Georgia Senate - 1995/1996 Sessions

SB 10 - In-School Suspension Classes - supervisor qualifications

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1. Newbill  56th          2. Clay  37th              3. McGuire  30th
4. Tanksley  32nd


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Code Sections amended: 20-2-155                                                                     


SB 10 95                                          LC 23 0168

      SENATE BILL 10

      By:  Senators Newbill of the 56th, Clay of the 37th,
           McGuire of the 30th and Tanksley of the 32nd

                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                               AN ACT


  1- 1  To amend Code Section 20-2-155 of the Official Code of
  1- 2  Georgia Annotated, relating to climate management and
  1- 3  in-school suspension, so as to provide for the
  1- 4  qualifications of persons in charge of in-school suspension
  1- 5  classes; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

  1- 6       BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

                         SECTION 1.

  1- 7  Code Section 20-2-155 of the Official Code of Georgia
  1- 8  Annotated, relating to climate management and in-school
  1- 9  suspension, is amended by striking subsection (b) thereof
  1-10  and inserting in its place a new subsection to read as
  1-11  follows:

  1-12    "(b) The State Board of Education is authorized to create
  1-13    an in-school suspension program.  As the vast majority of
  1-14    the students who disrupt public school classrooms are also
  1-15    experiencing problems in mastering  classroom assignments
  1-16    and are below expectation in their academic achievement,
  1-17    it is the policy of this state that it is preferable to
  1-18    reassign disruptive students to isolated, individually
  1-19    oriented in-school suspension programs rather than to
  1-20    suspend or expel such students from school.  Therefore,
  1-21    the primary purposes of the in-school suspension program
  1-22    are to isolate the offending students from the regularly
  1-23    assigned classrooms and activities of the school, to
  1-24    continue progress relative to classroom assignments, and
  1-25    to provide individually oriented instruction in essential
  1-26    skills and knowledge areas for which low achievement
  1-27    levels are contributing to the students' adjustment
  1-28    problems.  The in-school suspension programs may be housed
  1-29    in the regularly assigned schools, special schools
  1-30    specifically organized for such programs, or alternative
  1-31    schools, provided the suspended students are isolated from
  1-32    typical school activities until they demonstrate
  1-33    sufficient adjustment to warrant their returning to their
  1-34    previously assigned classes. The state board shall adopt

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  2- 1    regulations, standards, and eligibility criteria necessary
  2- 2    to guide the effective operation of state supported
  2- 3    in-school suspension programs.  For each middle school or
  2- 4    high school in-school suspension class there shall be at
  2- 5    least one paraprofessional who has at least 90 quarter
  2- 6    hours, or the semester equivalent, from a regionally
  2- 7    accredited college or university or at least one certified
  2- 8    teacher, as determined by the appropriate local unit of
  2- 9    administration.  For the first year of implementation of
  2-10    this program state wide, the state board shall request an
  2-11    amount for grants to local school systems based upon
  2-12    documentation of the number of eligible students estimated
  2-13    to be served; provided, however, that funds appropriated
  2-14    for this program in the initial year of operation shall be
  2-15    allocated only on the basis of the documented actual
  2-16    number of students being served during the initial year.
  2-17    For the second year of operation and thereafter, the
  2-18    amount of funds appropriated and allocated for this
  2-19    program shall be based on the actual count of students
  2-20    served during the preceding year."

                         SECTION 2.

  2-21  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
  2-22  repealed.























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