Georgia Pre-K Week; recognize October 6-10, 2025
Senate Resolution 369 is a commemorative resolution recognizing October 6-10, 2025, as Georgia Pre-K Week. It highlights the history and accomplishments of Georgia’s Pre-K Program, noting its start in 1992, statewide administration by the Department of Early Care and Learning since 2004, and its role in serving more than half of Georgia’s four-year-olds. The resolution also cites funding from the Georgia Lottery Corporation, research showing long-term educational gains for participating children, and the program’s national standing for access to pre-kindergarten.
The resolution further emphasizes the work of educators, child care providers, and advocacy organizations involved in early childhood education, including the 2024-2025 Georgia Pre-K Teachers of the Year and the groups hosting Georgia Pre-K Week. It encourages parents, educators, community members, and business leaders to support high-quality, accessible, and affordable early education across the state. The resolution is primarily celebratory and promotional, rather than regulatory, and is intended to raise awareness and public support for the Pre-K system.
SR369 does not amend Georgia law or create new legal requirements. Its practical effect is symbolic: it formally designates a week of recognition for Georgia Pre-K, acknowledges the program’s statewide reach and achievements, and promotes public engagement with early childhood education. The resolution may indirectly support future policy discussions by referencing recommendations from the House Working Group on Early Childhood Education, including class size, teacher pay, operating funds, entitlement earnings, and lease payments for private providers, but it does not itself change those policies or statutes.
The sentiment around the resolution is strongly supportive and celebratory. The text praises the Georgia Pre-K Program as nationally recognized, effective, and beneficial for school readiness, and it thanks the educators and staff who operate it. Because there were no recorded committee transcripts or votes provided, there is no evidence of opposition in the available materials, and the resolution appears to have been presented as a consensus recognition measure.
There is little direct contention in SR369 itself because it is a nonbinding recognition resolution. The only potentially contentious material appears in the background references to the House Working Group on Early Childhood Education, which recommended changes such as restoring class sizes to 20 students, increasing assistant teacher salaries, achieving pay parity with K-12 teachers, increasing operating funds, counting Pre-K enrollment toward entitlement earnings for school systems, and ensuring equivalent lease payments for private providers. Those recommendations suggest possible policy debates over funding, staffing, and program structure, but the resolution does not take a position on implementing them.