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Michelle Wirth

The Georgia Legislature passes HB 895, which requires training for charter school finance directors The 2016 Georgia Legislative Assembly approves few education bills this session. An Amana Academy student has been selected by […]

Amana Academy is the first K-8 school in Georgia and the second school in Fulton County to become Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) certified. To receive the certification from […]

327 teacher candidates took part in GCSA’s Atlanta Job Fair on March 12 at Drew Charter School Senior Academy. During the fair, candidates were able to speak with representatives from more than 30 Georgia charter schools. Schools conducted on-site interviews that could lead to potential employment for the upcoming school year.

Amana Academy made Niche’s 2016 Best Public Elementary Schools in Georgia list.  Drew Charter School recently held a ceremony to honor its namesake. Coweta Charter Academy at Senoia (CCAS) elementary academic team got second at the regional […]

Georgia’s ranking for state charter laws has improved. According to the National Alliance of Charter Schools’ 2016 ranking of state charter laws, Georgia moved up five spots from 23 to 18 to because state lawmakers approved regulations to strengthen authorizer accountability, charter school autonomy and the processes for monitoring charter schools.

Students at Peachtree Charter Middle School in Dunwoody have turned a school garden into a community outreach project that helps those in need.

KIPP STRIVE Academy in Atlanta wins the Georgia Charter School Association’s 2016 Georgia Charter School of the Year Award. The Coca-Cola Foundation sponsored the $50,000 award for the fifth straight year.

Hundreds of Georgia charter school teachers, leaders and authorizers will gather for the 13th annual Georgia Charter Schools Conference on Feb. 3-5 at the Marriott Century Center at 2000 Century Blvd. N.E.

High School graduation rates are increasing throughout Georgia, including at a number of charter schools in Fulton County.

Several national reports released jointly this week by Mathematica Policy Research, the Center for Research on Education Outcomes, and the Center on Reinventing Public Education say the majority of students enrolled in virtual charter schools have shown weaker gains in reading and math than those who attend similar brick and mortar schools.

Amana Academy, in Fulton County, was featured in the Atlanta Business Chronicle. The charter school is the first in the world to become a Kano computing academy. The purpose of Kano is to provide an introduction to computer programming languages for children.

We regret the unfortunate instance of alleged financial mismanagement that has reportedly taken place at Latin Academy in Atlanta. After speaking with several members of the school’s governing board, the Georgia Charter Schools Association is confident that students and academics at the school did not suffer as a result of the mismanagement. We congratulate Latin Academy’s board for swiftly launching a full-scale investigation, which uncovered the alleged fraudulent financial dealings at the hands of its former school leader. This underscores the importance of having properly trained school governance boards at every Georgia charter school. Those boards need to be well trained and fully involved in all aspects of school and financial oversight.