ECS
From the ECS State Policy Database
2000 State Policies / Activities

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The following summary includes policies enacted in 2000. This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the topic of interest. To view all, press the button located at the top labeled "Expand All."

Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date].

State Status/Date Level Summary
+ Accountability
+ Accountability--Accreditation
+ Accountability--Measures/Indicators
+ Accountability--Reporting Results
+ Accountability--Rewards
+ Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions
+ Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive
+ Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Play
+ Adult Basic Education
+ Assessment
+ Assessment--Accommodations
+ Assessment--End-of-Course
+ Assessment--High Stakes/Competency
+ At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)
+ At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education
+ At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol
+ Attendance
+ Attendance--Compulsory
+ Attendance--Truancy
+ Background Checks
+ Bilingual/ESL
+ Business Involvement
+ Career/Technical Education
+ Cheating
+ Choice of Schools--Charter Schools
+ Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance
+ Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment
+ Choice of Schools--Tax Credits
+ Choice of Schools--Vouchers
+ Civic Education
+ Civic Education--Character Education
+ Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance
+ Class Size
+ Curriculum
+ Curriculum--Arts Education
+ Curriculum--Core Curriculum
+ Curriculum--Drivers Education
+ Curriculum--Environmental Education
+ Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed.
+ Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language
+ Curriculum--Geography Education
+ Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education
+ Curriculum--Language Arts
+ Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling
+ Curriculum--Mathematics
+ Curriculum--Multicultural
+ Curriculum--Physical Education
+ Curriculum--Science
+ Curriculum--Sex Education
+ Curriculum--Social Studies/History
+ Data-Driven Improvement
+ Demographics--Enrollments
+ Desegregation
+ Economic/Workforce Development
+ Equity
+ Finance
+ Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost
+ Finance--Bonds
+ Finance--District
+ Finance--Equity
+ Finance--Facilities
+ Finance--Funding Formulas
+ Finance--Litigation
+ Finance--Local Foundations/Funds
+ Finance--Lotteries
+ Finance--Private Giving
+ Finance--Resource Efficiency
+ Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
+ Finance--Student Fees
+ Finance--Taxes/Revenues
+ Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues
+ Governance
+ Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule
+ Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest
+ Governance--School Boards
+ Governance--Site-Based Management
+ Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
+ Health
+ Health--Mental Health
+ Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses
+ Health--Teen Pregnancy
+ High School
+ High School--Advanced Placement
+ High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment
+ High School--Exit Exams
+ High School--Graduation Requirements
+ Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling
+ Instructional Approaches--Official English
+ Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools
+ Leadership
+ Leadership--District Superintendent
+ Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure
+ Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Compensation and Diversified Pay
+ Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness
+ Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Tenure
+ Middle School
+ Minority/Diversity Issues
+ Minority/Diversity Issues--African American
+ Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian
+ Minority/Diversity Issues--Hispanic
+ No Child Left Behind--Assessment
+ Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning
+ Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses
+ P-16 or P-20
+ P-3
+ P-3 Child Care
+ P-3 Early Intervention (0-3)
+ P-3 Ensuring Quality
+ P-3 Family Involvement
+ P-3 Finance
+ P-3 Governance
+ P-3 Grades 1-3
+ P-3 Health and Mental Health
+ P-3 Kindergarten
+ P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten
+ P-3 Preschool
+ P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development
+ Parent/Family
+ Parent/Family--Parent Rights
- Postsecondary
HIApproved by voters 11/2000Postsec.CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (SB 539 CD1, 2000); Amends the Hawaii State Constitution; provides the University of Hawaii with autonomy in all matters related to the University.
Title: V. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

CAVetoed 09/2000Postsec.Relates to public postsecondary education. Increases the percentage of lottery moneys that may be pledged under the program to the equivalent of 50% of the amount allocated in the 1996-97 fiscal year. Makes an appropriation by authorizing more funds to be deposited in the continuously appropriated Postsecondary Education Technology Pooled Revenue Bond Fund.
Title: A.B. 2565
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

CAVetoed 09/2000Postsec.Adds to the Donahoe Higher Education Act provisions that require a campus of the University of California or the California State University that maintains an intercollegiate athletic program, including scholarship student athletes, that must be suspended or eliminated to notify the scholarship student athletes of the proposed suspension or elimination.
Title: S.B. 338
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

CASigned into law 09/2000Postsec.
Community College
Requires the Student Aid Commission in collaboration with the various segments of higher education, to develop and establish a pilot program entitled "Transfer: Making it Happen," which would assist community college students who are planning to transfer to a 4 year institution of higher education by providing academic preparation and information on financial aid opportunities.
Title: S.B. 1898
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

CASigned into law 09/2000Postsec.Requests the University of California and requires the California State University, to require each campus in their respective systems to develop a process through which a student admitted to full-time undergraduate status may apply to defer his or her enrollment for up to one academic year. Specifies that the decision as to whether to grant the deferral of enrollment would be made at the discretion of the affected university on a case-by-case basis.
Title: A.B. 1958
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

