Following the merger of the Neighborhood Charter School and the Atlanta Charter Middle School last summer, the Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School (ANCS) was created as a single school with two campuses serving students in grades K-8.  The first few months as a merged school have indeed been exciting ones for ANCS.  

The benefits of merging are beginning to be realized, including shared teaching and administrative resources, a more efficient governing board, and stronger parental involvement with families now connected to the same school for up to nine years.  ANCS is being recognized locally and nationally for its work.  The school was selected as a site visit during the national charter schools conference in June, and conference attendees from around the country came to hear more about the school's approach to teaching and learning.  ANCS was named a Title I Distinguished School by the Georgia Department of Education based on student performance on the Georgia CRCT.  As well, ANCS was recently awarded a nearly $1 million "Innovation Grant" by Governor Nathan Deal to partner with the Georgia State University College of Education in the creation of a new teacher training and support program.

ANCS is gearing up to enroll new students for next school year.  Applications for new students are now available on the school's website and in the main office of both the elementary and middle campuses.  There will be a series of information sessions for prospective students and their families on Thursday, February 23 at 6:30 PM at both campuses  and on Saturday, March 10 at 9:30 AM at the elementary campus and at 10:30 AM at the middle campus.  For more details about the enrollment process and to learn more about the school, visit its website at atlncs.org. 

It's never too early to start thinking about homegrown tomatoes and sweet basil. Why not let Burgess-Peterson Academy students grow seedlings for your spring garden? Order now for pickup or delivery the week of March 26. Each of the seven grades at BPA is planting a different variety of fruit or vegetable in 4-inch pots. Plants are $2 each. Supplies are limited so don't delay. Profits will support garden education at the school. Each student also will get to take a plant home. 

Click here for the order form or e-mail BPAgarden@gmail.com for more information. Also, don't forget to "like" the garden on Facebook!

Do you have an interest in seeing the Brownwood Park Recreation Center become an even better facility for the East Atlanta Community?  If you do below are two ways you can help.

A joint collaboration between EACA and the East Atlanta Kids Club, the Brownwood Recreation Center Community Committee seeks your participation in a community survey designed to help us better understand and improve the community's experience of the recreation center at Brownwood Park.  Please let us know what kinds of activities you'd like to see, how you feel about what's there now, and what you might be willing to do to make the rec center better serve community needs.  Contact Lisa Marie Welch, Brownwood Facility Manager, with any questions or comments, at 404-624-0747, and also keep up on the goings-on at the Rec center on Facebook.

Want to do even more? Come join this very worthwhile committee as it oversees the center while working to find fun, educational and entertaining ways for the community to take advantage of this wonderful facility.  If you have an interest in being part of this incredible success story that includes the unique City/Community relationship which allowed East Atlanta to reopen our Rec Center while others were closed, please email president@EACA.net.

On Tuesday, February 21, Burgess-Peterson Academy parents and community members met to discuss the Demographic Study/APS Redistricting.  From that meeting a BPA Position Statement in Response to Options A&B of the Demographic Study was created.  Read the full document here.  The opinions expressed by the EACA representatives in this paper do not necessarily represent the whole of the East Atlanta Community Association nor the East Atlanta Community, but were rather meant as support from those individuals from the perspective of their community roles.

EACA Needs Your Support!