Bill Text: NC S117 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: School Calendar Flex./Certain School Systems
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-27 - Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate [S117 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2015-S117-Amended.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2015
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SENATE BILL 117
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Short Title: School Calendar Flex./Certain School Systems. |
(Local) |
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Sponsors: |
Senators Bingham (Primary Sponsor); and J. Jackson. |
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Referred to: |
Rules and Operations of the Senate. |
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February 27, 2015
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide flexibility for Certain local 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. Notwithstanding the opening date
for students, all first semester examinations shall be given before winter
break.Except for year‑round schools, the opening date for students
shall be no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26, and the closing date
for students shall be no later than 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 Davidson County, Lexington City, Montgomery County, and Thomasville City school administrative units.
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the 2015‑2016 school year.
