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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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| 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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| NJ | Conditional veto by governor 12/2000 | P-12 | *****Returned to ASSEMBLY., provides that prior to a school district administering certain academic or nonacademic surveys, assessments, analyses, evaluations or comprehensive guidance or counseling values clarifications programs to its students it must first receive written informed consent from a student's parent or guardian and must provide a copy of the document for viewing at convenient locations and time periods.
Title: A.B. 2351
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2000 | P-12 | Prohibits evidence obtained as a result of eavesdropping upon or recording a communication in a classroom in violation of that provision of law from being viewed, listened to, or relied upon by school officials or used in any judicial, administrative, or legislative action related to certificated employee discipline or dismissal proceedings in a credential proceeding. Requires a principal to document a denial for classroom recording.
Title: A.B. 697
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2000 | P-12 | Extends to 4 schooldays the time that the pupil or his or her parents are granted to request a public hearing. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop standards for the coordination of data on the number of pupil suspensions and expulsions by gender, age, race, and primary language.
Title: S.B. 444
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2000 | P-12
Postsec. | Use of student social security numbers restricted. No public or private elementary or secondary school or college as defined in section two of this article shall display any student's social security number
to identify such student for posting or public listing of grades, on class rosters or other lists provided to teachers, on student identification cards, in student directories or similar listings, or, unless specifically authorized or required by law, for any public identification purpose.
Title: S.B. 6237
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2000 | P-12 | Relates to project SAVE (Save Safe Schools Against Violence in Education); relates to students and student discipline; relates to improving school safety; relates to directing courts to provide schools with notification of criminal and juvenile delinquency adjudications against students; relates to the regulation of conduct on school grounds or school district property.
Title: S.B. 8236
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Centers on a conduct and discipline code with identified violations to result in actions taken. Forms the basis for annual reporting to local board and state department. Addresses juvenile delinquency records of students and "pertinent performance record or disciplinary record" of a teacher applying for a position. Requires districts to adopt policies of students at risk of suspension/expulsion and to devise plans necessary to intervene prior to those actions. Expands grounds for suspension, expulsion and denial of admission to include students declared "habitually disruptive." Redefines "rights of free expression for public school students" to clarify and more clearly define threats to safety or threats of violence to property or persons.
Title: S.B. 133
Source: Colorado Association of School Executives
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Revises the definition of suspension; revises data used to determine school's performance grade category; revises information required to be included in student code of conduct; specifies types of drills and emergencies for which district school boards are required to develop procedures; requires district school boards to establish model emergency management and emergency preparedness procedures. Requires schools to report data concerning school safety and discipline to the department of education. Includes provisions such as ability of teachers to remove disruptive students from the classroom, liability protection for teachers, reporting of safety incidents, etc.
Title: S.B. 852
Source: Florida House of Representatives
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| FL | Vetoed 06/2000 | P-12 | Relates to education; relates to annual public disclosure reports; encourages certain grading practices; authorizes school districts to abandon certain high school grading practices; authorizes a weighted grading system for purposes of class ranking.
Title: S.B. 990
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Relates to public records; provides access to student records by school readiness coalitions and the Florida Partnership for School Readiness; provides an exemption from public-records requirements for records of children in subsidized child-care programs and school readiness programs.
Title: S.B. 2250
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SC | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Relates to the maintenance, release, and confidentiality of juvenile records pursuant to the juvenile justice code; authorizes release of information among the Department of Juvenile Justice, solicitor's offices, the attorney general and other law enforcement agencies; authorizes the transmission of records of adjudication and pending criminal cases to a school official if the juvenile is or may be a student at the school.
Title: H.B. 4003
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Requires student to be enrolled in school under name that appears on certificate of birth and to use that throughout school career.
Title: S.B. 1882
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | A school district shall not release the education records of a student to any person, agency or organization without the prior written consent of the parent or legal guardian of the student except as otherwise permitted in 20 U.S.C. SEC. 1232G (B)
Title: H.B. 1202
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IA | Signed into law 05/2000 | Postsec. | Relates to disclosure by a postsecondary education institution of information to the parent or guardian of a student; relates to personal information regarding a violation of a law or institutional rule governing the use or possession of alcohol or a controlled substance.
Title: H.B. 2437
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Public Act 88., Relates to education; prohibits the release of student education records and teacher addresses and telephone numbers under certain circumstances; provides an exemption to the Freedom of Information Act; relates to the Family Educational Rights Act of 1974.
Title: S.B. 588
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Public Act 87; Relates to elementary and secondary education; provides for policies on school locker searches.
Title: H.B. 5233
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | , Relates to crime; authorizes certain behavioral data on students to be disclosed to the juvenile justice system; provides for data sharing between probation officers and school officials for juveniles on probation; provides that when a juvenile has been adjudicated delinquent for certain violations of criminal law that the disposition order shall be shared with certain school officials; law enforcement, and specified others.
