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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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 | 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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| AZ | Approved by voters 11/2000 | P-12
Community College | (S.B. 1007E) Provides for an increase to the transaction privilege tax rate from 5.0% to 5.6% to provide greater funding for teacher salaries, to increase the school year, for the development of a system to measure school performance based on student achievement and a database to track student attendance and academic performance, and to provide additional funding for other maintenance and operation education programs, University research and development programs and community college workforce development; makes the act conditional on the voter approving the general transaction privilege tax rate increase at the next general election. Legislative Council analysis: http://www.sosaz.com/election/2000/info/pubpamphlet/english/prop301.htm
Proposition 301 approved in November 2000 election with 53.5% voter support.
Title: Proposition 301
Source: Arizona Secretary of State Web site
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| OR | Unofficially rejected by voters 11/2000 | P-12 | (Initiative No. 29 Measure 95) Amends the Oregon Constitution regarding performance pay for teachers; provides that student learning determines teacher pay; establishes that the teachers' qualifications, not seniority, determine retention.
Title: V. 19; (NEW BILL)
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WA | Approved by voters 11/2000 | P-12
Postsec. | INITIATIVE 732; Provides annual cost-of-living salary adjustments to school district employees, academic employees of community and technical college districts, and certain employees of technical colleges; bases the annual increase on the consumer price index.
Title: V. 27
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2000 | P-12 | Relates to the State Teachers' Retirement Law. Prescribes enhanced service retirement allowances for members who retired for service and who reinstate and perform at least one year of creditable service, as specified. Makes related findings and declarations.
Title: S.B. 1692
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | Revises the incentive formula established for purposes of the Jack O'Connell Beginning-Teacher Salary Incentive Program which authorizes the governing board of a school district, the county superintendent of schools, or the county board of education to increase, for teachers who meet certain requirements, the salary on its adopted certificated employee salary schedule.
Title: A.B. 1087
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | Chapter No. 331, Declares that a substantial public benefit is served by providing federal tax credits or reduced interest rate mortgages to assist teachers, principals, vice principals, and assistant principals who are willing to serve in low performing schools to purchase a home.
Title: A.B. 2060
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | Extends the workers' compensation law provision that certain peace officers, firefighters, and other specified state and local public employees are entitled to a leave of absence without loss of salary while disabled by injury or illness arising out of and in the course of employment to include peace officers of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Title: S.B. 2081
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | Chapter No.897, Establishes a Retirement Option Program that would allow members of the Defined Benefit Program to elect to receive a lump-sum payment and a reduced monthly allowance, as specified. Directs the Board of Administration of the State Teachers' Retirement system to implement the program no later than January 1, 2002, except as specified.
Title: A.B. 2456
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | Relates to the Personal Income Tax Law which authorizes various credits against the tax imposed by that law, including a credit, for each taxable year beginning on or after 01/01/2000, to credentialed teachers. Clarifies the calculation of this credit by revising and recasting those provisions setting forth the second alternative measurement of the amount of the credit.
Title: A.B. 1080
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2000 | P-12 | Provides that the earnings paid to a member who retired from service on or before July 1, 2000, and who is employed by a school district to provide direct remedial instruction, as defined, to pupils in grades 2 to 12, inclusive. States they are exempt from provisions concerning reduction of retirement allowance if certain other conditions are met.
Title: A.B. 1736
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2000 | P-12 | Authorizes the governing board of a school district, the county superintendent of schools, or the county boards of education, commencing with the 2000-01 fiscal year, to increase the lowest salary on the salary schedule for a certificated employee that meets certain requirements by designating as the lowest salary on the salary schedule an amount that is at least a specified amount in the 2000-01 fiscal year.
Title: S.B. 1643
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2000 | P-12 | Exempts, commencing in the 2000-01 school year, a member of the State Teachers' Retirement System who retired for service effective 01/01/00, and is employed to provide direct classroom instruction to pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, or to provide support to new teachers, individual completing student teaching assignments or participating in the Preinternship Teaching Program, an alternative certification program, or as specified.
Title: S.B. 1666
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000 | P-12
Postsec. | Raises the amount of part time gross pay retired professors and teachers may earn from employment by a state college or the Department of Education.
Title: S.B. 2376
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Relates to the Defined Benefit Program, established by the Teacher's Retirement Law. Establishes the Defined Benefit Supplement Program, as specified, pursuant to which members of the Defined Benefit Program would receive supplemental retirement, disability, final, or termination benefits, payable in a lump-sum or annuity, as specified.
