Bill Text: NC H503 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: School Calendar Flexibility/Certain Counties
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-03 - Ref to the Com on Commerce and Job Development, if favorable, Education [H503 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2013-H503-Amended.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2013
H 1
HOUSE BILL 503
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Short Title: School Calendar Flexibility/Certain Counties. |
(Local) |
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Sponsors: |
Representative Whitmire (Primary Sponsor). For a complete list of Sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly Web Site. |
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Referred to: |
Commerce and Job Development, if favorable, Education. |
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April 3, 2013
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide additional flexibility to certain county boards of education in adopting the school calendar.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 115C‑84.2(d) reads as rewritten:
"(d) Opening and Closing Dates. � Local boards of
education shall determine the dates of opening and closing the public schools
under subdivision (a)(1) of this section. Except for year‑round schools,
the opening date for students shall be no earlier than the Monday closest to
August 26, August 15, and the closing date for students shall be no
later than June 1.the Friday closest to June 11. On a showing of good
cause, the State Board of Education may waive the requirement that the opening
date for students be no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26 and may
allow the local board of education to set an opening date no earlier than the
Monday closest to August 19, to the extent that school calendars are able to
provide sufficient days to accommodate anticipated makeup days due to school
closings. A local board may revise the scheduled closing date if necessary in
order to comply with the minimum requirements for instructional days or
instructional time. For purposes of this subsection, the term "good cause"
means that schools in any local school administrative unit in a county have
been closed eight days per year during any four of the last 10 years because of
severe weather conditions, energy shortages, power failures, or other emergency
situations.
The required opening and closing dates under this
subsection shall not apply to any school that a local board designated as
having a modified calendar for the 2003‑2004 school year or to any school
that was part of a planned program in the 2003‑2004 school year for a
system of modified calendar schools, so long as the school operates under a
modified calendar."
SECTION 2. This act applies only to the Polk and Transylvania County school administrative units.
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the 2013‑2014 school year.
