A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide for testing coordinators in the public 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 forty‑two million one hundred sixty‑nine thousand fifty‑three dollars ($42,169,053) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to provide for testing coordinators in the public schools.  The State Board of Education shall allocate these funds on the basis of one position for every 2,000 students with a minimum of one position for each local school administrative unit.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.