State to Pay for Many to Switch to Private or Home Schools

This fall, thousands of Georgia students will attend a private school or study at home, and state government will help them pay for it.
Parents of students who attend Marion County Middle-High School, Stewart County Elementary School, Stewart County High School, Webster County Elementary, and Webster County Middle School are eligible.
Republican lawmakers led a push last year to give families $6,500 a year per student toward private education. The new state-funded "Promise Scholarship" program only requires that students live in the attendance zone of a public school performing in the bottom 25% statewide. The student either must have attended it for a year or be a rising kindergartner.
As of Monday, June 16, nearly 13,000 had applied for a scholarship and...