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April 28, 2025 • Blog

Expanding student choices is one of the best things a state can do

By Kyle Wingfield

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 ives

By Athan Clark

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

By J. Thomas Perdue

The session yielded important policy changes in several key areas.

March 19, 2025 • Blog

Keeping Georgia’s Promise

By Kyle Wingfield

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

By Athan Clark

The Peach State made history this week by opening applications for the new Georgia Promise Scholarship on March 1.

March 1, 2025 • Blog

What is the Georgia Promise Scholarship?

By Athan Clark

This is your guide for accessing Georgia Promise Scholarships for your children.

February 13, 2025 • Commentary

A roadmap for success in Georgia

By Brett Kittredge

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

By Kyle Wingfield

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

By Elliot Pierce

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?

By Chris Butler

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

By J. Thomas Perdue

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

By Kyle Wingfield

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

By Brett Kittredge

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

By Brett Kittredge

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

By Kyle Wingfield

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

By Kyle Wingfield

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

By J. Thomas Perdue

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

By Brett Kittredge

The MyGeorgiaPromise website has new information for families and providers interested in the Georgia Promise Scholarship program.

October 31, 2024 • Commentary

How Georgia’s tax credit scholarship program works, while saving the state money

By Brett Kittredge

Fifteen years ago, Georgia lawmakers adopted the Qualified Education Expense Tax Credit, more commonly known as the state’s tax credit scholarship.

October 14, 2024 • Blog

6 ways to expand eduction opportunities in Georgia

By J. Thomas Perdue

Georgia’s education system should be geared toward student achievement and the best education for each student’s diverse needs.

October 3, 2024 • Commentary

Why a guide to the issues?

By Kyle Wingfield

The Georgia Public Policy Foundation has released its 2024 “Guide to the Issues.”

September 19, 2024 • Commentary

Rethinking transportation for Georgia’s K-12 schools

By J. Thomas Perdue

There is a disparity among Georgia schools when it comes to transporting students to and from their homes.

September 12, 2024 • Commentary

School choice opponents continue to mislead

By Matthew Lee

School choice is sweeping the nation because parents—regardless of ethnicity, political persuasion, or religious convictions—are demanding school choice.

July 25, 2024 • Commentary

Back to school looks different these days

By Brett Kittredge

Children across Georgia will soon be returning to school. Recently, however, “back to school” has begun to look a little different for many.

June 20, 2024 • Commentary

Reimagining early education

By Frederick HessMichael McShane

For years, conservatives have dropped the ball on early childhood education policy, almost entirely ceding the playing field to the left.

June 4, 2024 • Blog

How homeschoolers can use the Georgia Promise Scholarship

By Athan Clark

Homeschool families in Georgia can utilize the Promise Scholarship for their child's education needs.

May 8, 2024 • Commentary

A day of reckoning for higher education?

By Kyle Wingfield

As we watch the anti-Israel protests on multiple college campuses – and reactions to those protests – it sure feels like change is in the air.

May 2, 2024 • Blog

Hybrid schools look to the future

By Chris Butler

Convention organizers said a hybrid school is one that meets a child’s individual needs and/or preferences, and they are only growing.

April 24, 2024 • Blog

Georgians deserve more transparency, consistency and opportunity with open enrollment policies

By Kyle Wingfield

Students deserve options to find their best educational fit, including within the public school system.

April 23, 2024 • Press Release

Georgia Public Policy Foundation applauds Gov. Kemp for signing Georgia Promise Scholarship Act

By Athan Clark

Governor Brian Kemp signed the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act into law today, marking a significant milestone in educational reform for the state of Georgia.