer of our current charter progress and obstacles we still need to tackle.
Or go to Imagine Schools Website for additional information about all Imagine Charter Schools.
Currently we are working on getting our charter approved by the Fulton County School Board for a 2009 opening. There are several things that you can do to help before that time. Please take the time to do at least one or all of the below items.
1. Sign the Online Petition Go to the Imagine Georgia Schools Website to sign the petition and learn more about Imagine and how they are fighting for our rights to have public school choices in our area.
2. Write or email your Georgia representatives to have them support Charter friendly legislation. (note: you need to put in your full address to make sure your letter goes to the correct representative.
3. Go to our Blog site and get and stay involved. We need EVERYONE's help! The blog site will also keep you up to date as we progress. So please check often.
4. Write a letter of support and email us to find out how to get the letter to us. Or hold on to it and bring it to the next Neighborhood meeting that will be in early November.
5. We need letters from businesses supporting school choice in the area. Large, medium, small.... we need their support. They can either use this letter as is and put it on their letterhead, or write a more personal letter of support. Either way, the more we have the better our chances are. Again, please email us for our mailing address or hold on to them for the next public meeting.
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CONTACT INFORMATION:
How to get in touch with us:
Carol Shaginaw
Founding Committee President
carolshaginaw@comcast.net
Wayne Whitesides
Founding Committee Vice President
w_home@ethicinc.com
Noel Mayeske
Founding Committee Secretary
nmayeske@hotmail.com
Audrey Thompson
Treasurer
audreykthompson@gmail.com