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TUCKER, ga–Georgia is considering scrapping a law that requires 65 percent of education funding is spent in public school classrooms, part of an effort to overhaul how the State funds the education K-12.
The State Commission voted Wednesday to draft a law repealing the rule was not popular, critics who said there was increasing student achievement and hamstrings cash-strapped schools. The move is part of the overall push to give 180 school districts more flexibility in how they spend funds, countries which have seen massive cuts in the past few years.
Georgia lawmakers passed the so-called solution of 65 percent in 2006 over the National encouragement to ensure school spending taxpayer dollars on a class-head office-not to help students improve performance. Georgia and Texas are the only countries to formally adopt the rules of the last decade. That’s because it has been turned upside down by lawmakers in the State of Texas.
“It certainly sounds like an excellent idea, but it is based on statistical data, have no relevance to academic performance,” said State Senate Education Committee Chairman Fran Millar, a Republican from Atlanta who sponsored the legislation that made the Law 65 percent. “At the end of the day, academic, it makes no sense.”