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Vote for State Superintendent May 22

The five candidates for State Superintendent this year all have at least one thing in common: they all say they want lawmakers and the governor to put more money into education. The three Democrats include Sid Chapman, a former high school teacher and president of the Georgia Association of Educators (GAE), Otha Thornton, Army veteran and former president of the National PTA and Sam Mosteller, a pastor and former head of the Ga. chapter of

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Arming school staff would endanger students, teachers

Laurens School District near Warner Robins, Ga. is becoming the first school district to allow staff members to carry guns in order to protect students, despite all the research showing that increasing the amount of guns at schools decreases student safety. Although Trump has touted arming teachers and school personnel as a solution to school shootings, the high number of accidental shootings that have occurred in classrooms and school buildings by trained professionals should scare

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DeKalb bus drivers strike for better pay, get fired immediately

Perhaps inspired by the success of the school worker strikes in Oklahoma, West Virginia and South Carolina, 393 of Dekalb County’s 908 school bus drivers, called out sick on Thursday as a way to fight for improvements in salaries and benefits. Many continued calling out for the entire “sick out” from Thursday through Monday. Bus drivers are underpaid and overworked in Georgia — especially in DeKalb, where the average bus driver makes around $23,000 per year,

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National School Walkout this Friday

This Friday, thousands of students will walk out of class in schools all over the United States to protest the lack of change in gun regulations as a result of mass school shootings. The National School Walkout was started by Lane Murdoch, a 16-year-old who grew up just 20 miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School – where 20 students were killed in a mass shooting in 2012. The movement started as a Change.org petition following

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Ga. students are riding buses from the ’80s due to lack of funding

It’s no secret that Gov. Nathan Deal has chronically under-funded Georgia public education for the majority of his time in office. Teachers are underpaid, arts and music programs were cut and until very recently, some schools couldn’t afford to stay open for the full school year. Transportation to and from school is no exception to the gross undervaluation of our schools by conservative lawmakers. A number of school systems are still not receiving the resources

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Public schools still paying for Vogtle

Public schools shouldn’t be stuck with the bill for what’s now been dubbed the “Plant Vogtle Vortex,” named as such because money and time seem to disappear into the black hole of Georgia Power’s failed project. The nuclear power plant is years behind schedule and is billions of dollars over budget. A bill passed in 2009 has allowed Georgia Power to pass on those charges to consumers — meaning anyone who uses Georgia Power has footed