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		<title>AJC investigative series on land purchases full of inaccuracies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 05:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The AJC ran a series of articles written by Tim Eberly between March 6 and June 12, which examined GCPS land purchases.  These front page articles carried headlines including Land flips sting taxpayers, Gwinnett schools paid inflated price for land &#8230; <a href="http://cpoga.org/byteme/?p=176">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Court Declares Charter School Commission Unconstitutional In Split Decision</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 18:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By a 4-3 decision, the State Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling and found the law creating the Georgia Charter Schools Commission is unconstitutional.  The ruling means the end of the Commission and the nine operating Charter Schools must &#8230; <a href="http://cpoga.org/byteme/?p=165">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>GCPS FY2012 budget calendar and documents</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two FY2012 budget documents are currently available: Superintendent&#8217;s Recommended FY 2012 Budget &#8211; Executive Summary and Superintendent&#8217;s Recommended FY 2012 Budget Overview The following dates are scheduled for the budget setting process April 16, 2011 - Board budget work session &#8230; <a href="http://cpoga.org/byteme/?p=156">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Barrow County Schools approved as charter system</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The state Board of Education approved Barrow County School’s charter system petition on April 13, making Barrow the tenth school system in Georgia with charter status.  Unlike an individual charter school, a petition for a charter system involves all public &#8230; <a href="http://cpoga.org/byteme/?p=148">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>HOPE scholarship changes finalized, sent to Governor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Georgia’s HOPE scholarship, which is funded with lottery proceeds, required substantial changes.  Although the lottery is one of, if not the most successful in the country, the revenue was insufficient to cover increasing costs.  After lively debates in both the &#8230; <a href="http://cpoga.org/byteme/?p=142">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>“Free and Reduced is how they eat, not how they learn.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal and Special Programs director Carol Grady started her presentation at this month’s GCPS public meeting with some statistics about 33 of Gwinnett’s Title I schools that serve over 40,000 students &#8211; 51 percent of GCPS’ ESOL students, 21 percent &#8230; <a href="http://cpoga.org/byteme/?p=118">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Gwinnett County Public Schools wins 2010 Broad Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After winning $250,000 as a finalist in last year’s competition, Gwinnett County Public Schools won the top prize &#8211; $1 million – in the 2010 Broad Prize, awarded by the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.  The winnings are used for &#8230; <a href="http://cpoga.org/byteme/?p=114">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court hears Charter Commission case</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Charter Schools Commission case was argued in State Supreme Court today by four attorneys for the plaintiff school systems and two attorneys for the defense. Mike Bowers, attorney for Gwinnett County Public Schools, used the majority of the plaintiff’s &#8230; <a href="http://cpoga.org/byteme/?p=110">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Charter Commission deduction rockets to $1.2 million</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Georgia Charter Schools Commission deducted nearly $850,000 from Gwinnett’s QBE earnings and gave this money to Ivy Prep last year, Gwinnett filed a lawsuit.  Atlanta Public Schools and DeKalb County Schools, who had much smaller amounts deducted by &#8230; <a href="http://cpoga.org/byteme/?p=88">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>APS threatened by state over CRCT probe</title>
		<link>http://cpoga.org/byteme/?p=80</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, Gov. Perdue angrily and loudly proclaimed the Blue Ribbon Commission investigation into Atlanta Public Schools’ CRCT irregularities (which resulted in the referral of over 100 administrators and teachers for action) was “woefully inadequate in both scope &#8230; <a href="http://cpoga.org/byteme/?p=80">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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