Georgia Senate Kills School-Choice Bill

Georgia Senate Kills School-Choice Bill
The Georgia Capitol building in Atlanta on Jan. 17, 2021. Megan Varner/Getty Images
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The Georgia Senate has killed a bill that would have allowed Georgians to put taxpayer money toward the cost of private school tuition.

Senate Bill 601, the Georgia Educational Freedom Act, would have created state-funded Promise Scholarships of up to $6,000 a year. Families of the roughly 1.7 million K-12 students in Georgia could use the money for private school tuition and other education expenses, such as tutoring and homeschool curriculum.

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