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Georgia’s lost decade: Budget cuts kill public schools, colleges

Over the past decade, Georgia lawmakers decided that paying for adequate public schools and colleges simply isn’t a priority. Who needs good schools anyway? Yesterday, we published a look at Georgia’s K-12 funding from Joe Martin. (The damage being done to public education in Georgia). And then the Georgia Budget & Policy Institute released two more »

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The damage being done to public education in Georgia

The state of Georgia is undermining our public schools. This may seem like an exaggeration, but the facts are clear. So, what really happened during the last session of the General Assembly? The most heated issue was a fight over who gets to authorize charter schools, but this is still a distraction from the larger more »