Looking ahead to the new year, Gainesville and Hall County school officials remain committed to managing growth and funding capital projects, while staying focused on student achievement. Gainesville School Board Chairwoman Delores Diaz said that adding to the challenges ahead
The Georgia Budget & Policy Institute recently released an evaluation on the much vaunted and duplicated Georgia HOPE Scholarship. They reported that while it has led to an increase in enrollment, it has not benefitted lower-income and students of color in
Lawmakers momentarily shelved education reform last winter when educators objected to proposals to change how they get paid. Those reform efforts, including a possible overhaul of the state’s education funding formula, are expected to resume next month when legislators return
State lawmakers were teed up last month to discuss ways of expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act that have been favored in other conservative states. But that was before Donald Trump’s stunning victory, which has made an overhaul of
Op-ed by GBPI’s Claire Suggs — Georgia leaders want to add 250,000 college graduates by 2025 as part of its official Complete College Georgia program. It’s hard to see how that happens in just eight years without a course correction. State
A ranking Republican Georgia senator who long panned the idea of expanding Medicaid is working on legislation to make it happen. The conservative Georgia Chamber of Commerce just made an economic case for Medicaid expansion as the best way for
A meeting in Rome on Friday involving nonprofits that feed the hungry will attempt to gain support for expanding a federal tax credit to the state level that would benefit an estimated 1 million Georgia families. Read the full article
New analysis of Georgia’s aid program for top students — a model for those of many other states — finds that it is missing many low-income and minority students. Read the full article on Inside Higher Ed.
Less than half of the students in Georgia’s public colleges and universities benefit from the state’s main Lottery-funded scholarships, according to a new report, while minorities and poor students are even less likely to benefit from the merit-based programs. Read
Georgia has thousands of low-income students who cannot afford college because they don’t qualify for the HOPE Scholarship or its more lucrative offspring, the Zell Miller Scholarship. HOPE pays for 70 to 85 percent of tuition depending on which public campus students
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