APS Redistricting: Wesley International Academy Wants To Utilize Cook Campus - East Atlanta, GA PatchI thought Davis wanted to use Cook as a 6th grade academy extension of Inman. Without that, it looks like Inman will lose pretty much all of its soccer field to classroom trailers.
A group of parents at Wesley International Academy in Custer/McDonough/Guice have started a petition to convince Atlanta Public Schools officials that the public charter school should be allowed to move in to Cook Elementary School.
Cook, which is a few miles away from Wesley's current home on Custer Avenue SE, is one of seven APS schools that will close at the end of the 2011-12 school year.
...APS is considering using Cook's facilities as additional office space for the district and teacher training site because of its proximity to Georgia State University.
But [Andrea] Knight [the Grant Park parent who started the petition and whose children attend Wesley] said APS has closed schools in Old Fourth Ward that are much closer to GSU than Cook.
It makes sense that the Cook facility would be the one APS won't have trouble finding a new tenant for. Of all the schools scheduled to close, it's in the best shape. Heck, compared to a lot of schools that are staying open it's in pretty good shape, having been renovated fairly recently. And Wesley International pays $875,000 a year in rent for its current home: The thought of keeping that money "in the family" must be attractive to both Wesley and Davis.
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