Blog Budget and Taxes Caitlin Highland Criminal Legal System Reform Health Justice Higher Education K-12 Education People Powered Prosperity Worker Justice Crossover Day 2022: Strong Health and Economic Legislation Cross Over, But Dangerous Tax Threat Remains March 16, 2022 / March 17, 2022 by Caitlin Highland Yesterday, March 15, marked Crossover Day 2022, the day by which a bill generally must pass out of its legislative chamber of origin to be considered by the other chamber this session. Several important bills passed out of their chamber and are now eligible to be approved before Sine Die, the end of Georgia’s Legislative […] Read more » Budget Criminal Legal Systems Crossover Day Economic Justice Education health-care tax
Bill Analysis Higher Education Jennifer Lee Legislation Advances to Establish Need-Based Grant Supporting College Completion | Bill Analysis: House Bill 1435 (LC 50 0377S) March 11, 2022 / March 15, 2022 by Jennifer Lee House Bill 1435 outlines a needs-based completion grant for college students. It builds off the governor’s federally funded pilot [1] started in 2020 to help students with unmet financial need pay their college bills and needs-based financial aid language passed by the Legislature in 2018 [2] but not yet funded. Summary The bill makes […] Read more » Higher Education need-based aid
Blog Higher Education Jennifer Lee Completion Grants Help Students Persist and Graduate February 23, 2022 / February 23, 2022 by Jennifer Lee Access to postsecondary education can transform a student’s life. But sometimes, especially for the 42 percent of students paying for college and living costs on their own, a small financial setback can make paying a tuition or housing bill just out of reach and threaten years of educational progress. Completion grants are a solution to […] Read more » college college affordability completion grants Higher Education
Fact Sheets Higher Education Jennifer Lee The Need for Need-Based Aid February 23, 2022 / February 24, 2022 by Jennifer Lee Georgia is one of only two states that lack broad need-based financial aid. 75 percent of Georgians support funding a need-based aid scholarship for college students. Nearly 112,000 students deal with unmet financial need, according to the University System of Georgia (USG). 42 percent of students reported not receiving any financial support from parents or […] Read more » Higher Education need-based aid
Budget and Taxes K-12 Education Reports Stephen Owens Hundreds of Millions of Dollars at Stake for a Failed Policy | Bill Analysis House Bill 60 (LC 49 0793S) February 10, 2022 / February 10, 2022 by Stephen Owens Note: This piece provides an update to a 2021 analysis of a previous version of the bill, available here. Georgia’s General Assembly operates on a two-year session cycle, so while the bill did not pass in 2021 it is still live and lawmakers may consider the current version. Key Takeaways House Bill 60 would […] Read more » Budget K-12 k-12 education vouchers
Budget and Taxes K-12 Education Reports Stephen Owens Bill Analysis: House Bill 999 (LC 49 0739) February 10, 2022 / February 10, 2022 by Stephen Owens Key Takeaways House Bill 999 relies on a faulty measure to calculate the state’s allocations to public schools Georgia cannot afford to ignore the needs inside public schools in favor of exclusionary private schools State lawmakers concerned about Georgia’s children should reject HB 999 and consider legislation like HB 10 which provided additional funding […] Read more » Budget K-12 k-12 education vouchers
Blog Higher Education Jennifer Lee Higher Education Committee Hears Performance Audit of Student Access Loans February 8, 2022 / February 8, 2022 by Jennifer Lee At the House Higher Education Committee meeting on February 2, the Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts presented its recent performance audit of Student Access Loans (SAL). The Department of Audits notes that Georgia’s approach to financial aid is “unique among states” in that the state provides need-based aid primarily through loans, and the only […] Read more » higher ed Higher Education student access loans Student Loans
Budget and Taxes K-12 Education Reports Stephen Owens Overview: 2023 Fiscal Year Budget for K-12 Education January 27, 2022 / October 13, 2026 by Stephen Owens Download PDF Gov. Kemp’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 provides Georgia’s public schools $10.7 billion, a $493 million increase above current funding. This addition would end budget cuts to the Quality Basic Education (QBE) funding formula, the state’s metric to determine necessary funding to K-12 public schools. The proposal includes an […] Read more » Budget K-12 k-12 education
Budget and Taxes Higher Education Jennifer Lee Reports Overview: 2023 Fiscal Year Budget for Lottery-Funded Programs January 27, 2022 / January 28, 2022 by Jennifer Lee Governor Brian Kemp’s proposed 2023 budget includes $1.4 billion for Georgia’s lottery-funded pre-Kindergarten and HOPE financial aid programs. About $982 million is for HOPE and $401 million is for pre-K. Lottery-funded programs saw increases to meet projected changes in need, increase HOPE Grant and Scholarship amounts at some schools, expand HOPE Career Grants […] Read more » Budget Higher Education HOPE HOPE Career Grant HOPE Scholarship Lottery Pre-K tcsg University System of Georgia usg
Budget and Taxes Daniel Kanso, PhD Fact Sheets Higher Education Jennifer Lee Fact Sheet: Sports Betting January 27, 2022 / January 27, 2022 by Jennifer Lee Co-authored by Danny Kanso, Senior Policy Analyst for Budget & Taxes As of January 2022, 31 states and Washington D.C. authorize and tax sports gambling, with measures in four additional states pending. As more states legalize sports gambling, lawmakers should not overpromise what the revenue will do for state budgets and would be […] Read more » casino gambling Lottery sports betting state revenue
