"If you make good grades, make some noise," rapper Ludacris told children at a Wednesday rally in support of "school choice" in Georgia.
"If we come together we can have equal opportunity education," he told their parents.
Keshia Knight Pulliam Hartwell, aka Rudy from The Cosby Show, wrote in an AJC guest column that she supports Georgia school choice too.
Wednesday's rally highlighted bills that would establish an education savings account program which would allow parents to use state dollars toward private school tuition or other education expenses.
That’s not an idea Atlanta school superintendent Meria Carstarphen supports.
“I don’t begrudge anyone for wanting choice, for wanting options, for wanting to do other things, [but] you have to find other resources to do it,” she said at a media roundtable Wednesday.
“You can’t take it away from the kids who need it the most and think that somehow you’re going to make a community, a child, a family, our country stronger.”
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