Georgia's Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has begun to push the state to provide school districts grants to help students catch up on what they may have missed during the COVID-19 pandemic and to facilitate major classroom changes. | Gov. Brian Kemp/Facebook
Georgia's Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has begun to push the state to provide school districts grants to help students catch up on what they may have missed during the COVID-19 pandemic and to facilitate major classroom changes. | Gov. Brian Kemp/Facebook
Georgia's Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has begun to push the state to provide school districts grants to help students catch up on what they may have missed during the COVID-19 pandemic and to facilitate major classroom changes.
Kemp is pushing a plan that would allow state officials to expand the number of school counselors, encourage teacher aides to become full-fledged teachers and enact a law that mandates school lockdown drills.
“We have more work to do to address pandemic learning loss, bring more educators and counselors into our schools, and keep our students and staff safe," Kemp said at Dove Creek Elementary School in Statham, FOX 5 reports.
The list of proposals rolled into Kemp's overall plan are major components in his second-term reelection strategy, which he recently unveiled at an elementary school in Oconee County where his daughter worked as a grade-school teacher last year.
As a candidate in 2018, Kemp made a $5,000 pay raise for teachers a centerpiece of his agenda, and earlier in 2022, he delivered the final allotment, FOX 5 reports.
He hasn't yet proposed a pay raise as part of his second-term agenda — a move that has raised eyebrows from Kemp’s Democratic opposers.
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