![]() ![]() ![]() Greg Dolezal (R-Cumming) called it a “money follows the child” bill in the House Education subcommittee meeting last week.ĭolezal quoted a study from the Georgia Public Policy Foundation in 2019 by Jeffrey Dorfman, a UGA economics professor and state fiscal economist. “Sending public money to private schools for the few children who would be accepted able to physically get to the school pay the remainder of tuition does nothing to help most kids in struggling schools,” she wrote.īill sponsor state Sen. The Cobb County School District included opposition to bills that divert funds from public education in its list of 2023 legislative priorities.Ĭobb school board member Becky Sayler called the bill “an unserious solution to a serious problem” on Twitter. Senate Bill 233, currently stalled in the Georgia House of Representatives, could expand the school voucher program by allowing students who attend schools ranked in the lowest 25% to receive $6,500 to attend private schools, online classes, or homeschools by creating third-party promise scholarship accounts (PSA). In the same time period, public school enrollment climbed 7.1%. In 2008, 4.3% of the state’s GDP was allocated to PK-12 education. During the same period, Georgia decreased per-pupil funding for public education by 1.9%. In 2009, Georgia’s total spending was just over $11 million. In 2008, the legislature created the Qualified Education Expense Tax Credit Program.Īccording to the study, Georgia’s two programs served approximately 21,000 students in 2019, about 1.2% of the state’s PK-12 students. Georgia has operated the Special Needs Scholarship Program since 2007. ![]()
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