May 9, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: May 9, 2025
Some of the most significant innovations in technology have become common to the point of monotony in only a few decades.
Topic: No Child Left Behind Act
February 22, 2024
2023 College and Career Ready Performance Index
The Georgia Public Policy Foundation has published the College and Career Ready Performance Index overall scores for Georgia’s public schools.
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.
May 20, 2022 • Commentary
This Year’s Georgia Milestones May Measure Learning Speed Bump
Should Georgia follow the emerging national pattern of learning loss caused by the pandemic, the results from these exams will paint an ugly picture.
April 26, 2019
Friday Facts: April 25, 2019
It’s Friday! Events May 23: “You Can Say That: How Courage Can Defeat Political Correctness,” a noon Policy Briefing Luncheon with David French of the National Review Institute, on Thursday, […]
April 29, 2018 • Commentary
Public Charter Schools, A Rising Tide that Lifts All Boats
As students know all too well, spring isn’t just the time when baseball returns and flowers bloom. ‘Tis also the season for testing. It’s important to know if students are […]
July 22, 2016
‘Guide to the Issues’ Offers Georgia-focused Solutions
By Benita Dodd The media hype surrounding the political parties’ national conventions spotlights the enormous discord created by personalities and politics as the presidential election approaches. Getting short shrift amid […]
April 16, 2015
The Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal
How the APS cheating school was uncovered. In 2011, Lisa Coston of Courthouse News Service reported the findings of the Governor’s office of Student Achievement about widespread cheating at Atlanta Public Schools. […]
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 22, 2012
In Our Family, There Will be No Child Left Behind
By Rich Thompson The greatest joy of my life is being the father of two beautiful daughters whom everyone will agree – look just like me! Like my father and […]
March 19, 2012
An Uncommon Approach to Costly Common Core Education
By Sherena Arrington Joseph Califano, secretary of health, education and welfare in the Carter administration declared that “in its most extreme form, national control of curriculum is a form of […]
October 10, 2011
Could National Legal Defense Fund Help Georgia Charters?
MACON – Hundreds of charter public school advocates who traveled here last week heard Apple founder Steve Jobs remembered, discussion about a proposed national legal defense fund to help protect […]
September 23, 2011
White House Drops a Water Balloon onto No Child Left Behind
President Barack Obama has dropped a water balloon onto No Child Left Behind. “In my State of the Union address this year I said Congress should reform No Child Left […]
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 […]
August 11, 2011
Michelle Rhee: No Child Left Behind Not a Total Bust
Michelle Rhee, the innovative founder of StudentsFirst and former chancellor of Washington, D.C. public schools, spoke about the new Obama administration No Child Left Behind waivers when she appeared on […]
August 8, 2011
White House Gives States Less “No Child Left Behind”
No Child Left Behind has moved one step closer toward No Longer Totally Relevant. President Barack Obama ‘s administration used the White House briefing room on Monday afternoon to announce […]
July 21, 2011
“Slim” Chance Georgia Will Meet No Child Left Behind Goal in 2014
State schools superintendent John Barge believes chances are “slim” that Georgia will meet the federal government’s No Child Left Behind 100 percent proficiency requirement in three years. The first-year superintendent […]
July 20, 2011
AYP Results Out Thursday; Ivy Prep Proposes Two DeKalb Campuses
Thursday will be a headline maker when the state releases 2011 graduation rate data and AYP – the Adequate Yearly Progress reports that are tied to the No Child Left […]
January 20, 2011
Foundation’s Role Pivotal in Georgia’s Lessons in School Choice
Commentary By Benita M. Dodd National School Choice Week is Jan. 23-29. The Georgia Public Policy Foundation, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year and was a pioneer in the […]
August 7, 2009
Why a Partisan Health Plan will Never Work
By Brad Alexander President Obama appears to believe a new national health care system can be created by winning the support of every Democrat in Congress and enough Republicans to […]
June 17, 2005
Charter School Expands Success Beyond College Prep
By Russ Moore When Newsweek trumpeted “America’s Best High Schools” in May, it was disappointing to learn the magazine’s best of the best were selected based on a formula that […]
May 6, 2005
Fulton Science Academy: A Charter School With Much To Celebrate
By Dr. Holly Robinson and Eric Wearne Fulton Science Academy, a 3-year-old charter school in Alpharetta, is one of the many charter schools in America participating in a well-deserved celebration […]