Bill Summary for S 517 (2015-2016)

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Mar 27 2015

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View NCGA Bill Details2015-2016 Session
Senate Bill 517 (Public) Filed Thursday, March 26, 2015
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR TEACHER ALLOTMENTS FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY ISOLATED K-12 SCHOOLS.
Intro. by J. Davis.

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Amends GS 115C-301 to direct the State Board of Education to allot additional teachers to K-12 schools that meet at least one of the following criteria for geographic isolation: (1) located in a school administrative unit (LEA) in which average daily membership is less than 1.5 per square mile or (2) located in an LEA for a county with more than 150,000 acres of federally owned National Forest managed by the U.S. Forest Service under GS 104-5. Directs the SBE to allot teachers to geographically isolated schools on the basis of one classroom teacher per grade level and to allot teachers to the rest of the LEA using the regular teacher allotment formula.

Appropriates $1,527,006 for 2015-16 and $1,527,006 for 2016-17 from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction to implement the provisions of this act.

Effective July 1, 2015.