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By GCSA A new blog and news site from education activist and former TV news anchor Campbell Brown is making waves in education reform circles. It’s called The Seventy Four, referring to the 74 million school age children in America who Brown believes are being shortchanged by our public school system. Advance PR for the blog states: […]

By Jarod Apperson Over the past 50 years, the expansion of educational choice has become a favorite rallying cry of politicians and other education advocates who view it as an avenue to greater educational opportunities for students. In 1962, Milton Friedman, one of the earliest advocates for educational choice, laid out a rationale for moving […]

New Orleans, LA – In a bold move to improve the quality and accountability of public education for students across the nation, 39 state and city-based public charter school support organizations, collectively signed the “National Public Charter Schools Commitment to Quality” at the National Charter Schools Conference held in New Orleans, Louisiana. This grassroots, state and city-based […]

By Travis Pillow    Last week, at a gathering of school choice supporters in New Orleans, a pair of Georgia state lawmakers talked about the importance of educational choice, and their efforts to gain support for it among fellow Democrats. State Reps. Valencia Stovall and Mike Glanton both represent parts of Clayton County, south of Atlanta, […]

By Matt Underwood One of the worst chapters in the history of public education in our city is nearing a close with the recent conviction and sentencing of 8 educators involved with widespread cheating by adults of student answer documents on the CRCT in Atlanta several years ago. In the aftermath of the trial and its outcome, […]

Governor Nathan Deal today offered a formal bill in the Georgia General Assembly that would enable  the state of Georgia to take control of failing public schools. The bill calls for a constitutional amendment to create statewide Opportunity School Districts.  Failing schools are defined in the bill as schools that have scored 60 or below for three years […]

This was a week filled with strong opinion pieces about school turnaround, school choice, and education reform. New charter options get attention as Hephzibah Charter school (Augusta area) breaks ground and Furlow Charter School (Americus, GA) enrolls students for its opening year.   Eric Wearne, who teaches at Georgia Gwinnett College and chairs the board of […]

By BJ VanGundy So the question I was asked to weigh in on here is “What do the results of the 2014 election mean to education in Georgia?” I want to thank the powers that be at Charter Confidential for giving me the simple assignment of predicting the future. The short answer to what happened […]

By Matt Underwood Recently our Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School principals and I attended a half-day workshop with all of the other principals and district staff from the Atlanta Public Schools.  The workshop was facilitated by the Gallup organization and was primarily focused on using Gallup’s “Strengths Finder” assessment to identify individuals’ strengths among the district’s leadership and […]

[Editor’s Note: The letter shared below was sent yesterday to members of the DeKalb County Board of Education under the signature of Matthew Lewis, chairman of the board of the Druid Hills Charter Cluster, Inc.  The cluster petition was an innovative proposal to align 7 elementary and middle schools that all feed into Druid Hills High School, as an […]

By Scarlet Hawk Choice is a funny thing. You want to always have one in any situation, yet there is a comfort to having no responsibility for making a decision. The liberty of deciding one’s own destiny is a mature realization of independence that can be both exhilarating and intimidating. Most people take the “tried […]