Bill Text: NC S226 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: School Calendar Flex./Certain School Systems

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-09 - Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate [S226 Detail]

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2017

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SENATE BILL DRS35083-MT-82   (03/02)

 

 

 

Short Title:      School Calendar Flex./Certain School Systems.

(Local)

Sponsors:

Senators Smith-Ingram and Bryant (Primary Sponsors).

Referred to:

 

 

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to provide additional flexibility to certain SCHOOL SYSTEMS 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, 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 Bertie County Schools, Edenton‑Chowan Schools, Edgecombe County Schools, Halifax County Schools, Hertford County Schools, Martin County Schools, Nash‑Rocky Mount Schools, Northampton County Schools, Roanoke Rapids Graded School District, Tyrrell County Schools, Vance County Schools, Warren County Schools, Washington County Schools, Wilson County Schools, and Weldon City Schools.

SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the 2017‑2018 school year.

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