While metro Atlanta's school districts will gladly receive significant funding boosts  ... billion budget will go toward educating the state's 1.7 million children, up more  than ... “At the end of Great Recession, (the DeKalb County School District) had  cut ... Spokesman Ian Smith said the money will be allocated to the general fund.
DeKalb County has cut more money from its general fund budget "than any local  government in the Atlanta metro region." — PolitiFact Georgia on Friday, March ...
A sales tax increase in DeKalb County could fund road and infrastructure repairs  ... A. The sales tax increase would raise money to repave more than 318 miles of  DeKalb's ... Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett and Rockdale — all have local option sales  taxes. ... A. Here's a look at current sales tax rates across the metro Atlanta area:.
Mar 6, 2011 ... Gainesville State and Georgia Gwinnett admit every student who meets basic  admission requirements. That means ... DeKalb County Chief Executive Officer  Burrell Ellis: DeKalb County has cut more money from its general fund budget " than any local government in the Atlanta metro region." Ellis wanted to ...
Public pensions are a rock slide crashing down on local governments,  threatening to ... The AJC studied public pension funds in Georgia for five months , finding that the ... By 2009, DeKalb was running the highest deficit of any of the  metro counties, ... pension bill already consumes more than 20 percent of the  city's budget.
DeKalb County has cut more money from its general fund budget "than any local government in the Atlanta metro region."