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Sine Die: Overview of Georgia’s 2022 Fiscal Year Budget
Bolstered by billions of dollars in unprecedented support from the federal government, Georgia lawmakers enacted a state budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 (HB 81) that maintains nearly $850 million in cuts from FY 2020 levels (HB 31), a reduction equivalent to cutting approximately 4 percent of General Funds from the budget.
[1] Due in large part to $90 million in savings from the federal government’s decision to pay a higher-than-usual share of the cost of Georgia’s Medicaid program due to the COVID-19 pandemic, lawmakers were able to restore about half of the cuts made to public education since the pandemic began, with approximately $561 million in cuts from FY 2020 funding levels remaining. Members of the General Assembly also moved $22 million in funding from other state agencies and $15 million from capital projects to restore a total of about $127 million in cuts initially proposed in Gov. Kemp’s executive bud
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Bulloch Schools selling 2/3 of old JPB campus to senior-housing developer Food Bank will need to move; Cedarwood can stay Bulloch County Schools has contracted the sale of most of the old Julia P. Bryant Elementary School to W.H. Gross Construction Company of Kingsland for $400,000 plus the demolition of two buildings on the portion the school district keeps. - photo by By SCOTT BRYANT/staff
The Bulloch County Board of Education agreed Thursday night to sell roughly two-thirds of the old Julia P. Bryant Elementary School campus to W.H. Gross Construction Company of Kingsland for $400,000 plus the demolition of two buildings on the portion the school district keeps.
Forsyth County Schools plans for facility renovations following opening of new Academy for Creative Education in August Renderings of the Academies for Creative Education building. (Manley Spangler Smith Architects)
Forsyth County Schools is planning to renovate several of its facilities this year as the district prepares for the opening of its new Academy for Creative Education building in August.
The new ACE building, located near the Board of Education office on Dahlonega Highway where the district first broke ground on the project in November 2019, will house Forsyth County Schools’ three alternative learning programs: Gateway Academy, Forsyth Academy and Forsyth Virtual Academy.
Year two of Baldwin High School’s transition to a wall-to-wall career academy looks a little different than planned due to the ongoing pandemic, but school officials are doing what they