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Teacher absenteeism: Are mental health days on the rise?
Teacher absenteeism can adversely affect students. (AP Images) The AJC has an interesting piece this morning on absenteeism among metro Atlanta teachers. The story by education writer Ty Tagami and...
View ArticlePayback to Cherokee schools by local lawmakers: Will governor provide the...
The chair of the Cherokee County Board of Education is asking the governor to veto House Bill 978, which is one of the most surprising and invasive pieces of local legislation this session. I am...
View ArticleCherokee provides view of natural tensions over charter school amendment
Readers of this blog will be familiar with the tensions in Cherokee between the school system and the legislative delegation and the board redistricting legislation that resulted. You can find quite a...
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Who’s No. 1 in the class? Some local schools don’t care.
Some local schools aren't ranking their graduates so there is no valedictorian. (AJC/file photo) In a subscriber-only story recently, the AJC looked at the trend away from naming valedictorians. (I...
View ArticleNot true that urban schools fail all students: Intown white high school...
Jarod Apperson, a Midtown reader, sent me an interesting analysis of Georgia SAT scores, similar to one that I ran a few years ago, showing that white students in metro schools outperform suburban...
View ArticleAre school budget cuts leaving teachers “overstressed, overburdened and...
The AJC has a good story on shrinking school budgets. The question is how these deep cuts will affect the classroom and student learning. According to the AJC story: In their budgets for the 2013...
View ArticleDoes charter school funding leave taxpayers holding the bag?
Regular Get Schooled blog readers know Cherokee businessman John Konop as an astute commenter on the economics of education. He’s also a great debater as he focuses on the facts and does not get...
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Cherokee County SAT scores: Highest in state followed by Fulton, Oconee,...
Cherokee County sent out a release on its 2012 SAT scores, which, for all three testing areas, are the state’s highest. The Cherokee County School District has posted the highest SAT district average...
View ArticleSen. Chip Rogers on public education in Georgia. (Maybe for the last time as...
In August, I asked state Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers, R-Woodstock, to write a piece about his stand on public education. Rogers had sent me a note saying that he felt he was wrongly being cast...
View ArticleCherokee school board: Shades of DeKalb in silly exchange between new board...
I was beseeched by several readers to look at the video of Thursday’s Cherokee County Board of Education meeting. The readers contended that new board member Kelly Marlow tangled with Cherokee...
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