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The Department of Early Care and Learning is created as a department of the executive branch of state government and shall have the duties, responsibilities, functions, powers, and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-2

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Board' means the Board of Early Care and Learning. (2) 'Child care learning center' ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-3

(a) There is created a Board of Early Care and Learning and a commissioner of early care and learning. (b) The board shall consist of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-4

The Department of Early Care and Learning shall have the following powers and duties: (1) To administer such programs and services as may be necessary ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-5

This chapter shall not be construed to impair or affect the rights of persons previously transferred to the Office of School Readiness who were members of the Teachers ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-6

The department shall succeed to all rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and pending and finalized administrative orders of the Office of School Readiness which are in effect on September ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-7

Each newly printed publication, poster, banner, or sign created for the pre-kindergarten program by the department or a provider of pre-kindergarten services shall refer to the program as ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-8

(a) Effective October 1, 2004, the department shall carry out all of the functions and exercise all of the powers formerly held by the Department of Human Resources ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-9

The department shall succeed to all rights and responsibilities relating to licensure and regulation of day-care centers, group day-care homes, and family day-care homes, including such rules, regulations, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-10

(a) The department is authorized and empowered to establish, maintain, extend, and improve throughout the state, within the limits of funds appropriated for such purposes, the regulation of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-11

(a) Any person who violates the provisions of Code Section 20-2A-10 or who hinders, obstructs, or otherwise interferes with any representative of the department in the discharge of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-12

(a) This Code section shall be applicable to any early care and education program which is subject to regulation by the department in accordance with this chapter. For ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-13

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Emergency order' or 'order' means a written directive by the commissioner or the commissioneŕs designee ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-14

(a) The department upon application or petition may grant variances and waivers to specific rules and regulations which establish standards for early care and education programs regulated by ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-15

(a) As used in this chapter, the term 'inspection warrant' means a warrant authorizing a search or inspection of private property where such a search or inspection is ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-16

It shall be the duty of all other state departments, agencies, officers, and employees to assure the most effective coordination and use of state resources, personnel, and facilities ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-17

The commissioner and the State School Superintendent, with the concurrence of the board for the department and the State Board of Education, are authorized to transfer programs relating ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-30

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Center' means a day-care center, group day-care home, family day-care home, or child care learning center which ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-31

(a) Each center shall be required to obtain a separate license for each facility and shall have a separate director for each facility. (b) An ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-32

Accompanying any application for a new license for a facility, the applicant shall furnish to the department a records check application for the director and a satisfactory preliminary ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-33

After being furnished the required records check application under Code Section 20-1A-32 the department shall notify in writing the license applicant as to each person for whom an ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-34

The department shall transmit to GCIC both sets of fingerprints and the records search fee from each fingerprint records check application. Upon receipt thereof, GCIC shall promptly transmit ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-35

After receiving a Federal Bureau of Investigation report regarding a national fingerprint records check under Code Section 20-1A-34, the department shall make a determination based thereon and notify ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-36

No facility operated as an early care and education program or similar facility or any operator of such a facility shall employ any person who has been convicted ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-37

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, an individual who resides in a family day-care home, as defined by Code Section 20-1A-2, shall not be required to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-38

(a) If the director of a facility which has been issued a license ceases to be the director of that facility, the licensee shall thereupon designate a new ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-39

(a) Before a person may become an employee other than a director of any center after that center has received a license, that center shall require that person ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-40

(a) GCIC and law enforcement agencies which have access to GCIC information shall cooperate with the department in performing preliminary and fingerprint records checks required under this article ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-41

(a) Neither GCIC, the department, any law enforcement agency, nor the employees of any such entities shall be responsible for the accuracy of information nor have any liability ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-42

The requirements of this article are supplemental to any requirements for a license imposed by Article 1 of this chapter. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-43

A determination by the department regarding preliminary or fingerprint records checks under this article, or any action by the department revoking, suspending, or refusing to grant or renew ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-44

The board is authorized to provide by regulation for the administration of this article. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-60

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Council' means the Georgia Child Care Council created pursuant to Code Section 20-1A-61. (2) ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-61

(a) There is created the Georgia Child Care Council which shall consist of 20 members. Fourteen of those members shall be voting members appointed by the Governor and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-62

(a) The Governor shall annually appoint a chairperson and vice chairperson of the council to serve for one-year terms. (b) The council shall hold regular ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-63

The council shall advise and make recommendations to the board and commissioner on the following: (1) Policy matters relating to early care and education programs; ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-1A-64

(a) The lead agency shall: (1) Provide to the department, under contract, an amount not less than the minimum percentage of the grant to the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1

(a) The State Board of Education is created. The state board shall be composed of one member from each congressional district in this state, who shall be appointed ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2

The first State Board of Education appointed under this article shall hold office as follows: two for three years; four for five years; and four for seven years. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-3

In case of a vacancy on the State Board of Education by death, resignation, removal, or from any cause other than the expiration of such member´s term of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-4

The members of the State Board of Education shall be citizens of this state who have resided in Georgia continuously for at least five years preceding their appointment. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-5

The members of the State Board of Education shall take an oath of office for the faithful performance of their duties and the oath of allegiance to the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-5.1

(a) Each member of the State Board of Education shall hold one or more public hearings annually during the regular school calendar year in the respective congressional district ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-5.2

The State Board of Education shall elect a chairperson and such other officers it may deem appropriate. The term of the chairperson shall be fixed by the state ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-6

The State Board of Education is authorized to appoint committees composed of members of the state board as a majority vote of the state board may determine to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-7

The members of the State Board of Education as a committee or any committee of the state board when authorized by board action taken at a meeting held ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-8

The State Board of Education may authorize any member of the state board to travel within or outside this state if necessary to obtain information for the guidance ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-9

Each member of the State Board of Education shall receive the sum provided for by Code Section 45-7-21 for each day of actual attendance at meetings of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-10

(a) No member or appointee of the State Board of Education or any other person having authority to select or aid in the selection of textbooks for the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-11

The State Board of Education shall prepare and submit to the Governor and General Assembly an estimate of the funds necessary for the operation of the state public ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-12

The State Board of Education is authorized to make available educational programs through the medium of educational television. The state board is authorized to own, operate, maintain, and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-13

The State Board of Education may use and allocate money for educational research and preparation and publication of instructional material, and such funds may be paid upon approval ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-14

The State Board of Education is authorized to receive, accept, hold, and operate, on behalf of the state, donations, grants, gifts, devises, and bequests of real, personal, and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-15

The State Board of Education is authorized and is designated the proper state agency to receive all federal funds and any other funds that may be appropriated, granted, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-16

(a) The State Board of Education is authorized to receive any federal funds or any other funds made available to it for schoolhouse construction or improvement of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-17

The Department of Education, on behalf of the state, may lease for periods up to four years any state-owned property in its control and held for its use ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-18

Any trust fund or property, real, personal, or mixed, specifically including the 'Pupils´ Trust Fund' pertaining to the Georgia Academy for the Blind, that may have been created ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-19

(a) The Governor may designate the State Board of Education to receive and review asbestos management plans of local boards of education and of owners of private, nonprofit ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-20

The State Board of Education is authorized to establish regional offices of the Department of Education, subject to appropriation by the General Assembly. Should the state board establish ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-30

The State School Superintendent shall be elected by the persons qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly at the same time and in the same manner ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-31

To render a person eligible to hold the office of State School Superintendent, he or she shall hold a four-year degree from an accredited college or university. No ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-32

Upon entering upon the discharge of his official duties, the State School Superintendent shall give bond in the penal sum of $50,000.00 to the state, with some approved ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-33

The State School Superintendent shall be compensated as provided in Code Sections 45-7-3 and 45-7-4. He shall also be reimbursed for his expenses incurred in connection with the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-34

The State School Superintendent shall carry out and enforce all the rules and regulations of the State Board of Education and the laws governing the schools receiving state ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-35

It shall be the duty of the State School Superintendent to visit, as often as possible, the several counties for the purpose of examining into the administration of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-36

In the event of a misapplication of any of the funds apportioned to any of the institutions of learning or schools receiving state aid, the State School Superintendent ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-37

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-38

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-50

Each county of this state, exclusive of any independent school system in existence in a county, shall compose one school district and shall be confined to the control ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-51

(a) No person shall be eligible for election as a member of a local board of education who is not a resident of the school district in which ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-52

Members of local boards of education shall be elected for terms of four years unless their terms are otherwise provided by local Act or constitutional amendment. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-53

In addition to certifications of elections now required to be made to the Governor, it shall be the duty of the elections superintendent of each system or other ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-54.1

(a) In all instances where local laws applicable to local boards of education do not provide otherwise, a vacancy occurring for any reason on a local board of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-55

(a) In any local school system for which no local Act is passed, members of the local board of education shall, when approved by the local board affected, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-56

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the General Assembly may provide by local law for the election in nonpartisan elections of candidates to fill the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-57

(a) Unless otherwise provided by local law or, in the absence of local law, by local board policy, upon being called together by one of their number, the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-58

It shall be the duty of each local board of education to hold a regular meeting during each calendar month for the transaction of business pertaining to the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-58.1

(a) As used in this Code section, the term 'immediate family' means a spouse, child, sibling, or parent or the spouse of a child, sibling, or parent. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-59

The county school superintendent and county board of education shall make rules to govern the county schools of their county. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-60

The board of education of any county shall have the right, if, in its opinion, the welfare of the schools of the county and the best interests of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-61

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-62

Power is conferred upon the county tax levying authorities of the several counties, as well as the county boards of education, to carry on educational work for the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-64

(a) Each local board of education is authorized to establish and maintain one or more funds or trusts for the purposes specified in this Code section and to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-65

(a) The General Assembly of Georgia, recognizing the need for providing school age children with programs outside the normal school curriculum that enable them to reach their full ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-66

(a) Each local school system in this state is encouraged to establish and support a school breakfast program to make breakfast available to all students in kindergarten through ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-67

(a) When an audit by the Department of Audits and Accounts finds and reports irregularities or budget deficits in the fund accounting information regarding a local school system ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-68

The Office of Planning and Budget shall collect from local school systems and local school systems shall supply information sufficient for the Office of Planning and Budget to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-69

Each local board of education shall issue high school diplomas to veterans who failed to receive diplomas due to an interruption of their education by service in World ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-70

Each local board of education shall issue high school diplomas to veterans who failed to receive diplomas due to an interruption of their education by service in the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-80

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-81

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-85

(a) The General Assembly recognizes the need to improve communication and participation of parents and the community in the management and operation of local schools. The General Assembly ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-86

(a) By October 1, 2001, each local board of education that elects to participate in the Quality Basic Education Program provided for in Article 6 of this chapter ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-100

The office of county school superintendent shall be substituted for the office of county school commissioner. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-101

(a) Superintendents of each school system shall be employed by the local board of education under written contracts for a term of not less than one year and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-103

Before entering upon the discharge of his official duties the county school superintendent shall take and subscribe to the same oath required of the other officers of this ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-104

Each county and independent system school superintendent must give bond with an approved surety company payable to the county or independent system board of education, the amount to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-108

Each local school superintendent shall be certified and classified by the Professional Standards Commission as teachers are now classified and certified under Code Section 20-2-200. The superintendents shall ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-109

The local school superintendent shall constitute the medium of communication between the State School Superintendent and subordinate local school officers. The local school superintendent shall be the executive ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-110

The county authorities of each county shall furnish the county school superintendent thereof an office in the courthouse, provided there is sufficient room in the courthouse after furnishing ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-111

The county school superintendent and members of the county board of education are authorized to administer oaths necessary in transacting school business or in conducting investigations before the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-112

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-130

This article shall be known and may be cited as the 'Quality Basic Education Act.' ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-131

The General Assembly of Georgia, recognizing the need for: (1) Implementing a quality basic education curriculum in public schools state wide which ensures that each ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-132

It is the intent of the General Assembly that the primary goals of this article shall be as follows: (1) A substantial reduction in the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-133

(a) Admission to the instructional programs funded under this article shall be free to all eligible children and youth who enroll in such programs within the local school ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-140

The State Board of Education shall establish competencies that each student is expected to master prior to completion of the student´s public school education. The state board shall ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-141

The State Board of Education shall establish at least once every four years a review of the adopted competencies and uniformly sequenced core curriculum by a task force ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-142

(a)(1) All elementary and secondary schools which receive in any manner funds from the state shall provide the following course offerings in the manner and at the grade ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-143

(a) Each local board of education shall prescribe a course of study in sex education and AIDS prevention instruction for such grades and grade levels in the public ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-144

(a) Each local board of education shall prescribe mandatory instruction concerning alcohol and other drug use in every year in every grade from kindergarten through grade 12 as ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-145

(a) The State Board of Education shall develop by the start of the 1997-1998 school year a comprehensive character education program for levels K-12. This comprehensive character education ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-146

(a) All schools with grade ten or above may make available to eligible students a Scholastic Assessment Test preparatory course. Such course of study shall be designed to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-147

On a school day on or immediately preceding or as close to the annual observance of Veterans Day as practicable as determined by a school´s scheduled curriculum, each ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-150

(a) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (b) of this Code section, all children and youth who have attained the age of five years by September 1 shall ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-151

(a) The primary purpose for the general and career education programs is to provide the children and youth of Georgia with a quality opportunity to master student competencies ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-151.1

(a) For the purpose of fulfilling the foreign language requirements for a college preparatory curriculum seal of endorsement on a high school diploma, a demonstrated proficiency in American ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-151.2

For the purpose of earning Carnegie unit curriculum credits at the high school level, satisfactory completion, on or after January 1, 1999, of a driver education course in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-152

(a) All children and youth who are eligible for a general and career education program under Code Section 20-2-151 and who have special educational needs shall also be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-153

(a) The State Board of Education shall create and each local board of education shall provide an early intervention program to serve students in kindergarten through grade five. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-154

(a) All children and youth who are eligible for a general and career education program under Code Section 20-2-151 and who are also eligible under the criteria specified ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-154.1

(a) It is the policy of this state that the alternative education program shall provide a learning environment that includes the objectives of the quality core curriculum and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-155

The State Board of Education shall establish a state-wide school climate management program to help local schools and systems requesting assistance in developing school climate improvement and management ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-156

The State Board of Education shall create a program for limited-English-proficient students whose native language is not English, subject to appropriation by the General Assembly. The purpose of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-157

(a) It is the intent of the General Assembly to establish a uniform reporting system to be used as one of the criteria to determine eligibility of students ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-158

A local unit of administration shall be authorized to contract for school psychology services with an individual certified by the Professional Standards Commission in school psychology. The certified ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-159

For the purposes of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 20 U.S.C.A. Section 1400, et seq., students enrolled in home study programs meeting the requirements of Code Section ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-160

(a) The State Board of Education shall designate the specific dates upon which two counts of students enrolled in each instructional program authorized under this article shall be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-161

(a) The high school general education program is declared to be the base program against which the cost of all other instructional programs shall be compared. The amount ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-161.1

(a) For purposes of this Code section, the term: (1) 'Course' means any plan or program of instruction. (2) 'Department' means the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-161.2

(a) Any eleventh or twelfth grade pupil or pupil aged 16 or over in any public school in this state may enroll in a Youth Apprenticeship Program which ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-163

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-164

(a) The State Board of Education shall calculate the amount of local five mill share funds that each local school system shall be required to spend each fiscal ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-165

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Assessed valuation' is defined as 40 percent of the equalized adjusted property tax digest reduced ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-166

(a) The State Board of Education shall calculate the total amount of state funds to be allotted to a local school system by: (1) Adding ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-167

(a)(1) The State Board of Education shall annually compute, based upon the initial allotment of funds to each local school system, the total funds needed for direct instructional ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-167.1

(a) For the purposes of the 2003-2004, 2004-2005, and 2005-2006 school years only, the following changes to Code Section 20-2-167 shall apply: (1) Except as ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-168

(a) All federal funds received by the State Board of Education for purposes contained within this article shall be apportioned and distributed by the state board in a ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-169

The Department of Education is designated as the sole state agency to receive federal funds allotted to Georgia under acts of Congress appropriating federal funds for career, occupational, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-170

If the State Board of Education has received the notification from any local school system or district described in Code Section 20-2-480 and if at any time the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-180

The essential educational resources described in this part shall serve as the basis for computing the base amount and program weights used in the Quality Basic Education Formula ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-181

The calculation of all program weights shall reflect a base size local school system of 3,300 full-time equivalent students. The calculation of program weights for the kindergarten program, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-182

(a) The program weights, when multiplied by the base amount, shall reflect sufficient funds to pay at least the beginning salaries of all teachers needed to provide essential ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-183

All program weights, when multiplied by the base amount, shall reflect sufficient funds to provide for the maintenance and operation of facilities essential for housing instructional programs and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-184

All program weights, when multiplied by the base amount, shall reflect sufficient funds to pay the beginning salary for at least one media specialist for an appropriate base ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-184.1

