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How Hall County’s The Foundry became the top alternative school in Georgia
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Principal of The Foundry at Lanier College and Career Academy Mitch Murphy, left, and administrator Bryan Gray, meet Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, at the end of the school day. The Georgia Association for Alternative Education has named The Foundry the GAAE School of the Year for 2020-21. - photo by Scott Rogers
Bryan Gray’s yell of triumph nearly knocked him out of his chair. Gray, assistant principal at Hall County’s alternative school The Foundry, discovered in a Zoom call last week that the school had been named the Georgia Association for Alternative Education’s school of the year for 2020-2021, and he was not shy about voicing his excitement.