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About 400 people, mostly students, gathered on the steps of the State Capitol Monday to speak out against budget cuts that target higher education.

Fulton County teachers held a protest at the State Capitol Friday morning, on a day they had hoped to be working.

State Superintendent of Schools Kathy Cox told 11Alive's Brenda Wood that nothing could be taken off the table to solve the state's economic and education crisis.

State schools Superintendent Kathy Cox says lottery ticket prices should be raised to help pay for K-12 education in Georgia.

Governor Perdue on Thursday announced an additional $442 million in cuts to the 2010-2011 state budget, and 62 percent of those new cuts would hit hospitals.
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Showers and a few storms are moving into North Georgia tonight with another line of potentially severe weather with high winds and maybe an isolated tornado moving in in the early morning hours.

The Northeast is taking a pounding for a third day.

Georgia's school superintendent expects more Metro Atlanta school systems will announce huge budget cuts are on the way because unemployment remains higher than the rest of the state, and that is drying up tax revenues.
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