A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT directing the joint legislative education oversight committee to study the feasibility of tracking students until they complete their education.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee shall study the feasibility of tracking students who enter the public schools as they move from one school system to another, drop out and return to school, take community college and university courses, and earn postsecondary certificates and degrees.  In the course of the study, the Committee shall consider: (i) the privacy rights of students; and (ii) impediments to collecting the information under the current administrative practices of the public schools, the community colleges, proprietary schools, the constituent institutions of The University of North Carolina, and private colleges and universities.
The Committee shall report the results of its study to the 2006 Regular Session of the 2005 General Assembly.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2005.