Ross Williams

Georgia is one of only six states that does not allocate state funds to students in poverty. That could soon be changing – kind of.

A bill preparing Georgia code for the end of the U.S. Department of Education is moving toward a House vote after passing the Senate.

As the clock ticks down to Crossover Day, Georgia legislators passed a flurry of education bills, with subjects ranging from school security to requiring schools to ban cell phones for students.

Georgia college students who get into trouble in campus protests could also lose their scholarships, if a House bill becomes law.

Senate Republicans passed a bill giving foster parents priority access to the state’s voucher program for their own children. 

The House passed a transgender sports ban, which also strips out references to “gender” across code, replacing them with “sex.”

A bill aimed at preparing Georgia for the continuing proliferation of artificial intelligence did not get a committee vote Wednesday.

Georgia is considering a bill aimed at preventing children from accessing explicit library material. Opponents say it would chill free speech

A bill aimed at enshrining the right to in-vitro fertilization into state law passed its first hurdle, passing a House committee unanimously

A House committee advanced a bill that Speaker Jon Burns says will protect female athletes, but opponents say it targets transgender girls.

A House subcommittee moved forward a bill that would bar transgender girls from playing sports on girls’ teams in schools.

Moses brought them from Mt. Sinai to the children of Israel, now a Republican state rep wants to bring them to all the children of Georgia.

Break out the honey mustard, it’s time for nuggets. Introducing the Georgia Recorder’s Gold Dome Nuggets, part of a balanced news diet featuring your weekly recommended allowance of state Capitol happenings that didn’t quite generate headlines but gave us all plenty to talk about. For your first helping of Gold Dome nuggets, we present to […]

Lawmakers and lobbyists are tussling over a Democrat-sponsored plan to encourage gun owners to lock up their weapon

On Wednesday, a Senate Committee approved a bill that would bar doctors from prescribing puberty blockers to children with gender dysphoria.

State employees who use the state-sponsored health plan may soon be blocked from receiving gender-affirming care like hormone therapy.

The Georgia transgender bill’s sponsor also suggested that the body will take action to ban puberty-blocking drugs. 

Demonstrators gathered in Atlanta Wednesday afternoon to protest President Donald Trump’s actions in the early weeks of his second term. Several hundred people gathered in Centennial Olympic Park bearing signs expressing outrage for a wide range of policies, especially restrictions on transgender Americans, the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, support for Israel’s war in Gaza […]

A U.S. Senate committee has approved businesswoman and former Georgia U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler to lead the Small Business Administration under President Donald Trump’s second administration.

A proposal to cut gender-affirming care for people on Georgia’s state health insurance plan passed a Senate committee.