Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 20. EDUCATION · Chapter 2. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION · Article 31A. STATE CHARTER SCHOOLS

20-2-2081. Definitions.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

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 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.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 20-2-2081, enacted by Ga. L. 2012, p. 1298, § 1/HB 797; Ga. L. 2019, p. 142, § 3/HB 59; Ga. L. 2020, p. 493, § 20/SB 429. The 2020 amendment, effective July 29, 2020, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “Department” for “state Department” in paragraph (3).

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