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...
Ted 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 state-wide recovery school district. Ted Terry is organizing a...
This "twitter debate" from Julian Vasquez Heilig's blog appeared in my inbox today. I am working on a post on charters and public schools based on an EPI study of the Rocketship Education charters in Milwaukee. This twitter debate is a perfect introduction to that...
Technology is viewed by some as the elixir or cure-all for education, and school districts, with lots of money available through grants such as Race to the Top, technology investments from organization such the Gates Foundation, and law edicts, have embraced...
Guest Post by Matt Jones EmpowerED Georgia Kicks Off Stop Putting Georgia Schools on Shoestring Budgets. Since 2010, EmpowerED, a grassroots nonprofit, has focused on building and growing a grassroots movement of parents, educators, and community members to support...
In 2010 the Georgia Department of Education received ~$400 million from the Race to the Top (RT3) fund to Like all states that were winners in the Race to the Top (RT3) competition, Georgia's scope of work entails four "project" areas: Standards and Rigorous...
