ATLANTA - Parents and community leaders in southwest Atlanta are pushing back against plans to close Continental Colony Elementary School, one of several schools targeted under a sweeping cost-cutting proposal by Atlanta Public Schools.

Continental Colony Elementary School to close?

What they're saying:

The Hogan Road campus has served the Greenbriar community since 1962. PTA President Bajah Whitehead said learning that APS might close or repurpose the school came as a shock.

"I was totally shocked. It was like a blow because Continental Colony has been in this community for years," Whitehead said. "Continental Colony was open when I was a little girl."

Whitehead, who has a son and grandson enrolled at the International Baccalaureate School, said she’s attended multiple meetings wit

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