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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 Nina Rubin  I’m no dummy, but it’s part of my job to read and digest Department of Education briefs, white papers, and reports in order to explain educational issues in ways that lay readers can easily understand. That’s why I sat down and tried to come to grips, on a “dummy” level, with something […]

[Editor’s Note: Here’s a closer look at the efforts taken by Ivy Preparatory Academy, a state-authorized charter school, to improve the performance of boys in their Young Men’s Leadership Academy. Nobody understands the mandate to “improve or close” better than Georgia’s public charter schools. If passed, the Governor’s proposal for Opportunity School Districts (OSD) will put the same […]

By Tony Roberts, In the AJC article of February 12, 2015, “New plan for failing schools,” a list of 141 “persistently failing schools” is described based on the College and Career Performance Index (CCRPI). Mentioned in the article is that “Two state-approved charter schools are on the list of low performers as well.” As a […]

[Editor’s Note: Journalist Mike Klein shares his insightful, blow-by-blow account of yesterday’s two-hour House-Senate discussion on Governor Deal’s proposal to create Opportunity School Districts in Georgia.]  By Mike Klein, Governor Nathan Deal’s administration began to build the intellectual equity case for his “Opportunity School District” initiative during a joint House-Senate education committees hearing at the State […]

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 […]