4. Developing a plan for the creation of a civic education and citizenship engagement index to track data on civic skills, attitudes and behaviors of youth in this State. The task force shall review the North Carolina Civic Index and other measures of citizenship engagement and coordinate the development of an index in this State that builds upon the work begun by the Muskie School of Public Service in establishing Maine Marks: Social Indicators of Child, Family and Community Well-being and the Maine Economic Growth Council;

5. Examining in-service professional development programs for educators in this State and identifying ways to infuse civic skills, attitudes and behaviors into curricular and cocurricular programs for students in this State; and

6. Examining national voter education and voter registration models and making recommendations to the Secretary of State on ways to promote voter education and voter registration efforts for students in our secondary schools across the State; and be it further

Sec. B-2. Report; legislation. Resolved: That the task force shall submit an interim status report including any preliminary findings and recommendations to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over education matters, to the Commissioner of Education and to the State Board of Education no later than January 15, 2005.

The task force shall submit its final report, including findings, recommendations and suggested legislation, to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over education matters, the Commissioner of Education and the Chair of the State Board of Education no later than December 5, 2005. The joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over education matters has authority to report out legislation based on the report to the Second Regular Session of the 122nd Legislature.

SUMMARY

This resolve proposes to implement the recommendations of the Commission to Study the Scope and Quality of Citizenship Education. The resolve includes the following recommendations of the commission: