See which new education laws are taking effect in Georgia
Lawmakers inserted nearly $8 million into the budget toward unfunded literacy mandates they adopted last year
Literacy
A core skill can be hard to teach
Georgia leaders get serious about literacy, but are not ready to pay for it
Mississippi spent $15 million a year on its touted literacy mandate. The cost would be much higher in Georga, but lawmakers here aren't paying.
Marietta tries unique strategy to prepare young kids to learn to read
Every Georgia elementary school will soon have to reconsider how to teach reading. One metro Atlanta system has a head start.
Politicians enter fray on best way to teach Georgia kids to read
Georgia lawmakers wade into the decades-long feud over how to teach reading, but is there really a literacy crisis and did they pick the right approach?
Will Georgia’s new dyslexia mandate make a difference?
Teacher colleges will play a pivotal role, yet academics disagree about whether the term "dyslexia" means anything useful.
Lawmakers see dyslexia as a largely hidden problem for Georgia schools
Jay Leno and Richard Branson have it. So does California Gov. Gavin Newsom. And if you’re in a room with 10 kids, one or two of them may also have it.
