Video: Charter School Amendment

In his weekly video legislative update, Georgia Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock) again tackles the issue of charters.

Late Thursday, House Education Committee members voted 15-6 in favor of a constitutional amendment that would restore the state's power to approve charter schools, according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

In May, a Supreme Court of Georgia ruling essentially dissolved the Georgia Charter School Commission. The , which overturned a Fulton County court’s ruling, found that the Georgia Constitution gives local school boards exclusive control of education and that the one exception specified in the Constitution, “special schools,” applies only to schools addressing special needs, such as schools for the blind or the deaf.

Schools such as  were left in the lurch, but eventually .