The program weights for the kindergarten, kindergarten early intervention, primary, primary grades early intervention, upper elementary, upper elementary grades early intervention, middle grades, middle school, and remedial programs ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-185

All program weights, when multiplied by the base amount, shall reflect sufficient funds to pay the beginning salaries of assistant principals as well as the salaries of secretaries ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-186

(a) Funds provided under this article shall include the following for local systems to pay, on a 12 month basis, the beginning salaries of superintendents, assistant superintendents, and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-187

(a)(1) The State Board of Education shall annually determine the amount of state funds needed to provide a state-wide school lunch program. The state board shall, by regulation, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-188

(a) The amount of funds needed by a local unit of administration to pay expenses of student transportation shall be calculated by the State Board of Education in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-189

(a) As used in this Code section, the term 'migrant student' means a child who is a student in a public school and who has, within 12 months ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-200.1

The commission shall not require a teacher from another state desiring to transfer to this state to take a test of specific subject matter or a test of broad general knowledge to obtain a renewable certificate if such teacher:

(1) Holds a valid, professional state educator´s certificate or license from a state that is a party to the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification Interstate Contract; and

(2) Has a minimum of five years of satisfactory appraisals or ratings on any annual performance evaluations

20-2-200 ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-201

(a) Universities and colleges having teacher preparation programs for grades pre-kindergarten through 12 shall require students in such programs to be proficient in computer and other instructional technology ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-202

All teachers and other professional personnel who hold life certificates shall be entitled to carry forward that lifetime status if they become qualified by reason of additional training ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-203

All renewable certificates granted by the Professional Standards Commission shall have a validity period of five years. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-204

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Paraprofessional' is defined as a person who may have less than professional-level certification, who relates ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-205

(a) The General Assembly finds that excellent public school teachers deserve recognition for the extraordinary learning opportunity they provide to Georgia students. (b) The Professional ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-210

(a) All personnel employed by local units of administration, including school superintendents, shall have their performance evaluated annually by appropriately trained evaluators. All such performance evaluation records shall ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-211

(a) All teachers, principals, other certificated professional personnel, and other personnel of a local unit of administration shall be employed and assigned by its governing board on the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-212

(a) The State Board of Education shall establish a schedule of minimum salaries for services rendered which shall be on a ten-month basis and which shall be paid ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-212.1

Any person who has been selected as Georgia Teacher of the Year, as determined by the State Board of Education, shall be moved up one salary step on ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-212.2

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'High-needs school' means a Georgia public school that has received an unacceptable rating for a ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-212.3

(a) The State Board of Education shall identify schools and local school systems in the state where an insufficient supply of qualified teachers is available to deliver instruction ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-212.4

Any teacher who has acquired rights to continued employment as a teacher shall receive an increase in annual state compensation of 5 percent, beginning the school year following ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-212.5

(a) The General Assembly finds that many teachers wish to spend their entire career teaching in a classroom setting. However, the current salary structure offers few financial incentives ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-212.6

The Governor shall appoint a Master Teacher and Academic Coach Implementation Committee to advise the Professional Standards Commission and the State Board of Education on the development of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-213

The State Board of Education is authorized and directed to devise career ladder programs for teachers and other certificated professional personnel which provide such personnel who demonstrate above ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-213.1

(a) The State Board of Education is authorized and directed to devise and implement a pay-for-performance program for rewarding group productivity. By December 31, 1992, and each December ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-214

The State Board of Education shall establish a salary schedule for school principals that includes a supplement amount for each principal. The amount of the supplement shall be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-215

Classroom aides and paraprofessionals shall have, while performing assigned duties, the authority of 'in loco parentis,' except for the administration of corporal punishment; provided, however, that such aides ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-216

As a condition for receiving funds under this article, it shall be the duty of each local unit of administration to employ and to utilize the services of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-217

The State Board of Education is authorized and directed to devise a program to provide professional and staff development stipends sufficient to allow eligible licensed personnel, paraprofessionals, and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-218

(a) Every teacher who is employed in grades kindergarten through five for a period of time of more than one-half of the class periods of the regular school ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-219

(a) It is affirmed that a local unit of administration may, in its discretion, provide payroll deduction services to any organization, association, or corporation which the local unit ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-220

In any fiscal year in which school bus drivers or full-term school food service managers or food service employees receive any increase in state funds in their salaries, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-230

(a) All public school officials and professional personnel certificated by the Professional Standards Commission shall be provided the opportunity to continue their development throughout their professional careers. The ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-231

(a) The State Board of Education is authorized and directed to establish the Georgia Education Leadership Academy whose full-time personnel shall be employees of the Department of Education. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-232

Each local school system shall develop a three-year projected comprehensive staff development plan and shall submit such plan to the State Board of Education for review and approval ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-240

(a) The State Board of Education shall adopt and prescribe all rules, regulations, and policies required by this article and such other rules, regulations, and policies as may ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-241

(a) The State School Superintendent shall be the executive officer of the State Board of Education and the administrative chief executive officer of the Department of Education. The ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-242

The political subdivisions governed by county, independent, and area boards of education in this state established pursuant to law shall be known as 'local school systems' for the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-243

In the event a local unit of administration shall fail to comply with any provision of this article or other school laws; any provision of rules, regulations, policies, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-244

(a) The State Board of Education is authorized to waive specifically identified state rules, regulations, policies, and procedures, or provisions of this chapter, upon the request of a ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-250

(a) The State Board of Education shall provide grants to qualified local units of administration for the purpose of improving the effectiveness of an educational program or service ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-251

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Demonstration plan' means a document submitted by the local school system or board of control ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-252

(a) Local school systems shall develop long-term system-wide electronic technology plans which list assessed needs; describe the planned phasing in of the computer hardware, software, and related electronic ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-253

The State Board of Education shall provide qualified public elementary and secondary schools and local school systems with grants, subject to appropriation by the General Assembly. The purpose ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-254

The State Board of Education is authorized to engage in or otherwise to make provision for educational research into all methods of instruction and education of children and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-256

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'After-school program' means any academic program conducted after regular school hours to serve only: ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-257

The State Board of Education shall provide public secondary schools and local school systems with grants, subject to appropriation by the General Assembly and pursuant to applications made ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-258

The State Board of Education shall request funds sufficient to provide grants to qualified public elementary and secondary schools and local school systems, subject to appropriation by the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-259

The State Board of Education shall establish an extended day program for students in grades nine through 12. Subject to appropriation by the General Assembly, funding for extended ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-260

(a) It is declared to be the policy of the State of Georgia to assure that every public school student shall be housed in a facility which is ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-262

(a) The General Assembly finds that many local school systems in Georgia have relatively weak local tax bases and are unable to raise revenues sufficient to meet their ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-270

(a) The State Board of Education shall establish a state-wide network of regional educational service agencies for the purposes of: providing shared services designed to improve the effectiveness ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-270.1

(a) Each regional educational service agency shall provide the following shared services to member local school systems: (1) Identifying or conducting research related to educational ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-271

(a) Each regional educational service agency shall annually develop and submit to the Department of Education for approval, with a copy to the Education Coordinating Council, a regional ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-272

(a) Each regional educational service agency shall be governed by a board of control. On and after July 1, 2000, the school superintendent of each member school system, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-273

(a) Each board of control shall appoint and contract with a director who shall be the executive officer of the regional educational service agency. The director shall be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-274

(a) The state board shall be authorized to provide each regional educational service agency with a uniform state-wide needs program grant and a documented local needs program grant, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-280

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-281

(a) The State Board of Education shall adopt a student assessment program consisting of instruments, procedures, and policies necessary to implement the program and shall fund all costs ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-282

(a) It is the policy of the State of Georgia that the placement or promotion of a student into a grade, class, or program should be based on ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-283

(a) No later than January 1, 2002, the State Board of Education shall adopt criteria for the development of a placement and promotion policy by each local board ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-284

(a) No later than July 1, 2003, each local board of education shall develop and adopt a placement and promotion policy in accordance with the criteria established by ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-285

The State Board of Education shall provide for a timetable of implementation of this Code section and the Georgia Academic Placement and Promotion Policy which shall include: ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-285.1

(a) This Code section will apply to students tested with the third-grade criterion-referenced reading assessment in the 2003-2004 school year only. (b) All provisions of Code ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-286

(a)(1) There is created a commission to be known as the 'Georgia Closing the Achievement Gap Commission,' referred to in this Code section as the commission. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-290

(a) The board of education of any local school system is authorized to organize or reorganize the schools and fix the grade levels to be taught at each ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-291

(a) In the event a local school system is voluntarily merged with one or more adjoining local school systems under the provisions of Code Section 20-2-60 or Code ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-292

(a) The State Board of Education shall provide sparsity grants to qualified local school systems beyond those funds to which they otherwise are entitled by the provisions of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-293

(a) The provisions of this article and other statutes to the contrary notwithstanding, the State Board of Education is authorized to provide a procedure whereby a student shall, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-294

(a) It is the intent of the General Assembly that students receive academic instruction in permanent classrooms where possible and, further, that students be transported to schools that ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-300

The State Board of Education shall have authority to provide for implementation of other educational programs not ordinarily coming within the prescribed curricula of the public schools which ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-301

The State Board of Education shall be empowered to form the Coordinating Committee for Exceptional Individuals which shall consist of a representative of the Governor´s office, no fewer ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-302

(a) The State Board of Education shall annually determine the amount of funds needed for operation of the state schools for the deaf and blind. Such funds appropriated ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-303

(a) The State Board of Education shall annually determine the cost of public school educational television programming, including the state-wide cost of production and purchase of videotapes and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-304

(a) The Department of Education shall develop curriculum materials and resource guides for an environmental education, recycling, and composting awareness program for kindergarten through grade 12. The purpose ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-305

(a) The board of regents shall annually determine and request of the General Assembly the amount of funds needed for county and regional public libraries. This request shall ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-306

(a) The State Board of Education is authorized to inaugurate an honors program for students in the public and private high schools of this state who have manifested ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-307

The State Board of Education shall have authority to provide for the operation of youth camps, food-processing programs, and young farmer programs. The state board shall annually determine ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-308

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-309

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-310

(a) Any public school at the secondary level which provides access to the campus or to student directory information to persons or groups which make students aware of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-312

(a) The Department of Education shall, in consultation with the Georgia School Age Care Association, operate a state program designed to provide enhanced academic resources, community service activities, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-313

Employees of Department of Education governed by the State Board of Education shall be authorized to participate in the J. William Fulbright Educational Exchange Program managed and coordinated ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-314

The State Board of Education shall develop, with input from appropriate experts, such as rape crisis centers and family violence shelters, a rape prevention and personal safety education ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-315

(a) No student shall, on the basis of gender, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, be treated differently from another student, or otherwise be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-316

(a) As used in this Code section, the term 'athletic association' means any association of schools or any other similar organization which acts as an organizing, sanctioning, scheduling, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-317

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Immediate family' shall mean a student-athletés spouse, child, parent, stepparent, grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, mother-in-law, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-318

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Immediate family' shall mean a student-athletés spouse, child, parent, stepparent, grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, mother-in-law, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-319

(a) No law or regulation of this state shall prohibit or be construed as prohibiting or discouraging a private school from conducting a prayer prior to an athletic ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-319.1

(a) The State Board of Education is authorized to establish the Georgia Virtual School whereby students may enroll in state funded courses via the Internet or in any ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-319.2

(a) The State Board of Education shall develop, with input from appropriate experts and organizations, a school interscholastic extracurricular athletic policy that provides for the use of a ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-320

(a) The Governor shall appoint a steering committee, which shall be named the Education Information Steering Committee, composed of representatives from the Department of Education, the Department of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-321

The State Board of Education shall maintain, according to the specific data categories defined by the task force created under Code Section 20-2-320, expenditure records for each instructional ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-322

The State Board of Education shall not initiate or cause to be initiated any program, program expansion, activity, or activity expansion related to or contemplated in this article ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-323

By January 1, 2005, each local board of education shall establish written policies allowing or prohibiting unstructured break time for students in kindergarten and grades one through eight. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-330 through 20-2-333

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-334

(a) A computation shall be shown on each tax bill for school ad valorem taxes which represents the local school system´s share of funds in the 'General Appropriations ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-370

Whenever the citizens of a municipality or independent school district authorized by law to establish and maintain a system of schools by local taxation in whole or in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-371

When the results of an election held under Code Section 20-2-370 are declared and published in favor of repealing such independent school system, making the territory included in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-372

Where any local or independent system is repealed by and in the manner provided in Code Sections 20-2-370 and 20-2-371, the territory formerly included in such independent system ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-373

Nothing contained in this article shall apply to a municipal or independent school system of a municipality having a population of 200,000 or more according to the United ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-390

The county boards of education of the several counties of this state shall have the power and authority, whenever they deem it necessary, to borrow sufficient amounts of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-391

In order for any county board of education to borrow money for the purposes stated in Code Section 20-2-390, there shall be passed by the county board a ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-392

No money shall be borrowed for any longer time than is necessary, and it shall be paid back out of any funds of the county school superintendent that ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-393

Any county board of education borrowing money under this part shall borrow it at as low a rate of interest as possible. The county board is authorized to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-394

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-395

After the resolution provided for in Code Section 20-2-391 has been passed by any county board of education, the chairman of the county board, together with the county ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-396

When any money shall be borrowed under this part, it shall be paid over to the county school superintendent and become a part of the public school fund ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-410

When the funds drawn under apportionment and any funds raised by local taxation are placed in the hands of any county school superintendent, he shall be liable on ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-411

When the public school fund shall be received and receipted for, it shall be the duty of the officers authorized by law to receive such fund and keep ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-430

When any county board of education shall deem it to the best interests of education in the county to incur any bonded debt for building, equipping, or purchasing ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-431

(a) Whenever the county board of education of any county of this state deems it necessary for the purpose of securing proper school sites and buildings and to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-432

Counties and municipalities located therein having independent school systems supported in whole or in part by local taxation may contract with each other for the joint building and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-433

The contract provided for in Code Section 20-2-432 shall be entered into, in the first instance, by the city board of education and county board of education or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-434

When the contract has been made and approved as provided in Code Sections 20-2-432 and 20-2-433, then the authorities of the county and municipality having charge of their ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-435

When an election for the bonds provided for in Code Section 20-2-434 has been carried as provided by law, then the county and municipal authorities may thereafter each ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-436

Code Sections 20-2-432 through 20-2-435 shall not be construed to be the exclusive means for the building of high school buildings, but such Code sections shall be construed ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-437

The county board of education of each county shall succeed to and be vested with all of the rights, powers, and duties formerly vested in the local or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-438

In any local or consolidated school district in any county where there is an outstanding bonded indebtedness created for the purpose of building schoolhouses or equipping schoolhouses, the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-450

Where any school district or consolidated school district or any independent school district, in cases provided in this subpart, has outstanding schoolhouse bonds or shall hereafter issue, in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-451

The advisability or necessity of refunding, retiring, or refinancing such bonds shall be determined by the qualified voters of the school district concerned in an election to be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-452

Should the county board of education for any school district or consolidated school district or board of education, or corresponding body, in any independent school district in which ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-453

The county board of education or board of education or corresponding body, as the case may be, shall specify in the election notice what amount of bonds are ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-454

None but the qualified voters of the district concerned shall be permitted to vote in the election. The election shall be held and the result declared as provided ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-455

In addition to the manner provided in Code Sections 20-2-451 through 20-2-454 for calling such an election, should as many as one-fourth of the qualified voters of any ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-456

In the event that two-thirds of the votes cast at an election held as provided in Code Sections 20-2-451 through 20-2-455 are in favor of refunding 'outstanding schoolhouse ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-457

Where an election held in the manner provided in Code Sections 20-2-451 through 20-2-455 results favorably to the issue of such bonds, the county board of education or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-458

Any refunding bonds of a local school district or consolidated school district shall, after validation, be turned over to the county board of education to be sold or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-459

In independent school districts over which the county board has no jurisdiction, such refunding bonds, after they have been issued and validated, shall be turned over to the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-460

Should any holder of an outstanding schoolhouse bond which is not due or which has not matured in accordance with the provisions thereof fail or refuse to sell ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-461

No election as provided in this subpart shall be held in any one district more often than once a year. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-462

All counties in which a local tax is now or may hereafter be levied for school purposes throughout the entire county or throughout the entire county except that ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-463

When one-fourth of the registered qualified voters of the county or of the county outside the incorporated limits of a municipality or municipalities, as the case may be, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-464

The county board shall order such election to be held at the various polling places throughout the county or throughout the territory to be affected, of which it ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-465

None but registered qualified voters residing within the territory to be affected shall be permitted to vote in the election. The election shall be held and the result ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-466

In the event that two-thirds of the votes cast at such election shall be in favor of refunding 'outstanding schoolhouse bonds' and such two-thirds are also a majority ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-467

The proceeds from the sale or exchange of the refunding bonds shall be turned over to the county board of education in trust for any purposes provided in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-468

