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I. NON - FINANCIAL WAIVER REQUESTS In requesting waivers, the school system had to indicate how specific state law, regulation or policy inhibited the school system's ability to attain its student performance goals and how a waiver would facilitate accomplishment of its student performance goals. The only state laws for which a waiver could be requested were laws pertaining to class size, teacher certification, assignment of teacher assistants, the use of state adopted textbooks, and the purposes for which state funds for the public schools may be used. Waivers could be requested from all state regulations and policies, except those pertaining to state salary schedules and employee benefits for school employees, the instructional program that must be offered under the Basic Education Program, the system of employment for public school teachers and administrators set out in GS. 115C -325, health and safety codes, compulsory school attendance, the minimum lengths of the school day and year, and the Uniform Education Reporting System (Guidelines for Implementation of The School Improvement and Accountability Act of 1989). II. WAIVER REQUESTS NEEDED TO ACCOMPLISH STUDENT PERFORMANCE GOALS The Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools Board of Education adopted the following three student performance goals relative to the implementation of The School Improvement and Accountability Act of 1989 (Senate Bill 2): Goal #1 Beginning with June, 1993, each year there will be an average pretest- to post- test gain of at least two NCE's for students participating in the Reading Resource Program in grade levels served by Chapter 1. Measurement will be based on performance on a norm - referenced, standardized assessment instrument. Goal #2 By June 1995, 80 percent of all students in grades 5, 8, and 11 who have completed at least two years in the Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools, will demonstrate mastery of problem - solving strategies as measured by a district developed or adopted criterion - referenced assessment instrument. Goal #3 By June 1995: (a) 95 percent of the students who complete the second grade curriculum will demonstrate mastery of all second grade goals identified in the N. C. Competency -based Curriculum in the areas of communication skills and mathematics as measured by district developed or adopted criterion- referenced assessment instruments; P]