Title: A.B. 1509
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Allows a credit for each taxable year beginning on or after 01/01/2000, to credentialed teachers in an amount equal to specified amounts depending upon years of service as a teacher.
Title: A.B. 2879
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Concerns maintenance of public employee retirement benefits for retirees who are hired as nonlicensed employees by a school district during a critical employee shortage.
Title: H.B. 1222
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Requires each school district with school designated as performance grade category F to permit transfer of teachers with certain qualifications; provides bonuses for certain teachers; requires Education Commissioner to adopt rules to define teaching mastery; renames the Division of Human Resource Development within the Department of Education as the Division of Professional Educators; clarifies requirements for performance-based pay policies.
Title: H.B. 63
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Establishes the Teacher Education and Compensation Helps scholarship program to help low-wage early childhood staff obtain further training;relates to health care assistance for children (Medikids); provides for dental benefits under the Florida Kidcare program; provides for assistance to families in evaluating summer recreation and day camp programs; increases family income limits for subsidized child care; relates to federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funding; relates to child care facility licensing.
Title: S.B. 212
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12
Postsec. | Goal is to increase pay for elementary and secondary teachers in amount necessary (determined by legislature) to annually achieve statewide average equal to the Southern Regional Education Board average. Same applies to postsecondary faculty. Provides 4% for all other personnel of elementary and secondary systems and of universities under jurisdiction of the Board of Regents in amounts as determined by the legislature. Not less than 80% of monies in Educational Enhancement Fund to be used for pay increases and other purposes.
Title: H.B. 30B
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MA | Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 06/2000 | P-12 | Improves teacher recruitment, retention and retirement. Creates an early retirement system, which the Governor has opposed.
Title: H.B. 5116
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Prohibits school districts from increasing or reducing fringe benefits to meet the $3,000 salary increase mandated for teachers. Clarifies that school districts that do not use the Oklahoma Cost Accounting System are to be penalized by reduction in state aid payments. Authorizes department of education to reduce state aid payments to districts that willfully pay teachers less than the mandated minimum salary. Raises the flexible benefit allowance for support personnel to $170.24 per month. Extends the date by which school districts must provide alternative education and repeals the duplicate section.
Title: S.B. 901
Source: Legislative Review, Oklahoma
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Provides further for the conditions under which a person retired under the Teachers' Retirement System or the Employees' Retirement System may be employed by an employer participating in either of the systems without having his or her retirement allowance suspended.
Title: S.B. 485
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Provides for the Teacher Accountability Act; provides for performance-based contracts for principals; provides for alternative principal certification procedures; provides hearing procedures to challenge employment action taken against a principal; establishes linkage with the Teachers' National Average Salary Bill; relates to the Teacher Tenure Law; provides for the appeal of transfers of teachers; adds failure to perform duties to grounds for termination.,
Title: H.B. 285
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Provides an equivalent percent cost-of-living adjustment for certain public education employees with the beginning of the 2000-2001 fiscal year; requires a revision of the state salary matrix for certificated personnel; requires revisions of local salary schedules to reflect the cost-of-living adjustments for the 2000-2001 fiscal year.
Title: H.B. 202
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | To appropriate for the fiscal year beginning 10/1/2001, and for each fiscal year thereafter 41.15% of any increase in Education Trust Fund revenues from the previous fiscal year as estimated by the Director Of Finance and approved by the Governor for teacher salary increases until such time the national average for teachers' salaries is reached as determined by the Director of Finance and approved by the Governor.
Title: H.B. 204
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Chapter No. 22; Relates to State Teachers' Retirement Law, the service retirement allowance of a retired member shall be reduced if the member's postretirement compensation from specified activities exceeds a certain dollar amount; however, creditable service performed by a retired member in an emergency situation to fill a vacant administrative position is exempt from the calculation of that earnings limitation in specified circumstances.
Title: A.B. 141
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| DE | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Creates the Professional Development and Educator Accountability Act. Beginning in 2002, at least 20% of educator's performance evaluation will be tied to student improvement -- teachers and administrators who fail to measure up can be dismissed. Establishes more rigorous system of professional development, teaching standards, licensure and certification requirements; expands the salary system to include compensations for skills and knowledge. Encourages focused, career-long professional development and compensates teachers for additional responsibilities or becoming National Board certified. Ends social promotion - beginning in 2002, students reading below the standard in 3rd, 5th and 8th grades will be required to attend summer school and meet standard to move to next grade. Same provisions apply to 8th graders for math. Students not meeting standards will receive mandatory individual improvement plans (some state funds available for extra time instruction). Future students must demonstrate they meet 10th grade standards in language arts and math to receive academic diploma.
