Creates an exception to the required instructional time for local school administrative units (LEAs) that missed more than 20 instructional days during the 2010-11 school year due to inclement weather. Amends GS 115C-84.2(a)(1) to provide that a school calendar may include a minimum of either 180 days or 1,000 hours of instruction (was, a minimum of 180 days and 1,000 hours of instruction) covering at least nine calendar months. Allows a local board of education to comply with the school calendar requirement in the case of inclement weather by scheduling 1,000 hours of instruction on less than 180 days. Provides that an LEA making a calendar adjustment due to inclement weather meets the minimum 180-day requirement for instruction days. Also provides that teachers employed for a 10-month term are deemed to have been employed for 180 instructional days. Directs that all other employees are to be compensated as if they had worked their regularly scheduled hours for 180 instructional days.
Creates an exception to the required instructional time for charter schools that missed more than 20 instructional days during the 2010-11 school year due to inclement weather. Amends GS 115C-238.29F(d)(1) to direct a charter school to provide instruction each year for a minimum of either 180 days or 1,000 hours (was, for at least 180 days) that covers at least nine calendar months.
Applies only to the 2010-11 school year.