Georgia's $32.4 billion budget bolsters HOPE scholarship

WUGA | By Jeff Dantre

Published March 22, 2023 at 7:16 AM EDT

Georgia Senate budget writers approved a $32.4 billion fiscal 2024 state budget that restores the full funding of HOPE scholarships the governor recommended in January.

The state House of Representatives reduced HOPE funding in the version of the budget it adopted two weeks ago from 100% of tuition coverage to 95% for all but the highest achieving HOPE scholars, those with high school grade-point averages of 3.5 or better.

The budget heads next to the Senate Rules Committee to schedule a vote of the full Senate…and if passed will have to be reconciled between the two chambers.

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Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.

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