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1	1		GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
2	2		SESSION 2025
3		-	S 1
4		-	SENATE BILL 619
	3	+	S D
	4	+	SENATE BILL DRS35224-NG-73
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7	8		Short Title: AI Academic Support Grant Program. (Public)
8	9		Sponsors: Senators Lee, Overcash, and Corbin (Primary Sponsors).
9		-	Referred to: ~~Rules and Operations of the Senate~~
10		-	~~March 26, 2025~~
11		-	~~S619 -v-1~~
	10	+	Referred to:
	11	+
	12	+	DRS35224 -NG-73
12	13		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
13	14		AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE AI ACADEMIC SUPPORT GRANT PROGRAM AND TO 2
14	15		APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THAT PURPOSE . 3
15	16		The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
16	17		SECTION 1.(a) Chapter 115C of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new 5
17	18		Article to read: 6
18	19		"Article 42. 7
19	20		"Academic Support Programs. 8
20	21		"§ 115C-650. Establish AI Academic Support Program. 9
21	22		(a) Purpose; Program. – There is established the AI Instructional Support Program 10
22	23		(Program) to allow public school units to contract with Khan Academy, Inc. (Khan Academy) 11
23	24		for use of the academic support service Khanmigo, in grades six through 12. Khanmigo is an 12
24	25		application that uses artificial intelligence to support teachers with lesson plan development and 13
25	26		to support students with lesson comprehension. 14
26	27		(b) Funding. – Funds shall be allocated to each public school unit on the basis of average 15
27	28		daily membership (ADM) in grades six through 12 in the public school unit for the purposes set 16
28	29		out in this section. 17
29	30		(c) Funding Use. – Public school units that utilize funds pursuant to this section shall use 18
30	31		all funds to contract with Khan Academy for use of the Khanmigo service, any associated 19
31	32		professional development, and the rostering programs required pursuant to subsection (e). 20
32	33		(d) Contract Term. – Public school units entering into contracts with Khan Academy shall 21
33	34		contract for a term of one year. At the end of each school year, each public school unit shall 22
34	35		evaluate the use of Khanmigo services in the public school unit prior to contracting with Khan 23
35	36		Academy for the subsequent school year. The evaluation shall include all of the information 24
36	37		required to be reported on by the Department of Public Instruction in subdivisions (2) through 25
37	38		(7) of subsection (g) of this section. Public school units shall submit their evaluations to the 26
38	39		Department of Public Instruction by July 15 of each year that funds are used pursuant to this 27
39	40		section. 28
40	41		(e) Class Rostering for Khanmigo. – All public school units that contract with Khan 29
41	42		Academy pursuant to this section shall use a secure, cloud-based, single sign-on and class 30
42	43		rostering platform to manage access to digital instructional resources and student information 31
43	44		systems and to facilitate automated data integration between educational applications and school 32
44	45		district systems. Class rostering products used pursuant to this section must be approved by the 33
45	46		Department. 34
46	47		(f) Juvenile Justice. – The Department shall contract with Khan for 500 Khanmigo 35
47		-	licenses for use in schools operated by the Division of Juvenile Justice of the Department of 36 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025
48		-	Page 2 Senate Bill 619-First Edition
	48	+	licenses for use in schools operated by the Division of Juvenile Justice of the Department of 36
	49	+	FILED SENATE
	50	+	Mar 25, 2025
	51	+	S.B. 619
	52	+	PRINCIPAL CLERK General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025
	53	+	Page 2 DRS35224-NG-73
49	54		Public Safety. The Department of Public Instruction shall provide technical support to the 1
50	55		Division of Juvenile Justice for the use of Khanmigo. The Division of Juvenile Justice shall 2
51	56		comply with evaluation requirements pursuant to subsection (d) of this section. 3
52	57		(f) Study. – The Office of Learning Research at the North Carolina Collaboratory (OLR) 4
53	58		shall design and conduct a study to measure the effectiveness of using Khanmigo, including any 5
54	59		impact on student performance and growth. As part of the study, the Department of Public 6
55	60		Instruction shall aggregate and report to OLR on the evaluations submitted by public school units 7
56	61		pursuant to subsection (d) of this section. OLR shall collaborate with Khan Academy to aggregate 8
57	62		data on student performance by teacher and by subgroup, to the extent allowed by law. OLR shall 9
58	63		provide the results of this study to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee no later 10
59	64		than April 1, 2028. 11
60	65		(g) Report. – No later than February 15 of each year in which funds are made available 12
61	66		for the Program, the Department of Public Instruction shall report to the Joint Legislative 13
62	67		Education Oversight Committee at least the following information: 14
63	68		(1) The number public school units that contracted with Khan Academy pursuant 15
64	69		to this article. 16
65	70		(2) The number of students using the Khanmigo application. 17
66	71		(3) The average number of minutes and interactions students had with the 18
67	72		Khanmigo application weekly. 19
68	73		(4) The number of teachers using the application. 20
69	74		(5) The average number of minutes and interactions teachers had with the 21
70	75		Khanmigo application weekly. 22
71	76		(6) Any identified impact on student outcomes. 23
72	77		(7) Any identified impact on teacher performance. 24
73	78		(8) The number of moderation flags generated by the application." 25
74	79		SECTION 2. It is the intent of the General Assembly to appropriate from the General 26
75	80		Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of ten million sixty thousand five hundred 27
76	81		sixty dollars ($10,060,560) in recurring funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to allocate funds 28
77	82		pursuant to G.S. 115C-650, as established by this act. 29
78	83		SECTION 3. This act is effective when the Current Operations Appropriations Act 30
79	84		of 2025 becomes law and if that bill appropriates funds for the purposes detailed in this act in the 31
80	85		amounts set out in Section 2 of this act. 32