§ 115C-81.1. Basic Education Program Funds not to supplant Local funds for schools. - North Carolina Statutes

§ 115C‑81.1.  BasicEducation Program Funds not to supplant Local funds for schools.

It is the intent of the General Assembly that budget funds appropriatedby the General Assembly for vocational and technical education programs andclerical personnel to implement the Basic Education Program be used tosupplement and not supplant existing State and local funding for the publicschools.  Therefore, to the extent that local school administrative unitsreceive additional State funds for vocational and technical education programsand clerical personnel positions that were previously funded in whole or inpart with nonstate funds, the local governments shall continue to spend forpublic school operating or capital purposes in the local school administrativeunits the amount of money they would have spent to provide the vocational andtechnical education programs and the school clerical personnel previouslyfunded with nonstate funds.

Priority shall be given to funding capital needs, particularly thoseresulting from implementation of the Basic Education Program. (1987, c. 830, s. 88; 1993, c. 180, s. 2.)