“School choice is important so that families can find the best option for their child’s education,” said Renee Lord, president of Georgia Families for Public Virtual Education, who has two cyber charter school students and a daughter who graduated from private school. “If the money could follow the child, then parents would have the freedom to pick and choose.’’
Eighty percent of the state’s charter schools achieved adequate yearly progress goals for students as outlined by the federal No Child Left Behind law while 77 percent of non-charter public schools made AYP.
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