---
title: O.C.G.A. § 20-2-140.1. Online learning.
collection: code
id: 20-2-140.1
cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 20-2-140.1 (2025)
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/20-2-140.1
md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/20-2-140.1.md
text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/20-2-140.1/text
source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t20-ch1-2a-(v17)-2022-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=9db936c6_0#page=221
date: 2025
status: active
corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68
license: CC0-1.0
publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice.
up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/20-2.md
previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/20-2-140.md
next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/20-2-141.md
index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md
version: the only printed version
in_force: true
current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly
heading_path: EDUCATION / ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION / QUALITY BASIC EDUCATION / COMPETENCIES AND CORE CURRICULUM
---

# O.C.G.A. § 20-2-140.1. Online learning.

The State Board of Education shall establish rules and regulations to maximize the number of students, beginning with students entering ninth grade in the 2014-2015 school year, who complete prior to graduation at least one course containing online learning. This shall be met through an online course offered by the Georgia Virtual School established pursuant to Code Section 20-2-319.1, through the clearing-house established pursuant to Code Section 20-2-319.3, through an online dual enrollment course offered by a postsecondary institution, or through a provider pursuant to Code Section 20-2-319.4. This shall also include enrollment in a full-time or part-time virtual instruction program pursuant to Code Section 20-2-319.4.

## History

Code 1981, § 20-2-140.1, enacted by Ga. L. 2012, p. 893, § 1/SB 289; Ga. L. 2015, p. 1376, § 5/HB 502.

## Code Commission Notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2012, “Code Section 20-2-319.4” was substituted for “Code Section 20-2-319.3” at the end of the second and last sentences.