Georgia State School Superintendent Richard Woods calls on Gov. Brian Kemp and lawmakers to give teachers a $3,000 raise next year.
Woods, a Republican elected statewide, made the proposal Thursday in an opinion column that he co-authored with 2024 Georgia Teacher of the Year Christy Todd, a music technology teacher at Rising Starr Middle School in suburban Atlanta’s Fayette County.
“The most important thing we can do to improve the quality of K-12 education in our state is to recruit our best and brightest to become teachers – and make it viable for them to stay,” the pair wrote.
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