Georgia officials could soon face a difficult math problem.
More than 300,000 students are likely eligible for a new voucher program , an analysis by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found. That’s more than 15 times the number of students for which the state budgeted.
The Georgia Legislature approved the “Georgia Promise Scholarship Act” earlier this year. It allows children who live in the attendance zone of a public school performing in the bottom 25% on state measures to apply for scholarships of $6,500 a year to use on education expenses, like private school tuition and tutoring.
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Funding was capped at 1% of the public education budget in Georgia. That was an estimated $140 million annually when the law was passed, or enough to provide scholarships to about 21,000 students…