CASigned into law 09/2000Postsec.Conducts in consultation with the Department of Veterans Affairs, a study concerning prescribed topics relating to educational opportunities for veterans. Requires the Commission of Higher Education to report these findings to the Governor and the appropriate legislative policy and fiscal committees no later than 12/31/2001.
Title: A.B. 1739
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

CAVetoed 09/2000Postsec.
Community College
Requests the Regents of the University of California, and requires the Trustees of the California State University, to develop and maintain prescribed articulation agreements with all campuses of the California Community Colleges prior to the 2005-06 academic year. Requires the California Community Colleges to negotiate with the University of California and the California State University when developing articulation agreements with those systems.
Title: A.B. 1861
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

CASigned into law 09/2000Postsec.Existing case law provides that in the absence of evidence of agreement to the contrary, a teacher, rather than the institution for which he or she teaches, owns the common law copyright to his or her lectures.
This bill would prohibit any business, agency, or person from preparing, causing to be prepared, giving, selling, transferring, or otherwise distributing or publishing, any contemporaneous recording of an academic presentation, as defined.
Title: A.B. 1773
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

CASigned into law 07/2000Postsec.Enacts the Vasconcellos-Poochigan-Burton-Ortiz-Pacheco Cal Grant Guarantee Program, which would, among other things, set forth the long-term policy that first-year Cal Grant awards be granted to all applicants with eligible grade point averages.
Title: S.B. 1644
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

DESigned into law 07/2000Postsec.Relates to financial assistance for higher education; creates an annual legislative essay scholarship fund that will fund a nonrenewable scholarship to a 12th grader in each senatorial and representative district as well as 3 other scholarships to the top 3 district historic essay writers; states the Delaware Higher Education Commission shall administer the fund.
Title: H.B. 545
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

HIBecame law without governor's signature 07/2000Postsec.Provides the University of Hawaii with autonomy in all matters related to the University.
Title: S.B. 539
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

MOVetoed 07/2000Postsec.Makes several changes in the operations of the governing bodies of public colleges and universities, and provides for technical clarification in the statutes relating to these governing boards; includes a technical change to clarify that the board of curators at the University of Missouri and the 7 regional schools may exclude a student representative to the board from a closed meeting, if the voting board members unanimously vote to do so.
Title: H.B. 1396
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

OKApproved by voters 07/2000Postsec.STATE QUESTION 686 (SB 151-2000) Amends the State Constitution; relates to the State budget; allows State colleges and universities to contract with presidents for multi-year contracts; establishes a lease-financing program.
Title: V. 3
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

CASigned into law 06/2000P-12
Postsec.
Authorizes the Regents of the University of California to establish 3 California Institutes for Science and Innovation for the purpose of combining technological and scientific research and training and educating future scientists and technological leaders.
Title: A.B. 2883
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

COSigned into law 06/2000Postsec.Requires the Colorado Commission on Higher Education to adopt and the governing boards of state institutions of higher education to implement, standards and procedures whereby basic skills courses may be offered by such institutions; directs the commission to require each student admitted to a state institution of higher education pursuant to alternative admissions criteria be tested to determine if the student is proficient in the skills generally needed to perform college work.
Title: H.B. 1464
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

FLSigned into law 06/2000Postsec.
Community College
Relates to direct-support organizations; prohibits university, community college, and statewide community college direct-support organizations from making certain political contributions.
Title: S.B. 890
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

HISigned into law 06/2000Postsec.Establishes a post-secondary education benefits program, known as the bridge-to-hope program, for heads of households in the temporary assistance to needy families program; requires the University of Hawaii to submit a report on the expenditure of funds for the program to the Legislature prior to the convening of the regular session of 2001.
Title: S.B. 3123
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

MISigned into law 06/2000P-12
Postsec.
Provides a wider variety of options to high school pupils by encouraging and enabling students to enroll in career and technical preparation programs at eligible nonprofit postsecondary educational institutions. Provides for dual enrollment options for career and technical preparation programs; establishes these programs for certain students in state schools; prescribes certain duties of public schools and certain postsecondary institutions; prescribes certain powers and duties of certain state departments, officials, and agencies; repeals acts and parts of acts.
Title: H.B. 5534
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

OHSigned into law 06/2000Postsec.Permits the Board of Trustees of a State college or university to establish rules that describe circumstances in which an employee of that institution may solicit or may be given a financial interest in any firm, corporation, or other association to which the board has assigned, licensed, transferred, or sold the institution's interest in discoveries, inventions, intellectual property, or patents resulting from research; prescribes coordination with the Ethics Commission.
Title: S.B. 286
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

