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Foundation Hosts March 22 Leadership Breakfast: 'Georgia Health Care Update'
Atlanta – As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to consider arguments regarding the constitutionality of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Georgia anticipates the aftermath, Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens and health care expert Ronald E. Bachman will provide a timely "Georgia Health Care Update," at a Georgia Public Policy Foundation Leadership Breakfast at 8 a.m. Thursday, March 22, 2012, at Cobb County's Georgian Club.
Register online at http://tinyurl.com/7ldaqnk. This Leadership Breakfast will cost $25 to attend.

 
Making Sense of the Report on Georgia's Charter Schools
Last year, the Georgia Supreme Court closed the Georgia Charter Schools Commission and gave local school boards “exclusive” control over public education in Georgia. Now legislators are debating whether the state should be able to authorize start-up charter schools and whether the state should have any role in education other than writing checks to school boards.  
A brief list of discrepancies found in the 2010-11 Charter School Report
The 2010-2011 Charter School Report is being highlighted during the height of a crucial debate at the Legislature over the future of charter schools in Georgia. Inaccurate, incomplete or misleading information must not be allowed to taint that important debate.  
Georgia Transit Dreams, Transportation Nightmares
The headline on an article in The Onion satirical magazine in 2000 was, "Report: 98 Percent Of U.S. Commuters Favor Public Transportation For Others." Sometimes truth is even stranger than fiction. Fewer than four out of every 100 metro Atlanta workers rely on public transportation for their daily commutes, according to Census Bureau data. Yet the priorities in proposals for congestion relief in metro Atlanta would lead any outsider to believe that the public is clamoring for more mass transit.  
Foundation Releases Issue Analysis on Georgia Criminal Justice Reform
Atlanta – The Georgia Public Policy Foundation today released an Issue Analysis on criminal justice reform, "Peach State Criminal Justice: Controlling Costs, Protecting the Public." The Issue Analysis, by Marc Levin and Vikrant Reddy, reviews the recommendations made by the Special Council on Criminal Justice Reform for Georgians and discusses how commonsense adjustments to the criminal justice system have assisted other states in ensuring public safety, holding offenders accountable and controlling corrections costs.  
Peach State Criminal Justice: Controlling Costs, Protecting the Public
Georgia has struggled to identify polices that properly differentiate between high-risk, violent offenders and lower-risk, nonviolent offenders. Though Georgia’s response to a nonviolent crime has often been to incarcerate, increasing prison populations and costs have led many to question whether probation or diversion to drug or mental health treatment may be better for public safety, better for taxpayers and even better for the offender.
Read the Foundation's Issue Analysis at http://www.georgiapolicy.org/pub/Crime/IACriminalJustice.pdf.
 




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