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Time for Lawmakers to Choose Students Over Tax Cuts

Lawmakers are racing to pass a risky tax package that drains $1.4 billion a year from the state ...
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Private School Savings Accounts Lack Oversight, Could Prove Costly

Bill Analysis: House Bill 482 (LC 33 7253S) Georgia lawmakers are considering a plan to allow parents to ...
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Invest in College Students Like They Invest in Themselves

Lizzie Mathias balances a full-time course load at Middle Georgia State University’s campus in Macon, works about 40 ...
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Lawmakers Might Come to Regret Georgia’s Risky Tax Plan

Bill Analysis: House Bill 918 Substitute (LC 34 5383-ECS); Feb. 22, 2018 Georgia leaders are now rushing a ...
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Governor’s Tax Plan Carries $1 Billion Price

– GBPI press statement issued Feb. 20 in response to governor’s revised tax cut plan introduced earlier that ...
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Overview: 2019 Fiscal Year Budget for Human Services

Foster Care Services Get Increases for Foster Parents, Child Placement Agencies Gov. Nathan Deal’s proposed $788 million Department ...
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Overview: 2019 Fiscal Year Budget for Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities

Gov. Nathan Deal’s budget proposal for the 2019 fiscal year adds $50.6 million more than last year’s budget ...
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Shrinking State Funds Trigger Student Bus Safety Concerns

Shrinking state funding for student transportation and rising costs are making it more difficult for school districts across ...
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Support Students by Removing HOPE Seven-Year Time Limit

– Update on Feb. 26: House Bill 218 proposes to extend the time that students have to use the ...
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Overview: 2019 Fiscal Year Budget for Lottery-Funded Programs

Gov. Nathan Deal’s proposed 2019 budget includes $70.5 million in added lottery funds, bringing the total for Georgia’s ...
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Push to Expand Private School Tax Scholarships Disregards Lack of Evidence, Accountability

Georgia’s Senate appears poised to act on an expansion of the state’s tax credit scholarship for private schools. ...
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Overview: 2019 Fiscal Year Budget for the Department of Community Health

Gov. Nathan Deal proposes a 2019 budget of $2.79 billion in state general funds for the Department of ...

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