A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to require the school principal report to the superintendent on noncompliance with class size requirements in kindergarten through third grade.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑47(10) reads as rewritten:
"(10)	To Assure Appropriate Class Size. – It shall be the responsibility of local boards of education to assure that the class size requirements set forth in G.S. 115C‑301 for kindergarten through third grade are met. The principal of each school in the local school administrative unit shall report noncompliance with the class size requirements for kindergarten through third grade as set forth in G.S. 115C‑301 to the superintendent on the first school day of each month. The superintendent shall report to the local board of education on noncompliance with the class size requirements set forth in G.S. 115C‑301 at the next local board of education meeting. The local board of education shall take action to meet the requirements of the statute. If the local board cannot organizationally correct the exception, it shall immediately apply to the State Board of Education for additional personnel or a waiver of the class size requirements, as provided in G.S. 115C‑301(g).
Upon notification from the State Board of Education that the reported exception does not qualify for an allotment adjustment or a waiver under provisions of G.S. 115C‑301, the local board, within 30 days, shall take action necessary to correct the exception.
At the end of the second month of each school year, the local board of education, through the superintendent, shall file a report with the State Board of Education, in a format prescribed by the State Board of Education, describing the organization of each school, the duties of each teacher, and the size of each class. As of November 1 and February 1 of each year, local boards of education, through the superintendent, shall report all exceptions to individual class size maximums that exist at that time.
In addition to assuring that the requirements of G.S. 115C‑301 are met, each local board of education shall also have the duty to provide an adequate number of classrooms to meet the requirements of that statute."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the 2017‑2018 school year.