States
are required to develop a definition of "persistently dangerous"
schools and to allow students who have been victims of a violent
criminal offense or who attend a "persistently dangerous" school
to choose to attend a different school that is considered to be
safe.
In
Georgia, the definition of a persistently dangerous school is
any school in which each year for three years in a row:
At
least one student is found by official tribunal action to have
violated a school rule related to a violent criminal offense
(including aggravated battery, aggravated child molestation,
aggravated sexual battery, aggravated sodomy, armed robbery,
arson, kidnapping, murder, rape and voluntary manslaughter)
either on campus or at a school-sanctioned event.
At
least two percent of the student body or 10 students, whichever
is greater, have been found to have violated school rules related
to other identified criminal offenses, including non-felony
drugs, felony drugs, felony weapons and terroristic threats.
Any
combination of 1 and 2.
Based
on this definition, all Fulton County schools are safe schools.
