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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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| 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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| NY | Vetoed 12/2000 | P-12 | Develops a plan to ensure that every student in a school district with a disability who needs instructional materials in alternative formats receives such materials at the same time that the materials are available in regular format to non-disabled students.
Title: S.B. 7884
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2000 | P-12
Postsec. | Requires instruction in braille to be provided to each pupil who is functionally blind unless the individualized education program team determines that braille instruction is not appropriate based upon the assessments.
Title: A.B. 609
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | Makes existing provisions which require the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue a 2-year services credential with a specialization in pupil personnel services applicable to a prelingual deaf person with a 2-year services credential with a specialization in pupil personnel services, solely for the purpose of counseling deaf and hearing-impaired pupils as a school psychologist.
Title: A.B. 707
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | Relates to Special Education. Requires, subject to an appropriation for those purposes in the annual Budget Act or any other measures, the State Department of Education to select and allocate funds to 3 special education local plans areas to implement a 3 year pilot project for alternative due process hearing procedures.
Title: A.B. 2321
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2000 | P-12 | Requires the organization of Area Boards establish the Partners in Policymaking Program by July 15, 2001. The purpose of the program would be to provide information, resources, training, and education on the policymaking process to persons with developmental disabilities and their families.
Title: S.B. 1792
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 08/2000 | P-12 | Requires the State Department of Education to review and make recommendations to the state board regarding any needed updates to regulations concerning the assistance of individuals with exceptional needs by qualified health and school personnel on or before June 15, 2001.
Title: S.B. 1549
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2000 | P-12 | Makes available to all elementary schools in the state suitable curriculum materials to aid in the instruction of pupils in the understanding and acceptance of children with disabilities.
Title: A.B. 3597
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2000 | P-12 | Makes provision with respect to providing appropriate educational services to students who are visually impaired including using instructional materials in literary and non-literary subjects such as computer science and mathematics which have been translated to standard English braille, makes provision with respect to the training of certain teachers in standard English braille.
Title: S.B. 4515
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Approved by voters 07/2000 | P-12 | PROPOSITION 101 (HCR 2004) Revises the textual terminology in the State Constitution of Arizona, relating to voter qualification/disqualification; voting residency of federal employees and others; property tax exemption for the disabled; public school education of hearing- and visually-impaired children; composition of the State Militia; and institutions for the mentally and physically disabled.
Title: V. 2
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2000 | P-12 | Chapter No. 67; Authorizes foster family agencies, with jurisdiction over currently enrolled or former pupils, to access records of grades and transcripts, and individualized education plans maintained by school districts or private schools of those pupils.
Title: A.B. 2453
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2000 | P-12 | Chapter No. 88; Prohibits the denial of a petition for the establishment of a charter school based on the actual or potential costs of serving individuals with exceptional needs. Clarifies that this prohibition shall not be construed to prevent a school district from meeting its obligation to ensure that the proposed charter school will meet the needs of individuals with exceptional needs, nor shall it be construed to limit or alter the reasons for denying a petition, as specified.
Title: S.B. 1914
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000 | Postsec. | Amends the composition of the Transition Council by adding a representative from one of the regional education collaboratives.Transition from school to self-sufficient adulthood for students with disabilities
Title: H.B. 7466
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000 | P-12
Postsec. | Relates to education; pertains to children with disabilities; amends the composition of the Transition Council by adding a representative from one of the regional education collaboratives.
Title: S.B. 2389
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | , Relates to children; creates a Blind Babies Program; provides for early-intervention education for certain children who are blind or visually impaired and for their parents, families, and caregivers.
Title: S.B. 924
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| HI | Vetoed 06/2000 | P-12 | Establishes the Hawaii Autism Center of Excellence within the University of Hawaii.
Title: S.B. 2448
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Passed 06/2000 | P-12 | Directs the state board to refrain from implementing any new system for the certification of special education teachers until January 1, 2001.
Title: SJR 61
Source: NCREL Policy LINCLetter Spring II 2000
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Public Act No. 91-784., Provides that the provision (Article of the School Code) requiring the assignment of a surrogate parent for educational matters does not apply to a child who resides with a foster parent; allows the surrogate parent to be assigned for educational matters if the child is a ward of the State residing in a residential facility; requires special education teachers to be categorically certified, so in order to teach a student with a specific disability the teacher must be certified.
