Latest Story We Should Be Mad as Hell, and Not Take It Anymore from the Governor & His Opportunity School District Proposal. Why? The Governor’s Hypocrisy: Charter Lobbyist Pays for Travel to New Orleans Recovery...
Read MoreLatest Story by Alfredo Gaete of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and Stephanie Jones of the University of Georgia. The Georgia General Assembly is one vote away from approving Governor Nathan Deal’s plan to...
Read MoreLatest Story Governor Deal exchanges Letters with Ed Johnson–Ships Passing in the Night. Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the...
Read MoreLatest Story New Orleans Recovery School District Test Scores: A Closer Look Doesn’t Look Pretty Governor Nathan Deal is pushing hard on his Opportunity School District (OSD) proposal which is modeled after the New Orleans...
Read MoreLatest Story The Georgia House Should Pink Slip the Opportunity School District Last week the Georgia Senate voted and passed two bills, Senate Bill 133 and Senate Resolution 287. Senate Bill 133 will set up the Opportunity...
Read MoreLatest Story Today I wrote to the Georgia House Democratic Caucus Leadership urging them to vote against Senate Bill 133 and Senate Resolution 287 which will enable the state to takeover 100 of Georgia’s “chronically...
Read MoreLatest Story Dear Governor Deal, I am writing this public letter to offer you and members of the Georgia House of Representatives an alternative plan to the Opportunity School District plan. According to Senate Bill 133 and...
Read MoreLatest Story Is Your School on the List to be Taken Over by the State of Georgia’s Opportunity School District? Last week the Georgia Senate voted and passed two bills, Senate Bill 133 and Senate Resolution 287. Senate...
Read MoreLatest Story Today, the Georgia Senate voted and passed (38 – 15) Governor Deal’s “chronically failing” school bill which would turn these schools into charters under the appointment of a...
Read MoreTed Terry, State Campaign Director, Georgia AFL-CIO and I have been communicating about the plan being proposed by Governor Deal to take over Georgia’s “failing” schools by implementing a Louisiana style...
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