IDRA’s Georgia Policy Priority Recommendations for the 2025 session
- Provide Full and Fair School Funding for All Students – All students deserve to attend free, high-quality, fully funded schools.
- End Harmful Discipline in Schools – Georgia’s students should have access to safe and supportive learning environments where teachers and school administrators do not rely on harmful exclusionary discipline and policing strategies.
- Promote Culturally-Sustaining School Climates that Support All Students – All students deserve to learn in culturally-sustaining school environments that affirm their racial, ethnic, gender and other identities.
Fliers: IDRA’s Georgia Policy Priority Recommendations for 2025 session.
Testimony
Students and Educators Challenge Classroom Censorship Laws in Texas and Georgia, by Makiah Lyons, J.D., & Paige Duggins-Clay, J.D., October 8, 2025
IDRA Policy Brief: Discipline is Not Security – Dismantling Disparities Should be Top of Mind When Developing School Safety Policy in Georgia, by Mikayla Arciaga, M.A.Ed., February 2025
IDRA Data Map: Discipline Disparity in Georgia Schools
Factsheet: Dismantling Disparity in Georgia – Harder Schools are not Safer Schools, March 5, 2025
Factsheet: 6 Steps to Fully Fund Georgia Schools, March 7, 2025
The Promise Scholarship Does Not Promise to Protect Students from Discrimination – IDRA Testimony Against SB 152, Submitted by Mikayla Arciaga, M.A.Ed., to the Georgia House Education Committee, April 1, 2025 • See video
SB 74 Criminalizes Librarians and Creates Complicated Processes – IDRA Testimony Against SB 74, Submitted by Mikayla Arciaga, M.A.Ed., to the Georgia House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee, March 19, 2025
Expanding the School-to-Prison Pipeline will Undermine School Safety – Testimony in Opposition to Senate Bill 61, Submitted by Mikayla Arciaga, M.A.Ed., to the Georgia House Judiciary Non-Civil Hong Subcommittee, March 18, 2025 • See video
SB 54 Disproportionately Impacts Our Most Vulnerable Students – IDRA Testimony Against Senate Bill 54, Submitted by DeAndrea Byrd, to the Georgia Senate Education and Youth Committee, March 5, 2025 • See video
Expanding the School-to-Prison Pipeline will Undermine School Safety – Testimony Against Senate Bill 61, Submitted by Makiah Lyons, J.D., to the Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee, March 3, 2025 • See video
Non-Diverse, Inequitable, Uninclusive Schools Are No Good for Georgia’s Students – Testimony Presented to the Georgia Senate Higher Education Committee Hearing, February 27, 2025 • See video
Better Accountability Measures Needed in HB 328 – IDRA Testimony Against House Bill 328, Submitted by Mikayla Arciaga, M.A.Ed., to the Georgia House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Income Tax, February 25, 2025 • See video
Security Cannot Be Achieved Through Discipline – IDRA Testimony On HB 268, Submitted by Mikayla Arciaga, M.A.Ed., to the Georgia House Education Subcommittee on Policy, February 13, 2025 • See video
Alerts
IDRA Georgia Education Policy Alert #6 – March 12, 2025
IDRA Georgia Education Policy Alert #5 – March 5, 2025
IDRA Georgia Education Policy Alert #4 – February 26, 2025
IDRA Georgia Education Policy Alert #3 – February 20, 2025
IDRA Georgia Education Policy Alert #2 – February 11, 2025
IDRA Georgia Education Policy Alert #1 – February 5, 2025
