• § 20-14-30 - Creation of Performance Based Accountability Assessment Program
  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...
• § 20-14-31 - Establishing Standard for Satisfactory Performance
  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...
• § 20-14-32 - Obtaining Nationally Comparative Results and Benchmarks
  The office's state education accountability analysis and reporting program shall obtain nationally comparative results and benchmarks for the subject areas and grade levels for...
• § 20-14-33 - Indicators of Quality of Learning in Individual Schools and School Systems; Comparison to State Standards; Rating Schools and School Systems; Providing Information; Uniform Definition of "Dropout" and "Below Grade Level"
  (a) The office, in coordination with the Department of Education, shall adopt and annually review, and revise as necessary, indicators of the quality of...
• § 20-14-34 - School and System Report Cards; Required Information; Dissemination of Reports
  (a) Each school year, the office shall prepare and distribute to each school system in the State of Georgia a report card for each...
• § 20-14-35 - Office Powers; On-Site Audits; Reporting Findings and Recommendations; Authorization of Other School Audits
  (a) The office may: (1) Conduct on-site audits of any school at any time, subject to the approval of the director; (2) Raise or...
• § 20-14-36 - Written Procedures; Training
  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...
• § 20-14-37 - Creation of School Awards System Recognizing Progress and Achievements in Schools
  The Office of Student Achievement shall develop and the State Board of Education shall approve a Georgia schools awards system to recognize those schools...
• § 20-14-38 - Financial Awards; Proclamations by Governor
  (a) Financial awards may be provided to the schools that the director determines have demonstrated the greatest improvement in achievement gap closure, subject to...
• § 20-14-39 - Funding of Award System
  The financial award system may be funded by donations, grants, or appropriation by the General Assembly or as otherwise provided. The State Board of...
• § 20-14-40 - Confidentiality of Identifiable Individual Student Performance Data
  All identifiable individual student performance data and information and reports received by the office, the Department of Education, and the State Board of Education...
• § 20-14-41 - (for Effective Date, See Note) Appropriate Levels of Intervention for Failing Schools; Master or Management Team; School Improvement Team; Annual Reports; Data Revision; Hearing
  (a) The State Board of Education shall by policies, rules, or regulations establish a coherent and sustained system of assistance and support for schools...

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