History. Code 1981, § 20-2-327 , enacted by Ga. L. 2010, p. 186, § 1/HB 400; Ga. L. 2011, p. 632, § 3/HB 49; Ga. L. 2011, p. 752, § 20/HB 142; Ga. L. 2014, p. 341, § 4/HB 766; Ga. L. 2015, p. 5, § 20/HB 90; Ga. L. 2018, p. 731, § 8/SB 3; Ga. L. 2018, p. 747, § 2/SB 401.
The 2014 amendment, effective July 1, 2014, substituted the present provisions of paragraph (c)(5) for the former provisions, which read: “Include experience based, career oriented learning experiences which may include, but not be limited to, internships, apprenticeships, mentoring, co-op education, and service learning;”.
The 2015 amendment, effective March 13, 2015, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, revised language in paragraph (a)(2).
The 2018 amendments.
The first 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, in subsection (c), inserted “and career demand” in the middle of the first sentence, added the language beginning “, including information regarding” and ending with “Office of Student Achievement” at the end of the third sentence; substituted “coursework” for “course work” two times in paragraph (c)(1); deleted “service learning,” following “cooperative education,” near the end of paragraph (c)(5); added paragraph (c)(6); and redesignated former paragraphs (c)(6) through (c)(8) as present paragraphs (c)(7) through (c)(9), respectively. The second 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, designated the existing provisions of subsection (c) as paragraph (c)(1); in paragraph (c)(1), in the first sentence, substituted “Students” for “Beginning with the 2010-2011 school year, students” at the beginning, inserted “, career oriented aptitudes,” near the end, inserted “based on their academic skills, career oriented aptitudes, and career interests” in the middle of the second sentence, added the third sentence, substituted “update and implement” for “complete” in the fourth sentence, and added the fifth sentence; redesignated former paragraphs (c)(1) through (c)(8) as present subparagraphs (c)(1)(A) through (c)(1)(H), respectively; substituted “coursework” for “course work” twice in subparagraph (c)(1)(A); designated the ending undesignated paragraph of subsection (c) as paragraph (c)(2); and added paragraph (c)(3). See the Code Commission note regarding the effect of these amendments.
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2018, paragraphs (c)(1) through (c)(9), as amended by Ga. L. 2018, p. 731, § 8/SB 3, were redesignated as subparagraphs (c)(1)(A) through (c)(1)(I), and subparagraphs (c)(1)(F) through (c)(1)(H), as amended by Ga. L. 2018, p. 747, § 2/SB 401, were redesignated as subparagraphs (c)(1)(G) through (c)(1)(I).
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2014, p. 341, § 1/HB 766, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Work Based Learning Act.’”
Ga. L. 2018, p. 731, § 1/SB 3, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Creating Opportunities Needed Now to Expand Credentialed Training (CONNECT) Act.’”
For application of this statute in 2020, see Executive Order 03.27.20.02.
A listing of Executive Orders issued in 2020 and 2021 can be found at https://gov.georgia.gov/executive-action/executive-orders.
Law reviews.
For article, “Education: Elementary and Secondary Education,” see 28 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 115 (2011).