OKSigned into law 06/2000Postsec.Creates the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research Advisory Committee (EPSCoR) to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. Its purpose is, through a partnership of higher education institutions, independent research entities, industry, and state government, to enhance scientific and engineering research and development conducted at universities in the state and to enhance the success of Oklahoma researchers in federal award competitions.
Title: H.B. 2532
Source: Legislative Review, Oklahoma

OKSigned into law 06/2000Postsec.Relates to revenue and taxation and higher education. Appropriates to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education $634,890,903 from the general fund to increase faculty salaries 3% and to correct deferred maintenance in public postsecondary institutions throughout the state.
Title: S.B. 984
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

OKSigned into law 06/2000Postsec.Relates to revenue and taxation and higher education. Appropriates $634,890,903 from the general fund to increase faculty salaries 3% and to correct deferred maintenance in public postsecondary institutions throughout the state.
Title: H.B. 2249
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

ALVetoed 05/2000Postsec.Exempts from competitive bidding the renewal of all existing contracts that do not involve the expenditure of State funds and that are made for the selection of service contractors by or on behalf of public two-year and four-year colleges and universities of the state.
Title: S.B. 478
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

ALSigned into law 05/2000Postsec.Relates to viability and non-viability of programs of instruction as reviewed by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education; provides that students completing certain programs of instruction in two-year technical and vocational colleges shall be deemed graduates for the purposes of determining viability standards of the program.
Title: S.B. 356
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

TNSigned into law 05/2000Postsec.Pertains to the University of Tennessee; provides that copyrighted computer materials held by state institution, the university are not open to public inspection; provides that such materials produced by university employees are open to audit inspections.
Title: H.B. 2770
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

TNSigned into law 05/2000Postsec.Modifies certain procedures for protecting confidential research records and materials handled by higher education.
Title: H.B. 2769
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

AZSigned into law 04/2000Postsec.Relates to costs and revenues of intellectual property created by certain state universities.
Title: S.B. 1554
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

WVSigned into law 04/2000P-12
Postsec.
Relates to education and related subheadings; relates to exemption from motor vehicle and travel rules, goals for post-secondary education, retirement and separation incentives; defines terms; relates to compact with higher education, institutional compacts, peer institutions, legislative financing goals, financing, base funding, additional funding, statewide task force on teacher quality, statewide task force on student financial aid, and graduate education.
Title: S.B. 653
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

+ Postsecondary Accountability
+ Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation
+ Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid
+ Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees
+ Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans
+ Postsecondary Faculty
+ Postsecondary Finance
+ Postsecondary Governance and Structures
+ Postsecondary Governance and Structures--Administrative/Leadership Issues
+ Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges
+ Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary
+ Postsecondary Online Instruction
+ Postsecondary Participation--Access
+ Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements
+ Postsecondary Participation--Outreach
+ Postsecondary Students--Disabled
+ Postsecondary Success--Completion
+ Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation
+ Private Schools
+ Privatization
+ Promising Practices
+ Promotion/Retention
+ Public Involvement
+ Reading/Literacy
+ Religion
+ Scheduling/School Calendar
+ Scheduling/School Calendar--Day/Class Length
+ Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs
+ Scheduling/School Calendar--Summer School
+ Scheduling/School Calendar--Year
+ Scheduling/School Calendar--Year Round
+ School Safety
+ School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution
+ School Safety--Code of Conduct
+ School Safety--Corporal Punishment
+ School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension
+ School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault
+ School Safety--Uniforms/Dress Codes
+ School/District Structure/Operations
+ School/District Structure/Operations--District Consolidation/Deconsolidation
+ School/District Structure/Operations--District Size
+ School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities
+ School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service
+ School/District Structure/Operations--Libraries
+ School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching)
+ School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation
+ Service-Learning
+ Special Education
+ Special Education--Federal Law/Regulations
+ Special Education--Finance
+ Special Education--Inclusion (Mainstreaming)
+ Special Education--Placement
+ Special Education--Transition
+ Special Populations--Corrections Education
+ Special Populations--Gifted and Talented
+ Special Populations--Homeless Education
+ Standards
+ Standards--Implementation
+ State Longitudinal Data Systems
+ State Policymaking
+ State Policymaking--Politics
+ State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions
+ Student Achievement
+ Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance
+ Student Supports--Mentoring/Tutoring
+ Student Supports--Remediation
+ Students
+ Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities
+ Students--Records/Rights
+ Teaching Quality
+ Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure
+ Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative
+ Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds.
+ Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education
+ Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--State Prof. Standards Bds.
+ Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Substitute Teachers
+ Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay
+ Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance
+ Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits
+ Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness
+ Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring
+ Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals
+ Teaching Quality--Preparation
+ Teaching Quality--Professional Development
+ Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention
+ Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools
+ Teaching Quality--Teacher Rights
+ Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract
+ Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining
+ Technology
+ Technology--Computer Skills
+ Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware
+ Technology--Equitable Access
+ Technology--Funding Issues
+ Technology--Internet Safety
+ Technology--Teacher/Faculty Training
+ Textbooks and Open Source
+ Urban
+ Whole Child