July 28, 2025 • Blog
Microschools 101: What parents need to know
As more families search for alternatives to traditional education, microschools are emerging as one of the most promising and parent-empowered solutions.
Topic: Homeschooling
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?
June 12, 2025 • Commentary
Homeschooling support for military families: A new opportunity for Georgia
The U.S. Department of Defense recently announced a formal review of how it supports military families who choose to homeschool their children.
May 2, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: May 2, 2025
Why are microschools gaining momentum, especially here in Georgia? We talk about that in this week’s commentary.
May 1, 2025 • Commentary
Why Georgia is celebrating Microschool Week
Often described as “the modern one-room schoolhouse,” microschools are small, community-centered learning environments.
January 7, 2025 • Blog
Use the Promise Scholarship to homeschool, if you want
There has long been a belief in the homeschool community that you should never accept government funds of any kind.
December 18, 2024 • Commentary
Anything besides providing more opportunities to more students misses the point
There are many good reasons to provide educational options to all children, not just some.
November 26, 2024 • Commentary
Georgia Promise Scholarship is coming soon
For families needing a new option in their children's education, help is coming soon.
July 26, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: July 26, 2024
Georgia students will soon be returning to school.
July 25, 2024 • Commentary
Back to school looks different these days
Children across Georgia will soon be returning to school. Recently, however, “back to school” has begun to look a little different for many.
June 4, 2024 • Blog
How homeschoolers can use the Georgia Promise Scholarship
Homeschool families in Georgia can utilize the Promise Scholarship for their child's education needs.
May 2, 2024 • Blog
Hybrid schools look to the future
Convention organizers said a hybrid school is one that meets a child’s individual needs and/or preferences, and they are only growing.
January 25, 2024 • Commentary
Will education choice momentum continue in 2024?
In 2023, the school choice movement made more progress expanding education options than ever before. What will 2024 bring?
January 23, 2024 • Blog
Kemp proclaims School Choice Week in Georgia
Gov. Brian Kemp has issued a proclamation declaring this School Choice Week in Georgia.
November 16, 2023 • Commentary
6 Reasons to Empower Georgia Parents
Education freedom is about empowering parents and students to choose an education that best fits their needs.
March 1, 2023 • Commentary
More education options good for Georgia students, families
Pending legislation would establish education scholarship accounts for Georgia students.
January 24, 2023 • Blog
Post pandemic, new schooling options flourish
What started as a temporary necessity during the pandemic has turned into a new, permanent form of schooling for many in Georgia.
July 25, 2022 • Blog
Cobb County Fire Marshal’s Edict Against Hybrid Schools Might Violate Georgia Law
Cobb County is asking these home schoolers to acquire a new Certificate of Occupancy. Home schoolers say they're exempted by the Learning Pods Protection Act.
February 16, 2022 • Blog
Education Legislation vs. Status Quo
With two bills in the legislature, the most important question is how much better off students would be under either proposal than under the status quo.
January 21, 2022 • Commentary
School Choice Week and the “Year of Educational Freedom”
With some policy changes, 2022 could turn out to be the "Year of Educational Freedom."
June 25, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 25, 2021
It’s Friday! Quote of Note Obamacare’s supporters talked a lot about illnesses contributing to more than half of all bankruptcies, which implied there should have been a sharp decrease in […]
March 31, 2021 • Press Release
Foundation Welcomes Georgia Legislature’s Protection of Learning Pods
Atlanta — Parents of school-age children can breathe easier after the Georgia General Assembly approved the Learning Pods Protection Act, Georgia Public Policy Foundation President and CEO Kyle Wingfield said […]
March 22, 2021 • Blog
Four Reasons Georgia Needs to Protect Learning Pods
Learning pods aren’t new, but they’ve had a surge in popularity and interest during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, this visibility has already put learning pods at risk from burdensome overregulation […]
March 18, 2021 • Blog
Three Big Reasons to Protect Learning Pods in Georgia
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 […]
February 5, 2021
Friday Facts: 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 […]
January 29, 2021 • Blog
It’s School Choice Week: Embrace More Education Options
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
Where Have All the Children Gone?
Nearly 36,000 fewer students attended Georgia public schools this year. It's unclear where they are instead.
December 2, 2020 • Blog
The Classroom is a Marketplace, too.
The recent news that fall enrollment in Georgia’s public schools was down more than 2% this year was a reminder that markets exist everywhere, even where you least expect them. […]
November 20, 2020 • Commentary
Perfect Storm: COVID World Meets Hybrid Homeschools
Talk about timely. Eric Wearne’s book, “Defining Hybrid Homeschools in America: Little Platoons,”was released in November, as school systems waffled
November 13, 2020 • Education Next
Pandemic Pods, Parents’ Response to Fickle Schools
With more school districts around the country announcing classes either of full-time remote learning or hybrid learning where children spend up to a week at hom
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