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Georgia Students Feel Pinch of Scholarship Cuts.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2003
By James Salzer, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 3--Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor is urging the state's Student Finance Commission to reconsider its decision to slash scholarship payments to thousands of Georgia college students.
"Budget cuts must be directed to other areas to ensure that current and future higher education students benefit from these scholarships," Taylor, the Senate's president, wrote in a letter to the commission.
Some scholarships to Georgia's top students are being cut up to 30 percent because of sluggish tax collections in the slow economy.
A spokesman for Gov.-elect Sonny Perdue said his staff is still working on his mid-year budget proposal, so he could not say whether...
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