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Georgia Tech professor: Why are guns unsafe for dorms, but allowed in...
The Senate passed the campus carry bill today. House Bill 859 now goes to the Gov. Nathan Deal for his signature. The legislation allows anyone 21 or older with a weapons license to carry a gun...
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Teachers now flock to active shooter training. Can we do more to prevent...
The AJC has a sobering package this weekend on school safety that’s worth your time. AJC education reporter Rose French has an excellent MyAJC.com story on heightened security efforts in Georgia...
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Nearly 2,000 children in campus childcare centers where guns would now be...
One overlooked aspect of the college campus carry bill: There are about 1,700 young children in university sanctioned childcare centers around the state. House Bill 859, as passed by the House and...
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Front page editorial in UGA student-run newspaper: Almost no one wants guns...
Students are increasingly speaking out against the campus carry bill, which passed both the House and Senate and now is in the hands of Gov. Nathan Deal. Deal is facing tremendous pressure from the gun...
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UGA parents to Gov. Deal: Would you want guns in your grandchild’s school?
This letter to Gov. Nathan Deal was signed by 66 parents whose children attend a child care facility on the University of Georgia campus. They beseech the governor to veto the campus carry bill,...
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Ousted Atlanta Public Schools principal: Supervisors can’t teach what they...
The former principal of Frederick Douglass High School — removed by APS Superintendent Meria Carstarphen in May — offers some troubling commentary today on how Atlanta Public Schools evaluates and...
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Do students at Emory and other colleges need to be safe from Donald Trump?
The media are having some fun at the expense of Emory University students alarmed to wake up this week to a barrage of chalked messages of support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump...
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UGA professor: Violence at Trump rallies shows dangers of ‘good guys’ with...
With students and faculty waiting to see if Gov. Nathan Deal will veto the legalization of guns on public college campuses, University of Georgia professor Peter Smagorinsky explains why campus carry...
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High school parents don’t want their teens on armed campuses
Alan Miller is the parent of a DeKalb County high school student who plans to attend college classes in the fall as part of Georgia’s Move On When Ready program. In this column, Miller says the...
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What colleges don’t tell you: Most campus sexual assaults happen in dorms;...
Andrea Anne Curcio, a Georgia State University College of Law professor, researches sexual violence issues, including campus sexual assaults. In this piece, Curcio reveals a fact seldom highlighted on...
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Texas officer loses job over student body slam. Should we rethink police in...
Should police officers be patrolling schools? Do officers assigned to schools have adequate training in how to defuse hallway squabbles or deal with truculent teens without resorting to force? Do they...
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Gov. Deal vetoes guns on college campuses because it wouldn’t make students...
To the dismay of many in his party, Gov. Nathan Deal vetoed the controversial campus carry bill today. Our AJC ace political writer Greg Bluestein reports Deal went up against General Assembly...
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Nathan Deal’s reasons for vetoing campus carry: Long history of colleges as...
Here is Gov. Nathan Deal’s rationale for vetoing campus carry today: HB 859 seeks to amend O.C.G.A. § 16-11-127.1, which relates to the carrying of weapons within school safety zones. It would add an...
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UGA grad student: Campus safety takes hit with gun veto
Vicki Scullion is a Ph.D. student and graduate assistant in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the University of Georgia College of Education. By Vicki A. Scullion Feeling safer now?...
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Georgia school chief issues own guidance on transgender bathrooms. Cites...
Georgia School Superintendent Richard Woods issued guidance today to school districts regarding the Obama administration’s “Dear Colleague Letter” on transgender students and school restrooms. In its...
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Atlanta superintendent after Nice: We need national agenda to combat...
Atlanta Public Schools superintendent Meria Carstarphen added her voice to the many speaking out today about Thursday’s Bastille Day terror attack in Nice, France. On her blog tonight, Carstarphen...
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Damned by data: Do states spend more time rating schools than helping them?
In this age of data worship, state education agencies seem to devote more time to rating schools than helping them. Many state legislatures have embraced a “damned by data” strategy to force change in...
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No need to be polite with motorists who flout school bus laws
A concerted effort is underway this year to persuade Georgia drivers to obey the laws requiring them to stop for school buses. First lady Sandra Deal is doing her part, saying, “Unfortunately, each...
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Georgia Supreme Court says ‘no’ to guns on school property
From the state Supreme Court today: GEORGIACARRY.ORG. V. CODE REVISION COMMISSION (S16A1045) The Supreme Court of Georgia has ruled against a gun rights organization in its attempt to compel state...
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Is Trump’s election scaring LGBT students and children of immigrants? See...
After Donald Trump won the presidency, I began to hear accounts of fearful students crying at school yesterday, especially LGBT adolescents and children whose parents are immigrants. There were...
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