The Fayette

County Board of Education voted in a Friday special session to pursue

a land purchase agreement for a proposed new elementary school, the third

under the school bond recently approved.

According to

school system spokesman Melinda Berry-Dreisbach, the board has not actually

bought the property yet, but has "agreed to pursue a contractual

agreement for the purchase of" 58.889 acres from L.D. Stewart Business

Company.

The property

is at the corner of Ga. Highway 74 and Dogwood Trail inside Tyrone and

less than a mile north of the Kedron Village shopping center in northern

Peachtree City.

Other sites

for new elementary schools include a tract on Lester Road on the western

end of Fayetteville, where Cleveland Elementary is already under construction,

and property on Ga. Highway 85 south at Lisbon Road, near Goza Road.

The county's

fourth high school is also in the works south of Fayetteville.