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Nathan Deal’s 10 biggest education failures

Nathan Deal is an abomination for Georgia schools. He’s devastated public education with billions in budget cuts and gutted the HOPE scholarship.  Here are Nathan Deal’s 10 biggest education failures: 1. Nathan Deal has cut $4.1 billion from public education since 2011.   2. As a result, there are 9,000 fewer teachers in classrooms.   3. Last year, 71% of Georgia school districts reduced the number of days kids were in school.   4. Some

Nathan Deal is struggling for re-election. Here’s why.

Clarity. With every candidate for Georgia’s top offices onstage at the Georgia National Fair this week, it’s clear to see why Nathan Deal is the odd man out. Veteran AJC political reporter Jim Galloway participated in the debate and wrote about why Gov. Nathan Deal’s rhetoric is off key: “And suddenly, the reason behind Gov. Nathan Deal’s current struggle for re-election became self-evident.” Every candidate for U.S. Senate and every candidate for Georgia Governor knows

Education

Gov. Deal: Where’s the HOPE?

Election year pandering is nothing new for many politicians, but Gov. Deal might be the king of it. Just three years after gutting the HOPE scholarship–the ticket to higher education for thousands of Georgia’s college students–Gov. Deal is pitching a brand new program to encourage adults to head back to the classroom. Deal’s hoping that on your way back to the classroom this fall, you’ll stop at your polling location and vote for him. According

The real story on how Nathan Deal broke the HOPE scholarship

Back in 2010, the HOPE scholarship covered 100% of a student’s tuition and fees. The 256,380 students that could finally afford to go to college were like: Their parents were even happier. But then Nathan Deal got elected to office. And in his first year in office, Gov. Deal hacked away at the HOPE budget. Now, HOPE only covers around 60% of a typical student’s tuition and fees. Adding insult to injury, Nathan Deal called

Chip Rogers

Nathan Deal’s failures and scandals

GOV. DEAL’S SCANDALS Gov. Deal is up to his eyes in scandals as he asks for your vote. Here are just a few: Gainesville Salvage – When Nathan Deal was in Congress, the Congressional Ethics committee launched an investigation into his shady business practices. Congress determined that Deal had improperly used the power of his public office to secure business contracts from the state of Georgia for his private business, Gainesville Salvage. (Download the 152-page

Education

Nathan Deal’s “Gift” to Georgia’s Students: Huge Cuts to HOPE Scholarship

In 2011, mere months after he was elected, Gov. Deal announced he was giving “a gift to future generations of Georgia’s outstanding students”: he was about to slash the budget for the HOPE scholarship just as many low-income families needed help the most. Since those cuts, the number of HOPE recipients has fallen from 256,000 students in 2010-11 to fewer than 160,000 students this year. In addition, while the scholarship used to cover the full