Topic: DOE

It’s Friday! Friday’s Freshest: Georgians are faced with serious problems that affect their daily lives, their futures and their children’s futures. Some of them are urgent and require attention and […]

It’s Friday!  November 11: The deadline is Tuesday to register to attend the Foundation’s 25th Anniversary Celebration Dinner and Freedom Award!  Have you reserved your seat yet? The Freedom Award […]

By Benjamin Scafidi  The Fiscal Research Center (FRC) at Georgia State University produced a fiscal analysis of Georgia’s tuition tax credit scholarship program. I had a long list of specific […]

What we know or can know about each other never ceases to amaze me and it constantly evolves. Netflix knows the movies we like. Amazon knows what we want to […]

Who among us would send our child to a public school in the District of Columbia, chosen at random? This question may be uncomfortable, but it is one that could […]

By Mike Klein When he recorded a Georgia Public Broadcasting studio audience program this week Governor Nathan Deal needed just two sentences to precisely capsulize why nearly everything that we […]

Governor Nathan Deal’s Fiscal 2013 proposed budget includes $700 million in new bonded projects with $235 million for the University System, $177 million for the state Board of Education and […]

State schools superintendent John Barge believes chances are “slim” that Georgia will meet the federal government’s No Child Left Behind 100 percent proficiency requirement in three years.   The first-year superintendent […]

Thursday will be a headline maker when the state releases 2011 graduation rate data and AYP – the Adequate Yearly Progress reports that are tied to the No Child Left […]

Atlanta Public Schools superintendent Erroll Davis recently described high school graduation rates as “great works of art.”  Next week the Georgia Department of Education is expected to release new data […]