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HOPE Career Grants: Realizing the Full Potential of Targeted Workforce Investments

Jennifer Lee August 8, 2018

HOPE Career Grant Programs, Fall 2017 Automotive Technology Aviation Technology Certified Engineer Assistant Commercial Truck Driving Computer Programming Computer Technology Construction Technology Diesel Equipment Technology Early Childhood Care and Education Electrical Lineman Technology Health Science Industrial Maintenance Logistics/Transportation Technology Movie

New GBPI poll shows strong support for new taxes to boost education, families, health

GBPI Admin August 1, 2018

A new poll commissioned by the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute shows a majority of those polled support programs and additional taxes in order to improve the state’s public schools, train workers, provide child care for working families, and expand

Georgia Higher Education Budget Primer for State Fiscal Year 2019

Jennifer Lee July 1, 2018

Higher Education Budget Overview The higher education budget in Georgia is $2.4 billion for the university system and $369 million for technical colleges. The 2019 budget includes about $142 million of state general funds allotted for scholarship, loan and grant

Georgia to mark 25 years of lottery, HOPE grants

GBPI Admin June 21, 2018

State leaders are scheduled Wednesday to celebrate the 25th anniversary of one of the most important decisions by voters and government in recent history: the start of the Georgia Lottery, which funds the HOPE Scholarship and its pre-kindergarten program. Read

Tuition stable at GA colleges, but living costs going up

GBPI Admin May 5, 2018

Many Georgia college students got some good news when the state’s Board of Regents voted at its April meeting to not raise tuition next school year — but that doesn’t mean students won’t be paying more to go to school this fall. The

Helping Students Navigate Financial Aid Forms Offers Georgia Big Return

Jennifer Lee April 30, 2018

Janai Raphael’s job as a college advisor at Maynard Jackson High School in Atlanta often means she plays the role of translator. “The terminology is a challenge. Pell grants, scholarships, subsidized loans, unsubsidized loans. I walk through what each type

Lawmakers Pass Need-Based Aid Bill, What’s Next?

Jennifer Lee April 10, 2018

On the last day of Georgia’s 2018 legislative session, the Senate passed a bill that aims to help more students go to college and complete their degrees. The bill creates a need-based aid program for university system students in Georgia,

Bill aims to help more low-income Georgians pay for college

GBPI Admin April 1, 2018

Georgia lawmakers passed legislation in the final hours before they left the state Capitol for good this session that many say marks the state’s most expansive effort to help low-income public college students earn their degrees. Read the full article

Sine Die 2018: Education Gets its Due

Wesley Tharpe March 29, 2018

A fully funded K-12 education formula. Hasty and sweeping tax changes. Georgia’s first foray into need-based financial aid for college students. A harmful anti-immigrant measure left on the cutting room floor. Georgia lawmakers left those legacies from the just-ended 2018

Legislative Watch Day 39: State Budget, Education Vouchers and More

John McCosh March 27, 2018

As the 2018 General Assembly nears the closing gavel, Georgia lawmakers are trying to find a path to use public dollars to boost private schools, provide need-based aid for college students and impose rules that target immigrants in counterproductive ways.

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