115C-105.20. School-Based Management and Accountability Program. (a) The General Assembly believes that all children can learn. It is the intent of the General Assembly that the mission of the public school community is to challenge with high expectations each child to learn, to achieve, and to fulfill his or her potential. With that mission as […]
115C-105.21. Local participation in the Program. (a) Local school administrative units shall participate in the School-Based Management and Accountability Program. (b) The School-Based Management and Accountability Program shall provide increased local control of schools with the goal of improving student performance. Local boards of education: (1) Are allowed increased flexibility in the expenditure of State […]
115C-105.25. Budget flexibility. (a) Consistent with improving student performance, a local board shall provide maximum flexibility to schools in the use of funds to enable the schools to accomplish their goals. (b) Subject to the following limitations, local boards of education may transfer and may approve transfers of funds between funding allotment categories: (1) Repealed […]
115C-105.26. Waivers of State laws or rules. (a) Except as otherwise provided for in this section, the State Board of Education shall not grant waivers of State laws or rules to local boards of education. If permitted under this section, a request for a waiver by a local board of education shall (i) identify the […]
115C-105.27. Development and approval of school improvement plans. (a) School Improvement Team. – The principal of each school, representatives of the assistant principals, instructional personnel, instructional support personnel, and teacher assistants assigned to the school building, and parents of children enrolled in the school shall constitute a school improvement team. The team shall develop a […]
115C-105.30. Distribution of staff development funds. Any funds the local board of education makes available to an individual school building to implement the school improvement plan at that school shall be used in accordance with that plan. Each local board shall distribute seventy-five percent (75%) of the funds in the staff development funding allotment to […]
115C-105.32. Parent involvement programs and conflict resolution programs as part of school improvement plans. A school is encouraged to include a comprehensive parent involvement program as part of its school improvement plan under G.S. 115C-105.27. The State Board of Education shall develop a list of recommended strategies that it determines to be effective, which building […]
115C-105.33. Safe and orderly schools. A school improvement team or a parent organization at a school may ask the local board of education to provide assistance in promoting or restoring safety and an orderly learning environment at a school. The school improvement team or parent organization shall file a copy of this request with the […]
115C-105.35. Annual performance goals. (a) The School-Based Management and Accountability Program shall (i) focus on student performance in the basics of reading, mathematics, and communications skills in elementary and middle schools, (ii) focus on student performance in courses required for graduation and on other measures required by the State Board in the high schools, and […]
115C-105.37. Identification of low-performing schools. (a) Identification of Low-Performing Schools. – The State Board of Education shall identify low-performing schools on an annual basis. Low-performing schools are those that earn an overall school performance grade of D or F and a school growth score of "met expected growth" or "not met expected growth" as defined […]
115C-105.37A. Continually low-performing schools; definition; assistance and intervention; reassignment of students. (a) Definition of Continually Low-Performing Schools. – A continually low-performing school is a school that has received State-mandated assistance and has been designated by the State Board as low performing for at least two of three consecutive years. If the State Board identifies a […]
115C-105.37B. Reform of continually low-performing schools. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article, the State Board of Education is authorized to approve a local board of education’s request to reform any school in its administrative unit which the State Board of Education has identified as one of the continually low-performing schools in North Carolina. […]
115C-105.38. Assistance teams; review by State Board. (a) The State Board of Education may assign an assistance team to any school identified as low-performing under this Article or to any other school that requests an assistance team and that the State Board determines would benefit from an assistance team. The State Board shall give priority […]
115C-105.38A. Teacher competency assurance. (a) General Knowledge Test. – (1) Each assistance team assigned to a low-performing school during the 1997-98 school year shall review the team’s evaluations of certified staff members to determine which staff members have been designated by the team as Category 3 teachers. The assistance team shall then determine whether lack […]
115C-105.39. Dismissal or removal of personnel; appointment of interim superintendent. (a) Within 30 days of the initial identification of a school as low-performing by the State Board under G.S. 115C-105.37(a), the superintendent shall take one of the following actions concerning the school’s principal: (i) recommend to the local board that the principal be retained in […]
115C-105.39A. Identification of low-performing local school administrative units. (a) Identification of Low-Performing Local School Administrative Units. – The State Board of Education shall identify low-performing local school administrative units on an annual basis. A low-performing local school administrative unit is a unit in which the majority of the schools in that unit that earned an […]
115C-105.40. Student academic performance standards. The State Board of Education shall develop a plan to create rigorous student academic performance standards for kindergarten through eighth grade and student academic performance standards for courses in grades 9-12. The performance standards shall align, whenever possible, with the student academic performance standards developed for the National Assessment of […]
115C-105.41. Students who have been placed at risk of academic failure and transition plans. (a) In order to implement Part 1A of Article 8 of this Chapter, local school administrative units shall identify students who are at risk for academic failure and who are not successfully progressing toward grade promotion and graduation, beginning in kindergarten. […]
