A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to recruit excellent teachers to at‑risk schools.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of one million seven hundred thousand dollars ($1,700,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of one million seven hundred thousand dollars ($1,700,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year.  The State Board of Education shall use these funds to establish signing bonuses for excellent teachers who teach at schools at which a high percentage of the students are at risk of academic failure.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.