GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

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SENATE BILL 19

Short Title:  Sch. Improvement Incentives/Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Hobbs; Albertson, Perdue, Speed, Plexico, Soles, Warren, Edwards, Dannelly, Hoyle, Kerr, Martin of Guilford, Winner, Odom, Rand, Plyler, Cooper, Gulley, and Lucas.

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Referred to:  Education/Higher Education.

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January 26, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR A SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT INCENTIVE GRANT PROGRAM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 115C-238.2(b) is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
"(3a)	Are eligible to receive awards through the School-Based Incentive Award Program established in G.S. 115C-238.6B."
Sec. 2.  Chapter 115C of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 115C-238.6B.  School-Based Incentive Award Program.
The State Board of Education, after consultation with the Task Force on Site-Based Management, shall adopt a School-Based Incentive Award Program to reward individual schools for significant progress in attaining the school's school performance and student performance goals.  Local boards of education shall not be required to apply for these awards.  Award recipients shall be selected based on the annual reports on progress in achieving those goals.
A school may use these incentive funds in accordance with a plan developed by that school and approved by the local board of education. The local board of education shall approve the plan developed by the school unless the plan involves expenditures of funds that are not for a public purpose or that are otherwise unlawful."
Sec. 3.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to State Aid to Local School Administrative Units the sum of twenty-nine million dollars ($29,000,000) for the 1995-96 fiscal year and the sum of twenty-nine million dollars ($29,000,000) for the 1996-97 fiscal year to implement the School-Based Incentive Award Program adopted by the State Board of Education pursuant to this act.
Sec. 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1995.