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Superintendent Woods tells House Education Committee safety, literacy are top priorities
Summary
At a meeting of the Georgia House Education Committee, Superintendent Woods outlined the Department of Education's 2025 priorities — school safety, statewide literacy efforts and supporting teachers — and answered members' questions about resource officers, literacy coaches, cybersecurity and workforce supports for educators.
Superintendent Woods, state school superintendent, told members of the Georgia House Education Committee that school safety and literacy are the Department of Education’s top legislative priorities and outlined specific funding and policy areas the department wants lawmakers to consider.
Woods told the committee the department’s strategic plan centers the whole child and that the department proposes sustaining a school safety coordinator role currently funded by ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) dollars. “We only get 1 shot. There is no redo. There is no reset,” he said, arguing that coordinated expertise and liaison work with agencies such as GEMA are needed to prevent and respond to crises.
The superintendent highlighted a set of proposals and initiatives he said the…
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