A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to pilot an interactive distance learning enrichment program for at‑risk students to supplement their in‑school education and target areas of academic weakness.
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 one hundred thousand two hundred forty‑six dollars ($100,246) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year.  These funds shall be used by the First Baptist Church West Community Services Association, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, to pilot an interactive distance learning enrichment program for at‑risk students to supplement their in‑school education and target areas of academic weakness.  This program shall pilot a community‑based videoconference system now used primarily in universities and public schools in the State.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.