APS Superintendent Defends Hire of Deal Adviser, Outlines Plan to Avert State Takeover
Friday, August 14th, 2015
If Georgia voters pass Gov. Nathan Deal’s Opportunity School District next year, Atlanta Public Schools could lose more than two dozen of its schools to state control.
Deal’s takeover plan is patterned after the Recovery School District in New Orleans and the Achievement School District in Tennessee. The Opportunity School District would take over up to 100 schools deemed persistent failures. Twenty-six APS schools are eligible for takeover.
