The Executive and Compensation Committee of the Board of Regents met today to interview Attorney General Sam Olens as a candidate for the presidency of Kennesaw State University, and decided to recommend him to the entire Board for consideration. University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby said in a statement, “With Sam Olens, we have
Georgia will receive $24.447 million to allow it to expand the number and quality of the Peach State’s charter schools via the U.S. Department of Education’s Charter Schools Program. The agency announced a total of $245 million would be distributed to states and charter management organizations. The funds come from the federal DOE’s 2016 budget.
Casey Cagle returned to his high school alma mater in Gainesville this morning to officially launch the release of his new book, Education Unleashed. The Lieutenant Governor addressed a capacity crowd at the Johnson High School gym before holding a book signing in the school’s media center. The book describes an educational philosophy that promotes
University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby has endorsed Attorney General Sam Olens to become the new president of Kennesaw State University. According to the Marietta Daily Journal, Huckaby had considered conducting a nationwide search for a new president, but after talking to Olens, he decided to consider Olens first. Olens is scheduled to meet
In his new book Education Unleashed, Lt. Governor Casey Cagle describes a vision for public elementary and secondary education that lets each student achieve to the best of his or her abilities by empowering teachers, schools, and school districts to make their own decisions about how to best educate their students. To make his point,
A lot of ire has been cast towards Governor Nathan Deal by some conservatives and teachers over the Opportunity School Districts. Opposition to the OSD amendment point towards the big, bad state government “overreaching” and circumventing local control of schools….even though the amendment allows for the state to step in after a school fails to
To the question “Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended to allow the state to intervene in chronically failing public schools in order to improve student performance?” Georgia’s State Board of Education unanimously says “yes.” Apparently they understand that if it’s broke, you’re supposed to fix it. From the release: “The State Board of Education is
Down here in rural Georgia, I spend my days cracking open local governments in an effort to shed light on what’s going on behind closed doors. Most days, people come to me with tips, and today someone came to me with an email chain that could quite possibly change the course of some pending litigation
The state’s largest school district will remain neutral on the Opportunity School District proposal in constitutional Amendment 1 that voters will decide on in November. Giving his annual “State of the Schools” address to an audience of business and community leaders in Gwinnett County on Wednesday, Wilbanks said, “I’m not here to advocate for or
In 47 days, Georgians will vote on the Opportunity School District (OSD) amendment. Put another way, Georgians will vote whether or not to force kids to stay in chronically failing schools. Anti-OSD forces dropped a television ad with the same old arguments used for years to scare people into submission. It’s, quite frankly, shameful. It
