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Senate panel OKs expanding Georgia Public Safety Memorial tuition grant to spouses and school employees
Summary
A Senate committee unanimously approved a bill to expand the Georgia Public Safety Memorial Grant to include spouses and to create a separate fund extending similar tuition benefits to teachers and other public school employees, and updated award amounts to $18,000 per year and $72,000 for four years.
A Georgia Senate committee voted unanimously to advance a bill that expands the Georgia Public Safety Memorial Grant to include spouses of covered public safety workers and establishes a separate fund to provide similar tuition benefits to teachers and other public school employees.
The measure, described at committee by Chairman Petrie, updates award amounts and broadens eligibility. "When this grant was first passed, we had a sum of $2,000," Chairman Petrie said; the draft before the committee updates the amounts to $18,000 per year and $72,000 for four years, he said. The program is managed by the Georgia Student Finance Commission (GSFC).
Why it matters: The grant program…
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