Art. VIII, Sec. VII, Para. I. Educational assistance programs authorized.

Constitutional amendment (Ga. L. 1990, p. 2433, § 1) which added subparagraph (c) was approved by a majority of the qualified voters voting at the general election held on November 6, 1990.

Free attendance at state universities for citizens age 62 and older, § 20-3-31.1. Programs for scholarships, loans, and grants for postsecondary education, § 20-3-230 et seq. Tuition equalization grants for persons attending private colleges and universities, § 20-3-410 et seq. Board of Regents’ medical scholarship program, § 20-3-510.

1976 Constitution.

Art. VIII, Sec. IV, Para. III; Art. X, Sec. II, Paras. I, II, VI-VIII, X, XI, XIII-XV.

Fiscal resources of Georgia Agricul-Constitutional prohibition on grathe General Assembly has first approzens of Georgia.

Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation is authorized to establish and administer a program of guaranteed educational loans to eligible parents, but guarantee of and payment of interest on loans to parents who are not Georgia citizens must be by private, not state appropriated, funds. 1980 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 80-153. tively be considered beyond the scope of the ordinary training agencies may provide employees in state government, although, in certain narrow circumstances, agencies may train employees in college courses which provide job-specific instruction. 1998 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 98-16. A state department or agency may implement a doctoral-level training program for employees, provided that it does so using regularly appropriated funds to obtain federal matching funds. 1973 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 73-154. gram prerequisite to grants to

College courses should presump-Federal education assistance proboard’s employees.

This paragraph would not authorize legislation, let alone board of education regulations, which would permit grants to the state board’s employees independently of a federal education assistance program. 1963-65 Op. Att’y Gen. p. 758 (see Ga. Const. 1983,Art. VIII, Sec. VII, Para. I).

Delinquent state teachers’ scholarships.

Constitutional provisions require that any money which is collected by the State Board of Education from delinquent state teachers’ scholarships must be paid into the general fund of the state treasury and cannot be used in making future scholarship commitments by the State Board of Education. 1971 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 71-126.

Grants to extant teachers prohibited.

The phrase ‘‘interested in becoming teachers’’ would not be construed by the courts as authorizing grants to persons who already are teachers. 1963-65 Op. Att’y Gen. p. 758 (decided under Ga. Const. 1945, Art. VII, Sec. I, Para. II). Funds used to pay scholarships may be paid directly to colleges where students are attending; the board of education has authority to prescribe the terms and the conditions of the scholarships granted and this is an entirely reasonable and proper regulation to require for the receipt of scholarship aid. 1958-59 Op. Att’y Gen. p. 142. Condition for Board of Regents’

scholarships.

Current statutory law relating to Board of Regents’ ‘‘scholarships’’ requires that the award of such scholarships continue to be conditioned upon the current ‘‘service of Georgia’’ requirement. 1986 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 86-25. Compliance with Fair and Open

Grants Act in administering scholarships.

It was not the intent of the General Assembly that the Georgia Student Finance Commission comply with the Fair and Open Grants Act, O.C.G.A. § 28-5-120 et seq., in administering the HOPE Scholarship, Hope Grant, and other state scholarship and grant programs. 2002 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 2002-2.

ALR.

Student’s right to compel school officials to issue degree, diploma, or the like, 11 ALR4th 1182. Validity of, and sufficiency of compliance with, state standards for approval of private school to receive public placements of students or reimbursement for their educational costs, 48 ALR4th 1231. Validity of public school funding systems, 110 ALR5th 293.