Parent and Educator Empowerment Act moves from House to Senate. Teacher empowerment erodes along the way.
A Senate subcommittee takes up the parent trigger bill this morning at 8.As the Parent and Educator Empowerment bill moved from the House to the Senate, one piece apparently was lost in the journey: Teacher power.
According to the legislative update posted by the Professional Association of Georgia Educators:
The official name of HB 123, formerly called the “Parent and Educator Empowerment Act” has been changed in a Senate substitute version to the “Parent Empowerment Act.”
HB 123 allows parents to vote to convert their school to charter status. An important portion of the bill which allows teachers to petition their school board to adopt a school turnaround model has been amended in the new substitute version to exclude teachers.
Since the bill has yet to be heard in subcommittee, the reasoning behind the changes is unclear. PAGE has deep concerns about the alterations. Our longstanding position regarding school turnaround and charter schools is that parents, …
Old school boards never die. They blog away. At least in DeKalb.
Old school boards never die. They just blog away.
Neither Nancy Jester, ousted by the governor, nor Don McChesney, ousted by voters, apparently believes that former DeKalb school board members should fade from view.
The two ex DeKalb board members remain vocal about the school district they once led. And both are using blogs to serve up their commentary.
In fact, Jester plans to live blog first meeting of the newly appointed board Wednesday. On her Nancy’s News
Neither Nancy Jester, ousted by the governor, nor Don McChesney, ousted by voters, apparently believes that former DeKalb school board members should fade from view.
The two ex DeKalb board members remain vocal about the school district they once led. And both are using blogs to serve up their commentary.
In fact, Jester plans to live blog first meeting of the newly appointed board Wednesday. On her Nancy’s News