Senate amendment #6 makes the following changes to the 3rd edition.

Amends GS 115C-75.8, concerning the selection criteria for Achievement School (AS) operators. Deletes previously specified criteria and provides that the State Board of Education may only select an entity as an AS operator if it demonstrates (1) a record of results in improving performance of persistently low-performing school or improving performance of a substantial number of persistently low-performing students within the school(s) operated by the entity in North Carolina or other states and (2) the entity has a credible and specific plan for dramatically improving student achievement in a low-performing school and provides evidence that the entity, or a contractual affiliate of such an entity, is either currently operating a school or schools in North Carolina that provide students a sound, basic education or demonstrating consistent and substantial growth toward providing students a sound, basic education in the prior three school years (previously, required a potential AS operator to demonstrate either that (1) the school(s) operated by the entity show a record of improved performance in a substantial number of persistently low-performing schools or (2) the entity has a credible and specific plan for dramatically improving student achievement in low-performing schools, along with evidence that it operated schools with such growth over the prior three years).