April 15, 2024 • Blog
What is the Georgia Promise Scholarship?
This is your guide for accessing Georgia Promise Scholarships for your children.
April 11, 2024 • Commentary
Making public school open enrollment in Georgia more accessible
Despite the growing popularity of open enrollment programs nationwide, Georgia is not meeting its full potential in making these programs accessible.
March 27, 2024 • Commentary
Georgia students now have a Promise
A brighter future awaits thousands of students who currently lack access to an education that meets their needs.
March 21, 2024 • Blog
General Assembly sends Promise Scholarship Act to Governor
A bill expanding school choice options is headed to Gov. Kemp's desk for his signature.
March 20, 2024 • Commentary
Existing service providers are always the loudest voices against change
It’s striking how much our debates over two of Georgia’s most important structural challenges are really the same argument with different jargon.
March 14, 2024 • Press Release
Foundation releases statement on passage of Georgia Promise Scholarship Act
The Georgia House of Representatives adopted the Georgia Promise Scholarship Account, which will create education savings accounts for Georgia families.
March 7, 2024 • Commentary
2024 legislative session enters final stretch
With Crossover Day now in the rearview and candidate qualifying ending this week, what will the final weeks of this session hold?
March 7, 2024 • Blog
Alabama’s CHOOSE Act puts pressure on Georgia to pass school choice
Alabama has become the latest state to embrace school choice through the passage of the CHOOSE Act this week.
February 28, 2024 • Commentary
Parents, educators and taxpayers deserve to know school accountability ratings
The Biden administration granted the Georgia Department of Education’s request to stop publishing school ratings on a familiar 0-100 scale.
February 22, 2024 • Press Release
Georgia Public Policy Foundation publishes College and Career Ready Performance Index overall scores
The Georgia Public Policy Foundation has published the College and Career Ready Performance Index overall scores for Georgia’s public schools.
January 31, 2024 • Commentary
Giving students options is already working in Georgia. But the need is greater.
Education freedom options should be expanded with a significant raise in the tax-credit cap, and it should be complemented by Promise Scholarships.
January 25, 2024 • Commentary
Will education choice momentum continue in 2024?
In 2023, the school choice movement made more progress expanding education options than ever before. What will 2024 bring?
January 23, 2024 • Blog
Kemp proclaims School Choice Week in Georgia
Gov. Brian Kemp has issued a proclamation declaring this School Choice Week in Georgia.
January 22, 2024 • Blog
The state of school choice in Georgia
This week is National School Choice Week, in Georgia, and around the country.
January 17, 2024 • Commentary
We have run out of ‘next years’
As House members re-evaluate their position, they should be mindful that the “us versus them” narrative opponents have crafted is utterly false.
January 11, 2024 • Commentary
Kemp calls for school choice in State of the State
Gov. Brian Kemp displayed an urgency in his call for school choice this session,
January 11, 2024 • Press Release
Foundation commends Kemp for his support of school choice
During his annual State of the State address, Gov. Brian Kemp outlined his support for expanding school choice in Georgia.
January 10, 2024 • Blog
This “could” be a big legislative session
While every session of the General Assembly – like every election – is billed as consequential, this time the hype could be right.
January 4, 2024 • Commentary
What will be the biggest issues during the 2024 legislative session?
For the first time since 2021, Georgia lawmakers won’t rush to gavel out on their first day and travel to the national championship game.
January 3, 2024 • Commentary
What is the Georgia Department of Education trying to hide from parents?
The education establishment works harder to ensure parents – and taxpayers – don’t know the extent of the learning loss than do the work of remedying it.
December 27, 2023 • Blog
11 biggest stories of 2023
As we prepare to welcome in a new year, here is a review of our most read and most shared stories of 2023.
December 14, 2023 • Commentary
Are Georgia’s college and career academies meeting their goals?
To better understand the outcomes of these academies, the Foundation has recently completed a comprehensive analysis of these programs.
November 16, 2023 • Commentary
6 Reasons to Empower Georgia Parents
Education freedom is about empowering parents and students to choose an education that best fits their needs.
October 26, 2023 • Blog
11 spooky policy ideas to avoid
Here are 11 spooky policy ideas we should all run from like a man in a mask is chasing us.
October 5, 2023 • Commentary
Georgia should follow North Carolina and adopt universal school choice
North Carolina recently became the latest state that borders Georgia to pass sweeping education freedom legislation.
September 13, 2023 • Commentary
Atlanta rejects high-quality charter school for students with special needs
The public education establishment in Georgia consistently places adult needs over student needs.
August 10, 2023 • Commentary
Republicans’ unearned victory lap on school choice
The Republican State Leadership Committee crediting Georgia Republicans with making school choice a priority seems bizarre.
July 5, 2023 • Commentary
What are we waiting for?
There is a dire need for actual solutions that benefit as many students as possible, and research has already identified one of those solutions.
June 28, 2023 • Commentary
Students lost decades of academic progress
For 3 years now, we’ve known the school closures ordered amid the pandemic were detrimental to students. New data confirms how bad it was.
June 20, 2023 • Blog
EXCLUSIVE: Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones says new study committees will steer state’s future
Lt. Gov. Burt Jones talks with us about the 2023 legislative session and his future legislative goals.
