A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to require local boards of education to employ school testing coordinators.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑174.12 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"(d)	Local boards of education shall employ one or more school testing coordinators and shall establish the terms and conditions of their employment. School testing coordinators shall be responsible for (i) administering standardized tests, (ii) compiling, organizing, and analyzing test results, and (iii) presenting test data and an analysis of test results to school administrators and to the local board of education."
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to State Aid to Local School Administrative Units the sum of eight million four hundred thousand dollars ($8,400,000) for the 2003‑2004 fiscal year and the sum of eight million four hundred thousand dollars ($8,400,000) for the 2004‑2005 fiscal year to provide funds for one testing coordinator for each local school administrative unit and four testing coordinators to work with charter schools.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2003.