Topic: National Center for Education Statistics

January 17, 2025 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: January 24, 2025

Gov. Brian Kemp delivered his penultimate State of the State address with the usual list of goals and priorities that he’ll pursue over the next few months.
March 21, 2021

Funding Students Instead of Institutions

By Corey A. DeAngelis
This report reviews the evidence on the topic and estimates the long-term economic impacts of funding Georgia students directly.
June 12, 2020

Friday Facts: June 12, 2020

It’s Friday! This is Week 13 of the Friday Facts’ focus on the coronavirus pandemic across the nation and in Georgia, and the last day of the public health state […]
October 4, 2019 • Commentary

Interpreting Graduation Rates: Not as Easy as ABC

The Atlanta Falcons’ two highest-scoring offensive years of all time were in 1998 and 2016. Fans will remember those years as the two seasons the team made it to the […]
August 13, 2016

Guide to the Issues: Education

Principles: Curriculum standards should be rigorous, clear and measurable. All students should be held to high standards and high expectations. Teacher recruitment, education, training and compensation should be focused on […]
July 29, 2016

Friday Facts: July 29, 2016

It’s Friday!  Then and Now: In 1991, when the Georgia Public Policy Foundation was established, the Georgia Dome was under construction. When completed in 1992 at a cost of $214 million […]
January 27, 2014

Analyzing Education Spending

Education funding has taken center stage in Georgia political discussions. What do the numbers show? Education funding has taken center stage in Georgia political discussions. What do the numbers show? […]
March 7, 2013

Georgia Public Schools Employ More Staff Than Teachers

Here is something Georgia lawmakers might want to think about: Why was the employment growth rate for Georgia public school administrators and non-teaching staff nearly double the percentage growth rate […]
October 25, 2012

Have U.S. Schools Become Just Another Jobs Program?

U.S. public school systems including Georgia are growing their teacher and all other personnel staffs at a much greater rate than their growth in students served. There also is no […]
October 25, 2012

Georgia Outspending North Carolina in Education

There is no question that many school systems are struggling financially and teachers have been hit by several years of furloughs, but it is also important to put our spending […]
July 27, 2012

Friday Facts: July 27, 2012

  It’s Friday!  Quotes of note – “All of the progress that the U.S. has made over the last couple of centuries has come from unemployment. It has come from […]
August 12, 2011

Friday Facts: August 12th, 2011

It’s Friday! Government – It’s that time again: Redistricting discussions start Monday in Georgia’s special legislative session. As we noted in 2004, redistricting is an inherently political process and this will not change. But we held up […]
July 1, 2011

Friday Facts: July 1st, 2011

It’s Friday! Quotations – “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these […]

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