A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to expand models of cooperative innovative high school programs to include Five‑year career academies within existing schools and to require that career academies approved as Cooperative innovative high schools not receive a separate school code and that records be maintained for students enrolled in the career academies, as recommended by the joint legislative joining our businesses and schools (JOBS) study commission.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑238.50(e) reads as rewritten:
"(e)	Cooperative innovative high school programs may include the creation of a school within a school, a technical high school, a high school or technical center located on the campus of a college or  university, or a five‑year career academy operating as part of an existing high school."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 115C‑238.54 reads as rewritten:
"§ 115C‑238.54.  Funds for programs.
(a)	The Department of Public Instruction shall assign a school code for each program that is approved under this Part, with the exception of a five‑year career academy operating as part of an existing high school, which shall continue to use the existing school code. All positions and other State and federal allotments that are generated for this program shall be assigned to that school code. Notwithstanding G.S. 115C‑105.25, once funds are assigned to that school code, the local board of education may use these funds for the program and may transfer these funds between funding allotment categories.
(a1)	A five‑year career academy operating as part of an existing high school shall maintain records to identify and evaluate students enrolled in the five‑year career academy program distinct from the general school population.
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SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the 2010‑2011 school year.