Georgia Board of Ed Backs Opportunity School District Takeovers
(Photo: Sierra Club) In Georgia, local school boards have been creating resolutions against a constitutional amendment (Amendment 1) that would allow the state to take authority over “failing” schools – More...
Lawsuit Says Georgia School Segregates Students with Disabilities
(Photo: Pexels, Creative Commons) Georgia’s state-run school for disabled children is being challenged by the U.S. Government in a formal lawsuit that states that the Georgia Network for Educational and More...
Parents Roundly Endorse Georgia Connections Academy
(Photos: Pexels, Creative Commons) Parents are increasingly looking beyond the traditional public school system for options for their children, with many settling on flexible and digital learning options such More...
Georgia Cyber Academy Shows Weak Results, May Close
(Photo: Public Domain, Creative Commons) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has conducted an investigation on the Georgia Cyber Academy, an online school that evidence suggests is not meeting performance expectations. Since More...
$4 Million Embezzlement Case Rocks Floyd County, Georgia
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Ten people have been arrested in Floyd County, Georgia for their involvement in a racketeering scheme that embezzled $ 4 million from Floyd County Schools over ten years. A More...
Georgia Tech Prof Uses Artificial Intelligence TA, Students Fooled
(Image: Jeff Rense) Ashok Goel, a professor in computing at Georgia Tech, started using an artificial intelligence teaching assistant in the online Q&A forums for one of his classes last fall. The TA named More...
Controversial Psychoeducational Schools Persist in Georgia
(Photo: Pexels, Creative Commons) Six years ago, Georgia’s state Board of Education adopted a series of regulations restricting the ways that Georgie schools manage some of their most challenging students — More...
Georgia Schools Respond to Release of CCRPI Scores
(Photo: Pexels, Creative Commons) The Georgia Department of Education has released its College and Career Ready Performance Index (CCRPI) scores for 2015, showing mostly improvements for schools at risk of a More...