The county authorities, in levying and assessing taxes for the purpose of paying the interest and retiring and paying off the bonds shall, in the event that the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-469

The manner of paying off the outstanding schoolhouse bonds with the proceeds of the sale of the refunding schoolhouse bonds, or exchange of bonds, and the sinking fund ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-470

Before the schoolhouse refunding bonds provided in this subpart shall be issued, they shall first be validated in accordance with Part 1 of Article 2 of Chapter 82 ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-471

Bonds issued under this subpart may be exchanged for not less than an equal principal amount and accrued interest, if any, of indebtedness to be retired thereby, including ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-472

Should the holder of any outstanding schoolhouse bonds be unwilling to surrender them for retirement, either in exchange for refunding bonds in a principal amount equal to the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-473

The proceeds derived from the sale of any refunding schoolhouse bonds issued under the authority of this subpart shall be applied exclusively to the purposes provided in Code ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-474

Wherever in this subpart it is made the duty, without specific designation, of any official or officials to perform any duty with reference to the issuance, exchange, sale, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-475

The interest rate on such refunding schoolhouse bonds shall in no event exceed, but may be less than, the interest rate on the bonds for which they were ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-476

The provisions of this subpart for issuance of refunding schoolhouse bonds in the case of independent school districts shall apply only where the Act creating such school district, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-477

This subpart shall not be construed to impair the obligation of any bond outstanding on March 31, 1937, or to prejudice the rights of any bondholder of an ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-480

(a) Prior to the issuance of any bonded indebtedness, the governing body of any county school district or system, any independent school district or system, or any area ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-490

Authority is given by the Constitution of Georgia to municipalities now authorized by law to operate independent school systems to maintain public schools in their respective limits by ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-491

(a) When a sales tax for educational purposes is imposed for capital outlay projects as provided in Part 2 of Article 3 of Chapter 8 of Title 48 ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-500

The State Board of Education is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to regulate contracts or purchases which involve the aggregate sum of $100.00 or more for or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-501

No person shall enter into any contract or make any purchase which involves the aggregate sum of $100.00 or more for or on behalf of students of any ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-502

Any person who violates Code Section 20-2-501 shall be subject to such disciplinary measures as provided by the State Board of Education. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-503

Each county or city board of education, upon approval of a majority of the members of such board, is authorized to expend funds for the purchase of educational ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-504

County, independent, and area school systems shall have authority to contract for the transportation of pupils in accordance with the provisions of Code Section 20-2-506. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-505

(a) No member of any county board of education in this state shall sell to any county board any supplies or equipment used, consumed, or necessary in the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-505.1

A local board of education having any member thereof who is an employee, stockholder, director, or officer of a bank or similar financial institution shall nevertheless be authorized ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-506

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Energy cost savings measure' means a facility alteration designed to reduce energy consumption or operating ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-520

(a) The county boards of education shall have the power to purchase, lease, or rent school sites; build, repair, or rent schoolhouses; purchase maps, globes, and school furniture; ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-521

County boards of education and independent school systems are authorized to take and damage, by condemnation, private property for public school purposes, either for public school building sites, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-522

Condemnation proceedings by the boards and systems referred to in Code Section 20-2-521 shall take the form provided in Chapter 1 of Title 22 and Article 1 of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-540

Each and every lot or parcel of land which has been or may hereafter be obtained by any county board of education or independent school district, together with ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-550

This part may be cited as the 'Georgia Education Authority (Schools) Act.' ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-551

(a) As used in this part, the term: (1) 'Authority' means the Georgia Education Authority (Schools), which was formerly known as the State School Building ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-552

(a) There is created a body corporate and politic to be known as the Georgia Education Authority (Schools), which shall be deemed to be an instrumentality of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-553

(a) The authority shall have the power: (1) To have a seal and alter it at pleasure; (2) To acquire by purchase, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-554

All of the rights, powers, and functions of the Vocational Trade School Building Authority and the School Building Authority for the Deaf and Blind shall be transferred to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-555

The authority, or any authority or body which has or which may in the future succeed to the powers, duties, and liabilities vested in the authority created by ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-556

The authority shall determine the form of the bonds, including any interest coupons to be attached thereto, and shall fix the denomination or denominations of the bonds and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-557

In case any officer whose signature shall appear on any bonds or whose facsimile signature shall appear on any coupon shall cease to be such officer before the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-558

All revenue bonds issued under this part shall have all the qualities and incidents of negotiable instruments under Article 8 of Title 11. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-559

The authority may sell its bonds in such manner and for such price as it may determine to be for the best interests of the authority. Whenever the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-560

The proceeds of bonds shall be used solely for the payment of the cost of the project or combined project and shall be disbursed upon requisition or order ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-561

Prior to the preparation of definite bonds, the authority may, under like restrictions, issue interim receipts, interim certificates, or temporary bonds with or without coupons exchangeable for definite ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-562

The authority may also provide for the replacement of any bond which shall become mutilated or be destroyed or lost. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-563

Revenue bonds may be issued without any other proceedings or the happening of any other conditions or things than those proceedings, conditions, and things which are specified or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-564

(a) Revenue bonds issued under this part shall not be deemed to constitute a debt of the state or a pledge of the faith and credit of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-565

(a) In the discretion of the authority, any issue of revenue bonds may be secured by a trust indenture by and between the authority and a corporate trustee, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-566

The authority shall, in the resolution providing for the issuance of revenue bonds or in the trust indenture, provide for the payment of the proceeds of the sale ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-567

The revenues, rents, and earnings derived from any particular project or combined projects and all sums allocated or paid by the State Board of Education or Department of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-568

Any holder of revenue bonds or interest coupons issued under this part, any receiver for such holders, or indenture trustee, if any, except to the extent the rights ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-569

The authority is authorized to provide by resolution for the issue of revenue refunding bonds of the authority for the purpose of refunding any revenue bonds issued under ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-570

The bonds authorized in this part are made securities in which all public officers and bodies of this state and all municipalities and all municipal subdivisions; all insurance ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-571

The creation of the authority and the carrying out of its corporate purpose shall be a public purpose and in all respects for the benefit of the people ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-572

Bonds of the authority shall be confirmed and validated in accordance with the procedure of Article 3 of Chapter 82 of Title 36. The petition for validation shall ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-573

Any action to protect or enforce any rights under this part shall be brought in the Superior Court of Fulton County; and any action pertaining to validation of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-574

While any of the bonds issued by the authority remain outstanding, the powers, duties, or existence of the authority or of its officers, employees, or agents or of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-575

The authority, in addition to the moneys which may be received from the sale of revenue bonds and from the collection of revenues, rents, and earnings derived under ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-576

All moneys received pursuant to this part, whether as proceeds from the sale of revenue bonds, as grants or other contributions, or as revenues, rents, and earnings, shall ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-577

The authority is authorized to fix rentals and other charges which the various county boards of education, city boards of education, or governing bodies of independent districts or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-578

In addition to the authority granted in this part or otherwise provided by law, express authority and power is given to the State Board of Education, county boards ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-579

It shall be the duty of the authority to prescribe rules and regulations for the operation of each project or combination of projects constructed under this part, including ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-580

This part does not in any way take from the various counties or other governmental units or agencies of the state the authority to issue revenue bonds for ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-581

This part shall be deemed to provide an additional and alternative method for the doing of the things authorized thereby, shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-582

This part, being for the welfare of the state and its inhabitants, shall be liberally construed to effect its purposes. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-600

The various counties, cities, municipalities, county boards of education, city boards of education, and governing bodies of independent school districts or systems of this state shall have authority ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-601

This article shall apply to all public school systems in this state, including those maintained and operated by counties and cities and independent local systems. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-640

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-660

(a) It shall be the duty of the State Board of Education to take or have taken a quadrennial census of school age children. The cost of taking ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-670

(a) A transferring student applying for admission to a grade higher than the sixth grade shall as a prerequisite to admission present a certified copy of his or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-671

If any school administrator determines from the information obtained pursuant to Code Section 15-11-63 or 20-2-670 or from any other source that a student has committed a designated ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-690

(a) This subpart recognizes the existence of public schools, private schools, and home study programs as educational entities. (b) As used in this subpart, the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-690.1

(a) Every parent, guardian, or other person residing within this state having control or charge of any child or children between their sixth and sixteenth birthdays shall enroll ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-690.2

(a) The chief judge of the superior court of each county shall establish a student attendance protocol committee for its county. The purpose of the committee shall be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-691

The minimum session of annual school attendance required under this subpart shall be for the full session or sessions of the school which the child is eligible to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-692

Children who serve as pages of the General Assembly during the school year, either at regular or special sessions, shall be granted excused absences for the day or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-693

(a) Children between their seventh and sixteenth birthdays who are excused from attendance in public school by county or independent school system boards in accordance with general policies ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-694

It shall be the duty of each county and independent school system board of education and each local school superintendent within the state to administer this subpart and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-695

(a) A local board of education may employ an attendance officer or attendance officers in addition to a visiting teacher or visiting teachers. Such an attendance officer must ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-696

In the discharge of the duties of their office, visiting teachers, acting visiting teachers, or attendance officers shall: (1) Cooperate fully with the Department of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-697

(a) Visiting teachers and attendance officers shall receive the cooperation and assistance of all teachers and principals of public schools in the local school systems within which they ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-698

Any peace officer may assume temporary custody, during school hours, of any child subject to compulsory school attendance who is found away from home and who is absent ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-699

Any person assuming temporary custody of a child pursuant to Code Section 20-2-698 shall immediately deliver the child either to the parent, guardian, or other person having control ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-700

Any person taking action pursuant to Code Section 20-2-699 shall report the matter and the disposition made by him of the child to the school authorities of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-701

(a) Local school superintendents as applied to private schools and home study programs or visiting teachers and attendance officers as applied to public schools, after written notice to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-702

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-703

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-720

No local school system, whether county, independent, or area, shall have a policy of denying, or which effectively prevents, the parents of students who are in attendance at ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-730

All area, county, and independent boards of education shall be authorized to determine and adopt policies and regulations relating to the use of corporal punishment by school principals ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-731

An area, county, or independent board of education may, upon the adoption of written policies, authorize any principal or teacher employed by the board to administer, in the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-732

No principal or teacher who shall administer corporal punishment to a pupil or pupils under his care and supervision in conformity with the policies and regulations of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-735

(a) No later than July 1, 2000, each local board of education shall adopt policies designed to improve the student learning environment by improving student behavior and discipline. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-736

(a) Local boards of education shall provide for the distribution of student codes of conduct developed pursuant to Code Section 20-2-735 to each student upon enrollment. Local boards ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-737

(a) Local board policies adopted pursuant to Code Section 20-2-735 shall require the filing of a report by a teacher who has knowledge that a student has exhibited ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-738

(a) A teacher shall have the authority, consistent with local board policy, to manage his or her classroom, discipline students, and refer a student to the principal or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-739

On and after July 1, 2000, the Department of Education shall provide training programs in conflict management and resolution and in cultural diversity for voluntary implementation by local ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-740

(a) Each local board of education shall file an annual report, by August 1 of each year, with the Department of Education regarding disciplinary and placement actions taken ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-741

(a) In order to be eligible to receive state funding pursuant to Code Sections 20-2-161 and 20-2-260, each local board of education shall send a copy of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-750

This subpart shall be known and may be cited as the 'Public School Disciplinary Tribunal Act.' ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-751

As used in this subpart, the term: (1) 'Expulsion' means expulsion of a student from a public school beyond the current school quarter or semester. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-751.1

(a) Each local board of education shall establish a policy requiring the expulsion from school for a period of not less than one calendar year of any student ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-751.2

(a) As used in this Code section, the term 'disciplinary order' means any order of a local school system in this state, a private school in this state, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-751.3

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-751.4

(a) As used in this Code section, the term 'bullying' means: (1) Any willful attempt or threat to inflict injury on another person, when accompanied ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-751.5

(a) Each student code of conduct shall contain provisions that address the following conduct of students during school hours, at school related functions, and on the school bus, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-751.6

(a) As used in this Code section, the term 'physical violence' means: (1) Intentionally making physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature with the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-752

Local boards of education may establish by policy, rule, or regulation disciplinary hearing officers, panels, or tribunals of school officials to impose suspension or expulsion. If such hearing ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-753

(a) In addition to any proceedings which are authorized in Code Section 20-2-752, local boards of education shall appoint a disciplinary hearing officer, panel, or tribunal of school ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-754

(a) The provisions of Code Section 20-2-1160 shall apply to disciplinary proceedings under this subpart. (b) A disciplinary officer, panel, or tribunal of school officials ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-755

The disciplinary officer, panel, or tribunal of school officials, when appointed as required in Code Section 20-2-753, shall determine what, if any, disciplinary action shall be taken. Such ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-756

(a) The school administration, disciplinary hearing officer, panel, tribunal of school officials, or the local board of education may, when any alleged criminal action by a student occurs, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-757

(a) All proceedings and hearings conducted under this subpart shall be confidential and shall not be subject to the open meetings requirement of Code Section 50-14-1 or other ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-758

Nothing in this subpart shall be construed to prohibit, restrict, or limit in any manner any cause of action otherwise provided by law and available to any teacher, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-759

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-764

As used in this subpart, the term: (1) 'Chronic disciplinary problem student' means a student who exhibits a pattern of behavioral characteristics which interfere with ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-765

Any time a teacher or principal identifies a student as a chronic disciplinary problem student, the principal shall notify by telephone call and by either certified mail or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-766

Before any chronic disciplinary problem student is permitted to return from an expulsion or suspension, the school to which the student is to be readmitted shall request by ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-766.1

The local board of education may, by petition to the juvenile court, proceed against a parent or guardian as provided in this Code section. If the court finds ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-767

As used in this subpart, the term: (1) 'Expulsion' means expulsion of a student from a public school beyond the current school quarter or semester. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-768

(a) Each local board of education is authorized to refuse to readmit or enroll any student who has been suspended or expelled for being convicted of, being adjudicated ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-770

The Department of Human Resources is authorized and directed, in cooperation with the State Board of Education, to promulgate rules and regulations to provide for a nutritional screening ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-771

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Certificate of immunization' means certification by a physician licensed under the laws of this state ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-771.1

Each local board of education shall establish procedures to provide for the voluntary preenrollment of children at two years of age. Such procedures shall include a requirement that ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-771.2

Each local board of education shall establish policies and procedures regarding a school health nurse program. Such school health nurse programs shall be staffed by licensed health care ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-772

(a) In addition to any other requirements of this part, the Department of Human Resources is authorized and directed, in cooperation with the State Board of Education, to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-773

(a) No facility operated on public school property or operated by a public school district and no employee of any such facility acting within the scope of such ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-774

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Medication' means a medicine prescribed by: (A) A physician licensed under Chapter ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-780

(a) No person shall make or attempt to make a change of custody of a minor child by removing the child from the premises of a private or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-790 through 20-2-800

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-810

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-811

Whoever, with intent to defraud the state or any county, town, or city or any person, shall falsely and fraudulently make, forge, alter, or counterfeit or cause or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-830

For the purpose of anticipating collection of the taxes of any year, the Governor is authorized to draw his warrant at the end of each and every month ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-831

It shall be lawful to sell at a discount warrants drawn under Code Section 20-2-830 to any person, bank, or banking institution, the sale to be made at ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-832

The Governor is authorized to use any funds in the treasury, which may have been allocated for any special fund or purpose, for the payment of public school ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-833

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Student teaching' means the full-time component of a teacher education program in which a student ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-850

(a)(1) Each person employed in any public school system of this state in the capacity of teacher, student services support personnel, or administrative and supervisory personnel, hereinafter referred ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-851

During any school year, personnel may utilize up to a maximum of three days of any accumulated sick leave for the purpose of absenting themselves from their duties ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-852

A leave of absence for maternity reasons shall be granted to a female employed by a public school system in a capacity specified by subsection (a) of Code ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-853

(a) Personnel who have accumulated 45 days of unused sick leave may accumulate additional days of unused sick leave during each school year for the purpose of receiving ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-870

Each person employed as a teacher in any public school of this state shall be allowed a leave of absence without loss of pay and without deduction of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-880

As used in this subpart, the term or terms: (1) 'Board' means the Board of Community Health established under Chapter 5A of Title 31. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-881

(a) The board is authorized to establish a health insurance plan for public school teachers of this state and to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations for its ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-882

Such health insurance plan shall not include expenses incurred by, or on account of, an individual prior to the effective date of the plan as to him; services ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-883

The health insurance plan shall be designed by the board to: (1) Provide a reasonable relationship between the hospital, surgical, and medical benefits to be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-884

(a) The board is authorized to execute a contract or contracts to provide the benefits determined upon under the health insurance plan in accordance with this subpart, or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-885

(a) The contract or contracts shall provide for health insurance for retiring public school teachers and their spouses and dependent children, as defined by the regulations of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-886

