ATLANTA (November 21, 2024) – On Monday, November 25, at 1:00 p.m., the Senate Committee on Education and Youth & the Senate Committee on Higher Education will hold their second joint meeting of the interim.
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ATLANTA (October 10, 2024) – On Tuesday, October 15, at 9:30 a.m., the Senate Committee on Education and Youth & the Senate Committee on Higher Education will hold a joint meeting.
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ATLANTA (September 4, 2024) — Today, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Education and Youth Sen. Clint Dixon (R–Gwinnett), issued the following statement on today’s shooting at Apalachee High School in Barrow County:
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ATLANTA (May 9, 2024) – Members of the Georgia General Assembly convened this week to welcome the executive directors from all sixteen of Georgia’s Regional Education Service Agencies (RESAs). During the meeting, legislators and the executive directors proposed a plan to execute the literacy expectations established in House Bill 538 and House Bill 916, the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Budget. The proposed plan includes drafting job descriptions for regional literacy coaches, creating a hiring process, initiating an Advisory Design team for training literacy coaches and implementing an evaluation tool for coaches.
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ATLANTA (April 24, 2024) – Yesterday, Governor Brian P. Kemp signed Senate Bill 464, sponsored by Chairman of the Senate Committee on Education and Youth Sen. Clint Dixon (R–Gwinnett), into law. This measure mandates the State Board of Education to establish a program for the Department of Education to allocate funds for eligible teachers to purchase school supplies online. It also provides for universal reading screeners to be adopted, used and administrated in every Georgia public school and local school system.
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