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Gov. Deal vetoes guns on college campuses because it wouldn’t make students...
To the dismay of many in his party, Gov. Nathan Deal vetoed the controversial campus carry bill today. Our AJC ace political writer Greg Bluestein reports Deal went up against General Assembly...
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Nathan Deal’s reasons for vetoing campus carry: Long history of colleges as...
Here is Gov. Nathan Deal’s rationale for vetoing campus carry today: HB 859 seeks to amend O.C.G.A. § 16-11-127.1, which relates to the carrying of weapons within school safety zones. It would add an...
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UGA grad student: Campus safety takes hit with gun veto
Vicki Scullion is a Ph.D. student and graduate assistant in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the University of Georgia College of Education. By Vicki A. Scullion Feeling safer now?...
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With Milestones scores arriving tomorrow, districts have to decide retain,...
Faced with reports of technology glitches in online testing, the state Board of Education last week waived the requirement that Georgia Milestones scores influence promotion and retention decisions in...
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Gov. Deal enters school bathroom fray, accuses feds of overreach in...
Gov. Nathan Deal today issued a statement in response to the Obama administration’s directive to school systems on how to accommodate transgender students in school restroom questions. He does not...
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First there were problems taking the Milestones. Now, the problem is getting...
The Georgia Department of Education ought to include a bottle of aspirin with every packet of Milestones instructions sent to district testing coordinators next year. Because testing turned into a...
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Did Georgia — and other states — make mistake turning to homegrown tests?
Interesting column by Jim Cowen, interim executive director of the pro Common Core Collaborative for Student Success, on the challenges facing states that chose to create their own tests rather than...
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Massive charter school theft sounds warning for Georgia’s charter schools
By Molly Bloom How do you not notice $600,000 is missing? That’s what parents and staff at Atlanta’s Latin Academy Charter School asked as the extent of the theft from their school — the largest theft...
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Georgia trails national average in school spending. Should we invest more?
Many issues in education are open to debate, but none more than school spending. It would seem a straightforward question: Do we spend too much or too little on our schools? One of the reasons for the...
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Georgia is among handful of states that didn’t learn from online testing...
When the state of Tennessee ran into problems this spring in its first year of online testing, its lawmakers did something that Georgia’s did not — they asked what happened in other states that adopted...
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Gov. Deal’s teacher raise: Is it bid to win support for his takeover district?
In this pungent piece, former south Georgia superintendent Jim Arnold takes on the governor and state education spending. Arnold questions whether Gov. Nathan Deal’s “teacher raise” is an attempt to...
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Why does Gov. Deal want to take over schools? Power, control and money.
Dr. Allene Magill is executive director of the Professional Association of Georgia Educators, a 91,000 member independent educator association. PAGE is Georgia’s largest educator advocacy group. A...
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Will Georgia suffer voter’s remorse if Opportunity School District passes?
The day after approving England’s exit from the European Union, many voters in that country resorted to Internet searches to figure out what the EU was and what it actually did. I suspect we’ll see...
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Does the governor’s state school takeover district trample local control?
Jesus Tirado is a full-time doctoral student at the University of Georgia. He taught social studies for nine years. In his first piece for the AJC Get Schooled blog, Tirado explains why he opposes the...
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Damned by data: Do states spend more time rating schools than helping them?
In this age of data worship, state education agencies seem to devote more time to rating schools than helping them. Many state legislatures have embraced a “damned by data” strategy to force change in...
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Should Georgia school superintendents fight the governor’s takeover proposal?
In November, Gov. Nathan Deal will ask Georgia voters to approve a constitutional amendment granting the state broad new powers to take over failing schools, close them, run them or convert them to...
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Problem with online classes: If child isn’t motivated, parent must be
The zeal for online learning has cooled from the days when the Georgia General Assembly considered mandating every high school student in the state take at least one virtual class. That’s because...
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Do Georgia’s new Milestones tests demand too much of younger students?
With some time to review the 2016 Milestones results, I see no cause for panic. Unless you are Atlanta, DeKalb or Clayton. The underperformance of some schools in those districts, especially APS,...
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Spooky new video urges Georgia voters to reject Gov. Deal’s state takeover of...
This new video in opposition to Gov. Nathan Deal’s state takeover plan is certainly dramatic. I’m not sure this spare, spooky approach will work in persuading voters to reject the constitutional...
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Georgia higher ed chief Hank Huckaby will step down in December
Here is the statement from the Board of Regents on the retirement announcement today from Chancellor Hank Huckaby. (You can read more at this AJC.com story by AJC higher ed report Janel Davis.)...
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