November 13, 2025
Four Decades of QBE: How Georgia’s Funding Formula Addresses Poverty
QBE, as currently designed, contributes to keeping some areas continually in poverty.
Topic: Atlanta Public Schools
October 31, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: October 31, 2025
How do we fight back against scary government policies?
September 26, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: September 26, 2025
What we can say for certain is that tax policy should encourage work, saving, and investment — not punish it.
September 19, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: September 19, 2025
Since schools closed in March 2020, student absenteeism has surged, and the habit of attending school every day has been slow to return.
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 12, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: September 12, 2025
Georgia's ranking in the Heritage Foundation’s 2025 Education Freedom Report Card dropped this year. Why?
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 10, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: January 10, 2025
A few issues have been gaining attention for months and figure to be key points of contention once the session kicks off on Jan. 13.
September 19, 2024
A Review of K-12 Transportation in Georgia
There is a disparity among Georgia schools when it comes to transporting students to and from their homes. Are better options available?
June 21, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 21, 2024
A conservative approach to early childhood education.
April 12, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: April 12, 2024
Georgia is not meeting its full potential in making open enrollment programs accessible to students.
December 15, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: December 15, 2023
When it comes to analyzing the available data on student outcomes for college and career academies, we found two main obstacles. What are they?
November 9, 2023 • Commentary
4 Issues Facing the Buckhead Community in Atlanta
While not taking sides in the debate, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation has released a report which offers a fact-based assessment of the key issues.
November 8, 2023
A Review of Buckhead’s Four Biggest Policy Concerns
This study analyzes four key issues facing the Buckhead community in Atlanta, GA.
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 20, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: October 20, 2023
To explore solutions to housing affordability, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation hosted the first Georgia Housing Summit.
September 22, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: September 22, 2023
As populist voices become louder, what does it mean for the future of the conservative movement in America?
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.
September 8, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: September 8, 2023
It's time to support a return to the appropriate division of labor between Washington, D.C. and the states.
August 11, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: August 11, 2023
A strange tweet by the Republican State Leadership Committee claimed that “Georgia Republicans have made school choice a top priority!”
June 9, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 9, 2023
Atlanta's taxis are struggling. So what did they do? Asked the City Council to raise the rates they charge customers.
March 3, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: March 3, 2023
It’s Friday! We are in the heart of the legislative session, with only 13 days left on the calendar. And on Monday, we will hit our first major deadline of […]
March 2, 2023 • Blog
9 stories of government corruption or waste in Georgia last month
Recent stories about waste, fraud, or abuse of taxpayer money throughout Georgia.
November 2, 2022 • Commentary
National Assessment Reveals Education Disparities in Georgia
Georgia is faring better than some other states, but student achievement still lags and gaps persists post-COVID.
May 6, 2022 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: May 6, 2022
It’s Friday! Quotes of note “Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs […]
November 5, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: November 05, 2021
Noel Khalil, founder and CEO of Columbia Residential and Columbia Ventures, died October 25 after a long illness.
August 25, 2021 • Foundation News
Major Problems with Georgia Milestones
I’m talking about the Georgia Milestones exams given last spring, the state’s year-end standardized tests. Georgia students – or at least the ones who took the
July 28, 2021 • Foundation News
Pursuing Public School Budgets
Credit where credit is due: Some school leaders aren’t complaining about the small amount of state money cut from their budgets, but are instead moving forward
July 2, 2021
Friday Facts: July 02, 2021
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and […]
June 11, 2021
Friday Facts: June 11, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane Federalism, a state of independence: The Georgia Public Policy Foundation has a history of defending the ability of Georgia to solve its own problems instead of […]
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