{"id":275,"date":"2011-03-07T18:11:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T23:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2011-03-07T18:11:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T23:11:13","slug":"georgia-democrats-want-a-means-test-for-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/03\/07\/georgia-democrats-want-a-means-test-for-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia democrats want a means test for HOPE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"269\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/03\/06\/savannah-stopover-preview-7-sanders-bohlke\/window-17\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/window6-e1299440530555.jpg?fit=67%2C77\" data-orig-size=\"67,77\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D40&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1244646881&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;38&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"window\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/window6-e1299440530555.jpg?fit=67%2C77\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/window6-e1299440530555.jpg?fit=67%2C77\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/window6-e1299440530555.jpg?resize=67%2C77\" alt=\"\" title=\"window\" width=\"67\" height=\"77\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-269\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/02\/23\/some-thoughts-on-the-cuts-to-hope-scholarships\/\">written previously<\/a> about the necessary cuts to HOPE scholarships in Georgia. I thought that the Governor&#8217;s original money-saving proposal relied too heavily on cuts to Pre-K (where school days would be trimmed), but Gov. Deal has backed off on that. I also thought that we should cut the merit-based HOPE amounts for wealthier families rather than cut across-the-board cut as appears imminent for any students who do not have a 3.7 GPA in high school, do not have at least a 1200 on the SAT, and do not maintain at least a 3.5 in college.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia democrats have little power these days, but state senator Jason Carter (D-Decatur) has proposed a plan that would preserve full HOPE grants for all students from families with annual incomes of less than $140,000\/year. And, through the wonders of open records and technology, <a href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/ccc?key=0AvKEK8-LWmzhdGpnZThxTkowcU14S0xIVzJhN0pBcUE&#038;hl=en#gid=0\">here&#8217;s a spreadsheet<\/a> with data for each county in the state detailing the number of HOPE recipients who would be covered &#8212; or not &#8212; by the Democratic plan. <\/p>\n<p>About 93% of HOPE scholars from Chatham County (Savannah) are from families that make less than $140,000. As Jim Galloway with the AJC notes on his blog this afternoon, the Democratic plan would seem to benefit rural Georgia the most. Many small counties don&#8217;t have a single HOPE scholar from a family that makes $140,000\/year, while counties in suburban Atlanta have a relatively high % of them, topping out in Fayette County, where 23.7% of current HOPE scholars are from families making more than $140,000\/year. <\/p>\n<p>I doubt that Republicans in the Georgia legislature will embrace this means test, but it definitely give legislators of both parties &#8212; especially from rural counties that have the most to lose &#8212; something to think about.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written previously about the necessary cuts to HOPE scholarships in Georgia. I thought that the Governor&#8217;s original money-saving proposal relied too heavily on cuts to Pre-K (where school days would be trimmed), but Gov. Deal has backed off on&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/03\/07\/georgia-democrats-want-a-means-test-for-hope\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-georgia-budget"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-4r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}