Chapter 115C Elementary and Secondary Education
Article 1 - Definitions and Preliminary Provisions.
- § 115C-1 General and uniform system of schools
A general and uniform system of free public schools shall be provided throughout the State, wherein equal opportunities shall be provided for all students, in...
- § 115C-2 Administrative procedure
All action of agencies taken pursuant to this Chapter, as agency is defined in G.S. 150B‑2, is subject to the requirements of the Administrative Procedure...
- § 115C-3 Access to information and public records
Except as otherwise provided in this Chapter, access to information gathered and public records made pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter must be in...
- § 115C-4 Open meetings law
Meetings of governmental bodies held pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter must be in conformity with the requirements of Article 33C of Chapter 143...
- § 115C-5 Definitions
As used in this Chapter unless the context requires otherwise: (1) The State Board of Education may be referred to as the "Board" or as...
- § 115C-6 through 115C-9 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 2 - State Board of Education.
Article 3 - Department of Public Instruction.
Article 4 - Office of the Controller.
Article 5 - Local Boards of Education.
- § 115C-35 How constituted
(a) The county board of education in each county shall consist of five members elected by the voters of the county at large for terms...
- § 115C-36 Designation of board
All powers and duties conferred and imposed by law respecting public schools, which are not expressly conferred and imposed upon some other official, are conferred...
- § 115C-37 Election of board members
(a) Method of Election. The county boards of education shall be elected on a nonpartisan basis at the time of the primary election in 1970...
- § 115C-37.1 Vacancies in offices of county boards elected on partisan basis in certain counties
(a) All vacancies in the membership of county boards of education which are elected by public or local act on a partisan basis shall be...
- § 115C-38 Compensation of board members
The tax‑levying authority for a local school administrative unit may, under the procedures of G.S. 153A‑92, fix the compensation and expense allowances paid members of...
- § 115C-39 Suspension of duties by State Board
(a) Repealed by Session Laws 2007‑498, s. 1, effective August 30, 2007. (b) In the event the State Board of Education has appointed an interim...
- § 115C-40 Board a body corporate
The board of education of each county in the State shall be a body corporate by the name and style of "The ______ County Board...
- § 115C-41 Organization of board
(a) Unless otherwise provided by local law, all local boards of education shall have an organizational meeting no later than 60 days after the swearing...
- § 115C-42 Liability insurance and immunity
Any local board of education, by securing liability insurance as hereinafter provided, is hereby authorized and empowered to waive its governmental immunity from liability for...
- § 115C-43 Defense of board of education members and employees
(a) Upon request made by or in behalf of any member or employee or former member or employee, any local board of education may provide...
- § 115C-44 Suits and actions
(a) A local board of education shall institute all actions, suits, or proceedings against officers, persons, or corporations, or their sureties, for the recovery, preservation,...
- § 115C-45 Judicial functions of board
(a) Power to Subpoena and to Punish for Contempt. Local boards of education shall have power to issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses. Subpoenas...
- § 115C-46 Powers of local boards to regulate parking of motor vehicles
(a) Any local board of education may adopt reasonable rules and regulations with respect to the parking of motor vehicles and other modes of conveyance...
- § 115C-47 Powers and duties generally
In addition to the powers and duties designated in G.S. 115C‑36, local boards of education shall have the power or duty: (1) To Provide an...
- § 115C-48 Penalties for certain conduct
(a) Members of local boards of education are criminally liable for certain conduct as provided in G.S. 14‑234. (b) Members of local boards of education...
- § 115C-49 Repealed by Session Laws 1995, c. 501, s. 1
- § 115C-50 Training of board members
All members of local boards of education shall receive a minimum of 12 clock hours of training annually. The training shall include but not be...
- § 115C-51 Public comment period during regular meetings
The local board of education shall provide at least one period for public comment per month at a regular meeting of the board. The board...
- § 115C-52 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-53 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 6 - Advisory Councils.
Article 6A - State Assistance and Intervention in Low Performing School Units.
Article 7 - Organization of Schools.
- § 115C-65 State divided into districts
The State of North Carolina shall be divided into eight educational districts embracing the counties herein set forth: First District Beaufort, Bertie, Camden,...
- § 115C-66 Administrative units classified
Each county of the State shall be classified as a county school administrative unit, the schools of which, except in city administrative units, shall be...
- § 115C-67 Merger of units in same county
City school administrative units may be consolidated and merged with contiguous city school administrative units and with county school administrative units upon approval by the...
- § 115C-68 Merger of units in adjoining counties
(a) Boards of education of contiguous counties or boards of education in a group of counties in which each county is contiguous with at least...
- § 115C-68.1 Merger of units by the board of commissioners
(a) The board of commissioners of a county in which two or more local school administrative units are located, but all are located wholly within...
- § 115C-68.2 Merger of units by the local boards of education
If a city board of education notifies the State Board of Education that it is dissolving itself, the State Board of Education shall adopt a...
- § 115C-68.3 Validation of plans of consolidation and merger
All plans for consolidation and merger of school administrative units entered into between June 9, 1969, and May 26, 1992, under G.S. 115C‑67, 115C‑68.1, 115C‑68.2,...
- § 115C-69 Types of districts defined
The term "district" here used is defined to mean any convenient territorial division or subdivision of a county, created for the purpose of maintaining within...
- § 115C-70 Repealed by Session Laws 1985 (Regular Session, 1986), c. 975, s. 24
- § 115C-71 Districts formed from portions of contiguous counties
School districts may be formed out of contiguous counties by agreement of the county boards of education of the respective counties subject to the approval...
- § 115C-72 Consolidation of districts and discontinuance of schools
(a) Local boards of education shall have the power and authority to close or consolidate schools located in the same district, and with the approval...
- § 115C-73 Enlarging tax districts and city units by permanently attaching contiguous property
The county boards of education with the approval of the State Board of Education may transfer from nontax territory and attach permanently to local tax...
- § 115C-74 School system defined
The school system of each local school administrative unit shall consist of 12 years of study or grades, and shall be graded on the basis...
- § 115C-75 Recommended school classification
(a) The different types of public schools are classified and defined as follows: (1) An "elementary school" is a school that includes all or part...
- § 115C-76 through 115C-80 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 8 - General Education.
- § 115C-81 Basic Education Program
(a) The General Assembly believes that all children can learn. It is the intent of the General Assembly that the mission of the public school...
- § 115C-81.1 Basic Education Program Funds not to supplant Local funds for schools
It is the intent of the General Assembly that budget funds appropriated by the General Assembly for vocational and technical education programs and clerical personnel...
- § 115C-81.2 Comprehensive plan for reading achievement
(a) The State Board of Education shall develop a comprehensive plan to improve reading achievement in the public schools. The plan shall be fully integrated...
- § 115C-81.3 Instruction in American Sign Language
(a) The State Board of Education shall encourage schools to offer American Sign Language classes in high schools as a modern foreign language. (b) The...
- § 115C-82 Repealed by Session Laws 1987 (Reg. Sess., 1988), c. 1086, s. 89(d)
- § 115C-83 Repealed by Session Laws 1997-18, s. 4
- § 115C-84 Repealed by Session Laws 1997-443, s. 8.38(a)
- § 115C-84.1 Repealed by Session Laws 1997-443, s. 1
- § 115C-84.2 School calendar
(a) School Calendar. Each local board of education shall adopt a school calendar consisting of 215 days all of which shall fall within the fiscal...
- § 115C-85 Textbook needs are determined by course of study
When the State Board of Education has adopted, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, a standard course of study at each instructional...
- § 115C-86 State Board of Education to select and adopt textbooks
The Board shall select and adopt for a period determined to be most advantageous to the State public school system for the exclusive use in...
- § 115C-87 Appointment of Textbook Commission
Shortly after assuming office, the Governor shall appoint a Textbook Commission of 23 members who shall hold office for four years, or until their successors...
- § 115C-88 Commission to evaluate textbooks offered for adoption
(a) The Commission shall evaluate all textbooks offered for adoption. Each proposed textbook shall be read by at least one expert certified in the discipline...
- § 115C-89 Selection of textbooks by Board
At the next meeting of the Board after the reports have been filed, the Textbook Commission and the Board shall jointly examine the reports. From...
- § 115C-90 Adoption of textbooks and contracts with publishers
The publishers' sealed bids shall be opened in the presence of two persons designated by the State Board of Education and one person designated by...
- § 115C-91 Continuance and discontinuance of contracts with publishers
When an existing or future contract expires, the Board may, with the publisher's approval, continue the contract for any particular book or books for a...
- § 115C-92 Procedure for change of textbook
The Superintendent may at any time communicate to the Board that a particular book is unsatisfactory for the schools, whereupon the Board may call for...
- § 115C-93 Advice from and suits by Attorney General
The form and legality of contracts between the Board and publishers of textbooks shall be subject to the approval of the Attorney General. When requested...
- § 115C-94 Publishers to register
Any publisher who submits books for adoption shall register in the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction the names of all agents or other...
- § 115C-95 Sale of books at lower price reduces price to State
Every contract made by the Board with the publisher of any school textbook on the State‑adopted list shall be deemed to have written therein a...
- § 115C-96 Powers and duties of the State Board of Education in regard to textbooks
The children of the public elementary and secondary schools of the State shall be provided with free basic textbooks within the appropriation of the General...
- § 115C-97 State Board of Education authorized to discontinue handling supplementary and library books
The State Board of Education may discontinue the adoption of supplementary textbooks and, at the expiration of existing contracts, may discontinue the purchase, warehousing, and...
- § 115C-98 Local boards of education to provide for local operation of the textbook program, the selection and procurement of other instructional materials, and the use of nonadopted textbooks
(a) Local boards of education shall adopt rules not inconsistent with the policies of the State Board of Education concerning the local operation of the...
