GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

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HOUSE BILL 1459

Short Title:  10-Mo. Ass't. Principal/Each School.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Grady; and J. Preston.
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Referred to:  Education.
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May 17, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLE 
AN ACT TO PROVIDE AT LEAST ONE TEN-MONTH ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL TO EACH PUBLIC SCHOOL IN THE STATE AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THAT PURPOSE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 115C-289 reads as rewritten:
"§ 115C-289.  Assignment of assistant principals; assignment of principal's duties to assistant or acting principal; duties of State-funded assistant principals.
(a)	The local board of education shall assign at least one assistant principal to each school in the local school administrative unit.
	(a1)  Any duty or responsibility assigned to a principal by statute, State Board of Education regulation, or by the superintendent may, with the approval of the local board of education, be assigned by the principal to an assistant principal designated by the local board of education or to an acting principal designated by a principal.
(b)	All persons employed as assistant principals in State-allotted positions, or as assistant principals in full-time positions regardless of funding source, in the public schools of the State or in schools receiving public funds, shall, in addition to other applicable requirements, be required either to hold or be qualified to hold a principal's certificate in compliance with applicable law and in accordance with the regulations of the State Board of Education.  It shall be unlawful for any board of education to employ or keep in service any assistant principal who neither holds nor is qualified to hold a principal's certificate in compliance with applicable law and in accordance with the regulations of the State Board of Education.
(c)	Repealed by Session Laws 1991, c. 689, s. 200(b).
(d)	Assistant principals paid from State funds shall not have regularly assigned teaching duties."
Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Education, Aid to Local School Administrative Units, the sum of seventeen million four hundred ninety-seven thousand four hundred eighty-nine dollars ($17,497,489) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and the sum of  sixteen million one hundred thirty-three thousand eight hundred thirty-one dollars ($16,133,831) for the 1994-95 fiscal year to ensure that each public school in the State has at least one State-funded 10-month assistant principal position.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.