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Voters support a state government that works for them

On Tuesday, Better Georgia released a snapshot of the Presidential election from a statewide poll of Georgia voters. The complete survey results, released today, show Georgia voters support progressive solutions to issues ranging from investing in public schools to expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Georgia voters continue to support efforts to save the HOPE Scholarship. The survey reveals the strongest policy support, with 73 percent approval, for a public school trust fund to

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 important reports on the state of Georgia’s public education system. The news is grim: Funding for Georgia’s schools and colleges

SURVEY: Voters oppose state control of charter schools, tougher abortion restrictions, guns on campus

Gov. Deal and the General Assembly are on the wrong side of many issues they seem to think are a priority, including state control of charter schools, concealed carry gun laws, tighter abortion restrictions, an income cap for the HOPE Scholarship and how to spend the national foreclosure settlement here in Georgia. These are the results of a survey conducted by Better Georgia March 11-14.   Download a PDF of the full survey results here: Better

War on Women arrives in Georgia

In Georgia, the War on Women is escalating, the casualties are mounting and there is no end in sight. No group was harder hit by the Great Recession and Georgia’s jobless recovery than Georgia women.  But, you’d never know it by listening to the right-wing politicians in Atlanta. Instead of focusing on job creation or saving the HOPE scholarship, Gov. Deal and the Republican-led legislature has been busy making it harder for women to access

Cecil Staton believes Atlanta students work harder than Macon students

State Senator Cecil Staton, a Macon lawmaker, took an unusual position when he argued against fixing the broken HOPE Scholarship. Staton stood in the well of the senate chamber to emphatically argue that the HOPE Scholarship and the new Zell Miller Scholarship are provided to the state’s best and brightest students — and for those students who work hardest to earn the scholarships. The problem for Staton is that an investigation conducted by the Atlanta

Zell Miller created HOPE scholarships for low, middle-income families

Today on the Senate floor, some Georgia lawmakers stood up to explain why they don’t want to save HOPE this year. They gave a lot of reasons, including their support of Gov. Deal’s 25 new scholarships in three counties called the REACH scholarship. That’s enough scholarships for some politicians, I suppose. But time and again, these lawmakers said that HOPE was created to make sure that every Georgia student who earned top grades would receive