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Georgia Statutes, Title 20

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Title 20

17 chapters · 1,343 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 201,343 Ch 2, ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION668 Ch 3, POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION411 Ch 14, EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY50 Ch 4, VOCATIONAL, TECHNICAL, AND ADULT EDU…43 Ch 5, LIBRARIES37 Ch 1A, EARLY CARE AND LEARNING36 Ch 1, GENERAL PROVISIONS27 Ch 16, GEORGIA HIGHER EDUCATION FACILITIES …18 Ch 13, GEORGIA PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CO…12 Ch 12, MARINE RESOURCES EXTENSION CENTERS A…9 Ch 2A, STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP ORGANIZATIONS8 Ch 8, CAMPUS POLICEMEN7 Ch 11, GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH INSTITUTE7 Ch 6, EDUCATION COMPACTS6

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O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2019 Annual audit
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Each fund established under this article shall have an annual audit of its books and accounts performed by a certiﬁed public accountant. Such audit shall be conducted in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A copy of such audit shall be made available to fund…
O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2020 Sovereign immunity not waived
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The exercise by a board of education or school system of the authority provided in this article shall not constitute the provision of liability insurance protection under Article I, Section II, Paragraph IX of the Constitution of the State of Georgia. The participation by a board…
O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2040 “Multiracial” deﬁned
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As used in this article, the term “multiracial” means having parents of different races. History. Code 1981, § 20-2-2040, enacted by Ga. L. 1994, p. 1360, § 2.
O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2041 “Multiracial” classiﬁcation required on forms
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(a) All written forms, applications, questionnaires, and other written documents or materials produced by or for or used by any public elementary or secondary school in the state which request information on the racial or ethnic identiﬁcation of a respondent and which contain a l…

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O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2060 Short title

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This article shall be known and may be cited as the “Charter Schools Act of 1998.” History. Code 1981, § 20-2-2060, enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 1080, § 3.

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2061 Legislative intent

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It is the intent of the General Assembly to increase student achievement through academic and organizational innovation by encouraging local school systems to utilize the ﬂexibility of a performance based contract called a charter. History. Code 1981, § 20-2-2061, enacted by Ga. …

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2062 Deﬁnitions

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As used in this article, the term: (1) “Charter” means a performance based contract between a local board and a charter petitioner, the terms of which are approved by the local board and by the state board in the case of a local charter school; between the state board and a chart…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2063 Charter petitions

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(a) The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules, regulations, policies, and procedures to govern the contents of a charter petition. (b) The State Board of Education shall establish rules, regulations, policies, and procedures to provide for the receipt of charter petitio…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2063.1 Charter Advisory Committee established; members; duties

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(a) The state board shall establish a Charter Advisory Committee to review charter petitions for compliance with established standards of the state board, to make recommendations to the state board on charter policy, and to provide recommendations to the state board regarding cha…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2063.2 Charter systems

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(a) The state board shall be authorized to enter into a charter with a local board to establish a local school system as a charter system. (b) A local board seeking to create a charter system must submit a petition to the state board. Prior to submitting such petition, the local …

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2063.3 Code of principles and standards for charter school authorizers

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(a) The State Board of Education and the State Charter Schools Commission shall jointly establish a code of principles and standards of charter school authorizing to guide local boards of education, the state board, and the State Charter Schools Commission in meeting highquality …

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2064 Approval or denial of petition

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(a) A charter petitioner seeking to create a conversion charter school must submit a petition to the local board of the local school system in which the proposed charter school will be located. The local board must by a majority vote approve or deny a petition no later than 90 da…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2064.1 Review of charter by state board; charters for state chartered special schools

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(a) Prior to approval or denial of a charter petition under this Code section, the state board shall receive and give all due consideration to the recommendation and input from the Charter Advisory Committee established in Code Section 20-2-2063.1. (b) The state board shall appro…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2065 Waiver of provisions of this title; requirements for operating; control and management

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(a) Except as provided in this article or in a charter, a charter school, or for charter systems, each school within the system, shall not be subject to the provisions of this title or any state or local rule, regulation, policy, or procedure relating to schools within an applica…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2066 Admission, enrollment, and withdrawal of students

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(a) A local charter school shall enroll students in the following manner: (1)(A) A start-up charter school shall enroll any student who resides in the attendance zone speciﬁed in the charter and who submits a timely application as speciﬁed in the charter unless the number of appl…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2067 Reprisals by local boards or school system employees prohibited

