August 30, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: August 30, 2024
Labor Day weekend gives us an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of the American worker.
Topic: DOE
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.
November 29, 2022 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: November 25, 2022
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 […]
April 20, 2021 • Blog
Education Information: Useful Data or Data Overload?
Mountains of education data can be useful, but it can also be used to obscure important facts.
December 18, 2020
Friday Facts: December 18, 2020
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, […]
November 4, 2016
Friday Facts: November 4, 2016
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 […]
December 18, 2014
Fiscal Research Center Analysis Needs to be Fixed
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 […]
January 16, 2013
Online Digital World Will Re-Imagine and Liberate Learning
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 […]
December 11, 2012
Would You Send Your Child to a Washington D.C. School?
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 […]
August 16, 2012
Connected Learning: Big Expansion for Microsoft IT Academy
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 […]
January 11, 2012
Governor Deal Proposes $700 Million Bonds Package
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 […]
July 21, 2011
“Slim” Chance Georgia Will Meet No Child Left Behind Goal in 2014
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 […]
July 20, 2011
AYP Results Out Thursday; Ivy Prep Proposes Two DeKalb Campuses
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 […]
July 15, 2011
Georgia H.S. Graduation Rate Could Take A Steep 15% Plunge
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 […]