Summaries of special provisions and ratified bills are presented in this report on educational legislation conducted by the 1990 session of the North Carolina General Assembly. Contents include legislation pertaining to education budget expansions and reductions and summaries of special provisions and ratified bills. Legislative outcomes include provisions for forestalling additional funding for the Basic Education Program; providing a 6 percent salary increase for teachers and administrators; forming commissions to study driver education, parental involvement, and year-round education and also to conduct a policy review of public schools, community colleges, and the university system; and granting sole authority to local boards of education in the selection of supplementary instructional materials regardless of advertising content. Appendixes include descriptions of reports, studies, and study commissions affecting education, copies of special provisions, and the full texts of ratified bills. (LMI)