- § 115C-99 Legal custodians of textbooks furnished by State
Local boards of education are the custodians of all textbooks purchased by the local boards with State funds. They shall provide adequate and safe storage...
- § 115C-100 Rental fees for textbooks prohibited; damage fees authorized
No local board of education may charge any pupil a rental fee for the use of textbooks. A pupil's parents or legal guardians may be...
- § 115C-101 Duties and authority of superintendents of local school administrative units
The superintendent of each local school administrative unit, as an official agent of the State Board of Education, shall administer the provisions of this Part...
- § 115C-102 Right to purchase; disposal of textbooks and materials
(a) Any parent, guardian, or person in loco parentis may purchase any instructional material needed for any child in the public schools of the State...
- § 115C-102.1 through 115C-102.4 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-102.5 Commission on School Technology created; membership
(a) There is created the Commission on School Technology. The Commission shall be located administratively in the Department of Public Instruction but shall exercise all...
- § 115C-102.6 Duty to prepare a requirements analysis and propose a State school technology plan
The Commission shall prepare a requirements analysis and propose a State school technology plan for improving student performance in the public schools through the use...
- § 115C-102.6A Elements of the State school technology plan
(a) The State school technology plan shall be a long‑term State implementation plan for using funds from the State School Technology Fund and other sources...
- § 115C-102.6B Approval of State school technology plan
(a) The Commission shall present the State school technology plan it develops to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations and the Joint Legislative Education...
- § 115C-102.6C Approval of local school system technology plans
(a) Each local board of education shall develop a local school system technology plan that meets the requirements of the State school technology plan. In...
- § 115C-102.6D Establishment of the State School Technology Fund; allocation and use of funds
(a) There is established under the control and direction of the State Board of Education the State School Technology Fund. This fund shall be a...
- § 115C-102.7 Monitoring and evaluation of State and local school system technology plans; reports
(a) The Commission shall monitor and evaluate the development and implementation of the State and local school system technology plans. The evaluation shall consider the...
- § 115C-102.8 Repealed by Session Laws 1997-18, s. 5
- § 115C-102.15 Business and Education Technology Alliance
(a) There is created the State Board of Education's Business and Education Technology Alliance. (b) The Business and Education Technology Alliance shall be composed of...
- § 115C-103 Fees
Fees, charges and costs may be collected from students, their parents or guardians, and school personnel in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 115C‑47(6). (1981,...
- § 115C-104 Enactment of Compact
The Compact for Education is hereby entered into and enacted into law, with all jurisdictions legally joining therein. Pursuant to Article III(9) of the Compact,...
- § 115C-105 Repealed by Session Laws 1991, c. 369, s. 2
Article 8A - North Carolina Education Standards and Accountability Commission.
Article 8B - School-Based Management and Accountability Program.
- § 115C-105.20 School-Based Management and Accountability Program
(a) The General Assembly believes that all children can learn. It is the intent of the General Assembly that the mission of the public school...
- § 115C-105.21 Local participation in the Program
(a) Local school administrative units shall participate in the School‑Based Management and Accountability Program. (b) The School‑Based Management and Accountability Program shall provide increased local...
- § 115C-105.22 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-105.23 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-105.24 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-105.25 Budget flexibility
(a) Consistent with improving student performance, a local board shall provide maximum flexibility to schools in the use of funds to enable the schools to...
- § 115C-105.26 Waivers of State laws, rules, or policies
(a) When included as part of a school improvement plan accepted under G.S. 115C‑105.27, local boards of education shall submit requests for waivers of State...
- § 115C-105.27 Development and approval of school improvement plans
(a) In order to improve student performance, each school shall develop a school improvement plan that takes into consideration the annual performance goal for that...
- § 115C-105.28, 115C-105.29 Repealed by Session Laws 1995 (Regular Session, 1996), c. 716, s. 3
- § 115C-105.30 Distribution of staff development funds
Any funds the local board of education makes available to an individual school building to implement the school improvement plan at that school shall be...
- § 115C-105.31 Creation of the Task Force on School-Based Management
(a) There is created the Task Force on School‑Based Management under the State Board of Education. The Task Force shall be composed of 21 members...
- § 115C-105.32 Parent involvement programs and conflict resolution programs as part of school improvement plans
A school is encouraged to include a comprehensive parent involvement program as part of its school improvement plan under G.S. 115C‑105.27. The State Board of...
- § 115C-105.33 Safe and orderly schools
A school improvement team or a parent organization at a school may ask the local board of education to provide assistance in promoting or restoring...
- § 115C-105.34 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-105.35 Annual performance goals
(a) The School‑Based Management and Accountability Program shall (i) focus on student performance in the basics of reading, mathematics, and communications skills in elementary and...
- § 115C-105.36 Performance recognition
(a) The personnel in schools that achieve a level of expected growth greater than one hundred percent (100%) at a level to be determined by...
- § 115C-105.37 Identification of low-performing schools
(a) The State Board of Education shall design and implement a procedure to identify low‑performing schools on an annual basis. Low‑performing schools are those in...
- § 115C-105.37A Continually low-performing schools; definition; assistance and intervention; reassignment of students
(a) Definition of Continually Low‑Performing Schools. A continually low‑performing school is a school that has received State‑mandated assistance and has been designated by the State...
- § 115C-105.38 Assistance teams; review by State Board
(a) The State Board of Education may assign an assistance team to any school identified as low‑performing under this Article or to any other school...
- § 115C-105.38A Teacher competency assurance
(a) General Knowledge Test. (1) Each assistance team assigned to a low‑performing school during the 1997‑98 school year shall review the team's evaluations of certified...
- § 115C-105.39 Dismissal or removal of personnel; appointment of interim superintendent
(a) Within 30 days of the initial identification of a school as low‑performing, whether by the local school administrative unit under G.S. 115C‑105.37(a1) or by...
- § 115C-105.40 Student academic performance standards
The State Board of Education shall develop a plan to create rigorous student academic performance standards for kindergarten through eighth grade and student academic performance...
- § 115C-105.41 Students who have been placed at risk of academic failure; personal education plans
Local school administrative units shall identify students who have been placed at risk for academic failure. Identification shall occur as early as can reasonably be...
- § 115C-105.42 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-105.43 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-105.44 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 8C - Local Plans For Alternative Schools/Alternative Learning Programs and Maintaining Safe and Orderly Schools.
Article 9 - Education of Children With Disabilities.
- § 115C-106 Repealed by Session Laws 2006-69, s. 1, effective from and after July 1, 2006
- § 115C-106.1 State goal
The goal of the State is to provide full educational opportunity to all children with disabilities who reside in the State. (1973, c. 1293, ss....
- § 115C-106.2 Purposes
(a) The purposes of this Article are to (i) ensure that all children with disabilities ages three through 21 who reside in this State have...
- § 115C-106.3 Definitions
The following definitions apply in this Article: (1) "Child with a disability" means a child with at least one disability who because of that disability...
- § 115C-107 Repealed by Session Laws 2006-69, s. 1, effective from and after July 1, 2006
- § 115C-107.1 Free appropriate public education; ages
(a) A free appropriate public education shall be made available to the following: (1) All children with disabilities who reside in the State, who are...
- § 115C-107.2 Duties of State Board of Education
(a) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules to ensure that: (1) The requirements of this Article and IDEA are met. (2) All educational...
- § 115C-107.3 Child find
(a) The Board shall require an annual census of all children with disabilities residing in the State, subdivided for "identified" and "suspected" children with disabilities,...
- § 115C-107.4 Monitoring and enforcement
(a) The State Board shall monitor all local educational agencies to determine compliance with this Article and IDEA. The State Board also shall monitor the...
- § 115C-107.5 Annual reports
The State Board shall report annually to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee on the implementation of this Article and the educational performance of children...
- § 115C-107.6 Duties of local educational agencies
(a) Each local educational agency, in providing for the education of children with disabilities within its jurisdiction, must comply with IDEA and the rules adopted...
- § 115C-107.7 Discipline and homebound instruction
(a) The policies and procedures for the discipline of students with disabilities shall be consistent with federal laws and regulations. (b) If a change of...
- § 115C-108 Repealed by Session Laws 2006-69, s. 1, effective from and after July 1, 2006
- § 115C-108.1 State Board lead agency
(a) The Board shall cause all local educational agencies to provide special education and related services to children with disabilities in their care, custody, management,...
- § 115C-108.2 Interlocal cooperation
The Board, any two or more local educational agencies, and any other agency and any State department, agency, or division having responsibility for the education,...
- § 115C-109 Repealed by Session Laws 2006-69, s. 1, effective from and after July 1, 2006
- § 115C-109.1 Handbook for parents
The State Board of Education shall make available to parents a handbook of procedural safeguards. This handbook for parents shall be made available at least...
- § 115C-109.2 Adult children with disabilities; surrogate parents
(a) When a child with a disability reaches the age of 18, all of the following apply: (1) Notices required under this Article shall be...
- § 115C-109.3 Access to records; opportunity for parents to participate in meetings
(a) Each local educational agency shall provide an opportunity for the parents of a child with a disability to examine all records relating to that...
- § 115C-109.4 Mediation
(a) It is the policy of this State to encourage local educational agencies and parents to seek mediation involving any dispute under this Article, including...
- § 115C-109.5 Prior written notice
(a) The local educational agency shall provide prompt written notice to parents whenever that agency proposes to initiate or change, or refuses to initiate or...
- § 115C-109.6 Impartial due process hearings
(a) Any party may file with the Office of Administrative Hearings a petition to request an impartial hearing with respect to any matter relating to...
- § 115C-109.7 Resolution session
(a) Within 15 days of receiving notice of the parent's petition filed under G.S. 115C‑109.6 and before the opportunity for an impartial hearing, the local...
