I just stumbled across some referendums that are MAYBE going to be on our 2016 balloot. [View all]

[napi21]

Two are listed as probable & 3 are possible.

Here's a link.

https://ballotpedia.org/Georgia_2016_ballot_measures

One concerns me because I don't quite understand it.

The Georgia State Intervention in Failing Public Schools Amendment is on the November 8, 2016 ballot in Georgia as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. The measure, upon voter approval, would empower the state "to assume the supervision, management, and operation of public elementary and secondary schools which have been determined to be failing through any governance model allowed by law."[1]

Approval of the amendment by voters would trigger the implementation of Senate Bill 133. SB 133 would provide for three governance models of schools under an "Opportunity School District" (OSD) agency. The three models would be (1) direct management by the OSD, (2) shared governance between the OSD and local board of education and (3) transformation of the school into a charter school. The OSD would also have the power to close schools as the “intervention of last resort.”[2]

The Athens Banner-Herald said the amendment is modeled after the Recovery School District in Louisiana.[3]

What does that mean? Is it really going to be good for Ga. students, or does it just give us more
Charter Schools?

There is another one that may be of interest to all of you. See he link. I'm afraid Skinner will get upset if I copy too much. But Ga. is MABR going to get a referendum vote on recreational MJ! That really surprised me!