Each employee shall be entitled to have his spouse and dependent children, as defined by the regulations of the board, included in the coverage, upon agreeing to pay ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-887

(a) In the situation where both husband and wife are eligible to be insured under this subpart as either a retired public school teacher, a retiring public school ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-888

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this subpart to the contrary, the board shall offer coverage to the surviving spouse of any teacher who died prior to January 1, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-889

Any local employer may provide for the coverage of other personnel who are not included in paragraph (4) of Code Section 20-2-880 by a separate contract with the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-890

(a) Any benefits payable under the health insurance plan may be made either directly to the attending physicians, hospitals, medical groups, or others furnishing the services upon which ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-891

(a) A health insurance fund is created for public school teachers. The fund shall be available without fiscal year limitations for premiums, subscription charges, benefits, and administration costs. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-892

(a) During any period in which an employee is covered under the health insurance plan authorized by this subpart prior to the date of his retirement, there shall ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-893

At an appropriate time during each year, the commissioner shall certify to the State School Superintendent the amount of funds that will need to be paid to the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-894

(a) On July 1, 1977, or on a date as soon thereafter as practicable, as determined by the board, which is defined as the 'employer commencement date' the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-895

The board is authorized to contract with local employers for the inclusion of the teachers or employees of local employers within any health insurance plan or plans established ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-896

(a) It is the purpose of this Code section to authorize a procedure whereby the commissioner of community health may administratively discharge a debt or obligation due the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-897

Claim forms and other records which would disclose the nature of the health services provided to an insured shall be maintained on a confidential basis by the health ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-910

As used in this subpart, the term: (1) 'Board' means the Board of Community Health established under Chapter 5A of Title 31. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-911

(a) The board is authorized to establish a health insurance plan for public school employees of this state and to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations for its ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-912

Such health insurance plan shall not include expenses incurred by, or on account of, an individual prior to the effective date of the plan as to him; services ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-913

The health insurance plan shall be designed by the board to: (1) Provide a reasonable relationship between the hospital, surgical, and medical benefits to be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-914

(a) The board is authorized to execute a contract or contracts to provide the benefits determined upon under the health insurance plan in accordance with this subpart, or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-915

(a) The contract or contracts shall provide for health insurance for retiring public school employees and their spouses and dependent children, as defined by the regulations of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-915.1

(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this subpart to the contrary, the board shall offer continuous coverage to any public school employee with eight or more years of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-915.2

At the time of death of any employee, annuitant, or other person who has elected coverage under said contract or contracts for health insurance and who dies having ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-916

Each employee shall be entitled to have his spouse and dependent children, as defined by the regulations of the board, included in the coverage, upon agreeing to pay ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-917

(a) Any benefits payable under the health insurance plan may be made either directly to the attending physicians, hospitals, medical groups, or others furnishing the services upon which ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-918

(a) There is created a health insurance fund for public school employees. The fund shall be available without fiscal year limitations for premiums, subscription charges, benefits, and administration ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-919

Any amounts held by the health insurance fund which are available for investment shall be paid over to the Office of Treasury and Fiscal Services. The director of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-920

(a) During any period in which an employee is covered under the health insurance plan authorized by this subpart prior to the date of the employeés retirement, there ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-921

At an appropriate time during each year, the commissioner shall certify to the State School Superintendent the amount of funds determined by the board as employer payments for ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-922

(a) On a date as soon as practicable, as determined by the board, which is defined as the 'employer commencement date,' the commissioner shall notify the State School ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-923

Local school boards shall have the option to determine whether or not the public school employees within their respective systems shall be covered under this subpart. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-924

(a) It is the purpose of this Code section to authorize a procedure whereby the commissioner of community health may administratively discharge a debt or obligation due the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-925

Claim forms and other records which would disclose the nature of the health services provided to an insured shall be maintained on a confidential basis by the health ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-930

(a) For purposes of this Code section, the term: (1) 'Certificated personnel' means all teachers, principals, and other education personnel certificated by the Professional Standards ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-940

(a) Grounds for termination or suspension. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the contract of employment of a teacher, principal, or other employee having a contract for ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-941

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-942

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Local board of education' or 'local board' means a county or independent board of education, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-943

(a) In exercising its powers in the enforcement of due process under this part, a local board of education shall be authorized: (1) Under Code ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-944

A local school superintendent may write a letter of reprimand to a teacher or other school employee for any valid reason. A copy of the letter of reprimand ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-945

The State Board of Education and local boards of education may adopt rules and regulations to implement this part not inconsistent with this part. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-946

This part shall apply to boards of education of all public school systems in this state. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-947

Nothing in this part shall be construed as authorizing a local board of education to enter into contracts with any employees for definite terms where such contracts are ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-960

(a) Any person employed as a principal on March 10, 1959, and any person upon entering into employment as a principal of any public school of this state ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-961

The Department of Education shall prepare forms or books, or both, in which shall be kept the accounting of the funds and property by principals of public schools ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-962

The principal of each public school shall make a quarterly report to the local board of education immediately upon the end of each quarter of the fiscal year, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-980

The board of education of each county school system is authorized to expend its educational funds for the purpose of providing uniforms for its school maintenance, food service, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-981

This part shall be known and may be cited as the 'Georgia Professional Standards Act.' ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-982

The following constitute the major purposes of this part: (1) To simplify and make more efficient the process of certifying educational personnel in Georgia; ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-982.1

As used in this part, the term: (1) 'Commission' means the Professional Standards Commission. (2) 'Educator' means teachers and school or school ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-983

(a) The Professional Standards Commission existing June 30, 1991, is abolished and the term of office of the members of such abolished commission shall expire July 1, 1991. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-984

(a) The commission shall create and implement standards and procedures for certifying educational personnel as qualified for a certificate to practice in the public schools of Georgia, including ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-984.1

(a) It shall be the duty of the commission, by regulation, to adopt standards of performance and a code of ethics for educators. The standards of performance and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-984.2

(a) Superintendents, associate or assistant superintendents, or directors of personnel shall make an immediate written report to the local board of education upon receiving a written report from ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-984.3

(a) Upon receipt of a written request from a local board, the state board, or one or more individual residents of this state, the commission shall be authorized ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-984.4

(a) If the commission agrees to investigate matters reported under Code Section 20-2-984.2 or Code Section 20-2-984.3, an investigator of the commission shall conduct a preliminary investigation of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-984.5

(a) After a preliminary investigation authorized by Code Section 20-2-984.4, the commission shall review the report of the investigator and either determine that no further action need be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-985

(a) The Governor shall annually select a chairman from the membership of the commission. Meetings shall be held at the call of the chairman or upon the request ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-986

Members of the commission shall receive no compensation for their services but shall, upon approval by the chairman, be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-987

(a) The commission shall appoint an executive secretary who shall serve as the secretary and executive officer of the commission. Such executive secretary shall be compensated in an ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-988

(a) The Professional Standards Commission shall evaluate transcripts and issue certificates for all educational personnel seeking certification. (b) The commission shall follow policies consistent with ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-989

The funds necessary for the operation of the commission shall come from funds specifically appropriated or otherwise made available to the Professional Standards Commission. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-989.1

(a) The classifications established by the State Board of Education pursuant to Code Section 20-2-200 shall remain in effect until such time as the commission creates classifications for ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-989.5

(a) It is the intent of this part to resolve problems at the lowest possible organizational level with a minimum of conflict and formal proceedings so that good ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-989.6

As used in this part, the term: (1) 'Administrator' means the individual at each level designated by the local unit of administration to preside over ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-989.7

(a) The performance ratings contained in personnel evaluations and professional development plans pursuant to Code Section 20-2-210 and job performance shall not be subject to complaint under the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-989.8

Local units of administration shall establish a complaint policy that shall include the following: (1) A statement that a complaint by the certified employee at ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-989.9

Nothing in this part shall be construed to prevent a local unit of administration from adopting supplemental rules and policies not inconsistent with this part that grant additional ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-989.10

Nothing in this part shall be construed to permit or foster collective bargaining as part of the state rules or local unit of administration policies. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-989.11

Appeals from the decision of the local unit of administration to the Georgia Board of Education shall be governed by state board policy and Code Section 20-2-1160. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-990

The General Assembly finds that an urgent crisis confronts public education in Georgia. Evolving constitutional principles established by recent judicial decisions impose increased burdens upon school administrators and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-991

In addition to other compensation paid to members of the State Board of Education, the State School Superintendent, and employees of the state board, and to members of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-991.1

A policy of liability insurance or contract of indemnity purchased pursuant to Code Section 20-2-991 by a board of education of a county, city, or independent school system ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-992

Nothing in this article shall be construed as waiving any immunity or privilege now or hereafter enjoyed by the State Board of Education, by the board of control ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-993

In lieu of obtaining the insurance or indemnity referred to in Code Section 20-2-991 or in addition thereto, such boards may, as part of the compensation and terms ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-994

In addition to other compensation paid to board members, officers, officials, administrators, and other employees referred to in this part, whether under this part or otherwise, the State ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1000

(a) As used in this Code section, the term 'educator' means any principal, school administrator, teacher, guidance counselor, paraprofessional, school bus driver, volunteer assisting teachers in the classroom, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1001

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1010

The State Board of Education is authorized to prescribe, by regulation, the definition of the term 'textbook' to include but not be limited to systematically designed material in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1011

The State Board of Education may provide for the selection and purchase of free textbooks either by multiple listings or uniform adoption or by any other method that ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1012

(a) The State Board of Education shall select a committee or committees of educators actually engaged in public school work in this state to examine textbooks and make ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1013

(a) The State Board of Education is authorized and directed to inaugurate and administer a system of free textbooks for the public schools of this state. The state ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1014

All purchases or contracts for purchases shall be made subject to the condition that the price paid by the state shall not exceed the price which may be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1015

The publisher of a textbook recommended by the State Board of Education shall provide an electronic format version of such textbook. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1030

This article shall be known and may be cited as the 'Education Partnership Act of 1990.' ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1031

The General Assembly finds that: (1) Partnership activities between business, industry, civic, community based, and governmental organizations and the public schools of the state are ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1032

(a) Business, industry, community based, and civic organizations are encouraged to form formal partnerships with the local public schools and school systems in their communities. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1033

(a) The State Board of Education, subject to appropriation by the General Assembly for this purpose, is authorized to provide matching grants to local school systems for the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1050

(a) In each public school classroom, the teacher in charge shall, at the opening of school upon every school day, conduct a brief period of quiet reflection for ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1051

No teacher, principal, school board, or any other person may require or prescribe any particular method or manner in which a child shall participate in any period of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1070

The State Board of Education is authorized to use a part of the public school fund to pay the salaries of bus drivers employed by the several county ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1071

Whenever the county board of education deems it for the best interest of the schools of the county, it shall also have the right and power to contract ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1072

No member of the Department of Education or county school superintendent or member of the county board of education shall be financially interested in procuring and operating means ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1073

It shall be unlawful to transport any student to or from any public school in this state if a physician, licensed to practice medicine in this state, shall ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1074

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, including Code Section 20-2-411, county and independent school systems may use school buses to provide transportation for the elderly, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1075

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, including Code Sections 20-2-188 and 20-2-411, county and independent school systems may use school buses to provide transportation to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1090

The various school boards of the counties, cities, and independent school systems employing school buses are authorized and required to cause policies of insurance to be issued insuring ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1091

Where a bus is owned by the school board, the board shall pay the premium for insurance issued under Code Section 20-2-1090. Where the bus is not owned ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1092

The various school boards are authorized to cause a provision to be inserted in policies issued under Code Section 20-2-1090 insuring the members of the general public against ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1093

Any policy authorized by this part, when issued by a mutual insurance company, shall be nonassessable as to further premiums, and the policy shall so state. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1094

Policies issued under Code Section 20-2-1090 shall be filed with and retained by the respective school boards for the benefit of the school children patronizing the school buses ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1110

(a) Each person employed as a school bus driver in any public school of this state shall be entitled to sick leave with full pay computed on the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1111

During any school year, a school bus driver may utilize up to a maximum of three days of any accumulated sick leave for the purpose of absenting himself ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1112

No school bus driver utilizing sick leave under this part shall be required to pay the cost of employing a substitute school bus driver to serve in his ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1113

The scale of pay for substitute drivers shall be determined by the board of education of each system in which a school bus driver utilizing sick leave under ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1120

As used in this part the term 'illegal drugs' shall include marijuana as defined in paragraph (16) of Code Section 16-13-21, a controlled substance as defined in paragraph ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1121

(a) All persons employed as school bus drivers by any public school system in this state shall be subject to random testing for evidence of use of illegal ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1122

(a) A school bus driver found to have used an illegal drug shall be terminated from his or her employment. (b) A school bus driver ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1125

All persons employed as school bus drivers by any public school system in this state shall receive annual mandatory training on traffic laws pertaining to the operation of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1126

(a) Each public school system in this state shall promulgate policies and procedures for the operation of school buses and the conduct and safety of those students who ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1127

Each public school system in this state shall make accessible a schedule of school bus routes that indicate the morning pickup route beginning time and the afternoon school ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1130

The local law enforcement agency charged with the responsibility for law enforcement within the school district attendance area and the board of education of each county and independent ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1131

Any person who is a school-crossing guard designated by a local law enforcement agency shall be authorized to direct and regulate the flow of traffic at school crossings ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1160

(a) Every county, city, or other independent board of education shall constitute a tribunal for hearing and determining any matter of local controversy in reference to the construction ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1170

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to provide false information on behalf of any school child in order to obtain school meals without charge or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1180

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to remain upon the premises or within the school safety zone as defined in paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1181

It shall be unlawful for any person to disrupt or interfere with the operation of any public school, public school bus, or public school bus stop as designated ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1182

Any parent, guardian, or person other than a student at the public school in question who has been advised that minor children are present and who continues to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1183

The possession of an electronic communication device by a student in school shall be permitted or prohibited as specifically prescribed by rule or policy set by the local ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1184

(a) Any teacher or other person employed at any public or private elementary or secondary school or any dean or public safety officer employed by a college or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1185

(a) Every public school shall prepare a school safety plan to help curb the growing incidence of violence in schools, to respond effectively to such incidents, and to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1190

The State Board of Education shall establish by rules or regulations a system of allotment of state funds to local school systems to provide five days´ sick leave ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1191

The rules or regulations of the State Board of Education adopted pursuant to Code Section 20-2-1190 shall be subject to the following requirements: (1) School ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-1192

The funds necessary to carry out the provisions of this article shall come from funds appropriated by the General Assembly to the State Board of Education for the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2001

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Administrator' means any person who administers a group self-insurance fund other than the interlocal risk management agency. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2002

(a) A group of boards of education may execute an intergovernmental contract among themselves to form and become members of an interlocal risk management agency. After an interlocal ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2003

Each intergovernmental contract establishing an intergovernmental risk management agency shall provide for a board of trustees which shall govern the agency. Such board shall be authorized to administer ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2004

An interlocal risk management agency created pursuant to this article is not an insurance company or an insurer under Title 33, and the development and administration by such ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2005

(a) No interlocal risk management agency shall establish a group self-insurance fund or funds until such agency has been issued a certificate of authority by the Commissioner as ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2006

(a) The Commissioner shall examine the application made under Code Section 20-2-2005 to determine whether the agency and any established fund will be able to comply with this ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2007

Each fund formed pursuant to this article shall possess and thereafter maintain minimum surplus in an amount such as the Commissioner may reasonably establish or subsequently require for ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2008

The investable assets of a fund may be invested in securities or other investments permitted by the laws of this state for the investment of assets constituting the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2009

Each board of education shall be jointly and severally liable for all legal obligations of a fund which arise out of an event which occurred while such board ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2010

(a) If an agency contracts with an administrator, the agency and the administrator must enter into a written agreement which shall be subject to review and approval by ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2011

(a) The Commissioner shall require each administrator to have and maintain a fidelity bond in an amount which the Commissioner deems appropriate but which is not less than ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2012

(a) The Commissioner may revoke, suspend, or refuse to issue or renew the certificate of authority of any agency when and if, after investigation, he finds that: ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2013

Interlocal risk management agencies and funds established by such agencies shall be exempt from state and local taxes and fees. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2014

The Commissioner shall have the authority to require and conduct periodic examinations to verify the solvency of funds in the same manner and under the same conditions as ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2015

(a) If the assets of a fund are at any time insufficient to enable a fund to discharge its legal liabilities and other obligations and to maintain the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2016

The Commissioner shall have authority to promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate the provisions of this article. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2017

Any party which is aggrieved by any act, determination, order, or any other action of the Commissioner taken pursuant to this article may request a hearing before the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2018

(a) An interlocal risk management agency shall maintain at all times an excess loss funding program acceptable to the Commissioner. An excess loss funding program may consist of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2019

Each fund established under this article shall have an annual audit of its books and accounts performed by a certified public accountant. Such audit shall be conducted in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2020

