Georgia will spend more state money on private school vouchers and poor students in traditional schools under a budget that lawmakers agreed to on Friday.
House Bill 68 outlines the spending of $37.8 billion in state funds and $67.2 billion overall, once federal and other funds are included for the year beginning July 1. The Senate voted 54-1 to approve the budget, while the House voted 170-5.
The budget pumps more money into Georgia’s troubled prison system. It funds the first year of operation of a private school and homeschooling voucher system at the same time it would spend extra money on the education of students in poverty for the first time.
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