VALDOSTA — Georgia Federation of Teachers President Verdaillia Turner encouraged community involvement in local and state education during a recent visit.

“As citizens, it is incumbent on us to make sure our government is right and fair,” Turner said.

She urged residents to hold elected officials accountable, to call their representatives and push for research-based improvements on education.

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Community Schools Bill should be passed in Georgia

Georgia General Assembly - SB 30 (Unlocking the Promise of Community Schools Act)

http://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/en-US/Display/20172018/SB/30

What is a Community School?

Community schools provide more than one type of service to students and the community.
Community schools better support and enable a strong, academic curriculum. Partnerships are coordinated and purposeful.
Community schools share a vision and mission and are results-driven.
A site resource coordinator makes sure that all of the service and community providers are working together.
Community schools work with students but

PISA 2015 Results Excellence and Equity in Education

National Education Policy Center - Review of a Meta-Analysis of the Literature on the Effect of Charter Schools on Student Achievement

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Research from Texas showing that attending a "no excuses" charter school hurts future earnings

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Article originally posted in Education Week

Attending Texas Charter Schools Hurt Students' Future Wages, Study Finds

Texas charter schools on average have a negative effect on students' future earnings, according to a new working paper by two economists.

2013 Center for Research on Education Outcomes - National Charter School Study

Click here to review the CREDO National Charter School Study from 2013

Reconnecting McDowell

Reconnecting McDowell is a comprehensive, long-term effort to make educational improvement in McDowell County the route to a brighter economic future. Partners from business, foundations, government, nonprofit agencies and labor have committed, in a signed covenant, to seeking solutions to McDowell’s complex problems—poverty, underperforming schools, drug and alcohol abuse, housing shortages, limited medical services, and inadequate access to technology and transportation.

None of this will be easy or quick; the problems in McDowell County have been decades in the making. But by working

Statement by Verdaillia Turner, President of the Georgia Federation of Teachers on the defeat of Governor Nathan Deal's Opportunity School District/Amendment 1

For Immediate Release
Nov. 8, 2016

Contact:
DeLane Adams
678-577-7582
d adams@aflcio.org
http://ga.aft.org

Statement by Verdaillia Turner, President of the Georgia Federation of Teachers

on the defeat of Governor Nathan Deal's Opportunity School District/Amendment 1

"Today, parents, teachers and the communities across the state resoundingly rejected the idea that policymakers alone should be the stewards of our children's future and public education-the public wants to maintain its voice.

"Instead, Georgians sent a clear message to Governor Deal and other stakeholders-we need to make changes to our

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

By Grant Blankenship

Georgia continues to improve its graduation rate, but the state's high school experiments, its charter schools, are lagging behind.

Georgia’s high school graduation rate improved for a fifth straight year, according to data released Tuesday by the State Department of Education, to 79.2 percent. That’s about 3 points off the national rate.

Thirteen charter high schools have been around long enough to make the 2016 numbers. The eight schools

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