What we see locally is just an aspect of a much larger national issue: Struggling public schools with an increasingly bloated administrative structure, as teacher salaries stay criminally low, with some turning to GoFundMe to buy classroom supplies.
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Editor’s Note: Amendment One, ESPLOST, & the education status quo
An essentially bad-faith negotiator like Governor Deal is able to credibly sell himself as a change agent for public education precisely because the people inside the public education status quo always seem to oppose any change with the potential to improve our schools.
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Editor’s Note: Byrne-ing down the old ways
This race proved so many assumptions wrong—and in so doing, also proved there’s a glimmer of hope for our badly abused democratic process.
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Editor’s Note: Simons, schools, and business as usual
More than one local pundit jokes that since Simons’s spouse doesn’t hold office, he’s an amateur by local standards.
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No child left to learn
No one with or without children could argue against the obvious fact that schools across America need improvement. And here in Chatham County, Ga. — technically speaking, one of the […]