Title: S.B. 1447
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Authorizes medical assistance payments to certain clinics or diagnostic and treatment centers for services they render to preschool children with disabilities.
Title: S.B. 6735
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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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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| CO | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Provides that state funding of special education programs for children with disabilities be increased so that, by the 2005-06 fiscal year, the state will be funding not less than 80% of the total cost of providing such programs statewide. Makes legislative findings concerning the funding of such special education programs.
Title: S.B. 49
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CT | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Establishes a Braille Literacy Advisory Council to review braille literacy and assess availability of services to school children, collect data on frequency with which an individualized education plan contains a recommendation or determination that an impaired child should not be taught braille and the reasons therefor, evaluate learning media assessments, develop a plan to attract qualified teachers, and assess methods to improve coordination of State and local education agencies.
Title: H.B. 5531
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CT | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Expands responsibilities of surrogate parents appointed by Education Commissioner to represent children who may require special education in the absence of their real parents; monitors success; requires local school boards to notify said parents of discipline policies, suspensions and expulsions like regular parents; relates to disclosure of information in special education hearings; grants funds to local districts and magnet schools evenly; approves sheltered workshop training.
Title: H.B. 5316
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Public Law No. 775, (LD 2690); Changes the governance system and the educational programs of the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf; amends the structure of the school board; relates to funding the programs authorized by the school; permits the school board greater budget flexibility; allows the school board to authorize and operate satellite school programs; establishes a limit on the number of students enrolled in the residential program at Mackworth Island.
Title: H.B. 1946
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Public Act 129, Relates to special education; regards visually impaired pupils; provides for braille literacy provisions for visually impaired pupils; names section as "Blind Pupil's Braille Literacy Law"; provides definitions.
Title: S.B. 658
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MN | Signed by governor 05/2000 | P-12 | Creates an exception to a provision in MS 125A.15 which generally makes the nonresident district in which the child is placed responsible for providing an appropriate education and necessary transportation to a disabled child who is temporarily placed in a residential program for care and treatment. This exception allows a privately owned and operated residential facility to enter into a contract with a joint powers entity for appropriate educational programs and services for children with disabilities. Makes the entity with which the private facility contracts, and not the district in which the facility is located, the district responsible for providing the disabled student placed in the facility with an appropriate educational program. If the privately owned and operated residential facility does not enter into a contract under this exception, the nonresident district in which the facility is located is responsible.
Title: H.B. 3800
Source: MN Department of Children, Families and Learning
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| MN | Signed by governor 05/2000 | P-12 | Decreases a district's threshold to qualify for excess cost aid from 4.4 percent to 4.36 percent of general education revenue, beginning in FY 2001. Increase the appropriation for excess cost aid from $60,498,000 to $66,032,000 in fiscal year 2000 and from $79,405,000 to $89,137,000 in fiscal year 2001. Most of the change in these appropriations is to adjust for change in the estimated cost of fully funding the excess cost formula, based on new data becoming available between the end of the 1999 legislative session and the February 2000 budget forecast. Changes in the general education formula and the threshold to qualify for excess cost aid account for only a small portion of the change. The one-time special education cross-subsidy revenue is excluded from the calculation of excess cost aid.
Title: H.B. 3800
Source: Department of Children, Families and Learning
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Clarifies the definition of special education services; permits the cost of special education services to be a factor in considering how to provide appropriate services; provides for teacher training; provides for individual education plans; provides for state aid to districts to assist with special education costs.
More details:
This Act focuses on students in the entire educational system, not just the special education system, and addresses containment of special education costs while at the same time continuing to deliver appropriate services that meet the needs of Vermont students. It includes, among other items, the following provisions:
Assignment of responsibility for developing and maintaining the educational support system to either the superintendent or principal.
Requirement for an annual report to the Commissioner of Education on the status of each school's educational support system and a description and justification of how Medicaid funds were used.
Amendment to the definition in state statute of "special education" to clarify that Vermont requires no more in services than is required under federal law.
Specification of the conditions under which IEP teams can take costs into consideration when selecting services for a student with disabilities.
Expansion of the Commissioner of Education's annual report on special education costs to include the rate of growth or decrease in costs, outcomes for students, availability of special education staff, consistency of implementation statewide, status of educational support systems.
Development and implementation by the Commissioner of Education of a two-year plan to contain special education costs while continuing to meet the needs of all Vermont students by increasing the capacity of general education to meet the needs of students outside of special education, using cost-effective practices and operating special education programs across the state consistently and within federal requirements. The plan includes:
Formation of a partnership with higher education to improve teacher preparation and professional development.
