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Georgia Independent School System Amendment (2016)
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| Election date November 8, 2016 | |
| Topic Education | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
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The Georgia Independent School System Amendment was not put on the November 8, 2016 ballot in Georgia as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment.
The measure was designed to empower municipalities to establish and maintain independent public schools within their limits. An "independent school system" would have been "a school system operated under the control and management of a board of education of a municipality or other political subdivision of this state other than a county school district."[1]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The proposed ballot title was:[1]
| “ | Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended to allow any municipality to establish an independent school system by local law? ( ) Yes ( ) No[2] |
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Support
Arguments
- Rep. Tom Taylor (R-79), a sponsor of the amendment, argued, "If passed, this would allow cities such as Dunwoody [a city in Taylor's district] to form their own school systems, allowing much more focused local control of our education dollars and management of personnel and curriculum."[3]
Path to the ballot
The amendment needed a two-thirds (66.67%) vote in both chambers of the Georgia Legislature in order to appear on the ballot. Georgia is one of sixteen states that requires a two-thirds supermajority.
The Georgia Legislature's 2015 session ended on April 2, 2015, without the bill passing both chambers. Legislators had the opportunity to reintroduce the bill during the 2016 legislative session, which was projected to begin on January 11, 2016, and run through March 31, 2016.
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Georgia Legislature, "House Resolution 4," accessed February 24, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Dunwoody Crier, "Georgia legislative session passes halfway point," February 24, 2015
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