NC Education Code · Regulation
Title 16 — root / Chapter 06 — 16 NCAC 06D .0508
Plain English summary
This regulation establishes requirements for the North Carolina Read to Achieve Program, governing Grade 3 retention and promotion policies, reading proficiency assessments, and supplemental tutoring eligibility. Public school units must use SBE-approved alternative assessments that exclude the 'three-cueing system,' while charter schools and certain other entities may select their own alternative assessments with prior SBE notification by August 1. Governing bodies bear financial responsibility for alternative assessment expenses.
Key requirements
- The governing board of each public school unit shall adopt retention and promotion policies for students in Grade 3 that are consistent with Chapter 115C, Article 8, Part 1A of the General Statutes.
- Local school administrative units shall utilize the alternative assessment approved by the State Board of Education in accordance with G.S. 115C-83.3.
- Any alternative assessment approved by the SBE shall include the requirements listed in G.S. 115C-83.6(b) and shall not include the use of a 'three-cueing system' as defined in G.S. 115C-83.3(9a).
- The board of directors for a charter school may use an alternative assessment of its choice to assess reading proficiency under G.S. 115C-83.7(b)(3), provided that the board of directors notifies the SBE of the assessment it intends to use no later than August 1 of the school year in which it intends to use the alternative assessment.
- The governing body of a public school unit shall be responsible for any expenses associated with utilization of an alternative assessment.
- A student is identified as 'retained twice' if the student was retained once in Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, or Grade 3, and was retained again in Grade 3 either by placement in a Grade 3 class or a combined Grades 3 and 4 class in which the student received Grade 3 instruction in reading.
Affected parties
- Grade 3 students
- Local school administrative units
- Charter school boards of directors
- Local boards of education
- Schools operating under the Restart Model
- Laboratory schools under chancellor oversight
- Public school unit governing boards
- State Board of Education