March 18, 2021 • Blog
Learning pods aren’t new, but their popularity during COVID-19 has brought them to the forefront in childhood education. Regulators in some states and districts are using this new visibility to […]
March 17, 2021 • Blog
The work continues under the Gold Dome, but look farther north to understand Georgia’s future. In Washington, the most evenly divided Congress in two decades wants to turn states into […]
March 17, 2021 • Blog
Tax and Spend Tuesday, a roundup of news, views and policy proposals affecting your paycheck and pocketbook. Bye-bye tax cut? Remember President Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act? The […]
March 15, 2021 • Blog
Medical Monday: A weekly post of healthcare- and technology-related policy news, views and commentaries. One concern amid COVID-19 lockdowns, shutdowns, mandates, sheltering at home, isolation and telemedicine is the dangerous […]
March 12, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: The Georgia Public Policy Foundation, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2021, has championed education options since its beginning. In 2012, Georgia legislators approved the State […]
March 12, 2021 • Commentary
One year ago this week, Georgians began to feel the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Georgia Public Policy Foundation shut down to begin working remotely
March 5, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: As the Georgia Public Policy Foundation celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2021, this article from 1992 is a reminder that many of the issues that concerned […]
March 5, 2021 • Commentary
Proposals in the Georgia General Assembly to give Georgia families more opportunities to choose schools and educational settings for their children have come un
March 3, 2021 • Blog
The appropriate use of public funds should be a priority for policymakers. But those who object to legislation to provide more education options for Georgia’s children, on the premise that […]
March 2, 2021 • Blog
Tax and Spend Tuesday, a roundup of news, views and policy proposals affecting your paycheck and pocketbook! The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 package that passed the U.S. House and awaits Senate […]
March 1, 2021 • Blog
Medical Monday: A weekly post of healthcare- and technology-related policy news, views and commentaries. States have waiting for Georgia’s innovative Medicaid 1115 waiver to take effect and lead the exodus […]
February 26, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: Zell Miller, who was governor of Georgia before becoming U.S. senator for Georgia, died March 23, 2018, at age 86. His birthday would have been February […]
February 25, 2021 • Commentary
Who is a truant during COVID-19? The pivot to remote schooling further complicates decades of battling chronic absenteeism.
February 22, 2021 • Foundation News
The Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s 2021 publications are listed below by date of publication. Click on a link to read. Sign up here to be added to the Foundation’s media […]
February 19, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: Expanding school choice has been front and center for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation since its inception, as this article from 1992 demonstrates. The Foundation, which […]
February 19, 2021 • Commentary
Millions of residents in Texas struggled to cope without electricity in homes and businesses this past week as an Arctic blast led to widespread power blackouts
February 12, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: Rogers Wade (right), then-president of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, chats with U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona after McCain’s keynote address at the Foundation’s 15th […]
February 12, 2021 • Commentary
On the home front overall, the news about education options is encouraging. Georgia’s public charter schools’ enrollment increased during the COVID-19 pandemic
February 5, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: Reforming Georgia’s certificate-of-need (CON) laws, which protect medical monopolies, has been a priority since the early days of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, as shown in […]
February 5, 2021 • Blog
On March 20, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp issued an executive order relaxing many restrictions on healthcare providers. I
February 3, 2021 • Blog
It’s no wonder that there is interest in expanding education options. Nor is it surprising that opponents are rounding up the usual excuses.
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 […]
January 29, 2021 • Blog
National School Choice Week is January 24-30, and there’s an air of optimism among advocates of education options for children, across the nation and here in Georgia. Now is the […]
January 28, 2021 • Commentary
By
Chris Butler
Cindy Morley
Nearly 36,000 fewer students attended Georgia public schools this year. It's unclear where they are instead.
January 22, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: The debate about education funding is not new, as demonstrated in this clipping from a 1992 editorial in The Augusta Chronicle. As the Foundation celebrates its […]
January 15, 2021
It’s Friday! As the Georgia Public Policy Foundation celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2021, each Friday Facts will include a little trip down Memory Lane from our three decades of […]
January 15, 2021 • Commentary
Budget hearings will begin Tuesday under the Gold Dome (and via Zoom, amid COVID-19 precautions). At his State of the State address Thursday before a joint sess
January 13, 2021 • Blog
Georgia may be a purple state now in national politics, or even a blue one given the trifecta Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock completed in this past week’s U.S. […]
January 8, 2021
It’s Friday! Happy New Year! Welcome to the first issue of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s Friday Facts for 2021. This is a special year for the Foundation: We’re celebrating […]
January 8, 2021 • Commentary
In one fell swoop, the outcomes of Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoffs on January 5 changed the landscape for the entire nation, at least for the next two years. Two Republican […]
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