For Georgia lawmakers to agree on a state budget, they must first agree on how much they are going to spend on a new voucher program for private schools and home schooling.

The budget decision would drastically decrease the number of available $6,500 school vouchers from more than 20,000 to less than 7,000.

The budget, which now heads to the full Senate, includes $170 million for more correctional officers and more for prisons, ...

Proposed budget cuts for the Georgia Promise Scholarship could limit financial assistance to just 7,000 students. The initial expectation was to support 22,000.

The Georgia Senate approved a $37.7 billion state budget for fiscal 2026, which now moves back to the House to iron out differences.

ATLANTA — Applications are now open for Georgia’s new school voucher program. The Georgia Promise Scholarship will give up to $6,500 a year to some families to pay for private school tuition ...

Bethesda Academy is one of 11 Savannah schools that will accept Georgia Promise vouchers for the 2025-2026 academic year ... co-sponsored a new bill to repeal the program. One of them, Representative ...

ATLANTA – The Georgia Senate passed a $37.7 billion fiscal 2026 state budget Friday that will require some compromises with the state House of Representatives on state spending, particularly on ...

ATLANTA — Fewer Georgia public school students may receive state-funded vouchers for private school ... $141 million for the scholarship program, but the House-passed budget slashed the funding ...

Georgia’s 40-year-old K-12 school funding system provides extra money to school ... The House would also cut the amount that Georgia would spend on a new voucher program to $46 million from the $141 ...

For Georgia lawmakers to agree on a state budget, they must first agree on how much they are going to spend on a new voucher program for private schools and home schooling. Georgia’s voucher ...

The voucher program would provide up to $6,500 per ... citing concerns it will "destabilize" Georgia’s public school system. "Over 90% of the children in our state attend our public schools.