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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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After years of cuts, Ga. schools are funded at basic level

A major win that came out of this year’s General Assembly was the decision to fully fund the Quality Basic Education (QBE) funding formula. This means that for the first time since 2002, Georgia lawmakers are actually giving school districts the basic amount of money they need to operate. But from 2010 to 2014, Deal shortchanged schools by $1 billion a year, and Deal has consistently shortchanged our teachers and students — by at least

Diverse group of parents at Walton High School hold sign reading "Walton parents are PROUD of our kids for walking out!"
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Thousands of students across the state participate in #NationalWalkOutDay

Students in Georgia walked out in droves yesterday in protest of the gun violence that has taken place on campuses around the country. On March 14, students across the nation participated in #NationalWalkOutDay. In Georgia, there have been reports from nearly every corner of the state of students participating in walkouts, hosting moments of silence and organizing school-wide events. One student from South Georgia, described how writing out the names of all the victims of

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Education czar eyes Atlanta for next round of school takeover projects

A year and a half ago, Better Georgia and a coalition of teachers, parents and advocates fought hard to stop Gov. Nathan Deal from taking local control away from our public schools and handing them 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 in 2016, marking a huge win for pro-public education Georgians. But instead of

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Racial inequality a problem in Georgia schools

The Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education released its latest list of top 10 issues to watch in education. One major issue is equity in access to education, which is something that is often missed in discussions about education funding, teacher pay, and student performance. Not all children in Georgia have equal access to quality education and quality teachers, according to GPEE’s report. Under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, every state is required to