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Officials outline coordinated literacy plan, coaching tiers and dyslexia screening rollout
Summary
State education and literacy officials told the joint committee they have aligned agencies around a state literacy plan, narrowed approved universal screeners and are expanding differentiated coaching supports; they said dyslexia screening and metrics work are underway but workforce and funding remain constraints.
Representatives from the Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA), the Georgia Department of Education (DOE), the Regional Educational Service Agencies (RESA) network and literacy partners presented a coordinated plan to improve reading outcomes from birth through grade 12. Speakers described a statewide strategy, new K–12 English language arts standards, a multi‑tiered coaching system and implementation steps for dyslexia screening.
Sarah Richards, Georgia literacy coach with GOSA, summarized the state literacy plan framework adopted by the Georgia Council on Literacy and told the committee, “we have made an overarching goal that Georgia will lead the nation in literacy.” The council’s framework sets three goals: every child a reader, every educator prepared and every community supported, and the council includes state agencies, the University System of Georgia, the Technical…
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