by Georgia Charter Schools Association
Another blockbuster week in Georgia charter school news as legislation is introduced in the GA General Assembly to create Opportunity School Districts.
- Former opponent of Amendment One, Athens columnist聽, but her Op Ed has many inaccuracies.
- Druid Hills Cluster issue remains a news item as . Story advances as the week progresses — AJC runs a student who opposes annexation of Druid Hills and its feeder schools into APS. . But this morning (Friday) .
- that gets wide pickup in newspapers across the state: says that Georgia’s education problems cannot be solved by money alone, and that “choice” is at the root of all reform.”
- Macon Telegraph runs a very upbeat interview with principal of Academy for Classical Education, new charter school in Bibb County
- National Alliance for Public Charter Schools story on — up by 11,000 students in Georgia alone.
- CharterConfidential.com provides , by its Executive Director Allen Mueller.
- who feel they have on Governor’s new Education Reform Commission
- dominates the news as GA General Assembly discusses the that would require a constitutional amendment, and.
- that聽those using two state approved charters with poor performance as rationale to oppose the OSD, don’t have all the facts. Says that charter schools should never be candidates for an OSD because they already have 聽“built-in, rigorous ‘perform or close’ provisions.聽