GEORGIA (WDEF) – $61.5 million {dollars} of Governor Kemp’s price range proposal can be devoted to revamping the Georgia HOPE Scholarship.
For the previous decade, the HOPE scholarship has solely lined round 60% of a pupil’s school tuition.
Via Kemp’s proposal, college students will obtain much more assist.
Kemp mentioned college students “will obtain roughly $1000 in extra monetary help within the coming college yr.”
Georgia Governor Zell Miller created the HOPE scholarship in 1993.
It initially lined 100% of tuition for college students.
Nonetheless, in 2011, legislators in the reduction of on the grants funding because of decrease lottery revenues, in line with the Georgia Finances and Coverage Institute.
The lower resulted in lack of full tuition protection for college students.
“That’s the reason, for the primary time in over a decade, and within the thirtieth yr of this program and the Georgia Lottery, we’re as soon as once more fulfilling Governor Zell Miller’s imaginative and prescient and returning the Hope Scholarships and grants awards to 100% of tuition,” Kemp mentioned.
In keeping with Governor Kemp’s workplace, the HOPE scholarship has helped over 2 million Georgia college students to this point.
Nonetheless, Governor Kemp’s plan is just not a eternally repair.
Until legislators revise the collection of cuts signed in 2011, funding might be lower once more sooner or later.