The exercise by a board of education or school system of the authority provided in this article shall not constitute the provision of liability insurance protection under Article ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2040

As used in this article, the term 'multiracial' means having parents of different races. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2041

(a) All written forms, applications, questionnaires, and other written documents or materials produced by or for or used by any public elementary or secondary school in the state ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2060

This article shall be known and may be cited as the 'Charter Schools Act of 1998.' ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2061

It is the intent of the General Assembly to increase student achievement through academic and organizational innovation by encouraging local school systems to utilize the flexibility of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2062

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Charter' means a performance based contract between a local board and a charter petitioner, the terms of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2063

(a) The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules, regulations, policies, and procedures to govern the contents of a charter petition (b) The State Board of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2064

(a) A charter petitioner seeking to create a conversion charter school must submit a petition to the local board of the local school system in which the proposed ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2064.1

(a) The state board shall approve the charter of a charter petitioner if the petition has been approved by the local board of the local school system in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2065

(a) Except as provided in this article or in a charter, a charter school shall not be subject to the provisions of this title or any state or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2066

(a) A local charter school shall enroll students in the following manner: (1)(A) A start-up charter school shall enroll any student who resides in the charter ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2067

A local board of education or a school system employee who has control over personnel actions shall not take unlawful reprisal against another employee of the school system ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2067.1

(a) The terms of a charter for a local charter school may be amended during the term of the charter upon the approval of the local board, the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2068

The state board may terminate a charter under the following circumstances: (1)(A) If a majority of the parents or guardians of students enrolled at the charter ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2068.1

(a) A local charter school shall be included in the allotment of QBE formula earnings, applicable QBE grants, applicable nonQBE state grants, and applicable federal grants to the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2068.2

(a) From moneys specifically appropriated for such purpose, the state board shall create a facilities fund for local charter schools and state chartered special schools for the purpose ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2069

There is established within the Department of Education an Office of Charter School Compliance, the responsibilities of which shall be to: (1) Prepare charter school ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2070

The state board shall report to the General Assembly no later than December 31 of each year on the status of the charter school program. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-2-2071

Any charter which was granted pursuant to Code Section 20-2-255 and is in effect on July 1, 1998, shall continue to be valid until such charter expires according ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-1

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Board of regents' or 'board' means the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-20

(a) The board of regents is created. (b) The name of the corporation established prior to January 1, 1932, and existing under the name and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-21

The board of regents shall be composed of one member from each congressional district in the state and five additional members from the state at large, who shall ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-22

The first board of regents appointed under this part shall hold office as follows: two for one year; two for two years; two for three years; two for ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-23

In case of a vacancy on the board of regents by death, resignation, removal, or from any other cause other than the expiration of such member´s term of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-24

The board of regents shall elect one of its members chairman. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-25

The board of regents shall elect a secretary, not a member thereof, for such term and salary as it may establish. The secretary shall maintain his office in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-26

It shall be the duty of the members of the board of regents to attend the meetings of the board so as to take part in its deliberations. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-27

The board of regents shall make at least one annual visit and inspection of each of the institutions in the university system through committees of not less than ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-28

Members of the board of regents shall receive the sum provided by Code Section 45-7-21 for each day of actual attendance at meetings of the board or for ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-29

The expense of the board of regents, other than that of the institutions under its control, shall be met out of a separate appropriation enacted for its maintenance ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-30

The board of regents may establish such rules and regulations for its own direction as it may deem proper; may fix the term of office of its chairman, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-31

The board of regents shall have power: (1) To make such reasonable rules and regulations as are necessary for the performance of its duties; ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-31.1

(a) The board of regents is authorized and directed to establish a program whereby citizens of this state who are 62 years of age or older may attend ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-32

(a) The board of regents is authorized to consolidate, suspend, or discontinue institutions; merge departments; inaugurate or discontinue courses; and abolish or add degrees. (b) ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-33

It shall be lawful for the board of regents to invest any trust funds held by the board in real estate or in any improvements or buildings which ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-34

The fiscal year of the board of regents and all institutions of the university system is from July 1 in each year through June 30 in the following ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-35

The board of regents shall submit to the Governor annual reports of its transactions, together with such information as is necessary to show the condition of the university ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-36

The applicability of the doctrine of sovereign immunity to the board of regents is reaffirmed, except to the extent that the General Assembly may expressly provide. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-37

The board of regents is authorized to contract with any hospital for clinical purposes and for the training of medical students of the university system. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-38

(a) The assent of the General Assembly is given to the act of Congress approved by the President on May 8, 1914, entitled 'An act to provide for ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-39

(a) Effective July 1, 2000, the board of regents shall carry out all the functions and exercise all of the powers formerly held by the Department of Technical ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-50

The university system shall consist of the University of Georgia and all of its branches. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-51

The government, control, and management of the university system and all of its institutions shall be vested in the board of regents. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-52

All Acts of the General Assembly relative to the University of Georgia and to each of its branches in force on January 1, 1932, if not embraced in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-53

All appropriations for the use of any or all institutions in the university system shall be paid to the board of regents in a lump sum, with the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-54

Unless directed otherwise by the General Assembly, the board of regents shall not use any moneys or properties received from any source other than appropriations by the legislature ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-55

The Office of Treasury and Fiscal Services is directed, out of any unexpended appropriation to the University of Georgia and any of its branches, to pay to the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-56

Any trust fund or property, real, personal, or mixed, that may have been created prior to January 1, 1932, by will or otherwise as a fund or gift ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-57

Title to all real, personal, and mixed property of whatever nature of each of the branches of the University of Georgia is vested in the board of regents, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-58

(a) The board of regents is authorized to take or damage, by condemnation, private property for public purposes of the university system upon paying or tendering to the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-59

The board of education of any county school district or the governing body of any independent school system in providing an adequate public school system shall have the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-60

(a) All properties owned or held by the board of regents pursuant to this chapter which have been declared to be the public property of the state may ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-61

In case of any sale, lease, or disposition of property under Code Section 20-3-60, the board of regents, through its proper officers, and the Governor, on behalf of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-62

The proceeds arising from any sale or lease of property under Code Section 20-3-60 shall be used for the support of the university system and its branches or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-63

The Governor and the Office of Treasury and Fiscal Services are authorized and directed to issue to the board of regents the state´s obligation in the form of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-64

For the redemption of any valid matured bond of this state presented as the property of the university system, bonds may be issued at the option of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-65

No person of any religious denomination shall be excluded from equal advantages of education and the immunities of the University of Georgia on account of his religious beliefs. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-66

For the purposes of determining resident status for tuition or fees, no person who has attained the legal age of majority shall be deemed to have gained residence ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-67

Nothing in Code Section 20-3-66 and in Code Section 39-1-1 lowering the age of legal majority shall be construed to limit the power of the board of regents ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-68

All colleges and universities sustained or in any manner supported by public funds shall give instruction in the history of the United States and the history of Georgia ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-70

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-71

The board of regents is authorized to secure liability insurance covering the operation of any nuclear facility established at any school under the control of the board. Such ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-72

The campus policemen and other security personnel of the university system who are regular employees of the system shall have the power to make arrests for offenses committed ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-73

(a) The board of regents may add to its permanent staff the position of director of agricultural matters, such director to be selected by the board from a ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-74

(a) There is created the advisory board of the College of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Georgia, which shall consist of eight members as follows: the president ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-75

The advisory board shall act in an advisory capacity to the admissions board of the College of Veterinary Medicine, but not on the acceptance of an individual applicant, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-76

From time to time, the advisory board shall report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly through the standing committees of the House and Senate on the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-77

The board of regents is established as the coordinating agency of educational activities of the university system, utilizing the designation of the University of Georgia´s College of Business ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-77.1

The board of regents shall prescribe criteria, policies, and standards deemed necessary for the effective implementation of programs within the university system financed wholly or partially from appropriations ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-78

The athletic associations of the University of Georgia and the Georgia Institute of Technology and the athletic associations of any other branch of the university system are corporations, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-79

(a) The athletic associations named in Code Section 20-3-78 are not agencies of the state and are not subject to the limitations, restrictions, and laws of general application ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-80

As the athletic associations are authorized to operate as separate corporations and not as a part of the state or board of regents, a state agency, the board ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-82

(a) There is created the Georgia Eminent Scholars Endowment Trust Fund. The board of regents shall serve as trustees of such fund. The fund shall be a budget ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-83

(a) Subject to the provisions of this Code section, any institution of the university system is authorized to deduct from the salaries or wages of its employees amounts ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-84

(a) There is created the Center for Trade and Technology Transfer, which shall function as an economic assistance, information, and technical resource service center. There is also created ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-85

The board of regents shall direct a study of the practical problems involved in obtaining and producing textbooks and other instructional materials in alternative formats for students with ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-86

Revenue collected by any or all institutions in the university system from continuing education fees, technology fees, or indirect cost recoveries shall not lapse. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-87

No student in a degree program in the university system shall be required to join a professional association as a condition of enrollment in such degree program. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-90

This part shall be known and may be cited as the 'Student Organization Responsibility for Drug Abuse Act.' ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-91

The General Assembly finds that the unlawful abuse and misuse of marijuana, controlled substances, or dangerous drugs constitutes a serious threat to the public health, welfare, and academic ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-92

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Controlled substance' means any drug, substance, or immediate precursor included in the definition of controlled substances in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-93

Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any student organization functioning in conjunction with, incidental to, or at any university system institution, which through its officers, agents, or responsible ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-94

Administrative procedures for the implementation of this article shall be promulgated for the educational institutions under management and control by the Board of Regents of the University System ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-95

A student organization may appeal any adverse institutional level action by the president or his delegate to the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-96

Any student organization which is adversely affected by a decision or action under this part may appeal a final decision of the Board of Regents of the University ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-100 through 20-3-120

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-130

This article shall be known as the 'Junior College Act of 1958,' and the system established by this article shall be known as the 'Junior College Program of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-131

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Junior college' means a community educational institution constructed and operated by a local operating authority which shall ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-132

Every city, county, county school system, independent school system, or other political subdivision of the state possessing a power to tax, which shall possess the requisite powers under ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-133

There shall be paid to every local operating authority which shall have established a junior college under this article, upon which construction had commenced prior to January 1, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-134

The board of regents shall adopt rules and regulations fixing policies and standards entitling the local operating authority to receive state aid for the support of junior colleges ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-135

The sum provided for in Code Section 20-3-133 shall be the only direct financial contribution which the state shall make toward the establishment, maintenance, and operation of any ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-136

Nothing contained in this article shall repeal or amend any of the provisions of Code Sections 20-2-521 and 20-2-522, authorizing county boards of education and certain independent and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-150

This article may be cited as the 'Georgia Education Authority (University) Act.' ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-151

(a) As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Authority' means the Georgia Education Authority (University), which was formerly known as the University System Building ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-152

(a) There is created a body corporate and politic to be known as the Georgia Education Authority (University), which shall be deemed to be an instrumentality of this ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-153

The authority shall have powers: (1) To have a seal and alter it at pleasure; (2) To acquire by purchase, lease, or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-154

The authority or any authority or body which has or which may in the future succeed to the powers, duties, and liabilities vested in the authority created by ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-155

The authority shall determine the form of the bonds, including any interest coupons to be attached thereto, and shall fix the denomination or denominations of the bonds and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-156

In case any officer whose signature shall appear on any bonds or whose facsimile signature shall appear on any coupon shall cease to be such officer before the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-157

All revenue bonds issued under this article shall have all the qualities and incidents of negotiable instruments under Article 8 of Title 11. Such bonds and the income ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-158

The authority may sell its bonds in such manner and for such price as it may determine to be for the best interests of the authority. Whenever the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-159

The proceeds of revenue bonds issued under this article shall be used solely for the payment of the cost of the project or combined project and shall be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-160

Prior to the preparation of definitive bonds, the authority may, under like restrictions, issue interim receipts, interim certificates, or temporary bonds, with or without coupons, exchangeable for definitive ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-161

The authority may also provide for the replacement of any bond which shall become mutilated or be destroyed or lost. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-162

Revenue bonds may be issued without any other proceedings or the happening or any other conditions or things than those proceedings, conditions, and things which are specified or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-163

Revenue bonds issued under this article shall not be deemed to constitute a debt of the state or a pledge of the faith and credit of the state, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-164

In the discretion of the authority, any issue of revenue bonds may be secured by a trust indenture by and between the authority and a corporate trustee, which ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-165

The authority shall in the resolution providing for the issuance of revenue bonds or in the trust indenture provide for the payment of the proceeds of the sale ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-166

The revenues, rents, and earnings derived from any particular project or combined project or any and all funds from any source received by the board of regents and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-167

Any holder of revenue bonds or interest coupons issued under this article, any receiver for such holders, or indenture trustee, if any, except to the extent the rights ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-168

The authority is authorized to provide by resolution for the issue of revenue refunding bonds of the authority for the purpose of refunding any revenue bonds issued under ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-169

The bonds authorized in this article are made securities in which all public officers and bodies of this state and all municipalities and all municipal subdivisions; all insurance ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-170

The creation of the authority and the carrying out of its corporate purpose is in all respects for the benefit of the people of this state and is ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-171

Bonds of the authority shall be confirmed and validated in accordance with the procedure of Article 3 of Chapter 82 of Title 36. The petition for validation shall ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-172

Any action to protect or enforce any rights under this article shall be brought in the Superior Court of Fulton County; and any action pertaining to validation of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-173

While any of the bonds issued by the authority remain outstanding, the power, duties, or existence of the authority or of its officers, employees, or agents or of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-174

The authority, in addition to the moneys which may be received from the sale of revenue bonds and from the collection of revenues, rents, and earnings derived under ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-175

All moneys received pursuant to the authority of this article, whether as proceeds from the sale of revenue bonds; as grants or other contributions; or as revenues, rents, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-176

(a) The authority is authorized to fix rentals and other charges which the board of regents shall pay to the authority for the use of each project or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-177

It shall be the duty of the authority to prescribe rules and regulations for the operation of each project or combination of projects constructed under this article, including ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-178

The accounts of the authority created in this article shall be kept as separate and distinct accounts by the treasurer of the board of regents and shall be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-179

This article does not in any way take from the board of regents the authority to issue revenue bonds for a particular purpose. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-180

This article shall be deemed to provide an additional and alternative method for the doing of the things authorized thereby, shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-181

This article, being for the welfare of the state and its inhabitants, shall be liberally construed to effect its purposes. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-200

This article may be cited as the 'Private Colleges and Universities Authority Act.' ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-201

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Authority' means the Private Colleges and Universities Authority created by this article and any successor or successors ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-202

There is created a public body corporate and politic to be known as the Private Colleges and Universities Authority, and by that name, style, and title such body ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-203

The purpose of the authority shall be to assist institutions for higher education. The exercise by the authority of the powers conferred by this article shall be deemed ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-204

(a) The authority is authorized from time to time to provide by resolution for the issuance of negotiable revenue bonds for the purpose of paying all or any ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-205

Neither the members of the authority nor any person executing bonds or notes on behalf of the authority shall be personally liable thereon by reason of the issuance ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-206

Revenue bonds issued under this article shall not be deemed to constitute a debt or pledge of the faith and credit of this state or any political subdivision ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-207

The authority may, by appropriate resolution, trust indenture, mortgage, or other security agreement, provide the holders of any of its revenue bonds or interest coupons such rights and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-208

The revenues, rents, purchase payments, financing charges, or other earnings derived from any particular project may be pledged and allocated by the authority pursuant to appropriate resolution as ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-209

The creation of the authority and the carrying out of its corporate purposes is in all respects for the benefit of the people of this state and is ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-210

While any of the revenue bonds issued by the authority remain outstanding, the powers, duties, or existence of the authority or of any of its officers shall not ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-211

(a) All moneys received by the authority pursuant to this article, whether as grants or other contributions or as revenues, rents, or earnings, shall be held and applied ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-212

The authority may hold title to any project financed by it but shall not be required to do so. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-213

The authority´s legal situs or residence for the purpose of this article shall be Fulton County. Any action to protect or enforce any rights under this article, including ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-214

This article, being for the welfare of the state and its inhabitants, shall be liberally construed to effect its purposes. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-230

This part shall be known and may be cited as the 'Georgia Student Finance Commission Act.' ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-231

(a) Legislative findings. The General Assembly has determined that it is a valid public purpose to promote the educational level of achievement of citizens and persons in this ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-232

As used in this part, the term: (1) 'Authority' means the Georgia Student Finance Authority created by Code Section 20-3-313. (2) 'Board ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-233

(a) There is created within the executive branch of state government a commission to be known as the Georgia Student Finance Commission. The commission shall be an agency ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-234

(a) Functions and composition of board of commissioners. (1) The commission shall be governed and all of its powers, duties, and functions shall be exercised by ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-235

The board of commissioners shall provide for the employment of all personnel and for retention of all support services necessary to enable it to effectuate and carry out ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-236

In addition to all other provisions of this part and in furtherance of the purposes of the commission, the commission shall have the following powers, duties, and functions: ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-237

