GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2007
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SENATE DRS75158-LE-155 (2/28)
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Short Title: Clarify Calculation of the Dropout Rate. |
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Senator Preston. |
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to clarify the calculation of the dropout rate.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 115C‑12(27) reads as rewritten:
"§ 115C‑12. Powers and duties of the Board generally.
The general supervision and administration of the free public school system shall be vested in the State Board of Education. The State Board of Education shall establish policy for the system of free public schools, subject to laws enacted by the General Assembly. The powers and duties of the State Board of Education are defined as follows:
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(27) Reporting Dropout Rates, Suspensions, Expulsions, and
Alternative Placements. – The State Board shall report annually to the Joint
Legislative Education Oversight Committee and the Commission on Improving the
Academic Achievement of Minority and At‑Risk Students on the numbers of
students who have dropped out of school, been suspended, been expelled, or been
placed in an alternative program. The data shall be reported in a disaggregated
manner and be readily available to the public. The State Board shall not
include students that have been expelled from school when calculating the
dropout rate. In calculating the dropout rate, the Board shall not
include students who transfer to a community college before graduation and
receive a high school diploma or its equivalent while at community college. A
student shall be considered to have dropped out when that student voluntarily
withdraws from school at age 16 or is expelled from school and does not finish
at another school.
The Board shall maintain a separate record of the number of students who are expelled from school."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2007, and applies beginning with the 2007‑2008 school year.