The 2012 session of the Georgia General Assembly continued at a snail's pace on this sixth day.  Neither the House of Representatives nor the Senate remained in session for even an hour, and neither tackled any education legislation (or, any other, for that matter!).

House committee meetings are scheduled for this week (House Ed will meet later this week to hear Representative Ed Lindsey present his "Parent Trigger" bill, HB 731.), but many Senate committee meetings have been cancelled during this early part of the year.  In what could be considered "good news," the House on this day approved their work calendar for the first thirty days of the session, and it appears that their goal is to get it completed by the end of March.  Election years certainly cause different kinds of decisions to be made.

Just as slow as the pace of the session has been the rate of introduction of education-related legislation.  Education-watchers still anticipate some form of proposed constitutional amendment to be introduced to address the concern of some over the Georgia Supreme Court's Spring 2011 decision to strike down the now-defunct Charter Schools Commission; that legislation has yet to appear.

Only one other education bill has been introduced recently, this one dealing with "hazing."  It is HB 659 and is posted for review by readers.

Day seven will commence on Tuesday, January 24, and the afternoon will see meetings of a subcommittee and full commission of the Education Finance Task Force for the purpose of addressing the equalization component of the school funding formula.  Those meetings will be held from 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. in Room 406 of the Coverdell Legislative Office Building.