Written by Beth Hawkins - The 74 Million | Feb 5, 2020 | News
Normally, when public charter schools seek to renew their charters — the legal documents that grant them permission to operate — the applications are dry as dust, heavy with bureaucratese intended to show compliance with sundry rules. Contrast that with the petition Georgia Cyber Academy recently submitted in support of […]
Written by Firm | May 18, 2018 | Results
Josh Belinfante recently obtained a victory for a Speech and Rehabilitation Therapy company bidding for work with the a Georgia school district. The school system initially scored the proposal 5.5 points too low to be considered for financial scoring. Before the school system provided a single document in response to […]
Written by Molly Bloom - Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Apr 3, 2017 | News
Three employees at Atlanta’s Grady High School were sanctioned because district officials said they failed to do the right thing after learning that several members of the school’s football team and a female student may have left campus during lunch to engage in sexual activity. A social worker, a teacher […]
Written by Firm | Dec 18, 2015 | News
Georgia still hasn’t formally – in public, at least – responded to the federal government’s charge that it runs an illegal, segregated school system for children with behavioral disorders. But the state has hired a lawyer to mount its defense, and talks with the U.S Department of Justice are under […]
Written by Firm | Dec 31, 2014 | Results
Alexa Ross and Josh Belinfante played a major role in drafting the amendments to the State Department of Education charter school regulations adopted by the State Board last month. The amended regulations are groundbreaking in Georgia. They set benchmarks that must be met by local school districts that authorize charter […]
Written by Firm | Oct 1, 2014 | Updates
Last month, the Supreme Court of Georgia ruled that strict compliance with pre-suit requirements is necessary in order to bring a tort claim against the State. In Bd. of Regents of the Univ. Sys. of Ga. v. Myers, the Court held that a plaintiff must “strictly comply” with the Georgia […]
Written by Firm | Feb 28, 2013 | Press
Today’s federal court hearing challenging the constitutionality of Governor Nathan Deal’s efforts to oust six members of the DeKalb County Board of Education marks the latest round in more than a decade of fighting between Georgia governors and fractious local school boards. The state’s last three governors—Roy Barnes, Sonny Perdue […]
