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[State] Georgia [Score] 0 [Charter Law Description] 
Georgia law provides that local and state boards must treat a start-up charter school no less favorably than other local schools with regard to funds for instruction, school administration, transportation, food services and, where feasible, building programs. The law provides that conversion charter schools must be treated no less favorably and that local and state boards must treat start-up charters no less favorably than other local schools with respect to funds for instruction, school administration, transportation, food services, and where feasible, building programs. In a national study of charter school funding (University of Arkansas, Charter School Funding: Inequity Expands, 2014), Georgia charter schools were receiving on average $7,713 per pupil in public funds, while traditional public schools would have received $11,917 for those students. As a result, the state’s charter schools were receiving $4,204 per pupil—or 35.3 percent—less than what the traditional public schools would have received for those students. This figure includes all sources of funding, and analysis reveals some significant inequities for both operational and capital funding (see Component #19 for information on capital issues).
18. Equitable Operational Funding and Equal Access to All State and Federal Categorical Funding | National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Charter Law Description