Take Me To Post Comment Form Education is at a crossroads in Georgia and both your pocketbook and children's education are at stake.
For starters, state lawmakers are considering at least a half-dozen bills that concern the funding of education.
One of those bills is the much-debated plan to eliminate property taxes in favor of sales taxes.
Lawmakers are looking at expanding the lottery-funded pre-kindergarten program to 3-year-olds.
And then there are rising standards taking place this year per the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
The law is up for reauthorization, but most pundits believe the much-needed changes that need to occur -- such as measuring progress based on individual students' academic growth -- won't happen in an election year or even in the first year of a new president's term.
Gainesville City Board of Education member Kelvin Simmons said this week that he wants to keep his dream alive of quality education for all children.
He said that just as board members have wrestled with an issue that has very little to do with high graduation rates, safe schools and other crucial matters -- who should serve as board chairman.
Simmons called their indecision a "shame" and added that they needed to "put our differences behind us."