July 10, 2024 • Press Release
Foundation launches Spanish-language website
The new Spanish-language website highlights and provides information on Georgia Promise Scholarships.
Topic: Spanish
June 19, 2024 • Commentary
The American dream remains
Having the freedom to enjoy the fruits of one’s own labor, however large they may grow, remains an essentially American dream.
February 29, 2024 • Blog
Georgia Public Policy Foundation participates in Hispanic Day at the State Capitol
The day highlighted the contributions and achievements of the Hispanic community in Georgia.
May 24, 2023 • Commentary
Education is going to change
We need to stop thinking in terms of “schools” and instead think in terms of an education.
June 5, 2020 • Commentary
COVID-19: Spanish Flu 2.0
The COVID-19 pandemic bears a striking resemblance to the Spanish flu epidemic that peaked in October 1918. Nowhere is the resemblance more striking than in New
May 18, 2020
Recent Foundation Publications
The Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s 2020 publications are listed below by date of publication. Click on a link to read. Sign up here to be added to the Foundation’s media […]
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 […]
October 2, 2015
Web-based Tool Helps Educate Parents on Great Schools
A new free tool helps parents in metro Atlanta decide as they choose their child’s school. By Benita M. Dodd One of the paternalistic charges leveled by opponents of education […]
September 18, 2015
Friday Facts: September 18, 2015
It’s Friday! Events October 15: The countdown has begun to the Sixth Annual Georgia Legislative Policy Forum at the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly on Thursday, October 15. In less than a […]
August 20, 2014
Atlanta Classical Academy Educates Citizens for a Free Republic
Atlanta Classical Academy opened this fall with nearly 500 students enrolled and 1,200 more are on the waiting list. By Foundation Editor Mike Klein. Fifth in a series about new […]
June 16, 2014
Cato Institute: The Rise of High-Cost, Low-Capacity Rail Transit
Cities have built or are building a hybrid form of rail transit combining the cost-disadvantages of heavy rail with the capacity limits of light rail. In his Policy Analysis for […]
May 30, 2014
Provost Academy Georgia Reboots and Rebrands for Swift Growth
Provost Academy Georgia changes coming soon include a new project with Marietta City Schools and a different relationship with Edison Learning. Provost offers statewide online learning and this fall it […]
June 21, 2013
A Shore Uncertainty: Rising Seas, Geologic Faults
Hurricane Sandy has been described as a harbinger of what comes with rising seas: the inundation of coastal cities, devastating storm surges, destruction of coastal wetlands and abandonment of land. […]
March 7, 2013
Imposing Renewable Energy Won’t Work
Imposing renewable energy upon Georgia’s taxpayers raises the cost of living, taking dollars out of citizens’ pockets that they could use to buy a newer, cleaner car, a better home, […]
November 3, 2010
Schools Should Look to Online Options Before Cutting Foreign Language and AP Courses
Tom Vander Ark writes that online offerings can help schools address tight budgets without reducing course options for students. The Georgia Virtual School run by the Georgia Department of Education […]