Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 20. EDUCATION · Chapter 2. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION · Article 33. SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FOR SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS

20-2-2111. Legislative findings; purpose.

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

The General Assembly finds that:
(1)
Students with disabilities have special needs that merit educational alternatives which will allow students to learn in an appropriate setting and manner;#
(2)
Parents are best equipped to make decisions for their children, including the educational setting that will best serve the interests and educational needs of their children;#
(3)
Children, parents, and families are the primary beneficiaries of the scholarship program authorized in this article and any benefit to private schools, sectarian or otherwise, is purely incidental;#
(4)
The scholarship program established in this article is for the valid secular purpose of tailoring a student’s education to that student’s specific needs and enabling families to make genuine and independent private choices to direct their resources to appropriate schools; and#
(5)
Nothing in this article shall be construed as a basis for granting vouchers or tuition tax credits for any other students, with or without disabilities.#

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.

Code 1981, § 20-2-2111, enacted by Ga. L. 2007, p. 197, § 1/SB 10.

For article, “SB 47: Eligibility Expansion for the Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Program,” see 38 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 83 (2021).

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