Senate Appropriations Committee chairman Blake Tillery had a clear message for state superintendent Richard Woods following the education update of a recent meeting at the state capitol: Georgia’s youth literacy rates are scarily low.
“Knowing these numbers, I would expect–I would hope that there would be more people from the [Department of Education] beating down our doors with ideas,” he told Woods. “Bring us a plan… show us what you would do.”
According to the 2022-2023 statewide Georgia Milestones testing, only 39% of Georgia third graders were proficient or above in English language arts last year.
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