If any federal law or rule shall at any time have the effect of prohibiting any person from simultaneously serving as a member of the board of directors ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-238

The commission shall maintain a system of accounts in accordance with generally acceptable accounting procedures and standard accounting procedures and systems established by the state, where applicable, which ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-239

The state auditor shall make an annual financial audit of the books, accounts, and records of the commission. The state auditor shall maintain a copy of the audit ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-240

The commission shall submit its regular and supplemental budget requests to the Governor at such times and in such form and manner as required by state law; provided, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-241

The commission is authorized to publish annually or at less frequent intervals determined by the board of commissioners an operations report covering the activities of the commission, including, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.1

This part shall be known and may be cited as the 'Nonpublic Postsecondary Educational Institutions Act of 1990.' ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.2

As used in this part, the term: (1) 'Agent' means any natural person owning any interest in, employed by, or representing for remuneration a nonpublic ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.3

(a) The following education and postsecondary educational institutions are exempted from this part except as expressly provided to the contrary: (1) Institutions exclusively offering instruction ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.4

(a) There is established the Nonpublic Postsecondary Education Commission consisting of 14 members who shall be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate. One member shall ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.5

(a) The commission shall be assigned to the Georgia Student Finance Commission for administrative purposes only. The commission shall be a budget unit of the executive branch of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.6

(a) In establishing the criteria required by paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of Code Section 20-3-250.5, the commission shall observe and shall require compliance with the following minimum ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.7

(a) No person, agent, group, or entity of whatever kind, alone or in concert with others, shall: (1) Operate in this state a nonpublic postsecondary ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.8

(a) Each nonpublic postsecondary educational institution desiring to operate or conduct postsecondary activities in this state shall make application to the commission, upon forms to be provided by ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.9

(a) Each person desiring to solicit or perform the services of an agent in this state shall make application to the executive director upon forms to be provided ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.10

(a) At the time an initial application or application for a branch facility is made for authorization to operate, the executive director shall require the nonpublic postsecondary educational ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.11

(a) Fees shall be collected by the executive director in such amounts as shall be established by the commission. The commission is authorized to establish the following fees ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.12

(a) If the executive director, upon review and consideration of an application for authorization to operate or for an agent´s permit or for renewal thereof, shall determine that ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.13

(a) An authorization to operate or an agent´s permit may be revoked or made conditional after its issuance if the executive director has reasonable cause to believe that ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.14

(a) Any person claiming damage or loss as a result of any act or practice by a nonpublic postsecondary educational institution or its agent, or both, which is ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.15

(a) Any person aggrieved by a decision of the executive director respecting denial of an authorization to operate or of an agent´s permit or the placing of conditions ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.16

(a) Any person aggrieved or adversely affected by any final action of the commission may obtain judicial review of such action as provided in this Code section. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.17

In the event any nonpublic postsecondary educational institution now or hereafter operating in this state proposes to discontinue its operations, the chief administrative officer, by whatever title designated, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.18

(a) The Attorney General of this state or the district attorney of any judicial circuit in which a nonpublic postsecondary educational institution or an agent thereof is found, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.19

Any nonpublic postsecondary educational institution not exempt from this part, whether or not a resident of or having a place of business in this state, which conducts postsecondary ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.20

The commission, through the executive director, shall request funds for the administration of this part, and the General Assembly shall appropriate such funds as deemed adequate and necessary. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.21

Any person, group, or entity or any owner, officer, agent, or employee thereof who shall willfully violate Code Section 20-3-250.7 or 20-3-250.8 or who shall fail or refuse ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.22

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.23

All certificates of authorization previously issued under either Article 3 of this chapter, the 'Postsecondary Educational Authorization Act of 1978,' or Article 4 of Chapter 4 of this ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.24

(a) All employees of the commission shall be subject to and covered by Article 1 of Chapter 20 of Title 45, but the position of executive director and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.25

All records, files, accounts, and related items utilized in the administration of the 'Georgia Proprietary School Act,' or the 'Postsecondary Educational Authorization Act of 1978,' are transferred from ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.26

Nothing in this part shall be construed to limit a professional licensing board´s authority, as granted by Title 43, to regulate and govern the curriculum, course requirements, instructor ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-250.27

(a) It is the purpose of this Code section to create a trust fund from participation fees from postsecondary educational institutions to enable such institutions, collectively, to protect ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-260

This part shall be known and may be cited as the 'Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation Act.' The educational loan program provided for in this part may be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-261

(a) Legislative findings. (1) The General Assembly finds that the growth and development of this state and nation have been and will undoubtedly remain strongly related ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-262

As used in this part, the term: (1) 'Authority' means the Georgia Student Finance Authority created by Code Section 20-3-313. (2) 'Authorized ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-263

(a) There is created a public authority, a body corporate and politic, to be known as the Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation, which shall be deemed to be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-264

(a) Functions and composition. The corporation shall be governed and all of its corporate powers, duties, and functions shall be exercised by a board of directors. The board ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-265

The executive director of the commission, or president, if designated by such title by the board of commissioners, shall serve as the executive director, or president, if designated ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-266

In addition to all other provisions of this part and in furtherance of the purposes of the corporation, the corporation shall have the following powers, duties, and functions: ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-267

The corporation shall maintain a system of accounts in accordance with generally accepted accounting procedures and standard accounting procedures and systems established by the state, where applicable, which ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-268

The state auditor shall make an annual financial audit of the books, accounts, and records of the corporation. The state auditor shall maintain a copy of the audit ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-269

Loan guaranties issued under this part shall not be deemed to constitute a debt, liability, or obligation of, or a pledge of the faith and credit of, the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-270

The guaranty of the corporation on an educational loan made under this part is conditioned upon exercise of due diligence by the lender and by any subsequent holder ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-271

The corporation is authorized to charge and collect insurance premiums on loans in accordance with the federal act and to provide for all matters relative thereto. In the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-272

(a) Corporation billing and report services. Pursuant to the federal act, each lender must submit to the secretary such reports as he may require and must prepare and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-273

The corporation is authorized to pay to the lender, on behalf of a student borrower and out of the corporation´s state interest subsidy and loan discount fund, interest ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-274

In order to provide an additional incentive to lenders to broaden their participation in the program and better to assure lenders of receiving a competitive yield on educational ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-275

There are created, but not by way of limitation, the following special funds for the purposes prescribed: (1) LOAN GUARANTY FUND. A loan guaranty fund ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-276

No school and no class, type, or group of 'eligible institutions,' as such term is defined in the federal act, shall have a vested right to be approved ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-277

No lender and no class, type, or group of 'eligible lenders,' as such term is defined in the federal act, shall have a vested right to be approved ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-279

It shall not be permissible for any stockholder, director, officer, employee, agent, commissioned salesman, consultant, or other person in the employment of, or who for a valuable consideration ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-280

The corporation is authorized: (1) To examine and audit accounts and records of lenders and schools relative to educational loans guaranteed by the corporation; ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-281

A lender may sell loans guaranteed by the corporation, or an interest in such loans, to another lender only in accordance with regulations of the corporation; and in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-282

The servicing or collection of educational loans held by a lender may not be contracted to any other lender, person, or entity except in accordance with rules and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-283

Notwithstanding any general or special law or any certificate of incorporation, charter, or other articles of organization, all domestic or domesticated corporations, associations, and other taxable entities carrying ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-284

In that the corporation is a duly created public authority and political subdivision of the state and is performing essential governmental functions in the exercise of its corporate ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-285

One-half of the outstanding principal amount of loans guaranteed by the corporation and owned by a lender as of January 1 each year shall be deductible from the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-286

If any director, officer, or employee of the corporation shall be interested, either directly or indirectly, or shall be a director, officer, or employee of or have an ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-287

For the purpose of applying for, receiving, and repaying any educational loan under this part, all persons of any age shall be deemed to have full legal capacity ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-288

In accordance with the national scope and intent of the United States relative to educational loans as expressed in the federal act, lenders and the corporation are authorized ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-289

Any student who is indebted to the corporation on a defaulted educational loan obtained under this part shall not be eligible to apply for or receive educational financial ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-290

The corporation is assigned to the commission for administrative purposes as prescribed in Code Section 50-4-3. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-291

The corporation and its corporate existence shall continue until terminated by law; provided, however, that no such law shall take effect so long as the corporation shall have ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-292

The venue for any legal proceeding brought against the corporation shall be Fulton County, regardless of the county in which the principal office or any other office of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-293

Nothing contained in this part shall be construed to mean that the corporation is engaged in or is authorized to engage in the general banking or general insurance ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-294

The corporation is authorized to publish annually, or at more or less frequent intervals determined by the board of directors, an operations report covering the activities of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-295

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Agency' means the Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation created in Code Section 20-3-263 which is ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-310

This part shall be known and may be cited as the 'Georgia Student Finance Authority Act.' ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-311

(a) Legislative findings. The General Assembly finds that the growth and development of this state and nation have been and will undoubtedly remain strongly related to the degree ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-312

As used in this part, the term: (1) 'Authority' means the Georgia Student Finance Authority created by Code Section 20-3-313. (2) 'Authorized ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-313

(a) There is created a public authority, a body corporate and politic, to be known as the Georgia Student Finance Authority, which shall be deemed to be an ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-314

(a) Functions and composition. The authority shall be governed and all of its corporate powers, duties, and functions shall be exercised by a board of directors. The board ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-315

The executive director of the commission, or president, if designated by such title by the board of commissioners, shall serve as the executive director or president, if designated ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-316

In addition to all other provisions of this part as set forth in each subpart of this part and in furtherance of the purposes of the authority, the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-317

The authority shall maintain a system of accounts in accordance with generally accepted accounting procedures and standard accounting procedures and systems established by the state, where applicable, which ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-318

The authority shall maintain an administration fund for itself and of the corporation as provided for in this Code section to which shall be credited state moneys, federal ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-319

In the event the United States makes the federal payments referred to in Code Section 20-3-272 to lenders through the corporation, any available state funds appropriated for use ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-320

The state auditor shall make an annual financial audit of the books, accounts, and records of the authority. The state auditor shall maintain a copy of the audit ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-321

The authority is authorized: (1) To examine and audit accounts and records of schools relative to financial assistance provided to students enrolled therein under this ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-322

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-323

If any director, officer, or employee of the authority shall be interested, either directly or indirectly, or shall be a director, officer, or employee of or have an ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-324

The authority created by subsection (a) of Code Section 20-3-313 is assigned to the commission created by subsection (a) of Code Section 20-3-233 for administrative purposes as prescribed ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-325

Upon dissolution of the authority, all of its assets, rights, and property shall pass to and be vested in the state to be used for educational purposes, subject ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-326

The venue for any legal proceeding brought against the authority shall be Fulton County, regardless of the county in which the principal office or any other office of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-327

Nothing contained in this part shall be construed to mean that the authority is engaged in or is authorized to engage in the general banking business. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-328

The authority is authorized to publish annually, or at more or less frequent intervals determined by the board of directors, an operations report covering the activities of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-329

(a) All employees of the commission shall, on July 1, 1996, become employees of the authority, subject to the operating needs of the authority. Any employees of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-340

The General Assembly finds that students and parents are not always able to obtain educational loan assistance from a commercial lender under the Georgia Higher Education Loan Program ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-341

As used in this subpart, the term: (1) 'School' means a 'school' as such term is defined in paragraph (18) of Code Section 20-3-262. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-342

(a) The authority is authorized to be a lender in the Georgia Higher Education Loan Program as provided for in Part 2 of this article and to establish ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-343

Bonds and other obligations issued under this subpart shall not be deemed to constitute a debt, liability, or obligation of the state or a pledge of the faith ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-344

(a) The authority is authorized to provide for the issuance of bonds of the authority not to exceed $150 million aggregate principal amount outstanding at any one time ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-345

In the discretion of the authority, any obligation issued under this subpart may be secured by a trust agreement by and between the authority and a corporate trustee, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-346

The pledge of any revenues or assets of the authority to the payment of the principal of or the interest on any obligations of the authority shall be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-347

Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, all moneys received by the authority pursuant to this subpart shall be deemed to be trust funds to be held and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-348

Any holder of obligations issued by the authority under this subpart or of any coupons appertaining thereto and any trustee under any resolution authorizing the issuance of such ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-349

Notwithstanding Code Sections 20-3-340 through 20-3-348 or any recitals in any obligations issued by the authority under this subpart, all such obligations and interest coupons appertaining thereto shall ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-350

Obligations issued by the authority under this subpart are made securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the state and its political subdivisions and all ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-351

(a) The authority is authorized to provide for the issuance of refunding obligations for the purpose of refunding any obligations then outstanding which shall have been issued under ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-352

The authority shall be authorized, in connection with the issuance of its bonds or other obligations pursuant to this subpart, to establish, in respect of such bonds or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-353

No director or officer of the authority shall be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason of his execution of any obligations or the issuance thereof. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-354

The authority is authorized to accept and expend such moneys as may be appropriated from time to time by the legislature and income from the operations of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-355

The authority is a duly created public corporation and political subdivision of the state and is performing essential governmental functions in the exercise of its corporate purposes. Accordingly, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-356

While any of the bonds issued by the authority remain outstanding, the powers, duties, or existence of the authority or of its officers, employees, or agents shall not ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-357

Upon termination or dissolution of the authority, all assets, rights, and properties of the authority under the authority of this subpart shall pass to and be vested in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-358

This subpart and part shall be deemed to provide an additional and alternative method for the doing of the things authorized thereby, shall be regarded as supplemental and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-370

The General Assembly finds that students and parents are not always able to obtain educational loan assistance from a commercial lender under the Georgia Higher Education Loan Program ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-371

As used in this subpart, the term: (1) 'School' means 'school' as such term is defined in paragraph (18) of Code Section 20-3-262 and in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-372

The authority is authorized to be a lender in the Georgia Higher Education Loan Program, as provided for in Part 2 of this article, and to establish and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-373

(a) The authority shall maintain a general loan fund to which shall be credited: (1) State funds appropriated for use by the authority for educational loan ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-374

(a) The authority shall maintain a service cancelable loan fund to which shall be credited: (1) State funds appropriated for use by the authority for ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-375

All income earned by the authority on funds held under this subpart, including earnings on educational loan trust fund assets unless otherwise provided for in the terms of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-380

The General Assembly finds that many attorneys graduate from law school with substantial education debt; that the debt that saddles law school graduates prohibits many from considering public ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-381

As used in this subpart, the term: (1) 'Assistant district attorney' means an attorney employed full time as an assistant district attorney. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-382

The authority is authorized to establish and administer loan forgiveness programs for education loans to encourage law students and other attorneys to choose careers in the area of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-383

(a) There is created the Public Interest Lawyers´ Fund. (b) The authority shall maintain the fund to which shall be credited: (1) ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-384

(a) The authority is authorized to establish a corporation to administer the fund. Any subsidiary corporation created pursuant to this subsection shall be created pursuant to Chapter 3 ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-385

(a) The fund shall be used by the authority to assist in the repayment of any education loan owed by an individual who is: (1) ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-386

(a) Beginning the seventh month that an attorney is employed in one of the positions listed in Code Section 20-3-385, the authority may distribute education loan repayment assistance ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-387

(a) No entitlement to funds is created by this subpart. Eligibility for education loan forgiveness shall be dependent on funding through appropriations, as well as all other conditions ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-390

The General Assembly finds that a substantial number of qualified Georgia students are not financially able to meet the costs of obtaining a postsecondary education due to a ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-391

(a) The authority is authorized to establish and administer a program to provide state student incentive grants to students enrolled at the undergraduate level who demonstrate a substantial ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-410

(a) The General Assembly finds that the facilities of accredited independent colleges and universities located within the state can be used more effectively in the public interest by ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-411

As used in this subpart, the term: (1) 'Academic year' means a period of time, typically nine months, in which a full-time student is expected ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-412

Each eligible student is entitled to a tuition equalization grant each academic year, as specified in appropriations Acts of the General Assembly. No grants shall be made to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-413

Each eligible student wishing to receive payment of the grant provided for in this subpart shall submit to the school an application for the grant payment at the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-414

In the event funds available to the authority are not sufficient to enable the authority to pay on behalf of eligible students the full grant prescribed by the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-415

Every approved school shall be subject to examination by the state auditor for the sole purpose of determining whether such school has properly certified eligibility and enrollment of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-416

Any person who knowingly makes or furnishes any false statement or misrepresentation, or who accepts such statement or misrepresentation knowing it to be false, for the purpose of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-420

The General Assembly finds that North Georgia College, a unit of the University System of Georgia, is widely recognized as one of the most outstanding senior military colleges ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-421

(a) In order for a student to qualify as a nominee for and to be a recipient of a scholarship under this subpart, the student shall meet the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-422

The authority shall establish and promulgate, consistent with this subpart, criteria for the eligibility and award of such scholarships. The authority shall, on or before February 1 of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-423

