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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--Takeovers |
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| Accountability--School Improvement |
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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--Formative/Interim |
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| Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
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| Assessment--Legal Issues |
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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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| Background Checks |
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| Bilingual/ESL |
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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--Closings |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Research |
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| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
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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--Drivers 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--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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| Education Research |
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| Equity |
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| Federal |
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| Finance |
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| Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
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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--Performance Funding |
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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--Child Abuse |
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| Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
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| Health--Suicide Prevention |
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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--Grading Practices |
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| Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
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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--Preparation |
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| Middle School |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian |
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| No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
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| No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
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| No Child Left Behind--Choice/Transfer |
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| No Child Left Behind--Consequences for Schools |
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| No Child Left Behind--Report Cards |
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| No Child Left Behind--School Support |
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| No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
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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 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 Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Undocumented Immigrants |
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| Postsecondary Faculty |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Compensation |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Tenure |
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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 Students--Disabled |
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| Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
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| Private Schools |
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| Privatization |
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| Promotion/Retention |
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| Public Involvement |
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 | Reading/Literacy |
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| NJ | Vetoed 12/2001 | P-12 | Establishes the Spread the Word Program in Department of Education to provide donated books to certain elementary school children; provides that donating schools will collect books, using book drives and other methods, and the books would be donated to recipient schools for children with few books.
Title: A.B. 3151
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OH | Signed into law 11/2001 | P-12 | Replaces the fourth grade reading guarantee with a third grade reading guarantee beginning July 1, 2003. Provides districts with three options for students who score below basic on the third grade reading achievement test in the third or fourth grade: (1) promotion to the next grade if the principal and reading teacher agree that other evaluations of the student's work indicate that the student is academically prepared for the next grade, (2) promotion to the next grade with "intensive intervention" in that grade, or (3) retention in the current grade. Requires the intervention services provided to students reading below grade level in first, second, or third grade to include instruction in phonics.
Title: S.B. 1
Source: 2001 Digest of Enactments
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2001 | P-12 | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for purposes of contracting for a study that identifies reading programs in schools that maintain any kindergarten or grades 1-6 where the performance of 75% of the pupils was at or above the 80th percentile on the reading portion of the achievement tests administered pursuant to the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program.
Title: A.B. 876
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | Creates Early Success Reading Initiative; authorizes the University of Oregon to develop, implement and monitor the initiative; specifies components of the initiative; authorizes the Department of Education to award grants to 30 specified school districts for a pilot project to establish early success reading sites in individual schools.
Title: H.B. 3941
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Vetoed 07/2001 | P-12 | Directs state department to provide instructional phonics game to each approved Oregon prekindergarten.
Title: S.B. 593
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | Establishes elementary school pilot program on teaching students how to read using explicit phonics; appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for grants to school districts participating in pilot program.
Title: S.B. 595
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Amends the School Code; provides that under the Reading Improvement Block Grant Program, programs provided with grant funds shall not replace quality classroom reading instruction; changes the requirements for how program funds are to be used by school districts; provides that applications shall include a proposed assessment method for measuring the reading growth of students who receive direct instruction as a result of funding.
Title: H.B. 3566
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Expresses the sense of the Nevada Legislature regarding available methods to improve the reading proficiency of Nevada's school children at an early grade level.
Title: S.B. 10A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Requires the state board of education to establish by rule and policy a reading initiative for kindergarten through grade 8 that includes at a minimum: (1) clear content and performance standards for student reading proficiency; (2) specific qualifications, requirements and standards for the teaching of reading;
(3) developmentally appropriate diagnostic methods for assessing and monitoring the individual reading development of all children and identifying students who are having reading difficulties; (4) effective, developmentally appropriate instruction and intervention for all students based on their individual needs as identified by use of approved diagnostic methods; (5) training and support of all educators employed or
supervising instruction in such grades in the use and application of developmentally appropriate reading diagnostic, instructional and intervention methods; (6) notification to parents of their child' s level of reading
proficiency and any intervention that may be deemed necessary to ensure such child's ability to meet reading proficiency standards; (7) encouragement of parents to play an integral role in supporting their children in learning to read and write; and (8) a system of annual reporting, pursuant to Section 49-1-211, of the results of the reading initiative established by this section, including summary information from the reports by schools to local boards of education required by subdivision (d)(4) of this section. Also requires the state commissioner to recommend reading diagnostic methods and to develop guidelines. BILL WAS LEFT UNFUNDED, SO NO IMPLEMENTATION.
Title: S.B. 1881/H.B. 1921--Omnibus Bill
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0343.pdf
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Provides for changing the responsibility for ongoing operation of a literacy and lifelong learning program to the public libraries of the State; requires the development of public-private sector literacy partnerships for literacy program support.
Title: H.B. 614
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Deletes the automatic repealer on the Pilot Program for testing and educational remediation for students with dyslexia and related disorders.
Title: S.B. 2309
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Modifies the 1997 Reading Sufficiency Act. Goal is 90% of third graders reading at/above grade level. For students below this level, requires development of a new reading program. Requires state department to provide each school district with a list of approved comparable reading assessments, which should include any such assessments recommended by the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation and may include any assessments developed and approved by the state department, to be used for initial identification of students at risk of reading failure and for periodic and post assessments. Assessments must measure student acquisition of reading skills including, but not limited to, phoneme awareness, phonics, spelling, reading fluency and comprehension and must reflect the required reading competencies.
