A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to require that the state board of education include specific data in its annual report on the teaching profession.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑12(22) reads as rewritten:
"(22)	Duty to Monitor the State of the Teaching Profession in North Carolina. – The State Board of Education shall monitor and compile an annual report on the state of the teaching profession in North Carolina that includes data on the decisions of teachers to leave the teaching profession. The State Board shall adopt standard procedures for each local board of education to use in requesting the information from teachers who are not continuing to work as teachers in the local school administrative unit and shall require each local board of education to report the information to the State Board in a standard format adopted by the State Board. The annual report shall include data on the following, disaggregated by the effectiveness ratings of those teachers on the North Carolina Educator Evaluation System (NCEES):
a.	The number of teachers who left the profession without remaining in the field of education and the reasons for teachers leaving the profession.
b.	The number of teachers who left their employment to teach in other states.
c.	The number of teachers who left their employment to work in another school in North Carolina, including nonpublic schools and charter schools.
d.	The number of teachers who left a classroom position for another type of educational position.
e.	The number of hard‑to‑staff schools. A hard‑to‑staff school shall be any school identified as low‑performing, as provided in G.S. 115C‑105.37.
f.	The number of positions in hard‑to‑staff subject areas. A hard‑to‑staff subject area is either of the following:
1.	As defined by the United States Department of Education.
2.	A subject area that has resulted in a long‑term vacancy of 16 months or more at a particular school in a local school administrative unit."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the annual report compiled in 2017 using data from the 2016‑2017 school year.