Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Charter school amendment appears headed for win.
UPATE 5:50 pm If you are in line to vote at 7 pm, you will get to vote even though the polls close then. Tens of thousands of Fulton County voters have already cast ballots today. Turnout is especially high for today’s General Election, as it is in most Presidential election years. It's too early to know how this year compares to 2008. In the evening after traditional work hours, peak turnout is anticipated, and tens of thousands of additional voters could exercise their right to vote. Fulton County elections officials released a statement advising that voters who are in line at 7 pm will be allowed to vote under Georgia law. As provided by Georgia law, voters who are over age 75 or who have a disability are eligible to ask to move ahead …
Monday, November 5, 2012
Tuesday's ballot includes a Georgia constitutional amendment to re-establish a state commission to approve charter schools. Your job is to decide if that's a good idea.
There aren't a lot of statewide issues on the ballot Nov. 6, but one has the potential to affect school districts, parents and children throughout Georgia. It's Amendment 1, and the ballot will say it "Provides for improving student achievement and parental involvement through more public charter school options." The question voters will answer yes or no to is, "Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended to allow state or local approval of public charter schools upon the request of local communities?" So what does a yes vote mean? If the amendment passes, the state will create a commission that can approve charter schools in local communities, even if local school boards oppose them. Supporters of the amendment believe this is necessary …
Monday, October 29, 2012
The lawsuit alleges that the preamble and the question on the Nov. 6 ballot is biased towards approval of the measure.
A public school teacher and Atlanta minister have filed a lawsuit in Fulton Superior Court against members of the Georgia government over the language of the Nov. 6 ballot as it pertains to charter schools. The lawsuit, filed by Dalton teacher Beverly Hedges and Rev. Timothy McDonald, senior pastor at First Iconium Baptist Church in Atlanta, names Gov. Nathan Deal, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and Secretary of State Brian Kemp as co-defendants. The complaint alleges that Gov. Deal used language in the preamble to the ballot question and the ballot question itself that is misleading and that was not passed by the General Assembly. This is how the ballot language currently appears: Provides for improving student achievement and parental involvement …
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Cartersville-Bartow County Chamber of Commerce and State Sen. Barry Loudermilk have taken opposing stances on the proposed constitutional change voters are set to decide Nov. 6.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Following suit with Bartow Schools and Commissioner Clarence Brown, who recently took a formal stance on the proposed charter school amendment, the Cartersville-Bartow County Chamber of Commerce board approved a resolution opposing the constitutional change voters will decide Nov. 6. The board voted "heavily," but not unanimously, to oppose Amendment 1, with President and CEO Joe Frank Harris Jr. citing funding should not be redirected from public schools, The Daily Tribune News reports. "Due to the fact that we have a system in place to handle charter school applications at a local level, we came out against the amendment,” Harris told the newspaper. State Sen. Barry Loudermilk, R-Cassville, supports the measure that would allow the state…
Friday, October 5, 2012
Bartow County resident Paul Nally opposes a proposal to restore the state's power to approve charter schools and their funding. Georgia voters are set to decide on the constitutional amendment.
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Friday, October 5, 2012
Georgia voters are set Nov. 6 to decide a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow the state to approve local charter schools and their funding. Bartow resident Paul Nally says the move would hike state taxes and inequality among students. Dear Editor, Consider that question concerning the "special schools" provision of the proposed constitutional amendment appearing on the November ballot. Of particular interest to the taxpaying citizens, both the younger who pay county school taxes and the elder who, here to now, have been exempt from that tax, is the meaning of section 3 of HR 1162 which provides: The state is authorized to expend state funds for the support and maintenance of special schools in such amount and manner as may …
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Commissioner Clarence Brown signed a resolution opposing a constitutional amendment that would allow the state to approve local charter schools and their funding.
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
Bartow County Commissioner Clarence Brown took an official stance against a constitutional amendment voters will decide Nov. 6. Brown approved a resolution opposing Amendment #1, which would restore the state's power to approve charter schools and their funding. For county and city of Cartersville schools, the commissioner supports school-board level decisions on education and "opposes the State’s establishment of a separate system of state-authorized public Charter Schools that are funded through a funding formula that unilaterally takes critically needed funds from local public schools and re-directs them to the state-controlled Charter Schools," according to the resolution. Brown told The Daily Tribune News the Bartow County Board of …
don Gabacho
3:48 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012
"don Gabacho, thank you for your observation. I agree that dealing with abusers of law is important. But dealing with abusers is often not very effective when the abusers are the ones in power and control."----E Pluribus Unum That's the eternal price of liberty. All it should tell anyone is to be that much more diligent in recognizing and protecting that which indeed constitutes us and not what … more ›