2025 Code of Georgia
Title 20 - Education (Chs. 1 — 18)
Chapter 14 - Education Accountability (Arts. 1 — 4)
Article 3 - Education Accountability (§§ 20-14-96 — 20-14-97)
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Effective date.This article became effective July 1, 2023.
Editor’s notes.The constitutional amendment proposed in Ga. L. 2015, p. 92, § 6/SB 133, which would have enacted a new Article 3 pertaining to “Opportunity School District”, consisting of Code Sections 20-14-100 through 20-14-113, was defeated in the general election held November 8, 2016.
Ga. L. 2023, p. 395, § 1/SB 204, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “The General Assembly does not affirmatively require any elementary or secondary school or school system in the state to be accredited. Nevertheless, the General Assembly finds that accreditation, or the lack thereof, can have significant impacts on the operation of public and private schools in this state as well as on the students and families served by such schools. For example, a lack of accreditation can impact a student's eligibility to qualify for HOPE awards or to be considered for acceptance to postsecondary educational institutions in this state and elsewhere, and the loss or potential loss of accreditation can result in the removal of local board of education members from their offices. The General Assembly finds that even though accreditation is not legislatively required in elementary and secondary schools in this state, high school accreditation in particular is considered a practical necessity by many families, schools, and school systems. The General Assembly also finds that accreditation agencies, when properly focused on student achievement, academic success, and the fiscal solvency of schools and school systems, can aid schools and school systems in promoting improved quality of learning and teaching and financial efficiency. It is the intent of the General Assembly that the state government, including all offices, agencies, departments, boards, bureaus, commissions, institutions, or other entities thereof, recognize only those accrediting agencies which are primarily focused on the evaluation of quality of learning and teaching and financial efficiency of schools and which are committed to fairness, consistency, and transparency.”
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Hierarchy Notes:O. C. G. A. Title 20
O. C. G. A. Title 20, Ch. 14
