school choice
As Governor, Catherine will fight to establish a statewide school choice framework that will become a model for educational excellence in the country.
School choice allows the taxes collected for education to follow students to the schools or services that best fit their needs —whether that’s to a public school, private school, charter school, home school or any other learning environment families choose. It is time parents in Georgia be able to select the school that will best provide the education they seek for their children.
One thing most people in this state can agree on is that the current government school system has been failing students, parents and teachers for many years. In some counties, their school accreditation has been lost, putting students in jeopardy of entering college or obtaining financial aid. Some schools are facing a hiring and retention crisis, unable to retain qualified teachers. Some are hiring students who have not yet completed their degrees, to teach full time. Many, if not most, parents of the more than a million and a half students in public schools in Georgia have no other option, unable to select a school they deem best suited to the safety and educational needs of their child.
School choice allows the taxes collected for education to follow students to the schools or services that best fit their needs —whether that’s to a public school, private school, charter school, home school or any other learning environment families choose. It is time parents in Georgia be able to select the school that will best provide the education they seek for their children.
One thing most people in this state can agree on is that the current government school system has been failing students, parents and teachers for many years. In some counties, their school accreditation has been lost, putting students in jeopardy of entering college or obtaining financial aid. Some schools are facing a hiring and retention crisis, unable to retain qualified teachers. Some are hiring students who have not yet completed their degrees, to teach full time. Many, if not most, parents of the more than a million and a half students in public schools in Georgia have no other option, unable to select a school they deem best suited to the safety and educational needs of their child.
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"It is the duty of parents to maintain their children
decently, and according to their circumstances; to protect them according to the dictates of prudence; and to educate them according to the suggestions of a judicious and zealous regard for their usefulness, their respectability and happiness." James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791 |