A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to establish a pilot program to eliminate multigrade level instruction for high school students with disabilities.
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 seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to establish a two‑year pilot program to eliminate multigrade level instruction for high school students with disabilities. The objective of the pilot program is to eliminate multigrade, multisubject, self‑contained classes and to maximize integration of children with disabilities into the general student population.
The State Board of Education shall select three high schools to participate in the pilot program. The pilot high schools shall maximize the co‑teaching models and shall not have any multigrade, self‑contained classrooms for students with disabilities The high schools may have self‑contained classes by grade level or by subject.
The Exceptional Children Division of the Department of Public Instruction shall provide training to the pilot high schools.
The Department of Public Instruction shall report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee on the implementation of the pilot program by _________.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.