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Legislature approves guns on campuses. No vote on controversial campus rape...
Updates on two bills that we discussed on the blog: The AJC reports Georgia lawmakers gave final passage early this morning to a law legalizing guns on the state’s public college and university...
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Charter schools win a building boost from General Assembly in new funding law
The General Assembly approved House Bill 430 last night, which assists charter schools in finding and funding facilities and buildings. According to the AJC: Legislation to ease access to buildings and...
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Opinion: Ten reasons Gov. Nathan Deal ought to veto campus carry law
Matthew Boedy, an assistant professor at the University of North Georgia, has researched whether guns are needed on Georgia’s public college campuses. Based on his research, Boedy says they are not...
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Opinion: Governor should veto Georgia’s ‘mean-spirited, divisive’ sanctuary...
Shelley Rose is the interim regional director for the Anti-Defamation League, Southeast Region. In this guest column, Rose condemns House Bill 37, which would restrict funds for Georgia colleges that...
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Opinion: Crime data show Georgia college students, faculty, and staff don’t...
Will he or won’t he? That’s the question thousands of parents, Georgia college students and professors are wondering as Gov. Nathan Deal has 27 days left to veto the campus carry bill. House Bill 280...
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Governor to sign 10 education bills Thursday including OSD-Lite
Update Thursday morning: Upon signing the OSD-Lite bill, Gov. Nathan Deal said: “Georgia remains committed to improving our state’s education system by increasing student access to high-performing...
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Promised 2 percent raise for teachers falls short in some metro districts
Many teachers in the metro area are learning their raises will not reflect the 2 percent increase pledged by the governor. Blame it on basic math. Nathan Deal and the General Assembly calculated the 2...
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DeKalb student to governor: Veto campus carry so I can feel safe at a Georgia...
Jacob Busch is a junior at Chamblee Charter High School. He is also editor of his school newspaper. In this piece, the DeKalb County honors student explains how guns on campus will likely cause him to...
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If governor needs reasons to nix campus carry, go back to his 2016 veto...
Gov. Nathan Deal is not being subtle in his clues to whether he plans to sign the campus carry bill this week. Unlike last year when he vetoed similar campus carry legislation, Deal appears ready to...
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Nathan Deal signs campus carry allowing guns at Georgia public colleges
From the Governor’s Office: Gov. Nathan Deal today signed HB 280, which permits weapons carry license holders to carry firearms in specific and limited areas on college campuses. This legislation...
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Campus carry backlash: ‘If governor wouldn’t let guns in his office, they...
Note Friday night: The commenting tool on this blog was broken, and only comments flowing from Facebook were appearing. It is now fixed. Maureen Parents are expressing disappointment over Gov. Nathan...
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Campus carry causing parents to rule out Georgia colleges. But other states...
Many folks are saying on social media posts they won’t send their kids to Georgia public colleges now that Gov. Nathan Deal signed campus carry into law, but will have them attend out-of-state schools....
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As colleges figure out how to accommodate guns, parents continue to worry
In signing the campus carry bill over the objections of the Board of Regents, university faculty and students who resoundingly opposed the measure in polls, Gov. Nathan Deal has created a stressful...
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Will guns on campus run off top faculty? Yes, says a departing professor.
After a decade at the University of Kansas, noted scholar Jacob Dorman resigned his tenure position in response to conceal carry being allowed in Kansas college classrooms starting July 1. That is the...
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The campus carry law brings questions, challenges
The new state law allowing students over 21 to carry concealed weapons in most areas of Georgia’s public campuses contains challenges for Georgia’s universities. Colleges must resolve these issues by...
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As studies find vouchers don’t improve academics, proponents argue test...
The early architects of school choice maintained that getting kids out of struggling public schools into private ones would raise academic performance as measured by test scores. Several recent...
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Nathan Deal received 100 times more calls, letters against campus carry than...
Gov. Nathan Deal encourages Georgians to contact him, and they did so by the thousands in opposition to campus carry. But Deal ignored them, signing the controversial bill opposed by the University...
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Can Georgia schools afford rising teacher benefits?
I was chatting with my AJC colleagues in the office today about possible candidates for the chief turnaround officer created by the new law on state intervention in failing schools. I wondered about...
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Georgia State study: New charter schools boost surrounding home values
Interesting study from Georgia State University’s Center for State and Local Finance on the impact of start-up charter schools on the prices of homes in the area. Commissioned by the Georgia Charter...
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Does Trump’s proposed expansion of school choice shortchange rural Georgia?
U.S. Secretary of Education and champion of school choice Betsy DeVos continues to promise schools that her U.S. Department of Education will grant them more flexibility and freedom from federal...
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