Poverty, Learning and Nathan Deal's Georgia Opportunity School District Assumes... Georgia Governor Nathan Deal's Georgia Opportunity School District (OSD) assumes that replacing public schools with charter schools will improve the test performance of students in...
Georgia Doesn't Want the State to Take Over Its Schools by Mercedes Schneider With only two weeks to go, Georgia voters will decide to approve or reject Governor Nathan Deal's Opportunity School District, a plan that will authorized a Governor appointed OSD Czar to...
Truth Be Told: Power, Money and the Georgia Opportunity School District Some politicians not only seek office, they relish in the power that elected officials have once they get there. There is also a lot of money in politics, and there is money to be made,...
Gov. Deal's Opportunity School District is Now About Poverty and Crime! That's right. In a paid TV advertisement, the Governor is pleading with folks in Georgia to Vote Yes on Question 1 on the November 8th ballot. His message is that if you vote Yes, then poverty...
If We Vote Yes on Georgia's Opportunity School District, We're Doing the Wrong Thing The Artofteachingscience.org blog is up and running. All of my sites were hacked around October 5, and its taken quite awhile to get all the files cleaned and free of malicious...
P.L. Thomas On "Miracle" Schools or Political Sham?--Take Heed Georgia Georgia is on the verge of approving a constitutional amendment (Amendment 1 on the November 8 Georgia ballot) that would enable the Governor's office to go in and rescue children who are enrolled...