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For the first time in the nine-year history of the event, the annual conference of the GCSA will be held outside of metro Atlanta. About 400 charter school supporters are expected to attend the GCSA Charter Schools Conference, Oct. 6 and 7, at the Macon Marriott City Center Hotel. The theme for the Conference, the only statewide gathering of the entire Georgia charter school community, is “Planting, Growing and Sustaining a Quality Charter School.”

Destiny Achievers Academy of Excellence:  Helping Students Get Back on Track Moving students from being on the verge of dropping out of high school, to being high school graduates is […]

Fulton Science Academy Charter Middle School has been selected by the U.S. Department of Education as a 2011 Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. The school will be honored at a formal ceremony in Washington D.C., Nov.  14-15. The Blue Ribbon School Program honors public and private K-12 schools for their academic excellence and ability to help students achieve at very high scholastic levels.

Educators may earn valuable Professional Learn Units (PLUs) by attending the 2011 Georgia Charter Schools Association Annual Conference, Oct. 5-7, at the Macon Marriott City Center Hotel.

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Four of the five candidates for the vacant Atlanta Board of Education District 2 seat have completed a brief questionnaire  from the Georgia Charter Schools Association, giving insight into their positions on charter schools.  All expressed at least moderate support for charter schools in their responses.

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A recent study of Georgia’s independent, start-up charter schools has found that, in many cases, students and educators in those schools are forced to learn and work in inadequate facilities, due to their school districts’ failure to follow state law. 

Research for the study, titled “Shortchanged Charters: How Funding Disparities Hurt Georgia’s Charter Schools,” was sponsored by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, and conducted by the Colorado League of Charter Schools with assistance from the .