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State |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
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 | Accountability |
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| Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
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| Accountability--Reporting Results |
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| Accountability--Rewards |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Play |
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| Adult Basic Education |
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 | Assessment |
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | Makes clarifying changes in those provisions pertaining to the indicators used to evaluate the performance of schools in the Academic Performance Index; makes a specified appropriation available for allocation and expenditure in the 2000-01 fiscal year.
Title: S.B. 1552
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2000 | P-12 | Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop, and the State Board of Education to adopt, performance goals for individuals with exceptional needs; requires individuals with exceptional needs to be included in general statewide and districtwide assessment programs, with appropriate accommodations when necessary.
Title: A.B. 1940
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | Deletes the intent of the Legislature regarding the augmentation of the achievement test and instead would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with approval of the State Board of Education, to provide for the development of an assessment instrument that measures the degree to which pupils are achieving the academically rigorous content standards and performance standards, to the extent standards have been adopted.
Title: A.B. 2812
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | Puts into legislation recommendations of Task Force on Learning Standards and Accountability in Public Education created by 1999 legislation. Creates both norm-referenced and criterion-referenced tests for students in most grades; writing assessments for students in grades 6 and 9; and 10th-grade basic skills competency test. Test results shall identify schools for assistance starting in 2003-2004. State Board shall also develop school performance report to provide information, including U-PASS scores, for every public school in the state.
The Task Force (named above) shall also seek public input on a possible system of rewards and interventions and on discontinuing social promotion. Task Force shall present report by November 30, 2000.
Title: H.B. 177
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Urges Department of Education to modify and revise portfolio assessment piloted for evaluating students with disabilities who do not participate in statewide assessment.
Title: H.J.R. 589
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Relates to the assessment of student achievement in the public schools; removes the requirement that the board implement a nationally normed test in specified grades; requires that the board implement an assessment program in specified grades and assessment and remediation program in specified grades to prepare for the graduation examination.
Title: S.B. 551
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12
Postsec. | Relates to Stanford Achievement Tests (SAT) given to students in public schools as required by the State Department of Education; provides for tutoring services for reading and other subjects in which a student scores or is assessed at a below average range.
Title: S.B. 169
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Amends the Profile of Learning. Highlights: Allows districts to phase in the number of content standards required of students for graduation; empowers teachers to participate in the decision about student standard requirements; allows districts to permit this year's 9th & 10th graders to be 'held harmless;' makes scoring more flexible; emphasizes that state and local performance packages are not required. Allows districts to choose whether or not to use the three additional instruction days (mandated in 1996) for staff development relating to the implementation of the Profile of Learning.
Title: S.F. 3286
Source: Minnesota Department of Children, Families and Learning
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| MN | Signed by governor 05/2000 | P-12 | Specifies that the passing scores in reading and mathematics are the equivalent of 70 percent correct for students entering grade 9 in 1996 and 75 percent correct for those entering grade 9 in 1997 and thereafter, as based on the first uniform test administration of February 1998. Effective the day following final enactment and applies to test administrations beginning in February 2000.
Title: H.B. 3800
Source: Department of Children, Families and Learning
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Modifies the Oklahoma School Testing Program by administering a norm-referenced test in the third-grade beginning with the 2000-2001 school year to continue until the third-grade criterion-referenced test (CRT) is implemented. Field testing of the third grade CRT is delayed until the 2001-2002 school year and implementation is delayed until 2002-2003. Delays implementation of the end-of-instruction tests in Biology I and Algebra I until the 2002-2003 school year. Requires test results to be disaggregated by ethnic group and gender. Declares schools sites to be low-performing if more than 30% of students score unsatisfactory in both reading/English and mathematics on the CRT or end-of-instructions tests, or if the student average score falls in the lowest quartile statewide and below the national average. School sites identified as low-performing for 3 consecutive years will be declared high challenge schools. Effective 7-01-00.
Title: S.B. 491
Source: Legislative Review, Oklahoma
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| PA | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Act No. 16 of 2000., Amends the Public School Code. Provides funding for basic education, services to nonpublic schools, special education, professional development, school lunch and breakfast programs, higher education, full-time student community college reimbursement, higher education, vocational education and small district assistance. Provides for an official education assessment test. Identifies underperforming schools and permits charter and for-profit school and other improvements.
