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4358
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Mesibov presents school legislation enacted by the 1996 North Carolina General Assembly concerning elementary and secondary education. Among laws passed were the new School-Based Management and Accountability Program, commonly called the ABCs Plan; increased control over school operations and use of state funds by local school boards; and authorization for up to 100 charter schools.
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4359
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Mesibov presents the various appropriations and school laws the 1993 North Carolina General Assembly approved concerning elementary and secondary education. These include health assessments; immunizations and health care for minors; violence at school; and use of funds.
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4360
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Joyce presents laws passed by the 1993 North Carolina General Assembly pertaining to higher education, including appropriations for capital improvements on various campuses, salary increases, special university and community college spending directives, and legislation affecting the community college system.
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4372
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Any discrimination against disabled persons by public and private employers is prohibited by the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Joyce examines each requirement of the act in detail. The challenge facing North Carolina schools, elementary through university, in the hiring of employees, is to ensure that the disabled are on an equal footing when applying for jobs and in performing on the job.
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4377
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The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 became effective August 5, 1993. All public and private employers, including school systems, are obligated to grant unpaid leave up to twelve weeks a year for any one of three reasons. Allred discusses the act and its application to school employees.
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4380
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In 1997, the North Carolina General Assembly revised General Statute 115C-431, the law governing budget disputes between local boards of education and county commissioners. The use of mediation procedures was adopted. Stephens and Michel discuss and analyze this process in handling school funding disputes in Lee, Pamlico, and Wake Counties in 1997.
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4382
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In 1995-96, the number of home-schooled children in North Carolina exceeded 13,000. Eventually a point is reached where parents of these children cannot instruct in advanced courses, such as chemistry and physics, and request local school systems to allow their children to attend part-time. Schools are not required to do this, either by state or federal law. North Carolina law does not prohibit this, allowing schools systems to decide requests on an individual basis.
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4383
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Section 115C-431 of the North Carolina General Statutes lays out the procedure for resolving a dispute between a local board of education's request for more operating funds than the local county commissioners are willing to meet. Powell discusses the law's development from the pre-1920 statutes, through the statutes of 1923, 1955, 1975, 1989, 1996, and 1997.
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4384
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Each year the number of students whose native language is not English increases in the state's public schools. Currently over 7,500 students who speak over sixty languages are enrolled. Providing these students an achievable educational program challenges school personnel. Dowling discusses programs for LEP students over the past twenty years, federal mandates for schools with LEP students, and problems specific to North Carolina schools.
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4385
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Students come to school wearing all types of attire, including gang symbols and colorful, descriptive shirts that can express anything from humorous to very suggestive statements. Schools in turn seek to regulate some types of student dress. Grantham discusses the school's authority to regulate student attire and what criteria school officials must apply when formulating dress code regulations that are constitutional.
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4394
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The 1999 North Carolina General Assembly added new restrictions on the assignment of teachers to extracurricular and noninstructional duties. McColl discusses new statutory provisions and the questions administrators may have in carrying out the new legislation.
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4395
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Higher education legislation that did not pass the 1999 North Carolina General Assembly was of more interest than what did. Legislation authorizing sale of $3 billion in university and community college bonds could not be agreed upon. Items passed dealt with appropriations, salaries, student aid and tuition, and authorization to community colleges to establish a campus police force.
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4396
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Heightened concern about school violence led the 1999 North Carolina General Assembly to make statutory changes in assault, firearm possession, and explosives legislation. Other educational legislation enacted dealt with alternative schools, students with special needs, charter schools, and appropriations. The General Assembly also directed studies to be conducted on violent students, differentiated diplomas, and transportation for students with special needs.
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4397
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Legislation passed by the 1999 North Carolina General Assembly on public school employment dealt with salaries, teacher certification, dismissal provisions, leave, reporting sexual harassment, improper sexual relations, and improving instructional conditions for teachers.
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4503
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A ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of New Jersey v. T.L.O. held that public school students are protected by the Fourth Amendment from school officials' unreasonable searches. The court also ruled that warrants or probable causes were not necessary to conduct a search. However, any search must be reasonable. Shepard examines factors courts feel are important in the application of the T.L.O. standard.
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