Henry County Bar Association, www.henrycountybar.com, (770) 929-1400 Jennifer Hackemeyer, legal director of the DeKalb County School District since 2016, is no longer employed in the district, officials confirmed Monday. The following links are provided free of charge only. Georgia College does not guarantee the qualifications of any association or legal advisor who can be consulted through these referral services or any other method. The use of these or other transfers does not establish or intend to establish a relationship between the lawyer and the client with any natural or legal person. The Office of Legal Affairs cannot provide legal advice or services to students. Nor can it provide legal advice to speakers or staff on personal legal issues or concerns. Students and local school staff are invited to sign a bullying awareness pledge. Students agree not to participate and/or to support bullying, harassment or harassment. In addition, local school staff are committed to immediately addressing bullying, harassment and bullying, assisting with prevention, and modeling appropriate behavior for their students. As part of this ongoing campaign, schools focus each month on educating employees, students, parents and the community on issues related to bullying, harassment and harassment. Topics include cyberbullying and cyber ethics, witness intervention, incident reporting, kindness, friendship, prejudice and respect.
Hackemeyer left on December 31. County officials said Marissa Key was the district`s acting legal affairs manager until a replacement could be hired. 208 Parks Hall Campus Box 041 Milledgeville, GA 31061 Phone: 478.445.2037 Fax: 478.445.2049legal@gcsu.edu. From March 20 to 25, 2022, the DeKalb County School District (DCSD) conducted a review of the Cognia Accreditation Commitment. Cognia, formerly known as AdvancED, is the world`s leading provider of accreditation services for kindergartens up to Grade 12 and is responsible for conducting five-year accreditation renewal visits for member school districts. A preliminary presentation released by Cognia during an exit report on Friday, March 25, 2022 shows that the team will recommend that the DeKalb County School District receive a five-year renewal of its accreditation after this intensive review. More » For more information and resources, visit our Bullying/Harassment/Hazing page. Marlon A.
Walker is an education reporter who covers DeKalb County. If you have any questions or to prepare a Title IX report or file a formal complaint, please contact the DCSD Title IX Site Coordinator for the students listed below in person, by mail, email, or by phone: Requests for Title IX application may be directed to the Assistant Secretary of the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education or the Title IX Coordinator of the district. District proceeding hearings are confidential and not accessible to the public. The student and his or her parents or guardians and their witnesses may attend the hearing, but other relatives or friends of the student may not attend. Processes are recorded electronically. The school district may summon witnesses to testify on its behalf at the hearing. The student and parents or guardians may also bring witnesses to the hearing. If the student or parent/guardian wishes school district employees or other students to testify at the hearing, they must contact the school administration, which will arrange for subpoenas to be issued to these individuals.
Witnesses testifying at a district hearing may not have a lawyer present at the hearing unless that witness is or can be charged in the incident. The DeKalb County School District (“District”) does not discriminate in its educational programs and activities on the basis of gender, as required by Title IX. This obligation not to discriminate also extends to admission and employment. In accordance with the regulations of Title IX, which were adopted on the 14th. As of August 2020, any complaint of “sexual harassment” within the meaning of the Title IX federal regulation that occurs in connection with a district education program or activity against a person in the United States will be dealt with in accordance with the county`s Title IX complaints procedure. Georgia Legal Services Program, www.glsp.org/, (800) 498-9469 Atlanta Bar Association, www.atlantabar.org, (404) 521-0777 Every trip is an adventure, and several students at Chamblee High School can now tell you that after their recent field visit to the Journey Through Justice program, which was […] Of the 10 members of Superintendent Steve Green`s Office, without regional superintendents, four positions are currently occupied by acting officers. Knox Phillips was promoted to Assistant Superintendent in the spring, as was Stacey Stepney, Director of Studies. Bernice Gregory, Chief Human Capital Officer, joined the district from another school district in April 2018. The Student Relations Department helps parents find appropriate resources to meet the needs of the family and children.
A parent/guardian and student may choose to forgo their hearing in the district and accept the appropriate consequences of the incident by completing and signing a waiver for the district consultation process.
