Higher Education Jennifer Lee Reports How Student Debt Worsens Racial Inequality November 18, 2020 / October 13, 2026 by Jennifer Lee Download PDF Higher education is a pathway to greater financial security and prosperity. The pandemic-induced recession illustrates how Georgians without degrees are most vulnerable during economic downturns, with unemployment rates for individuals with a high school education only—37 percent of adult Georgians—consistently double that of those with a college degree.[1],[2] Many jobs lost […] Read more » Education Higher Education student debt Student Loans
K-12 Education Reports Stephen Owens English Learners Deserve More: An Analysis of Georgia’s Education for Speakers of Other Languages November 16, 2020 / February 4, 2021 by Stephen Owens Thank you to Latin American Association & Center for Pan Asian Community Services for translation services Stephanie Angel contributed to the Legislative History and Legal Obligations sections of this report. Introduction The English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program assists students who are learning English in school as an additional language, known […] Read more » Education ESOL K-12
Higher Education Jennifer Lee People Powered Prosperity Reports Scholarships are a Better Way to Use Lottery Dollars Than Student Loans October 14, 2020 / October 13, 2026 by Jennifer Lee Download PDF As the country finds itself in another historic recession, Georgia faces an opportunity to focus state financial aid resources on an equitable economic recovery. A budget-neutral and effective option is to rework the state’s troubled lottery-funded Student Access Loan program to fund scholarships and grants that support degree completion. Georgia is […] Read more » Education Higher Education Lottery
Blog K-12 Education Stephen Owens Difficult Choices Made Worse by Budget Cuts: Results from GBPI’s 2020 School District Survey August 31, 2020 / October 13, 2026 by Stephen Owens Download PDF Each year, the Georgia Budget & Policy Institute sends a survey to every public school superintendent in Georgia to gather information on the current state of education, what improvements need to be made and how lawmakers can address the problems Georgia schools face. This year, school superintendents or other central office […] Read more » COVID-19 Education K-12
Budget Primer Higher Education Jennifer Lee K-12 Education Stephen Owens Georgia Education Budget Primer for State Fiscal Year 2021 August 10, 2020 / August 11, 2020 by Jennifer Lee Georgia’s 2021 Education Budget Georgia lawmakers cut $1 billion from the state’s budget for the Department of Education. The bulk of these cuts, totaling $950 million, will be passed on to 181 local K-12 school systems. State support for private school vouchers through tax credits and direct state funding face no budget cuts. Public school […] Read more » Budget Budget Cuts Education Higher Education HOPE Scholarship K-12
Budget and Taxes Cash and Safety Net Community Impact Health Justice Higher Education K-12 Education People Powered Prosperity Worker Justice Raise Revenue to Protect Georgia Families June 11, 2020 / October 13, 2026 by Alex Welch Download PDF Dear Governor Kemp and Members of the Georgia General Assembly, Thank you for your work in service of our state during this very difficult time. As partners in the effort to help our state recover, we are asking you to take action to protect the funding of critical services and programs in Georgia. […] Read more » 21budgetcuts Budget Budget & Taxes Budget Cuts coronavirus Education health Higher Education K-12 Safety Net
Budget and Taxes Community Impact Past Events GBPI Budget Town Hall June 5, 2020 / June 5, 2020 by Alex Welch COVID-19 created an economic crisis that led Georgia lawmakers to call for deep budget cuts to every state agency. But without an effort to raise revenues and fix budget shortfalls, our state faces a massive economic downturn that will severely underfund critical programs and services, harming the lives of millions of Georgians in every community […] Read more » Budget Budget & Taxes Budget Cuts COVID-19 Education health K-12 Safety Net
Coronavirus Fact Sheets Higher Education Jennifer Lee People Powered Prosperity Federal Relief Not Enough to Meet College Students’ Financial Needs April 17, 2020 / October 13, 2026 by Jennifer Lee Download PDF Since publication of this blog post, the federal Department of Education allocated a second pot of relief dollars for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Minority Serving Institutions and other institutions with a substantial number of students with financial need. Download Georgia allocations. The federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act will […] Read more » coronavirus COVID-19 Education Fact Sheet
Blog Coronavirus K-12 Education Stephen Owens Online Instruction Could Leave Rural Schools, Vulnerable Students Behind April 8, 2020 / May 19, 2020 by Stephen Owens Recently, Gov. Kemp ordered the state’s public schools to close for the remainder of the academic year in response to increased infections of the coronavirus. School district leaders across the state quickly worked to find ways to provide educational services when brick-and-mortar buildings are unavailable. Many schools have opted to offer instruction online. Online schooling […] Read more » coronavirus Education K-12 online learning rural broadband
Coronavirus GBPI In The News Worker Justice The Coronavirus’s Harsher Reality for the Most Vulnerable March 25, 2020 / May 19, 2020 by Caitlin Highland The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is creating new burdens and exacerbating existing ones for Americans at the economic margins. Government has the obligation and the opportunity to ease those burdens. A major problem of the nature of work in America: Far too many people are unemployed or underemployed, and don’t have access to benefits like paid […] Read more » coronavirus COVID-19 Education medicaid
