Hickman said his efforts to help improve literacy will continue and he will keep reading to children. The heart of the bill reads: “…to require local school systems to develop and implement five-year literacy plans for such school system and individual literacy plans for students in kindergarten through grade five…” Hickman said he sponsored Senate Bill 211 to specifically establish oversight from the Council on Literacy ton help schools and the state increase literacy. If we don’t address that issue head-on, we will put those kids and our whole state at a terrible disadvantage.” “In some school systems in my senate district, less than one-third of kids are reading on their grade level. “In our area and in Georgia, we are not doing enough to get our kids reading and the COVID pandemic just made it worse. ![]() “Literacy is the basis of our children learning,” Hickman said after finishing reading to the Kid’s World children. Hickman won a special election in August 2020 to replace Hill. Hickman was referring to the late State Sen.
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