ATLANTA - Gov. Nathan Deal and legislative leaders have agreed on a plan to rescue Georgia's cash-strapped HOPE scholarship that would cap the awards so they no longer rise as tuition does, effectively ending a 20-year-old audacious promise: free public college tuition to any student who earned a B average or better. Deal plans to announce the plan on Tuesday, Senate President Pro Tempore Tommie Williams told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Plan to rescue HOPE OK'd by Deal
Funding for remedial classes, pre-K programs to suffer cuts