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GA Code § 20-2-202 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 6 - Quality Basic Education|Part 6 - Employment|Subpart 1 - Certificated Professional Personnel|§ 20-2-202. Life Certificates

 All teachers and other professional personnel who hold life certificates shall be entitled to carry forward that lifetime status if they become qualified by reason of additional training for a next higher level of certification in the same field. However, holders of life certificates shall be subject to the tests and assessments regarding certification pursuant to subsection (b) of Code Section 20-2-200 when such tests or assessments are required to qualify for other provisions as set forth in this article or by Professional Standards Commission policy or regulation.    (Code 1981, §20-2-202, enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 1657, § 1; Ga. L. 1987, p. 1169, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 1546, § 4.)
GA Code § 20-2-203 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 6 - Quality Basic Education|Part 6 - Employment|Subpart 1 - Certificated Professional Personnel|§ 20-2-203. Validity Period for Renewable Certificates

 All renewable certificates granted by the Professional Standards Commission shall have a validity period of five years.    (Code 1981, §20-2-203, enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 1657, § 1; Ga. L. 1987, p. 1169, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 1546, § 4.)
GA Code § 20-2-204 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 6 - Quality Basic Education|Part 6 - Employment|Subpart 1 - Certificated Professional Personnel|§ 20-2-204. Paraprofessional and Permitted Personnel; Classification of All Certified or Permitted Personnel

  As used in this Code section, the term:   "Paraprofessional" is defined as a person who may have less than professional-level certification, who relates in role and function to a professional and does a portion of the professional's job or tasks under the supervision of the professional, and whose decision-making authority is limited and regulated by the professional. Such a paraprofessional shall possess the minimum of a high school diploma or a general educational development (GED) diploma. If assigned to positions governed by federal regulations, the paraprofessional must meet specified federal hiring requirements.   "Permitted personnel" is defined as persons who may not qualify for professional certificates, including retired teachers, but who function in the educational programs in the same manner as certificated personnel. Such personnel qualify for their positions on the basis of experience rather than formal education.     The Professional Standards Commission shall provide for the classification of all certified and permitted personnel employed in the public schools of this state, and no such personnel shall be employed in the public schools of this state unless they meet such minimum criteria as developed by the commission; provided, however, that such classifications shall be based only upon academic, technical, and professional training and experience of such personnel. The commission is authorized to provide for revoking or denying a certificate or permit for good cause after an investigation is conducted and notice and hearing is provided the certificate or permit holder.     (Code 1981, §20-2-204, enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 1657, § 1; Ga. L. 1987, p. 1169, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 1546, § 4; Ga. L. 2001, p. 4, § 20; Ga. L. 2003, p. 398, § 3.)
GA Code § 20-2-205 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 6 - Quality Basic Education|Part 6 - Employment|Subpart 1 - Certificated Professional Personnel|§ 20-2-205. Georgia Master Teacher Program

  The General Assembly finds that excellent public school teachers deserve recognition for the extraordinary learning opportunity they provide to Georgia students.   The Professional Standards Commission is authorized and directed to establish the "Georgia Master Teacher Program" to provide recognition to certificated public school teachers who exhibit excellence in the classroom.   The Professional Standards Commission shall establish criteria for a Master Teacher Certification. Such criteria shall include, at a minimum, evidence of student achievement, which must include student progress. A public school teacher with three or more years of teaching experience in Georgia may submit an application to the Professional Standards Commission for a Master Teacher Certification. The Professional Standards Commission shall review each application and determine whether a teacher meets the criteria for a Master Teacher Certification. If the Professional Standards Commission finds that a teacher's application meets the criteria, the teacher will be given a Master Teacher Certification, and that teacher will be known as and may be called a Master Teacher for a term to be determined pursuant to rules and regulations of the Professional Standards Commission, but in no event longer than seven years. The Professional Standards Commission is authorized to develop rules and regulations governing the Master Teacher Certification.     (Code 1981, §20-2-205, enacted by Ga. L. 2005, p. 717, § 1/SB 34; Ga. L. 2009, p. 4, § 1A/HB 455.)   Law reviews.   - For article on 2005 enactment of this Code section, see 22 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 83 (2005).
GA Code § 20-2-207 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 6 - Quality Basic Education|Part 6 - Employment|Subpart 1 - Certificated Professional Personnel|§ 20-2-207. Online Course on Educator Ethics

 The Georgia Department of Education and the Professional Standards Commission shall cooperatively develop an online course on educator ethics. Such course shall include information on the code of ethics for educators established by the Professional Standards Commission pursuant to Code Section 20-2-984.1. One area of emphasis in the course shall be best practices for administering state-mandated assessments.    (Code 1981, §20-2-207, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 511, § 2/HB 285.)
GA Code § 20-2-208 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 6 - Quality Basic Education|Part 6 - Employment|Subpart 1 - Certificated Professional Personnel|§ 20-2-208. Dyslexia Endorsement for Teachers; Requirements; Assessments

