November 13, 2025
Four Decades of QBE: How Georgia’s Funding Formula Addresses Poverty
QBE, as currently designed, contributes to keeping some areas continually in poverty.
Topic: K–12
September 11, 2025 • Commentary
Georgia slips in national education freedom rankings
Georgia’s performance, at least relative to other states by the Heritage Report Card’s metrics, is lagging a bit from last year.
May 19, 2025 • Blog
The college selection process highlights what’s missing in K-12
Changing the way we think about K-12 education is worth more than the old college try.
March 7, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: March 7, 2025
The Peach State made history this week by opening applications for the new Georgia Promise Scholarship.
January 31, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: January 31, 2025
This year marks the 15th anniversary of National School Choice Week and an important moment in the history of the school choice movement.
January 30, 2025 • Commentary
Celebrating School Choice Week, and landmark school choice advances in Georgia
This year marks the 15th anniversary of National School Choice Week as well as an important moment in the history of the school choice movement.
January 15, 2025 • Blog
Georgia schools spent billions in COVID-19 relief dollars, but on what, exactly?
Finding the information about who got what and at what cost is one thing, but trying to understand what it actually was is another thing.
January 10, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: January 10, 2025
A few issues have been gaining attention for months and figure to be key points of contention once the session kicks off on Jan. 13.
January 8, 2025 • Commentary
Legislature has a number of education issues to tackle in 2025
From open enrollment changes to funding formula rewrite, there are a number of education issues lawmakers can address in 2025.
September 20, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: September 20, 2024
There is a disparity among Georgia schools when it comes to transporting students.
September 19, 2024
A Review of K-12 Transportation in Georgia
There is a disparity among Georgia schools when it comes to transporting students to and from their homes. Are better options available?
June 20, 2024 • Commentary
Reimagining early education
For years, conservatives have dropped the ball on early childhood education policy, almost entirely ceding the playing field to the left.
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.
April 12, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: April 12, 2024
Georgia is not meeting its full potential in making open enrollment programs accessible to students.
April 11, 2024 • Commentary
Making public school open enrollment in Georgia more accessible
Despite the growing popularity of open enrollment programs nationwide, Georgia is not meeting its full potential in making these programs accessible.
April 11, 2024
Report on Georgia’s Open Enrollment Transfer Environment
While Georgia law allows transfers to and from public schools, there are still numerous legal, financial and bureaucratic limitations.
January 17, 2024 • Commentary
We have run out of ‘next years’
As House members re-evaluate their position, they should be mindful that the “us versus them” narrative opponents have crafted is utterly false.
March 6, 2023 • Commentary
The focus should be on what children need
Despite what Senate Bill 233 opponents claim, the money for an education scholarship account program is not taken away from public schools.
August 12, 2022 • Commentary
What It Will Take to Finally Get K-12 Finance Reform in Georgia
State policymakers should get the most bang for their buck by modernizing school funding to better serve kids and improving taxpayer accountability.
July 26, 2022 • Blog
Arizona Leads the Charge on School Choice Policy
As Georgia lawmakers continue to debate the merits and details of school choice, we are in danger of getting left behind.
April 1, 2022 • Commentary
The Myth of Underfunding
Opponents of Promise Scholarships and similar programs perpetuate the myth that they are a tool to defund public school education.
December 10, 2021 • Fordham Institute
States Left Holding the Baby in Feds’ Early Learning Plan
While Building Back Better, President Biden and the Democrat-controlled Congress are poised to continue the federal government’s spending spree.
March 21, 2021
Funding Students Instead of Institutions
This report reviews the evidence on the topic and estimates the long-term economic impacts of funding Georgia students directly.
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.
July 23, 2020 • Blog
Speaker Pro Tem Jan Jones on Education: ‘One Size Does Not Fit All’
By Jan Jones I participated in a Georgia Public Policy Foundation virtual panel on July 21 to discuss what changes might come about in K-12 education during and after the […]
April 17, 2020
Friday Facts: April 17, 2020
It’s Friday! This is the fifth Friday Facts edition to focus on the coronavirus pandemic gripping the nation and Georgia. View previous editions here. View the Foundation’s near-term proposals here. […]
April 3, 2020
Friday Facts: April 3, 2020
It’s Friday! This is the third Friday Facts edition to focus on the coronavirus pandemic gripping the nation and Georgia, and the innovative approaches to reduce its impact. (View the […]
March 27, 2020
Friday Facts: March 27, 2020
It’s Friday! This is the second Friday Facts edition to focus on the coronavirus pandemic gripping the nation and Georgia, and the innovative approaches to reduce its impact. View the […]
March 29, 2019
ESA Trailblazer Arizona Paves Way, Provides Lessons for States
K-12 education has been slowly evolving to become more diverse, pluralistic and dynamic. Education scholarship accounts (ESAs, also known as education savings accounts) represent the next step for Georgia to […]
January 18, 2019
Faces Behind School Choice are as Diverse as the Options Ahead
The events and activities underscore the need for choice in children’s education: No two children are alike. They learn in different ways, in different environments and at different paces, and […]
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