Concerned about education?

You can get the ear of state

Superintendent of Schools Linda C. Schrenko this week.

Schrenko will host a town hall

meeting in Fayetteville at the LaFayette Educational Center Thursday from

7 - 9 p.m.

She is expected to speak for

the first 30 minutes of the gathering on education reform and ways to

make proposed changes, according to Amanda Seals, information specialist

to the superintendent. She also will outline her legislative priorities

for the 2001 legislative session.

The remainder of the program

will be opened up to the audience for a question and answer session, she

said.

Fayetteville is on the last

leg of Schrenko's statewide series of meetings, which started in August.

Seals said there have been 18 meetings so far.

The major concerns voiced by

parents and educators across Georgia have been the implications of House

Bill 1187, also known as the A+ Reform Act, Seals noted. Class size, property

tax rates, program cuts in middle school programs, and financial cuts

in high school lab programs have consistently surfaced as areas of public

interest, Seals said.

Schrenko was first elected

as state superintendent of schools in 1994 and was reelected in 1998.

She has been a vocal opponent of many of the reforms included in HB 1187

since its passage last spring.

Schrenko is scheduled to return

to Fayette County Monday, Dec. 11 to address the Peachtree City Rotary

at 7 a.m. at the Wyndham Peachtree Conference Center.