NC legislator proposes spending $100,000 to study movies watched in classrooms

GREENSBORO, NC (WFMY) — A bill introduced this month in the North Carolina General Assembly requires local boards of education to report movies shown in schools during instructional time. The move will cost the state $100,000 which will go toward the collection and summarization of the data.

House Bill 1079 states that each local board of education and each charter school needs to report in writing to the Superintendent of Public Instruction by September 1 concerning each movie shown during instructional time during the 2017-2018 school year in the months of November, December, January, April, May, and June.

That report must include the following information:

• The name of the movie and the date or dates it was shown.
• The amount of instructional time spent viewing the movie.
• The instructional purpose for viewing the movie.
• For each month, the number and percentage of classrooms in the local school administrative unit or charter school viewing a movie.
• For each month, the number and percentage of instructional hours spent viewing movies.

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Editor’s note: A previous version of this story incorrectly reported that the bill would go into effect in July. At the time of this writing, the bill is still pending in the General Assembly. We apologize for the confusion.