Budget and Taxes Budget Primer Daniel Kanso, PhD Reports Georgia Revenue Primer for State Fiscal Year 2025 August 8, 2024 / August 28, 2024 by Daniel Kanso, PhD The 20-Year View Before the Great Recession, adjusting for inflation, Georgia spent about $3,080 per person in FY 2006. Under the 2025 budget, the state will spend about $142 more per person, $1.6 billion more than if spending had kept pace with population and inflation growth. It represents a real growth rate of 0.2% per […] Read more » agency funds budget allocation budget impact budget legislation budget process education-funding federal funding funding sources Georgia fiscal year Georgia residents georgia-budget health care funding racist policies revenue system state funding transportation-funding
Education K-12 Education Reports Stephen Owens Schools Left with the Bill: Results of GBPI 2023 School District Survey October 10, 2023 / October 10, 2023 by Stephen Owens This report was co-authored by Jariel Davis, a fellow in the Southern Education Leadership Initiative, a program within the Southern Education Foundation. Every year, the Georgia Budget & Policy Institute (GBPI) distributes a survey to each public school superintendent in the state to collect information on the effects of education funding on individual […] Read more » education-funding Georgia schools healthcare costs inflation impact k12 education non-certified employee health insurance opportunity weight public education pupil transportation school survey school teachers state funding student poverty teacher salaries
Budget and Taxes Budget Primer Daniel Kanso, PhD Reports Georgia Revenue Primer for State Fiscal Year 2024 June 27, 2023 / July 3, 2023 by Daniel Kanso, PhD | 1 Comment on Georgia Revenue Primer for State Fiscal Year 2024 Introduction Georgia’s 2024 fiscal year (FY) runs from July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024. The total available funding to the state is $55.9 billion. That includes $32.4 billion in state funding, $17.9 billion in federal funding and $11 billion in agency funds and state employee benefit plan transfers. Before the Great Recession, adjusting for […] Read more » agency funds budget allocation budget impact budget legislation budget process education-funding federal funding funding sources Georgia fiscal year Georgia residents georgia-budget health care funding racist policies revenue system state funding transportation-funding
K-12 Education Reports Beyond Basic Education: Five Ways for Georgia to Fund Schools Fairly December 11, 2018 / October 13, 2026 by Stephen Owens Download PDF The state of Georgia withheld $9 billion from public schools over the last fifteen years. This report offers five policy options that would increase the fairness of Georgia’s education funding and begin to make school districts whole. Sixty-one percent of Georgia students come from economically disadvantaged homes, living at or near the poverty […] Read more » Education education-funding K-12 public-schools school-spending State Budget
Budget Primer Claire Suggs K-12 Education Reports Georgia K-12 Education Budget Primer for State Fiscal Year 2019 July 1, 2018 / October 13, 2026 by Claire Suggs Download PDF Education Funding in Georgia: Financial Challenges for Schools Remain Lawmakers reached a critical benchmark with the 2019 budget: For the first time since 2002, they sent school districts the full amount of money calculated by the state’s formula for funding public schools. This marks important progress in supplying schools the resources necessary to […] Read more » Budget Education education-funding K-12 Quality Basic Education formula
Blog Claire Suggs K-12 Education Time for Lawmakers to Choose Students Over Tax Cuts February 26, 2018 / January 14, 2020 by Claire Suggs Lawmakers are racing to pass a risky tax package that drains $1.4 billion a year from the state treasury once fully implemented. A better choice is to hit the pause button and send school districts the full amount of money the state’s own K-12 funding formula calculates they should get. The General Assembly is underfunding […] Read more » Budget Budget & Taxes Education education-funding funding-formula HB 918 K-12 public-schools tax cuts
GBPI In The News Proposed funding formual said to “cement in” smaller school payments November 5, 2015 / January 15, 2020 by GBPI Admin The funding overhaul under discussion by Gov. Nathan Deal’s education reform panel would shortchange metro Atlanta school districts by tens of millions of dollars. Read more. Read more » Education education-funding K-12 schools
GBPI In The News Richardson: Sounding the alarm October 3, 2015 / January 17, 2020 by GBPI Admin For the sake of discussion, this column will assume a few things as given: There are higher numbers of children in poverty in our public schools than ever before. More on that later and the data to prove it. Read more. Read more » Education education-funding K-12 schools
