Senate study committee is recommending raising the dropout age from 16 to 17 and improving support services to keep kids in school.
Republicans pushed a proposal to overhaul the county commission in Georgia's second most-populous county through a state Senate committee on Thursday.
Republicans are moving to ram through bills changing the composition of the county commission and school board in Georgia's second-largest county after Democrats took control of both bodies.
A Georgia Senate study committee meetings continue as students are struggling to find ways to finance the high cost of tuition.
Congresswoman Lucy McBath and hazing experts share their hopes for proactive new legislation that targets hazing incidents on every level.
Groups across Georgia university campuses have organized to protest the lack of mask mandates and demand the university system to get serious about COVID-19.
Georgia educators discuss outdoor learning initiatives to improve student success.
Thirty-five states have a mandatory age of education of at least 17, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Currently, Georgia shares the same policy with Florida and North Carolina. In Alabama and South Carolina, the age is already 17 years, and 18 in Tennessee.
Some parents are concerned about schools using social and emotional learning, which they have conflated with critical race theory.
Georgia lawmakers, including a microbiologist and an epidemiologist, give parents back-to-school advice amid Delta variant wave during a virtual town hall on Facebook.