Strengthening the educational support systems around the state by focusing on preschool through fourth grade literacy, and prevention and intervention for students with emotional and behavioral difficulties.
Support for special education teachers and administrators and help in using cost-effective practices by working with higher education to increase the availability of special education administrators, teachers and related services providers; providing training opportunities for teachers and para-professionals; providing legal support, information and training to avoid conflict and assist in making cost-effective legal and procedural decisions; employing consultants with expertise in particular disability areas; providing guidance in the completion of annual service plans; and developing, with the University of Vermont, a decision-making model for IEP teams to use.
Efforts to make special education programs consistently-implemented and cost-effective statewide by studying IEPs in the most common disability areas and providing schools data on the range of costs associated therewith; increasing the capacity to audit and monitor special education programs statewide; training to school district leaders on cost-effective practices; and more clearly defining eligibility rules.
Development of recommendations to change the special education funding formula to make it more sustainable while at the same time not simply shifting costs to local taxpayers.
Drafting and submittal of annual reports to the legislature on progress made toward strengthening the educational support system, containing special education costs, and improving outcomes for students with disabilities.
Assisting school districts with unusual or unexpected costs by allocation of up to two percent of appropriations for special education expenditures assuming the districts requesting the funds have submitted Medicaid bills for reimbursement for at least 85 percent of eligible students.
Establishment of statewide targets in fiscal years 2002, 2003 and 2004 for limiting increases in total special education expenditures. Special education appropriations shall be based on these targets.
Repeal of the caps on special education expenditures enacted as part of Act 71 in order to allow the above-mentioned plan time to work.
Conduct of a study by the Secretary of Administration and the Joint Fiscal Office, along with a variety of others, on how interagency services could assist students with disabilities under the age of twenty-two.
Although not expressly part of this Act, the Appropriations Act contains significant funding to carry out the provisions of the above-mentioned plan.
Title: H.B. 629
Source: http://www.state.vt.us/educ/legupdate.htm
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| WI | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Relates to the eligible ages for special education; provides that an individual with a disability must be between the ages of three and 21 years of age to be eligible for free appropriate public education.
Title: A.B. 394
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WI | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Parent" means any of the following: biological parent; husband who has consented to the artificial insemination of his wife; male who is presumed to be the child's father under section 891.41; male who has been adjudicated as the child's father by final order or judgment of an Indian tribal court of competent jurisdiction or by final order or judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction in another state; adoptive parent; legal guardian; person acting as a parent of a child; person appointed as a sustaining parent under section 48.428; or person assigned as a surrogate parent. "Parent" does not include any of the following: Person whose parental rights have been terminated; the state; a county or a child welfare agency, if child was made a ward of the state, county or child welfare agency under ch. 880 or if a child has been placed in the legal custody or guardianship of the state, county or child welfare agency under ch. 48 or ch. 767; or an American Indian tribal agency if the child was made a ward of the agency or placed in the legal custody or guardianship of the agency.
Title: A.B. 412
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Relates to special education; makes numerous changes to the statutes relating to special education; defines the term foster parent; modifies various terms; lowers the age of a child with a disability; removes the definition of handicapped child and replaces it with the term child with a disability; allows for more than one director for the Division of Special Education; removes the requirement that the director of the Division of Special Education have at a minimum a master's degree.
Title: H.B. 2359
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Specifies that local educational agencies are not responsible for replacing or repairing lost, stolen, or misused assistive technology devices provided to children with disabilities or their parents or guardians.
Title: S.B. 87A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Establishes an Advisory Council on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; provides for the membership, chairman, and staff of the advisory council; requires the advisory council to study and take specified actions regarding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; requires the Governor and state agencies to implement the recommendations of the task force to study the uses of methylphenidate and other drugs on school children.
Title: S.B. 742
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | (LD 1620)Allows any person who was a student at the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf between 1974 and 1998 to bring an action against the school notwithstanding any provision of the law limiting the time period for which an action may be commenced or concerning the Maine Tort Claims Act.
Title: H.B. 1135
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Public Law No. 721., (LD 2593)Extends the use of emotional disability as an identifying factor in the identification of exceptional children; directs the Department of Education to study the impact of the use of emotional and behavioral indicators and the likely impact of the use of developmental delay categories in the identification of exceptional children.
