I found the controversy over the Lowndes Grading Policy convenient
timing for last week’s House vote on HR 1162 for a GA Constitutional
Amendment to allow the state to establish Charter Schools with no
oversight by local boards of education. HR 1162 failed the necessary
2/3 vote on 02/08/12. However,it was approved to be reconsidered on
02/09/12 so it has not gone away. Our 3 South GA republican
representatives all voted in favor of HR 1162. (No surprises there,
but we will remember in November.) Meanwhile part of the reason HR
1162 failed was the state Democratic Caucus undercut the House vote
by requesting Democrats deny HR 1162 in favor of their version HR
1335, which they say goes further in allowing state officials to
over ride local school board denials of special schools.
Obviously CUEE is not the only party interested in undermining and
over riding local school board authority. However, I suspect CUEE
had a hand in the phone campaign asking Lowndes school parents to
call Rep. Shaw if they were in favor of HR 1162 because we all know
that is one of their tactics. The message did not say to call if
they were against it. CUEE is definitely still very much in the mix
for discrediting local school board authority and our elected
officials are evidently in their corner.
timing for last week’s House vote on HR 1162 for a GA Constitutional Amendment to allow the state to establish Charter Schools with no oversight by local boards of education. HR 1162 failed the necessary 2/3 vote on 02/08/12. However,it was approved to be reconsidered on 02/09/12 so it has not gone away. Our 3 South GA republican representatives all voted in favor of HR 1162. (No surprises there, but we will remember in November.) Meanwhile part of the reason HR 1162 failed was the state Democratic Caucus undercut the House vote by requesting Democrats deny HR 1162 in favor of their version HR 1335, which they say goes further in allowing state officials to over ride local school board denials of special schools.