It’s interesting what paying people to collect petition signatures can accomplish.
The CUEE press release of yesterday is
on their web pages.
Here’s an excerpt:

9,000 and Counting!

Petition Drive Hits Key Milestone In Effort to Give

Valdosta Residents Opportunity to Vote on Unification

Plan to Attend Saturday Event at McKey Park to Join the Movement, Sign
Petition



(Valdosta, GA) The petition drive campaign giving Valdosta residents
the chance to vote on school unificationreached a key milestone Friday
when it topped its goal of 9,000 signatures.

The 9,000 signatures was the target set by the Community Unification
for Educational Excellence (CUEE),which launched the petition drive May
12 after three years of planning. The minimum number of validsignatures
needed to place the issue on the November ballot is 25 percent of
registered voters in Valdosta, or7,375. The target figure of 9,000
represents a 22 percent increase over the minimum required and nearly
31 percent of all registered voters.

It’s too bad they haven’t dedicated all this organizing to something
that might actually help education around here, such as
prison reform or preventing bright flight by squelching sprawl.

-jsq