Received yesterday on

K12 CEO Packard: $5M in 2011, up 36% -jsq

Keep in mind that this company is based in Virginia, so our tax
dollars from say, South Georgia meant for our school teachers,
administraters, supplies, and educating our students, would go to


bolster the economy in Virginia and line the pockets of the very
rich. Meanwhile we have to raise taxes to simply educate the
students attending our public schools. This is clearly NOT a plan to
‘improve academic achievement’ as the preamble boldly lies.

The preamble is boldly inaccurate and completely biased. The wording
added to the question on the ballot implies that the amendment would
improve student achievement and parent involvement. My stars, what
breathing individual doesn’t want those things.

Facts are that by some measures charter schools perform 3% worse
than traditional public schools. We would hope that schools where
parents have to sign a commitment of parent involvement would have
superior parent involvement. Might I just add that students can be
kicked out of charter schools and all students are educated in the
Traditional Public School setting as per our Georgia constitution.

The ‘biased and inaccurate’ wording in the preamble to the charter
schools question is not found in

HB 1162, the law that allowed this
question to be placed on the ballot. It is not in

HB 797, the law
thaw would be enacted should the amendment pass. NO the wording that
is on the preamble comes straight out of ALEC documents, which are
the equivalent of ‘legislation for Dummies’ with a particular slant
as you might imagine.

-Karen Noll