- § 115C-109.8 Procedural issues
(a) In matters alleging a procedural violation, the hearing officer may find that a child did not receive a free appropriate public education only if...
- § 115C-109.9 Review by review officer; appeals
(a) Any party aggrieved by the findings and decision of a hearing officer under G.S. 115C‑109.6 or G.S. 115C‑109.8 may appeal the findings and decision...
- § 115C-110 Repealed by Session Laws 2006-69, s. 1, effective from and after July 1, 2006
- § 115C-110.1 Teacher qualifications
The Board shall adopt rules covering the qualifications of and standards for licensure of teachers, teacher assistants, speech‑language pathologists, school psychologists, and others involved in...
- § 115C-110.2 Interpreters/transliterators
Each interpreter or transliterator employed by a local educational agency to provide services to hearing‑impaired students must annually complete 15 hours of job‑related training that...
- § 115C-110.3 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-110.4 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-110.5 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-111 Repealed by Session Laws 2006-69, s. 1, effective from and after July 1, 2006
- § 115C-111.1 Out-of-state students; eligibility for State funds
Notwithstanding any policy or rule adopted by the State Board of Education, if a local school administrative unit provides services to a student under a...
- § 115C-111.2 Contracts with private service providers
Local educational agencies furnishing special education and related services to children with disabilities may contract with private special education facilities or service providers to furnish...
- § 115C-111.3 Cost of education of children in group homes, foster homes, etc
(a) Notwithstanding any other State law and without regard for the place of domicile of a parent, the cost of a free appropriate public education...
- § 115C-111.4 Nonreduction
Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this Article, it is the intent of the General Assembly that funds appropriated by it for the operation...
- § 115C-111.5 Allocation of federal funds
Whenever any federal monies for the special education and related services for children with disabilities are made available, these funds shall be allocated according to...
- § 115C-111.6 Obligation to provide services for preschool children with disabilities
State funds appropriated to the public schools to implement preschool services for children with disabilities under this Article and IDEA shall be used to provide...
- § 115C-112 Repealed by Session Laws 2006-69, s. 1, effective from and after July 1, 2006
- § 115C-112.1 Establishment; organization; powers and duties
(a) There is hereby established an Advisory Council to the State Board of Education to be called the Council on Educational Services for Exceptional Children....
- § 115C-113 through 115C-115 Repealed by Session Laws 2006-69, s. 1, effective July 10, 2006
- § 115C-116 Repealed by Session Laws 2006-69, s. 1, effective July 10, 2006
- § 115C-117 through 115C-120 Repealed by Session Laws 1997-18, s. 16
- § 115C-121 Repealed by Session Laws 2006-69, s. 1, effective July 10, 2006
- § 115C-122 Repealed by Session Laws 2006-69, s. 1, effective July 10, 2006
- § 115C-123 through 115C-126.1 Recodified as §§ 143B-216.40 through 143B-216.44 by Session Laws 1997-18, s. 12
- § 115C-127, 115C-128 Recodified as §§ 143B-164.10 and 143B-164.13
- § 115C-129 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-130 through 115C-133 Recodified as §§ 143B-164.14 through 143B-164.17
- § 115C-134 through 115C-138 Repealed by Session Laws 1997-18, s. 14
- § 115C-139 Repealed by Session Laws 2006-69, s. 1, effective July 10, 2006
- § 115C-140 Repealed by Session Laws 2006-69, s. 1, effective July 10, 2006
- § 115C-140.1 Repealed by Session Laws 2006-69, s. 1, effective July 10, 2006
- § 115C-141 Repealed by Session Laws 2006-69, s. 1, effective July 10, 2006
- § 115C-142 Repealed by Session Laws 2006-69, s. 1, effective July 10, 2006
- § 115C-143 Repealed by Session Laws 1981 (Regular Session, 1982), c. 1282, s. 29
- § 115C-144 Repealed by Session Laws 1997-18, s. 7
- § 115C-145 Repealed by Session Laws 2006-69, s. 1, effective July 10, 2006
- § 115C-146 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-146.1 through 115C-146.4 Repealed by Session Laws 2006-69, s. 1, effective July 10, 2006
- § 115C-147 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-148 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 9A - Children with Chemical Dependency.
Article 9B - Academically or Intellectually Gifted Students.
- § 115C-150.5 Academically or intellectually gifted students
The General Assembly believes the public schools should challenge all students to aim for academic excellence and that academically or intellectually gifted students perform or...
- § 115C-150.6 State Board of Education responsibilities
In order to implement this Article, the State Board of Education shall: (1) Develop and disseminate guidelines for developing local plans under G.S. 115C‑150.7(a). These...
- § 115C-150.7 Local plans
(a) Each local board of education shall develop a local plan designed to identify and establish a procedure for providing appropriate educational services to each...
- § 115C-150.8 Review of Disagreements
In the event that the procedure developed under G.S. 115C‑150.7(b)(7) fails to resolve a disagreement, the parent or guardian may file a petition for a...
Article 10 - Vocational and Technical Education.
- § 115C-151 Statement of purpose
It is the intent of the General Assembly that vocational and technical education be an integral part of the educational process. The State Board of...
- § 115C-152 Definitions
The State Board of Education shall provide appropriate definitions to vocational and technical education programs, services, and activities in grades 6‑12 not otherwise included in...
- § 115C-153 Administration of vocational and technical education
The State Board of Education shall be the sole State agency for the State administration of vocational and technical education at all levels, shall be...
- § 115C-154 Duties of the State Board of Education
In carrying out its duties, the State Board of Education shall develop and implement any policies, rules, regulations, and procedures as necessary to ensure vocational...
- § 115C-154.1 Approval of local vocational and technical education plans or applications
The State Board of Education shall not approve any local vocational and technical education plans or applications unless: (1) The programs are in accordance with...
- § 115C-154.2 Vocational and technical education equipment standards
The State Board of Education shall develop equipment standards for each vocational and technical education program level and shall assist local school administrative units in...
- § 115C-155 Acceptance of benefits of federal vocational acts
The State of North Carolina, through the State Board of Education, may accept all the provisions and benefits of acts passed by the Congress of...
- § 115C-156 State funds for vocational and technical education
It is the intent of the General Assembly of North Carolina to appropriate funds for each fiscal year to support the purposes of vocational and...
- § 115C-156.1 Repealed by Session Laws 1993, c. 180, s. 3
- § 115C-157 Responsibility of local boards of education
Each local school administrative unit, shall provide free appropriate vocational and technical education instruction, activities, and services in accordance with the provisions of this Part...
- § 115C-158 Federal funds division
The division between secondary and post‑secondary educational systems and institutions of federal funds for which the State Board of Vocational and Technical Education has responsibility...
- § 115C-159 Statement of purpose
It is the intent of the General Assembly that practical work experiences within the school and outside the school, which are valuable to students and...
- § 115C-160 Definitions
The State Board of Education shall provide appropriate definitions necessary to this part of vocational and technical education instruction not otherwise included in this Part....
- § 115C-161 Duties of the State Board of Education
The State Board of Education is authorized and directed to establish, maintain, and implement such policies, rules, regulations, and procedures not in conflict with State...
- § 115C-162 Use of proceeds derived from production work
Unless elsewhere authorized in these statutes, local boards of education shall deposit to the appropriate school account, no later than the end of the next...
- § 115C-163 Acquisition of land for agricultural education instructional programs
Local boards of education may acquire by gift, purchase, or lease for not less than the useful life of any project to be conducted upon...
- § 115C-164 Building trades training
In the establishment and implementation of production work experience policies, the State Board of Education shall be guided as follows: (1) Local boards of education...
- § 115C-165 Advisory committee on production work activities
The board of education of each local school administrative unit in which the proposed production work activities are to be undertaken shall appoint appropriate advisory...
- § 115C-166 Eye protection devices required in certain courses
The governing board or authority of any public or private school or educational institution within the State, wherein shops or laboratories are conducted providing instructional...
- § 115C-167 Visitors to wear eye safety devices
Visitors to such shops and laboratories shall be furnished with and required to wear such eye safety devices while such programs are in progress. (1977,...
- § 115C-168 "Industrial-quality eye protective devices" defined
"Industrial‑quality eye protective devices", as used in G.S. 115C‑166, means devices meeting the standards of the U.S.A. Standard Practice for Occupational and Educational Eye and...
- § 115C-169 Corrective-protective devices
In those cases where corrective‑protective devices that require prescription ophthalmic lenses are necessary, such devices shall only be supplied by those persons licensed by the...
- § 115C-170 through 115C-174 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 10A - Testing.
Article 11 - High School Competency Testing.
Article 12 - Statewide Testing Program.
Article 13 - Community Schools Act.
- § 115C-203 Title of Article
This Article shall be known and may be cited as the "Community Schools Act." (1977, c. 682; 1981, c. 423, s. 1.)
- § 115C-204 Purpose of Article
The purpose of this Article is to encourage greater community involvement in the public schools and greater community use of public school facilities. To this...
- § 115C-205 Definitions
As used in this Article: (1) The term "community schools advisory council" means a committee of citizens organized to advise community school coordinators, administrators, and...
- § 115C-206 State Board of Education; duties; responsibilities
The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall prepare and present to the State Board of Education recommendations for general guidelines for encouraging increased community involvement in...
- § 115C-207 Authority and responsibility of local boards of education
Every local board of education that uses State funds to implement programs under this Article shall: (1) Develop programs and plans for increased community involvement...
- § 115C-208 Community schools advisory councils; duties; responsibilities; membership
Every local board of education that establishes a community schools program under this Article may establish one or more community schools advisory councils which may...
- § 115C-209 Community schools coordinators
Every local board of education may employ one or more community schools coordinators and shall establish the terms and conditions of their employment. Community schools...
