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Editorial: State amendment offers a top-down school fix
Opportunity district vote could duplicate bureaucracy, undermine local jurisdiction
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Alan Oliveros, 8, and Damian Ponce, 8, take turns reading Friday at Fair Street International Baccalaureate World School in Gainesville. Fair Street has a new literacy framework this year with a goal of improving every child's reading by three grade levels in the next two years. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Amid the usual spate of well-publicized names and races on the Nov. 8 ballot, voters across Georgia will choose among four constitutional amendments they can pass into law. The first and most controversial would grant state control of schools deemed to be “chronically failing.” It would allow the governor to create “opportunity school districts” for schools that fall below a score of 60 on the state’s College and Career Ready Performance Index over a three-year span.