Georgia Family Council - Press Releases

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PRESS RELEASES

2012

3/30/2012 - Georgia General Assembly Completes Successful Session for School Choice

3/19/2012 - Jerri Nims Rooker: “We applaud Georgia’s Senators for focusing on the interests of students…”

2/13/2012 - Governor Deal Declares “Georgia Marriage Week”

2/8/2012 - Jerri Nims Rooker: "Georgia's Representatives have failed our students."

1/23/2012 - More Than 1,500 School Choice Supporters Will Rally at Georgia State Capitol

2011

12/5/2011 - Award-Winning Gospel Artist Marvin Sapp to Perform at Community Forum on Education

11/14/2011 - Taste Shop Give Nov. 19 Event by Georgia Family Council to benefit 15 nonprofits

11/8/2011 - Tax Credit Scholarship Program Reaches Donation Cap for the First Time

2010

7/30/2010 - New Survey Finds Overwhelming Parental Satisfaction With Georgia Special Needs Scholarship

3/4/2010 - Early HOPE Scholarship For Military Families

2/16/2010 - School Choice Supporters Rally at Georgia State Capitol

2/3/2010 - Early HOPE Scholarship Legislation Introduced

2009

11/18/2009 - Marriage Conference Aims to Reduce Divorce in the African American Community

10/29/2009 - Jeb Bush to Host Education Reform Summit in Georgia

7/29/2009 - Parents Overwhelmingly Satisfied with Georgia Special Needs Scholarship

1/22/2009 - Georgia Education Spending More than Doubles, Yet Graduation Rate Slips

2008

5/14/2008 - Governor Perdue signs legislation creating tax credit scholarships

5/13/2008 - Governor Perdue signs legislation creating a state-level alternate authorizer for charter schools

4/16/2008 - Georgia Taxpayers Shoulder $1.46 Billion a Year Due to Divorce and Unwed Childbirth

4/8/2008 - Media Advisory: GA Release of First-Time Research Reveals Staggering Annual Taxpayer Costs for Divorce and Unwed Childbearing

3/24/2008 - Media Advisory: National Release of First-Time Research Reveals Staggering Annual Taxpayer Costs for Divorce and Unwed Childbearing

2007

4/9/2007 - GFC Announces Poll Results Supporting Greater Parental Choice in Education

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School Choice Supporters Early HOPE Scholarship Marriage Conference Aims Jeb Bush to Host Parents Overwhelmingly Georgia Education Spending Governor Perdue signs Governor Perdue Georgia Taxpayers Shoulder Media Advisory: GA Release Media Advisory: National GFC Announces Poll Results Taste Shop Give Nov. 19 Georgia General Assembly Completes Successful Session for School Choice

GFC in the News

School Choice Rally 2 more Georgia systems Rally to unite public Georgia Schools Inquiry Suspicious test scores Special needs scholarship Bill to Expand School Vouchers By Sandra Parrish, WSB Radio Rules Clarified for Special State education board Jeb Bush to talk Are drastic swings in Marriage declaration signing Vouchers program thrills Dreadful statistics confront Council will push healthy Group puts focus Report on graduation Georgia Scholarship Program Columbus Marriage Georgia College report Should the government Good News: Georgia Governor Perdue signs Family fracture, unwed Efforts to strengthen Deterioration of families Study: Cost of divorce School choice bills face Tax credits for private Vouchers help public Fewer wedded to being married Georgia House Passes Assisted-Suicide Ban Developer pitches gambling to lottery board Video gambling project appears to be dead in the water Gwinnett gambling proposal gets cold shoulder

Randy Hicks Eric Cochling John Jauregui Jamie Lord

The Value of Remembering Confessions of a “Trophy Wired to the Max Hope for Change Tuning In to Decisions Are Dads Disposable? D.C. Kids Get Coal Home for Christmas What Teens Want Putting Marriage in Grabbing Life By Health Care Reform’s Why We Fight Quality Marriage, Quality Tear Down This Wall The Slide of American Under the Emancipation A Sobering Reality When Educators Cheat Bringing Thriftiness Back She Did What?! Knowledge and Character: Misdiagnosing Health Town Hall Turbulence Slouching Toward Marriage Change for the Better The Harm of Government Torn Between Two Worlds Evading Infidelity Mr. President, Please Tell It's About Time Why Celebrate Dads? Self-Defeating Behavior Sliding Support for Abortion Asphyxiating the Health Remember Memorial Day Saying Goodbye to a Not in Good Conscience Preventing Child Abuse Want More Money Helping Others Helps Why Life is the Why Do We Need Parenting isn't about Human Capacity for Evil The Time Has Come Stressed Out Spouses Stimulus is Not the Answer Doing Less with More What Children Think Cynical About Abstinence Religious Intolerance "And the Soul Felt Its Becoming the Change We can’t expect honest Failing Students Disagreements Aside Spending Habits: Inherited Cheaters Never Win Childish Responses to Tackling a Heartbreaking Heartbreaking Injustice Economies Don't Fail Is Dating a Dress Competition Celebrates Reacting to the Palin How My Kids Help Me Olympic-Sized Domination Preparing for Tough Times Buyer's Remorse Sex: TV Style Rethinking the Corporate Hope for Change Sending the Wrong Relieving the Family Children: Robbers of Happiness? Why Tim Russert Mattered A Father Thinks About Swimming Upstream Adjusting Once Kids Redefining Marriage A More Educated Georgia When Mothers Sacrifice Static on the Line Growing Up with Divorce The High Price of Broken More than a Prom "Go Outside and Play" I Am Not an Animal The Divorce Party Parents Know Best The Truth is Not a Game Choosing to Save "In Pig's Heaven" Letter to a Single Mom Questions Worth Asking Looking Out for Families Avoiding the Money Pit Standing Firm with The Measure of a Man New Year's Resolution Altering Tomorrow's The Lottery Hits the Jackpot Time is a Gift Holding on to Marriage Giving Thanks at Choice For Change Um, We Need to Talk Power Over the Innocent Life, Love and...Robots? A Good Marriage The End of the Affair The Overextended Family We Interrupt this Program... You Can't Hurry Love Looking to the Future Time Out on the Playing Field It Starts at Home Doing Right by our Kids The Sum of our Discontent Reversing Course on Commitment with its Bringing Leaders Together You Can't Hurry Love An Unhealthy Obsession Sexting Exposes Parental "In Pig's Heaven" School Takes Away

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