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Firing racist school superintendent Jeremy Spencer

Jeremy Spencer used to work for Georgia’s Department of Education. But after racially charged Facebook posts he made came to light, Better Georgia supporters put pressure on the state superintendent to fire him and it worked. In 2016, it came to light that Spencer held some extremely bigoted beliefs. His Facebook was littered with posts that demean Muslims, imply that non-white students are not able to achieve academic success at the same level as white

Education

Deal’s takeover plan is already failing students and teachers

Deal’s takeover plan is already failing students and teachers. Despite Georgians voting ‘no’ to his school takeover, he snuck in his takeover policy through legislation called The First Priority Act. Deal has drained public schools of their resources, he has cut $9.2 billion in funding since 2003. It’s no wonder schools are struggling. It’s clear what Deal’s plan is. He starves our public schools and labels them “failing,” so he can take them over and

Education

First round of school takeovers spells trouble for Georgia schools

Last year, Better Georgia and a coalition of teachers, parents and advocates fought hard to stop Gov. Deal from taking local control away from our public schools and handing our schools over to his handpicked, unelected education czar. Thanks to a lot of hard work by the coalition, voters overwhelmingly rejected Deal’s school takeover measure at the polls last November, marking a huge win for pro-public education Georgians. But instead of listening to what Georgians

Better Georgia

Defeating Gov. Deal’s school takeover plan

In a year of stunning buffoonery on the national level, it can be hard to remember the political wins Georgians have scored through hard work and dedication to important issues. But those wins have happened, thanks to the dedicated work of voters and advocates like you. Last year, Gov. Nathan Deal’s signature school takeover measure Amendment 1 was defeated. It was a stunning for public school supporters, with 60 percent of Georgians voting against the

Education

Conservatives want cuts for teachers, tax breaks for the One Percent

It’s bad enough that we live in a time where our underpaid, undervalued, overworked teachers have to spend their own money to purchase supplies. What’s worse is that now conservatives want to take money out of teachers’ pockets so they can give massive tax breaks to corporations and the One Percent. A proposed House GOP tax bill, the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, would eliminate a $250 deduction that educators can use to help offset

Education

APS to furlough teachers

When schools are on the hook for the bad decisions made by politicians, it’s always the students who pay. Through an archaic tax law, Fulton County was able to freeze property values where they were in 2016. Although this is good news for residents who argued their 2017 valuation was too high, it’s crippling to the school system that depends on Fulton tax revenue to function. Fulton’s tax revenue makes up 62.5 percent of Atlanta’s $777