North Carolina § 115C-83 - 11. (Applicable before the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year) Continued support for students demonstrating reading proficiency and appropriate reading development.

§ 115C-83. 11. (Applicable before the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year) Continued support for students demonstrating reading proficiency and appropriate reading development.

Parents or guardians of a student demonstrating reading proficiency appropriate for a third grade student as provided under G.S. 115C-83.7 or a first or second grade student demonstrating appropriate developmental abilities in reading comprehension may choose to enroll the student in the reading camp as defined in G.S. 115C-83.3(4a) but may be charged an attendance fee. Local boards of education may establish a fee amount to be equal to the per student program cost of participating in the reading camp, not to exceed eight hundred twenty-five dollars ($825.00). Priority enrollment in the reading camp is for (i) third grade students not demonstrating reading proficiency as provided under G.S. 115C-83.8 and (ii) first and second grade students demonstrating reading comprehension below grade level under G.S. 115C-83.6. Local boards of education shall establish application procedures and enrollment priorities for reading camps for students demonstrating reading proficiency. Parents or guardians of a third grade student demonstrating reading proficiency or a second grade student demonstrating appropriate developmental abilities in reading comprehension may choose to enroll the student in the reading camp but may be charged an attendance fee. If a local board of education offers a reading camp as a literacy intervention for first grade students, parents, or guardians of a first grade student demonstrating appropriate developmental abilities in reading comprehension may choose to enroll the student in the reading camp but may be charged an attendance fee. Local boards of education may establish a fee amount to be equal to the per student program cost of participating in the reading camp, not to exceed eight hundred twenty-five dollars ($825.00). Priority enrollment in the reading camp is for students offered a reading camp as a literacy intervention. Local boards of education shall establish application procedures and enrollment priorities for reading camps for students demonstrating reading proficiency. History (2014-5, s. 8; 2015-241, s. 8.48(d).) Section set out twice. - The section above is applicable before the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year. For the section, applicable beginning with the 2022-2023 school year, see the following section, also numbered G.S. 115C-83.11 . Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2014-5, s. 17, made this section effective June 10, 2014. Session Laws 2015-241, s. 8.48(e), provides: "Notwithstanding G.S. 115C-83.10 , as amended by subsection (c) of this section, the State Board of Education and local boards of educations shall include initial information on first and second grade students in the reports required under G.S. 115C-83.10 by October 15, 2016, and September 1, 2016, respectively." Session Laws 2015-241, s. 8.48(f), made the amendment to this section by Session Laws 2015-241, s. 8.48(d), effective beginning with the 2015-2016 school year. Session Laws 2015-241, s. 1.1, provides: "This act shall be known as 'The Current Operations and Capital Improvements Appropriations Act of 2015.'" Session Laws 2015-241, s. 33.6, is a severability clause. Session Laws 2020-3, s. 2.1, as amended by Session Laws 2020-49, s. 3(a), provides: "For the purposes of this Part, the following definitions apply: "(1) Authority. - State Education Assistance Authority. "(2) Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emergency. - The period beginning March 10, 2020, and continuing until the Governor signs an executive order rescinding Executive Order No. 116 (Declaration of a State of Emergency to Coordinate Response and Protective Actions to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19). "(3) Federal testing waiver. - The testing waiver granted to the State Board of Education by the United States Department of Education for the 2019-2020 school year, pursuant to section 8401(b) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended, which, pursuant to G.S. 115C-174.11 , eliminated the collection of certain student assessment data for the 2019-2020 school year. "(4) Modified calendar school. - A school that a local board designated as having a modified calendar for the 2003-2004 school year or 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. "(5) State Board. - The State Board of Education. "(6) Year-round school. - A school with a single or multi-track instructional calendar that was adopted prior to March 1, 2020, and provides instructional days in compliance with Section 2.11(b)(1) of this Part throughout the entire school calendar year, beginning July 1 and ending June 30, by utilizing at least one of the following plans: "a. A plan dividing students into four groups and requiring each group to be in school for assigned and staggered quarters each school calendar year. "b. A plan providing students be scheduled to attend an average of between 44 and 46 instructional days followed by an average of between 15 and 20 days of vacation, repeated throughout the school calendar year. "c. A plan dividing the school calendar year into five nine-week sessions of classes and requiring each student to attend four assigned and staggered sessions out of the five nine-week sessions to complete the student's instructional year." Session Laws 2020-3, s. 2.2, provides: "The purpose of this Part is to clarify or modify certain requirements in consideration of actions and circumstances related to the COVID-19 emergency, including, but not limited to, the federal testing waiver and the closure of schools for in-person instruction during the 2019-2020 school year." Session Laws 2020-3, s. 2.7(c), provides: "Reading Camps. - Notwithstanding G.S. 115C-83.6(a) , 115C-83.8(a), and 115C-83.11, and any other provision of law to the contrary, local school administrative units are not required to provide reading camps corresponding to the 2019-2020 school year." Session Laws 2020-3, s. 5, is a severability clause. Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2015-241, s. 8.48(d), effective July 1, 2015, added "and appropriate reading development" to the end of the section heading; inserted "or a first or second grade student demonstrating appropriate developmental disabilities in reading comprehension" in subsection (a); and, in subsection (b), inserted "(i) third grade" and substituted "G.S. 115C-83.8 and (ii) first and second grade students demonstrating reading comprehension below grade level under G.S. 115C-83.6 " for "G.S. 115C-83.8." For applicability, see Editor's note. Session Laws 2021-8, s. 6(j), effective April 9, 2021, rewrote the section. For applicability, see editor's note. § 115C-83.11. (Applicable beginning with the 2022-2023 school year) Continued support for students demonstrating reading proficiency and appropriate reading development. History (2014-5, s. 8; 2015-241, s. 8.48(d); 2021-8, s. 6(j).) Section set out twice. - The section above is applicable beginning with the 2022-2023 school year. For the section, applicable before the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year, see the preceding section, also numbered G.S. 115C-83.11 . Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2014-5, s. 17, made this section effective June 10, 2014. Session Laws 2015-241, s. 8.48(e), provides: "Notwithstanding G.S. 115C-83.10 , as amended by subsection (c) of this section, the State Board of Education and local boards of educations shall include initial information on first and second grade students in the reports required under G.S. 115C-83.10 by October 15, 2016, and September 1, 2016, respectively." Session Laws 2015-241, s. 8.48(f), made the amendment to this section by Session Laws 2015-241, s. 8.48(d), effective beginning with the 2015-2016 school year. Session Laws 2015-241, s. 1.1, provides: "This act shall be known as 'The Current Operations and Capital Improvements Appropriations Act of 2015.'" Session Laws 2015-241, s. 33.6, is a severability clause. Session Laws 2020-3, s. 2.1, as amended by Session Laws 2020-49, s. 3(a), provides: "For the purposes of this Part, the following definitions apply: "(1) Authority. - State Education Assistance Authority. "(2) Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emergency. - The period beginning March 10, 2020, and continuing until the Governor signs an executive order rescinding Executive Order No. 116 (Declaration of a State of Emergency to Coordinate Response and Protective Actions to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19). "(3) Federal testing waiver. - The testing waiver granted to the State Board of Education by the United States Department of Education for the 2019-2020 school year, pursuant to section 8401(b) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended, which, pursuant to G.S. 115C-174.11 , eliminated the collection of certain student assessment data for the 2019-2020 school year. "(4) Modified calendar school. - A school that a local board designated as having a modified calendar for the 2003-2004 school year or 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. "(5) State Board. - The State Board of Education. "(6) Year-round school. - A school with a single or multi-track instructional calendar that was adopted prior to March 1, 2020, and provides instructional days in compliance with Section 2.11(b)(1) of this Part throughout the entire school calendar year, beginning July 1 and ending June 30, by utilizing at least one of the following plans: "a. A plan dividing students into four groups and requiring each group to be in school for assigned and staggered quarters each school calendar year. "b. A plan providing students be scheduled to attend an average of between 44 and 46 instructional days followed by an average of between 15 and 20 days of vacation, repeated throughout the school calendar year. "c. A plan dividing the school calendar year into five nine-week sessions of classes and requiring each student to attend four assigned and staggered sessions out of the five nine-week sessions to complete the student's instructional year." Session Laws 2020-3, s. 2.2, provides: "The purpose of this Part is to clarify or modify certain requirements in consideration of actions and circumstances related to the COVID-19 emergency, including, but not limited to, the federal testing waiver and the closure of schools for in-person instruction during the 2019-2020 school year." Session Laws 2020-3, s. 2.7(c), provides: "Reading Camps. - Notwithstanding G.S. 115C-83.6(a) , 115C-83.8(a), and 115C-83.11, and any other provision of law to the contrary, local school administrative units are not required to provide reading camps corresponding to the 2019-2020 school year." Session Laws 2020-3, s. 5, is a severability clause. Session Laws 2021-8, s. 1, provides: "This act shall be known as the "Excellent Public Schools Act of 2021." Session Laws 2021-8, s. 6(m), made the amendments to this section by Session Laws 2021-8, s. 6(j), applicable beginning with the 2022-2023 school year. Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2015-241, s. 8.48(d), effective July 1, 2015, added "and appropriate reading development" to the end of the section heading; inserted "or a first or second grade student demonstrating appropriate developmental disabilities in reading comprehension" in subsection (a); and, in subsection (b), inserted "(i) third grade" and substituted "G.S. 115C-83.8 and (ii) first and second grade students demonstrating reading comprehension below grade level under G.S. 115C-83.6 " for "G.S. 115C-83.8." For applicability, see Editor's note. Session Laws 2021-8, s. 6(j), effective April 9, 2021, rewrote the section. For applicability, see editor's note.