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 o