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NC Gen Stat § 115C-156.2 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 115C - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 10 - Career and Technical Education.|§ 115C-156.2 - Industry certifications and credentials program.

 115C-156.2. Industry certifications and credentials program.(a) It is the intent of the State to encourage students to enroll in and successfully complete rigorous coursework and credentialing processes in career and technical education to enable success in the workplace. To attain this goal, to the extent funds are made available for this purpose, students shall be supported to earn State Board of Education approved industry certifications and credentials as follows:(1) Students enrolled in public schools and in career and technical education courses shall be exempt from paying any fees for one administration of examinations leading to industry certifications and credentials pursuant to rules adopted by the State Board of Education.(2) Each school year, at such time as agreed to by the Department of Commerce and the State Board of Education, the Department of Commerce shall provide the State Board of Education with a list of those occupations in high need of additional skilled employees. If the occupations identified in such list are not substantially the same as those occupations identified in the list from the prior year, reasonable notice of such changes shall be provided to local school administrative units.(3) Local school administrative units shall consult with their local industries, employers, business advisory councils, and workforce development boards to identify industry certification and credentials that the local school administrative unit may offer to best meet State and local workforce needs.(b) Beginning in 2019, the State Board of Education shall report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee by November 15 of each year on the following information:(1) The number of students in career and technical education courses who earned (i) community college credit and (ii) related industry certifications and credentials.(2) Implementation of high school diploma endorsements, including adding (i) college, (ii) career, and (iii) college and career endorsements to high school diplomas, through evaluation of at least the following data:a. Impact on the rates of high school graduation, college acceptance and remediation, and post-high school employment.b. Beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, the number of students who had to retake a nationally norm-referenced college admissions test to meet the reading benchmark score required by G.S. 115C-12(40) to receive a high school diploma endorsement and the number of students who were not awarded a high school diploma endorsement solely because of the inability to meet the benchmark score for reading required by G.S. 115C-12(40).  (2013-360, s. 8.28(b); 2014-115, s. 83; 2017-57, s. 7.23H(e); 2017-102, s. 48(e); 2019-165, s. 3.2(a).)
NC Gen Stat § 115C-157 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 115C - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 10 - Career and Technical Education.|§ 115C-157 - Responsibility of local boards of education.

 115C-157. Responsibility of local boards of education.(a) Each local school administrative unit, shall provide free appropriate career and technical education instruction, activities, and services in accordance with the provisions of this Part for all youth, with priority given to youth in grades eight through 12, who elect the instruction and shall have responsibility for administering the instruction, activities, and services in accordance with federal and State law and State Board of Education policies.(b) Each local school administrative unit shall offer as part of its career and technical education program at least two work-based learning opportunities that are related to career and technical education instruction. A work-based learning opportunity shall consist of on-the-job training through an internship, cooperative education, or an apprenticeship program meeting the requirements of Chapter 115D of the General Statutes.(c) Each local board of education is encouraged to implement a career awareness program for students in grade five to educate students on the career and technical education programs offered in the local school administrative unit. A local board of education that adopts a career awareness program for fifth grade students shall report on program activities and student outcomes from the prior school year to the State Board of Education by October 1 of each year. By November 15 of each year, the State Board shall submit a consolidated report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee on program outcomes and any legislative recommendations based on local board of education reports.  (1977, c. 490, s. 2; 1981, c. 423, s. 1; 1993, c. 180, s. 3; 2004-124, s. 7.15(c); 2017-57, s. 7.23H(e).)
NC Gen Stat § 115C-157.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 115C - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 10 - Career and Technical Education.|§ 115C-157.1 - Adjunct CTE instructors.

