Amends GS 115C-84.2(d) to allow the State Board of Education to waive the school opening and closing dates when a local board of education applies to modify the school calendar to support implementation and operating of an education program that is (1) established in collaboration with a community college for academic transition pathways for qualified junior and senior high school students that lead to a career technical education certificate or diploma or college transfer certificates requiring the successful completion of thirty semester credit hours of transfer courses for qualified junior and senior high school students and (2) designed to align the opening and closing dates with the community college's course schedule. Allows the board to grant the waiver to the extent that it is necessary to accomplish the program's purpose and the request is not an attempt to circumvent the date requirements. Prohibits waiver requests from being used to accommodate system wide class scheduling preferences. Applies beginning with the 2013-14 school year.