- § 115C-209.1 Nondisclosure of certain volunteer records
(a) The records comprising a volunteer file of a local school administrative unit are not public records as provided in Chapter 132 of the General...
Article 13A - State Advisory Council on Indian Education.
- § 115C-210 Council established
There is hereby established an advisory council to the State Board of Education to be known as the "State Advisory Council on Indian Education". (1987...
- § 115C-210.1 Membership – How appointed
The Council shall consist of 15 members, as follows: (1) Two legislative members (one senator appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and...
- § 115C-210.2 Term of office
The Legislative members, the higher education members, and the member from the North Carolina Commission on Indian Affairs shall serve for an unspecified term at...
- § 115C-210.3 Organization, meetings, and compensation
(a) At its initial meeting, the Council shall elect a chairperson from its membership. (b) The Council shall meet in space to be provided by...
- § 115C-210.4 Duties of the Council
It shall be the duty of the Advisory Council: (1) To advise the State Board of Education on ways to meet more effectively the educational...
- § 115C-211 through 115C-214 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 14 - Driver Education.
Article 15 - North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.
Article 16 - Optional Programs.
- § 115C-230 Special projects
Local boards of education are authorized to sponsor or conduct educational research and special projects pursuant to the provisions of G.S. 115C‑47(8). (1981, c. 423,...
- § 115C-231 Adult education programs; tuition; limitation of enrollment of pupils over 21
(a) When in the judgment of the State Board of Education a program of adult education should be established as a part of the public...
- § 115C-232 Local financing of summer schools
Supplementary funds authorized in special tax elections for school purposes may be used to establish and maintain summer schools, as provided in G.S. 115C‑501(a). (1981,...
- § 115C-233 Operation of summer schools
Each local school administrative unit may establish and maintain summer schools. Such summer schools as may be established shall be administered by local boards of...
- § 115C-234 through 115C-238 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-238.1 through 115C-238.4 Recodified as §§ 115C-105.20 through 115C-105.35
- § 115C-238.5 Repealed by Session Laws 1995, c. 450, s. 14
- § 115C-238.6 through 115C-238.8 Recodified as §§ 115C-105.29 through 115C-105.32
- § 115C-238.9 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-238.10 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-238.11 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-238.12 through 115C-238.19 Repealed by Session Laws 1995, c. 324, s. 17.2
- § 115C-238.20 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-238.21 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-238.22 through 115C-238.25 Repealed by Session Laws 1997-18, s. 8
- § 115C-238.26 through 115C-238.29 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-238.29A Purpose
The purpose of this Part is to authorize a system of charter schools to provide opportunities for teachers, parents, pupils, and community members to establish...
- § 115C-238.29B Eligible applicants; contents of applications; submission of applications for approval
(a) Any person, group of persons, or nonprofit corporation seeking to establish a charter school may apply to establish a charter school. If the applicant...
- § 115C-238.29C Preliminary approval of applications for charter schools
(a) The chartering entity that receives a request for preliminary approval of a charter school shall act on each request received prior to November 1...
- § 115C-238.29D Final approval of applications for charter schools
(a) The State Board shall grant final approval of an application if it finds that the application meets the requirements set out in this Part...
- § 115C-238.29E Charter school operation
(a) A charter school that is approved by the State shall be a public school within the local school administrative unit in which it is...
- § 115C-238.29F General requirements
(a) Health and Safety Standards. A charter school shall meet the same health and safety requirements required of a local school administrative unit. The Department...
- § 115C-238.29G Causes for nonrenewal or termination; disputes
(a) The State Board of Education, or a chartering entity subject to the approval of the State Board of Education, may terminate or not renew...
- § 115C-238.29H State and local funds for a charter school
(a) The State Board of Education shall allocate to each charter school: (1) An amount equal to the average per pupil allocation for average daily...
- § 115C-238.29I Notice of the charter school process; review of charter schools; Charter School Advisory Committee
(a) The State Board of Education shall distribute information announcing the availability of the charter school process described in this Part to each local school...
- § 115C-238.29J Public and private assistance to charter schools
(a) Local boards of education are authorized and encouraged to provide administrative and evaluative support to charter schools located within their local school administrative units....
- § 115C-238.29K Criminal history checks
(a) As used in this section: (1) "Criminal history" means a county, state, or federal criminal history of conviction of a crime, whether a misdemeanor...
- § 115C-238.30 Purpose
The General Assembly believes that all children can learn. It is the intent of the General Assembly that the mission of the public school community...
- § 115C-238.31 Extended services programs
(a) Local school administrative units are encouraged to implement extended services programs that will expand students' opportunities for educational success through high‑quality, integrated access to...
- § 115C-238.32 Needs assessment; community-based collaboration
(a) Before implementing an extended services program, the local school administrative unit shall conduct a needs assessment within the unit and in collaboration with local...
- § 115C-238.33 Plan for effective use of fiscal resources; comprehensive plan to implement extended services programs
(a) The State Board of Education shall develop model plans which show how to (i) deliver comprehensive extended services; (ii) effectively use all fiscal resources,...
- § 115C-238.34 through 115C-238.39 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-238.40 through 115C-238.47 Repealed by Session Laws 1995, c. 450, s. 16
- § 115C-238.50 Purpose
(a) The purpose of this Part is to authorize local boards of education to jointly establish with one or more boards of trustees cooperative innovative...
- § 115C-238.50A Definitions
The following definitions apply in this Part: (1) Constituent institution. A constituent institution as defined in G.S. 116‑2(4). (2) Education partner. An education partner as...
- § 115C-238.51 Application process
(a) A local board of education and at least one local board of trustees shall jointly apply to establish a cooperative innovative high school program...
- § 115C-238.52 Participation by other education partners
(a) Any or all of the following education partners may participate in the development of a cooperative innovative program under this Part that is targeted...
- § 115C-238.53 Program operation
(a) A program approved by the State is accountable to the local board of education. (b) A program approved under this Part shall operate under...
- § 115C-238.54 Funds for programs
(a) The Department of Public Instruction shall assign a school code for each program that is approved under this Part. All positions and other State...
- § 115C-238.55 Evaluation of programs
The State Board of Education and the governing Boards shall evaluate the success of students in programs approved under this Part. Success shall be measured...
Article 17 - Supporting Services.
- § 115C-239 Authority of local boards of education
Each local board of education is hereby authorized to acquire, own, lease, contract and operate school buses for the transportation of pupils enrolled in the...
- § 115C-240 Authority and duties of State Board of Education
(a) The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules and regulations for the operation of a public school transportation system. (b) The State Board of...
- § 115C-241 Assignment of school buses to schools
The superintendent of the schools of each local school administrative unit which shall elect to operate a school bus transportation system, shall, prior to the...
- § 115C-242 Use and operation of school buses
Public school buses may be used for the following purposes only, and it shall be the duty of the superintendent of the school of each...
- § 115C-243 Use of school buses by senior citizen groups
(a) Any local board of education may enter into agreements with the governing body of any county, city, or town, or with any State agency,...
- § 115C-244 Assignment of pupils to school buses
(a) The superintendent or superintendent's designee shall assign the pupils and employees who may be transported to and from school upon the bus or buses...
- § 115C-245 School bus drivers; monitors; safety assistants
(a) Each local board, which elects to operate a school bus transportation system, shall employ the necessary drivers for such school buses. The drivers shall...
- § 115C-246 School bus routes
(a) The superintendent of the local school administrative unit shall, prior to the commencement of each regular school year, prepare a plan for a definite...
- § 115C-247 Purchase of activity buses by local boards
The several local boards of education in the State are hereby authorized and empowered to take title to school buses purchased with local or community...
- § 115C-248 Inspection of school buses and activity buses; report of defects by drivers; discontinuing use until defects remedied
(a) The superintendent of each local school administrative unit, shall cause each school bus owned or operated by such local school administrative unit to be...
- § 115C-249 Purchase and maintenance of school buses, materials and supplies
(a) (Effective until June 1, 2008) To the extent that the funds shall be made available to it for such purpose, a local board of...
- § 115C-250 Authority to expend funds for transportation of children with disabilities
(a) The State Board of Education and local boards of education may expend public funds for transportation of children with disabilities who are unable because...
- § 115C-251 Transportation supervisors
The State Board of Education shall from time to time adopt such rules and regulations with regard to the qualifications of persons employed by local...
- § 115C-252 Aid in lieu of transportation
(a) When, by reason of road conditions or otherwise, any local board of education, which shall elect to operate a school bus transportation system, shall...
- § 115C-253 (Effective until June 1, 2008) Contracts for transportation
Any local board of education may, in lieu of the operation by it of public school buses, enter into a contract with any person, firm...
- § 115C-254 Use of school buses by State militia or national guard
When requested to do so by the Governor, the board of education of any local school administrative unit is authorized and directed to furnish a...
- § 115C-255 Liability insurance and waiver of immunity as to certain acts of bus drivers
The securing of liability insurance and the waiver of immunity as to certain torts of school bus drivers, school transportation service vehicle drivers and school...
- § 115C-256 School bus drivers under Workers' Compensation Act
Awards to school bus drivers under the Workers' Compensation Act shall be made pursuant to the provisions of G.S. 115C‑ 337(b). (1981, c. 423, s.
- § 115C-257 Attorney General to pay claims
The Attorney General is hereby authorized to pay reasonable medical expenses, not to exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000), incurred within one year from the date...
- § 115C-258 Provisions regarding payment
The claims authorized herein may be paid, regardless of whether the injury received by the pupil was due to negligence on the part of the...
- § 115C-259 Claims must be filed within one year
The right to payment as authorized herein shall be forever barred unless a claim be filed with the Attorney General within one year after the...
- § 115C-260, 115C-261 Repealed by Session Laws 1981, c. 576, s. 2
- § 115C-262 Liability insurance and tort liability
Liability insurance and tort liability of local boards of education for actions arising out of activities conducted pursuant to this Part, are subject to the...