  No later than December 30, 2019, the Professional Standards Commission shall create a dyslexia endorsement for teachers trained in appropriately recognizing and responding to students with characteristics of dyslexia and language disorders, such as difficulty with expressive or receptive language.   The requirements to receive such dyslexia endorsement may include training on the use of universal screening measures to identify those at risk for dyslexia, providing guidance to parents, and providing training or guidance to other teachers and school personnel.   The Professional Standards Commission shall establish measures to assess the fidelity of teacher training and implementation for teachers who receive the dyslexia endorsement.     (Code 1981, §20-2-208, enacted by Ga. L. 2019, p. 324, § 2/SB 48.)
GA Code § 20-2-208.1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 6 - Quality Basic Education|Part 6 - Employment|Subpart 1 - Certificated Professional Personnel|§ 20-2-208.1. Inclusion of Identification of and Interventions for Dyslexia and Other Disorders in Standards for Teacher Preparation Programs for Elementary and Secondary Education Instruction

 The Professional Standards Commission shall include in its standards for teacher preparation programs for elementary and secondary education instruction on:    The definition and characteristics of dyslexia and other disorders;   Evidence based interventions and accommodations for students with characteristics of dyslexia and other disorders; and   Core elements of a response-to-intervention framework addressing reading, writing, mathematics, and behavior, including:   Universal screening;   Scientific, research based interventions;   Progress monitoring of the effectiveness of interventions on student performance;   Data based decision-making procedures related to:   Determining intervention effectiveness on student performance; and   Determining the need to continue, alter, or discontinue interventions or conduct further evaluation of student needs; and     Application and implementation of response-to-intervention and dyslexia instructional practices in the classroom setting.       (Code 1981, §20-2-208.1, enacted by Ga. L. 2019, p. 324, § 3/SB 48.)
GA Code § 20-2-212.1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 6 - Quality Basic Education|Part 6 - Employment|Subpart 2 - Conditions of Employment|§ 20-2-212.1. Increase in State Salary of Person Selected as Georgia Teacher of the Year; Advisory Role

 Any person who has been selected as Georgia Teacher of the Year, as determined by the State Board of Education, shall:    Be moved up one salary step on the state salary schedule or receive an equivalent percentage rate increase in state salary to become effective on and after the beginning of the next school year in which the person is employed in the public schools of this state. The increase in state salary provided by this Code section shall be in addition to any other increase for which the person is otherwise eligible. This Code section shall not be construed to require or prohibit any increase in the local supplement payable to such teacher; and   Be invited by the State Board of Education to serve as an advisor ex officio at a meeting held pursuant to Code Section 20-2-5 or a public hearing held pursuant to Code Section 20-2-5.1, for which he or she shall be entitled to receive the sum provided for by Code Section 45-7-21 for actual expenses incurred in connection with attendance at such meeting or hearing of the State Board of Education and actual costs of transportation to and from the place of such meeting or hearing.     (Code 1981, §20-2-212.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 1630, § 1.2; Ga. L. 2021, p. 261, § 1/SB 88.)    The 2021 amendment,  effective July 1, 2021, substituted the present provisions of this Code section for the former provisions, which read: "Any person who has been selected as Georgia Teacher of the Year, as determined by the State Board of Education, shall be moved up one salary step on the state salary schedule or receive an equivalent percentage rate increase in state salary to become effective on and after the beginning of the next school year in which the person is employed in the public schools of this state. The increase in state salary provided by this Code section shall be in addition to any other increase for which the person is otherwise eligible. This Code section shall not be construed to require or prohibit any increase in the local supplement payable to such teacher."
GA Code § 20-2-212.3 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 6 - Quality Basic Education|Part 6 - Employment|Subpart 2 - Conditions of Employment|§ 20-2-212.3. Increasing Teachers' Salaries in Areas of Shortage; Criteria for Determining Shortage

 Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2012, p. 358, § 10/HB 706, effective July 1, 2012.   Editor's notes.   - This Code section was based on Ga. L. 2000, p. 618, § 37; Ga. L. 2004, p. 107, § 22; Ga. L. 2009, p. 303, § 7/HB 117.
GA Code § 20-2-212.4 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 6 - Quality Basic Education|Part 6 - Employment|Subpart 2 - Conditions of Employment|§ 20-2-212.4. Additional Five Percent Increase in Teacher Salary Based on Student Performance

 Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2012, p. 358, § 11/HB 706, effective July 1, 2012.   Editor's notes.   - This Code section was based on Ga. L. 2003, p. 896, § 1.
GA Code § 20-2-212.6 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 6 - Quality Basic Education|Part 6 - Employment|Subpart 2 - Conditions of Employment|§ 20-2-212.6. Limitation on Salary Increase for School Superintendent or Administrators

