Regional offices authorized; employees

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 such regional offices of the Department of Education, their service areas shall be congruous with the service areas of regional educational service agencies as provided for in Code Section 20-2-270 and may include more than one regional educational service agency. All employees of such regional offices shall be employees of the Department of Education. History. Code 1981, § 20-2-20, enacted by Ga. L. 2000, p. 618, § 5. Editor’s notes. Ga. L. 2000, p. 618, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘A Plus Education Reform Act of 2000.’” ARTICLE 2 STATE SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT 20-2-30. Election; office; forms, blanks, and instructions for subordinate officials; appeal of decisions to State Board of Education. 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 and for the same term as the Governor is elected. A suitable office shall be furnished him at the seat of govern116 20-2-30 ELEMENTARY & SECONDARY EDUC. 20-2-30 ment. He shall prescribe suitable forms for the reports required of subordinate school officers and blanks for their guidance in transacting their official business and shall from time to time prepare and transmit to them such instructions as he may deem necessary for the faithful and efficient execution of the school laws; and by what is thus communicated to them they shall be bound to govern themselves in the discharge of their official duties, provided there shall always be an appeal from the State School Superintendent to the State Board of Education. History. Ga. L. 1919, p. 288, § 54; Code 1933, § 32-501; Ga. L. 1972, p. 1015, § 1002.