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News Articles: school choice

A private school student works on a lesson at St. Luke's Lutheran School in Oviedo, Fla.

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  • Education

What to know about a federal proposal to help families pay for private school

Republicans want to use the federal tax code to create a national school voucher even in states where voters have fought such efforts.

May 14, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
Chloe Kienzle of Arlington, Va., holds a sign as she stands outside the U.S. Department of Education, in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday – the day after the Trump administration announced widespread job cuts at the agency.

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  • Education

What parents, teachers and school choice groups think of Education Department cuts

Teacher unions and some parent groups condemned the cuts, while school choice advocates celebrated them.

March 12, 2025
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By:
  • Nicole Cohen
Rep. Bobby Scott of Virginia began a recent hearing of the House education committee by addressing the "elephant in the room" — President Trump's efforts to diminish, and eventually dissolve, the U.S. Education Department.

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  • Education

U.S. education policy is at a crossroads. This congressional hearing shows why

The House education committee is charged with forging consensus on the nation's education policy. But at a recent meeting, partisan differences were on full display.

February 08, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
President Trump at a campaign event in Milwaukee on Oct. 1.

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  • Education

Trump orders Education, Labor and other departments to enhance school choice

The president directed several departments to submit plans for using federal funds to expand school choice.

January 29, 2025
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By:
  • Jonaki Mehta
A memorial is seen at Apalachee High School after the Wednesday school shooting, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, in Winder, Ga.

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  • News

Top 10 stories that shaped Georgia politics and policy in 2024, a swing state year for the ages

All aboard ye ol’ time machine as we take stock of the year’s biggest stories in Georgia politics.

December 27, 2024
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By:
  • Jill Nolin
Tashiya Umoja M'kanga, of Atlanta, right, instructs students during a math lesson at the Kilombo Academic and Cultural Institute, March 28, 2023, in Decatur, Ga.

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  • News

Georgia makes many more students than expected eligible for school vouchers

Hundreds of thousands of students in Georgia will be eligible for $6,500 vouchers to pay for private school tuition or home-schooling expenses. That number is far more than many legislators expected.

December 11, 2024
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By:
  • Associated Press
Adult Lone star ticks on a flag. Credit: Steph Bellman

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  • News

GPB Morning Headlines for April 24, 2024

Governor Brian Kemp signed a controversial school choice bill into law on Tuesday.

Savannah is getting 30-million-dollars to address flooding issues.

Emory University researchers have created a map that shows where lone star ticks are in Georgia.

April 24, 2024
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By:
  • GPB News Radio
Tate Rivera is photographed at his home in Roswell, Ga., Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. Kelli Rivera is hoping a voucher bill passes that will help pay for her to move her son out of a public Cobb County school and into a private school.

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  • News

Some Georgia Republicans who sank an education voucher bill in 2023 aren't changing their minds

An education voucher bill lost in Georgia's state House in 2023 because 16 Republicans voted against it. Supporters have spent months lobbying to reverse enough votes to win the proposal's passage. But as Georgia lawmakers return Monday, some GOP naysayers haven't budged.

January 05, 2024
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By:
  • Associated Press
Books sit on shelves in an elementary school library in suburban Atlanta on Friday, 18, 2023. Although not new, book challenges have surged in public schools since 2020, part of a broader backlash to what kids read and discuss in school.

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  • Education

Georgia made it easier for parents to challenge school library books. Almost no one has done so

Georgia Republican lawmakers passed a law to make it easier to challenge school library books as inappropriate, but few people are using it.

August 21, 2023
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By:
  • Associated Press
Gambling

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Sine Die deadline looms; Gov. Kemp supports vouchers; Nashville school shooting

Tuesday on Political Rewind: As Sine Die looms over the Dome, legislators scramble to pass several high-profile bills. Gov. Brian Kemp supported a school choice measure that critics say would rob public schools of much-needed funds. Sports betting and expanded hate crime bills also saw a second life. We also discuss a tragic school shooting in Nashville. 

March 28, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns (R - Newington) speaks at the Georgia State Capitol on March 6, 2023 (GPB News / Sarah Kallis)

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: What's still standing after Crossover Day; Dozens charged with domestic terror

Tuesday on Political Rewind: We now know the winners and losers from Crossover Day. Sports betting falls short, but our panel breaks down what remains.

Some two dozen people were charged with domestic terrorism in response to violence at the planned police training facility. 

March 07, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Nigut and
  • Chase McGee
GA high school students improved this year on end-of-course tests (photo courtesy of igoghost via stockxchng)

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  • Politics

Georgia Senate panel takes latest shot at passing school voucher bill opposed by public educators

A new school voucher bill passed out of a Senate committee Tuesday and could be headed for a full Senate vote.

March 01, 2023
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By:
  • Ross Williams

Tagged as: 

  • Politics

Republicans introduce increase in tax credits for private school scholarships into General Assembly

Georgia House Republicans are backing legislation that would increase the statewide cap on income tax credits offered to donors to a fund that provides private school scholarships.

January 25, 2023
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By:
  • Dave Williams
Butch Miller

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  • Education

School voucher push gets shoved down with muscle from state GOP lawmakers

 

The Georgia Senate delivered a blow to the school choice movement Tuesday, voting down a bill that would have diverted $6,000 from state money for public schools to allow parents to send their children to private school.

March 16, 2022
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By:
  • Ross Williams
Rep. Wes Cantrell testifies to the House Education Committee about his school voucher bills.

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  • Education

House bills to create state-funded school vouchers advance, draw criticism

Two bills authored by Woodstock Republican state Rep. Wes Cantrell aimed at giving families a choice of where to send their children to school moved forward in House committees Tuesday, including one that could make taxpayer-funded school vouchers available to all Georgia students.

February 02, 2022
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By:
  • Ross Williams
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