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Vote gives OK to constitutional amendment helping charter schools
02/02/2012
Charter school supporters claimed a first-round victory late Thursday in their fight to override last year's Georgia Supreme Court ruling, declaring that the state cannot approve and fund charter schools over local school board objections.
Charter amendment could see first vote Thursday; lobbying intensifies
02/01/2012
The lobbying intensified Tuesday over a proposed constitutional amendment that could re-establish the state's power to approve and fund charter schools over the objections of local school systems. If approved, the amendment, which local school boards and superintendents vehemently oppose, would override a state Supreme Court ruling from last May.
Going to a virtual charter school
09/25/2011
ATLANTA - Seventh grader David Tanner is off to a new school year. But he's not in a traditional classroom. He attends Georgia Cyber Academy, a statewide public virtual charter school.
State school board rescues 11 charter schools
06/28/2011
Eleven charter schools whose operating agreements were voided by a state Supreme Court ruling got the final approval they needed Tuesday to serve more than 15,000 students in the fall.
State committee recommends approval for some charter schools in limbo
06/27/2011
More than 15,000 Georgia students are expected to be able to attend their chosen charter school this fall, ending more than a month of uncertainty about whether those schools would have the funding and legal clearance to open.
The brewing of a bruising fight over charter schools
06/25/2011
For the last couple years, the focus has been on transportation as the public policy issue likely to dominate the 2012 political season.
Gov. Deal and U.S. Education Secretary Discuss Charter School Ruling
06/22/2011
Georgia's Governor and the U.S. Secretary of Education weighed in Wednesday on how to aid a number of charter schools affected by a recent Georgia Supreme Court decision. The court declared 16 charter schools created by a state commission unconstitutional.
Georgia plays host to charter school forum
06/20/2011
Nikhil Lakhanpal, an inaugural student and graduate of Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology, was part of a charter school experiment that catered to his interests in those nameplate subjects, and ultimately convinced him his future wasn't in any of them.
Deal vows to help save state-approved charter schools
06/17/2011
Gov. Nathan Deal says he'll work with the General Assembly to bypass a recent court ruling outlawing state-approved charter schools.
An online charter school travels south Georgia in search of rejection
06/17/2011
I spoke this week with Monica Henson, head of Provost Academy Georgia, a virtual public charter high school that ls due to open in the fall with at least 400 students from around the state.
Georgia Charter Schools Case Might Be Headed Back to Supreme Court
05/19/2011
We should know very soon whether the Georgia Supreme Court will be asked to reconsider its historic charter schools commission decision, even though one source said the likelihood that the Court would reverse itself is "an astronomical possibility," as in, place really low bets.