ATLANTA – The State Board of Education upheld the denial of two online schools Tuesday, frustrating parents seeking options for their children.
But advocates hope the story will be different later in the week.
The board met, half via telephone, to allow members the chance to overturn denials by the Georgia Charter Schools Commission in June of the Georgia Virtual Academy and Mercury Online Academy. The commission rejected the two applications largely because it feared neither had a governing board that could act independently of the national companies contracted to operate the schools.
Five groups had submitted applications for online schools, but one withdrew before commission consideration. The commission accepted two of the remaining four but did not grant them as much money for operations as they had hoped, so they aren’t in business yet either.
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