GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

S	1 

SENATE BILL 338*

Short Title:  School Personnel/Classroom Experience. 	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senator Hartsell.

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Referred to:  Education/Higher Education.

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March 15, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO GIVE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE TO SCHOOL PERSONNEL WHO ARE CERTIFIED TEACHERS BUT ARE NOT CLASSROOM TEACHERS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 115C-47 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
"(18a)	To Make Rules Requiring Certain Employees to Serve as Substitute Teachers. – In order to improve employees' awareness of classroom climate and to enhance school discipline, local boards of education shall require each professional public school employee who does not have daily instructional contact with students to serve as a substitute teacher in the classroom for the equivalent of at least two days each school year.  The State Board of Education shall adopt a policy providing that the time spent as a substitute teacher is an activity that earns renewal credit.  The State Board of Education shall determine the amount of renewal credit for this activity, and that amount shall be a part of the total number of required units for certificate renewal."
Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the 1999-2000 school year.