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Georgia student loan program discontinued after high default rate
Considered a loan of last resort, the program acted as Georgia’s primary form of need-based aid and was available to students who had exhausted all other financial aid options
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Efforts continue to help Apalachee High School after shooting as case moves forward
Monday’s deadly shooting at a private Christian school in Wisconsin comes just three months after a shooting in Georgia killed two students and two teachers.
Rocky rollout of Georgia private school vouchers is just beginning of challenges
The broken promise within the Georgia Promise Scholarship is that these new private school vouchers help children. They don’t. They help politicians.
A math problem? Thousands of Georgia students eligible for limited number of Promise vouchers
The number of students in Georgia who are likely eligible for the new school voucher program is more than 15 times the number of students the state budgeted for.
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Georgia senators lay groundwork to ban trans athletes from playing girls sports
A Georgia Senate panel meeting Friday backs requiring student-athletes in public school to join teams according to the gender listed on their birth certificate.
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One thing Luigi Mangione got right
Opinion: Nothing can excuse Luigi Mangione’s alleged crime. But we shouldn’t let his terrible wrong blind us to what he got right.
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Atlanta school board to appoint new member to fill Collins’ seat
Interested applicants for a vacant seat on the Atlanta school board have a tight deadline. The application deadline is 5 p.m. on Dec. 20.
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Herschel Walker strikes Heisman pose during his UGA convocation ceremony
Georgia football legend Herschel Walker, who won the Heisman in 1982, receives his undergraduate diploma in Athens this week, more than 40 years later.
Burt Jones: Georgia workers need access to affordable and quality child care
Opinion: We must address an issue we can all agree on — the need to grow Georgia’s pool of teachers and child care workers.