Danbury Magnet School Accepting Applications

Western Connecticut Academy for International Studies Magnet School is now accepting applications for the 2008-2009 school year. Applications are available at local boards of education and online at www.danbury.k12.ct.us. The deadline is Tuesday, January 22.

The interdistrict magnet school offers special programs and student enrollment to are students from kindergarten through the fifth grade. The school is hosted by Danbury Public Schools. Partner districts are Brookfield, New Fairfield, Newtown, Redding, and New Milford.

Applications for the 2008-2009 school year will be accepted from students in nonpartner districts.

Students are selected by lottery, and no student may be denied admission because of ethnicity or disability.

For more information call Antonia Felicetter-Schachter at 797-4700.