Senator Chip Rogers receives 2012 Charter Schools Impact Award from Georgia Charter Schools Association
Senator Chip Rogers receives 2012 Charter Schools Impact Award from Georgia Charter Schools Association
Atlanta (October 11, 2012) – Five term Senator and Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers has been honored with the 2012 Charter Schools Impact Award by the Georgia Charter Schools Association (GCSA). The award recognizes Senator Rogers’ leadership in the Georgia General Assembly and his ongoing support of children by supporting parental choice and public charter schools.
Senator Rogers has given leadership and support to a string of legislation over the last few years designed to insure that students have options in public K-12 education. Tony Roberts, President and CEO of GCSA, praised Rogers’ courage and persistence in advocating for children and options in education.
“Thanks to Senator Chip Rogers, thousands of children in Georgia have found hope for a better education,” Roberts said. “He has been a leading voice in the Senate and across the State that we cannot accept the status quo while so many of our children are not succeeding and not graduating.
In accepting the award, Senator Rogers remarked that “Children should not be sentenced to a bad education simply based on the zip code in which they live.” He continued, “there has always been school choice, but only for those who had the means to have it. I have been fighting so that even families who have little or no means can also have school choice.”
Jessie
10:27 am on Monday, October 15, 2012
mmm…this award given to Senator Rogers is from an organization that represents just 53 charter schools in the state, which according to their website is only 30% of the charter schools in Georgia. GSCA represents less than 30,000 of the 77,000 students enrolled in charter schools in Georgia, and 10,00o of those are Odyssey (virtual) students. What about the other 1,600,000 public school (charter & traditional) students in the state? Is Mr. Rogers representing them as well? Is he getting awards from those families? I think not because he is trying to dismantle the traditional school systems in Georgia all in the name of CHOICE. He should leave ALEC rhetoric out of the public schools and look out for ALL of Georgia’s students.
Kathleen A.
11:06 am on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Why isn't Chip Rogers working this hard to better ALL public schools in Georgia? Isn't the better solution to improve education across the board as opposed to limited pockets where only a small percentage of children can attend?