Bartow Employer Committee Awards Chattahoochee Tech with Scholarship Money

(Media Release) The fees associated with the GED examination will be a little less burdensome for some students thanks to a donation from the Bartow County Employer Committee/HR Council. The $1,000 check, which was presented at the committee's June business meeting, will be used specifically to offset the fees of the exams for students in need.

"This money couldn't have come at a better time," said Chattahoochee Technical College Executive Director of Adult Education Jon Collins. "The $95 fee for the exams increased July 1 to $160."

The new price structure applies to all current tests and coincides with the nationwide implementation of a computer-based GED test. The Technical College System of Georgia Office of Adult Education is currently piloting the computer-based test at two technical college locations and plans to implement it at all GED testing centers statewide by year-end.　This is the first price increase for the GED test in five years, when the previous cost for each of the five test components rose from $13 to the current $19 (or $95 for the full test battery). The new price factors in the cost of the development, implementation, delivery and use of the test, including the computer-based version.

All of the other essential adult education programs, including Adult Basic Education, GED test preparation classes, college and career advisement, and English as a Second Language classes, remain available free of charge to any Georgian.　Last year, almost 80,000 Georgians took advantage of easy access to those programs.

For more information about Chattahoochee Technical College and the college's Adult Education Program, visit www.ChattahoocheeTech.edu or call 770-528-4545.