GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1928

Short Title:  Model Teacher Educ. Consortium.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives J. Crawford; Jones, Warren, and Bowman.
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Referred to:  Education.
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May 10, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A MODEL TEACHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM .
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  (a)	A model teacher education consortium is established for the following local school administrative units:  Granville County, Halifax County, Northampton County, Vance County, Warren County, Roanoke Rapids City and Weldon City, with the collaboration of East Carolina University, Elizabeth City State University, Atlantic Christian College, North Carolina Wesleyan College, Halifax Community College, and Vance-Granville Community College.
(b)	The consortium shall develop a teacher education program that shall apply to the State Board of Education for approval to be its own certifying agency under established rules and regulations.
(c)	The initial thrust of the program shall be to certify teachers who already have college degrees but are not certified or need additional areas of certification and to provide a teacher education program for qualified teacher assistants.  Special emphasis shall be placed on recruiting minority participants.
(d)	There shall be established a planning committee composed of the following:
(1)	The Superintendent of each participating local school administrative unit or his designee;
(2)	The Dean or education department chairman of the participating colleges or their designees;
(3)	A Representative of the teachers of each participating local school administrative unit, chosen by the teachers of the local school administrative unit;
(4)	A Representative of the teacher assistants in each local school administrative unit chosen by the organization for teacher assistants in each local school administrative unit;
(5)	A Representative of the State Department of Public Instruction; and
(6)	The Executive director of the consortium.  
Each representative group shall select one person from the group to serve on an executive committee to be formed.
(e)  Participants receiving benefits from the program shall be expected to teach in a participating school district on a basis modeled after G.S. 115C-468.
(f)  The consortium shall seek foundation, business and industry, and local school administrative unit support for the 1989-90 fiscal year, 1990-91 fiscal year, and for continuation.
(g)  This consortium, serving a rural area in Education Region III in North Carolina, shall be developed as a model that can be replicated elsewhere.
(h)  The consortium shall make a report to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations by February 1, 1990.
Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Education the sum of $75,000 for the 1989-90 fiscal year and the sum of $125,000 for the 1990-91 fiscal year for the consortium established by this act.  No more than one-half of the monies for the 1989-90 fiscal year and no more than thirty percent (30%) of the monies for the 1990-91 fiscal year shall be used for administrative purposes.  The remainder shall be used to provide instructional support for the participants under a plan developed by the executive committee.
Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.