North Carolina HB 194: School Calendar Flexibility/Roanoke Rapids.

Bill Text

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2015
H 1
HOUSE BILL 194

Short Title: School Calendar Flexibility/Roanoke Rapids. (Local)
Sponsors: Representative Wray (Primary Sponsor).
For a complete list of Sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly Web Site.
Referred to: Education - K-12.
March 11, 2015
*H194-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL FLEXIBILITY TO THE ROANOKE RAPIDS 2
BOARD OF EDUCATION IN ADOPTING THE SCHOOL CALENDAR. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1. G.S. 115C-84.2(d) reads as rewritten: 5
"(d) Opening and Closing Dates. – Local boards of education shall determine the dates 6
of opening and closing the public schools under subdivision (a)(1) of this section. Except for 7
year-round schools, the opening date for students shall be no earlier than the Monday closest to 8
August 26, and the closing date for students shall be no later than the Friday closest to June 11. 9
On a showing of good cause, the State Board of Education may waive the requirement that the 10
opening date for students be no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26 and may allow the 11
local board of education to set an opening date no earlier than the Monday closest to August 19, 12
to the extent that school calendars are able to provide sufficient days to accommodate 13
anticipated makeup days due to school closings. A local board may revise the scheduled 14
closing date if necessary in order to comply with the minimum requirements for instructional 15
days or instructional time. For purposes of this subsection, the term "good cause" means that 16
schools in any local school administrative unit in a county have been closed eight days per year 17
during any four of the last 10 years because of severe weather conditions, energy shortages, 18
power failures, or other emergency situations. 19
The required opening and closing dates under this subsection shall not apply to any school 20
that a local board designated as having a modified calendar for the 2003-2004 school year or to 21
any school that was part of a planned program in the 2003-2004 school year for a system of 22
modified calendar schools, so long as the school operates under a modified calendar." 23
SECTION 2. This act applies only to the Roanoke Rapids Graded School District. 24
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with 25
the 2015-2016 school year. 26