Quality Basic Education Act; grants to eligible local units of administration for students living in poverty; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to provide for grants to eligible local units of administration for students living in poverty; to provide for definitions; to provide for the calculation of grant amounts; to provide that a minimum required portion of grant funds be used by local units of administration for direct program expenditures for the benefit of students…

Source: OpenStates · fetched January 13, 2026

• Low-income / working-classdirectModerate impactHigh certainty

  Provides grants to eligible local units of administration for students living in poverty, with a minimum required portion of funds used for direct program expenditures for their benefit.

  “so as to provide for grants to eligible local units of administration for students living in poverty”· Grants for students living in poverty

  “to provide that a minimum required portion of grant funds be used by local units of administration for direct program expenditures for the benefit of students”· Use of grant funds