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House Ways and Means Education Committee Chairman Rep. Danny Garrett, R-Trussville, said Senate Education Policy Committee Chairman Donnie Chesteen, R-Geneva, has a charter school bill.

Gov. Brian Kemp signed new laws Thursday that will require Georgia schools to perform annual drills for responding to campus shooters early in the school year and to perform literacy assessments for younger students three times per year to see if they can read at grade level.

Georgia schools will be required to hold annual drills for responding to campus shooters and perform reading assessments for younger students three times per year.

Several red states appear poised to adopt expansive school-choice policies this year, prompting the teachers unions and their allies to claim that the sky is falling, especially in rural areas. Corey DeAngelis is right to call out the Chicken Littles for their scaremongering (“The Little Red Schoolhouse Could Do With a Litt

"Dyslexia Treatment Market" is the title of a new report from Data Bridge Market Research. Key growth strategies, drivers, opportunities, key segments, Porters

Now is the time for Arizona, my home state, to continue its role as the leader in the movement to provide increased educational opportunities for its students.

Teachers and education leaders from across Alabama are in Birmingham for the seventh annual Opportunity Summit. They are talking about issues schools are facing and solutions.

The need to target resources to critical education priorities couldnot be more clear. Consolidation will ensure that pressing issuessuch as the achievement gap between poor children and theirmiddle-class peers receive the highest priority.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed bills Thursday that are aimed at improving school safety and literacy. Georgia lawmakers earlier set aside $115 million to make school safety grants.

Georgia schools will have to perform shooting drills early in the school year and administer literacy assessments for younger students three times a year.