Online charter school to open Augusta learning center | The Augusta Chronicle

High school dropouts or students who aren’t comfortable in the typical classroom will have another way to work on a diploma this fall.

Online charter school Provost Academy has partnered with the Magic Johnson Bridgescape program to open a learning center in Augusta. The center will serve as a supplement to Provost’s virtual school so students can walk in to get one-on-one help from teachers or use computers they might not have at home.

“In this day and age with technology, this is the trend that education is going towards,” said Jonathan Woods, principal of the Augusta center set to open at 360 Bay Street in Olde Town in August. “Any option that you give a student to complete high school is one that’s needed.”

Provost Academy, which launched in Georgia in July 2012, has 1,126 high school students enrolled across the state and fewer than 40 in the Augusta area, according to executive director Monica Henson. The school hopes to run an aggressive recruitment campaign this summer to enroll 200 students in the Augusta center by the fall.

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