Georgia § 20-2-284 - Criteria for local boards of education; model placement and promotion policy.
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§ 20-2-284. Criteria for local boards of education; model placement and promotion policy.
No later than July 1, 2003, each local board of education shall develop and adopt a placement and promotion policy in accordance with the criteria established by the State Board of Education as provided in Code Section 20-2-283 and consistent with the Georgia Academic Placement and Promotion Policy. Except for those end-of-grade assessments specified in Code Section 20-2-283, the placement and promotion policy as developed and adopted by each local board of education shall state how the end-of-grade assessments administered under Code Section 20-2-281 for grades one through eight will be weighted or otherwise utilized by the school principal or the principal's designee in determining the overall academic achievement of a student and an appropriate plan of accelerated, differentiated, or additional instruction, placement, promotion, or retention of a student. To assist each local board of education, the State Board of Education shall develop a model placement and promotion policy which may be utilized by a local board of education. (Code 1981, § 20-2-284 , enacted by Ga. L. 2001, p. 148, § 15; Ga. L. 2015, p. 21, § 7/HB 91.) The 2015 amendment, effective March 30, 2015, in subsection (b), in the first sentence, substituted "end-of-grade" for "criterion-referenced" near the beginning and substituted "end-of-grade assessments" for "criterion-referenced competency tests" near the middle. Code Commission notes. - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2001, "Code Section" was inserted preceding "20-2-281" in subsection (b). Editor's notes. - Former Code Section 20-2-284 , relating to the Council for School Performance, was repealed by Ga. L. 2000, p. 618, §§ 52, 53, effective July 1, 2000. The former Code section was based on Code 1981, § 20-2-284 , enacted by Ga. L. 1993, p. 1438, § 1.
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