Charles R. Drew Charter School is gearing up for class of 2017’s graduation, celebrating its first “cradle-to-college pipeline in the East Lake community” over the next few weeks of May. Class of 2017 is a total of 82 students who have been “an integral part of the neighborhood’s holistic revitalization led by the East Lake Foundation.”
Charles Drew Charter School will hold its first graduation since its creation in 2000 as the city of Atlanta’s first public charter school. The class of 2017, made up of 82 students, will complete the cradle-to-college pipeline in the East Lake community.
On April 21, Bayou Oaks City Park South Course . A little more than a driver-5-iron from the third green stands 685 units of mixed-income housing spanning 13 city blocks complete with schools, recreation and support services on the site of the former St. Bernard public housing development. Columbia Parc is the first community after the East Lake Foundation to implement what is now called the Purpose Built Communities model of neighborhood transformation that has expanded to 16 other communities. At Columbia Parc, there is a 26-month waiting list to live there.
Drew Charter School engineering students won a grant, but need money to present their invention at MIT. The East Lake students created a three-tier alert devise to reduce child and animal hot car deaths in the United States.
The East Lake neighborhood that people know today is not one and the same of 25 years ago. Formerly overrun with blight and crime, the community has seen a resurgence and revitalization, offering a safe place for families to live and grow.
Much of this transformation is thanks to The East Lake Foundation, a community nonprofit whose mission is to redevelop the area through mixed-income housing, cradle-to-college education, and community wellness.
The James M. Cox Foundation pledged a five-year $2.5 million grant to the East Lake Foundation to further early childhood education through Charles R. Drew Charter School.
A team of Atlanta high school students has won a $10,000 MIT grant to nd
a way to prevent children and pets from dying in hot cars.
The East Lake Foundation got at $84,000 pledge of support from golfer J.B. Holmes and several members of the East Lake Golf Club – $1,000 for each of the 84 graduating seniors from the Drew Charter School.
