Georgia’s Early Literacy Act requires universal K-3 reading screening three times a year, high-quality instructional materials, science-of-reading teacher training, and intervention plans for students with significant reading deficiencies — but it passed without a dedicated materials fund, so intervention curriculum purchases generally come from district QBE and federal Title I/IDEA dollars. State appropriations have concentrated on capacity: the enacted FY 2026 budget includes $18.5 million for 116 RESA-based literacy coaches and $2 million for a free universal reading screener, and the enacted FY 2027 budget adds $70.4 million for literacy coaches in every elementary school through the QBE formula. HB 307 bans three-cueing as a primary method and removed Reading Recovery from approved interventions, which reshapes which programs districts can defensibly buy.