At the Intersection of Education and Aging

Registration is open for, “At the Inter$ection of Education and Aging,” an 8 a.m. Leadership Breakfast on Thursday, March 10, 2016. Hosted by the Georgia Public Policy Foundation at Cobb County’s Georgian Club, the event speaker is Dr. Matt Ladner, Senior Advisor for the Foundation for Excellence in Education. 

Ladner will unveil his original research and analysis on the demographic challenges facing state education budgets, including Georgia’s, and strategies for substantially improving the academic quality of the state’s K-12 schools at a price taxpayers can afford.

Dr. Matthew Ladner is the Senior Advisor of Policy and Research for the Foundation for Excellence in Education. He has written numerous studies on school choice, charter schools and special education reform and co-authored, “Report Card on American Education: Ranking State K-12 Performance, Progress and Reform,” for the American Legislative Exchange Council.

Ladner has testified before Congress, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and numerous state legislative committees. The Phoenix, Ariz., resident is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin who earned his Master’s and Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Houston.