NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1039

HOUSE BILL 409

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH COMMISSION TO STUDY THE PROBLEM OF PUBLIC SCHOOL DROPOUTS IN NORTH CAROLINA.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The Legislative Research Commission is authorized to study (i) what are the causes of the high dropout rate in North Carolina in grades 8 to 12; (ii) why so many North Carolina high school graduates fail to continue their education beyond the high school level; (iii) what should and can be done to encourage students to remain in high school until they graduate; and (iv) what special factors, if any, have caused the dropout rate to be especially high in the western mountain counties comprising the Eighth Educational District, and what special solutions, if any, exist. The Commission may submit a report to the 1981 Session of the General Assembly.

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.