For the first time in recent history, the Georgia General Assembly fully funded the Quality Basic Education (QBE) funding formula and eliminated austerity cuts in its final passage of the Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19) Budget, House Bill 684.
The FY19 budget fully funds the QBE formula and eliminates austerity cuts by allocating more than $167 million to the Department of Education for additional funding in K-12 schools. The budget also includes $15 million in new spending to purchase nearly 200 new school buses and $16 million to fund school safety grants throughout the state.