AS PASSED SENATE:

            This bill would amend Code Section 20-2-133 of the O.C.G.A. to consider residential programs part of the state accountability program and accountability data for each child would be included in the student performance and other related data of the LUA in which the child originally resided. No child A child or youth in a YDC or one in the custody of the Department of Corrections or DJJ and confined in a facility as a result of a court sentence would be eligible for enrollment in a LUA where the child or youth is being held. Those children would be enrolled in a separate LUA at the facility where they reside, but only if they are unable to leave the facility. Those able to leave the facility and those in non-institutional placements would be eligible for enrollment in the district where they reside and would be part of that district’s accountability. would count as part of that institution’s accountability program as a separate LUA, but the local BOE in which those children are present would still be responsible for education of those children.