Blog Budget and Taxes Daniel Kanso, PhD Education K-12 Education People Powered Prosperity Stephen Owens New GBPI/UGA Poll Shows Georgians Oppose Private School Vouchers; Support Funding Public Schools February 27, 2024 / February 28, 2024 by Daniel Kanso, PhD A new poll commissioned by the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute (GBPI) from the University of Georgia (UGA) School of Public and International Affairs Survey Research Center shows that most Georgia parents and registered state voters oppose private school vouchers. At the mid-point of the 2024 Legislative Session, the Georgia General Assembly is considering legislation […] Read more » Budget Budget & Taxes Higher Education K-12 tax breaks
Budget and Taxes K-12 Education Reports Stephen Owens Overview: 2025 Fiscal Year Budget for K-12 Education January 30, 2024 / January 31, 2024 by Stephen Owens Introduction Governor Kemp’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget proposal provides Georgia’s public schools $13.3 billion, a $1.4 billion increase above current funding. The proposal includes increases to the Quality Basic Education Program of $368 million to give teachers a cost-of-living adjustment and $242 million to assume an additional increase to the employer share […] Read more » Budget K-12 k-12 education
GBPI In The News Press State set to roll out more money to help school districts pay to bus students to school January 12, 2024 / January 16, 2024 by Lauren Frazier Every weekday morning and afternoon, a fleet of yellow buses rolls out all over the state, picking up and dropping off Georgia students. Keeping all those wheels turning isn’t cheap – Georgia’s school districts combined spend more than $1.2 billion to safely shuttle kids between school and home – and costs are only getting higher […] Read more » 2024 legislative session bonuses Budget & Taxes budget legislation Education fiscal management Fiscal Policy fiscal year 2024 GBPI Georgia K-12 K-12 schools pay raises School Buses school funding
Blog Budget and Taxes People Powered Prosperity New GBPI/UGA Poll Shows Georgians Support State Investments to Boost Health, Education, and Economic Mobility February 3, 2023 / May 12, 2023 by Lauren Frazier A new poll commissioned by the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute (GBPI) and the University of Georgia (UGA) shows that most Georgians support increased funding for people-first priorities that help every community thrive. As a nonpartisan research and policy institute, GBPI is proud to be a trusted resource for data and analysis that influences the […] Read more » Budget Budget & Taxes health Higher Education K-12 People-Powered Prosperity tax breaks
Budget and Taxes K-12 Education Reports Stephen Owens Overview: 2024 Fiscal Year Budget for K-12 Education January 31, 2023 / January 31, 2023 by Stephen Owens Gov. Kemp’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 provides Georgia’s public schools $11.9 billion, a $1.2 billion increase above current funding. The proposal includes an increase of $290 million to give teachers a cost-of-living adjustment and $846 million to assume the increases to the employer share for certified members of the State […] Read more » Budget K-12 k-12 education
K-12 Education Reports Stephen Owens Hidden Costs Exact a Toll: Results from GBPI’s 2022 School District Survey September 20, 2022 / September 20, 2022 by Stephen Owens This report was co-authored by Monica Obregon, 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 superintendent in the state to collect information on the effects of education funding on individual school districts, what improvements need […] Read more » Education K-12 poverty
K-12 Education Reports Stephen Owens Special Education Funding in Georgia August 24, 2022 / September 20, 2022 by Stephen Owens | 2 Comments on Special Education Funding in Georgia By several measures Georgia has a typical special education program, but this says less about the state and more about the inequities that our nation allows to proliferate within the education for students with disabilities. Any evaluation of the program is a practice of deciding just how different a state or nation would allow an […] Read more » Education K-12 special education
Blog K-12 Education Stephen Owens Three Ways to Fix Georgia Education Funding August 9, 2022 / August 9, 2022 by Stephen Owens Five Georgia senators will meet over the next few months to review education funding mechanisms as a part of Senate Resolution 650. The Quality Basic Education Act (QBE) determines the bulk of state funding for public schools and has undergone few changes since its enactment in 1985. What follows are three ways lawmakers can update […] Read more » Education K-12 opportunity weight pupil transportation
Budget Primer Higher Education K-12 Education Georgia Education Budget Primer for State Fiscal Year 2023 July 27, 2022 / July 26, 2022 by Stephen Owens This section is co-authored by K-12 Senior Policy Analyst Dr. Stephen Owens and Higher Education Senior Policy Analyst Jennifer Lee. Georgia’s 2023 Education Budget The state budget for K-12 public schools is $10.7 billion in FY 2023. After years of budgets with dedicated cuts to the state’s education system, lawmakers met the school funding requirement […] Read more » Education Higher Education K-12 State Budget
Blog K-12 Education Stephen Owens How to Support Georgia’s Schools Post-Roe July 26, 2022 / July 26, 2022 by Stephen Owens The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling striking down Roe v. Wade has left states to decide limits on abortion access. In 2019 Georgia lawmakers passed House Bill 481, banning most abortions once fetal cardiac activity is detected—roughly six weeks into a pregnancy. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals recently decided HB 481 can take effect. As […] Read more » Education K-12 paid leave sex education title ix
