Georgia § 20-2-982 - Purpose.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 20-2-982 — Purpose., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 20-2-982. Purpose.
The following constitute the major purposes of this part: To simplify and make more efficient the process of certifying educational personnel in Georgia; To attract the highest possible number of qualified personnel to become educators in Georgia; To promote the hiring of qualified educators from other states to work in Georgia schools; To improve the level of preparation of educators, both pre-service and in-service, by requiring for purposes of certification those essential skills and that knowledge needed to deliver effective education; To adopt standards of professional performance and a code of professional ethics for educators, both of which shall represent standards of performance and conduct which are generally accepted by educators of this state; To investigate reports of specified criminal conduct, violations of professional or ethical codes of conduct, and violations of certain rules, regulations, and policies by school system educators; To enforce the requirement that local school systems promptly report specified criminal conduct of school system educators to the commission; and To impose disciplinary action or a denial of a certificate against an educator. (Code 1981, § 20-2-982 , enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 1546, § 1; Ga. L. 1998, p. 750, § 3.) Code Commission notes. - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1991, the subsection "(a)" designation was deleted at the beginning of this Code section, since there is no subsection (b).
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