Supreme Court: Charter Schools Commission Unconstitutional
The 4-3 decision could derail plans for Cherokee Charter Academy and the 995 students who learned Saturday that they would be part of the school's inaugural class.
Seven local districts felt a law that allowed the state to reconsider rejected charter school applicants was unconstitutional. And in a 4-3 decision that could possibly impact Cherokee County's first charter school, the state Supreme Court agreed. Local school boards have exclusive authority to create and maintain K-12 public education, Chief Justice Carol Hunstein wrote for the majority in a 24-page opinion released this morning. State-established schools authorized by the 2008 Georgia Charter Schools Commission Act do not fit the definition of "special schools" as envisioned in the state constitution, the court found. “Because our constitution embodies the fundamental principle of exclusive local control of general primary and secondary…
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Laura
10:17 am on Monday, June 13, 2011
Georgia Moderate, You should re-post your statement to one of the latest news entries in the charter school "debate". I could not have said it better, as many of us Cherokee Co. school parents believe. Don't take funding away from the public school system - push to make changes in what we already have. more ›