Rep. Mesha Mainor, who has represented District 56 in the Georgia House, stresses importance of school choice after leaving the Democratic Party amid pushback from ex-Democratic colleagues.
Pro-school choice Georgia GOP lawmaker on leaving the Democratic Party: 'There's a lot of propaganda'
After being a Democrat her"entire life," Mesha Mainor who represents District 56 in the Georgia House since January 2021, announced on July 11th the decision to switch her party registration to Republican. "I had the most charter schools in my district than any other district in the state of Georgia. So people in my community are crying for options because no one wants to send their child to a school that's failing," she said."School choice is important to me because I am that child that it supports. I grew up in an area of the west side of Atlanta where right now the schools–in some of them–97% of the kids can't read, perform simple math.
School choice, or providing all families with alternatives to the public schools they’re zoned for, can be expanded through multiple avenues at the state level, including school voucher programs, tax-credit scholarship programs, individual tuition tax credit programs and deductions, and education savings accounts . Mainor said that when she was a young girl, she had to use someone else’s address to be able to qualify for the school district that the address is zoned for.
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