A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT directing the state board of education to develop a plan for a sabbatical pilot program.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The State Board of Education shall develop a plan for a sabbatical pilot program.  The plan shall provide up to 150 teachers and principals with a sabbatical to study, travel, or explore an idea or program to be implemented at their schools.  Participating teachers must have over 10 years' experience as teachers, and participating principals must have over 10 years' experience as principals.
The plan shall require each participant to return to his or her school for at least three years following the sabbatical or repay the salary for the year.
SECTION 2.  The State Board of Education shall report to the General Assembly on the plan by March 1, 2008.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.