News You Can Use: On August 4, 2009, a group of urban Christian schools in the greater Atlanta, Georgia, area gathered for the first all-day conference conducted by the newly formed Associated Consortium of Christian Schools.
The winds of change are blowing as it relates to education in this country. National opinion polling, focus group studies, and the proverbial word on the street suggest that everyday people are sick and tired of the growing deficits they see in the children who are being educated in our traditional public schools.
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Parental choice. Education choice. School choice. Vouchers. Scholarships. These and other terms are the vernacular in what is now a twenty-five year old movement to provide to parents direct purchasing power over the education of their children. No matter what it’s called, your vantage point on the issue will have you labeled a believer, a skeptic, a staunch opponent, or worse.
A Christian textbook may tell me that God created the universe out of nothing; however, it takes a person to help me understand that the same God can create something out of the nothing of my life.
The hope and intention is that individuals who are the products of Christian schooling would provide the spiritual, intellectual, and moral leadership that will influence the nation for good—that they would contribute to the public good by making the world a better place.
9.1 On August 1, 2009, Dr. Brian Simmons assumed the leadership of the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI). As the third president of ACSI, Dr. Simmons heads up the largest association of Protestant Christian schools in the world.