"Multiracial" Classification Required on Forms

1. Law
2. Georgia Code
3. Education
4. Elementary and Secondary Education
5. "Multiracial" Classification
6. "Multiracial" Classification Required on Forms

1. All written forms, applications, questionnaires, and other written documents or materials produced by or for or used by any public elementary or secondary school in the state which request information on the racial or ethnic identification of a respondent and which contain a list of racial and ethnic classifications from which such respondent must select one shall include among their choices the classification "multiracial."
2. No such written document or computer software described in subsection (a) of this Code section shall bear the designation "other" as a racial or ethnic classification after July 1, 1994, unless such document was printed and in stock before July 1, 1994.

(Code 1981, §20-2-2041, enacted by Ga. L. 1994, p. 1360, § 2.)

Cross references.

- Multiracial classification on forms, §§ 34-1-5,50-18-135.

ARTICLE 31 CHARTER SCHOOLS ACT OF 1998

Editor's notes.

- Ga. L. 1998, p. 1080, § 4, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that the Act shall be applicable to all petitions filed on or after July 1, 1998.

Administrative Rules and Regulations.

- Charter school planning grants, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Georgia Department of Education, Sec. 160-1-4-.155.

Charter schools definitions, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Georgia Department of Education, Sec. 160-4-9-.04.

Law reviews.

- For review of 1998 legislation relating to education, see 15 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 101 (1998). For article, "Having it Both Ways: How Charter Schools Try to Obtain Funding of Public Schools and the Autonomy of Private Schools," see 63 Emory L. J. 303 (2013).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 68 Am. Jur. 2d, Schools, §§ 3, 12.

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