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GA SB93

Bill

Status

Passed

4/30/2025

Primary Sponsor

RaShaun Kemp

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Amends the Georgia Early Literacy Act to require the Professional Standards Commission to adopt rules establishing criteria for core curricula in state-approved educator preparation programs

  • Mandates that reading instruction standards be exclusively aligned with the science of reading, including explicit, systematic, sequential, and cumulative approaches to teaching phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and text comprehension

  • Requires educator preparation programs to include multisensory and multimodal intervention strategies, along with content literacy and mathematics practices

  • Requires training in strategies for instructing English language learners, students with disabilities, and differentiated instruction based on student needs

  • Includes requirements for early identification of students with reading deficiencies and strategies for technology use in education and distance learning

Legislative Description

"Georgia Early Literacy Act"; the three-cuing system from inclusion in high-quality instructional materials or structured literacy; prohibit

Last Action

Effective Date 2025-07-01

4/30/2025

Committee Referrals

Education3/10/2025
Education and Youth2/5/2025

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