GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 967

Short Title:  Teacher Academy Plan Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Lee; Hoyle, Gunter, and Ward.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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April 26, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO PLAN FOR AND BEGIN IMPLEMENTATION OF TEACHER ACADEMIES.
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 thousand dollars ($300,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and the sum of four million dollars ($4,000,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year.  Of the funds appropriated for the 1993-94 fiscal year, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) shall be used to carry out the work of the Teacher Academy Task Force and the sum of two hundred eighty-five thousand dollars ($285,000) shall be used by the Department of Public Instruction to begin implementation of Teacher Academies by developing training modules, training the initial cadre of teacher trainers, contracting with trainers, and selecting universities as sites for Teacher Academies for summer training in 1994.  The funds appropriated for the 1994-95 fiscal year shall be used by the Department of Public Instruction to conduct initial teacher training at multiple sites, starting in the summer of 1994.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.