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Moving beyond Amendment 1: Creating real opportunity for Georgia students
Mark A. Elgart is the founding president and chief executive officer for Alpharetta-based AdvancED, which focuses on education improvement through research and innovation, policy and advocacy,...
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In rare united front, Georgians of all stripes defeat Opportunity School...
Myra Blackmon is a retired public relations professional with both a bachelor’s of arts in journalism and a master’s in education from the University of Georgia. She and her husband recently moved back...
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Ongoing study affirms benefits of Georgia pre-k
Georgia’s pre-k program is showing positive impacts, according to an ongoing study tracking 1,169 children who participated in the program during the 2013-2014 school year. The study by the Frank...
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Is Opportunity School District dead or is governor plotting a resurrection of...
So what can the state Board of Education do in lieu of the stinging defeat of Gov. Nathan Deal’s Opportunity School District, an idea killed at the polls but apparently not without hope of some form of...
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Agnes Scott president: We stand by our undocumented students and support...
Elizabeth Kiss is president of Agnes Scott College in Decatur. A few days ago, she announced her campus would maintain its support of undocumented students. In a column today, she explains why. First,...
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Opinion: If Georgia wants to increase college degrees, stop blocking children...
JoBeth Allen is a professor emeritus in the University of Georgia department of language and literacy education. She is co-director of U-Lead Athens, which supports equal access to higher education for...
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Opinion: Georgia lawmakers to push again for guns on campus. Raise your voice...
In a column today, Matthew Boedy, an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition at the University of North Georgia, addresses the plan by the Georgia House to resurrect the campus carry bill in...
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Education funding: How much is enough for schools educating the poorest...
Amid holiday travels, you may have missed the excellent piece by my AJC colleague Ty Tagami on whether the extra state dollars proposed for poor Georgia students are enough to make a difference. The...
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School closing in Tennessee reveals risks, challenges of state takeover
A selling point for Gov. Nathan Deal’s Opportunity School District was a similar state-run program in Tennessee. OSD proponents in Georgia sold Tennessee’s Achievement School District as a success...
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Average college costs rose 77 percent in 10 years in Georgia. Why?
A new report by the state Department of Audits and Accounts Performance Audit Division finds Georgia families paying a marked higher price for a college education, in large part due to the slashes to...
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State may call students ‘illegals,’ but Fulton judge rules otherwise in...
A Fulton County Superior Court judge ruled students put on a path to citizenship by the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program meet the definition of “lawful presence”...
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Opportunity School District may be dead, but A-F rating system lives on
With the exception of the press and politicians, it doesn’t appear anyone else in Georgia pays much attention to annual school ratings. Parents seem either baffled by the arcane underpinnings of...
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If Georgia teachers are skeptical of governor’s 2 percent raise, here’s why
Teacher skepticism of the governor’s announcement yesterday of a 2 percent raise reflects their recent experience. Gov. Nathan Deal promised a 3 percent raise last year — really a one-time bonus — but...
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DeKalb school chief advises governor: We’re talking about choice when we...
In this essay, DeKalb Superintendent Steve Green offers Gov. Nathan Deal suggestions on creating an effective school reform plan. By Steve Green Gov. Nathan Deal has told the Georgia General Assembly...
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Student: Georgia lawmakers endanger victims of sexual assault with campus...
Atlantan Zoë Taylor, a senior at Williams College, opposes a bill in the Georgia Legislature that limits the ability of Georgia’s public colleges to investigate and punish those accused of rape on...
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DeVos takes helm at Education Department. Will she steer funds, students away...
The secretary of education has never been a high-profile post, probably because the U.S. Department of Education is an upstart, created in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter and still regarded with...
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Opinion: If Georgia doesn’t improve its schools, military could take its...
State Rep. Dave Belton, R-Buckhead, is a retired major in the United States Air Force. He’s now an international pilot for Delta Air Lines. Belton served on the Morgan County school board for eight...
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Guns on Georgia college campuses debated in Georgia
Sen. Nan Orrock speaks during a March rally opposing campus carry in 2016. The group delivered 30,000 petitions to Gov. Nathan Deal’s office urging a veto of the bill that would allow those 21 years...
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Opinion: Guns on Georgia college campuses endanger students
I have been in the northeast for a week and returned today to find Georgia back where it was a year ago with a proposal to open its public college campus to guns. The General Assembly has revived its...
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Does Nathan Deal’s plan for struggling schools go too far or not far enough?...
Disappointed over the defeat of his Opportunity School District, Gov. Nathan Deal has offered up an alternative state takeover plan that could be imposed through legislation. That legislation is House...
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