- § 115C-263 Required provision of services
As a part of the function of the public school system, local boards of education shall provide to the extent practicable school food services in...
- § 115C-264 Operation
(a) In the operation of their public school nutrition programs, the public schools shall participate in the National School Lunch Program established by the federal...
- § 115C-264.1 Preference to high-calcium foods and beverages in purchasing contracts
(a) In addition to any requirements established by the United States Department of Agriculture under the National School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Program, or...
- § 115C-264.2 Vending machine sales
(a) Each school may, with the approval of the local board of education, sell to students beverages in vending machines during the school day so...
- § 115C-264.3 Child Nutrition Program standards
The State Board of Education, in direct consultation with a cross section of local directors of child nutrition services, shall establish statewide nutrition standards for...
- § 115C-265 Rules and regulations for distribution of library/media personnel funds; employment of personnel
(a) The State Board of Education is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations for the distribution of library/media personnel funds, on the basis of average...
- § 115C-266 through 115C-270 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 18 - Superintendents.
- § 115C-271 Selection by local board of education, term of office
(a) It is the policy of the State that each local board of education has the sole discretion to elect a superintendent of schools. However,...
- § 115C-272 Residence, oath of office, and salary of superintendent
(a) Every superintendent shall reside in the county in which he is employed. The superintendent shall not teach, nor be regularly employed in any other...
- § 115C-273 Salary schedule for superintendents
Every local board of education may adopt, as to assistant or associate superintendents not paid out of State funds, a salary schedule similar to the...
- § 115C-274 Removal
(a) Local boards of education are authorized to remove a superintendent who is guilty of immoral or disreputable conduct or who shall fail or refuse...
- § 115C-275 Vacancies in office of superintendent
In case of vacancy by death, resignation, or otherwise, in the office of a superintendent, such vacancy shall be filled by the local board of...
- § 115C-276 Duties of superintendent
(a) In General. All acts of local boards of education, not in conflict with State law, shall be binding on the superintendent, and it shall...
- § 115C-277 Office, equipment, and clerical assistance to be provided by board
It shall be the duty of the various boards of education to provide the superintendent of schools with an appropriate office. Likewise, it shall be...
- § 115C-278 Assistant superintendent and associate superintendent
Local boards of education shall have authority to employ an assistant superintendent, in addition to those that may be furnished by the State when, in...
- § 115C-279 through 115C-283 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 19 - Principals and Supervisors.
- § 115C-284 Method of selection and requirements
(a) Principals and supervisors shall be elected by the local boards of education upon the recommendation of the superintendent, in accordance with the provisions of...
- § 115C-285 Salary
(a) Principals and supervisors shall be paid promptly when their salaries are due provided the legal requirements for their employment and service have been met....
- § 115C-286.1 Evaluations of principals
Local school administrative units shall evaluate all principals and assistant principals at least once each year. Either the superintendent or the superintendent's designee shall conduct...
- § 115C-287 Repealed by Session Laws 1993, c. 210, s. 5
- § 115C-287.1 Method of employment of principals, assistant principals, supervisors, and directors
(a) (1) Beginning July 1, 1995, all persons employed as school administrators shall be employed pursuant to this section. (2) Notwithstanding G.S. 115C‑287.1(a)(1), the following...
- § 115C-288 Powers and duties of principal
(a) To Grade and Classify Pupils. The principal shall have authority to grade and classify pupils. In determining the appropriate grade for a pupil who...
- § 115C-289 Assignment of principal's duties to assistant or acting principal; duties of State-funded assistant principals
(a) Any duty or responsibility assigned to a principal by statute, State Board of Education regulation, or by the superintendent may, with the approval of...
- § 115C-290 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 19A - Standards Board for Public School Administration.
Article 20 - Teachers.
- § 115C-295 Minimum age and certificate prerequisites
(a) All teachers employed in the public schools of the State or in schools receiving public funds, shall be required either to hold or be...
- § 115C-295.1 North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards Commission
(a) There is created the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards Commission (the "Commission"). The Commission shall be located administratively under the State Board of Education...
- § 115C-295.2 Powers and duties of the Commission
(a) The North Carolina Teaching Standards Commission shall: (1) Develop and recommend to the State Board of Education professional standards or revisions to professional standards...
- § 115C-295.3 Repealed by Session Laws 1999-96, s. 6
- § 115C-296 Board sets certification requirements
(a) The State Board of Education shall have entire control of certifying all applicants for teaching positions in all public elementary and high schools of...
- § 115C-296.1 Expired
- § 115C-296.2 National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification
(a) State Policy. It is the goal of the State to provide opportunities and incentives for good teachers to become excellent teachers and to retain...
- § 115C-296.3 Expired June 30, 2004, by operation of Session Laws 2003-284, s. 7.20(h)
- § 115C-296.4 North Carolina Teacher Academy Board of Trustees
(a) The North Carolina Teacher Academy Board of Trustees shall establish a statewide network of high quality, integrated, comprehensive, collaborative, and substantial professional development for...
- § 115C-297 Repealed by Session Laws 1989, c. 385, s. 2
- § 115C-298 Repealed by Session Laws 1997-18, s. 9
- § 115C-299 Hiring of teachers
(a) In the city administrative units, teachers shall be elected by the board of education of such administrative unit upon the recommendation of the superintendent...
- § 115C-300 In-service training
Local boards of education are authorized to provide for the professional growth of teachers while in service and to pass rules and regulations requiring teachers...
- § 115C-301 Allocation of teachers; class size
(a) Request for Funds. The State Board of Education, based upon the reports of local boards of education and such other information as the State...
- § 115C-301.1 Duty-free instructional planning time
All full‑time assigned classroom teachers shall be provided duty‑free instructional planning time during regular student contact hours. The duty‑free instructional planning time shall be provided...
- § 115C-302 Repealed by Session Laws 1997-443, s. 8.38(d)
- § 115C-302.1 Salary
(a) Prompt Payment. Teachers shall be paid promptly when their salaries are due provided the legal requirements for their employment and service have been met....
- § 115C-302.2 Repealed by Session Laws 2003-358, s. 1, effective January 1, 2004
- § 115C-303 Withholding of salary
(a) No teacher shall be placed on the payroll of a local school administrative unit unless he holds a certificate as required by law, and...
- § 115C-304 Teacher tenure
Tenure of teachers shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 115C‑325. (1981, c. 423, s. 1.)
- § 115C-305 Repealed by Session Laws 2001-260, s. 2
- § 115C-306 Repealed by Session Laws 1983, c. 770, s. 16
- § 115C-307 Duties of teachers
(a) To Maintain Order and Discipline. It shall be the duty of all teachers, including student teachers, substitute teachers, voluntary teachers, and teacher assistants when...
- § 115C-308 Rules for teacher's conduct
The conduct of teachers, the kind of reports they shall make, and their duties in the care of school property are subject to the rules...
- § 115C-309 Student teachers
(a) Student Teacher and Student Teaching Defined. A "student teacher" is any student enrolled in an institution of higher education approved by the State Board...
- § 115C-310 Teacher assistants engaged in student teaching
The State Board of Education shall adopt a program to facilitate the process by which teacher assistants may become teachers. Teacher assistants who participate in...
- § 115C-311 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-312 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-313 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-314 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 21 - Other Employees.
- § 115C-315 Hiring of school personnel
(a) Janitors and Maids. In the city administrative units, janitors and maids shall be appointed by the board of education of such local school administrative...
- § 115C-316 Salary and vacation
(a) School officials and other employees shall be paid promptly when their salaries are due provided the legal requirements for their employment and service have...
- § 115C-317 Penalty for making false reports or records
Any school employee of the public schools other than a superintendent, principal, or teacher, who knowingly and willfully makes or procures another to make any...
- § 115C-317.1 School social workers and transporting students
A school social worker shall not be required to transport students without the existence of a written job description or local board policy that imposes...
- § 115C-318 Liability insurance for nonteaching public school personnel
The State Board of Education shall provide funds for liability insurance for nonteaching public school personnel to the extent that such personnel's salaries are funded...
Article 21A - Privacy of Employee Personnel Records.
Article 22 - General Regulations.
- § 115C-323 Employee health certificate
(a) Any person initially employed in a public school or reemployed in a public school after an absence of more than one school year shall...
- § 115C-324 Disposition of payment due employees at time of death
In the event of the death of any superintendent, teacher, principal, or other school employee to whom payment is due for or in connection with...
- § 115C-325 System of employment for public school teachers
(a) Definition of Terms. As used in this section unless the context requires otherwise: (1) Repealed by Session Laws 1997‑221, s. 13(a). (1a) "Career employee"...
- § 115C-326 Repealed by Session Laws 1998-5, s. 3
- § 115C-326.1 Repealed by Session Laws 1985, c. 479, s. 52
- § 115C-326.5 Job sharing by school employees
(a) The General Assembly finds that there is a shortage of qualified public school employees available in certain geographical areas of the State. The elimination...
- § 115C-327 through 115C-329 Repealed by Session Laws 1997-18, s. 10
- § 115C-330 Employment of handicapped
The Board and each local educational agency shall make positive efforts to employ and advance in employment qualified handicapped individuals. (1977, c. 927, s. 1;...
- § 115C-331 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-332 School personnel criminal history checks
(a) As used in this section: (1) "Criminal history" means a county, state, or federal criminal history of conviction of a crime, whether a misdemeanor...
- § 115C-333 Evaluation of certified employees including certain superintendents; action plans; State board notification upon dismissal of employees
(a) Annual Evaluations; Low‑Performing Schools. Local school administrative units shall evaluate at least once each year all certified employees assigned to a school that has...