  If any local board of education furloughs teachers, paraprofessionals, cafeteria workers, bus drivers, custodians, support staff, or other nonadministrative positions during any school year, such local board of education shall not use any state funds to provide a salary increase for the local school superintendent or administrators during such school year; provided, however, that this subsection shall not apply to any step increases on the state salary schedule which are applicable to a superintendent or administrator.   In the event that any local board of education intends to provide a salary increase using local funds or private donations for the local school superintendent or administrators during a school year in which such local board of education furloughs teachers, paraprofessionals, cafeteria workers, bus drivers, custodians, support staff, or other nonadministrative positions, the local board of education shall prior to such action:   Provide 30 days' notice of such intention including the rationale for raising such salaries when other local board of education employees are furloughed; and   Conduct a public hearing for the purpose of providing an opportunity for full discussion and public input. The public hearing shall be advertised at least seven days prior to the date of such hearing in a local newspaper of general circulation which shall be the same newspaper in which other legal announcements of the local board of education are advertised.       (Code 1981, §20-2-212.6, enacted by Ga. L. 2010, p. 104, § 1/HB 977; Ga. L. 2011, p. 752, § 20/HB 142.)   Editor's notes.   - This Code section formerly pertained to the Master Teacher and Academic Coach Implementation Committee. The Code section was formerly based on Code 1981, § 20-2-212.6, enacted by Ga. L. 2005, p. 717, § 2/SB 34 and was repealed by Ga. L. 2005, p. 717, § 2/SB 34, effective December 31, 2005.
GA Code § 20-2-213 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 6 - Quality Basic Education|Part 6 - Employment|Subpart 2 - Conditions of Employment|§ 20-2-213. Career Ladder Programs

 Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2012, p. 358, § 12/HB 706, effective July 1, 2012.   Editor's notes.   - This Code section was based on Ga. L. 1985, p. 1657, § 1; Ga. L. 1987, p. 1169, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 1546, § 4.
GA Code § 20-2-214 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 6 - Quality Basic Education|Part 6 - Employment|Subpart 2 - Conditions of Employment|§ 20-2-214. Salary Schedule for Principals; Supplements

 The State Board of Education shall establish a salary schedule for school principals that includes a supplement amount for each principal. The amount of the supplement shall be based on the amount appropriated by the General Assembly for this purpose each year divided by the total weighted full-time equivalent count for the state. The amount for each principal shall be determined by multiplying the amount per weighted full-time equivalent count by the weighted full-time equivalent count for each school. Local school systems shall pay this supplement to each local school principal.    (Code 1981, §20-2-214, enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 1657, § 1; Ga. L. 1987, p. 1169, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 1546, § 4; Ga. L. 2000, p. 618, § 38; Ga. L. 2001, p. 148, § 12.)   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 2000, p. 618, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "This Act shall be known and may be cited as the 'A Plus Education Reform Act of 2000.'"
GA Code § 20-2-215 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 6 - Quality Basic Education|Part 6 - Employment|Subpart 2 - Conditions of Employment|§ 20-2-215. "In Loco Parentis" Status of Aides and Paraprofessionals

 Classroom aides and paraprofessionals shall have, while performing assigned duties, the authority of "in loco parentis," except for the administration of corporal punishment; provided, however, that such aides and paraprofessionals have at least the minimal training or experience, or both, prescribed by the Professional Standards Commission to have such authority and that such aides and paraprofessionals are under direct supervision of classroom teachers or other certificated professional personnel on a daily basis.Such aides and paraprofessionals shall have such authority both when the classroom teachers are present and when they are absent for justifiable purposes.Such purposes shall include planned release time and such activities as accompanying selected students to other locations or sites, instructing individual students or small groups at a location away from the classroom, meeting with parents and guardians, planning instructional programs or lessons, participating in staff development activities, and other such education activities related to classroom instruction.The Professional Standards Commission shall have the authority to prescribe such requirements and standards as it deems necessary for the effective implementation of this Code section.    (Code 1981, §20-2-215, enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 1657, § 1; Ga. L. 1987, p. 1169, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 1546, § 4; Ga. L. 1992, p. 2365, § 3.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Loco Parentis Status, 28 POF2d 545.
GA Code § 20-2-216 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 6 - Quality Basic Education|Part 6 - Employment|Subpart 2 - Conditions of Employment|§ 20-2-216. Substitute Teachers

