NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 624

HOUSE BILL 809

 

 

AN ACT TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE STUDENT RECORDS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The official record of each student enrolled in North Carolina public schools shall be permanently maintained in the files of the appropriate school after the student graduates, or should have graduated, from high school.

Sec. 2.  The "official record" shall contain, as a minimum, adequate identification data (including date of birth), attendance data, grading and promotion data, and such other factual information as may be deemed appropriate by the local board of education having jurisdiction over the school wherein the record is maintained.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1975.