It’s Friday! Events Did you attend our 25th Anniversary Celebration Dinner and Freedom Award on November 11? Click here to view photographs from the event! January 26, 2017: Typically the […]
It’s Friday! Events Did you attend our 25th Anniversary Celebration Dinner and Freedom Award on November 11? Click here to view photographs from the event! December 8: The deadline is […]
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 […]
Many raise bogeymen in arguments against parental choice in education. By Benjamin Scafidi Two bills in the Georgia Legislature would allow thousands of Georgia parents the opportunity to choose better […]
In 2013, when the SSOs in Georgia awarded a total of 13,270 scholarships averaging $3,517 per recipient, what was the fiscal impact on taxpayers? By Jim Kelly and Ben Scafidi […]
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.” – Calvin […]
Matchbook Learning CEO Sajan George challenged Georgia to create a more focused K-12 public education vision during the 2014 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum panel discussion. Alpharetta resident Sajan George founded […]
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “For nearly 40 years, it’s pretty much been all reform, all the time for the nation’s public school students, teachers, and parents. Many of the […]
What would public schools look like today if we had universal school choice? Very different, says Ben Scafidi, senior fellow for education at the Georgia Public Policy Foundation. By Ben […]
Morris News reported on the results of a school choice poll released at the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s 2014 Friedman Legacy for Freedom event held in Macon on July 10. […]
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. … As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in […]
School choice: The $58 million donation cap for Georgia’s tax-credit scholarship program was reached just 22 days into the new tax year. As a result of this overwhelming demand to […]
It’s Friday! Timing is everything: Jan. 26-Feb.1 is National School Choice Week. The Foundation hosted an informative panel discussion, “School Choice and Georgia: An Update,” Tuesday morning. Unfortunately, snow and related […]
January 24, 2013 It’s Friday! Jan. 26-Feb. 1 is National School Choice Week! In just four short years, National School Choice Week has mushroomed nationwide from 150 events in 2010 […]
GEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION EVENT INVITATION January 21, 2014 Contact Benita Dodd at 404-256-4050 or Attend ‘School Choice and Georgia: An Update,’ on Jan. 28 Atlanta – Have you […]
January 17, 2014 It’s Friday! Events January 28, 2014: The deadline is Friday, January 24 to register for “School Choice and Georgia: An Update,” the Foundation’s 8 a.m. Leadership Breakfast […]
January 10, 2013 It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people […]
GEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION EVENT | January 7, 2013 Contact Benita Dodd at 404-256-4050 or Celebrate School Choice Week with Georgia’s Top Education Experts Atlanta – Join the Georgia […]
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier.’” – Alfred Lord Tennyson “Sometimes we are content to try […]
It’s Friday! It’s nearing year’s end, and we’d like to remind you: The Georgia Public Policy Foundation and the Friday Facts, our most popular product, exist thanks to your support […]
It’s Friday! It’s nearing year’s end, and we’d like to remind you: The Georgia Public Policy Foundation and the Friday Facts, our most popular product, exist thanks to your support […]
It’s Friday! It’s nearing year’s end, and we’d like to remind you: The Georgia Public Policy Foundation and the Friday Facts, our most popular product, exist thanks to your support […]
It’s Friday! Make your tax-deductible contribution to the Georgia Public Policy Foundation before year’s end so that we can continue to work toward less government interference and greater individual responsibility […]
Join the Georgia Public Policy Foundation and education experts Eric Wearne, Jim Kelly and Ben Scafidi at Cobb County’s Georgian Club for an 8 a.m. Leadership Breakfast and panel discussion […]
November 22, 2013 It’s Friday! It’s nearing year’s end, and we’d like to remind you: The Georgia Public Policy Foundation and the Friday Facts, our most popular product, exist […]
A new report from the Friedman Foundation summarizes the latest research on school choice. by Kelly McCutchen A new report from the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, A Win-Win Solution: The […]
February 1, 2013 It’s Friday! February 19: Did you know that Georgia had the nation’s fourth-highest foreclosure rate in 2012? Who’s to blame? Greedy bankers? Corrupt politicians? Ignorant homeowners? Find out […]
January 25, 2013 It’s Friday! Upcoming: Did you know that Georgia had the nation’s fourth-highest foreclosure rate in 2012? Who’s to blame? Greedy bankers? Corrupt politicians? Ignorant homeowners? Find out […]
One of the most striking results of the vote on Amendment 1, which was approved by Georgia voters on Tuesday and creates an independent commission to authorize public charter schools […]
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path […]
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