Deal’s school takeover plan a failure from the start
The hotly contested education reform championed by Gov. Nathan Deal will be on the November ballot. Called the “Opportunity School District (OSD)” by supporters, the measure is really a school takeover plan, designed to benefit for-profit charter schools and their proponents, at the expense of funding a public education for all students. Gov. Deal claims that this bill is about school performance — but there isn’t one word in the legislation about strategies to improve