SR227: SR227 Dooly County Schools; congratulate

This resolution is a ceremonial statement from the Georgia Senate honoring Dooly County Schools for receiving the Georgia Reads Community Award. The award recognizes communities that build sustained partnerships to improve literacy, and the resolution describes how Dooly County Schools worked with groups like Family Connections and Albany Primary Health to run reading events, set up Little Libraries, offer reading incentives, and provide vision and hearing screenings for students. The resolution does not change any Georgia law or create new requirements. It simply has the Senate formally congratulate the school system and its partners, and directs the Secretary of the Senate to send a copy of the resolution to Dooly County Schools as a keepsake.

• Formally congratulates and commends Dooly County Schools for receiving the Georgia Reads Community Award for its literacy work.
• Recognizes specific partner organizations, including Family Connections and Albany Primary Health, for contributing to literacy and student health efforts.
• Directs the Secretary of the Senate to prepare and send a copy of the resolution to Dooly County Schools.
• Creates no new law, funding, or regulatory requirement, since it is a commendatory resolution rather than a bill.

Dooly County Schools, its students and staff, and its community partners such as Family Connections and Albany Primary Health are named and honored in the resolution's text.

The resolution carries no legal or funding consequences, but it publicly recognizes Dooly County Schools' literacy partnerships in the official Senate record, which can highlight the program as a model for other Georgia school districts.

• Recites the purpose of the Georgia Reads Community Award, which honors sustained, multi-year literacy partnerships with measurable results.
• States that Dooly County Schools used an L4GA grant to support literacy initiatives aimed at improving student reading outcomes.
• Notes contributions from Family Connections (reading events, Little Libraries, reading incentives) and Albany Primary Health (free vision and hearing screenings).
• Resolves that the Senate congratulates Dooly County Schools and its partners for their literacy work.
• Directs the Secretary of the Senate to make a copy of the resolution available for distribution to Dooly County Schools.

1. 2025-02-20Senate Read and Adopted (Senate)
2. 2025-02-19Senate Hopper (Senate)

• Billy Hickman (R, SD-004)Primary sponsor
• Larry Walker (R, SD-020)

• literacy programs
• Dooly County Schools
• education awards
• Georgia Senate resolutions