New program to provide emergency funding to rural hospitals
ATLANTA - A nonprofit health-care organization announced plans Wednesday to help financially struggling rural hospitals in Georgia in danger of closing. Ohio-based CareSource will contribute $5 million in emergency funding to hospitals and hospital-owned nursing homes...
Raffensperger: No time to take QR codes off Georgia ballots this year
ATLANTA - There isn't time to remove QR codes from paper ballots in Georgia, as Republican legislative leaders have proposed, before this year's elections, GOP Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Wednesday. "I would support moving to human-readable text,"...
GEORGIA MATCH direct college admissions program seeing positive results
ATLANTA - The University System of Georgia's new direct admissions program is off to a strong start, despite not getting off the ground until well after classes began last fall, system Chancellor Sonny Perdue said Wednesday. Nearly 12,000 high school seniors had...
State hires Marietta literacy coach to lead statewide initiative
ATLANTA - State School Superintendent Richard Woods has appointed a literacy coaching expert in the Marietta city school system to develop and lead a statewide literacy coaching model in Georgia. As structured literacy coaching coordinator, J. Nicholas Philmon will...
Raffensperger takes aim at ‘double’ voters
ATLANTA - Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is referring the cases of 17 Georgians suspected of having voted twice in 2022 to district attorneys in nine counties where those voters live. These voters are suspected of voting once in Georgia in the November...
Georgia lawmakers want smaller pre-k classes, more teacher pay
ATLANTA - An ad hoc committee of Georgia House lawmakers is recommending smaller class sizes, higher teacher pay, and more money for operating and capital costs to beef up the state's pre-kindergarten program. With few changes in state support to the lottery-funded...
Kemp pitching Georgia at World Economic Forum
ATLANTA - Gov. Brian Kemp is talking up Georgia to foreign business and political big wigs for the second January in a row. Kemp is spending the week in Switzerland attending the World Economic Forum, meeting business executives and political leaders and taking part...
Kemp urges lawmakers to stay cautious with state spending
ATLANTA - Gov. Brian Kemp and the General Assembly's budget writers vowed Tuesday to continue a cautious approach toward spending, despite the huge surplus the state has built up during the last several years. Kemp kicked off three days of legislative hearings on the...