Georgia has funded its public schools the same way for 30 years. Some educators and lawmakers are complaining the formula the state uses is old and out-of-date. Read more.
A few days ago, Georgia Budget and Policy Institute Executive Director Taifa Smith Butler stood before a gathering of regional educators, legislators and city and county officials at the Albany Welcome Center and emphasized the importance of the state budget.
Education and health care spending amount to about three quarters of the state budget Georgia lawmakers are set to shape when they return to the Gold Dome this week. Read more.
This coming Monday, state lawmakers will travel from the far reaches of the state—from Albany and Brunswick to Young Harris and Zebulon—to the Georgia State Capitol for the 2016 legislative session. Read more.
As next Monday’s opening of of the General Assembly draws closer, the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute held a meet and greet luncheon this week to introduce Executive Director Tiafa Smith Butler to Southwest Georgia. Read more.
The next chapter in school funding and teacher pay will open at the state Capitol in January, when Gov. Nathan Deal and lawmakers decide what to do with a report that recommends controversial changes to education policy. Read more.
A new poll by a group sympathetic to Gov. Nathan Deal’s educational overhaul finds that there is support among Georgia voters to spend more on education but that most want to see more efficiency and effectiveness first. Read more.
The funding overhaul under discussion by Gov. Nathan Deal’s education reform panel would shortchange metro Atlanta school districts by tens of millions of dollars. Read more.
With 300,000 Georgians still without health care coverage, some members of the state Legislative delegation are pushing for an expansion of Medicaid for people who fall into the gap of no coverage. Read more.
The Georgia Lottery hit jackpot with record profits in the first quarter of the state fiscal year, and that has advocates hoping for more scholarship dollars. Read more.
Submit public comment on Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage program extension by February 20th – just complete this easily fillable form:
