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 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
 SESSION 2025
-S 1
-SENATE BILL 371
+S D
+SENATE BILL DRS45200-NH-111
 
 Short Title: Stop Chronically Low-Performing Charters. (Public)
 Sponsors: Senators Chitlik and Grafstein (Primary Sponsors).
-Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate
-March 24, 2025
-*S371-v-1*
+Referred to:
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+*DRS45200-NH-111*
 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
-AN ACT TO REQUIRE CH ARTER REVOCATION FOR  SCHOOLS THAT HAVE B EEN 2
-LOW-PERFORMING FOR FOUR CONSECUTIVE YEARS, TO RESTRICT CHART ER 3
-SCHOOLS FROM EXPANDI NG IF THEY ARE LOW -PERFORMING, TO LIMIT 4
-CHARTERS FOR REMOTE ACADEMIES TO THREE Y EARS, AND TO REQUIRE 5
-CHARTER SCHOOLS TO L IST THE SCHOOL'S PER FORMANCE GRADE ON 6
+AN ACT TO REQUIRE CHARTER REVOCATION FOR SCHOOLS THAT HAVE BEEN 2
+LOW-PERFORMING FOR FOUR CONSECUTIVE YEARS, TO RESTRICT CHARTER 3
+SCHOOLS FROM EXPANDING IF THEY ARE LOW -PERFORMING, TO LIMIT 4
+CHARTERS FOR REMOTE ACADEMIES TO THREE YEARS, AND TO REQUIRE 5
+CHARTER SCHOOLS TO LIST THE SCHOOL 'S PERFORMANCE GRADE ON 6
 ENROLLMENT APPLICATIONS. 7
 Whereas, one in eight North Carolina Schools are chronically low-performing; and 8
 Whereas, approximately 14,400 students are stuck in chronically low -performing 9
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 schools. 23
 (a) Identification of Low -Performing Charter Schools. – The State Board of Education 24
 shall identify low -performing charter schools on an annual basis. Low -performing charter 25
-schools are those that earn an overall s chool performance grade of D or F and a school growth 26
+schools are those that earn an overall school performance grade of D or F and a school growth 26
 score of "met expected growth" or "not met expected growth" as defined by G.S. 115C-83.15. 27
 (a1) Low-Performing Enrollment. – A charter school that is identified as low-performing 28
 is not authorized to expand enrollment, even if enrollment expansion was planned in the school's 29
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 State Board as low-performing for at least two of three consecutive years. 34
 (b1) Continually Low-Performing Charter. – If a charter school is identified as continually 35
 low-performing for four consecutive years, the school 's charter shall be revoked.  If a charter 36
+FILED SENATE
+Mar 20, 2025
+S.B. 371
+PRINCIPAL CLERK
 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025
-Page 2  Senate Bill 371-First Edition
+Page 2  DRS45200-NH-111
 school has been identified as continually low -performing for  the three c onsecutive years 1
 immediately preceding the expiration of the school 's charter, the Review Board may authorize 2
 the school to operate under its existing charter for one additional year. If the school is no longer 3
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 "(b) The Review Board shall review and approve a charter or charter modification for the 19
 creation of a remote charter academy that meets the requirements established in this Part for a 20
 term of five three years. The Review Board shall approve a minimum of two statewide remote 21
-charter academies that meet the qualifications o f this Part for operation beginning with the 22
+charter academies that meet the qualifications of this Part for operation beginning with the 22
 2026-2027 school year and thereafter." 23
 SECTION 7.  G.S. 115C-218.124(c) reads as rewritten: 24
 "(c) A nonprofit may apply for renewal of the remote charter academy for additional terms 25