Statewide Committee to Investigate Federal Government’s Role in Education
A statewide committee will meet for the first time this week. The Federal Government’s Role in Education Study Committee will examine education policy.
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One of the biggest battles in Georgia’s 2014 Legislative Session was over the Common Core education standards.
Common Core opponents, like Sen. William Ligon, R-Brunswick, ultimately lost the fight to abolish the standards. However, on the last day of the legislative session, lawmakers passed House Resolution 550. The measure creates a committee to study the federal government’s role in public education .
Rep. Brooks Coleman, R-Duluth, will serve as co-chair.
“We plan to look at this whole role of the federal government: ‘What is their role? What [are] the amounts of money? What do they do? How intrusive are they into education? And, at the same time, we plan to look at and answer some questions about the Common Core,” he says.
Among others, the committee includes five House members and three local superintendents, including Dr. Robert Avossa, of Fulton County. The committee will hold its first meeting Wednesday at the Capitol. The group will hold subsequent meetings around the state.
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