Title: H.B. 2833
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Authorizes school districts to request disciplinary and nondirectory educational records from districts in which a student was formerly enrolled to ascertain safety issues with incoming students and ensure full disclosure when a student is in the process of enrolling in the new district. Defines disciplinary records to include but not be limited to all information that relates to a student assaulting, carring weapons, possiessing illegal drugs, including alcohol, and any incident that poses a potential dangerous threat to students or school personnel.
Title: S.B. 1533
Source: 2000 Legislative Summary, Oklahoma
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Urges the Department of Education to prepare and provide to all public schools guides to legally permissible practices for disclosure and sharing of student disciplinary information among educators.
Title: S.J.R. 620
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WI | Vetoed 05/2000 | P-12 | Relates to disclosure of pupil records by the department of public instruction; conforms an exception to federal law; allows DPI to disclose information to U.S. Comptroller General or U.S. Secretary of Education or appropriate state agencies; allows DPI to charge requesting person a fee sufficient to cover the cost of deleting from the record information that is prohibited from being disclosed under state or federal law.
Title: A.B. 663
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Concerning the exchange of information related to children; authorizes an exchange of information between schools and law enforcement agencies; allows any criminal justice agency or assessment center for children in the state to release any information or records that the agency or center may have concerning a specific child to the principal of the school, or such person's designee, at which the child is or will be enrolled as a student.
Title: H.B. 1119
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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| MD | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12
Postsec. | Prohibits public institutions of higher education, public schools, or the State from printing or having printed a Social Security number on any type of identification card; prohibits the Motor Vehicle Administration from using, including or encoding a Social Security number on an individual's driver's license.
Title: H.B. 37
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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| VA | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Requires, no later than 8/1/2001, local school boards to develop and implement policies to ensure that public school students are not required to convey or deliver any materials that advocate the election or defeat or any candidate for elective office, advocate that passage or defeat of any referendum question, or advocate the passage or defeat of any matter pending before a local school board, local governing body or the General Assembly or Congress.
Title: H.B. 1541
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Public Law No. 595, (LD 1933); Allows a juvenile's school to disseminate information about the juvenile to the court and a criminal justice agency under certain conditions; provides that information remains confidential and may not be further disseminated.
Title: S.B. 687
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Permits local school boards to require as a condition for re-enrollment or continued enrollment in public school, that students who have been convicted or adjudicated delinquent of drug-related offenses submit to drug testing; provides that Board of Education regulations will govern such initiatives that may be adopted by local school boards.
Title: H.B. 588
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Directs school boards to adopt regulations governing student searches; requires regulations be consistent with relevant state and federal law.
Title: H.B. 1445
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Requires school board employees administering tests or other assessment instrument to disclose to the public school students being tested that such students are not required to respond to any inquiry regarding their race or ethnicity on any such test or instrument, and that they may respond to any such inquiry by indicating other.
Title: S.B. 224
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Directs school boards to adopt regulations governing student searches; requires regulations be consistent with relevant state and federal law.
Title: H.B. 1445
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Declares an intent to allow students to broaden the types of fund-raisers that they may conduct for charitable purposes in their private non-associated student body capacities, and ensure that these funds will be separate from student body funds to avoid constitutional issues pertaining to the gifting of public funds.
Title: H.B. 2332
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Requires that schools be notified of firearm violations by students; states whenever a minor enrolled in any common school is convicted in adult criminal court, or adjudicated or entered into a diversion agreement with the juvenile court on a sex offense, inhaling toxic fumes, controlled substance violation, liquor violation, or any crime under specified chapters, the court must notify the principal of the student's school of the disposition of the case.
Title: S.B. 6206
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 02/2000 | P-12 | Requires a local board of education to develop a policy regarding the possession and use of personal telecommunications devices by a student on school property or at a school-related activity; deletes language prohibiting the possession and use of a paging device by a student on school property or at a school-related activity.
Title: H.B. 266
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2000 | P-12 | Allows law enforcement agencies to report certain violations of law and threats made by a student.
Title: H.B. 1192
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2000 | P-12 | Requires juveniles found delinquent and adults found guilty for a first drug offense be subject to periodic substance abuse testing, drug treatment and education; mandates six months extra time on a felony sentence if the mandatory drug assessment indicates a substance abuse problem. Another portion of the bill revises the penalty for violation of the "drug-free school zone" law (possession with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school or designated school bus stop) to include a one-year minimum, mandatory term of incarceration for a second or subsequent conviction for an offense involving a Schedule I, II or III drug or more than one-half ounce of marijuana.
Title: S.B. 153
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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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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