Listen to the students.
On this link there is a terrific video by two Georgia students who explain why voters should turn down a constitutional amendment on charter schools.
Georgia has over 130 charter schools.
The charter schools do not outperform the public schools.
Some local school boards have turned down new charters.
So the Governor has put an amendment to the Constitution on the ballot allowing him to create a commission to override local control. This idea comes from the corporate-controlled reactionary organization ALEC.
The state superintendent John Barge, WHO WAS ELECTED, NOT appointed by Governor Deal AS I ORIGINALLY WROTE, opposes the amendment.
So do PTAs and the NAACP and local school boards.
The amendment would set up a costly new bureaucracy.
It will cost $430 million.
It would undermine local control.
It would take money away from public schools.
It would give more money to charter schools than public schools receive.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
And they have had problems with one of their Turkish charter schools.
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I think there is an FBI investigation.
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The Video does a great job of summing up the issues & why people should vote No on the Charter School Amendment!
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Robbing the meager school funds to create a charter school agency. Right here we see a lack of vision, ethics and finance. Thank God the young people of Georgia seem to have more math and critical thinking skills, than their elders.
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No local money is used for charter schools which will leave more local money for less students in public schools. The public school system has tried it their way for many years and don’t seem to be making improvements. If they are improving, then this extra money staying in their budget should be a plus for public schools. Why should they worry about losing students if they are as great as you all seem to think. The charter schools do not get local tax money only state funds. They do not reduce any money going to the public schools. They make up the difference with volunteer parents. They are not a threat to public schools unless they are better schools and therefore students want to go there. The teachers unions and school board members seem to be threatened by the fact that they may have to step up and meet the standards that the charter schools are meeting or lose their students.
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The money that goes to charter schools is taken directly out of the budget of public education.
There is no piggy bank at the State Capitol that funds only charters.
Charters in Georgia get no better results–and possibly worse results –than public schools.
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