NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 841

SENATE BILL 328

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHING IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS A MORE DIVERSIFIED AND COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM OF INSTRUCTION IN INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION AND OTHER COURSES.

 

WHEREAS, all Americans need to know and to understand how the American free enterprise economy is organized for industrial and agricultural production; how the basic raw materials are generally processed into various end products; how these commodities move, step by step, from producer to processor and fabricator, to distributor and eventually to the consumer; how such production, distribution, and consumption is financed; and how, in general, our free enterprise system operates; and

WHEREAS, the rapidity and direction of technological change make it necessary that a base of general vocational skills be developed on which specialized occupational study can be built; and

WHEREAS, the General Assembly recognizes the need for a curriculum in the public schools designed to keep pace with changing employment opportunities for the citizens of North Carolina; and

WHEREAS, it is desirable that instruction in these important areas of economic activity and basic work skills be supported by a program designed to provide training in basic work skills and to develop in the student an understanding of the more important processes of production and distribution; and

WHEREAS, the specialized vocational subjects taught in the high schools do not provide adequately for the development of basic work skills needed in many different occupations and the understanding of important production and distribution processes and human relations needed by every student; and

WHEREAS, a broadened vocational educational program in the public schools can play an important role in increasing the per capita income of North Carolina citizens; and

WHEREAS, the General Assembly deems it important that a program designed to fill these needs and serve these purposes be undertaken at the earliest possible time: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  The State Board of Education is authorized and directed to develop for the public schools of the State a more diversified and comprehensive program of instruction in basic work skills, applied economics, and industrial education, and to introduce in various public schools in the State such program on an experimental basis under regulations, standards, and procedures promulgated by the Board. The Board may provide for the in-service training or re-training of vocational and other teachers in cooperation with institutions of higher education in preparation for the program herein authorized. The Board may provide, under standards prescribed by it, funds, on a matching basis or otherwise, for both current expense costs and equipment necessary in the conduct of the program.

The title to any equipment provided a local county or city board of education for this purpose shall be held by the county or city board of education to which the funds are allocated.

Sec. 2.  There is hereby appropriated from the general funds of the State and from funds that are not otherwise appropriated the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the fiscal year 1963-1964 and there is also appropriated from the general funds of the State and from funds not otherwise appropriated for the fiscal year 1964-1965 the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000), for the purposes of the program authorized in Section 1 of this Act.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of June, 1963.