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State Government - Lottery for Education
Full text linkThe Act primarily functions to combat the illegal use of cash payouts for coin- operated amusement machines (COAM). The Act codifies Governor Brian Kemp’s (R) prior executive order that created a pilot program for the redemption of noncash gift cards into law. In addition, the Act brings the Georgia Lottery Corporation’s COAM division under the Georgia Administrative Procedure Act to provide greater certainty for COAM operators in the State of Georgia
Education - Education Savings
Full text linkThe Act permits some current students or prospective kindergarteners attending a public school ranked in the bottom 25% by the Georgia Department of Education to apply for a $6,500 grant toward qualified education expenses, including some homeschooling expenses and private school tuition. These grants will only be made available when the state’s obligations under the Quality Basic Education (QBE) Act are fully funded. The Act establishes a Georgia Education Savings Authority (GESA) under the Georgia Student Finance Commission to administer the program. It provides for a parent review committee to review education expenses and certain decisions by the GESA. The State Board of Education must provide a procedure whereby a student may transfer to any other public school system willing to receive the student, and the receiving school system may only charge tuition equivalent to the system’s local revenue per student. The Act reweights the QBE Formula and expands the available tax credit for qualified donations to nonprofit education providers
SB 1 - Elementary, Secondary, and Postsecondary Education
No full textThe Act establishes statewide requirements for student participation in athletic teams based on biological sex as recorded on a student’s original birth certificate. It requires all public schools, and any private schools that compete against them, to designate school-sponsored athletic teams as male, female, or coeducational. Teams designated for females are restricted to students whose biological sex is assigned female at birth while teams designated for males are restricted to students whose biological sex is assigned male at birth, unless a corresponding team for females is not offered. The Act directs the state athletic association to develop rules to enforce compliance and allows schools and individuals to bring legal action against schools, school systems, participating private schools, postsecondary institutions, their governing bodies or athletic associations if they suffer harm from violations. It also grants immunity from liability to schools that adhere to the Act’s requirements
“Prefoulement” is Still Refoulment
No full textThe US State Department has canceled scheduled travel to the United States for thousands of refugees in violation of US and international law
Biogas Subsidies and the Increase in Consolidation on Industrial Hog Operations
Full text linkIndustrial agriculture corporations operate with one goal: maximizing profits. In the name of this single objective, pig facilities fill warehouses with thousands of animals, where the costs of housing and feeding the animals can be kept as low as possible. An oft- unconsidered consequence of packing animals into warehouses is the sheer amount of waste created. Each pig creates about thirty times as much waste as a human, but industrial agriculture facilities do not have sewer systems for managing the thousands of gallons of waste produced every day. Instead, large facilities typically store their raw sewage in open air vats the size of an Olympic swimming pool. This method of waste storage produces huge amounts of greenhouse gases and poses a significant threat to the health of workers and people living near the industrial facilities. In recent years, large farms have started implementing anaerobic digester systems to store the animal waste. In these systems, organic matter is broken down to create energy, which facilities can profit from through government subsidies and through various “cap and trade” programs. Though the industry advertises this energy as a green or renewable energy source, this article explores why “biogas” is not a viable solution to the problem of industrial agriculture waste, and why taxpayer dollars should not be spent on the biogas industry