Agenda - 09-28-2017 - 7. Information Item - NCSBA 2017 Legislative Summary

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Section 7.16 Improve Education Financial and Information Transparency Directs DPI to implement the School Business System Modernization Plan submitted to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee by the SBE. DPI will work with NCSU's Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, the Government Data Analytics Center(GDAC), and local school officials on this effort. The State Superintendent must issue an RFP for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software by October 1, 2017. Directs that a report be made to legislators before a contractual commitment is made. Commits the General Assembly to fund this multiyear, multiphase project that is estimated to cost $208.4 million over five years. The initial appropriations for the project are $19 million in FY 2017-18 and $10 million in FY 2018-19. These funds will not revert at the end of the fiscal year. Special allocations from this appropriation are as follows: • Up to $1.43 million in FY 2017-18 and up to $1.42 million in FY 2018-19 may be used by DPI for project management expenses, including positions and contracts for services. • Up to $3.25 million in FY 2017-18 and up to $250,000 in FY 2018-19 is transferred to GDAC for a data integration service that consolidates data from financial, human resources, licensure, student information, and related systems. Section 7.17 Office of Charter Schools/Web-Based Record and Data Management Directs DPI to use up to $200,000 for a Web-based Electronic records and data reporting management system for the Office of Charter Schools. Section 7.18 State Board of Education/Use of State Funds Prohibits the SBE from using State funds to employ private attorneys for litigation services. Defines litigation services. Specifies the only eight positions the SBE may appoint to support its meetings and operations. Provides that the SBE may utilize other staff employed through DPI to carry out additional functions. Does not apply to 2016-17 funds that are set aside for private counsel. G.S. 115C-13.5. Section 7.19 Teachers /Isolated K-12 Schools Codifies a 2009 budget provision that allowed additional classroom teachers for geographically isolated schools that have grades K-12 and are in a LEA that has an ADM of 1.5 per square mile. Expands the original language to include a county containing more than 150,000 acres of National Forest owned by the federal government and managed by the United States Forest Service. Appropriates $506,064 each year in the FY 2017-19 budget for this expansion. G.S. 115C-301. See also S.L. 2017-9 (HB 13). Section 7.20 Turning TAs Into Teachers Pilot Expansion/Student Teacher Employment Expands the pilot program that provides tuition reimbursement to teacher assistants pursuing their teaching license. The following 14 LEAs may now also participate in the pilot: • Alamance-Burlington • Edgecombe • Beaufort • Guilford • Bertie • Halifax • Duplin • Nash-Rocky Mount • Edenton-Chowan • Northampton 15