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Funding Students Instead of Institutions
This report reviews the evidence on the topic and estimates the long-term economic impacts of funding Georgia students directly.
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September 22, 2022 • Blog
Biden’s Academic Market in Full Effect
Should all degrees be treated equally when it comes to forgiving debt?
September 6, 2022 • Commentary
Learn How Much Your Georgia Degrees Pay
On Georgia Degrees Pay, students and their parents can find information about each major offered at each public university in Georgia.
August 24, 2022 • Blog
Reforming the QBE Formula is Difficult but Necessary
If ever there was a time to focus on outcomes rather than inputs when it comes to public education, that time is now.
August 12, 2022 • Commentary
What It Will Take to Finally Get K-12 Finance Reform in Georgia
State policymakers should get the most bang for their buck by modernizing school funding to better serve kids and improving taxpayer accountability.
August 5, 2022 • Commentary
Changes Coming to Georgia Charter Schools
Charter schools are naturally innovative and necessarily competitive, a stark contrast to the stagnation that characterizes failing districts.
July 28, 2022 • Blog
Pandemic Learning Loss is Real. Now What?
If alarm bells aren’t ringing in your head by now, something is wrong.
July 26, 2022 • Blog
Arizona Leads the Charge on School Choice Policy
As Georgia lawmakers continue to debate the merits and details of school choice, we are in danger of getting left behind.
July 25, 2022 • Blog
Cobb County Fire Marshal’s Edict Against Hybrid Schools Might Violate Georgia Law
Cobb County is asking these home schoolers to acquire a new Certificate of Occupancy. Home schoolers say they’re exempted by the Learning Pods Protection Act.
June 23, 2022 • Commentary
What the Carson Ruling Means for Education Freedom
Once a state does the right thing and establishes school choice, one thing that is forbidden is discrimination.
June 23, 2022 • Blog
Holding Schools Accountable or Grading On a Curve?
This is a crucial moment for students. Either we face up to the hard realities of what pandemic policies cost, or we just grade on a curve.
May 20, 2022 • Commentary
This Year’s Georgia Milestones May Measure Learning Speed Bump
Should Georgia follow the emerging national pattern of learning loss caused by the pandemic, the results from these exams will paint an ugly picture.
May 12, 2022 • Blog
How to Reduce Student Borrowing
The best way to reduce student borrowing may be to stop telling students they won’t have to pay back their loans.
May 4, 2022 • Blog
Biden’s Charter Policy Should Be Rejected
The Biden administration’s starvation diet for public charter schools would deny parents what they want. It should be rejected.
April 1, 2022 • Commentary
The Myth of Underfunding
Opponents of Promise Scholarships and similar programs perpetuate the myth that they are a tool to defund public school education.
February 23, 2022 • Blog
The Education Change Georgia Needs
School choice opponents make lots of demonstrably false claims. Some of the flimsiest concern the accessibility of private schools. To hear opponents tell it, private schools are too expensive, too […]
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