School Funding
Georgia's school funding formula is broken. Courtney will fight to fix it.
The QBE formula is supposed to fund every Georgia child equally. The legislature has chronically underfunded it for years. Courtney will re-evaluate it from the ground up.
The Challenge
What District 68 families are actually facing
The Quality Basic Education formula is Georgia's primary mechanism for funding public schools. It was designed to ensure every student receives equitable funding regardless of where they live. In practice, the legislature has underfunded the QBE formula in most years since its creation. That chronic shortfall falls hardest on schools in high-need communities like those in southern Fulton County. The resource gap between northern Fulton schools and southern Fulton schools, documented and persistent, is a direct consequence of a funding formula that has never been fully honored.
Courtney's Position
Re-evaluating Georgia's QBE Formula for Better School Funding
The QBE formula is supposed to fund every Georgia child equally. The legislature has chronically underfunded it for years. Courtney will re-evaluate it from the ground up.
Support This FightLegislative Commitments
Specific actions. Not talking points.
Every item below is a specific legislative action Courtney will pursue in her first term.
- 1
Fight for full annual funding of the QBE formula without the legislative earmark cuts that reduce actual disbursements below the formula's intent.
- 2
Advocate for a comprehensive re-evaluation of the QBE formula to update the student weights, cost factors, and funding floors that were set decades ago and no longer reflect what education actually costs.
- 3
Push for a Fulton County school resource equity audit examining the documented gap between northern and southern Fulton schools with enforceable legislative follow-through.
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Support capital funding for aging school infrastructure in College Park, Union City, South Fulton, and Fairburn where facilities investment has lagged population growth.
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Fight for expanded Pre-K access and school-based mental health counselor funding as dedicated line items, not afterthoughts in the state budget.
What Courtney Says
The argument in her own words.
"The QBE formula is supposed to fund every Georgia child equally. The legislature has underfunded it for years. That is a choice. I will fight to change it."
"Re-evaluating QBE means starting from what schools actually cost today, not what politicians decided was convenient to fund decades ago."
"You cannot build the south side of a city and starve its schools. South Fulton is growing. Its schools need to grow with it."
"The funding gap between northern and southern Fulton schools is documented. It has been discussed for decades. What it has not had is a representative willing to make it the fight of their first term. I will."
"Full QBE funding is not a wish list item. It is the law's original intent. I will hold the legislature to it."
Your Community
What this solution means where you live.
The same fight shows up differently depending on where you are in District 68.
South Fulton
South Fulton has added more than 20,000 residents in a decade. Its schools have not received proportional investment under the current QBE funding structure. Courtney will fight for the formula re-evaluation and full funding that matches the city's growth.
College Park and Union City
Southern Fulton schools serving College Park and Union City students have faced chronic resource gaps compared to schools north of I-20. QBE reform with real equity enforcement is how that gap gets closed.
Fayette County
Fayette County Schools rely on QBE funding like every district in Georgia. Full QBE funding and formula reform protect Fayette County's educational outcomes by ensuring state commitments are kept.