The Inside Scoop

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.

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

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.

A metro Atlanta charter school will receive a large grant from a state agency. The Governor’s Office of Student Achievement has selected Drew Charter School as a recipient of a $700,000 “Fiscal Year 2016 Innovation Fund Grant Award.”

In positive charter news this week, KIPP STRIVE Academy in Atlanta has been named a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education. The school is one of only nine in Georgia to receive the honor.

As the number of public charter schools in Georgia continues to grow, so does the need for governing board members with the critical skills required to steer charter schools from mission development, through petition submission, to opening day.

The State Charter Schools Commission of Georgia (SCSC) announced that it approved petitions for three new state charter schools to open in the 2016-17 school year. The schools are Brookhaven Innovation Academy, Liberty Tech Charter School and Southwest Georgia STEM Charter School.

New schools opening, new schools approved — great top news this week!

Ashley-Kay Wyatt was a freshman at Brantley County High School in southeastern Georgia when boys happened. Unimpressed by her handling of the transition into the high school, her parents pulled her from Brantley High after one semester. They enrolled her Georgia Cyber Academy, one of Georgia’s statewide, online, “virtual” public charter schools.

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