NC Education Code · Regulation
Title 16 — root / Chapter 06 — 16 NCAC 06G .0601
Plain English summary
This regulation governs fees that local school administrative units may charge students enrolled in remote academies. Units are prohibited from charging rental fees for hardware or software needed to participate in remote academies, but may charge damage fees for injury, abuse, or loss of equipment beyond normal wear and tear, capped at the lesser of repair cost or fair market value.
Key requirements
- Local administrative units shall not charge students enrolled in remote academies rental fees for use of hardware or software needed to participate in the remote academy but may charge them damage fees.
- Damage fee means any mandatory payment that a local school administrative unit charges a student enrolled in a remote academy for injury to, abuse of, or loss of hardware or software that the local school administrative unit has provided to the student other than degradation arising from normal use, wear and tear, provided the payments cannot exceed the actual cost of repair or fair market value of the hardware or software, whichever is less.
- Rental fee means any mandatory payment that a local school administrative unit requires students enrolled in remote academies to make before the local school administrative unit will give a student access to or possession of any hardware and software needed to participate in the remote academy.
Affected parties
- students enrolled in remote academies
- local school administrative units
- parents or guardians of remote academy students