Title: S.B. 652
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Vetoed 04/2000 | P-12 | Establishes the 15-member Maintenance and Operations Task Force and the 21-member Joint Legislative Study Committee on the Impact of State Required Student Tests Committee; lowers the grade levels that are offered by the nationally standardized norm-referenced achievement tests and its subtests from between grades three and 12 to between grades two and 11.
Title: S.B. 1300
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | States the State Board of Education shall administer the standardized norm-referenced achievement test two times during each academic year to the random statewide representative sample of pupils selected by the technical advisory committee; states the State Board of Education shall administer a parent quality survey two times each academic year; states each school district or charter school in this state is eligible to revise its budget, as defined.
Title: S.B. 1139
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| DE | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education to make a report on the logistics of the Delaware Student Testing Program and to provide a plan regarding the test turnaround time so that local school districts can plan summer school effectively and efficiently.
Title: H.J.R. 20
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Exempts certain testing instruments, test answers, and individual student test scores from the public records laws.
Title: S.B. 33A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Directs the state board to develop sufficiently clear and measurable model academic content standards. Additionally, each school district in the state is required to develop measurable academic standards that would need to be the same as, equally rigorous as or more rigorous than the measurable model standards created by the board. Also directs local school districts to develop academic subject assessments, which will be given in one subject each year, beginning with reading. Once a subject assessment takes place, the local versions of the assessments will be forwarded to an independent expert who will select four model assessments. School districts will then be required to utilize one of the model assessments the next time that subject area is assessed. Provides for the implementation of a statewide writing assessment beginning in the spring of 2001 for students at three grade levels selected by the state board.
Title: L.B. 812
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Authorizes the Board of Education to provide multiple assessments; includes on-line computer tests, field tests, and evaluation of student progress during and after remediation.
Title: H.B. 1484
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Relates to social studies; requires the Board of Education, in prescribing the Standards of Learning assessments, to provide local school boards the option of administering end-of-course tests for United States History to 1877, United States History: 1877 to the Present, and Civics and Economics.
Title: H.B. 1020
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Directs the Department of Education to evaluate the academic performance and safety environment of every public school within the state; specifies the methodology for such evaluation; requires the department to develop a comprehensive data collection and reporting system to enable the evaluation of every public school in the state; assists in performance decisions at all levels of school administration. Includes component that requires all 11th graders to take the ACT test.
Title: S.B. 186
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Mandates Criterion Reference Competency Tests (CRCT's) in grades 1-8. English, language arts, math and reading will be assessed in grades 1-8. Science and social studies will be added for grades 3-8. End-of-course tests in high school for core subject areas will be developed. Georgia shall participate in a norm-referenced test and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Georgia may also participate in any other national or international performance tests. (This might include Achieve and International TMSS.) A student's IEP may serve as the alternative assessment. The questions and answers for the end-of –course and criterion reference competency tests are to be released each year. Any possible funding for locally developed assessments is eliminated. The State Board of Education may grant waivers until FY 2003 to local school boards exempting those boards from administration of the state criterion-reference competency tests at any or all of the subject areas and grade levels for which the local school board implements locally developed criterion referenced competency tests based on the Quality Core Curriculum which increases expectations for student achievement beyond the state criterion reference competency tests.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education
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| GA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | A student's IEP may serve as the alternative assessment.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Requires Board of Education to establish requirements to facilitate acceleration of students who are qualified under standard of learning assessment to sit for relevant test and to obtain credit, including verified credit upon achieving a passing score.
Title: H.B. 1196
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Directs the Board of Education to schedule the administration of Standards of Learning assessments to be graded by computerized or other automated means to occur no earlier than 2 weeks before the end of the relevant course.
Title: S.B. 318
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Requires the Board of Education to make publicly available the Standards of Learning assessments in a timely manner and as soon as practicable following the administration of these tests, so long as this release does not compromise test security or deplete the bank of assessment questions necessary to construct subsequent tests.
Title: H.B. 1019
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2000 | P-12 | Requires the Board of Education to include, in the requirement for verified credits for the standard and advanced studies diplomas, a provision that allows students completing elective classes into which the Standards of Learning for any required course have been integrated to take the relevant Standards of Learning assessment for the relevant required course and receive, upon achieving a satisfactory score on the specific SOL test.