- § 115C-334 Assessment teams
The State Board shall develop guidelines for local boards to use to create assessment teams. A local board shall assign an assessment team to every...
- § 115C-335 Development of performance standards and criteria for certified employees; training and remediation programs
(a) Development of Performance Standards. The State Board, in consultation with local boards of education, shall revise and develop uniform performance standards and criteria to...
- § 115C-335.1 through 115C-335.4 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-335.5 Policies addressing harassment of school employees; protection against retaliation for reporting harassment
(a) Each local board of education may adopt a policy addressing the sexual harassment of local board employees by students, other local board employees, or...
Article 23 - Employment Benefits.
- § 115C-336 Sick leave
(a) All public school employees shall be permitted a minimum of five days per school term of sick leave, pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated...
- § 115C-336.1 Parental leave
A school employee may use annual leave or leave without pay to care for a newborn child or for a child placed with the employee...
- § 115C-337 Workers' compensation for school employees
(a) Workers' Compensation Act Applicable to School Employees. The provisions of the Workers' Compensation Act shall be applicable to all school employees, and the State...
- § 115C-338 Salaries for employees injured during an episode of violence
(a) For the purpose of this section, "employee" shall mean any teacher, helping teacher, librarian, principal, supervisor, superintendent of public schools or any full‑time employee,...
- § 115C-339 Retirement plan
Provisions for retirement plans for public school employees may be found in Chapter 135 of the General Statutes. (1981, c. 423, s. 1.)
- § 115C-340 Health insurance
(a) The State Board of Education may authorize and empower any local board of education, the board of trustees of any community college, or other...
- § 115C-341 Annuity contracts
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Chapter for the adoption of State and local salary schedules for the pay of teachers, principals, superintendents, and other school...
- § 115C-341.1 Flexible Compensation Plan
Notwithstanding any other provisions of law relating to the salaries of employees of local boards of education, the State Board of Education is authorized to...
- § 115C-342 Group insurance and credit unions
(a) The State Board of Education may authorize and empower any local board of education, the board of trustees of any community college, or other...
- § 115C-343 Payroll savings plan for purchase of United States bonds
(a) The State Board of Education may authorize any local school administrative school unit within the State to establish a voluntary payroll deduction plan for...
- § 115C-344 through 115C-348 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 24 - Interstate Agreement on Qualifications of Educational Personnel.
- § 115C-349 Purpose, findings, and policy
(a) The states party to this agreement, desiring by common action to improve their respective school systems by utilizing the teacher or other professional educational...
- § 115C-350 Definitions
As used in this agreement and contracts made pursuant to it, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) "Accept" or any variant thereof, means to...
- § 115C-351 Interstate educational personnel contracts
(a) The designated state official of a party state may make one or more contracts on behalf of his state with one or more other...
- § 115C-352 Approved and accepted programs
(a) Nothing in this agreement shall be construed to repeal or otherwise modify any law or regulation of a party state relating to the approval...
- § 115C-353 Interstate cooperation
The party states agree that: (1) They will, so far as practicable, prefer the making of multilateral contracts pursuant to G.S. 115C‑351 of this agreement....
- § 115C-354 Agreement evaluation
The designated state officials of any party state(s) may meet from time to time as a group to evaluate progress under the agreement, and to...
- § 115C-355 Other arrangements
Nothing in this agreement shall be construed to prevent or inhibit other arrangements or practices of any party state or states to facilitate the interchange...
- § 115C-356 Effect and withdrawal
(a) This agreement shall become effective when enacted into law by two states. Thereafter it shall become effective as to any state upon its enactment...
- § 115C-357 Construction and severability
This agreement shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes thereof. The provisions of this agreement shall be severable and if any phrase,...
- § 115C-358 Designated state official
For the purposes of the agreement set forth in this Article the "designated state official" for this State shall be the Superintendent of Public Instruction....
- § 115C-359 through 115C-361 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 24A - Certified Personnel Evaluation Pilot Program.
Article 24B - Career Development Pilot Program.
Article 24C - Teacher Enhancement Program
Article 24D - Lead Teacher Pilot Program.
Article 25 - Admission and Assignment of Students.
- § 115C-364 Admission requirements
(a) A child who is presented for enrollment at any time during the first 120 days of a school year is entitled to initial entry...
- § 115C-365 Repealed by Session Laws 1991, c. 719, s. 1
- § 115C-366 Assignment of student to a particular school
(a) All students under the age of 21 years who are domiciled in a school administrative unit who have not been removed from school for...
- § 115C-366.1 Local boards of education; tuition charges
(a) Local boards of education may charge tuition to the following persons: (1) Persons of school age who are not domiciliaries of the State. (2)...
- § 115C-366.2 Repealed by Session Laws 2006-65, s. 2, effective July 1, 2006
- § 115C-367 Assignment on certain bases prohibited
No person shall be refused admission to or be excluded from any public school in this State on account of race, creed, color or national...
- § 115C-368 Notice of assignment
In exercising the authority conferred by G.S. 115C‑366(b), each local board of education may, in making assignments of pupils, give individual written notice of assignment,...
- § 115C-369 Application for reassignment; notice of disapproval; hearing before board
(a) The parent or guardian of any child, or the person standing in loco parentis to any child, who is dissatisfied with the assignment made...
- § 115C-370 Judicial review of board's decision
A decision of a local board under G.S. 115C‑369 is final and, except as provided in this section, is subject to judicial review in accordance...
- § 115C-371 Assignment to special education programs
Assignment of students to special education programs is subject to Article 9 of this Chapter. (1981, c. 423, s. 1; 2006‑69, s. 3(k).)
- § 115C-372 Assignment to school bus
Assignment of students to school buses is subject to the provisions of G.S. 115C‑244. (1981, c. 423, s. 1.)
- § 115C-373 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-374 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 115C-375 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 25A - Special Medical Needs of Students.
Article 26 - Attendance.
- § 115C-378 Children required to attend
Every parent, guardian or other person in this State having charge or control of a child between the ages of seven and 16 years shall...
- § 115C-379 Method of enforcement
It shall be the duty of the State Board of Education to formulate the rules that may be necessary for the proper enforcement of the...
- § 115C-380 Penalty for violation
Except as otherwise provided in G.S. 115C‑379, any parent, guardian or other person violating the provisions of this Part shall be guilty of a Class...
- § 115C-381 School social workers; reports; prosecutions
The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall prepare such rules and procedures and furnish such blanks for teachers and other school officials as may be necessary...
- § 115C-382 Investigation of indigency
If affidavit shall be made by the parent of a child or by any other person that any child who is required to attend school...
- § 115C-383 Attendance of deaf and blind children
(a) Deaf Children and Blind Children to Attend School; Age Limits; Minimum Attendance. Every deaf child and every blind child between the ages of six...
- § 115C-384 Student records and fees
(a) In General. The local board of education has the power to regulate fees, charges and solicitations subject to the provisions of G.S. 115C‑47(6). (b)...
- § 115C-385 through 115C-389 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 27 - Discipline.
- § 115C-390 School personnel may use reasonable force
Except as restricted or prohibited by rules adopted by the local boards of education, principals, teachers, substitute teachers, voluntary teachers, and teacher assistants and student...
- § 115C-391 Corporal punishment, suspension, or expulsion of pupils
(a) Local boards of education shall adopt policies not inconsistent with the provisions of the Constitutions of the United States and North Carolina, governing the...
- § 115C-391.1 Permissible use of seclusion and restraint
(a) It is the policy of the State of North Carolina to: (1) Promote safety and prevent harm to all students, staff, and visitors in...
- § 115C-392 Appeal of disciplinary measures
Appeals of disciplinary measures are subject to the provisions of G.S. 115C‑45(c). (1981, c. 423, s. 1.)
- § 115C-393 through 115C-397 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 27A - Management and Placement of Disruptive Students.
Article 28 - Student Liability.
Article 29 - Protective Provisions and Maintenance of Student Records.
Article 29A - Policy Prohibiting Use of Tobacco Products.
Article 30 - Financial Powers of the State Board of Education.
- § 115C-408 Funds under control of the State Board of Education
(a) It is the policy of the State of North Carolina to create a public school system that graduates good citizens with the skills demanded...
- § 115C-409 Power to accept federal funds and aid
(a) The Board is authorized to accept, receive, use or reallocate to local school administrative units any federal funds, or aids, that may be appropriated...
- § 115C-410 Power to accept gifts and grants
The Board is authorized to accept, receive, use, or reallocate to local school administrative units any gifts, donations, grants, bequests, or other forms of voluntary...
- § 115C-411 Authority to invest school funds
The Board is authorized to direct the State Treasurer to invest in interest‑bearing securities any funds which may come into its possession, and which it...
- § 115C-412 Power to purchase at mortgage sales
The State Board of Education is authorized to purchase at public sale any land upon which it has a mortgage or deed of trust securing...
- § 115C-413 Power to adjust debts
The State Board of Education is hereby authorized and empowered to settle, compromise or otherwise adjust any indebtedness due it upon the purchase price of...
- § 115C-414 State Board as successor to powers of abolished commissions and boards
The Board shall succeed to all the powers and trusts of the president and directors of the Literary Fund of North Carolina; and to all...
- § 115C-415 Repealed by Session Laws 1997-18, s. 15(l)
- § 115C-416 Power to allot funds for teachers and other personnel
The Board shall have power to provide for the enrichment and strengthening of educational opportunities for the children of the State, and when sufficient State...
- § 115C-417 Availability of funds allocated for staff development
Funds allocated by the State Board of Education for staff development at the local level shall become available for expenditure on July 1 of each...
- § 115C-418 Repealed by Session Laws 1995, c. 450, s. 23
- § 115C-419 through 115C-421 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 31 - The School Budget and Fiscal Control Act.
