Local Woman to Have Say on Georgia's Charter Schools
Jennifer Rippner of nearby Acworth was the education policy advisor to Gov. Sonny Perdue.
An Acworth woman has been appointed to the re-established state commission whose members can authorize charter schools whether local school boards want them or not. Jennifer Rippner, an attorney who serves as a consultant for the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, was nominated to the post by Gov. Nathan Deal, according to a release from the Georgia Department of Education. Rippner chaired the old Charter Schools Commission that was dismantled in May 2011 when the state Supreme Court gave local school boards exclusive control, according to the ATLAW, a blog about Georgia's legal community. The high court's 4-3 ruling nullified the commission's authority to grant charters to schools rejected by local school boards. But on a…
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