Atlanta Forward: Education

Gov. Nathan Deal got a lot folks talking with his suggestion Georgia copy the recovery school district model being used in post-Katrina New Orleans. As pioneered there, recovery districts are run by the Louisiana Department of Education and step in to take over chronically low-performing schools. We present two views on such districts today, one from a career educator, and the other from a college professor. And readers sound off on whether high school football — in which there were three player deaths in a single recent week — has become too dangerous for programs to continue.