{"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\/\">\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>\nIn the same month, both the Lowndes County Democratic Party\nand the Valdosta Tea Party\nhad speakers explaining how bad the charter school amendment is.\nNeither group took a vote, but it seemed pretty clear most of the\nattendees at both meetings were against that referendum on the November ballot,\nand mostly for the same reason: nobody wants an unelected state committee\ntaking away local control and local tax revenue.\nParental choice is one thing, and charter schools are another,\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\/\">\nPAGE slides say<\/a>,\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/09\/the-charter-school-amendment-is-about-control-dr-troy-davis-lcdp-2012-07-10.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017d3c6b960e970c\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017d3c6b960e970c-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a>\nThis isn&#8217;t a Democrat vs. Republican debate.\nLegislators voted across party lines to put the constitutional amendment on the ballot.\nRepublican and Democrat voters must defeat it together.\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nYou can watch for yourself.\nHere are the two presentations:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n10 September 2012:\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/09\/the-charter-school-amendment-is-about-control-dr-troy-davis-lcdp-2012-07-10.html\">\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\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017d3c6b960f970c\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017d3c6b960f970c-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a>\n27 September 2012:\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/09\/a-parallel-state-school-system-that-we-have-no-control-over-christie-davis.html\">\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,\nvote No on the charter school amendment in November.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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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