Title: S.B. 168
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2001-02SB/sb168_enr.rtf
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| OR | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Creates within the department of education, a program to provide books to kindergarten through fifth grade students who have few books at home. Names the program "Spread the Word." Requires the department to set criteria for identifying eligible students and to develop and distribute a brochure to schools. Directs participating schools to hold book drives, review donated books as to condition and appropriateness, and to sort and pack the books. Requires school districts to collect donated books from participating schools and to arrange for their transport to recipient schools. Requires recipient schools to distribute books to eligible children. Specifies that information on children receiving books is not a public record.
Title: H.B. 3352
Source: Oregon Legislative Web Site
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Modifies reporting requirements to include a more general report on the number, status, and funding of reading programs in grades kindergarten through three. Must include: (1) The number of identifiable reading programs being conducted in Tennessee; (2) The local education agencies which are conducting such
programs and the number of programs in each LEA; (3) The number of students served in each program;
(4) The number of hours such programs are conducted, either by the week or school term; (5) The source of funding for such programs, whether federal, state, local, or private; (6) The amount spent on reading programs by each LEA, from all sources; (7) The testing procedures used to evaluate students before,
during, and after such programs; (8) The number of teachers certified as reading specialists in each LEA; and (9) Such other information as the joint oversight committee, the education committees of either house, or the committee on children and family affairs of the house of representatives may request.
Title: S.B. 1173
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Adds statewide testing in reading writing. Requires the department of education to involve local school district personnel, especially certified elementary reading specialists, in the development of methods on a statewide basis to measure student reading performance in order to assist school districts in the assessment of student problem areas in kindergarten through 3rd grade. The assessment shall provide a means of demonstrating continuous progress in reading and diagnostic information on phonics, phonemic awareness and comprehension. The department of education also is requried to involve local school district personnel, especially certified school instructors in the elementary, middle or junior high school grades, in the development or selection of a uniform statewide writing production test for school districts to measure student writing performance. The writing production test shall be administered to each student, once when attending elementary school and once when attending a middle or junior high school. (22-2-8.5)
Title: S.B. 673
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Provides for improvement in public school students reading proficiencies; makes an appropriation.
Title: H.B. 74
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | A person seeking standard or alternative elementary certification shall have completed six hours of reading courses, and a person seeking standard or alternative secondary certification shall have completed three hours of reading courses in subject matter content.
Title: S.B. 395
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2001 | P-12 | Creates public school reading proficiency fund to help train teachers to teach reading and writing to students below grade level; sets up "enterprise centers" to provide fee-for-service assistance to districts; creates "probationary school intervention funds" for grants to probationary schools; requires colleges of education to form a consortium to develop criterion-referenced end-of-course tests for high schools (to be administered during 2002-03); makes appropriations for professional development days for teachers, teacher mentorship programs, etc.; appropriates dollars to summer programs, bilingual, art/music, full-day kindergarten; appropriates dollars to standards/assessment alignment, development of new assessments and early literacy interventions.
Title: S.B. 307
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | A school district shall provide reading enhancement in grades two through ten, designed to improve a student's reading proficiency to his grade level. Before the end of the school year, the reading proficiency of all students in grades one through nine shall be determined based upon a combination of state-mandated assessments and local school or district reading assessments. A student who is determined not to be reading at grade level shall be provided reading enhancement.
Title: S.B. 180
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Makes an appropriation to fund an advanced readers at risk program in the public schools to develop advanced reading knowledge and skills in students.
Title: H.B. 216
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Provides statewide goals for reading evaluations conducted in public schools; provides additional assistance to schools which fail to achieve specified goals.
Title: S.B. 1116
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Requires reading courses for teacher certification.
Title: H.B. 281
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Modifies the provisions related to the State System of Public Education by changing the Reading Skills Development Center into a clinic to assist educators and parents of students in assessing elementary school students who do not demonstrate satisfactory progress in reading.
Title: H.B. 99
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Relates to reading achievement in elementary schools; modifies the provisions related to the State System of Public Education; sets a goal of 90% or more of all 3rd graders reading on or above grade level by 2006; requires an annual report on the percentage of students reading on or above grade level in the first, second, and third grades by school and by school district.
Title: H.B. 145
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Active 03/2001 | P-12 | For kindergarten through third grade. Provides for diagnosis of reading problems in the first school years and for intervention. University of Virginia developed the program, and models of instruction recommended for use in the classroom are based on current research documenting effective practices.
Title: N/A
Source: Department of Education
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Relates to public schools; requires school districts to implement a reading assessment for first and second grade students; requires demonstration of proficiency; requires remediation programs; imposes duties on the state board of education; provides payments to districts from the foundation program account.
Title: S.B. 92
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Makes an appropriation for the acceleration of the Reading Enhancement Program.
Title: H.B. 1230
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| Religion |
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| Religion--Prayer/Meditation |
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| Rural |
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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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| School Safety |
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| School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
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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--Special Education |
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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--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--School Size |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Shared Services |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
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| Special Education |
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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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| 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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| Student Achievement |
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| Student Achievement--Closing the Achievement Gap |
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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--Assignment |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
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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--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--Reduction in Force |
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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--Devices/Software/Hardware |
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| Technology--Equitable Access |
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| Technology--Funding Issues |
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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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