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GCPS Update: Online Campus Has 183 Applicants

Officials expect to have it available through elementary school by 2012. In other news, crossing gaurds hired.

Gwinnett County school board members got an update Thursday on the new online high school that will begin this fall. So far, 183 students have submitted enrollment applications, and the system is confirming a board, staff and student schedules.Β Dr. Christopher RayΒ has been named principal.

Students will attend school from anywhere, with attendance monitored by activity level. Learning will be through real time and recorded sessions, blogs, wikis, interactive software, and other tools. Face to face sessions such as science labs will be required.

By fall 2012, GCPS hopes to have the online campus ready for elementary and middle schoolers (through fourth grade).

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Crossing guards to be hired:Β The Gwinnett County school system is getting into the crossing-guard business for the next school year, and it expects to save money by doing so.

GCPS planner Steve Flynt told board members that the Gwinnett Police Department is giving up the program that it had been providing to the schools.

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The school system expects to need guards for 26 high, elementary and middle schools for 2011-12; the police had been providing 21 guards for 29 locations at a cost of $257,363 to the system.

The program will be implemented for 2011-12 under the direction of Wayne Rikard, chief of GCPS police.

Current guards can reapply, and prospective guards will be interviewed in June. Training would begin in July for the school year that would begin in August.


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