05 LC 33
0608
Senate
Bill 79
By: Senators Williams of the 19th, Pearson of the 51st, Rogers of the 21st, Goggans of the 7th, Heath of the 31st and others
By: Senators Williams of the 19th, Pearson of the 51st, Rogers of the 21st, Goggans of the 7th, Heath of the 31st and others
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Part 2 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of
Georgia Annotated, relating to competencies and core curriculum, so as to
provide expressly that local boards of education are authorized to provide
additional elective courses for students in specified grades; to provide for
state funding of such additional elective courses; to repeal conflicting laws;
and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Part
2 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia
Annotated, relating to competencies and core curriculum, is amended by striking
in its entirety Code Section 20_2_140, relating to the duty of the State Board
of Education to establish competencies and a uniformly sequenced core
curriculum, and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
"20_2_140.
(a)
The State Board of Education shall establish competencies that each student is
expected to master prior to completion of the student´s public school
education. The state board shall also establish competencies for which each
student should be provided opportunities, at the discretion of the student and
the student´s parents, to master. Based upon these foregoing competencies,
the state board shall adopt a uniformly sequenced core curriculum for grades
kindergarten through 12. Each local unit of administration shall include this
uniformly sequenced core curriculum as the basis for its own curriculum,
although each local unit may expand and enrich this curriculum to the extent it
deems necessary and appropriate for its students and communities.
(b)
Without limiting the authority granted to local units of administration in
subsection (a) of this Code section, each local unit of administration is
expressly authorized to provide additional elective courses for students in
grades nine through 12. Such additional elective courses shall be funded by the
state in the same manner and to the same extent as the uniformly sequenced core
curriculum adopted by the state
board."
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.