January 8, 2026 • Commentary
The 2026 Election Hangs Over the 2026 Legislative Session
The 2026 legislative session marks both an endpoint and the eventual transition to come.
Topic: 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic
December 4, 2025 • The Federalist
Extending Obamacare COVID Subsidies Will Result In Employers Dropping Insurance Coverage
Extending Obamacare COVID-era subsidies would exacerbate existing incentives for small employers to dump employees onto taxpayer-subsidized insurance exchanges.
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.
August 14, 2025
Four Decades of QBE: Georgia’s Education Funding Formula and Its Challenges
For nearly four decades, funding for Georgia public education has been provided by a program known as Quality Basic Education, and commonly referred to as QBE.
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.
April 3, 2025 • Commentary
What the 2025 legislative session means for Georgia taxpayers
No matter which issues dominate the headlines during a legislative session, tax policy is always on the table under the Gold Dome.
January 30, 2025 • Commentary
Celebrating School Choice Week, and landmark school choice advances in Georgia
This year marks the 15th anniversary of National School Choice Week as well as an important moment in the history of the school choice movement.
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 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.
January 2, 2025 • Commentary
A quarter century of change
With 2024’s close, a quarter of the years beginning with “20” are now complete.
September 18, 2024 • Blog
People vote with their feet
Among in state movers, Georgians are moving away from the state’s most populous counties.
August 8, 2024 • Commentary
Recession coming? Why the Federal Reserve’s high interest rate policy may backfire
History will not judge the Powell Federal Reserve well should the economy now succumb to a recession.
July 26, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: July 26, 2024
Georgia students will soon be returning to school.
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.
February 22, 2024
2023 College and Career Ready Performance Index
The Georgia Public Policy Foundation has published the College and Career Ready Performance Index overall scores for Georgia’s public schools.
January 22, 2024 • Blog
The state of school choice in Georgia
This week is National School Choice Week, in Georgia, and around the country.
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.
August 9, 2023 • Commentary
Vogtle Unit 3 is first new nuclear power plant to open in decades
Georgia Power announced that the third nuclear reactor at its Plant Vogtle near Augusta had begun commercial operation.
June 30, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 30, 2023
The lack of emphasis on civics, government and political history is the biggest education problem in our country.
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 23, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 23, 2023
The end of the public health emergency meant that states would resume doing what they had done for the first 50-plus years of Medicaid.
June 22, 2023 • Blog
Atlanta brewery closes, Georgia’s prohibition era laws partly to blame
Atlanta’s Second Self Beer Company is closing after nine years, partly due to century-old Georgia laws.
June 21, 2023 • Commentary
States can begin verifying Medicaid eligibility for first time in 3 years
Millions of people have been receiving a taxpayer-funded benefit for which they no longer qualify.
May 25, 2023 • Blog
North Carolina’s absurd state of emergency
According to the governor of North Carolina, entrusting parents with choices in their children's education is as dangerous as a hurricane or tornado.
April 19, 2023 • Commentary
Is it a correction or a reckoning?
March revenues declined by almost $83 million, or about 3%, compared to March 2022.
April 14, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: April 14, 2023
It’s Friday! We are excited to welcome The Babylon Bee’s Seth Dillon to the Georgia Freedom Dinner in a matter of days. But ticket sales close tonight at 5 pm! […]
March 26, 2023 • Commentary
Expanding parental accountability in education
Transparency provides parents with testing data from a school. Accountability provides parents with new choices.
January 25, 2023 • Commentary
Taxpayer-funded benefits should be for those that are supposed to receive them
Why are some likely to lose Medicaid coverage?
January 24, 2023 • Blog
Post pandemic, new schooling options flourish
What started as a temporary necessity during the pandemic has turned into a new, permanent form of schooling for many in Georgia.
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