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Education in Georgia (U.S. state) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Education in Georgia .
Education in Georgia is free of charge and compulsory from the age of 5-6 until 17–18 years. [1] In 1996, the gross primary enrollment rate was 88.2 percent, and the net primary enrollment rate was 87 percent; [1] 48.8 percent are girls and 51.8 percent are boys. The constitution mandates that education is free.
Georgia posted a C-plus in the Chance-for-Success category, ranking 33rd on factors that contribute to a person's success both within and outside the K-12 education system. Georgia received a mark of D-plus and finished 37th for School Finance. It ranked 11th with a grade of C on the K-12 Achievement Index. [8]
On 26 February 2016 Georgia Today Group announced the release of another version of GT - Georgia Today Education. The paper is issued monthly and is mostly focused on education, technology, innovative business, international events and language learning. The main target audience of Georgia Today Education are teenagers and university students. [8]
This policy did not explicitly refer to the teaching of evolution by name—only the origin of the human species. Although Georgia state law mandated evolution be taught in its public schools, it was common in Cobb County School District that all the pages where evolution was discussed were removed from the students' science textbooks. [4]
Comment – According to interstate and international compacts, Georgia is the legal successor of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic; therefore, this license tag is also applicable to official symbols and formal documents of the Georgian SSR.
Provocation, provoke or provoked may refer to: Provocation (legal) , a type of legal defense in court which claims the "victim" provoked the accused's actions Agent provocateur , a (generally political) group that tries to goad a desired response from the group or otherwise disrupt its activity
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov commented on NATO's "biased" demands to withdraw Russian troops from Georgia, "They blame us as if there were no requirements for the Georgian side in the six points. I mean the requirements to bring back their troops to the places where they are on a permanent basis."