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Overview: 2015 Fiscal Year Budget for Business Subsidies
Wesley Tharpe
January 24, 2014
State Support for Private Sector Remains High Georgia plans to spend about $683 million on various tax breaks ...
Overview: 2015 Fiscal Year Budget for K-12 Education
Claire Suggs
January 23, 2014
Budget Cuts for K-12 Shrink, but Still Loom Large The $7.95 billion budget proposal for public education in ...
Overview: 2015 Fiscal Year for Medicaid and PeachCare
Timothy Sweeney
January 22, 2014
The governor’s budget proposal for the 2015 fiscal year adds a net increase of $143 million more than ...
Overview: 2015 Fiscal Year Budget for Lottery-Funded Programs
Claire Suggs
January 22, 2014
Funding for Pre-Kindergarten and HOPE Falls Short of Students’ Needs The governor’s proposed $948 million budget for the ...
Overview: Georgia’s 2015 Fiscal Year Human Services Budget
Melissa Johnson
January 21, 2014
Strategic Additions Made to DHS Budget; Service Cuts Since Recession Retained The governor’s $516.1 million budget proposal for ...
Overview of Georgia’s 2015 Fiscal Year Budget
GBPI Admin
January 21, 2014
The $20.8 billion budget proposed for Georgia’s 2015 fiscal year projects general fund revenue growth of 4.3 percent, ...
New State Budget Plan Takes Small Steps to Repair Damage from Years of Cuts
Alan Essig
January 17, 2014
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal Wednesday unveiled a state budget for the 2015 fiscal year that includes $807 million ...
K-12 education funding a top priority
Alan Essig
January 13, 2014
As published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on January 12, 2014. Georgia’s leaders are talking about increasing spending on ...
Policy Conference Sets High Bar for GBPI’s 10th Anniversary Year
GBPI Admin
January 10, 2014
(View the presentation slides included in the breakout workshops) About 200 people gathered Wednesday for our 2014 Policy ...
General Assembly Set to Race Through Budget Hearings
Alan Essig
January 9, 2014
By all accounts we can look forward to a historically fast Georgia legislative session this year. The governor’s ...
Higher Ed Funding, Completion Rates Focus of GBPI Policy Conference Panels
Claire Suggs
December 20, 2013
Performance funding for higher education is coming to Georgia. Beginning fall 2015, state funding for the university system ...
Teacher Prep, Charter Schools Focus of GBPI 2014 Policy Conference
Claire Suggs
December 20, 2013
In the midst of fierce debates about ways to improve public education, there is consensus on one issue: ...
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