SB 899 — SCHOOLS Act.

FILED SENATE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA MaySESSION 26,2021 2022S S.B.1 SENATE BILL 899 Short Title:

899 SESSION 2021 PRINCIPAL CLERK S D SENATE BILL DRS45565-NGap-108 Short Title:

Rules and Operations of the Senate May 27, 2022 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO ALLOW USE OF REMOTE INSTRUCTION FOR SCHOOL MAKEUP DAYS, TO GRANT SCHOOL CALENDAR FLEXIBILITY STATEWIDE, TO INCREASE PRINCIPAL SALARIES, TO CREATE A TUTORING FUND FROM AVAILABLE REMAINING OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS, TO LOOSEN ZONING RESTRICTIONS FOR SCHOOLS, TO RESTORE RETIREMENT BENEFITS TO STATE EMPLOYEES, AND TO MODIFY SCHOOL PERFORMANCE SCORES AND REPORT CARDS.

The required opening and closing dates under this subsection shall not apply to any school that a local board designated as having a modified calendar for the 2003-2004 school year or to any school that was part of a planned program in the 2003-2004 school year for a system of modified calendar schools, so long as the school operates under a modified calendar." *DRS45565-NGap-108**S899-v-1* General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2021 2 PART III.

(1) Between JulyJuly1, 1, 2022, and December 31, 2022, the average daily membership for the school from the 2021-2022 school year.

If the school did not have an averagedailymembershipinthe2021-2022schoolyear,theprojectedaverageaveragedailymembershipinthe2021-2022school year,theprojectedaverage daily membership for the school for the 2022-2023 school year.

SECTION 3.(c) For purposes of determining the school growth scores for each school the principal supervised in at least two of the prior three school years, school growth Page 2 DRS45565-NGap-108Senate Bill 899-First Edition General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2021 scores from the three most recent available school years, up to the 2021-2022 school year, shall be used.

SECTION 3.(d) Beginning with the 2017-2018 fiscal year, in lieu of providing annual longevity payments to principals paid on the principal salary schedule, the amounts of those longevitylongevitypayments payments are included in the annual amounts under the principal salarysalaryschedule. schedule.

The salarysalarythe the principal received in the 2016-2017 fiscal year pursuant to Section 9.1 or Section 9.2 of S.L.

SECTION 3.(f) There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction for the 2022-2023 fiscal year the additional sum of one hundred fortyfortythousand thousand dollars ($140,000) in recurring funds to implement the principal salary schedule provided for in this section.

115C-562.8,as amendedbyamendedbySection Section 8A.3(g) ofS.L.2021-105,ofS.L. reads as rewritten:

2021-105, reads as rewritten:

(a) The Opportunity Scholarship Grant Fund Reserve is established as a reserve to be administered by the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina for the purpose of allocating funds to the AuthorityAuthorityfor for the award of scholarship grants in accordance with this Part.

These funds shall be used to award DRS45565-NGap-108Senate Bill 899-First Edition Page 3 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2021 scholarship grants to eligible students for the school year that begins in the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the appropriation is made to the Reserve.

After funds are used for this purpose, any unexpended funds from the funds appropriated in a particular fiscal year to be used for the award of scholarships in the following fiscal year shall becarriedforwardforonefiscalbe carriedforwardforonefiscal year andmayandmaybe be used for thepurposes set forth in this section.

This assessment shall take into account factors that have been shown to affect student performance and that the State Board considers relevant to assess the State's efforts to improve student Page 4 DRS45565-NGap-108Senate Bill 899-First Edition General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2021 performance.

– Each local board of education shall ensure that the report card issued for it bybythe the State Board of Education receives wide distribution to thelocal press oris otherwise providedto the public.

Eachlocal board of education shall ensure that the overall school performance score achievement and growth scores and grade grades earned bybyeach each school in the local school administrative unit for the current and previous four school years is are prominentlyprominentlydisplayed displayed on the Web site of thelocal school administrative unit.

DRS45565-NGap-108Senate Bill 899-First Edition Page 5 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2021 (1) A score of at least 85 is equivalent to a school achievement grade of A.

provided that for schools serving students in grades nine through 12, the growth score shall onlyonlyinclude include growth values for measures calculated under sub-subdivisions a.

Page 6 DRS45565-NGap-108Senate Bill 899-First Edition General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2021 (3) Children with disabilities.

– In addition to awarding the overall school scores for achievement, growth, and performance and the performance grade, achievement and growth and associatedgrades,associated grades, using EVAAS, theStateBoardshall designatethataschool has met,exceeded,met, exceeded, or has not met expected growth.

DRS45565-NGap-108Senate Bill 899-First Edition Page 7 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2021 (2a) The percentage of schools receiving a school growth letter grade of A, B, C, D, or F earned bybyeach each school located within a local school administrative unit and statewide.

(5) The abilityabilityto toeasilycompare easily compare annual report card information, including school performance achievement and growth grades and whether schools have met, exceeded, or have not met expected growth, for local school administrative units and for individual schools for a time span of at least three years." SECTION 7.4.

114-95, to meaningfullymeaningfullydifferentiate differentiate the performance of schools on an annual basis.

For the purpose of compliance with federal law, the State Board of Education shall calculate the overall school performance score by adding the school achievementscoreandtheschoolgrowthscoreearnedbyaschool.achievementscoreandtheschool growthscoreearnedbyaschool.

… (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section and onlyonlyfor for the purpose of conforming with ESSA, the State Board may label measures as indicators different from those described in Page 8 DRS45565-NGap-108Senate Bill 899-First Edition General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2021 subsection (a) of this section;

(b) PlanforImprovementofLow-PerformingLocalSchoolAdministrativeUnits.–OncePlanforImprovementofLow-Performing aLocalSchoolAdministrativeUnits. local school administrative unit has been identified as low-performing under this section, the following actions shall be taken:

DRS45565-NGap-108–Once Pagea 9local Generalschool Assemblyadministrative Ofunit Northhas Carolinabeen Sessionidentified 2021as (1)low-performing Theunder superintendentthis shallsection, proceedthe underfollowing G.S.actions shall be taken:

Senate Bill 899-First Edition Page 9 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2021 (1) The superintendent shall proceed under G.S.

(3) Information about the preliminarypreliminaryplan plan developed under subsection (b) of this section and the availability of the final plan on the local school administrative unit's Web site.

This notificationalsoshallincludetheoverallschoolperformancegradeandschoolnotificationalsoshallincludetheoverallschoolperformance gradeandschool growth score the school achievement and growth scores and grades earned and an explanation of the school performance grades and school growth scores.achievement and growth scores and grades." SECTION 7.8.

A charter school shall ensure that the report card issued for it bybythe the State Board of Education receives wide distribution to the local press or is otherwise provided to the public.

If a charter school earned an overall a school Page 10 DRS45565-NGap-108Senate Bill 899-First Edition General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2021 performance achievement or growth grade of D or F, the charter school shall provide notice of the grade in writing to the parent or guardian of all students enrolled in that school." SECTION 7.9.

– A regional school shall ensure that the report card issued for it by the State Board of Education receives wide distribution to thelocal press oris otherwiseprovidedto thepublic.Aregional school shall ensure thatthe overall school performancescore achievementand growth scores and grade grades earned by the regional school for the current andpreviousfourschool yearsisareprominentlydisplayedontheschoolyearsisareprominentlydisplayedontheschoolWeb Web site.

If a regional school earned an overall a school performance achievement orgrowthor growth grade of Dor F,theregionalschool shall providenotice ofthegradeofthe grade in writing to the parent or guardian of all students enrolled in that school." SECTION 7.11.

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