One week from today is the official voting day in Georgia, though early voting has been happening for a bit now. If you’ve yet to cast your ballot, I encourage you to become educated on Amendment 1 before you do so. The proposed amendment would give the state (via the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement) broad authority to intervene in schools deemed “chronically failing”.
Instead of a new blog post from me this week, here’s a link to a post I wrote about a month ago with background information on this amendment and arguments being made for and against it. Please take some time to read it and the links contained within it so that you make an informed decision on this important issue for public schools in our state.
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I love reason #5: “The OSD gets to keep 3% of local funds to use for administration of the OSD. In other words, for the ‘privilege’ of being pulled into the OSD, local districts will pay 3% of their dollars to the OSD, further robbing their students of much-needed resources.”
Don’t charter schools already suffer from this privilege? Where is the outrage at existing charter schools paying 3% to their authorizers, or for individual charter schools paying ~$15,000/year on an audit when the individual traditional schools go unaudited?
The OSD seems like a good idea to me. The students in these 100 schools need new leadership. However, I’m betting that not a single OSD school ever publishes an annual financial audit to show where the 97% went.