Sen. Chip Rogers and Rep. Alisha Morgan to speak at "Charter Schools WORK!" rally Oct. 27
Moms for School Choice, in collaboration with Heritage Preparatory Charter School and Georgia’s Voice for Educational Choice, is organizing a grassroots, bi-partisan charter school rally on Oct. 27. The rally will showcase students from some of the outstanding, high-performing Georgia public charter schools before the Nov. 6 vote on Amendment 1 - The Charter School Amendment (HR1162).
The event will take place on Sat., Oct. 27, 2012, at 10 a.m. on the campus of Heritage Preparatory Charter School (3350 Greenbriar Parkway SW, Atlanta, Ga., 30331).
The rally is drawing bi-partisan support from Ga. Sen. Majority Leader Chip Rogers (R-Cherokee), Ga. State Rep. Alisha Thomas Morgan (D-Austell), Dekalb County Board of Education Member Nancy Jester, Cherokee County Board of Education Member Michael Geist, and Rich Thompson of 100Dads, who are confirmed to speak to the students and families at the event.
Georgia currently ranks near the bottom – 48th nationally – in education with a 65 percent high school graduation rate statewide. Public charter schools play an important role in providing parents with school choice options to address these staggering statistics. Unfortunately today, too many in Georgia still are not aware of the existence of charter schools or their mission.
The theme of the rally is “CHARTER SCHOOLS WORK!” because charter schools work for students, families, communities, and Georgia.
Students from Heritage Preparatory Charter School, Cherokee Charter Academy, and other Georgia public charter schools are set to perform.
Visit our Facebook event page (Charter-Schools-WORK-Rally) for additional details.
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About Heritage Preparatory Charter School
Heritage Preparatory Academy serves the needs of middle school students in Atlanta neighborhoods with high crime rates. The school offers its students a challenging, globally relevant academic program in a community-building environment meant to counteract the negative influences of drugs, gangs, violence and crime. To learn more about the school or to enroll your student, visit www.heritageprepcharter.org.
About Moms for School Choice
Founded in 2012, Moms for School Choice is a grassroots, non-partisan, non-profit organization that exists to promote the many school options for families: public, charter, private, homeschool, or virtual. Each child is unique and deserves a school environment where they can reach their full educational potential. For more information, visit momsforschoolchoice.ning.com.
About Georgia’s Voice for Educational Choice
Georgia’s Voice for Educational Choice was formed by parents and citizens residing in Cherokee County. We are passionate about providing the children of Georgia every opportunity available within education to secure their continued success throughout life. We believe that school choice is an absolute necessity in reaching this goal. For more information on Georgia’s Voice for Educational Choice, visit schoolchoicegeorgia.org.
Frank
11:59 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012
What a quality pair...
Combine Chippy's questionable real estate dealings and sports gambling history with Morgan's filtering of campaign contributions. Morgan receives campaign contributions funds from Teach For America employees and then funds Cobb School Board David Morgan's election qualifying fees where David is advocating that the district use Teach For America.
Just the right advocates for Charter Schools... Listen up people - This issue is less about education and more about for profit management companies.
More than 90% of the funding in support of the Charter School amendment is coming in from out-of-state. It's not about local choice. It's about a fight over dollars.
Chippy is willing to sell Georgia's public education system down the river and deliver management fees to out of state companies.
It's his idea of job creation... It just doesn't happen to be in your back yard. Instead, it's out of your pocket and delivered outside of Georgia..
Steely Dan
8:59 pm on Friday, October 26, 2012
The NO crowd's entire argument is based on Money and their fear of losing it.
Listen up people - as evidenced by the shenanigans at APS, Dekalb, Bibb, Clayton, and other county's disastrous, crony-filled corrupt BOEs, the NO crowd IS NOT INTERESTED in actually educating children.
The NO crowd is only concerned with protecting their billions of public tax $$$ while they continue to do nothing about the dismal state of our public school system.
Vote YES to give parents a choice to opt out of these idiot-led school systems that don't care about education - only funding.
PS: If this amendment passes, no local $$$ are affected. That'll remain in the counties, where they'll be spent on for-profit items like gasoline, food, school supplies, computers, books, etc. Funny how the NO crowd overlooks that money being shipped out of state to "for profit" school supply companies.
VOTE YES to 1162.
Frank
8:06 am on Saturday, October 27, 2012
Actually Steely Dan,
It is about education. Education of all children.
Fact: Charter schools seldom do better than their neighboring schools.
Fact: In Orlando, this year, 3 charter schools closed unexpectedly after the school year started creating a nightmare situation for students, families, and the school district contending with the aftermath.
Fact: Charter schools are often more segregated than their local community.
Fact: An appeal process is already in place should a local board of education deny a charter school petition.
Fact: Should the amendment pass, an un-elected, unaccountable commission will have a say over charter school approvals.