 115C-157.1. Adjunct CTE instructors.(a) Adjunct Hiring Criteria. - The State Board of Education shall develop minimum criteria of relevant education or employment experience to qualify to contract as an adjunct instructor in each career and technical education career cluster. The criteria shall weigh work experience and industry recognized licenses or credentials over educational attainment level. The State Board shall make the minimum criteria available to local boards of education.(b) Contracting with Adjunct Instructors. - Notwithstanding Article 20 and Part 3 of Article 22 of this Chapter, a local board of education may contract with an individual to serve as an adjunct instructor who meets the adjunct hiring criteria established by the State Board of Education for a specific career and technical education career cluster. The local board of education may contract with an adjunct instructor on an annual or semester basis, subject to the following requirements:(1) An adjunct instructor may be employed for no more than 20 hours per week or no more than five full consecutive months of employment. An adjunct instructor shall not be eligible to earn paid leave, participate in the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System, or receive or purchase health benefits through the State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees.(2) An adjunct instructor shall be subject to a criminal history check, to ensure that the person has not been convicted of any crime listed in G.S. 115C-332.(3) An adjunct instructor shall not be required to hold or apply for licensure as a teacher.(4) An adjunct instructor must complete preservice training in all of the following areas prior to beginning instruction:a. The identification and education of children with disabilities.b. Positive management of student behavior.c. Effective communication for defusing and deescalating disruptive or dangerous behavior.d. Safe and appropriate use of seclusion and restraint.  (2016-94, s. 8.32(c); 2019-185, s. 2(a).)
NC Gen Stat § 115C-157.5 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 115C - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 10 - Career and Technical Education.|§ 115C-157.5 - Extended year agriculture education program; evaluation of career and technical education agriculture teacher personnel.

 115C-157.5. Extended year agriculture education program; evaluation of career and technical education agriculture teacher personnel.Except as otherwise provided in G.S. 115C-302.1(b2), local boards of education shall provide career and technical education agriculture teacher personnel with adequate resources to provide a career and technical education agriculture education program for 12 calendar months, which includes work-based learning services and instructional and leadership development. A local board of education shall require that career and technical education agriculture teacher personnel who are employed for 12 calendar months, pursuant to G.S. 115C-302.1, are evaluated in the same manner as teachers evaluated in accordance with G.S. 115C-333 or G.S. 115C-333.1, as applicable.  (2017-57, s. 7.23H(e).)
NC Gen Stat § 115C-158 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 115C - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 10 - Career and Technical Education.|§ 115C-158 - Federal funds division.

 115C-158. Federal funds division.The division between secondary and post-secondary educational systems and institutions of federal funds for which the State Board of Career and Technical Education has responsibility shall, within discretionary limits established by law, require the concurrence of the State Board of Education and the State Board of Community Colleges on and after January 1, 1981. The portion of the approved State Plan for post-secondary career and technical education required by G.S. 115C-154 shall be as approved by the State Board of Community Colleges.  (1979, 2nd Sess., c. 1130, s. 4; 1981, c. 423, s. 1; 1993, c. 180, s. 3; 2017-57, s. 7.23H(e).)
NC Gen Stat § 115C-159 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 115C - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 10 - Career and Technical Education.|§ 115C-159 - Statement of purpose.

 115C-159. Statement of purpose.It is the intent of the General Assembly that practical work experiences within the school and outside the school, which are valuable to students and which are under the supervision of a teacher, should be encouraged as a part of career and technical education instruction in the public secondary schools and middle schools when those experiences are organized and maintained to the best advantage of the career and technical education programs. Those activities are a part of the instructional activities in the career and technical education programs and are not to be construed as engaging in business. Those services, products, and properties generated through these instructional activities are exempt from the requirements of G.S. 115C-518. Local boards of education shall adopt rules for the disposition of these services, products, and properties. Local boards of education may use available financial resources to support that instruction.  (1977, c. 490, s. 4; 1981, c. 423, s. 1; 1983, c. 750, s. 2; 1985, c. 479, s. 32; 1987, c. 738, s. 184; 1993, c. 180, s. 3; 2017-57, s. 7.23H(e).)
NC Gen Stat § 115C-160 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 115C - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 10 - Career and Technical Education.|§ 115C-160 - Definitions.

 115C-160. Definitions.The State Board of Education shall provide appropriate definitions necessary to this part of career and technical education instruction not otherwise included in this Part. As used in this Part, the following definitions apply, unless the context requires otherwise:(1) The term "building trades training" means the development of career skills through the construction of dwellings or other buildings and related activities by students in career and technical education programs.(2) The term "production work" means production activities and services performed by students in career and technical education classes under contract with a second party for remuneration.  (1977, c. 490, s. 4; 1981, c. 423, s. 1; 1993, c. 180, s. 3; 2017-57, s. 7.23H(e).)
NC Gen Stat § 115C-161 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 115C - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 10 - Career and Technical Education.|§ 115C-161 - Duties of the State Board of Education.

 115C-161. Duties of the State Board of Education.The State Board of Education is authorized and directed to establish, maintain, and implement such policies, rules, regulations, and procedures not in conflict with State law or other State Board policies as necessary to assist local boards of education in the conduct of production work experiences performed in connection with approved State Board of Education career and technical education programs.  (1977, c. 490, s. 4; 1981, c. 423, s. 1; 1993, c. 180, s. 3; 2017-57, s. 7.23H(e).)
NC Gen Stat § 115C-162 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 115C - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 10 - Career and Technical Education.|§ 115C-162 - Use of proceeds derived from production work.

