A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to Require a portion of the lottery proceeds be allocated to Certain underperforming high schools.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding G.S. 18C‑164(c)(1), the General Assembly shall appropriate a portion of the Education Lottery Fund dedicated to support reduction of class size in early grades to class size allotments not exceeding 1:18 in order to eliminate achievement gaps and to support academic prekindergarten programs for at‑risk four‑year‑olds for the purpose of providing additional funding for those high schools identified as underperforming by Judge Howard Manning in his letter dated March 3, 2006, to the Superintendent of Public Instruction and Chair of the State Board of Education.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.