Requires the State Board of Education (Board) and the Department of Public Instruction (Department), in collaboration with the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University (Friday Institute) and the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NC School of Science and Math), to develop recommendations to further the teaching and student learning of computational thinking and computer science in K‑12 schools. Requires, in developing recommendations, those entities to at least: (1) develop curriculum guidelines that are aligned with K-12 Computer Science Framework developed by the CSforAll Consortium, (2) review and evaluate curriculum resources, (3) develop recommendations to increase the number of teachers prepared to teach computational thinking and computer science; (4) develop policy and funding recommendations, and (5) align recommendations with the ongoing implementation of the Digital Learning Plan in North Carolina by the Department and the Friday Institute.

Requires the Board to report, by January 15, 2018, to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee on the recommendations.