House passes changes to 'completion schools,' boosts outreach and enrollment options

Pro Tem Jan Jones presented House Bill 907 as a series of targeted changes to Georgia’s completion-school framework that state lawmakers said will expand options for students at risk of dropping out. Jones summarized four main changes: required notification to parents and teachers twice a year, clearer rights to register directly at completion schools, the ability for school systems to partner across zones, and a requirement that school systems provide ‘‘leads’’ on chronically absent students to completion schools.