{"id":458,"date":"2012-10-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/democrats-to-tea-party-against-charter-school-amendment.html"},"modified":"2012-10-01T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T12:00:00","slug":"democrats-to-tea-party-against-charter-school-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/democrats-to-tea-party-against-charter-school-amendment.html","title":{"rendered":"Democrats and Tea Party: both against charter school amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.votesmartgeorgia.com\/\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017d3c6b960c970c\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017d3c6b960c970c-pi.jpg\"   width=\"150\" height=\"186\"  \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn the same month, both the Lowndes County Democratic Party<br \/>\nand the Valdosta Tea Party<br \/>\nhad speakers explaining how bad the charter school amendment is.<br \/>\nNeither group took a vote, but it seemed pretty clear most of the<br \/>\nattendees at both meetings were against that referendum on the November ballot,<br \/>\nand mostly for the same reason: nobody wants an unelected state committee<br \/>\ntaking away local control and local tax revenue.<br \/>\nParental choice is one thing, and charter schools are another,<br \/>\nbut nobody seemed to like Atlanta taking away local control.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/topics\/education\/charter\/page\/\"><br \/>\nPAGE slides say<\/a>,\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/09\/the-charter-school-amendment-is-about-control-dr-troy-davis-lcdp-2012-07-10.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017d3c6b960e970c\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017d3c6b960e970c-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis isn&#8217;t a Democrat vs. Republican debate.<br \/>\nLegislators voted across party lines to put the constitutional amendment on the ballot.<br \/>\nRepublican and Democrat voters must defeat it together.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nYou can watch for yourself.<br \/>\nHere are the two presentations:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n10 September 2012:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/09\/the-charter-school-amendment-is-about-control-dr-troy-davis-lcdp-2012-07-10.html\"><br \/>\nThe charter school amendment is about control \u2014Dr. Troy Davis<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/09\/a-parallel-state-school-system-that-we-have-no-control-over-christie-davis.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017d3c6b960f970c\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017d3c6b960f970c-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a><br \/>\n27 September 2012:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/09\/a-parallel-state-school-system-that-we-have-no-control-over-christie-davis.html\"><br \/>\nA parallel state school system that we have no control over. \u2014Christie Davis<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nIf you don&#8217;t want Atlanta taking away our educational control and local tax dollars,<br \/>\nvote No on the charter school amendment in November.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the same month, both the Lowndes County Democratic Party and the Valdosta Tea Party had speakers explaining how bad the charter school amendment is. 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