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A local board of education or a school system employee who has control over personnel actions shall not take unlawful reprisal against another employee of the school system because such other employee is directly or indirectly involved with a petition to establish a charter schoo…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2067.1 Amendment of terms of charter for charter school; initial term of charter; annual report

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(a) The terms of a charter for a local charter school may be amended during the term of the charter upon the approval of the local board, the state board, and the charter school. The terms of a charter for a state chartered special school may be amended during the term of the cha…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2068 Termination of a charter

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(a) The state board may terminate a charter under the following circumstances: (1)(A) If a majority of the parents or guardians of students enrolled at the charter school vote by a majority vote to request the termination of its charter at a public meeting called with two weeks’ …

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2068.1 Charter school funding

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(a) A local charter school shall be included in the allotment of QBE formula earnings, applicable QBE grants, applicable non-QBE state grants, and applicable federal grants to the local school system in which the local charter school is located under Article 6 of this chapter. Th…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2068.2 Facilities grants for charter schools; purposes for which grants may be used; upkeep of charter school property; availability of unused facilities

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(a) From moneys speciﬁcally appropriated for such purpose, the state board shall disburse facilities grants for local charter schools, state chartered special schools, and state charter schools as deﬁned in Code Section 20-2-2081 for the purpose of providing facility funding more…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2069 Office of Charter School Compliance

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There is established within the Department of Education an Office of Charter School Compliance, the responsibilities of which shall be to: (1) Prepare charter school and charter system guidelines to be approved by the state board; (2) Distribute charter school and charter system …

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2070 Annual report to General Assembly

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The state board shall report to the General Assembly no later than December 31 of each year on the status of the charter school program. History. Code 1981, § 20-2-2070, enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 1080, § 3; Ga. L. 2005, p. 798, § 17/SB 35.

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2071 Validity of charters in effect on July 1, 1998

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Any charter which was granted pursuant to Code Section 20-2-255 and is in effect on July 1, 1998, shall continue to be valid until such charter expires according to its terms. History. Code 1981, § 20-2-2071, enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 1080, § 3.

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2072 Training for governing board members

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The members of the governing board of the nonproﬁt organization of each charter school shall participate in initial training for boards of newly approved charter schools and annual training thereafter, conducted or approved by the state board. The state board shall provide for or…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2073 Charter schools ﬁnancial management certiﬁcation program

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The State Board of Education shall establish a charter schools ﬁnancial management certiﬁcation program for charter school leaders and personnel who are responsible for the school’s budget, accounting, payroll processing, purchasing, and ensuring the school’s ﬁnancial policies ar…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2074 Simultaneous service of certain officers prohibited

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The principal, or its equivalent, for a charter school shall not serve simultaneously as the chief ﬁnancial officer, or its equivalent, for the charter school. History. Code 1981, § 20-2-2074, enacted by Ga. L. 2016, p. 613, § 2/HB 895.

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2075 Grant program for replicating high-performing charter schools

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(a) The State Board of Education is authorized to establish a grant program for the purpose of replicating high-performing charter schools, including local charter schools, state chartered special schools, and state charter schools. The grant program shall include funding, subjec…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2080 Legislative ﬁndings and intent

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(a) The General Assembly ﬁnds that: (1) State charter schools can serve as a complement to the educational opportunities provided by local boards of education in the state’s system of public education; and (2) State charter schools do not supplant public schools operated by local…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2081 Deﬁnitions

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As used in this article, the term: (1) “Attendance zone” means all or a portion of a local school system, one or more local school systems or portions thereof, or all local school systems in this state. A state charter school with an attendance zone that includes all local school…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2082 State Charter Schools Commission; members; operations

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(a) The State Charter Schools Commission is established as a state-level authorizing entity working in collaboration with the Department of Education under the authority of the State Board of Education. Start-up funds necessary to establish and operate the commission may be recei…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2083 Powers and duties of commission

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(a) The commission shall have the power to: (1) Approve or deny petitions for state charter schools and renew, nonrenew, or terminate state charter school petitions in accordance with rules and regulations established pursuant to this article. At its discretion, the commission ma…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2084 Petition for charter schools; requirements of school; governing board membership; annual training; simultaneous service prohibited

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(a) Petitions submitted to the commission shall be subject to rules and regulations established pursuant to this article. (b) The commission shall be authorized to approve a petition for a state charter school that meets the following requirements: (1) Has a state-wide attendance…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2084.1 Education of incarcerated children and youth

