A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to expand the teaching fellows program.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of six hundred fifty thousand dollars ($650,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to provide for an additional 100 scholarships under the Teaching Fellows Program.
SECTION 1.(b)  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of three hundred twenty thousand dollars ($320,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to increase administrative support for the Teaching Fellows Program.  These funds are needed to enable the Commission to serve additional Teaching Fellows, to expand the Teaching Fellows Program to five additional campuses, and to expand minority recruitment initiatives.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.