May 7, 2026 • Commentary
Many People Don’t Know What a Charter School Is.
Charter School Week Is a Good Time to Change That.
Topic: Educational accountability
April 23, 2026 • Commentary
Georgia Looks to Early Literacy Reform to Improve Reading Outcomes
New legislation builds on lessons from Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee, but success will depend on careful implementation.
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.
January 3, 2024 • Commentary
What is the Georgia Department of Education trying to hide from parents?
The education establishment works harder to ensure parents – and taxpayers – don’t know the extent of the learning loss than do the work of remedying it.
March 26, 2023 • Commentary
Expanding parental accountability in education
Transparency provides parents with testing data from a school. Accountability provides parents with new choices.
June 23, 2022 • Blog
Holding Schools Accountable or Grading On a Curve?
This is a crucial moment for students. Either we face up to the hard realities of what pandemic policies cost, or we just grade on a curve.
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.
October 14, 2020 • Blog
To the Georgia State Schools Superintendent, from a Georgia Public Schools Graduate
Last month, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made clear she wouldn’t waive federal testing requirements as you’d requested