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A state charter school shall be authorized, upon the approval of the commission, to enter into a contract with the Department of Juvenile Justice or the Department of Corrections to operate a school and deliver education services to school age children or youth incarcerated withi…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2085 Petitions by existing charter schools

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A petition may be submitted pursuant to this Code section by an existing charter school approved by a local board of education or the State Board of Education provided that the obligations of its charter with the local board of education or State Board of Education will expire pr…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2086 Information to parents

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The commission shall provide maximum access to information regarding state charter schools to all parents in this state. It shall maintain information systems, including, but not limited to, a userfriendly Internet website, that will provide information and data necessary for par…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2087 Annual report of chairperson

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Each year, the chairperson of the commission shall appear before the State Board of Education and submit a report regarding the academic performance and ﬁscal responsibility of all state charter schools approved under this article. History. Code 1981, § 20-2-2087, enacted by Ga. …

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2088 Debts of non-renewed or terminated charter schools

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If a charter for a state charter school is not renewed or is terminated, the state charter school shall be responsible for all debts of such school. Neither the state, the State Board of Education, or the commission shall be liable for any debts of the school in the event the cha…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2088.1 Ownership and maintenance of state charter school records

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(a) Except as provided for in subsection (b) of this Code section, records created, received, or maintained in the performance of a charter by a state charter school shall be the property of the state charter school. Nothing in this subsection shall preclude a state charter schoo…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2089 Funding for state charter schools

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(a)(1) The earnings for a student in a state charter school shall be equal to the earnings for any other student with similar student characteristics in a state charter school, regardless of the local school system in which the student resides or the school system in which the st…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2090 Collaborative efforts on matters related to authorization of state charter schools; administration

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The commission shall work in collaboration with the department on all matters related to authorizing state charter schools and shall be assigned to the department for administrative purposes only, as prescribed in Code Section 50-4-3. For administrative purposes, including data r…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2091 Rules and regulations for implementation of article

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The commission and the State Board of Education, as appropriate, shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to facilitate the implementation of this article. Except as otherwise provided in this article, any rules and regulations adopted by the State Board of Education pursuant …

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2092 Authority to incorporate nonproﬁt corporation as public foundation; requirements; annual report

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(a) The commission shall have the power and authority to incorporate a nonproﬁt corporation that could qualify as a public foundation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code to aid the commission in carrying out any of its powers and accomplishing any of its purposes…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2095 Short title

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This article shall be known and may be cited as the “Charter School Capital Finance Act.” History. Code 1981, § 20-2-2095, enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 619, § 1/HB 831.

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2095.1 Deﬁnitions

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As used in this article, the term: (1) “Capital outlay” includes, but is not necessarily limited to, expenditures which result in the acquisition of ﬁxed assets, existing buildings, improvements to sites, construction of buildings, construction of additions to buildings, retroﬁtt…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2095.2 Grant program for qualiﬁed charter school contributions

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Subject to appropriations by the General Assembly, the state board shall establish a grant program for qualiﬁed charter school contributions. The grant program shall provide one dollar in matching funds up to a maximum amount authorized by the state board for a single charter sch…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2095.3 Date certain for matching funds

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If appropriations are made by the General Assembly speciﬁcally for this program, the state board shall establish a date certain on which all matching funds shall be committed by a qualiﬁed charter school organization in order to be eligible for the state portion provided pursuant…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2095.4 Adoption of guidelines and standards for construction of charter schools; reporting

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The state board shall adopt policies, guidelines, and standards regarding the construction of charter schools that are constructed in part with contributions made to qualiﬁed charter school organizations which, to the extent applicable, shall be consistent with state board polici…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2095.5 Promulgation of rules and regulations

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The state board shall be authorized to promulgate any rules and regulations necessary to implement and administer the provisions of this article. History. Code 1981, § 20-2-2095.5, enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 619, § 1/HB 831. ARTICLE 32 HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS OVERVIEW COMMITTEE Eff…

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2100 Creation of oversight committee to review operations of high school athletic associations

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(a) There is created as a joint committee of the General Assembly the High School Athletics Overview Committee to be composed of ﬁve members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House, one of whom shall be a member of the minority party; ﬁve members of …

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2101 Powers and duties

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The Department of Education, the Attorney General, and all other agencies of state government, upon request by the committee, shall assist the committee in the discharge of its duties set forth in this article. The committee may employ staff and may secure the services of consult…