North Carolina State Board of Education Amendment (2012)

Not on Ballot
This measure was not put on an election ballot

A North Carolina State Board of Education Amendment did not make the 2012 ballot in North Carolina as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. The proposed measure would have shifted authority from the Board of Education to an elected superintendent. Specifically, the board would become an advisory panel. Eight of the 11 board members would be chosen by the House speaker and Senate president.

The current state constitution gives the Board of Education the authority supervise and administer public schools and the superintendent is named as the board's chief administrative officer and secretary. However, the proposed measure would transfer some of the board's authority to the superintendent.

Text of measure

The proposed measure would ask voters:

Constitutional amendment increasing the size and changing the composition of the State Board of Education.

[__] FOR

[__] AGAINST

Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the North Carolina Constitution

The North Carolina Constitution, Section 4 of Article XIII, requires that a legislatively referred amendment go on the ballot after it is approved by a 60% vote of each house of the North Carolina State Legislature.

See also

Suggest a link

• 2012 ballot measures
• North Carolina 2012 ballot measures
• Superintendent of Schools
• North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction

External links

• Senate Bill 641 (full text)

Additional reading

• Lincoln Tribune, "NCGA special session ends with amendments on the table," September 19, 2011
• NewsObserver, "Plan reshapes N.C. school governance," May 25, 2011