Bill Text: NC H358 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: School Performance Grade Scale
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 14-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-05-14 - Ch. SL 2015-17 [H358 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2015-H358-Enrolled.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2015
HOUSE BILL 358
RATIFIED BILL
AN ACT to extend the use of the fifteen‑point scale for assignment of school performance grades for the 2014‑2015 and 2015‑2016 school years only.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Notwithstanding G.S. 115C‑83.15(d), for the 2014‑2015 school year and the 2015‑2016 school year only, for all schools the total school performance score shall be converted to a 100‑point scale and used to determine a school performance grade based on the following scale:
(1) A school performance score of at least 85 is equivalent to an overall school performance grade of A.
(2) A school performance score of at least 70 is equivalent to an overall school performance grade of B.
(3) A school performance score of at least 55 is equivalent to an overall school performance grade of C.
(4) A school performance score of at least 40 is equivalent to an overall school performance grade of D.
(5) A school performance score of less than 40 is equivalent to an overall school performance grade of F.
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 11th day of May, 2015.
s/ Daniel J. Forest
President of the Senate
s/ Paul Stam
Presiding Officer of the House of Representatives
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Pat McCrory
Governor
Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2015
