{"623618":{"#nid":"623618","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Sandy Springs City School District Would Be Financially Feasible, Study Says","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA study co-authored by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/ries\u0022\u003EChristine Ries,\u003C\/a\u003E a professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Economics, was recently quoted in an\u0026nbsp;article entitled \u0026ldquo;Sandy Springs City School District Would Be Financially Feasible, Study Says\u0026rdquo; for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EReporter Newspapers\u003C\/em\u003E, July 22.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026#39;s an excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA study commissioned by a Sandy Springs group advocating for a city school district has found creating one would be financially feasible.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe study found Sandy Springs\u0026rsquo; taxes would generate sufficient funding to operate the 11 public schools within the city\u0026rsquo;s borders, which are currently operated by the Fulton County School District. Projected revenues for a separate Sandy Springs school district would be approximately $163.3 million. Operating expenses were estimated to be $65.2 million.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe study, which is dated to April but just released, was authored by Kelly McCutchen, a senior fellow and former president and CEO of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, and Georgia Tech professor Christine P. Ries. Ries authored a similar study for Dunwoody in 2013. To read the study,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.reporternewspapers.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Sandy-Springs-Report-190425final.pdf\u0022\u003Eclick here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.reporternewspapers.net\/2019\/07\/19\/sandy-springs-city-school-district-would-be-financially-feasible-study-says\/\u0022\u003ERead the full story here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/econ.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EThe School of Economics\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a unit of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-07-22 22:21:57","changed_gmt":"2019-07-22 22:21:57","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Ajay Patel","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.reporternewspapers.net\/2019\/07\/19\/sandy-springs-city-school-district-would-be-financially-feasible-study-says\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-07-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-07-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"609222":{"id":"609222","type":"image","title":"Christine Ries","body":null,"created":"1533147164","gmt_created":"2018-08-01 18:12:44","changed":"1539182140","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:35:40","alt":"Portrait photo of School of Economics professor Christine Ries","file":{"fid":"232036","name":"Chris Blackburn.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Chris%20Blackburn.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Chris%20Blackburn.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":57577,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Chris%20Blackburn.jpg?itok=xsl6NA6C"}}},"media_ids":["609222"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1282","name":"School of Economics"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11161","name":"Christine Ries"},{"id":"167037","name":"school of economics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}