What Comes Next for Georgia's Schoolchildren After Passage of the Charter Schools Amendment?
Charter schools may be part of a reform package, but they can't be the only reform.
The fight over the Charter School Amendment is over. Come January, the Georgia General Assembly will re-authorized the Charter Schools Commission that had been declared un-Constitutional by the State Supreme Court. And, says Maureen Downey in a blog post in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, that may be all the legislature does for public education this session, believing that choice is a solution to funding problems for public education. "Lawmakers can relax and let choice work its magic. If students don’t do well, it will be blamed on their parents failing to make the right choice," says Downey. "In elevating choice to their top legislative priority, lawmaker shirked what ought to be their main concern: Ensuring that existing public …
Rebecca McCarthy
6:51 pm on Monday, November 26, 2012
Dear Rae, Since you don't know what a top notch reporter and editor Maureen is, and since you may have never read anything she has written, you don't know how fair and balanced she is in her reporting. She has been bemoaning the reduction in public money for public education for years. There are no sour grapes, just fears that may be realized. Stay tuned. more ›