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Education in Georgia: Top Ten Issues - 2019

Explore the key challenges and trends in Georgia's education system, including leadership changes, early learning impact, teaching profession elevation, school safety, funding concerns, assessments, ESAs/vouchers, summer start dates, dual enrollment growth, and barriers to post-secondary success.

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Education in Georgia: Top Ten Issues - 2019

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  1. A Signature Partnership Product

  2. Top Ten Issues - 2019 (1) New Leadership – Changes at the Capitol (6) Assessments – Testing the Waters (2) Early Learning – Quality Early Care and Its Economic Impact (7) ESAs/ Vouchers – Taking a Hard Look at What’s Next (8) Summer Start Date – More than Meets the Eye (3) Teaching – Elevating the Profession…Now! (4) School Safety – Much More than Metal Detectors (9) Dual Enrollment – Growth and Sustainability (10) Post-Secondary – Costs, Other Barriers Impede Success (5) Funding: Is Fully Funding QBE Enough?

  3. How is Georgia Trending?

  4. Defining a profession: • Rigorous training • Positive working conditions • Active professional organization • or association • Substantial workplace authority • Relatively high compensation • High prestige • Elements of the teaching profession: • Wages • Benefits • Professional pathways

  5. Recommendations from Gov. Nathan Deal’s Education Reform Commission • Compensation review • Increased compensation for increased responsibilities • Full year of pre-service training • Service cancellable loans • Opportunities • Re-examination of the current TRS (defined benefit) plan • Development of teacher leaders • Allow retired teachers to return to work full-time while drawing retirement

  6. Issues to Consider • Benchmarks and Assessments • Summer Learning Loss • Summer Learning Opportunities • Costs • Availability - Rural areas in particular • 25% participation in rural • 41% participation in urban areas • Economic Development • Student Safety • Local Priorities • Senate Study Committee Recommendation: • “[C]hanges to the state law that would place “guardrails” on each district’s ability to set school year start and end dates. The committee is recommending a required start date no earlier than seven to 10 days before Labor Day and an end date around June 1.”

  7. HB 787 – statewide needs based aid program • Complete College Georgia Initiative • College Readiness: Mending the P-12 pipeline to increase the number of high school students who graduate and are ready to begin higher education work • Improving Access and Completion among Underserved Students: Identifying and removing common barriers for minority, part-time, adult, military, disabled, low-income, and first-generation students • Shortening the Time to Degree: Improving current paths and developing new paths for students to earn a high-quality degree in a timely manner • Restructuring Instructional Delivery: Improving the quality of student learning through effective teaching, facilitation, and innovative modes of learning • Transforming Remediation: Improving remedial education practices to remove barriers and increase success.

  8. Questions Welcome Now & Anytime! Dana Rickman Vice President drickman@gpee.org 404.223.2462

  9. Top Ten Issues - 2019 (1) New Leadership – Changes at the Capitol (6) Assessments – Testing the Waters (2) Early Learning – Quality Early Care and Its Economic Impact (7) ESAs/ Vouchers – Taking a Hard Look at What’s Next (8) Summer Start Date – More than Meets the Eye (3) Teaching – Elevating the Profession…Now! (4) School Safety – Much More than Metal Detectors (9) Dual Enrollment – Growth and Sustainability (10) Post-Secondary – Costs, Other Barriers Impede Success (5) Funding: Is Fully Funding QBE Enough?

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