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- By MARKO ROBINSON
- March 31, 2013
(APN) ATLANTA -- After Georgia voters in November 2012 approved of Amendment One, the ballot initiative to authorize the re-creation of the Georgia Charter Schools Commission (GCSC), members have now been appointed to the Commission and it has no...
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- By MARKO ROBINSON
- February 12, 2013
(APN) ATLANTA -- HB 123, the Parent and Teacher Empowerment Act, also known as the Parent Trigger Act, is the latest effort by some, mostly Republican, legislators, to promote charter schools in Georgia and continue to undermine the public educati...
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- By MARKO ROBINSON
- November 5, 2012
(APN) ATLANTA -- Out-of-state corporate interests have spent millions of dollars to fund the campaign in favor of the constitutional amendment referendum related to charter schools that appears on the November 06, 2012 General Election ballot....
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- By MARKO ROBINSON
- October 25, 2012
With additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale.(APN) ATLANTA -- Georgia voters are currently being faced with a referendum on a possible constitutional amendment which claims as its goal to provide “for improving student achievement” by...
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- By MARKO ROBINSON
- August 31, 2012
With additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale.(APN) ATLANTA -- During the November 06, 2012 General Election, Georgia voters will be presented with a referendum over whether to allow a Georgia Charter School Commission (GCSC) to overri...
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- April 21, 2012
(APN) ATLANTA -- On April 10, 2012, the Atlanta Public Schools Board of Education unanimously voted at a meeting held at Jackson High School, to close seven out of ten schools that at the time were being proposed by Superintendent Errol Davis ...
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- By MARKO ROBINSON
- April 5, 2012
With additional reporting by Matthew Cardinale, News Editor. Photograph by Marko Robinson.
(APN) ATLANTA -- Parents scored a recent victory when Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Erroll Davis announced that Coan Middle School was no longer...