After a two-hour fiery debate, the Georgia Senate rejected a bill that would have essentially created a school voucher program. Senate Bill 173 would let parents put money the state allocates for their child in public school into an Education Savings Account (ESA). GBPI’s Stephen Owens said similar programs in other regions haven’t been successful. “We’ve seen programs like these in states across the nation–Louisiana, Ohio, Washington, D.C.—[test] scores always go down,” Owens said. Read the full story from WABE.
GBPI Responds to Gov. Kemp’s Budget Instructions to Keep State Spending Flat
Daniel Kanso, PhD
July 30, 2026
Over the past eight years (Fiscal Year 2020 to Fiscal Year 2027), Georgia’s per-person state
