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2018 Georgia Code 20-2-2090 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)
O.C.G.A. 20-2-2090 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 20-2-2090

TITLE 20 EDUCATION

Section 2. Elementary and Secondary Education, 20-2-1 through 20-2-2180.

ARTICLE 31A STATE CHARTER SCHOOLS

20-2-2090. Collaborative efforts on matters related to authorization of state charter schools; administration.

The commission shall work in collaboration with the department on all matters related to authorizing state charter schools and shall be assigned to the department for administrative purposes only, as prescribed in Code Section 50-4-3. For administrative purposes, including data reporting, student enrollment counting procedures, student achievement reporting, funding allocations, and related purposes as defined by the State Board of Education, each state charter school, including any students receiving education services through a state charter school pursuant to Code Section 20-2-2084.1, shall, consistent with department rules and regulations, be treated as a single local education agency.

(Code 1981, §20-2-2090, enacted by Ga. L. 2012, p. 1298, § 1/HB 797; Ga. L. 2016, p. 443, § 2-3/SB 367.)

The 2016 amendment, effective July 1, 2016, inserted ", including any students receiving education services through a state charter school pursuant to Code Section 20-2-2084.1," near the end of this Code section.

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- For article on the 2016 amendment of this Code section, see 33 Georgia St. U.L. Rev. 139 (2016).

Cases Citing O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2090

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Gwinnett Cnty. Sch. Dist. v. Cox, 710 S.E.2d 773 (Ga. 2011).

Cited 14 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | May 16, 2011 | 289 Ga. 265, 2011 Fulton County D. Rep. 1734

...The Commission is charged with, among other responsibilities, approving or denying petitions for commission charter schools according to rules and regulations established by the State Board of Education. See OCGA § 20-2-2083(a)(1). The funding mechanism for commission charter schools is set forth in OCGA § 20-2-2090; it is much less favorable for local school systems than the funding mechanism for the state charter schools created under the 1998 Act, as the local systems receive reduced state and federal funding in proportion to the number of students residing in their districts that choose to attend commission charter schools....
...The majority also expresses concern for local taxpayers who reside in the areas from which "local school taxes are raised." Maj. Op. at 780. However, under the express terms of the Constitution's "special schools" provision and the statutory formula for funding commission charter schools, see OCGA § 20-2-2090, local school taxes may be used to support a charter school only if the citizens of the local areas affected vote to do so....