A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REVISE THE GEOGRAPHICALLY ISOLATED SCHOOLS FORMULA REGARDING THE ALLOCATION OF TEACHERS FOR CURRITUCK COUNTY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑301(g1) reads as rewritten:
"(g1)	Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the State Board of Education shall allot additional classroom teachers to schools containing grades kindergarten through 12 when consolidation is not feasible due to the geographic isolation of the school and the school meets at least 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.
(3)	The school is located in a local school administrative unit for a county containing all or a portion of at least one national wildlife refuge owned by the federal government and managed by the United States Fish & Wildlife Service pursuant to G.S. 104‑10.
The State Board shall allot teachers to geographically isolated schools 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 in accordance with the formulas for the regular classroom teacher allotment."
SECTION 2.  This act applies only to Currituck County Schools.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the 2019‑2020 school year.