Statement by Verdaillia Turner, President of the Georgia Federation of Teachers on the defeat of Governor Nathan Deal's Opportunity School District/Amendment 1
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In High School Graduation, State Improves While State Charters Lag
Article originally posted online November 1, 2016 via gpbnews.org
In High School Graduation, State Improves While State Charters Lag
Georgia continues to improve its graduation rate, but the state's high school experiments, its charter schools, are lagging behind.
Backdoor ‘Neovouchers’ Allow Wealthy to Profit off Public Funds for Schools
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(VIDEO) The Perfect Storm: The Takeover of New Orleans Public Schools
See how the Recovery School District/OSD has negatively impacted New Orleans
REPORT: State Takeovers of Low-Performing Schools: A Record of Academic Failure, Financial Mismanagement & Student Harm
Report prepared by The Center for Popular Democracy
Low-performing public schools have become a critical battleground between corporate-backed initiatives that remove local control of schools and favor the privatization of public education, and proponents of community schools who assert that parents, teachers and students—in short, the public—are the greatest asset in restoring strong educational outcomes.