2019 Georgia Code
Title 20 - Education
Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education
Article 31A - State Charter Schools
§ 20-2-2081. Definitions
- 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 systems in this state shall be considered to have state-wide jurisdiction as that term is used in Chapter 14 of Title 50.
(2) "Commission" means the State Charter Schools Commission established pursuant to Code Section 20-2-2082.
(3) "Department" means the state Department of Education.
(4) "Governing board" means the governing board of the nonprofit organization which is the charter petitioner for a state charter school and which is the same as the governing board of the state charter school which is involved in school-level governance of the state charter school.
(5) "State charter school" means a school authorized by the commission pursuant to this article whose creation is authorized as a special school pursuant to Article VIII, Section V, Paragraph VII of the Constitution. A state charter school shall be a public school.
- The definitions set forth in Code Section 20-2-2062 shall be applicable to this article.
Code 1981, § 20-2-2081, enacted by Ga. L. 2012, p. 1298, § 1/HB 797; Ga. L. 2019, p. 142, § 3/HB 59.