GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2013
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HOUSE BILL 93
Short Title: School Calendar Flexibility/Craven County. |
(Local) |
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Sponsors: |
Representatives Speciale, G. Graham, and J. Bell (Primary Sponsors). For a complete list of Sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly Web Site. |
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Referred to: |
Education. |
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February 13, 2013
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide additional flexibility to the craven county board of education in adopting the school calendar.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 115C-84.2(d) reads as rewritten:
"(d) Opening and Closing
Dates. - Local boards of education shall determine the dates of opening and
closing the public schools under subdivision (a)(1) of this section. Except
for year-round schools, the opening date for students shall be no earlier than
the Monday closest to August 26, and the closing date for students shall be no
later than the Friday closest to June 11. On a showing of good cause, the State
Board of Education may waive the requirement that the opening date for students
be no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26 and may allow the local
board of education to set an opening date no earlier than the Monday closest to
August 19, to the extent that school calendars are able to provide sufficient days
to accommodate anticipated makeup days due to school closings. A local board
may revise the scheduled closing date if necessary in order to comply with the
minimum requirements for instructional days or instructional time. For purposes
of this subsection, the term "good cause" means that schools in any
local school administrative unit in a county have been closed eight days per
year during any four of the last 10 years because of severe weather conditions,
energy shortages, power failures, or other emergency situations.
The required opening and closing dates under this
subsection shall not apply to any school that a local board designated as
having a modified calendar for the 2003-2004 school year or to any school that
was part of a planned program in the 2003-2004 school year for a system of
modified calendar schools, so long as the school operates under a modified
calendar."
SECTION 2. This act applies only to the Craven County Schools.
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the 2013-2014 school year.