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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 economic development.  Now a study from Georgia State University confirms it. Yesterday, education reporter Maureen Downey featured the study, Willing to Pay: Charter Schools’ Impact on […]

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 […]

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 should be unique, too, and focus on each child’s needs.  More than any time in American history, a child entering grade school is likely to […]

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 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 ceremony at Georgia Gwinnett College. The graduation, which will attract national school choice advocates to Atlanta, marks a victory for the charter school movement in […]

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 the June 15th deadline. The Incubator works with mission-driven teams to develop and expand rigorous, innovative, and high-quality school options in Georgia. Teams must have at […]

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 living her entire life there Adrienne Brooks wanted out. “You rush through everything in New York. You eat fast, you walk fast, you go, go, […]

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 share ties to a small Georgia town. One attended a public school in the Old Fourth Ward of Atlanta. At length, his parents saved enough […]

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 voters are even more likely to support charters (74%) than white voters (70%). The poll was commissioned by the American Federation for Children. Voters also […]

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 National Review explained the analogy further with what her colleague Adam Thierer referred to as “permissionless innovation.” de Rugy points out that the act of […]

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 on November of 2012, when Georgia voters passed Amendment One, the “Charter Schools Amendment,” by nearly 60% statewide. The debate leading up to that vote […]