The Choice Channel

“The editorial ‘Stealing school tax dollars’ questions the constitutionality of HB 881, creating a new authorizer for charter schools and awaiting Gov. Sonny Perdue’s signature (@issue, April 21). According to the Georgia Constitution and legal scholars, the bill is constitutional. Wherever the Legislature is authorized to provide for the creation of funding public schools, it may create systems for the establishment of other public schools. In Georgia, charter schools are public schools. The children they serve are public school students. Their education should be funded the same way all public school students in Georgia are funded —- including local dollars, regardless of who authorizes them.” (04/29/08)