Education: Fully Funded, Cradle-to-Career

The problem: Georgia's public schools are underfunded, and it shows. Classrooms are overcrowded, teachers are underpaid, and families are left covering the gap out of pocket for basics like school lunches and supplies. That underfunding doesn't start in kindergarten and it doesn't end at graduation. Georgia's pre-K program, once a national model, no longer has room for every 4-year-old whose parents want a spot, leaving families to pay out of pocket for childcare they were promised would be free. And on the other end, the HOPE Scholarship and technical college funding that are supposed to keep a Georgia education affordable have been squeezed for years, leaving students and families to make up the difference. Sara Fuchs believes no child's education, from their first classroom to their diploma, should depend on how much their parents can afford to chip in.

What Sara will do about it:

  • Fight to fully fund K-12 public education so no classroom goes without.

  • Raise teacher pay so Georgia stops losing good teachers to other states.

  • Guarantee school lunches and basic supplies for every kid, no exceptions.

  • Push to close the gap in Georgia's pre-K program so every family that wants a spot for their 4-year-old actually gets one, instead of sitting on a waitlist.

  • Protect and strengthen the HOPE Scholarship and lottery-funded technical college programs so they keep pace with rising tuition, rather than quietly covering less each year.

  • Support affordable pathways into Georgia's technical colleges and university system, so a Georgia diploma doesn't come with a lifetime of debt attached.

Why it matters to her: Sara Fuchs has spent years inside her children's schools, not just as a parent but as a PTA president and Title 1 school board member. She has run the clothing closets and food pantries that exist because the state hasn't done its part, and she's watched firsthand how a lack of affordable pre-K forces parents to choose between a paycheck and childcare. As a mom of two middle schoolers in Roswell who is thinking ahead to college costs herself, Sara believes Georgia can and should do better by its kids at every stage, from their first classroom through whatever comes after high school, and she's running to make sure the state finally shows up the way families like hers have had to.