Changes Affecting Employment in the Public Schools

THE 2001 GENERAL ASSEMBLY passed legislation affecting employment in North Carolina’s public schools in the areas of licensure and professional devel- opment, recruiting and hiring, leave and pay, and grievances and appeals. The potentially most intriguing change involves the right of at-will employees to a state- ment of the reasons for dismissal, a hearing before the board of education, and the right to appeal to the superior court.