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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 20. EDUCATION · Chapter 2. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION · Article 17. TEACHERS AND OTHER SCHOOL PERSONNEL · Part 7. TERMINATION, SUSPENSION, NONRENEWAL, DEMOTION, OR REPRIMAND

20-2-948. Reduction in force policies.

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

  1. (a)

    A local board of education shall not adopt or implement a policy that allows length of service to be the primary or sole determining factor when implementing a reduction in force. The local board shall consider as the primary factor the performance of the educator, one measure of which may be student academic performance.#

  2. (b)

    Any policy that does not comply with subsection (a) of this Code section shall be considered invalid and the State Board of Education shall be authorized to take action to withhold all or any portion of state funds in accordance with Code Section 20-2-243.#

  3. (c)

    This Code section shall not apply if a local board of education eliminates an entire program.#

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, § 20-2-948, enacted by Ga. L. 2012, p. 1037, § 2/SB 184.

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

Text read from t20-ch1-2a-(v17)-2022-pdf.pdf, Volume V17, 2022 edition, page 802; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 8daa8948bdb5.