A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide additional operating flexibility to cooperative innovative high schools, 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‑238.53(f) reads as rewritten:
"(f)	Except as provided in this Part and under the terms of the  agreement:
(1)	A program shall have the same exemptions from statutes and rules as charter schools operating under Part 6A of this Article, other than those pertaining to personnel.
(2)	A program may be exempted by the State Board of Education or by the applicable governing Board from laws and rules applicable to a local board of education, a local school administrative unit, a community college, a constituent institution, or a local board of trustees." 
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the 2010‑2011 school year.