by Georgia Charter Schools Association
Due to Good Friday, Passover and Easter holidays, this is belated news roundup covering March 28-April 3rd. As March turns into April, opinions on all sides of the proposed School Turnaround plan show up in the news. Augusta’s first charter school secures a site to build, there is excitement around the state over Foothills Charter School, an alternative high school option, and Atlanta Neighborhood Charter Middle School students win TAGEd robotics competition.
- New Foothills Charter School, a high school dropout recovery option in Madison County, announces its August 2015 opening.
- Floyd County College and Career Academy, one of the state’s first CCA’s gets good press; Floyd County school district also announces it intends to renew its charter status.
- Long standing state desegregation order still stands in the way of the opening of Peach-Byron charter high school
- Proposed Columbia County charter school announces that it has secured land to build.
- Op Ed columnist Tom Crawford blasts the Governor’s plan for Opportunity School Districts in many newspapers around the state, contends it gives the Governor too much power.
- In Savannah area, Coastal Courier columnist gives a balanced view on proposed school turnaround plan.
- AJC Get Schooled continues to fire away at the OSD using critical surrogates; Celeste Lay from Tulane University, calls OSD a model of “what not to do,”; runs a piece by academics that cites how market-based education reform has worked in Chile, and offers Glenn Delk’s assessment that the status quo must be disrupted for education reform to take hold.
- Atlanta Neighborhood Charter Middle schoolers take 1st place in TAGEd robotics competition
- Cherokee Charter Academy is not harmed by drop in student enrollment, gets unanticipated revenue
- Georgia’s plan to use chartering to expand educational options for inmates is praised by legal community
Georgia Charter Schools Association
The Georgia Charter Schools Association (GCSA) is the membership organization for Georgia’s charter school operators and petitioners, established in 2001. Our mission is to be an effective advocate and service provider for all charter public schools in Georgia.
