December 18, 2025 • Commentary
What Will A Federal Tax Credit Scholarship Look Like?
How a new federal program could reshape school choice
October 16, 2025 • Commentary
Georgia needs to improve public school choice
Weak open-enrollment laws strand families in their assigned schools and even withhold basic information—including where the available seats are.
October 15, 2025 • Blog
Atlanta shows why consolidation is difficult
Atlanta schools have a capacity for 70,000 students, but they're operating at under 40,000.
September 18, 2025 • Commentary
Chronic absenteeism persists in Georgia schools. Why?
Today, 22% of Georgia students are chronically absent, meaning they miss at least 18 days per year.
September 11, 2025 • Commentary
Georgia slips in national education freedom rankings
Georgia’s performance, at least relative to other states by the Heritage Report Card’s metrics, is lagging a bit from last year.
August 7, 2025 • Commentary
The Georgia Promise Scholarship is changing lives this year
In its inaugural year, the Georgia Promise Scholarship has lived up to its name—offering real promise to thousands of families across the state.
August 1, 2025 • Blog
What is the Georgia Promise Scholarship?
This is your guide for accessing Georgia Promise Scholarships for your children.
July 28, 2025 • Blog
Microschools 101: What parents need to know
As more families search for alternatives to traditional education, microschools are emerging as one of the most promising and parent-empowered solutions.
June 12, 2025 • Commentary
Homeschooling support for military families: A new opportunity for Georgia
The U.S. Department of Defense recently announced a formal review of how it supports military families who choose to homeschool their children.
June 10, 2025 • Blog
School choice means more than just one program
Florida shows that true educational freedom includes more than private options—it’s about public school choice, too. Georgia has a long way to go.
May 19, 2025 • Blog
The college selection process highlights what’s missing in K-12
Changing the way we think about K-12 education is worth more than the old college try.
May 14, 2025 • Blog
‘Obscene Increase’: Savannah schools’ spending priorities seem lopsided
The Savannah-Chatham County School System is Georgia’s 10th largest, and over time its yearly budgets have increased… and so have the number of administrators.
May 1, 2025 • Commentary
Why Georgia is celebrating Microschool Week
Often described as “the modern one-room schoolhouse,” microschools are small, community-centered learning environments.
April 28, 2025 • Blog
Expanding student choices is one of the best things a state can do
Georgia’s Promise Scholarship just completed its initial application window, and interest was strong.
April 24, 2025 • Commentary
Georgia’s Promise Scholarship is already changing lives
It turns out $6,500 goes a long way — especially when you give it to parents instead of bureaucrats.
April 10, 2025 • Commentary
Sine Die surprise: Wins, losses and a sudden exit at the Georgia Capitol
The session yielded important policy changes in several key areas.
March 19, 2025 • Blog
Keeping Georgia’s Promise
New beginnings are exciting. They can also be tough, which is why new initiatives don’t need any extra obstacles placed in their path.
March 6, 2025 • Commentary
Georgia Promise Scholarship applications open
The Peach State made history this week by opening applications for the new Georgia Promise Scholarship on March 1.
February 13, 2025 • Commentary
A roadmap for success in Georgia
Mississippi and Florida have proven that dramatic improvement is possible. Will Georgia follow that path?
February 12, 2025 • Commentary
Georgia school districts prepare to block property tax relief while holding billions in reserves
Cumulatively, Georgia’s 180 city and county school districts have more than doubled their reserves to a staggering $6.5 billion.
January 16, 2025 • Commentary
The lost role of school board leadership
It's time for a candid discussion about what truly happens in monthly school board meetings supposedly guiding children's education.
January 15, 2025 • Blog
Georgia schools spent billions in COVID-19 relief dollars, but on what, exactly?
Finding the information about who got what and at what cost is one thing, but trying to understand what it actually was is another thing.
January 9, 2025 • Commentary
Preparing for the 2025 Georgia legislative session
The new year brings a new legislative session and a new crop of issues to be debated in the General Assembly over the next three months.
January 8, 2025 • Commentary
Legislature has a number of education issues to tackle in 2025
From open enrollment changes to funding formula rewrite, there are a number of education issues lawmakers can address in 2025.
January 7, 2025 • Blog
Use the Promise Scholarship to homeschool, if you want
There has long been a belief in the homeschool community that you should never accept government funds of any kind.
December 19, 2024 • Blog
11 biggest stories of 2024
This year, Georgia Public Policy Foundation once again had our biggest year to date in terms of content produced and consumed.
December 18, 2024 • Commentary
Anything besides providing more opportunities to more students misses the point
There are many good reasons to provide educational options to all children, not just some.
November 26, 2024 • Commentary
Georgia Promise Scholarship is coming soon
For families needing a new option in their children's education, help is coming soon.
November 21, 2024 • Commentary
Tech services expand access to higher education
A healthy university system that offers robust educational pathways and adequately prepares students for work is to the benefit of a state.
November 19, 2024 • Blog
New information on Georgia Promise Scholarships released
The MyGeorgiaPromise website has new information for families and providers interested in the Georgia Promise Scholarship program.