- § 115C-422 Short title
This Article may be cited as "The School Budget and Fiscal Control Act." (1975, c. 437, s. 1; 1981, c. 423, s. 1.)
- § 115C-423 Definitions
The words and phrases defined in this section have the meanings indicated when used in this Article, unless the context clearly requires another meaning: (1)...
- § 115C-424 Uniform system; conflicting laws and local acts superseded
It is the intent of the General Assembly by enactment of this Article to prescribe for the public schools a uniform system of budgeting and...
- § 115C-425 Annual balanced budget resolution
(a) Each local school administrative unit shall operate under an annual balanced budget resolution adopted and administered in accordance with this Article. A budget resolution...
- § 115C-426 Uniform budget format
(a) The State Board of Education, in cooperation with the Local Government Commission, shall cause to be prepared and promulgated a standard budget format for...
- § 115C-426.1 Vending facilities
Moneys received by a local school administrative unit on account of operation of vending facilities shall be deposited, budgeted, appropriated, and expended in accordance with...
- § 115C-426.2 Joint planning
In order to promote greater mutual understanding of immediate and long‑term budgetary issues and constraints affecting public schools and county governments, local boards of education...
- § 115C-427 Preparation and submission of budget and budget message
(a) Before the close of each fiscal year, the superintendent shall prepare a budget for the ensuing year for consideration by the board of education....
- § 115C-428 Filing and publication of the budget; budget hearing
(a) On the same day that he submits the budget to the board of education, the superintendent shall file a copy of it in his...
- § 115C-429 Approval of budget; submission to county commissioners; commissioners' action on budget
(a) Upon receiving the budget from the superintendent and following the public hearing authorized by G.S. 115C‑428(b), if one is held, the board of education...
- § 115C-430 Apportionment of county appropriations among local school administrative units
If there is more than one local school administrative unit in a county, all appropriations by the county to the local current expense funds of...
- § 115C-431 Procedure for resolution of dispute between board of education and board of county commissioners
(a) If the board of education determines that the amount of money appropriated to the local current expense fund, or the capital outlay fund, or...
- § 115C-432 The budget resolution; adoption; limitations; tax levy; filing
(a) After the board of county commissioners has made its appropriations to the local school administrative unit, or after the appeal procedure set out in...
- § 115C-433 Amendments to the budget resolution; budget transfers
(a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, the board of education may amend the budget resolution at any time after its...
- § 115C-434 Interim budget
In case the adoption of the budget resolution is delayed until after July 1, the board of education shall make interim appropriations for the purpose...
- § 115C-435 School finance officer
Each local school administrative unit shall have a school finance officer who shall be appointed or designated by the superintendent of schools and approved by...
- § 115C-436 Duties of school finance officer
(a) The school finance officer shall be responsible to the superintendent for: (1) Keeping the accounts of the local school administrative unit in accordance with...
- § 115C-437 Allocation of revenues to the local school administrative unit by the county
Revenues accruing to the local school administrative unit by virtue of Article IX, Sec. 7, of the Constitution and taxes levied by or on behalf...
- § 115C-438 Provision for disbursement of State money
The deposit of money in the State treasury to the credit of local school administrative units shall be made in monthly installments, and additionally as...
- § 115C-439 Facsimile signatures
The board of education may provide by appropriate resolution for the use of facsimile signature machines, signature stamps, or similar devices in signing checks and...
- § 115C-440 Accounting system
(a) System Required. Each local school administrative unit shall establish and maintain an accounting system designed to show in detail its assets, liabilities, equities, revenues,...
- § 115C-440.1 Report on county spending on public capital outlay
(a) It is the purpose of Article 42 of Chapter 105 of the General Statutes for counties to appropriate funds generated under that Article to...
- § 115C-441 Budgetary accounting for appropriations
(a) Incurring Obligations. Except as set forth below, no obligation may be incurred by a local school administrative unit unless the budget resolution includes an...
- § 115C-441.1 Dependent care assistance program
The State Board of Education is authorized to provide eligible employees of local school administrative units a program of dependent care assistance as available under...
- § 115C-442 Fidelity bonds
(a) (Effective until July 1, 2008) The finance officer shall give a true accounting and faithful performance bond with sufficient sureties in an amount to...
- § 115C-443 Investment of idle cash
(a) A local school administrative unit may deposit at interest or invest all or part of the cash balance of any fund. The finance officer...
- § 115C-444 Selection of depository; deposits to be secured
(a) Each board of education shall designate as the official depositories of the local school administrative unit one or more banks, savings and loan associations,...
- § 115C-445 Daily deposits
Except as otherwise provided by law, all moneys collected or received by an officer, employee or agent of a local school administrative unit or an...
- § 115C-446 Semiannual reports on status of deposits and investments
Each school finance officer shall report to the Secretary of the Local Government Commission on January 1 and July 1 of each year, or such...
- § 115C-447 Annual independent audit
(a) Each local school administrative unit shall have its accounts and the accounts of individual schools therein audited as soon as possible after the close...
- § 115C-448 Special funds of individual schools
(a) The board of education shall appoint a treasurer for each school within the local school administrative unit that handles special funds. The treasurer shall...
- § 115C-449 Proceeds of insurance claims
Moneys paid to a local school administrative unit pursuant to contracts of insurance against loss of capital assets through fire or casualty shall be used...
- § 115C-450 School food services
School food services shall be included in the budget of each local school administrative unit and the State Board of Education shall provide for school...
- § 115C-451 Reports to State Board of Education; failure to comply with School Budget Act
(a) The State Board of Education shall have authority to require local school administrative units to make such reports as it may deem advisable with...
- § 115C-452 Fines and forfeitures
The clear proceeds of all penalties and forfeitures and of all fines collected in the General Court of Justice in each county shall be remitted...
- § 115C-453 through 115C-457 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 31A - Civil Penalty and Forfeiture Fund.
- § 115C-457.1 Creation of Fund; administration
(a) There is created the Civil Penalty and Forfeiture Fund. The Fund shall consist of the clear proceeds of all civil penalties, civil forfeitures, and...
- § 115C-457.2 Remittance of moneys to the Fund
The clear proceeds of all civil penalties, civil forfeitures, and civil fines that are collected by a State agency and that the General Assembly is...
- § 115C-457.3 Appropriation of moneys in the Fund
(a) The General Assembly shall appropriate moneys in the Civil Penalty and Forfeiture Fund in the Current Operations Appropriations Act. These appropriations shall be made...
Article 32 - Loans from State Literary Fund.
- § 115C-458 Loans by State Board from State Literary Fund
The State Literary Fund includes all funds derived from the sources enumerated in Sec. 6, Article IX, of the Constitution, and all funds that may...
- § 115C-459 Terms of loans
Loans made under the provisions of this Article shall be payable in 10 installments, shall bear interest at a uniform rate determined by the State...
- § 115C-460 How secured and paid
At the January meeting of the board of education, before any installment shall be due on the next tenth day of February, the local board...
- § 115C-461 Loans by county board to school districts
The county board of education, from any sum borrowed under the provisions of this Article, may make loans only to districts that shall have levied...
- § 115C-462 State Board of Education authorized to accept funding or refunding bonds of counties for loans; approval by Local Government Commission
In any case where a loan has heretofore been made from the State Literary Fund or from any special building fund of the State to...
- § 115C-463 Issuance of bonds as part of general refunding plan
In any case where the funding or refunding of interest on or the principal of such notes shall constitute a part of a refunding plan...
- § 115C-464 Validating certain funding and refunding notes of counties
The notes of any county held by the State Board of Education which were heretofore issued in exchange for and for the purpose of refunding...
- § 115C-465 Special appropriation from fund
The State Board of Education may annually set aside and use out of the funds accruing in interest to the State Literary Fund, a sum...
- § 115C-466 Loans not granted in accordance with § 115C-458
The State Board of Education, under such rules and regulations as it may adopt, may make loans from the State Literary Fund to any local...
- § 115C-467 Pledge of nontax revenues to repayment of loans from State Literary Fund
Any local board of education obtaining a loan from the State Literary Fund under the provisions of G.S. 115C‑466 may, with the approval of the...
Article 32A - Scholarship Loan Fund for Prospective Teachers.
- § 115C-468 Recodified as G.S. 116-209.33 by Session Laws 2005-276, s. 9.17(b), effective January 1, 2006, and applicable to scholarship loans awarded on or after that date
- § 115C-469, 115C-470 Repealed by Session Laws 2005-276, s. 9.17(b), effective January 1, 2006, and applicable to scholarship loans awarded on or after that date
- § 115C-471 Recodified as G.S. 116-209.34 by Session Laws 2005-276, s. 9.17(b), effective January 1, 2006, and applicable to scholarship loans awarded on or after that date
- § 115C-472 Repealed by Session Laws 1997-18, s. 11
- § 115C-472.1 Repealed by Session Laws 2005-276, s. 9.17(b), effective January 1, 2006, and applicable to scholarship loans awarded on or after that date
Article 32B - Computer Loan Revolving Fund.
Article 32C - Fund for the Reduction of Class Size in Public Schools.
Article 33 - Assumption of School District Indebtedness by Counties.
Article 34 - Refunding and Funding Bonds of School Districts.
Article 34A - Critical School Facility Needs Fund.
- § 115C-489.1, 115C-489.2 Repealed by Session Laws 1995 (Reg. Sess., 1996), c. 631, s. 14, effective 30 days after the last school administrative unit on the priority list established in 1988 by the Commission on School Facility Needs is funded
- § 115C-489.2 Repealed by Session Laws 1995 (Reg. Sess., 1996), c. 631, s. 14, effective 30 days after the last school administrative unit on the priority list established in 1988 by the Commission on School Facility Needs is funded
- § 115C-489.3 through 115C-489.4 Repealed by Session Laws 1995 (Regular Session, 1996), c. 631, s. 13
Article 34B - Qualified Zone Academy Bonds.
