The Atlanta Journal-Constitution takes a look at two major education bills currently making their way through Georgia's legislature: Senate Bill 233, which would create Promise Scholarships for students trapped in some of the state's worst schools; and House Bill 1339, which would tweak some aspects of the state's certificate of need laws.
The bills are "albeit incrementally" different, Kyle Wingfield writes at the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, "so it was fitting that a pair of bills to address these issuesalbeit incrementallywere debated simultaneously under the Gold Dome this past week."
What they're arguing about: school choice and certificate of need.
"In any debate over these topics, it won't take long for opponents to claim that school choice will 'destroy our public schools,' while CON reform will 'put our rural hospitals out of business,'" Wingfield writes.
"Never mind that we have ample experience with bothin a limited way in our state, and in much broader ways in other statesand nowhere have such fears come to pass.
Competition and innovation are good.
Schools and hospitals are often the largest employers in their communities, particularly in rural areas.
Allowing more over here means less over there."
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