ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
CHAPTER 136
SENATE BILL NO. 2196
(Senators Schaible, Davison, Oban)
(Representatives Heinert, Schreiber-Beck, Zubke)
AN ACT to create and enact a new subdivision to subsection 7 of section 15.1-01-04 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to the duties of the kindergarten through grade twelve education coordination council; and to amend and reenact subsection 1 of section 15.1-01-03, section 15.1-02-04, subsection 3 of section 15.1-21-02, and section 15.1-21-03 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to the establishment of a North Dakota learning continuum and to instructional time and unit requirements.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
SECTION 1. AMENDMENT. Subsection 1 of section 15.1-01-03 of the North Dakota Century Code is amended and reenacted as follows:
1. The state board of public school education shall:
a. Assist county committees in carrying out their duties.
b. Provide county committees with clerical assistance, plans of procedure, standards, data, maps, forms, and other materials, information, and services.
c. Appoint members to the county committee, if the county superintendent does not fulfill this duty, as provided for in section 15.1-10-01.
d. Provide oversight for regional education associations as required by chapter 15.1-09.1.
e. Establish and certify a North Dakota learning continuum to allow a district-approved, mastery framework policy to award units required under sections 15.1-21-01 and 15.1-21-02 and to waive unit instructional time requirements under section 15.1-21-03, upon the recommendation of the kindergarten through grade twelve education coordination council.
SECTION 2. A new subdivision to subsection 7 of section 15.1-01-04 of the North Dakota Century Code is created and enacted as follows:
Review the North Dakota learning continuum and provide recommendations to the state board of public school education.
