Although they have sent their children to another school this year, former Spalding Drive Elementary parents have made progress on plans to start a charter school to bring the entity back to life.

The Save Spalding Committee will soon name a charter school operator, committee chairman Raymond Grote told Rough Draft Atlanta. The operator will help submit charter school applications. The school districts under consideration include Fulton County Schools (FCS), DeKalb County School District (DCSD), and possibly Cobb County Schools by the fall deadlines. The committee will make a state charter school application at the same time.

The committee’s preference is Fulton County, which would draw students from those schools. A state-approved charter could draw students from Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, a

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