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Georgia urges schools to get carbon monoxide detectors

...Atlanta carbon monoxide leak has already caused. However, Rep. Brooks Coleman, R-Duluth, chairman of the House Education Committee, said state lawmakers want to examine the issue.In Atlanta, the boiler area is where a carbon monoxide level...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2012-12-07/georgia-urges-schools-get
Schools to get flexibility based on grades

...get the freedom from state rules they've long desired if their schools earn top grades, the chairman of the House Education Committee told legislators Tuesday.He also said the charter-school amendment to the constitution that voters approved...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-12-11/schools-get-flexibility-
Ga. panel considers easing school regulations

...later this summer.They'll make the year-end deadline, promised Rep. Brooks Coleman, chairman of the House Education Committee and overall chairman of the school-funding commission. In the meantime, Gov. Nathan Deal is getting regular...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2012-06-06/ga-panel-considers-easing
Few changes in Ga. school funding formula

...to funding," said Rep. Brooks Coleman, a Duluth Republican who co-chairs the commission and heads the House Education Committee."Everything is subject to funding," repeated Millar.The commission delivers its recommendations to Gov...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2012-09-20/few-changes-ga-school-fun
Does campaign cash yield results? Maybe not

...type committees was higher despite the significantly lower level of contributions from those professions. The House Education Committee passed 27 of the 86 bills assigned to it, or 31 percent. That's twice the pace of the business legislation...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2012-04-25/does-campaign-cash-yield-res
Teachers to get incentive pay

...Georgia colleges produced only one physics teacher.State Rep. Brooks Coleman, R-Duluth, the chairman of the House education committee and sponsor of the 2009 bill, called the pay incentives a "beginning step."To read the rest of the story...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2011-06-25/teachers-get-incentive-pa
School-funding commission gathers recommendations

...preliminary recommendations," said Rep. Brooks Coleman, a Duluth Republican who chairs the commission and the House Education Committee. "These are not cast in stone."Some require more money, like the nurses, while others don't."We...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2011-08-25/school-funding-commission-ga
Constitutional amendment aims to revive charter schools

...once and for all that the state has a right to be a partner in the education of our children," said state House Education Committee Chair man Brooks Coleman, a Duluth Republican. "It's important for parents to have a lot of different options...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-01-24/constitutional-amendment-aims
Georgia House Republicans scramble to get votes to pass charter schools amendment

...We're just trying to get the correct information out there as to what the bill actually does," said House Education Committee Chairman Brooks Coleman, a Republican from Duluth, who is also sponsoring the amendment. "I really think...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2012-02-15/georgia-house-republicans
Feds probe claims of discrimination against disabled students in Georgia public schools

...overhaul the formula, but so far the group has made few changes.State Rep. Brooks Coleman, who chairs the House Education Committee, said the overall formula "needs to be updated and brought into the 21st century." But Millar said Thursday...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2012-04-05/feds-probe-claims-discrimination-ag