(a) For the purpose of considering nominations submitted under Code Section 20-3-422, there is created a selection committee, the membership of which shall be as follows: ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-424

Scholarship awards made under this subpart shall cover all costs for room, board, matriculation, fees, uniform deposits, and an allowance for books and supplies. Scholarship assistance may be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-425

(a) If the recipient of a scholarship under this subpart fails to honor his obligation to serve in the Army National Guard or the United States Army as ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-426

(a) If at any time a recipient of a scholarship fails to meet the standards and requirements for continued eligibility as provided by the selection committee pursuant to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-427

The authority shall, consistent with this subpart, promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to administer the scholarship program provided for in this subpart. The funds ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-430

The General Assembly finds that it is essential for the national defense that persons be encouraged to consider military leadership positions as an honorable and rewarding profession and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-431

For purposes of this article, the term 'eligible student' shall mean a person who: (1) Is enrolled in or accepted for enrollment in North Georgia College ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-432

There is granted to each eligible student attending North Georgia College the sum of $500.00 per academic quarter. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-433

Each eligible student wishing to receive the grant provided for in this subpart shall submit to North Georgia College an application for the grant payment at the time ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-434

In the event funds available to the authority are not sufficient to enable the authority to pay on behalf of eligible students the full grant prescribed by the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-435

North Georgia College shall be subject to examination by the state auditor for the sole purpose of determining whether the school has properly certified eligibility and enrollment of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-436

Any person who knowingly makes or furnishes any false statement or misrepresentation or who accepts such statement or misrepresentation knowing it to be false for the purpose of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-450

The General Assembly finds that certain citizens are called upon to enforce the criminal laws of this state and to protect persons and properties within the state and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-451

As used in this subpart, the term: (1) 'Academic year' means a period of time, typically nine months, in which a full-time student is expected ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-452

There is granted to each eligible student attending an approved school the sum of $2,000.00 per academic year. No person shall be eligible to receive grant assistance provided ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-453

No grants shall be payable to any person under this subpart who fails to meet any of the following qualifications or restrictions: (1) Such person ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-454

Any person meeting the conditions of this subpart may apply to the authority for a grant. Such application shall be submitted in writing on forms prescribed by the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-455

The authority is authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary or convenient for administration of this program and to establish procedures for determination of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-470

The authority is authorized to establish and administer a program of scholarships, grants, or cancelable loans to economically disadvantaged students who are residents of Georgia enrolled in a ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-475

The General Assembly finds that at times areas of the state have an inadequate supply of persons who are licensed to practice primary care medicine. It is the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-476

(a) To the extent provided for by the General Assembly in annual appropriations Acts, the authority is authorized under this subpart to make service cancelable education loans to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-480

As used in this subpart, the term: (1) 'Approved school' means the same schools as enumerated in Code Section 20-3-391 relative to the state student ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-481

(a) There is granted to each eligible student attending an approved school the sum of $2,000.00 per academic year. No person shall be eligible to receive grant assistance ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-482

(a) Any person meeting the conditions of this subpart may apply to the authority for a grant. Such application shall be submitted in writing on forms prescribed by ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-485

As used in this subpart, the term: (1) 'Approved school' means a school which is a unit of the University System of Georgia or a ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-486

(a) There is granted to each eligible student under subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2) of Code Section 20-3-485 attending an approved school a Georgia HERO Scholarship grant for ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-487

(a) Any person meeting the conditions of this subpart may apply to the authority for a grant. Such application shall be submitted in writing on forms prescribed by ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-490

As used in this subpart, the term 'eligible student' means a person who has received from funds appropriated by the General Assembly a two-year Georgia Military College scholarship ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-491

(a) Subject to appropriations by the General Assembly, the authority shall establish a program of two-year scholarship grants for eligible students attending North Georgia College and participating in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-492

(a) The funds necessary to provide for the program of scholarship grants provided for in this subpart shall come from funds appropriated by the General Assembly. In the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-493

The scholarship grant program under this subpart shall be in addition to and not in lieu of the program provided for in Subpart 5A of this part. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-500

The board of regents shall have the authority to grant to qualified students, who are citizens and bona fide residents of the State of Georgia and who would ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-501

It shall be the duty of the board of regents to receive and pass upon, allow, or disallow all applications for scholarships; to contract, increase, decrease, terminate, and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-502

The funds necessary to provide for the program of scholarships authorized by this part shall come from funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the board of regents ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-510

(a) The State Medical Education Board is created which shall consist of seven members appointed by the Governor who shall be qualified electors of the State of Georgia. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-511

With the concurrence of the State Medical Education Board, the Department of Community Health shall employ and provide for the compensation of such administrative staff, including but not ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-512

(a) It shall be the duty of the State Medical Education Board to receive and pass upon, allow or disallow all applications for loans made to or scholarships ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-513

Students whose applications are approved shall receive a loan or scholarship in an amount to be determined by the State Medical Education Board to defray the tuition and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-514

(a) Each applicant before being granted a loan or scholarship shall enter into a contract with the State of Georgia agreeing to the terms and conditions upon which ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-515

It shall be the duty of the State Medical Education Board to make inquiry of such four-year medical schools as it deems proper and make arrangements, within the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-516

The funds necessary for the loans or scholarships provided for by this part and to administer the terms of this part shall come from funds made available to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-517

The State Medical Education Board shall make a biennial report to the General Assembly of its activities, loans or scholarships granted, names of persons to whom granted and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-518

It is the purpose and intent of this part to bring about an adequate supply of persons licensed to practice medicine in the more sparsely populated areas of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-519

As used in this part, the term: (1) 'Academic year' means a period of time, typically nine months, in which a full-time student is expected ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-519.1

A student is ineligible for any scholarship or grant described in this part if the student: (1) Is not a United States citizen or a ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-519.2

(a) To be eligible for a HOPE scholarship, an entering freshman student seeking an associate or baccalaureate degree at an eligible public postsecondary institution shall: ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-519.3

(a) To be eligible for a HOPE scholarship, an entering freshman student seeking an associate or baccalaureate degree at an eligible private postsecondary institution shall: ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-519.4

Reserved. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-519.5

(a) To be eligible for a HOPE grant, a student seeking a diploma or certificate at a branch of the Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-519.6

(a) Subject to the amounts appropriated by the General Assembly and provisions relating to the scholarship shortfall reserve subaccount in Code Section 50-27-13, a HOPE GED voucher in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-519.7

(a) To be eligible for a PROMISE teacher´s scholarship, a student seeking a bachelor´s degree in teacher education shall: (1) Be admitted, enrolled, and classified ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-519.8

(a) To be eligible for a HOPE teacher´s scholarship, a student shall: (1) Meet the residency requirements by: (A) In the case of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-519.9

An individual who meets any of the following criteria is ineligible for the HOPE teacher´s scholarship: (1) Holding an advanced degree in a critical shortage ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-519.10

A HOPE scholarship and a HOPE grant may be applied only to tuition, mandatory fees, and book costs. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-519.11

(a) The Georgia Student Finance Commission is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of this part relating to grants and scholarships described in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-519.12

(a) As used in this Code section, the terms 'paraprofessional' and 'instructional aide' shall have the same meaning as provided in Code Section 20-2-204. (b) To ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-519.13

(a) There is created as a joint committee of the General Assembly the HOPE Scholarship/Pre-K Legislative Oversight Committee, to be composed of three members of the House Committee ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-519.14

Any residency requirements established pursuant to this part shall provide, at a minimum, that full-time Georgia employees of Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) based in Georgia ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-520

The board of regents in the exercise of its public and governmental functions shall have power and is authorized to lease, buy, build, construct, establish, contract for the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-521

The board of regents is authorized to use funds from the building trust fund for the construction and equipping of the hospital or annex thereto, or both, authorized ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-540

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Board of trustees' or 'board' means the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Military College. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-541

There is created a public authority, a body corporate and politic, to be known as the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Military College, which shall be deemed ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-542

The board shall be composed of the mayor of the City of Milledgeville and six additional members, one of which shall be elected from each of the six ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-543

The terms of the members of the board now serving, the terms of all future members, and the election of all future members shall be governed by the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-544

The board shall elect one of its members as chairman who shall serve for a two-year term. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-545

Members of the board of trustees shall receive the sum provided by Code Section 45-7-21 for each day of actual attendance at meetings of the board or for ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-546

The board of trustees shall have the authority: (1) To make such reasonable rules and regulations as are necessary for the performance of its duties; ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-547

The fiscal year of the board of trustees and of the Georgia Military College is from July 1 in each year through June 30 in the following year. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-548

The board of trustees shall submit to the Governor annual reports of its transactions, together with such information as is necessary to show the condition of the Georgia ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-560

It is the intention of the General Assembly that the Georgia Military College be a state-wide institution dedicated to providing a high-quality military education to the youth of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-561

The government, control, and management of the Georgia Military College shall be vested in the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Military College. The Georgia Military College shall ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-562

Any trust fund or property, real, personal, or mixed, that may have been created prior to July 1, 1996, by will or otherwise, as a fund, gift, donation, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-563

Title to all real, personal, and mixed property of whatever nature of the Georgia Military College is vested in the board of trustees, to be held by the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-564

All properties owned or held by the board of trustees pursuant to this article which have been declared to be the public property of the state may be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-565

In case of any sale, lease, or disposition of property under Code Section 20-3-564, the board of trustees, through its proper officers, and the Governor, on behalf of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-566

The proceeds arising from any sale or lease of property under Code Section 20-3-564 shall be used for the support of the college or for the payment of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-567

(a) The board of trustees shall have the authority to grant to qualified students such scholarships as available funds allow. The board of trustees shall establish rules and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-600

This article shall be known and may be cited as the 'College Opportunity Act.' ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-601

The General Assembly finds and declares the following: (1) It is an essential function of state government to encourage schools and the means of education, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-602

In light of the findings described in Code Section 20-3-601, the General Assembly declares that the purposes of the Georgia Education Trust created by this article are: ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-603

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Advance tuition payment contract' means a contract entered into by the trust and a purchaser pursuant to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-604

(a) There is created a public body corporate and politic to be known as the Georgia Education Trust. The trust shall be within the Georgia Student Finance Commission. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-605

(a) The trust, on behalf of itself and the state, may contract with a purchaser for the advance payment of tuition by the purchaser for a qualified beneficiary ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-606

(a) At a minimum, the trust shall offer contracts of the two types set forth in paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection, to be known as Plan ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-607

(a) An advance tuition payment contract shall authorize a termination of the contract when any one of the following occurs: (1) The qualified beneficiary dies; ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-608

(a) There is created under the jurisdiction and control of the board and within the trust an advance tuition payment fund. Payments received by the trust from purchasers ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-609

(a) The business which the board may perform shall be conducted at a public meeting of the board held in compliance with Chapter 14 of Title 50. Public ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-610

In addition to the powers granted by other provisions of this article, the board shall have the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-611

The board shall annually prepare or cause to be prepared an accounting of the trust and shall transmit a copy of the accounting to the Governor and the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-612

(a) The trust shall be administered in a manner reasonably designed to be actuarially sound such that the assets of the trust will be sufficient to defray the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-613

The trust, in its discretion, may contract with others, public or private, for the provision of all or a portion of the services necessary for the management and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-614

The assets of the trust fund shall be preserved, invested, and expended solely pursuant to and for the purposes set forth in this article and shall not be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-615

Nothing in this article or in an advance tuition payment contract entered into pursuant to this article shall be construed as a promise or guarantee by the trust ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-616

An advance tuition payment contract shall be exempt from Chapter 5 of Title 10, the 'Georgia Securities Act of 1973.' An advance tuition payment contract may not be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-617

On and after July 1, 1991, all costs of organization, administration, and operation of the trust shall be paid solely from application fee funds and investment income of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-630

This article shall be known and may be cited as the 'Georgia Higher Education Savings Plan Act.' ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-631

The purposes of this article are to: (1) Provide a program of savings trust agreements to apply distributions toward qualified higher education expenses at eligible ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-632

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Account contributor' means a resident or nonresident person, corporation, trust, charitable organization, or other entity which contributes ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-633

(a)(1) There is created the Georgia Higher Education Savings Plan, as a body corporate and politic and an instrumentality of the state, for purposes of establishing and maintaining ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-634

(a) The plan shall make savings trust agreements available to the public, under which account owners or account contributors may make contributions on behalf of qualified beneficiaries. Contributions ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-635

(a)(1) There is created the Georgia Higher Education Savings Plan Trust Fund as a separate fund in the state treasury. The trust fund shall be administered by the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-636

The trust fund property and income shall be subject to taxation by the state only as provided by Code Section 48-7-27 and shall not be subject to taxation ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-637

(a) The board shall have authority to establish a comprehensive investment plan for the purposes of this article and to invest any funds of the trust fund through ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-638

(a) The board shall furnish, subject to reasonable administrative fees and charges, to each account owner an annual statement of the following: (1) The amount ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-639

This article is not a promise or guarantee that any beneficiary will be: (1) Admitted to any institution of higher education; (2) Admitted ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-640

Nothing in this article or in any savings trust agreement entered into pursuant to this article shall be construed as a promise or guarantee by the state or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-641

Notwithstanding any state law to the contrary, no moneys on deposit in any savings trust account shall be considered an asset of the parent, guardian, or student for ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-642

(a) The provisions of Article 4 of Chapter 18 of Title 50 notwithstanding, the following records, or portions thereof, shall not constitute public records and shall not be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-3-660

From funds appropriated by the General Assembly for such purpose, there is created a program of grants for the payment of postsecondary tuition, ancillary fees, and living expenses ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-1

The State of Georgia accepts the provisions of an act of the Congress of the United States approved February 23, 1917 (20 U.S.C.A. Section 11, et seq.; c. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-2

In matching the federal appropriations referred to in Code Section 20-4-1, the State Board of Education is directed to take advantage of whatever appropriations the state makes to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-3

The Office of Treasury and Fiscal Services shall be the custodian of any money received by the state from the federal government under this article; and it shall ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-4

Any county board of education may employ and pay agricultural teachers and home economics teachers when employed in the consolidated schools of the county under provisions of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-10

(a) There is established a State Board of Technical and Adult Education consisting of not fewer than one member from each congressional district and nine at-large members who ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-11

The State Board of Technical and Adult Education shall be empowered to: (1) Provide for a comprehensive program of literacy, career, occupational, and technical education for ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-12

The members of the State Board of Technical and Adult Education who are in state employment shall serve without compensation but, subject to fund availability, shall be reimbursed ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-13

The State Board of Technical and Adult Education shall meet monthly. Additional meetings may be called by the chairperson or at the request of three or more of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-14

(a) There is established a Department of Technical and Adult Education. (b) The department shall exercise state level leadership, management, and operational control over schools, programs, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-15

(a) For the purposes of this article, literacy means a degree of proficiency in reading, writing, and other communication skills; in computation; and in reasoning that enables an ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-16

(a) Any other Code section of this article to the contrary notwithstanding, the State Board of Technical and Adult Education shall annually determine the amount of funds needed ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-17

(a) The Department of Education is designated as the sole state agency to receive federal funds allotted to Georgia under acts of Congress appropriating federal funds for career, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-18

Subject to the provisions of Code Section 20-4-20, any other Code section of this article to the contrary notwithstanding, all decisions regarding the delivery of adult literacy and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-19

The adult literacy education programs operated by the Department of Corrections shall conform to the standards, regulations, policies, and procedures of the State Board of Technical and Adult ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-20

Nothing in this article shall abridge the authority of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia to establish or operate colleges or of local boards ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-21

(a) Any postsecondary technical school operated by a local board of education, an area postsecondary technical education board, or the Department of Technical and Adult Education shall be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-22

Any other Code section of this article to the contrary notwithstanding, the Department of Technical and Adult Education shall assume the management, operation, and control of the quick ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-23

Upon a postsecondary technical school´s conversion to state management, any unexpended nonstate funds that have been collected by, appropriated for, or otherwise earmarked for use by said postsecondary ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-24

Except where prohibited by federal law, rules, or regulations or rules, regulations, or policies of the State Board of Technical and Adult Education, local units of administration shall ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-25

Newly hired professional personnel employed for the first time by the Department of Technical and Adult Education on or after July 1, 1985, and all full-time nonprofessional personnel ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-26

All full-time employees of a postsecondary technical school formerly operated by a local board of education or area postsecondary technical education board as of July 1, 1987, or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-27

Employees of postsecondary technical schools governed by the department shall serve in the unclassified service of the state merit system as defined by Code Section 45-20-6, provided that ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-28

Employees of postsecondary technical schools governed by the department who are appointed after July 1, 1987, or after the date on which the department assumes governance of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-29

Employees of postsecondary technical schools formerly operated by a local board of education, or area postsecondary technical education board, shall as of July 1, 1987, or the date ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-30

Employees in the classified service of the state merit system who are employed by postsecondary technical schools governed by the department who elect to become members of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-31

