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Education

Common Core by Bill Gates

The Common Core program is the brainchild of Bill Gates. Do you think he is qualified to control every aspect of your child's public education?

Opinion

Common Core or Uncommon Confusion? (in Alpharetta-Milton Patch)

The Common Core debate touches every child in public school in Georgia - start asking lots of questions.

Opinion

SB 243 - Tax Credit Scholarship - The Gods Are Out of the Closet (in Alpharetta-Milton Patch)

SB 243 - the big reveal - the Tax Credit Scholarship Program has been about the separation of church and state the whole time.

Education

Charter School Amendment - Number 1 Reason to Vote "NO"

Let's review - our State School Superintendent, Dr. John Barge, cannot support the charter school amendment. I'm taking him at his word and voting NO.

Education

Charter School Amendment - Privatization of Georgia's Public Schools

This Amendment will send Georgia down an expedited path of privatization of public K-12 education.

Charter School Amendment - Unintended Consequences (in Alpharetta-Milton Patch)

Top-down mandates by politicians, bureaucrats, and special interests, pushed and funded by billionaires, don't have a high success rate - Amendment 1 will be no different.

Opinion

Charter School Amendment - Planet Parent to Glenn Delk - We Object!

Planet Parent on Mr. Delk's lawsuit against 180 Georgia school districts - the "Education Empire" - filed as a class action suit by five plaintiffs and "all taxpayers of Georgia." Really Mr. Delk?

Opinion

Charter School Amendment - Sam Olens - What About GCSA?

The Georgia Charter Schools Assocation receives public resources in the form of membership dues? Why are they allowed to advocate?

Opinion

Charter School Amendment - Ember Reichgott Junge - Have You Read HB 797? (in Alpharetta-Milton Patch)

Minnesota has the oldest charter school law in the country. Did any of our legislators bother to learn from it? Apparently not.

Opinion

Charter Amendment - Your Zip Code Doesn't Matter (in Alpharetta-Milton Patch)

This amendment will allow an appointed commission to place a state charter school in any zip code they want - your input is not required.

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