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Funding Committee Comes up Short
A new school funding formula Gov. Nathan Deal’s Education Reform Commission is developing threatens to lock in deep ...
Public Education Austerity Cuts Persist in New State Spending Plan
Georgia is underfunding its K-12 programs to the tune of about $660 million this school year, according to ...
School Districts Get Growing Tab for Student Transportation
Years of deep cuts in state student transportation funding saddle school districts with more of the cost to ...
Georgia Shifts Cost to Bus Schoolchildren to Local Districts
Every day across Georgia school buses carry students safely to and from school. This is an essential service, ...
A Blueprint to Bolster Georgia Families through Targeted Tax Reforms
State lawmakers and other civic-minded people who work to improve the lives of Georgia families have no shortage ...
A Tax Blueprint to Strengthen Georgia
[vc_row el_class=”td-ss-row”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] Fixing Georgia’s Tax System Can Help Working Families and Protect the State’s Investments Reforming Georgia’s ...
Healthier State Revenues Provide Opportunities
The welcome news is state tax revenues are up about 9.4 percent during the first three months of ...
Tax Shift Plans Chart Wrong Path to Reform
State legislators are likely to consider large-scale changes to Georgia’s tax system when they return to work in ...
Better Ways to Fix Georgia Taxes
As Published in the AJC State lawmakers can seize a real opportunity to improve the lives of Georgia families ...
So Many Georgians Struggle, but it Doesn’t Have to be That Way
For the last 15 years or so, I’ve peered out across many crowded rooms filled to capacity with ...
Planned Financial Support for Low-Income Students in a Slump
Gov. Nathan Deal’s Education Reform Commission members agree the state should send extra dollars to school districts to ...
Open College Entry to Undocumented Students to Bolster Georgia’s Workforce
Many Georgia students started college for the first time this fall. That’s good news for Georgia as the ...
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