(a) An employee of a postsecondary technical school governed by the department may be granted an amount of initial accrued sick and annual leave; provided, however, that the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-32

Employees of postsecondary technical schools governed by the department shall accrue sick leave as provided for by the rules and regulations of the State Personnel Board. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-33

Employees of postsecondary technical schools governed by the department shall receive days off with pay, the total of which in any year shall not exceed the total of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-34

All employees who were formerly employed by the State Board of Postsecondary Vocational Education and who have become employees of the Department of Technical and Adult Education under ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-35

The State Board of Technical and Adult Education shall develop and implement a policy which provides for an orderly and fair process to be used in the event ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-36

The Department of Technical and Adult Education shall cooperate with the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia in the study of practical problems involved in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-40

There is established a supplemental program to provide special quick start training to meet the employment training needs of new and expanding industry as well as certain existing ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-41

The programs of technical training under this article shall be supplementary to those offered by postsecondary technical schools and shall be operated on a state-wide basis to assist ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-42

The Department of Technical and Adult Education shall administer the program under this article and shall provide for technical and engineering services, publicity for the program, instructional services, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-43

(a) Training programs under this article may be carried out on the basis of training agreements between local boards of education having postsecondary technical schools and the State ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-44

The State Board of Technical and Adult Education may prescribe qualifications for persons employed in the program under this article without consideration of qualifications prescribed for personnel employed ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-45

The Department of Technical and Adult Education shall be authorized to procure equipment necessary to carry out an adequate training program under this article. Such equipment shall be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-46

The State Board of Technical and Adult Education shall have the authority to promulgate any and all standards, rules, and regulations necessary to carry out the objectives and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-47

To assist in carrying out this article, the State Board of Technical and Adult Education is authorized to accept grants of money, materials, services, or property of any ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-4-60 through 20-4-79

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Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-1

It is declared to be the policy of the state, as a part of the provisions for public education, to promote the establishment of public library service throughout ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-1.1

As used in this article, the term 'board of regents' means the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-2

(a) The board of regents shall give aid, advice, and counsel to all libraries and to communities which may propose to establish libraries as to the best means ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-3

In order to effectuate the purposes of this article there shall be made available to the board of regents whatever funds may be duly allocated to it by ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-4

All public libraries in the state shall submit reports annually to the board of regents. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-20

Any city, through its properly constituted municipal authorities, may raise by taxation from year to year and permanently appropriate money for the purpose of establishing, erecting, maintaining, or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-21

In any city in which an appropriation shall be made under this part, the money so appropriated shall be drawn from the treasury of such city on the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-22

The board of trustees of the public library of a city is authorized to accept and receive donations, either in money, land, or other property, for the purpose ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-23

The board of trustees of the public library of a city shall exercise a strict and rigid supervision over such public library; shall pass all necessary rules and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-24

The municipal government of any city in which an appropriation shall be made under this part shall have authority to enter into a legal and binding agreement to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-40

(a) The governing authority of any county or municipality may establish a public library system. Any public library established pursuant to this part shall be a tax-exempt institution. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-41

Each library system shall be governed by a board of trustees. Each system shall have a governing board of trustees but may have other affiliated boards of trustees ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-42

(a) A county board of trustees shall consist of at least one appointee from each governmental agency financially supporting the library on a regular basis. Appointments shall be ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-43

The board of trustees shall have duties and responsibilities which include but are not limited to the following: (1) To employ a library director who ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-44

Members of the board of trustees shall receive no compensation; provided, however, that such members may be reimbursed for any reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in the performance ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-45

Every public library system shall have a director. Any person appointed as director of a public library system must hold at least a Grade 5(b) Librarian´s Professional Graduate ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-46

The library system shall make such reports as deemed necessary by local and state funding agencies. In every case at least an annual report of activities, income, and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-47

(a) The board of trustees of each county and regional library shall have a written constitution and bylaws stating policy which shall be approved by the board. Such ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-48

(a) A clear title in fee simple to an approved site on which a library facility is to be located shall be held by either the library board ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-49

Library systems are authorized to make and enter into such contracts or agreements as are deemed necessary and desirable. All such contracts or agreements entered into shall: ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-50

Each library board which handles finances must keep a current bond for an adequate amount determined by the board of trustees and recorded in the minutes on the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-51

(a) A library system shall be dissolved by a reversal of procedures followed in its original organization. A majority of the board members in a majority of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-52

Any person who shall steal or unlawfully take or willfully or maliciously write upon, cut, tear, deface, disfigure, soil, obliterate, break, or destroy or who shall sell or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-53

Any person who borrows from any public library any book, newspaper, magazine, manuscript, pamphlet, publication, recording, video product, microform, computer software, film, or other article or equipment necessary ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-54

Any person who, without authority and with the intention of depriving the public library of the ownership of such property, willfully conceals a book or other public library ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-55

An agent or employee of a public library or of any department or office of the state or local government causing the arrest of any person pursuant to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-56

All persons holding professional positions with the title of librarian must be certified by the State Board for the Certification of Librarians. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-57

Any failure to comply with the provisions of this part shall result in the forfeiture of all state and federal library aid to the system. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-58

A library system existing prior to July 1, 1984, shall have until July 1, 1989, to comply fully with the provisions of this part, and any provision to ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-59

This part shall not apply to any municipal public library. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-60

As used in the Interstate Library Compact, 'state library agency,' with reference to this state, means the Office of Public Library Services of the Board of Regents of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-61

The Interstate Library Compact is enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows: ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-62

No municipality, county, or other political subdivision of this state shall be a party to a library agreement which provides for the construction or maintenance of a library ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-63

An interstate library district lying partly within this state may claim and be entitled to receive state aid in support of any of its functions to the same ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-64

The board of regents shall appoint an officer of this state to be the compact administrator pursuant to Article X of the compact. The board of regents shall ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-5-65

In the event of withdrawal from the compact, the board of regents shall send and receive any notices required by Article XI(b) of the compact. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-6-1

The following compact, as amended, is approved and this state is declared to be a party thereto; and agreements, covenants, and obligations therein are binding upon the State ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-6-20

The Compact for Education is entered into and enacted into law with all jurisdictions legally joining therein, in the form substantially as follows: COMPACT ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-6-21

The seven members to represent this state on the Education Commission of the States as authorized under Article III of the Compact for Education shall consist of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-6-22

There is established the Georgia Education Council, which shall be composed of the members of the Education Commission of the States representing this state and such other persons ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-6-23

(a) Funds appropriated or otherwise available to the executive branch of government of this state may be expended for the purpose of carrying out this article. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-6-24

Pursuant to Article III(i) of the compact, the Education Commission of the States shall file a copy of its bylaws and any amendment thereto with the Secretary of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-8-1

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Campus' means the grounds and buildings owned or occupied by a college or university or the grounds ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-8-2

On the campus of an educational facility, a campus policeman employed by such educational facility who is certified in accordance with Code Section 20-8-3 and when authorized by ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-8-3

As a condition precedent to the exercise of law enforcement powers pursuant to Code Section 20-8-2, a campus policeman must be certified by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-8-4

A campus policeman exercising the power of arrest pursuant to Code Section 20-3-72 providing campus policemen and other security personnel of the University System of Georgia with arrest ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-8-5

(a) In each public school system in this state, school security personnel employed by the board of education of a county or an independent board of education of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-8-6

Each educational facility which employs campus policemen, including institutions of the University System of Georgia, shall report to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and to the local law ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-9-1

(a) The State Board of Education and the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia shall promulgate and adopt rules and regulations to ensure that every ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-10-1

The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia shall have conducted throughout the state each year, during the season most convenient to the agriculturists, a series ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-11-1

To aid in the promotion of scientific, engineering, and industrial research; to encourage the more complete development and utilization of the natural resources of this state; to advance ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-11-2

It shall be the duty of the Georgia Tech Research Institute to: (1) Conduct original research; to perform and verify experiments; to make investigations in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-11-3

A center for industrial development shall be created in connection with the Georgia Tech Research Institute for the purpose of meeting more effectively the needs of business and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-11-4

Bulletins giving results of the research, investigations, and experiments or reports of progress shall be published at the Georgia Tech Research Institute at least once in 12 months. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-11-5

All moneys appropriated by the General Assembly for the establishment and operation of the Georgia Tech Research Institute, together with any sums which may be appropriated by the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-11-6

In the event of Congress making appropriations for the conduct of work similar to that specified in this chapter, the work of the Georgia Tech Research Institute shall ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-11-7

The president of the Georgia Institute of Technology is authorized at any time not later than January 1, 1985, in his discretion, to change the name of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-12-1

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Board of regents' means the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-12-2

The board of regents shall establish and operate one or more marine resources extension centers and an institute for oceanographic studies, known as the Oceanographic Research Center. The ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-12-3

For the purposes of this chapter, the board of regents shall have the powers: (1) To acquire by purchase, lease, or otherwise and to hold, lease, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-12-4

In the event that other states may desire to collaborate in the development of the complex, the board of regents is authorized to enter into agreements with the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-12-5

The board of regents is authorized, as owner of such projects as it may construct, to offer, as lessor, to lease such projects for terms not exceeding 50 ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-12-6

The board of regents is authorized to fix rentals and other charges which the lessees shall pay to the board of regents for the use of each project, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-12-7

The board of regents shall prescribe rules and regulations for the operation of each project constructed under this chapter, including rules and regulations to ensure maximum use of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-12-8

The board of regents shall make an annual report to the General Assembly which shall include a report on all funds and properties received or disbursed under this ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-12-9

This chapter, being for the welfare of the state and its inhabitants, shall be liberally construed to effect its purposes. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-13-1

(a) There is created a body corporate and politic to be known as the Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission which shall be deemed to be an instrumentality of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-13-2

(a) The commission shall be composed of nine members, who shall be appointed by the Governor from the general public. No person may serve on the commission who ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-13-3

The members of the commission shall receive for each day of service expended as a member of the commission the per diem and expense allowances authorized for members ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-13-4

The commission shall hold regular meetings bimonthly or as necessary as determined by the chairperson. Additional meetings may be called by the chairperson or at the request of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-13-5

(a) The Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission is declared to be a public charitable organization created, designed, and intended for the purpose of providing educational, instructional, and public broadcasting ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-13-6

The Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission shall appoint an executive director of the commission and shall fix his compensation, duties, and responsibilities consistent with the provisions of this chapter. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-13-7

The executive director shall be responsible for implementing the policies of the commission and for the day-to-day operations of the commission. The executive director shall develop job descriptions ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-13-8

(a)(1) The commission is authorized and empowered to hold licenses issued by the Federal Communications Commission or other appropriate governmental agencies necessary for the operation of public telecommunications ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-13-9

It is the intent of this chapter that the content of instructional television is clearly and unequivocally the responsibility of the Board of Education, the Board of Technical ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-13-10

(a) The executive director and his deputy director, division directors, and other employees shall be considered state employees in the unclassified service of the merit system for the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-13-11

The commission shall have the power: (1) To have a seal and alter it at pleasure; (2) Subject to the approval of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-13-12

It is found, determined, and declared that the creation of the commission and the carrying out of its corporate purposes are in all respects for the benefit of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-1

The General Assembly finds in regard to the creation of an Education Coordinating Council that said council should: (1) Provide a forum for interagency communication ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-2

There is created an education council to be known as the 'Education Coordinating Council' or 'council' and as used in this chapter, the term 'council' shall mean the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-3

(a) The council shall consist of the Governor, the State School Superintendent, the chairperson of the State Board of Education, the chancellor of the University System of Georgia, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-4

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this part, a majority of the members of the council then in office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-5

The council shall issue an annual report. Copies shall be distributed to each member of the General Assembly not later than the first Monday in December of every ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-6

All departments, boards, and offices represented on the council, the Office of Planning and Budget, and the Office of Student Achievement shall select and appoint such personnel as ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-7

The council shall have the following powers: (1) To have a seal and alter the same at its pleasure; (2) To adopt ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-8

The council shall have the following general powers and duties, in addition to any and all other powers enumerated in this article, any or all of which may ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-9

All state departments, agencies, boards, bureaus, commissions, and authorities are authorized and required to make available to the council access to records or data which are available in ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-10

Any decision or action by the council directing action by any department, board, or office represented on the council shall be placed on the agenda of the next ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-11

(a) The Governor, as chairperson of the council, may appoint such study commissions as he or she shall deem appropriate to the purposes of this chapter to study ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-20

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Board of regents' means the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-25

(a) There is created the Office of Student Achievement. (b) The chief administrative and executive officer of the office shall be the director, who shall ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-26

(a) The office shall have the following duties: (1) To create a single state-wide accountability system, establish indicators of performance, rate schools and school systems, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-27

(a) The office shall submit the following reports to the council: (1) An annual report regarding pre-kindergarten education shall be submitted no later than December ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-28

When the state-wide comprehensive educational information system provided for in Code Section 20-2-320 becomes functional, the office shall conduct a longitudinal study of the effect of nationally certified ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-30

The office shall create and implement a state-wide kindergarten through grade 12 accountability assessment program that is performance based to ensure school accountability for the goals of improved ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-31

Except as otherwise provided in this article, the office shall establish the levels of performance on each assessment instrument administered under Code Section 20-2-281 by establishing the standard ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-32

The officés state education accountability analysis and reporting program shall obtain nationally comparative results and benchmarks for the subject areas and grade levels for which criterion-referenced and nationally ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-33

(a) The office shall adopt and biennially review, and revise as necessary, indicators of the quality of learning by students in an individual school and school system. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-34

(a) Each school year, the office shall prepare and distribute to each school system a report card for each school in the State of Georgia. The school report ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-35

(a) The office may: (1) Conduct on-site audits of any school at any time, subject to the approval of the director; (2) ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-36

The office shall recommend, and the State Board of Education shall adopt, written procedures for conducting on-site audits under this part. The office shall make the procedures available ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-37

The Office of Student Achievement shall develop and the State Board of Education shall approve a Georgia schools awards system to recognize those schools and school systems that ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-38

(a) Financial awards will be provided to the schools that the director determines have demonstrated the greatest improvement in achieving the education goals of improved student achievement and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-39

The financial award system may be funded by donations, grants, or appropriation by the General Assembly or as otherwise provided. The State Board of Education may solicit and ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-40

All identifiable individual student performance data and information and reports received by the office, the Department of Education, and the State Board of Education under this part from ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-41

(a) The State Board of Education shall by policies, rules, or regulations establish a coherent and sustained system of assistance and support for schools not meeting identified levels ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-50

(a) The office shall create and the council shall adopt the rules and policies that support a postsecondary accountability assessment program that is primarily performance based. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-60

(a) The office, with the approval of the council, shall create and the Department of Early Care and Learning shall adopt the rules and policies that support a ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-70

(a) The office, with the approval of the council, shall create and the Professional Standards Commission shall adopt the rules and policies that support an education work force ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-14-80

(a) There shall be an Education Information Steering Committee as provided in Code Section 20-2-320. (b) The office shall provide a member to the Education ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-15-1

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the 'Georgia Medical Center Authority Act.' ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-15-2

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Authority' means the Georgia Medical Center Authority. (2) 'Cost of the project' means the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-15-3

(a) There is created a body corporate and politic to be known as the Georgia Medical Center Authority which shall be deemed to be an instrumentality of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-15-4

The corporate purpose and the general nature of the business of the authority shall be: (1) The provision of biomedical and biotechnical research centers, facilities, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-15-5

The authority is authorized: (1) To have a seal and alter it at pleasure; (2) To acquire, hold, and dispose of personal ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-15-6

It is found, determined, and declared that the creation of the authority and the carrying out of its corporate purposes are in all respects for the benefit of ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-15-7

All moneys received pursuant to the authority of this chapter, whether as grants or other contributions or as revenues, rents, and earnings, shall be deemed to be trust ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-15-8

The authority is authorized to fix rentals and other charges which any user shall pay to the authority for the use of the project or part thereof or ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-15-9

The Attorney General shall provide legal services for the authority and in connection therewith the provisions of Code Sections 45-15-13 through 45-15-16 shall be fully applicable. ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-15-10

Any action to protect or enforce any rights under this chapter shall be brought in the Superior Court of Richmond County, Georgia; and such court shall have exclusive, ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-15-11

(a) Every member of the authority and every employee of the authority who knowingly has any interest, direct or indirect, in any contract to which the authority is ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-15-12

The authority shall have the same immunity and exemption from liability for torts and negligence as enjoyed by this state; and the officers, agents, and employees of the ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-15-13

It is declared by the General Assembly that, in the exercise of the power specifically granted to it by this chapter, the authority is acting pursuant to state ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-15-14

(a) The authority shall develop an annual budget and a financial and program work plan for both capital and operational requirements of the authority´s activities and projects for ...

Georgia Code - Education - Title 20, Section 20-15-15

(a) There is created as a joint committee of the General Assembly the Georgia Medical Center Authority Overview Committee to be composed of three members of the House ...

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