 115C-162. Use of proceeds derived from production work.Unless elsewhere authorized in these statutes, local boards of education shall deposit to the appropriate school account, no later than the end of the next business day after receipt of funds, all proceeds derived from the sale of products or services from production work experiences. These proceeds shall be established as a revolving fund to be used solely in operating and improving career and technical education programs.  (1977, c. 490, s. 4; 1981, c. 423, s. 1; 1993, c. 180, s. 3; 2017-57, s. 7.23H(e).)
NC Gen Stat § 115C-163 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 115C - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 10 - Career and Technical Education.|§ 115C-163 - Acquisition of land for agricultural education instructional programs.

 115C-163. Acquisition of land for agricultural education instructional programs.Local boards of education may acquire by gift, purchase, or lease for not less than the useful life of any project to be conducted upon the premises, a parcel of land suitable for a land laboratory to provide students with practical instruction in soil science, plant science, horticulture, forestry, animal husbandry, and other subjects related to the agriculture curriculum.Each deed, lease, or other agreement for land shall be made to the respective local board of education in which the school offering instruction in agriculture is located; and title to such land shall be examined and approved by the local board of education's attorney.Any land laboratory thus acquired shall be assigned to the agricultural education program of the school, to be managed with the advice of an agricultural education advisory committee or a specialized subcommittee of a business advisory council as provided under Part 4 of this Article.The products of the land laboratory not needed for public school purposes may be sold to the public: Provided, however, that all proceeds from the sale of products shall be deposited in the appropriate school account no later than the end of the next business day after receipt of funds. The proceeds shall be established as a revolving fund to be used solely in operating and improving career and technical education programs.  (1977, c. 490, s. 4; 1981, c. 423, s. 1; 1993, c. 180, s. 3; 2017-57, s. 7.23H(e).)
NC Gen Stat § 115C-164 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 115C - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 10 - Career and Technical Education.|§ 115C-164 - Building trades training.

 115C-164. Building trades training.In the establishment and implementation of production work experience policies, the State Board of Education shall be guided as follows:(1) Local boards of education may use supplementary tax funds or other local funds available for the support of career and technical education to purchase and develop suitable building sites on which dwellings or other buildings are to be constructed by career and technical education trade classes of each public school operated by local boards of education. Local boards of education may use these funds for each school to pay the fees necessary in securing and recording deeds to these properties for each public school operated by local boards of education and to purchase all materials needed to complete the construction of buildings by career and technical education trade classes and for development of site and property by other career and technical education classes. Local boards of education may use these funds to acquire skilled services, including electrical, plumbing, heating, sewer, water, transportation, grading, and landscaping needed in the construction and completion of buildings, that cannot be supplied by the students in career and technical education trade classes.(2) Local boards of education may, in conjunction with or in lieu of subdivision (1) of this section, contract with recognized building trades educational foundations or associations in the purchase of land for the construction and development of buildings: Provided however, that all contracts shall be in accordance with the requirements set forth by the State Board of Education.  (1977, c. 490, s. 4; 1981, c. 423, s. 1; 1993, c. 180, s. 3; 2017-57, s. 7.23H(e).)
NC Gen Stat § 115C-165 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 115C - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 10 - Career and Technical Education.|§ 115C-165 - Advisory committee on production work activities.

 115C-165. Advisory committee on production work activities.The local board of education of each local school administrative unit in which the proposed production work activities are to be undertaken shall appoint appropriate workforce production advisory committees of no less than three persons residing within that administrative unit for each program (or in the case of Trade and Industrial Education, for each specialty) for the purpose of reviewing and making recommendations on such production work activities. Workforce production advisory committees, including agricultural education advisory committees under G.S. 115C-163, may be established as specialized subcommittees of the business advisory councils as provided under Part 4 of this Article. Respective advisory committee members shall be lay persons who are actively involved in the appropriate business or trade. No production work activity shall be undertaken without the involvement of the appropriate advisory committee.  (1977, c. 490, s. 4; 1981, c. 423, s. 1; 1983, c. 750, s. 3; 2017-57, s. 7.23H(e).)
NC Gen Stat § 115C-166 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 115C - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 10 - Career and Technical Education.|§ 115C-166 - Eye protection devices required in certain courses.

