A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT directing local school administrative units to implement a comprehensive arts education plan, as recommended by the arts education commission.
Whereas, the Comprehensive Arts Education Task Force met in 2010 and prepared a detailed Comprehensive Arts Education Plan; and
Whereas, this plan established a vision for comprehensive arts education that includes arts as core education courses, art integration as a catalyst for learning across the curriculum, and exposure to arts education; and
Whereas, the Task Force submitted this plan to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee in December 2010; and
Whereas, the General Assembly commends the Comprehensive Arts Education Task Force for its thorough work and finds that it should be implemented throughout the State; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Department of Public Instruction shall develop the resources as defined in the Comprehensive Arts Education Plan prepared by the Comprehensive Arts Education Task Force. The Department shall report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee on its implementation of this section no later than June 1, 2013.
SECTION 2.  Each local school administrative unit shall implement the detailed recommendations of the Comprehensive Arts Education Plan during the 2014‑2015 school year to ensure comprehensive arts education in North Carolina schools. Each local school administrative unit shall report on its progress to the Department of Public Instruction no later than June 1, 2014. The Department of Public Instruction shall deliver a detailed statewide report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee no later than July 1, 2014. Each local school administrative unit shall report on its progress in implementing the Comprehensive Arts Education Plan to the Department of Public Instruction no later than June 1, 2015.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.