- § 115C-489.5 Qualified zone academy bonds; findings
The General Assembly finds: (1) Section 226 of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, as codified at 26 U.S.C. 1397E, provides funds for school improvements...
- § 115C-489.6 Administration; consultation; issuance of bonds
(a) State Board of Education to Administer Program. The State Board of Education is designated the State education agency responsible for administering the qualified zone...
Article 35 - Voluntary Endowment Fund for Public Schools.
Article 35A - College Scholarships.
- § 115C-499.1 Definitions
The following definitions apply to this Article: (1) Academic year. A period of time in which a student is expected to complete the equivalent of...
- § 115C-499.2 Eligibility requirements for a scholarship
In order to be eligible to receive a scholarship under this Article, a student seeking a degree, diploma, or certificate at an eligible postsecondary institution...
- § 115C-499.3 Scholarship amounts; amounts dependent on net income available
(a) Subject to the amount of net income available under G.S. 18C‑164(b)(2), a scholarship awarded under this Article to a student at an eligible postsecondary...
- § 115C-499.4 Scholarship administration; reporting requirements
(a) The scholarships provided for in this Article shall be administered by the Authority under rules adopted by the Authority in accordance with the provisions...
Article 36 - Voted Tax Supplements for School Purposes.
Article 37 - School Sites and Property.
- § 115C-517 Acquisition of sites
Local boards of education may acquire suitable sites for schoolhouses or other school facilities either within or without the local school administrative unit; but no...
- § 115C-518 Disposition of school property; easements and rights-of-way
(a) When in the opinion of any local board of education the use of any building site or other real property or personal property owned...
- § 115C-519 Deeds to property
All deeds to school property shall, after registration, be delivered to the superintendent of the local school administrative unit in which the property is located...
- § 115C-520 Vehicles owned by boards of education
All school buses, trucks, automobiles and other motor vehicles owned by local boards of education and used for transporting pupils to and from school or...
- § 115C-521 Erection of school buildings
(a) It shall be the duty of local boards of education to provide classroom facilities adequate to meet the requirements of G.S. 115C‑47(10) and 115C‑301....
- § 115C-522 Provision of equipment for buildings
(a) It shall be the duty of local boards of education to purchase or exchange all supplies, equipment, and materials, and these purchases shall be...
- § 115C-522.1 Repealed by Session Laws 2003-147, s. 2, effective for a local school administrative unit when the unit is certified as being E-Procurement compliant, or April 1, 2004, whichever is first
- § 115C-523 Care of school property
It shall be the duty of every teacher and principal in charge of school buildings to instruct the children in the proper care of public...
- § 115C-524 Repair of school property; use of buildings for other than school purposes
(a) Repair of school buildings is subject to the provisions of G.S. 115C‑521(c) and (d). (b) It shall be the duty of local boards of...
- § 115C-525 Fire prevention
(a) Duty of Principal Regarding Fire Hazards. The principal of every public school in the State shall have the following duties regarding fire hazards during...
- § 115C-526 Reward for information leading to arrest of persons damaging school property
Local boards of education are authorized and empowered to offer and pay rewards in an amount not exceeding three hundred dollars ($300.00) for information leading...
- § 115C-527 Use of schools and other public buildings for political meetings
The governing authority having control over schools or other public buildings which have facilities for group meetings, or where polling places are located, is hereby...
- § 115C-528 Lease purchase and installment purchase contracts for certain equipment
(a) Local boards of education may purchase or finance the purchase of automobiles; school buses; mobile classroom units; food service equipment, photocopiers; and computers, computer...
- § 115C-529 Useful life guidelines
The State Office of Information Technology Services shall develop and annually revise guidelines for determining the useful life of computers purchased under G.S. 115C‑528. The...
- § 115C-530 Operational leases of school buildings and school facilities
(a) Local boards of education may enter into operational leases of real or personal property for use as school buildings or school facilities. Operational leases...
- § 115C-531 (Repealed effective July 1, 2011) Capital leases of school buildings and school facilities
(a) Definitions. The following definitions apply in this section: (1) Capital lease. A capital lease as defined by generally accepted accounting principles, regardless of how...
- § 115C-532 (Repealed effective July 1, 2011) Additional provisions applicable to build-to-suit capital leases
(a) Definitions. The definitions of G.S. 115C‑531 apply in this section. In addition, for the purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) Build‑to‑suit...
Article 38 - State Insurance of Public School Property.
- § 115C-533 Duty of State Board to operate insurance system
The State Board shall have the duty to manage and operate a system of insurance for public school property. (1955, c. 1372, art. 2, s....
- § 115C-534 Duty to insure property
(a) The board of every local school administrative unit in the public school system of this State, in order to safeguard the investment made in...
- § 115C-535 Authority and rules for organization of system
The State Board of Education is hereby authorized, directed and empowered to establish a division to manage and operate a system of insurance for public...
- § 115C-536 Public School Insurance Fund; decrease of premiums when fund reaches five percent of total insurance in force
There shall be set up in the books of the State Treasurer a fund to be known and designated as the "Public School Insurance Fund,"...
- § 115C-537 Insurance of property by local boards; notice of election to insure and information to be furnished; outstanding policies
All local boards of education may insure all property within their units against the direct loss or damage by fire, lightning, windstorm, hail or explosions...
- § 115C-538 Inspections of insured public school properties
The State Board of Education shall provide for periodic inspections of all public school properties in the State of North Carolina insured under the provisions...
- § 115C-539 Information to be furnished prior to insuring in Fund; providing for payment of premiums
Local boards of education shall at least 30 days before insuring in the Fund, furnish to the State Board of Education a complete and detailed...
- § 115C-540 Determination and adjustment of premium rates; certificate as to insurance carried; no lapse; notice as to premiums required, and payment thereof
The State Board of Education shall determine the annual premium rate to be charged for insurance of school properties as herein provided, which said rate...
- § 115C-541 Adjustment of losses; determination and report of appraisers; payment of amounts to treasurers of local school administrative units; disbursement of funds
In the event of loss or damage by fire, lightning, windstorm, hail, or explosions resulting from defects in equipment in public school buildings and properties...
- § 115C-542 Maintenance of inspection and engineering service; cancellation of insurance
The State Board of Education is authorized and empowered to maintain an inspection and engineering service deemed by it appropriate and necessary to reduce the...
- § 115C-543 Other property insurance
The State Board of Education may adopt rules for providing property insurance on property insured by the Fund against all risks of direct physical loss...
- § 115C-544 through 115C-546 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 38A - Public School Building Capital Fund.
Article 39 - Nonpublic Schools.
- § 115C-547 Policy
In conformity with the Constitutions of the United States and of North Carolina, it is the public policy of the State in matters of education...
- § 115C-548 Attendance; health and safety regulations
Each private church school or school of religious charter shall make, and maintain annual attendance and disease immunization records for each pupil enrolled and regularly...
- § 115C-549 Standardized testing requirements
Each private church school or school of religious charter shall administer, at least once in each school year, a nationally standardized test or other nationally...
- § 115C-550 High school competency testing
To assure that all high school graduates possess those minimum skills and that knowledge thought necessary to function in society, each private church school or...
- § 115C-551 Voluntary participation in the State programs
Any such school may, on a voluntary basis, participate in any State operated or sponsored program which would otherwise be available to such school, including...
- § 115C-552 New school notice requirements; termination
(a) Any new school to which this Part relates shall send to a duly authorized representative of the State of North Carolina a notice of...
- § 115C-553 Duly authorized representative
The duly authorized representative of the State of North Carolina to whom reports of commencing operation and termination shall be made and who may inspect...
- § 115C-554 Requirements exclusive
No school, operated by any church or other organized religious group or body as part of its religious ministry, which complies with the requirements of...
- § 115C-555 Qualification of nonpublic schools
The provisions of this Part shall apply to any nonpublic school which has one or more of the following characteristics: (1) It is accredited by...
- § 115C-556 Attendance; health and safety regulations
Each qualified nonpublic school shall make, and maintain annual attendance and disease immunization records for each pupil enrolled and regularly attending classes. Attendance by a...
- § 115C-557 Standardized testing requirements
Each qualified nonpublic school shall administer, at least once in each school year, a nationally standardized test or other nationally standardized equivalent measurement selected by...
- § 115C-558 High school competency testing
To assure that all high school graduates possess those minimum skills and that knowledge thought necessary to function in society, each qualified nonpublic school shall...
- § 115C-559 Voluntary participation in the State programs
Any such school may, on a voluntary basis, participate in any State operated or sponsored program which would otherwise be available to such school, including...
- § 115C-560 New school notice requirements; termination
(a) Any new school to which this Part relates shall send to a duly authorized representative of the State of North Carolina a notice of...
- § 115C-561 Duly authorized representative
The duly authorized representative of the State of North Carolina to whom reports of commencing operation and termination shall be made and who may inspect...
- § 115C-562 Requirements exclusive
No qualifying nonpublic school, which complies with the requirements of this Part, shall be subject to any other provision of law relating to education except...
- § 115C-563 Definitions
As used in this Part or Parts 1 and 2 of this section [Article]: (a) "Home school" means a nonpublic school in which one or...
- § 115C-564 Qualifications and requirements
A home school shall make the election to operate under the qualifications of either Part 1 or Part 2 of this Article and shall meet...
- § 115C-565 Requirements exclusive
No school which complies with this Part shall be subject to any other provision of law relating to education except requirements of law respecting immunization....
- § 115C-566 Driving eligibility certificates; requirements
(a) The Secretary of Administration, upon consideration of the advice of the Division of Nonpublic Education in the Department of Administration and representatives of nonpublic...
- § 115C-567 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 40 - Propriety Schools.
