Politics & Government

Sen. Rogers: Digital Learning Can Make Georgia a Leader in Education

The Georgia Senate Majority Leader discusses taking advantage of technology in his weekly legislative address.

Digital learning, teachers are the main subjects of Sen. Chip Rogers weekly legislative address.

Rogers said SB 289, the Digital Learning bill, will give Georgia the opportunity to be a leader in education instead of continuing to trail the nation.

The Republican senator said most of the time digital learning would take place in the classroom, at each student's own pace.

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Places in the state without the abiltiy to pay teachers for small numbers of students in subjects such as physics and languages such as Japanese will be able to offer them through digital learning, Rogers said.


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