June 27, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 27, 2025
Taken together, the six policies below provided meaningful financial breathing room.
Topic: Austin
June 13, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 13, 2025
How is the Department of Defense making it easier for military families to homeschool and what role will the Georgia Promise Scholarship play?
July 26, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: July 26, 2024
Georgia students will soon be returning to school.
November 4, 2021 • Blog
Tiny Houses, Big Hurdles
Most communities in Georgia are dealing with a common problem: housing affordability.
May 21, 2021
Friday Facts: May 21, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane Civil Discourse: For years, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation sponsored debates among Georgia’s political candidates, and – as this 1994 article on tax reform demonstrates – […]
January 29, 2021
Friday Facts: January 29, 2021
It’s Friday! Today’s Friday Facts has an education focus, to mark the 11th annual celebration of National School Choice Week, which kicked off January 24. Memory Lane: Education options for […]
December 15, 2020 • Blog
Tax and Spend Tuesday: December 15, 2020
Tax and Spend Tuesday, a roundup of news, views and policy proposals affecting your paycheck and pocketbook! Change we don’t need: It’s not the first time we’ve noticed that some […]
September 13, 2019
Friday Facts: September 13, 2019
It’s Friday! Events September 18: Register by Monday to attend “License to Work,” a Foundation noon Policy Briefing Luncheon with the Georgians First Commission task force, focused on occupational licensing […]
May 30, 2019 • Blog
Public Transportation’s Myths and Tall Tales
Public transportation ridership has become a confusing mishmash of data as metrics change, and not toward transparency and accountability for the funds spent. Fortunately, the media have come to realize they’re […]
May 17, 2019 • Video
Acton Academy: Self Directed Learning
Acton Academy is a one room, innovative school originally based in Austin Texas. Acton is in year seven of re-imagining education as a private small micro-school.
May 10, 2019
Friday Facts: May 10, 2019
It’s Friday! Events May 23: The deadline is Tuesday, May 21, to register for “You Can Say That: How Courage Can Defeat Political Correctness,” a noon Policy Briefing Luncheon with […]
September 7, 2018
Friday Facts: September 7, 2018
It’s Friday! Events We’re at the 2018 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum today. Are you? The daylong conference at the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly Hotel features an exciting lineup of experts on […]
March 30, 2018
Friday Facts: March 30, 2018
It’s Friday! Subscribe to the Friday Facts here. Support the Foundation and its mission here. ICYMI: A news release last week announced that Kyle Wingfield, opinion columnist at The Atlanta […]
January 19, 2018
Friday Facts: January 19, 2018
It’s Friday! Events January 23: Today is the deadline to register for the Foundation’s first event of 2018 on Tuesday, January 23. About 32,000 events will celebrate National School Choice […]
September 2, 2016
Friday Facts: September 2, 2016
It’s Friday! November 11: Tickets and sponsor opportunities are available for the Foundation’s 25th Anniversary Celebration Dinner and Freedom Award, which honors a notable Georgian. The keynote speaker is John […]
May 12, 2015
The Learner Driven Revolution
The Acton Academy in Austin, Texas has drawn a great deal of attention with its Learner Driven Education model, which promises to deliver transformational learning for less than $2000 per […]
April 17, 2015
Friday Facts: April 17, 2015
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “Good teachers are so important to student learning that if the lowest-performing 5 to 7 percent of all teachers were replaced with just average teachers, […]
April 14, 2015
Checking Up On Health: April 14, 2015
An HIV outbreak and how the IRS is rewriting the rules on the Affordable Care Act. Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd It’s not just the […]
October 7, 2013
Trains Have Limited Value in Contemporary, Urban Transit
By Joel Kotkin To many in the transit business – that is, people who seek to profit from the development and growth of buses, trains and streetcars – Southern California is often […]
February 26, 2013
Checking Up On Health: February 26, 2013
Health Policy Briefs Compiled by Benita M. Dodd ObamaCare sticker shock: Atlanta insurers were included in a six-market survey released this month on how much the multiple mandates in […]
February 11, 2013
How the South Will Rise to Power Again
By Joel Kotkin The common media view of the South is as a regressive region, full of overweight, prejudiced, exploited and under-educated numb skulls . This meme was perfectly captured in this Bill Maher-commissioned video from Alexandra Pelosi, […]
August 30, 2012
Georgia Legislative Policy Forum
2012 Legislative Policy Forum 2012 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum “Wisdom, Justice and Innovation” Bringing the nation’s top experts to Georgia to focus on innovative solutions to Georgia’s challenges Hosted by the Conservative Policy […]
August 23, 2012
Policy Forum Brings Innovative Solutions to Georgia
The Sept. 21 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum will focus on the most anticipated issues under the Gold Dome, offering free-market approaches, limited government solutions and innovations for Georgia that have […]
May 18, 2012
Friday Facts: May 18th, 2012
It’s Friday! Events – Monday is the deadline to register for “Getting Georgia Going,” a Foundation Leadership Breakfast ahead of Georgia’s July 31 regional referendum on a penny transportation sales tax. The […]
April 20, 2012
Lack of Venture Capital Means Lost Jobs, Lost Opportunity
By Mike Klein When Advanced Catheter Therapies announced a new technology patent in January, the dateline was Chattanooga, Tenn. The press release noted, “The Company recently announced a name change […]
January 13, 2012
Friday Facts: January 13th, 2012
It’s Friday! Events – Register now to celebrate National School Choice Week with, “Breaking Down Barriers to High Quality Education in Georgia” the Foundation’s Leadership Breakfast at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, January […]
October 28, 2011
Friday Facts: October 28th, 2011
It’s Friday! – Thank you for your support! About 400 friends and supporters celebrated the Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Celebration and Freedom Award dinner on Monday evening at the Renaissance Waverly Atlanta. At the event […]
November 19, 2010
New Deal for Georgia Criminal Justice
By Marc A. Levin Georgia’s Governor-elect Nathan Deal has earned his stripes as a tough-as-nails prosecutor who rightly noted on the campaign trail that he put many rapists in prison […]