...stalled in committee was the proposed Parent and Teacher Empowerment Act, which lets parents and teachers petition a local school board to convert a failing public school into a charter school.Sen. William T. Ligon, R-Brunswick, introduced a...

...based on student achievement, parent involvement and vision.Magnet schools are public schools under control of local school boards but focus on a particular theme or pathway. They accept students who meet certain requirements on a lottery basis...

...school board chairman filed suit challenging the constitutionality of the law that allows the governor to remove local school board members.U.S. District Judge Richard Story's order denied a request by the school district and the former board...

...practice or tryouts.? Local School Boards: School systems couldn't...money on legal fees defending local school board members who are subject to removal...outright now) and allowing local school boards to arm administrators. A point...

...more widely known as the Parent Trigger Law, which would make it easier for parent and teacher groups to petition local school boards to turn a traditional school into a charter school.Now headed to the Senate for a vote, the law would also allow...

...curriculum and freedom from local school boards. The district has one conversion...Now, applications denied by local school boards can be sent to a newly formed...applications over the objections of local school boards.Buchwitz said momentum for...

...not yet filed, would leave any final decisions to local school boards.The General Assembly convenes Monday.So-called...Charter schools were already allowed in Georgia, but local school boards mostly controlled whether to grant charters for independent...

...Schools Com mission, a seven-member body that has the power to authorize charter schools even over the objection of local school boards. The committee's creation was authorized last year in a constitutional amendment referendum. Proponents said...

...power to take control of struggling schools. And the state may soon have authority to move more quickly to remove local school-board members, too.Rep. Brooks Coleman, R-Duluth, called the legislation the most significant education-related...

...constitution this fall allowing the state to authorize the creation of new charter schools over the objection of local school boards. Given that vote, a new law specifying how the approval process will work takes effect Jan. 1, re-establishing...