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Governor Perdue ran for office on a platform of returning public trust in government, ensuring that the voice of the people is heard in the halls of power, and working to empower Georgians to improve their lives through innovation and productivity without undue interference by government bureaucracies. Sonny Perdue has come up with a plan to tie students’ SAT scores with the HOPE Scholarship. Reason being from him, and as quoted from WSBTV in Atlanta, “It would keep good students who perform badly on standardized tests -- including many blacks -- from getting state financial support.” Now referring back to him “ensuring that the voice of the people is heard in the walls of power,” I am brought to question why he is changing the rules. Is it because the statistics show that test scores of African American students ha