GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 384

Short Title:  GPAC/Schools/Accountability.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Martin of Guilford.
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Referred to:  Government Performance Audit.
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February 24, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO IMPLEMENT A RECOMMENDATION OF THE GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE AUDIT COMMITTEE TO HELP SCHOOLS IMPLEMENT THE PERFORMANCE-BASED ACCOUNTABILITY PROGRAM AND END-OF-COURSE AND END-OF-GRADE TESTING.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Education, Department of Public Instruction, the sum of three hundred sixty thousand dollars ($360,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and the sum of three hundred sixty thousand dollars ($360,000)  for the 1994-95 fiscal year to augment the Technical Assistance Center staffs with regional assessment coordinators and accountability experts to help local school administrative units implement the Performance-based Accountability Program and the end-of-course and end-of-grade tests.  The Department shall intensify the staff development and communications program to promote the outcomes-based focus of these programs and to assist users of data with interpreting and using the evaluative data.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.