 As a condition for receiving funds under this article, it shall be the duty of each local unit of administration to employ and to utilize the services of substitutes for teachers who are absent.It shall be the duty of the local unit of administration to employ substitutes, including retired teachers in accordance with Code Section 47-3-127, who possess valid teaching certificates issued by the Professional Standards Commission.If no person holding a valid teaching certificate is available for this purpose, the local unit of administration is authorized to employ the person who most closely meets the requirements for certification as a teacher and who is available to serve as a substitute, provided such person is closely supervised by the school principal or principal's designee. It shall be the duty of the commission to promulgate and adopt rules, regulations, and policies establishing classes or categories of persons, in order of descending priority, who most closely meet requirements for certification within this state.Nothing contained in this Code section shall prevent the local governing board or its executive officer from refusing to employ as a substitute teacher one who, in the discretion of the board, would be detrimental to the education of the students provided for by this article. For purposes of this Code section, certificated substitute teachers shall not be considered part-time personnel pursuant to Code Section 20-2-212. Salaries for substitute teachers shall be set by the local boards of education.    (Code 1981, §20-2-216, enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 1657, § 1; Ga. L. 1987, p. 1169, § 1; Ga. L. 1988, p. 612, § 11; Ga. L. 1991, p. 1546, § 4.)   Law reviews.   - For annual survey on employment discrimination, see 70 Mercer L. Rev. 989 (2019).
GA Code § 20-2-217 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 6 - Quality Basic Education|Part 6 - Employment|Subpart 2 - Conditions of Employment|§ 20-2-217. Professional and Staff Development Stipends

 The State Board of Education is authorized and directed to devise a program to provide professional and staff development stipends sufficient to allow eligible licensed personnel, paraprofessionals, and aides to participate in development programs which will enable such employees to increase their education pertaining to their job classification or to obtain appropriate degrees to become certified teachers.Such stipends shall be provided to individuals on a reimbursable basis on a state approved schedule.The State Board of Education shall be authorized to require the local professional and staff development plan to include professional and staff development for licensed personnel, paraprofessionals, aides, and education secretaries before state funding for the purposes of this Code section will be made available to a local system. As used in this Code section, the term "paraprofessional" shall be defined as provided in Code Section 20-2-204.    (Code 1981, §20-2-217, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 1254, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 1546, § 4; Ga. L. 2009, p. 8, § 20/SB 46; Ga. L. 2015, p. 5, § 20/HB 90.)    The 2015 amendment,  effective March 13, 2015, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, deleted "required under Code Section 20-2-232" following "development plan" in the third sentence.
GA Code § 20-2-218 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 6 - Quality Basic Education|Part 6 - Employment|Subpart 2 - Conditions of Employment|§ 20-2-218. Duty-Free Lunch Period; Exchange of Lunch Period for Compensation or Other Benefit; Length of School Day Not Affected; Exemption for Extenuating Circumstances; Funding

  Every teacher who is employed in grades kindergarten through five for a period of time of more than one-half of the class periods of the regular school day shall be provided a daily lunch period of not less than 30 consecutive minutes, and such employee shall not be assigned any responsibilities during this lunch period. Such lunch period shall be included in the number of hours worked, and no local board of education shall increase the number of hours to be worked by an employee as a result of such employee's being granted a lunch period under the provisions of this Code section. This duty-free lunch period shall not be calculated under any circumstances as a part of any daily planning period or other noninstructional time.   Nothing in this Code section shall be construed to prevent any teacher from exchanging that teacher's lunch period for any compensation or benefit mutually agreed upon by the employee and the local superintendent of schools or such superintendent's agent, except that a teacher and the superintendent or agent may not agree to terms which are different from those available to any other teacher granted rights under this Code section within the individual school or to terms which in any way discriminate among such teachers within the individual school.   The implementation of this Code section may not result in a lengthened school day.   If necessary where due to extreme economic conditions or an unforeseen and unavoidable personnel shortage, a local unit of administration may require a teacher otherwise entitled to a duty-free lunch period to supervise students during such lunch period but for no more than one day in any school week.   Notwithstanding any of the foregoing provisions of this Code section to the contrary, nothing in this Code section shall require the General Assembly to appropriate funds for the implementation of the duty-free lunch program; provided, however, that any such funds appropriated for this purpose shall be used by local school systems for duty-free lunch periods for classroom teachers in grades kindergarten through five.     (Code 1981, §20-2-218, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 1630, § 2; Ga. L. 1992, p. 6, § 20; Ga. L. 2000, p. 618, § 39; Ga. L. 2005, p. 60, § 20/HB 95.)   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 2000, p. 618, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "This Act shall be known and may be cited as the 'A Plus Education Reform Act of 2000.'"   JUDICIAL DECISIONS    Rule restricting teachers from leaving the school campus during the duty-free lunch period is not in conflict with O.C.G.A. § 20-2-218. Griffin-Spalding County Sch. Sys. v. Daniel, 215 Ga. App. 567, 451 S.E.2d 480 (1994).