GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	1 

SENATE BILL 635

Short Title:  Funds/Teacher Task Force Recs.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Ward.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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March 27, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO IMPLEMENT THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE TASK FORCE ON THE PREPARATION OF TEACHERS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. The State Board of Education and the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina shall implement the objectives of the plan for the preparation of teachers as identified in "The Education of North Carolina Teachers”report and in the "Second Annual Report of the Joint Committee on Teacher Education of the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina and the State Board of Education."
Sec. 2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Education the sum of two million nine hundred sixty-six thousand dollars ($2,966,000) for the 1989-90 fiscal year, and the sum of four million one hundred sixteen thousand dollars ($4,116,000) for the 1990-91 fiscal year to be used by the State Board of Education to carry out the following program components as identified in the "Second Annual Report on the Joint Committee on Teacher Education of the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina and the State Board of Education" :
   1989-90	  1990-91
Reform of Teacher Education Programs	$	50,000	$	50,000
Quality Assurance Program Improvement	16,000	16,000
Teacher Certification and Program
   Approval	 1,850,000	 1,850,000
Professional Education	   500,000	 1,650,000
Incentive Programs for Teachers	   550,000	   550,000

Total	$2,966,000	$4,116,000

Sec. 3. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of two million six hundred sixty-one thousand eight hundred eighteen dollars ($2,661,818) for the 1989-90 fiscal  year, and the sum of two million seven hundred thirty thousand six hundred twenty-six dollars ($2,730,626) for the 1990-91 fiscal year, to be used to carry out the following program components as identified in the "Second Annual Report of the Joint Committee on Teacher Education of the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina and the State Board of Education" :
1989-90	1990-91
Reform of Teacher Education Programs	$	700,000	$	700,000
Quality Assurance Program Improvement	891,818	960,626
Professional Education	50,000	50,000
Revitalization of Teacher Education
Faculty	1,020,000	1,020,000

Total	$2,661,818	$2,730,626

Sec. 4. The State Board of Education and the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina shall, through the Joint Committee on Teacher Education, continue to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the programs for the improvement of the preparation of teachers as set forth in the report, "The Education of North Carolina Teachers,”and in the "Second Annual Report on the Joint Committee on Teacher Education of the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina and the State Board of Education."
Sec. 5. This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.