 115C-166. Eye protection devices required in certain courses.The governing board or authority of any public or private school or educational institution within the State, wherein shops or laboratories are conducted providing instructional or experimental programs, shall provide for and require that every student and teacher wear industrial-quality eye protective devices at all times while participating in a program that involves any of the following:(1) Hot solids, liquids or molten metals.(2) Milling, sawing, turning, shaping, cutting, or stamping of any solid materials.(3) Heat treatment, tempering, or kiln firing of any metal or other materials.(4) Gas or electric arc welding.(5) Repair or servicing of any vehicle.(6) Caustic or explosive chemicals or materials.These industrial-quality eye protective devices shall be furnished free of charge to the student and teacher.  (1969, c. 1050, s. 1; 1981, c. 423, s. 1; 2017-57, s. 7.23H(e).)
NC Gen Stat § 115C-167 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 115C - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 10 - Career and Technical Education.|§ 115C-167 - Visitors to wear eye safety devices.

 115C-167. Visitors to wear eye safety devices.Visitors to shops and laboratories subject to the requirements of G.S. 115C-166 shall be furnished with and required to wear industrial-quality eye protective devices while instructional or experimental programs are in progress.  (1977, c. 1050, s. 2; 1981, c. 423, s. 1; 2017-57, s. 7.23H(e).)
NC Gen Stat § 115C-168 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 115C - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 10 - Career and Technical Education.|§ 115C-168 - "Industrial-quality eye protective devices" defined.

 115C-168. "Industrial-quality eye protective devices" defined."Industrial-quality eye protective devices", as used in G.S. 115C-166, means devices meeting the standards of the U.S.A. Standard Practice for Occupational and Educational Eye and Face Protection, Z 87.1-1968 approved by the U.S.A. Standards Institute, Inc. (1969, c. 1050, s. 3; 1981, c. 423, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 115C-169 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 115C - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 10 - Career and Technical Education.|§ 115C-169 - Corrective-protective devices.

 115C-169. Corrective-protective devices.In those cases where corrective-protective devices that require prescription ophthalmic lenses are necessary, such devices shall only be supplied by those persons licensed by the State to prescribe or supply corrective-protective devices. (1969, c. 1050, s. 4; 1981, c. 423, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 115C-174.10 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 115C - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 10A - Testing.|§ 115C-174.10 - Purposes of the Statewide Testing Program.

 115C-174.10. Purposes of the Statewide Testing Program.The testing programs in this Article have three purposes: (i) to assure that all high school graduates possess those minimum skills and that knowledge thought necessary to function as a member of society; (ii) to provide a means of identifying strengths and weaknesses in the education process in order to improve instructional delivery; and (iii) to establish additional means for making the education system at the State, local, and school levels accountable to the public for results.  (1977, c. 522, s. 1; 1981, c. 423, s. 1; 1985 (Reg. Sess., 1986), c. 1014, s. 74(a); 1995, c. 524, s. 2; 2009-451, s. 7.20(a).)
NC Gen Stat § 115C-174.13 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 115C - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 10A - Testing.|§ 115C-174.13 - Public records exemption.

 115C-174.13. Public records exemption.(a) Until the State Board of Education designates that a test is released, any test developed, adopted, or provided by the State Board of Education, as provided in this Article, is not a public record within the meaning of G.S. 132-1. The State Board of Education may develop rules to allow inspection of a test prior to release, but shall require that individuals inspecting the test meet the same standards for confidentiality required for employees of local boards of education in test administration. As used in this section, the term "test" includes both the test and related test materials.(b) Any written material containing the identifiable scores of individual students on any test taken pursuant to the provisions of this Article is not a public record within the meaning of G.S. 132-1 and shall not be made public by any person, except as permitted under the provisions of the Family Educational and Privacy Rights Act of 1974, 20 U.S.C. 1232g.  (1977, c. 522, s. 7; c. 541, s. 8; 1981, c. 423, s. 1; 1985 (Reg. Sess., 1986), c. 1014, s. 74(a); 2014-115, s. 49.2.)
NC Gen Stat § 115C-174.14 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 115C - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 10A - Testing.|§ 115C-174.14 - Provisions for nonpublic schools.

 115C-174.14. Provisions for nonpublic schools.All components of the Statewide Testing Program shall be made available to nonpublic schools in the manner prescribed in G.S. 115C-551 and G.S. 115C-559. (1977, c. 522, s. 8; c. 541, s. 9; 1981, c. 423, s. 1; 1985 (Reg. Sess., 1986), c. 1014, s. 74(a).)