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Perry Office
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Perry, QA 31069
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Measure would create groups to offer school funding
By GREG BLUESTEIN
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA - It’s the lat
est twist on a familiar issue.
Georgia’s Republicans
have long backed a vouch
er system that gives needy
students a chance to attend
private schools. But a pro
posal filed Monday by House
Republican leaders seeks to
soothe critics by setting up a
fund that hands out grants
to public schools as well.
The measure, sponsored
by state Rep. Earl Ehrhart,
would create a pair of new
nonprofit groups and offers
tax credits to donors who
help fund them.
The Student Scholarship
Organization would give pri
vate school scholarships to
Georgia students who suffer
from a disability or whose
household income is less
than 200 percent of the fed
eral poverty guidelines.
A second group, called the
Educational Improvement
Organization, would hand
out grant money to public
schools that offer “inno
vative programs” such as
foreign language classes
or music instruction, said
Ehrhart, R-Powder Springs.
Individuals could claim
up to a SSOO tax credit for
donating to the scholarship
group and up to a $250 tax
credit for donating to the
public school organization.
But the greater incen
tive targets corporations,
which could write off up to
75 percent of their tax bur
den. That means if a com
pany owes SIOO,OOO in state
income taxes, it could write
off a $75,000 donation to
either group.
Ehrhart, chairman of
the powerful House Rules
Committee, said he designed
the legislation as a comple
ment to a proposal already
approved by the Georgia
Senate.
The proposal, sponsored by
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the top Republican senator,
would give parents of rough
ly 186,000 special education
students in Georgia’s public
schools the chance to apply
for funds they could use for
private school tuition.
Education groups say they
are reluctant to support
Ehrhart’s proposal because
it could lead to legal chal
lenges.
A similar program
in Florida, called the
Opportunity Scholarship,
was struck down by the
Florida Supreme Court last
year, and a system in Arizona
faces legal scrutiny.
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Minneapolis 13 0 pt sunny
New York 23 14 windy
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stitutional waters. That
might be more of a problem
than a blessing,” said Tim
Callahan, spokesman for the
Professional Association of
Georgia Educators, a group
of 69,000 teachers.
He said Republicans are
trying to earn support by
cloaking their push for school
vouchers as an effort to help
the neediest students.
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Phoenix 70 46 sunny
San Francisco 64 45 pt sunny
Seattle 52 44 rain
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vouchers for left-handed
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taged living in a right-hand
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OBfTUARIES
CALLIE LOWELL SHIPES BEMBRY
WARNER ROBINS - Callie Lowell Shipes Bembry died
Sunday, February 11, 2007 in a local hospital. Funeral
Services were held Tuesday, February 13 at Sandy Valley
"Baptist Church on Houston Lake Road in Warner Robins,
Georgia. Graveside services followed at Walnut Cemetery
in Unadilla, Georgia.
Mrs. Bembry was born in Dodge County, the daughter
of Mary Giddens and Joseph Calhoun Shipes. She was
deeply loved and honored by her children and family. She
had a heart of gold and a very spirited nature and attitude
toward life. She was a member of Sandy Valley Baptist
Church. In addition to her parents, Mrs. Bembry was pre
ceded in death by her husband, John Allen Bembry; son,
Robert Bembry; sisters, Mary Lou Griffith, Virginia Gray
and Geneva McDonald; brothers, Van Shipes, Porter Shipes
and Franklin Shipes; granddaughters, Charlene Langston
Campbell and Diane Bembry.
She is survived by her son, Thomas Bembry and his wife,
Barbara of Austin, Texas; daughters, Jean Lovik and her
husband, Larry, of Montgomery, Ala.; Martha Michaud of
Gray, Georgia; Sarah Mehaffey and her husband, David,
Warner Robins, Georgia; and Virginia Miller, of Dover,
Fla.; daughter-in-law, Norma Bembry, of Gordon, Georgia;
brother, Charles Shipes, of Haynesville, Georgia; sister-in
law, Nell Shipes, Haynesville, Georgia; 20 grandchildren and
several great grandchildren, several nieces and nephews,
and special friends, Jim Watford, of Cochran, Georgia; and
Linda and John Carnes, of Warner Robins, Georgia,
The family may be contacted at 222 Shirley Drive, Warner
Robins, 31088. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made
to the Alzheimer’s Association, 272 Martin Luther King, Jr.
Blvd. Ste. 201 Macon, GA 31201.
Go to www.mcculloughfh.com to sign the Online Registry
for the family. McCullough Funeral Home has charge of
arrangements.
DOROTHY BRAS SELL
PERRY - Dorothy Brassell, 80, died Sunday. Services
will be private. Watson-Hunt Funeral Home of Perry is in
charge of the arrangements. Survivors include her children,
Genice Fones of Tucson, Ariz., and Beverly White of Perry.
Please sign the online register at watsonhunt.com.
SIGRID M. DAVIS
BONAIRE - Sigrid Margarete Davis, 65, passed away
Sunday. Survivors include her husband, Edward P Davis,
Bonaire; two brothers, Rolf Vitovec and Wolfgang Heinz, both
of Plauen, Germany and a niece. Visitation will be Thursday
from 6-8 p.m. at McCullough Funeral Home. Services
will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the chapel of McCullough
Funeral Home with entombment following in Magnolia
Park Mausoleum.
Proposal: Require OK to rate hikes
ATLANTA (AP) - House
Republicans introduced
a measure Monday that
requires Georgia’s top insur
ance official to sign off on
each medical malpractice
rate hike, saying they’re
unconvinced that new state
laws aimed at suppressing
medical malpractice are
working.
The proposal would
require Georgia’s Insurance
Commissioner to approve
or reject each rate increase
request submitted by a
medical malpractice insur
er. It also calls for a public
hearing when the insurer
requests a hike of more than
10 percent. It amounts to
a significant change of cur
rent law, which allows insur
ers to adopt a higher rate
before the commissioner has
reviewed the request.
An Associated Press analy
sis of state insurance records
last year revealed six of the
state’s top insurers of doctors
and dentists have increased
their liability rates - in some
cases by more than a third
- since new restrictions on
malpractice cases became
law in February 2005.
Supporters of Mumford’s
measure point to California
as an example of how the
slight change could ultimate
ly decrease medical malprac
tice rates. Three years after
the state approved a similar
measure, the malpractice
premiums declined by 3 per
cent, according to Georgia
Watch, a consumer advocacy
group.
Insurance Commissioner
John Oxendine could not
immediately be reached for
comment.
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