School cuts not all equal - James Salzer, Atlanta Journal Constitution

With Gov. Sonny Perdue’s backing, lawmakers nixed funding for the Promise teacher scholarship and HOPE teacher scholarship programs, first started by then-Gov. Zell Miller in the 1990s. Thousands of students and teachers have benefitted from the scholarships, but many of them had no idea the state was even considering killing the program. Meanwhile, lawmakers during the 2010 session ignored other Perdue budget recommendations and preserved an engineering scholarship for private Mercer University and saved grants to all private college students. Legislators also increased awards to private college students who earn the HOPE scholarship.