GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1063

Short Title:  ECU Teacher Leadership Prog. Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Warren.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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May 6, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TEACHER LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM AT EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of five hundred fifty thousand dollars ($550,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and the sum of five hundred fifty thousand dollars ($550,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year, for the School of Education at East Carolina University, to establish and implement the Teacher Leadership Development Program.  This Program shall deliver rigorous summer and academic year programs designed to develop teachers' knowledge and skills in shared decision-making, cooperative problem-solving, conflict resolution, and other skills associated with the leadership needed for effective site-based management.
The Program, administered by the School of Education of East Carolina University shall involve 100 classroom teachers annually, selected by a statewide criteria-based review process from a pool of classroom teachers nominated by superintendents, principals, or other teachers.  Local school boards shall provide a minimum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) per teacher per year to help offset the teachers' costs of participation.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.