Appropriates from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction $100,000 in nonrecurring funds for 2017‑18 to be allocated to Pitt County Schools for the planning and support of the Innovation Early College High School to be established in partnership with East Carolina University. Allows the funds to be used for school construction or renovation of school property.

Appropriates from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction $316,646 in recurring funds for 2018‑19 to be allocated to Pitt County Schools for the Innovation Early College High School as a cooperative innovative high school, subject to the approval of the State Board of Education to begin operation in the 2018‑19 school year. Requires that the funds be appropriated for each fiscal year in which the cooperative innovative high school is in operation.

Effective July 1, 2017.