GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 662
SENATE BILL 1173

AN ACT TO PERMIT THE LOCAL BOARDS OF EDUCATION OF VARIOUS COUNTIES TO SCHEDULE LONGER SCHOOL DAYS SO AS TO OFFSET DAYS LOST DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  A local board of education may schedule school days longer than the minimum required instructional hours so as to offset days lost due to inclement weather.  For the purposes of computing the length of the school term and determining pay of school personnel, every additional hour scheduled may be used to offset one hour of a school day lost due to inclement weather.
Sec. 2.  A local board of education may schedule longer school days under Section 1 of this act only after all extra calendar days required under G.S. 115C-84(c) have been scheduled to be used as instructional days.
Sec. 3.  This act applies only to the Alleghany, Buncombe, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Stokes, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey County School Administrative Units.  The local board of education in each of these counties shall evaluate the educational effectiveness of this type of scheduling and shall report the results of this evaluation to the State Board of Education for the first two years following the ratification of this act.
Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification and applies to school years beginning with the 1996-97 school year.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 21st day of June, 1996.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives