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A federal judge put a temporary hold on the state’s new social media age verification law, but the bill’s author says a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling bodes well for the ban.
Georgia’s new English language arts standards, which take effect in July, will include an emphasis on handwriting, and particularly cursive. The previous standards did not have an explicit place for handwriting.
Early voting ends this Friday in primary elections underway for a pair of Public Service Commission seats. All registered voters in Georgia are eligible to vote for each commissioner, no matter where they live.
