Rep. Edward Lindsey, (R-Atlanta), majority whip in the Georgia House of Representatives says he finds himself bordering between “amused and disturbed” by opponents of the charter school amendment which is set for a vote on Nov. 6. Specifically, he doesn’t like the assertion that the state school board retains the power to overrule on appeal a local school board’s decision to … [Read more...] about October 22, 2012: Charter School Amendment Is More About ‘How’ Than ‘What’
2012 Columns
October 15, 2012: Pro-Charter Amendment Forces Trying To Bully Opponents
If the pro-charter amendment people are trying to win friends and influence voters to pass the measure in November, they have picked a bad way to do it. Attorney Glenn Delk and proponents are clearly trying to intimidate opponents of the amendment by accusing the state's 180 local school districts of illegally using taxpayer money to campaign against the amendment. … [Read more...] about October 15, 2012: Pro-Charter Amendment Forces Trying To Bully Opponents
October 7, 2012: Special School Has Positive Impact On Special Needs Children
If you aren’t careful, it is very easy to get pessimistic these days. We have gotten too loud, too adversarial, too politically-correct, too ethically-challenged, too secular and too narrow-minded – not to mention slightly humor-impaired. Just when I think that maybe this world and those that occupy it are beyond redemption, I run across someone like Ava White and I am … [Read more...] about October 7, 2012: Special School Has Positive Impact On Special Needs Children
October 2, 2012: Junior E. Lee Says Uga Tops On His Bugs List
Junior E. Lee, general manager of the Yarbrough Worldwide Media and Pest Control Company in Greater Garfield, Georgia, just called me with what he said was an exciting development. It either had to be that he had the latest poll numbers on the presidential race – Junior runs our polling firm, Round or Square Polling, Inc. – or that he had finally gotten the termites out of … [Read more...] about October 2, 2012: Junior E. Lee Says Uga Tops On His Bugs List
September 24, 2012: School Superintendent Association Head Refutes Pro-Charter Claims
With the vote on the charter school amendment just over a month away, the heat is getting intense. I know. I have felt it. I wrote a column a few weeks ago giving the pro-charter folks an opportunity to make their case for the amendment. For my trouble, a number of anti-charter advocates wondered if I was going soft on them and backers of the bill continued to accuse me of … [Read more...] about September 24, 2012: School Superintendent Association Head Refutes Pro-Charter Claims