Georgia Code
Article 4 - Increased Flexibility for Local School Systems
§ 20-2-84. Accountability, Flexibility, and Consequences Components of Contract

Consequences shall be incurred upon noncompliance of a local school system with the accountability component of its contract; provided, however, that if a local school system has been in compliance with the accountability component of its contract for at least three years, consequences shall not be invoked upon the fifth year of the contract, and such school system may request an extension of its contract and corresponding flexibility from the state board. If the local school system or a school within the school system meets the performance goals in its contract for such school system or school by the end of the fifth year of the contract, the school system or school shall be deemed to have met its contract performance goals. The schedule of interventions or sanctions, including loss of governance, for failure to meet identified levels of achievement or specified levels of progress shall be mutually agreed upon in the contract. If the Office of Student Achievement recommends to the state board that loss of governance not be included in a contract with respect to a high-performing school, the contract may provide alternate terms with respect to that school.
History. Code 1981, § 20-2-84 , enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 82, § 1/HB 1209; Ga. L. 2013, p. 1061, § 3/HB 283; Ga. L. 2015, p. 21, § 1/HB 91; Ga. L. 2015, p. 92, § 3/SB 133; Ga. L. 2019, p. 1056, § 20/SB 52.
The 2015 amendments. —
The first 2015 amendment, effective March 30, 2015, substituted “end-of-grade assessments,” for “criterion-referenced competency tests, the Georgia High School Graduation Test,” in paragraph (a)(3). The second 2015 amendment deletes “pursuant to Code Section 20-14-41, which may be accelerated” from paragraph (1) of subsection (b). For effective date of this amendment, see the Editor’s note.
The 2019 amendment, effective May 12, 2019, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “high-performing school” for “high performing school” in the last sentence of the undesignated language at the end of subsection (c).
Editor’s notes.
The constitutional amendment proposed in Ga. L. 2015, p. 92, § 6(a)/SB 133, which would have revised paragraph (c)(1) to read as follows: “Interventions or sanctions for failure to meet identified levels of achievement or for not showing specified levels of progress; and”, was defeated in the general election held November 8, 2016.
Law reviews.
For article on the 2015 amendment of this Code section, see 32 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 115 (2015).

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