Money for driver's ed goes to other Ga. programs

ATLANTA - Barely one-quarter of the $33 million collected by the state for driver's education in Georgia high schools has been spent on the courses.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that just 150 of the more than 400 public high schools in Georgia are offering driver's education four years after a law aimed at getting more teens to take driving classes was passed. Instead, the money collected from a special fee tacked onto traffic tickets goes into the state's general fund and has been spent elsewhere.

Alan Brown, the father of the teen whose name is on the 2005 law, said he is unhappy with the state's handling of the money. His son, Joshua Brown, died in a single-car accident in 2003 at age 16.