Rep. Lydia Glaize, D-Ga., questioned parental control over education, suggesting that many parents are not qualified to have input in their child’s education since they did not graduate high school.
The Georgia House Education Subcommittee on Policy on Monday passed the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act by a 7 to 5 vote. It already passed the Senate 33 to 23 strictly along party lines on March 13.
The Georgia Promise Scholarship Act would establish a state-funded $6,000 promise scholarship to be used towards qualified education expenses for each participating Georgia student.
Students attending public schools in the lower quartile of academic performance statewide are eligible for the scholarship.
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Glaize addressed Senator Greg Dolezal, the sponsor of the bill, before it went up for a vote.
“I’d like to offer just some friendly advice too. As an educator, I helped start the first charter school in Fulton County, I’ve been a homeschooler and I worked in private education. The majority of our metro school districts would not be able to take advantage of this,” Glaize said at a Georgia House Education Subcommittee meeting on Monday.
Glaize added that a majority of the lower 25 percentiles in academic performance were located in the south of the state and it “did not have a high number of private schools.”
“I do know that in private schools there is a requirement on who can get into the school. I see access as a problem. I see parents being able to direct their child’s education, and they’re already in the lower 25 percentile … A lot of those parents did not finish high school,” Glaize said.
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“I am extremely concerned that we would put money in their hands and that entire piece of life in the hands of parents who are not qualified to make those…
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