Georgia Private School Serve Students with Dyslexia

New Private School Would Service Students with Dyslexia
by Lindsay Field, Marietta Daily Journal

A group of parents and educators from Cobb County are planning to open a school this fall that would serve elementary and middle school-aged children who have dyslexia.

Gracepoint School board member Angie Strack told a crowd of about 50 parents and teachers about what the school will offer when it opens this fall at a meeting Thursday night at StoneBridge Church on the Marietta Square. Fellow board members Carrie and Jud Thompson, Brian Strack, Molly and Trey Holm, and Brenda Fitzgerald also attended the meeting.

Fitzgerald, who serves as the executive director of the Georgia Educational Training Agency and is a board member on the Georgia International Dyslexic Association, will help train teachers in The Complete Reading Series and oversee the curriculum and instruction at Gracepoint for the first couple of years.

Fitzgerald said the school would be a private, nonprofit organization that will serve Cobb elementary and middle school students with dyslexia. After graduating from Gracepoint, the students would then transition back into their original school systems better prepared to meet the rigorous demands of high school.

Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal - New private school would serve students with dyslexia