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Georgia legislators brief East Point council on 2025 session wins and fights
Summary
State legislators representing East Point gave a wide-ranging account of the 2025 legislative session, highlighting education and school safety bills, health-care concerns and contested tort-reform legislation that passed over strong opposition.
State legislators representing East Point told the City Council on May 19 that the 2025 General Assembly session produced mixed results for local priorities, with new education mandates and school safety funding among the major wins and a contentious tort-reform bill among the session’s most polarizing outcomes.
Sen. Sonia Halpern, who represents District 39, said the session produced a “big win” for K–12 literacy, with legislation that will require schools to teach the science of reading and expanded supports for literacy coaches and student-teacher stipends. “We passed a piece of legislation that builds on that, and it requires, it will require all schools to actually teach the science of reading according to those standards,” Sen. Halpern said.
Halpern also noted passage of Ricky and Alyssa’s Law, a measure she described as a bipartisan…
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