2020 Georgia Code
Title 20 - Education
Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education
Article 31A - State Charter Schools
§ 20-2-2080. Legislative Findings and Intent
- The General Assembly finds that:
- 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
- State charter schools do not supplant public schools operated by local boards of education but provide options to enhance public educational opportunities.
- It is the intent of the General Assembly that there be established a state-level commission under the authority of the State Board of Education whose primary focus is the development and support of state charter schools in order to better meet the growing and diverse needs of students in this state and to further ensure that state charter schools of the highest academic quality are approved and supported throughout the state in an efficient manner.
(Code 1981, §20-2-2080, enacted by Ga. L. 2012, p. 1298, § 1/HB 797.)
Law reviews.- For article, "Education: Education's Elusive Future, Storied Past, and the Fundamental Inequities Between," see 46 Ga. L. Rev. 557 (2012).
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Complaint based on information/records of public employer.
- Dismissal of a complaint filed by two teachers against a charter school was barred under the Taxpayer Protection Against False Claims Act, O.C.G.A. § 23-3-120 et seq., because the complaint asserted that while employed at the school, the teachers had access to information which led the teachers to believe that the school was violating state and federal laws as to student count and special education services, which were allegations based upon information or records that the teacher had access to as a result of the teachers' employment. Campbell v. Cirrus Education, 355 Ga. App. 628, 845 S.E.2d 393 (2020).
Entitlement to sovereign immunity.
- Dismissal of the whistleblowers' complaint filed by two teachers against a charter school and the school's chief executive officer was affirmed because the charter school was a public entity entitled to sovereign immunity and since the charter school was an instrumentality of the state, the chief executive officer was entitled to official immunity. Campbell v. Cirrus Education, Inc., 355 Ga. App. 637, 845 S.E.2d 384 (2020).
