O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-737 (2019)

Reports by teacher of violations of student code of conduct; notification to parents of support services or disciplinary action

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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(a) Local board policies adopted pursuant to Code Section 20-2-735 shall require the filing of a report by a teacher who has knowledge that a student has exhibited behavior that repeatedly or substantially interferes with the teacher’s ability to communicate effectively with the students in his or her class or with the ability of such student’s classmates to learn, where such behavior is in violation of the student code of conduct. Such report shall be filed with the principal or the principal’s designee within one school day of the most recent occurrence of such behavior, shall not exceed one page, and shall describe the behavior. The principal or the principal’s designee shall, within one school day after receiving such a report from a teacher, send to the student’s parents or guardian a copy of the report and information regarding how the student’s parents or guardians may contact the principal or the principal’s designee.

(b) If student support services are utilized or if disciplinary action is taken in response to such a report by the principal or the principal’s designee, the principal or the principal’s designee shall send written notification to the teacher and the student’s parents or guardians of the student support services being utilized or the disciplinary action taken within one school day after such utilization or action and shall make a reasonable attempt to confirm that such written notification has been received by the student’s parents or guardians. Such written notification shall include information regarding how the student’s parents or guardians may contact the principal or the principal’s designee.

History

Code 1981, § 20-2-737, enacted by Ga. L. 1999, p. 438, § 4.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2016–2016 · leading case: Williams ex rel. Williams v. Fulton Cnty. Sch. Dist., 181 F. Supp. 3d 1089 (N.D. Ga. 2016).
Williams ex rel. Williams v. Fulton Cnty. Sch. Dist., 181 F. Supp. 3d 1089 (N.D. Ga. 2016). · cites it 2× “The Court does not find that the alleged violations of O.C.G.A. §§ 20-2-737 and 738 trigger procedural due process rights on their own.”
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