Title: H.B. 1858
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Direct the State Department of Education to provide an annual recognition program for schools for providing full inclusion of children with disabilities in all aspects of academic and extracurricular activities.
Title: S.B. 2745
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | This bill clarifies several aspects of how students, spacificly Special Ed. students, are to be treated in the state. It clarifies that special ed. students are "children from birth to the age twenty-one years". The bill also clarifies that schools are required to provide an education to children who are homeless. And it further defines that if a student's resident district is unable to provide special education services then they must contract with a non-resident district to provide those services.
Title: L.B. 1243
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Vetoed 04/2000 | P-12 | Changes provisions relating to budgets, beginner grade entrance document requirements, the enrollment option program, reorganization plan hearings, report filing dates, warrants, expenditure limitations, state aid, temporary mitigation funds, the Hardship Fund, certain site and building funds, special education, and private postsecondary career schools; changes and eliminates provisions relating to duties of the school Finance Review Committee.
Title: L.B. 1401
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NH | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Establishes a commission on the education of the deaf to study issues related to the status of education and support services for the deaf in the State; establishes a sunset date for the commission.
Title: H.B. 1283
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | The new class sizes are funded as follows:
Category I Special Education - 1:8
Category II Special Education - 1:6.5
Category III Special Education - 1:5
Category IV Special Education - 1:3
Category V Special Education - 1:8
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education
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| GA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Relates to elementary and secondary education; changes certain provisions regarding special instructional assistance programs for students with developmental deficiencies; provides for the application of mandatory education requirements to children between ages seven and 16 apply who are assigned to alternative public school programs and to the parents, guardians, or other persons having control or charge of such children.
Title: H.B. 114
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | There is created an Early Intervention Program in kindergarten and a Primary Grades Early Intervention Program in grades 1-3. These programs are for students performing below grade level. Special education students are eligible for this program, but may only be counted for funding for either the early intervention program or a special education category. The school must provide timely notice and an opportunity for a conference with the student and his or her parents or guardians to discuss the student's developmental deficiencies and options for addressing those deficiencies. Students should be "moved into this program, provided assistance, and moved out of this program." Delivery models may include, but are not limited to, class augmentation, pull-out or self-contained classes, and the Reading Recovery Program.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education
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| IL | Adopted 03/2000 | P-12 | Beginning January 1, 2003 the state of Illinois will have a new system for certifying Special Education teachers. Teachers will have to be certified as a Learning and Behavior Specialist I (entry level) or Learning and Behavior Specialist II (advanced study and specialization). This system will not affect those individuals who had already been certified prior to that date.
The new system is going to be designed to train teachers across categories instead of having them focus in on any single disability category. The state feels that the new system will enable teachers to better serve the needs of students who have multiple handicaps. Although the new system will provide teachers with training across all handicap categories there will still be three categorical certificates that can also be achieved, they are: Blind/Visually Impaired, Deaf/Hearing Impaired, and Speech and Language Impaired. In addition, there will be a new designation for teachers who have been trained to work with pre-kindergarten students. The state has not yet finalized the rules for this certification process.
Title:
Source: Illinois State Board of Education
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| MD | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Extends the time through which a child is eligible for special education and related services to the end of the school year in which the child turns 21 years of age; requires special education and related services regulations of the State Board of Education to cover a child through the end of the school year in which the child turns 21 years of age.
Title: H.B. 552
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | The legislation deals with the transfer of a special education student from a resident district to a nonresident district. Under previous law the resident district was held responsible for the students education, under the new law the nonresident district becomes responsible for the students education.
Title: H.B. 1058
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Allows certain children to be included as a level 2, 3, 4, or 5 disability for the purpose of calculating special education state aid.
Title: S.B. 23
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Relates to individuals with disabilities; provides a specified appropriation to the State Office of Rehabilitation to purchase assistive technology devices and services under rules made by the State Board of Education.
Title: S.B. 131
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Relates to public schools; modifies special education definitions and rules to be adopted by the State Board of Education; modifies provisions regarding participation of students with a disability in extracurricular activities; modifies the process by which disputes are resolved over educational programs and rights and responsibilities of students with disabilities, their parents and public schools; provides a repealer.
Title: H.B. 146
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 02/2000 | P-12 | Relates to the Federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; provides that rights for infants, toddlers, and parents served by the State Early Intervention System are mandated by participation in Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; deletes limitation to available funding.
Title: H.B. 51
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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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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