By Shannon McCaffrey
The Associated Press
The Athens Banner-Herald
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
ATLANTA - First- and second-graders in Georgia no longer would have to take standardized tests under a $17.8 billion budget that cleared a key House panel Tuesday.
Those tests - along with free PSAT and Advanced Placement tests - were scrapped to save money in the House budget blueprint.
Approved by a 61-8 vote of the House Appropriations Committee, the budget plan also would eliminate more that $1 million in state funding for sports and music halls of fame in Macon. And it would wipe out the Georgia Council for the Arts and the Office of Homeland Security in the governor's office.
State employee layoffs are sprinkled throughout the spending plan, although a precise total wasn't available Tuesday. Budget writers said some state agencies scrambling to cut costs might again need to force staff to take unpaid furlough days to balance their books.
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