Title: H.B. 489
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| Assessment--Accommodations |
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| Assessment--End-of-Course |
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| Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
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| Attendance |
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| Attendance--Compulsory |
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| Attendance--Truancy |
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| Background Checks |
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| Bilingual/ESL |
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| Business Involvement |
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| Career/Technical Education |
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| Cheating |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
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| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
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| Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
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| Civic Education |
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| Civic Education--Character Education |
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| Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance |
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| Class Size |
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| Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Arts Education |
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| Curriculum--Core Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Drivers Education |
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| Curriculum--Environmental Education |
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| Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
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| Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
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| Curriculum--Geography Education |
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| Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education |
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| Curriculum--Language Arts |
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| Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling |
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| Curriculum--Mathematics |
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| Curriculum--Multicultural |
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| Curriculum--Physical Education |
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| Curriculum--Science |
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| Curriculum--Sex Education |
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| Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
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| Data-Driven Improvement |
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| Demographics--Enrollments |
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| Desegregation |
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| Economic/Workforce Development |
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| Equity |
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| Finance |
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| Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
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| Finance--Bonds |
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| Finance--District |
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| Finance--Equity |
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| Finance--Facilities |
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| Finance--Funding Formulas |
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| Finance--Litigation |
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| Finance--Local Foundations/Funds |
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| Finance--Lotteries |
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| Finance--Private Giving |
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| Finance--Resource Efficiency |
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| Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
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| Finance--Student Fees |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
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| Governance |
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| Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
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| Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
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| Governance--School Boards |
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| Governance--Site-Based Management |
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| Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
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| Health |
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| Health--Mental Health |
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| Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
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| Health--Teen Pregnancy |
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| High School |
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| High School--Advanced Placement |
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| High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
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| High School--Exit Exams |
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| High School--Graduation Requirements |
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| Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
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| Instructional Approaches--Official English |
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| Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
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| Leadership |
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| Leadership--District Superintendent |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Tenure |
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| Middle School |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--African American |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--Hispanic |
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| No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
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| Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
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| Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
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| P-16 or P-20 |
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| P-3 |
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| P-3 Child Care |
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| P-3 Early Intervention (0-3) |
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| P-3 Ensuring Quality |
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| P-3 Family Involvement |
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| P-3 Finance |
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| P-3 Governance |
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| P-3 Grades 1-3 |
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| P-3 Health and Mental Health |
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| P-3 Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Preschool |
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| P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development |
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| Parent/Family |
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| Parent/Family--Parent Rights |
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| Postsecondary |
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| Postsecondary Accountability |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
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| Postsecondary Faculty |
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| Postsecondary Finance |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures--Administrative/Leadership Issues |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
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| Postsecondary Online Instruction |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Access |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Outreach |
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| Postsecondary Students--Disabled |
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| Postsecondary Success--Completion |
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| Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
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| Private Schools |
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| Privatization |
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| Promising Practices |
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| Promotion/Retention |
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| Public Involvement |
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| Reading/Literacy |
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| Religion |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Day/Class Length |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Summer School |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Year |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Year Round |
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| School Safety |
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| School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
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| School Safety--Code of Conduct |
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| School Safety--Corporal Punishment |
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| School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension |
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| School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
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| School Safety--Uniforms/Dress Codes |
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| School/District Structure/Operations |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--District Consolidation/Deconsolidation |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--District Size |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Libraries |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
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| Service-Learning |
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| Special Education |
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| Special Education--Federal Law/Regulations |
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| Special Education--Finance |
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| Special Education--Inclusion (Mainstreaming) |
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| Special Education--Placement |
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| Special Education--Transition |
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| Special Populations--Corrections Education |
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| Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
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| Special Populations--Homeless Education |
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| Standards |
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| Standards--Implementation |
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| State Longitudinal Data Systems |
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| State Policymaking |
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| State Policymaking--Politics |
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| State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
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| Student Achievement |
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| Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
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| Student Supports--Mentoring/Tutoring |
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| Student Supports--Remediation |
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| Students |
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| Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
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| Students--Records/Rights |
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| Teaching Quality |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds. |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--State Prof. Standards Bds. |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Substitute Teachers |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
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| Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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| Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
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| Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals |
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| Teaching Quality--Preparation |
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| Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Rights |
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| Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
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| Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
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| Technology |
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| Technology--Computer Skills |
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| Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
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| Technology--Equitable Access |
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| Technology--Funding Issues |
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| Technology--Internet Safety |
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| Technology--Teacher/Faculty Training |
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| Textbooks and Open Source |
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| Urban |
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| Whole Child |
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