(RALEIGH) -- Public school districts in North Carolina and now Georgia are unhappy with accreditation agency AdvancED, and legislators in both states are fighting back. Terry Stoops of the conservative John Locke Foundation said the accusations by Georgia lawmakers of AdvancEd meddling sounds suspiciously similar to charges in Wake County.

"A lot of people wanted to accuse the Wake County School Board of inviting AdvancEd in because of their actions, but here are people on a completely different side of the political and ideological spectrum complaining about the same things that AdvancEd has done to their district," said Stoops.

In North Carolina, Republicans from Wake and Burke counties are leading the opposition, but in Georgia, African-American Democrats from the Atlanta area are objecting to AdvancED’s “micro-managing, meddling” ways.