A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to clarify the teacher allotment policy for geographically isolated schools.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑301 reads as rewritten:
"§ 115C‑301.  Allocation of teachers; class size.
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(g1)	Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the State Board of Education shall allot additional classroom teachers to schools containing grades K‑12 that meet one of the following criteria for geographic isolation: 
(1)	The school is located in a local school administrative unit in which the average daily membership is less than 1.5 per square mile.
(2)	The school is located in a local school administrative unit for a county containing more than 150,000 acres of National Forest owned by the federal government and managed by the United States Forest Service pursuant to G.S. 104‑5.
The State Board shall allot teachers to the geographically isolated school pursuant to this subsection on the basis of one classroom teacher per grade level and shall allot teachers to the remainder of the local school administrative unit under the regular teacher allotment formula.
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SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2011.