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School Justice & Student Well-Being
SB 427 – International Medical Licensing
This bill is a very big deal. It will create the first-ever pathway for experienced international physicians to practice in Georgia to fill in the dangerous shortages in medical and mental health care services for children in underserved rural areas and culturally-diverse metro areas. We've been working hard for many years on this bill.
SB 431 – Immediate Enrollment of Children in Foster Care
We support this bill. The bill’s authors used data from our work with families across the state to craft provisions to end delays in school enrollment for children in foster care caused by an increase in school demands for sensitive and private information about these children.
SB 497 – School-Based Behavioral Health Records
We oppose the provisions of this bill that would move private student medical records into a child’s public school education file. We believe that if the bill becomes law, parents and children will be afraid of taking advantage of school-based medical and mental health services—they will have good reason to fear that their records will not remain private.
SB 557 – School Climate Rating
We worked behind the scenes to successfully stop this bill from moving forward this year. It would have removed discipline data from schools’ climate ratings, making it harder to hold schools accountable for high rates of out-of-school suspension and expulsion.
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