GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	3 

SENATE BILL 616
Education/Higher Education Committee Substitute Adopted 4/30/97
House Committee Substitute Favorable 5/26/97

Short Title:  Limit Appeals to School Boards.	(Public)

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April 1, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO LIMIT APPEALS TO LOCAL BOARDS OF EDUCATION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 115C-45(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c)	Appeals to Board of Education and to Superior Court. –A person may appeal any one or more of the following decisions of all school personnel to the appropriate local board of education:
(1)	The discipline of a student taken under G.S. 115C-391(c), (d), and (d1).
(2)	An action, inaction, or decision that is claimed to violate federal law.
(3)	An action, inaction, or decision that is claimed to substantially interfere with a student's ability to receive an education.
(4)	A decision that may be appealed under G.S. 115C-305.
(5)	Any other decision which by statute specifically provides for a right of appeal to the local board of education.
In addition, a local board of education may, in its discretion, grant a hearing regarding any decision of school personnel within a local school administrative unit.
In all appeals to the board it is the duty of the board of education to see that a proper notice is given to all parties concerned and that a record of the hearing is properly entered in the records of the board conducting the hearing.
The board of education may designate hearing panels composed of not less than two members of the board to hear and act upon appeals to the board in the name and on behalf of the board of education.