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Deception

Georgia schools are in danger of being taken over if Gov. Deal gets his way. Gov. Deal and his politicians don’t want you to read the fine print about Amendment 1 because his so-called “Opportunity School District” is yet another political power grab that would hurt Georgia’s public school students and teachers. The takeover would silence parents and communities who understand their children’s educational needs best. A takeover would allow a political appointee — loyal

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School Takeover

Heads up. You have some very important fine print to read before November. As a Georgia voter, you will face a purposefully misleading ballot question that threatens to silence parents and take control away from local communities. MACON TELEGRAPH: More deceptive language in Amendment 1 ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION: PTA slams new ballot wording on OpportunitySchool District amendment The ballot language will make you feel good just reading it but the results will create a new layer of government

Education

Opposition to Deal’s school takeover plan grows in Macon

Gov. Nathan Deal’s Opportunity School District plan (a.k.a. school takeover) is about to get some new opposition: the Board of Education of Bibb County, home to Macon, Ga. During last week’s BOE meeting, several members spoke against the measure, which would give a state-appointed leader control over schools that have received failing grades three years in a row based on Georgia’s College and Career Ready Performance Index (CCRI) scores. Here’s Daryl Morton, the Bibb County

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ALEC groups fund Ga. primary fights

Here’s a little bit of intrigue for you: what did an ALEC-affiliated, pro “school choice” group do with $86,000 in Georgia’s primary races? The American Federation for Children is a group to watch and fear. They are a 501(c)(4) organization, tied to the (c)(3) non-profit Alliance for School Choice. Both the The American Federation for Children and the Alliance for School Choice fund ALEC activities and shape the organization’s pro-privatization, pro-corporate profits education agenda, with

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Support local control? Only when it’s a guise for anti-trans policy.

It must be nice to be able to have opinions that are politically convenient to whatever problematic, self-serving agenda you want to promote. Take local control of school districts, for example. State School Superintendent Richard Woods doesn’t think local control is very important, until it’s a convenient platform to shield his transphobic views. Underfund our schools, setting them up to fail, then privatize and corporatize as many of them as you can justify? Pfft, local control

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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