Bill Text: NC S201 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: School Calendar Flexibility/Certain Systems
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-08 - Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate [S201 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2017-S201-Amended.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2017
S 1
SENATE BILL 201
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Short Title: School Calendar Flexibility/Certain Systems. |
(Local) |
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Sponsors: |
Senator Foushee (Primary Sponsor). |
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Referred to: |
Rules and Operations of the Senate |
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March 8, 2017
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.Regardless of
the opening date selected for students, all first semester examinations may be
given before winter break."
SECTION 2. This act applies only to Chatham County Schools and Orange County Schools.
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the 2017‑2018 school year.
