Kemp signs private school vouchers into law, a long-awaited triumph for school choice advocates

At long last, Gov. Brian Kemp has signed a controversial school voucher program into Georgia law. 

Senate Bill 233 establishes the “Georgia Promise Scholarship,” a fund to subsidize private school tuition – or costs associated with homeschooling – for families who choose to leave their local public school. 

Only families districted for schools performing in the bottom 25% would be eligible for that money – a $6,500 “voucher.”