GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION

CHAPTER 307
HOUSE BILL 148

AN ACT TO INCREASE STATE EFFORT TO PREVENT DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL BEFORE GRADUATION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The State Board of Education shall encourage local units to explore alternative programs with Senate Bill 2 flexibility under the Performance-Based Accountability Program, to reduce dropouts.
Sec. 2.  The State Board of Education and the State Board of Community Colleges shall adopt rules and procedures no later than April 1, 1992, to provide more accurate, comprehensive, and timely data on high school dropouts, alternative placements, progress, and follow-through in alternative programs, shall require that local school administrative units and the institutions of the Community Colleges system comply, and shall use a standard measure of accountability.
Sec. 3.  The Department of Public Instruction shall:
(1)	Conduct policy research on the issues of longer compulsory attendance, on the tying of the drivers license to staying in school, and the limiting of after-school employment hours, from those states that have implemented such changes; and
(2)	Reevaluate current attendance law to assess whether it is being adequately enforced.
The research required in this section shall be completed and reported to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee by April 1, 1992.
Sec. 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1991.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 18th day of June, 1991.

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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives