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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.

By GCSA As we noted in an earlier blog post, the presence of a good public charter school has an impact on home sales in Metro Atlanta and also drives […]

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 […]

By Krista Kunkle The classroom is changing.  Just as our marketers are learning to personalize their products, so are our schools. Each child comes from a unique “template,” so schools […]

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 […]

By Aileen Dodd, Ivy Prep Academy, the girl’s charter school that survived a state Supreme Court challenge, will graduate its inaugural class of seniors at 2 p.m. Saturday in a […]

By GCSA Do you have a mission, vision, commitment, and passion for improving public education? If this describes you, consider applying to New Schools for Georgia’s Charter School Incubator program by […]

By Mike Klein, Frank Sinatra made the New York myth and legend seem so attractive – “I want to be part of it, New York, New York” – but after […]

By Allen West and Rich Thompson This is the story of two young black students who attended challenging Georgia public schools not long after the civil rights movement. They both […]

Atlanta, GA – A new statewide poll released this week from McLaughlin & Associates shows that 72% of Georgia voters support innovative, self-governing, and highly accountable charter public schools. African-American […]

By Scarlet Hawk, Back in September, James C. Courtovich of the Wall Street Journal wrote of the commonalities of school choice and Uber. The next day, Veronique de Rugy of the […]

By Leo Smith As election night 2014 drew to a close, all of America turned their attention to pundits’ analyses of who won and why. One candidate’s campaign advantage began […]