GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 627

HOUSE BILL 1114

 

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 12, G.S. 115C-189 TO ALLOW THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO SELECT THE TYPE OF ANNUAL TEST TO BE USED IN THE FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, SIXTH AND NINTH GRADES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 115C-189 is amended in the third sentence by changing the colon after the words "ninth grades" and before the word "Provided" to be a period, by deleting the remainder of the sentence, and by adding after the last sentence the following sentence:  "The State Board of Education shall select annually the type or types of tests to be used in the testing program.  If norm-referenced tests are used in the first or second grade, the tests shall not be used as primary, definitive or exclusive criteria to make decisions with respect to grade promotion or placement in special education programs."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 115C-191(a) is amended by changing the number "11" in the first sentence to "15", by deleting the word 'and' at the end of the third sentence, by changing the period at the end of the third sentence to a semicolon and by adding the following:

"one shall be a special education teacher in the elementary grades; one shall be a person representing a statewide parent group; and two shall be citizens of the State interested in education and not employees or spouses of employees of the State of North Carolina or of any local board of education."

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of June, 1983.