YOUR SCHOOLS

Education, HOPE & DREAMS Scholarships, and

College Completion Grant

As Chairman of the House Higher Education Committee, Chuck is Georgia’s leading voice for keeping college affordable and accessible. He has worked to protect and strengthen the HOPE and Zell Miller Scholarships, authored the DREAMS Scholarship (Georgia’s first-ever statewide need-based college aid program), which he carried into law through SB 556 on the House floor, and sponsored the College Completion Grant program (HB 1435, 2022) to help students close the final funding gap standing between them and a degree.

Chuck’s commitment to education starts early. He’s supported continued, increasing investment in early childhood education, expanding access to Georgia’s Pre-K program year after year, and backed this year’s statewide literacy overhaul to put trained reading coaches in classrooms across Georgia. As a Speaker-appointed member of the Georgia Council on Literacy, Chuck has been part of the work building toward that result from the start.

Education isn’t abstract for Chuck. A product of Fulton County Schools himself, his wife Johnna spent 17 years as a teacher’s assistant in local schools, giving the family a firsthand view of what students and teachers actually need to succeed.