O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2080 (2019)

Legislative findings and intent

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

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(a) The General Assembly finds that:

(1) State charter schools can serve as a complement to the educational opportunities provided by local boards of education in the state’s system of public education; and

(2) State charter schools do not supplant public schools operated by local boards of education but provide options to enhance public educational opportunities.

(b) It is the intent of the General Assembly that there be established a state-level commission under the authority of the State Board of Education whose primary focus is the development and support of state charter schools in order to better meet the growing and diverse needs of students in this state and to further ensure that state charter schools of the highest academic quality are approved and supported throughout the state in an efficient manner.

History

Code 1981, § 20-2-2080, enacted by Ga. L. 2012, p. 1298, § 1/HB 797.

Annotations

Law reviews. For article, “Education: Education’s

Elusive Future, Storied Past, and the Fundamental Inequities Between,” see 46 Ga. L. Rev. 557 (2012).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Complaint based on information/ records of public employer. - Dismissal of a complaint filed by two teachers against a charter school was barred under the Taxpayer Protection Against False Claims Act, O.C.G.A. § 23-3-120 et seq., because the complaint asserted that while employed at the school, the teachers had access to information which led the teachers to believe that the school was violating state and federal laws as to student count and special education services, which were allegations based upon information or records that the teacher had access to as a result of the teachers’ employment. Campbell v. Cirrus Education, 355 Ga. App. 628, 845 S.E.2d 393, 2020 Ga. App. LEXIS 362 (2020), cert. denied, No.

S20C1516, 2021 Ga. LEXIS 231 (Ga. Apr. 5, 2021), cert. denied, No. S20C1515, 2021 Ga. LEXIS 232 (Ga. Apr. 5, 2021). Entitlement to sovereign immunity. - Dismissal of the whistleblowers’ complaint filed by two teachers against a charter school and the school’s chief executive officer was affirmed because the charter school was a public entity entitled to sovereign immunity and since the charter school was an instrumentality of the state, the chief executive officer was entitled to official immunity. Campbell v. Cirrus Education, Inc., 355 Ga. App. 637, 845 S.E.2d 384, 2020 Ga. App. LEXIS 361 (2020), cert. denied, No. S20C1514, 2021 Ga. LEXIS 222 (Ga. Apr. 5, 2021).

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 4 cases, 2011–2020 · leading case: Gwinnett Cnty. Sch. Dist. v. Cox, 710 S.E.2d 773 (Ga. 2011).

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Gwinnett Cnty. Sch. Dist. v. Cox, 710 S.E.2d 773 (Ga. 2011). · cites it 20× “This appeal involves a constitutional challenge to the 2008 Georgia Charter Schools Commission Act, OCGA § 20-2-2080 et seq. (the "Act"). Appellants/plaintiffs are local school systems [1] whose 2009 and 2010 complaints were consolidated by the trial court; appellees/defendants…”

Bulloch Cnty. Sch. Dist. v. Georgia Dep't of Educ., 751 S.E.2d 495 (Ga. Ct. App. 2013). · cites it 2× “On May 16, 2011, the Supreme Court of Georgia held the 2008 Georgia Charter Schools Commission Act, OCGA § 20-2-2080 et seq., unconstitutional because it violated the “special schools” provision of the Georgia Constitution, Ga.”

Susan Campbell v. Cirrus Educ., Inc. (Ga. Ct. App. 2020). · cites it 4× “]” OCGA § 20-2-2080 (a) (1). “Funding for state charter schools .”

Susan Campbell v. Cirrus Educ., Inc. (Ga. Ct. App. 2020). · cites it 2× “]” OCGA § 20-2-2080 (a) (1). “Funding for state charter schools .”

— 20-2-2080(b)(2) — 1 case

Gwinnett Cnty. Sch. Dist. v. Cox, 710 S.E.2d 773 (Ga. 2011). “This appeal involves a constitutional challenge to the 2008 Georgia Charter Schools Commission Act, OCGA § 20-2-2080 et seq. (the "Act"). Appellants/plaintiffs are local school systems [1] whose 2009 and 2010 complaints were consolidated by the trial court; appellees/defendants…”

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