She toured Conn Elementary School and welcomed students through a closed-circuit television.
Perdue is a former teacher who says she spent this summer's budget negotiations trying to preserve funding for public education despite dwindling tax collections.
The final budget bill requires school districts to find $225 million in cost savings in grades 4-12.
State law requires most public schools to open no earlier than Aug. 25, with some exceptions.
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