GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

S                                                                                                                                                    D

SENATE DRS15354-RJz-11A*  (04/05)

Short Title:        Four-Year Cohort Graduation Rate.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Senator Davis.
Referred to:

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to direct the State board of education to develop a growth model for establishing short-term annual goals for improving the four-year cohort graduation rate, and to establish a long-term goal of increasing the statewide four-year cohort graduation rate.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Prior to the 2010-2011 school year, the State Board of Education shall:

(1)        Develop a growth model establishing annual goals for continuous and substantial improvement in the four-year cohort graduation rate by local school administrative units.

(2)        Establish as a short-term goal that local school administrative units meet the annual growth model goals for improvement in the four-year cohort graduation rate beginning with the graduating class of 2011 and continuing annually thereafter.

(3)        Establish as a long-term goal a statewide four-year cohort graduation rate of ninety percent (90%) by 2016.

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.