Bill Text: NC H34 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: School Calendar Flexibility/Certain Counties
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-19 - Serial Referral To Commerce and Job Development Stricken [H34 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2015-H34-Amended.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2015
H 1
HOUSE BILL 34
Short Title: School Calendar Flexibility/Certain Counties. |
(Local) |
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Sponsors: |
Representatives Jones and Holloway (Primary Sponsors). For a complete list of Sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly Web Site. |
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Referred to: |
Education ‑ K‑12, if favorable, Commerce and Job Development. |
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February 2, 2015
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide additional flexibility to certain local boards 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.
For days on which a student is absent from school prior to September 1 due to a family vacation, the student shall receive an excused absence and be given the opportunity to make up any tests or other work missed."
SECTION 2. This act applies only to the Caswell, Rockingham, and Stokes County Schools.
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the 2015‑2016 school year.