GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2013

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SENATE DRS35118-LE-22  (02/07)

Short Title:        Modify Duties/Advisory Council on Indian Educ.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Senator J. Davis (Primary Sponsor).
Referred to:

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to modify the duties of the State advisory council on indian education.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C-210.4 reads as rewritten:

"§ 115C-210.4.  Duties of the Council.

It shall be the duty of the Advisory Council:

(1)        To advise the State Board of Education on ways to meet more effectively the educational needs of Indian students;To review annually relevant data on Indian students using reports made available to the Council by the Department of Public Instruction. The review shall include, but not be limited to, data on academic performance, growth, suspension and expulsion events, dropouts, and graduation rates.

(2a) To advise the State Board of Education in an annual presentation on ways to meet the educational needs of Indian students more effectively.

(2)        To advocate for meaningful programs to reduce and eventually eliminate low achievement and concurrent high attrition rates among American Indian students;students.

(3) To prepare an annual report on a fiscal year basis on the status of Indian education, said report to be presented to the State Board of Education and to the various Indian tribal organizations at the statewide Indian Unity Conference;

(4)        To work closely with the Division of Indian Education in the Department of Public Instruction to improve coordination and communication between and among programs;programs.

(5)        To advise the State Board of Education on any other aspect of Indian education when requested by the State Board to do so."

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