Author: Stephen Owens

Stephen is a senior policy analyst at GBPI, where he focuses on state polices and research that affect K-12 public education in Georgia.

Overview: 2022 Fiscal Year Budget for Lottery-Funded Programs

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Overview: 2022 Fiscal Year Budget for Lottery-Funded Programs

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Download PDF     Co-authored by Jennifer Lee, Senior Policy Analyst and Stephen Owens, Ph.D, Senior Policy Analyst Gov. Brian Kemp’s proposed 2022 budget includes $1.3 billion for Georgia’s lottery-funded pre-Kindergarten and HOPE financial aid programs. About $903 million is for HOPE, and $381 million is for pre-K. Lottery-funded programs saw small increases to meet […]

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Overview: 2022 Fiscal Year Budget for K-12 Education

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Overview: 2022 Fiscal Year Budget for K-12 Education

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Download PDF     Gov. Kemp’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 provides Georgia’s public schools $10.2 billion, a $573 million increase above current funding. This addition would partially restore cuts from the FY 2021 budget, with the Quality Basic Education funding formula underfunded by $393 million moving forward. The proposal includes a reduction […]

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Resources on School Vouchers

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Resources on School Vouchers

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Current Status: In the 2022 Legislative Session, lawmakers may consider House Bill 60 and House Bill 142, two bills that would enact or expand voucher programs to take hundreds of millions of dollars of state money away from public schools and send them to private schools. House Bill 60 and House Bill 142 did not […]

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State of Education Funding (2021)

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State of Education Funding (2021)

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Download PDF This report offers an assessment of the state of education funding in Georgia by analyzing how it compares to prior years and other states and exploring what areas are due for review or revision. In the FY 2021 budget Georgia returned to a general pattern of cutting education and underfunding specific grants for […]

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Fact Sheet: English for Speakers of Other Languages

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Fact Sheet: English for Speakers of Other Languages

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    Thank you to Latin American Association & Center for Pan Asian Community Services for translation services Enrollment Georgia educates the eighth-highest number of ELs in the nation (FY 2017).[1] 108,752 total students in ESOL in Georgia (FY 2019).[2] EL enrollment in ESOL grew by 61 percent FY 2011 to 2019.[3] Spanish is the […]

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English Learners Deserve More: An Analysis of Georgia’s Education for Speakers of Other Languages

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English Learners Deserve More: An Analysis of Georgia’s Education for Speakers of Other Languages

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    Thank you to Latin American Association & Center for Pan Asian Community Services for translation services Stephanie Angel contributed to the Legislative History and Legal Obligations sections of this report. Introduction The English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program assists students who are learning English in school as an additional language, known […]

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Difficult Choices Made Worse by Budget Cuts: Results from GBPI’s 2020 School District Survey

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Difficult Choices Made Worse by Budget Cuts: Results from GBPI’s 2020 School District Survey

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Download PDF     Each year, the Georgia Budget & Policy Institute sends a survey to every public school superintendent in Georgia to gather information on the current state of education, what improvements need to be made and how lawmakers can address the problems Georgia schools face. This year, school superintendents or other central office […]

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Georgia Education Budget Primer for State Fiscal Year 2021

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Georgia Education Budget Primer for State Fiscal Year 2021

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Georgia’s 2021 Education Budget Georgia lawmakers cut $1 billion from the state’s budget for the Department of Education. The bulk of these cuts, totaling $950 million, will be passed on to 181 local K-12 school systems. State support for private school vouchers through tax credits and direct state funding face no budget cuts. Public school […]

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