A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT directing the state board of education to establish a lateral entry pilot program.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The State Board of Education shall establish a five-year lateral entry pilot program in up to three local school administrative units, one of which shall be the Guilford County Schools. Under the pilot program, participating local school administrative units shall review the college transcripts of lateral entry teachers and determine which additional college or university courses the teachers should take to be qualified to teach in that pilot unit.  The pilot unit shall then collaborate with a college or university to arrange course offerings that meet the unit's and teacher's needs.
The State Board of Education shall certify lateral entry teachers to teach in the pilot units in accordance with the determination of the pilot units.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.