Ga. House Expected to Vote on Charter School Amendment

The Georgia House is expected to reconsider a proposed constitutional amendment to allow the state to create charter schools on Wednesday. The potential vote comes after a Georgia Supreme Court ruling which declared charter schools approved by a state commission unconstitutional.

The measure fell ten votes short of passing more than week and a half ago. But a recent compromise could get more lawmakers on board. The compromise is supposed to guarantee that traditional schools would see not reduced funding if the state is allowed to create charter schools. Tony Roberts heads the Georgia Charter Schools Association, which supports the amendment.

“Many local school systems have just flat out rejected having any charter schools in their districts, so there really hasn’t been a fair playing field and this tries to address that.”