State leaders are scheduled Wednesday to celebrate the 25th anniversary of one of the most important decisions by voters and government in recent history: the start of the Georgia Lottery, which funds the HOPE Scholarship and its pre-kindergarten program. Read
During Georgia’s 2017-2018 legislative cycle and throughout the months between those two sessions, the growing GBPI team improved the public policy discourse and, in many cases, state policies changed for the better as a result. Georgia will fully fund its
Talk to people around Rome, Ga. for a while and the conversation often shifts to the lingering stresses that plague the community after a state mental health facility closed seven years ago. Homelessness. Drug abuse. People with mental disabilities stuck
A new report estimates that a full Medicaid expansion in Georgia would provide health insurance to 473,000 more residents in 2019. The Urban Institute policy brief, released Wednesday, is the latest to predict the effect of expansion on the state. Read
On a beautiful spring morning in the northwest foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, a group of community leaders in Rome, Ga. gathered over breakfast, laughter and catch-up conversations. But as the morning meeting settled in, the friendly exchanges about neighbors
Many Georgia college students got some good news when the state’s Board of Regents voted at its April meeting to not raise tuition next school year — but that doesn’t mean students won’t be paying more to go to school this fall. The
State lawmakers allocated $15 million to upgrade aging school bus fleets in public school districts across Georgia when it passed its 2019 fiscal year budget last month, but the money is not nearly enough to serve the needs of the
Georgia lawmakers passed legislation in the final hours before they left the state Capitol for good this session that many say marks the state’s most expansive effort to help low-income public college students earn their degrees. Read the full article
Lawmakers will vote Thursday on Gov. Nathan Deal’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2019. The governor surprised a lot of people Tuesday when he revealed plans to fully fund the state’s K-12 education formula. More than a decade ago, the
With Georgia’s economy continuing to grow, Gov. Nathan Deal increased his projection of how much tax money the state will take in next year, allowing lawmakers to fully fund the k-12 school funding formula after more than a decade of
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