Title: S.B. 260
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Requires the state to add 1 percent to salaries for teachers in any public school system that increases teachers pay by 4 percent and provide additional funds for other educational purposes. (Under this Teacher Salaries Challenge Program, teachers would receive a 10 percent pay raise by the fall of 2001.)
Title: S.B. 810
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Declares the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of Housing and Community Development develop a program to promote homeownership opportunities for teachers in consultation with the State Board of Education and local boards of education; provides for the effective date of this Act.
Title: S.B. 206
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Relates to teachers' retirement act; defines critical shortage area as a lack of certified teachers in particular subject matters, in grade levels, or in geographic locations as determined by the commissioner of education; implements the hiring of teachers in critical shortage areas; provides that a retired member may return to work in a critical shortage area without loss of retirement benefits; permits school districts to hire retired members as full-time employees.
Title: H.B. 519
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Permits a district to establish a sick leave bank for school employees in addition to teachers; provides for both teachers and employees to participate in the sharing of sick leave under specific conditions; adds sick leave bank benefits for castastrophic loss to personal or real property; requires certification of the need for a leave of absence by a physician only if the leave is due to illness, injury, impairment, or a physical or mental condition.
Title: H.B. 373
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Requires school boards that provide a sick-leave program to certified employees to also provide a sick-leave program for noncertified employees of school boards; purchases service credit for each employee's unused sick leave not in excess of six months; allows unlimited accumulation of sick leave days.
Title: H.B. 675
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Establishes the Governor's Teacher Salary Challenge Program; requires the State Board of Education to make specified grants to county boards of education under certain circumstances; requires county boards of education under certain circumstances to submit certain applications to the Department of Budget and Management and the State Superintendent of Schools by a certain date.
Title: H.B. 1247
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Establishes and implements a superior-performing and exemplary schools program for identifying and granting financial incentives to low performing schools that improve and to the highest performing schools in their classification; provides for school improvement plans for priority schools and the appointment of assistance teams; provides professional development and evaluation of principals, teachers and superintendents; raises salaries for teachers and assistant teachers.
Title: H.B. 1134
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Includes public school librarians' professional experience in public libraries in the definition of the term year of teaching experience as used for determining their salaries in the public schools.
Title: H.B. 903
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Creates a 14-member task force that will study teacher salaries and report to the Legislature by Oct. 1. The task force will be directed to examine, among other things, the issue of whether the state should have greater control over Nebraska educational processes and facilities if the state provided substantial funding for teachers' salaries. Also authorizes the Nebraska Volunteer Services Commission to apply for funding from the Corporation for National Service. The funding will be used by the commission to provide incentives to college graduates to establish their teaching careers in Nebraska and to experienced Nebraska teachers to pursue graduate degrees.
Title: L.B. 1399
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Provides for the state Retirement System, rather than the school boards, to develop the policies and procedures to administer the optional retirement plan which may be offered for certain employees of public school divisions, and to determine the contribution by the school boards to such retirement plan; provides that school boards which previously elected to provide an alternative retirement plan may elect to have the foregoing provisions apply to such plan.
Title: H.B. 79
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Teachers receiving National Board Certification will receive a 10 percent increase in salary
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Provides that for persons fired after 8/1/2000, who participate in State Employees Retirement System, County Employees Retirement System, State Police Retirement System, or Teachers' Retirement System, there shall be forfeiture of retirement benefits if convicted of a felony related to their employment.
Title: H.B. 737
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Defines long-term substitute teachers; requires certain reporting on the use of long-term substitute teachers.
Title: S.B. 172
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 02/2000 | P-12 | Provides a $3,000 salary increase to state-paid certified personnel beginning with the 2000-2001 school year and increases the minimum teacher salary to reflect the increase.
Title: H.B. 2653
Source: 2000 Legislative Summary, Oklahoma
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| WV | Signed into law 02/2000 | P-12 | Provides for personal leave banks for school personnel who are caregivers; defines catastrophic illness or injury.
Title: H.B. 4314
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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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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