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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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 | 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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| NC | Signed into law 12/2001 | P-12 | Prohibits persons contracting with the public schools from disclosing personally identifying information about students; authorizes suspensions for students who make certain false threats, perpetrate certain hoaxes or threaten an act of terrorism; makes emergency response plans confidential.
Title: S.B. 990
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| PA | Signed into law 12/2001 | Postsec. | Requires dormitories in public and private institutions of high education to conform to certain automatic sprinkler system specifications. Establishes a loan program. Makes an appropriation and imposes penalties.
Title: H.B. 209
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2001 | P-12 | States the intent of the Legislature that schoolsites receiving funds pursuant to the School Safety and Violence Prevention Act provide age-appropriate instruction in domestic violence prevention, dating violence prevention and interpersonal violence prevention.
Title: A.B. 819
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2001 | P-12 | Establishes the Safe Alternatives and Violence Education Program to provide nonpunitive intervention for adolescent first-time offenders, ages 10 to 17, inclusive, who have been involved in violence or weapons possession on or near a school campus. Requires the program to be administered by the Attorney General to be established in 2 counties on a competitive basis. Provides for referrals to the program. Appropriates funds for funding these pilot programs.
Title: A.B. 1626
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2001 | P-12 | Chapter No.484, Includes the act of aiding or abetting the infliction or attempted infliction of physical injury to another persons as an act for which a pupil may be suspended but not expelled. Provides for an increase in the fine for assault or battery committed on school property against any person. Authorizes the court, if the assault or battery was committed by a minor, to order the minor to undergo counseling, with the cost of such counseling to be borne by the minor's parents.
Title: A.B. 653
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 10/2001 | P-12 | Relates to the suspension of students from schools; relates to teacher removal of disruptive students; requires teachers to provide pupils removed from classrooms with an explanation of such removal with one school day of such removal and an opportunity to be heard; requires the principal to inform the person in parental relation to a removed pupil of such pupil's removal within 1 school day of such removal and provide an informal hearing within 2 school days of such removal.
Title: A.B. 9333
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2001 | P-12 | Specifies that for school/law enforcement partnership purposes, school crime includes hate crimes. Requires the comprehensive school safety plan to include development of a discrimination and harassment policy, as specified, and development of hate crime reporting procedures.
Title: S.B. 257
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Chaptered by Secretary of State 09/2001 | P-12 | Chapter No.342, Includes in the definition of sex offense, as used in provisions relating to school employees, any offense against the laws of the United States which if committed or attempted in this State would have been punishable as crimes. Prohibits disclosure by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing of information other than information maintained for the public record. Relates to accreditation of teacher preparation programs. Related to special education certification.
Title: S.B. 299
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2001 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education to develop model policies on the prevention of bullying and on conflict resolution. Makes the model policies available to school districts. Authorizes school districts to adopt one or both policies for incorporation into the school safety plan.
Title: A.B. 79
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2001 | P-12 | Provides a communication by any person to a school principal or by a student attending the school to the student's teacher, school counselor or nurse and any report of that communication that specifies a person has made a threat to commit violence or potential violence involving the use of a firearm or deadly weapon is subject to liability in defamation only upon a showing of clear and convincing evidence that the communication was made with knowledge of its falsity.
Title: A.B. 1717
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2001 | P-12 | Authorizes a school district superintendent or designee, if he or she chooses to extend a suspension, to address the academic needs of the pupil by transferring the pupil to an alternative school placement for remedial instruction or, to the extent feasible, provide access to instructional materials, assignments and tests in classes in which the student is enrolled. Provides for parental notification. Makes any testimony provided in an expulsion privileged.
Title: A.B. 177
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2001 | P-12 | Public Act No. 92-409. Amends the Illinois Violence Protection Act of 1995; concerns the Safe to Learn Program; provides for a pilot program.
From the legislation:
The Authority shall establish and administer a grant program to be known as the Safe to Learn Program. Funds appropriated to the Authority for this program shall be used to support and fund school-based safety and violence prevention programs that address any or all of the following components:
(1) Building security, including but not limited to portable metal detectors.
(2) Violence prevention and intervention.
(3) Crisis management.
(4) Training of teachers and other school personnel.
Title: H.B. 678
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 08/2001 | P-12 | Session Law Number 332., Increases the punishment for drug offenses committed at or near preschool educational program sites.
Title: S.B. 751
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | Chapter No.116, Requires the governing board of a school to order the expulsion of a student possessing an explosive, as defined.
Title: S.B. 166
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | Relate to the reporting of crimes on school property by school officials. This would require a school official to report and investigate a crime against a student if it took place on or off school property.
Title: H.B. 209
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | Relates to the Department of Education; mandates fire safety education as part of the public school curriculum.
Title: H.B. 57
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | Relates to community notification of sex offenders; provides that a school community notification must be posted in a prominent school location.
Title: H.B. 247
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | Amends and reenacts Children's Code Article 412(H)(1)(a), relative to notice to schools when students are involved in the juvenile correction system; to clarify that transmission to schools of pertinent portions of predisposition reports affecting students who are involved in the juvenile correction system is mandatory; to specify the age of the students to which these provisions apply; and to provide for related matters.
Title: H.B. 1805
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | City and county governing bodies shall work with school district personnel to identify barriers and hazards
to children walking or bicycling to and from school. The cities, counties and districts may develop a plan for the funding of improvements designed to reduce the barriers and hazards identified.
Title: H.B. 3712
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us/01reg/measures/hb3700.dir/hb3712.en.html
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | Requires each city, town and regional school committee to appoint school safety teams to develop school safety plans and school emergency response plans in order to effectively prepare for acts of violence by students, teachers, other school personnel and visitors and other emergencies which may potentially arise in school settings; provides for collaborative arrangements with State and local law enforcement officials in regards to school violence.
Title: H.B. 5924
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| DE | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | This act seeks to deter frivolous lawsuits against teachers who have attempted to enforce discipline and order in the classroom in the manner permitted by Delaware statute, by forbidding state law actions based on teacher discipline for any acts which do not result in criminal conviction.
Title: S.B. 70
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Filed as Chapter No 06/2001 | P-12 | 2001-180., Creates the Barry Grunow Act; provides death benefits with respect to teachers and school administrators who are killed as the result of an unlawful or intentional act the result of which occurred when such person was engaged in the performance of their assigned duties.
Title: H.B. 279
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Amend the School Code; changes the amendatory language to provide instead that a school board, in consultation with its parent-teacher advisory committee and other community-based organizations, must include provisions in the student discipline policy to address students who have demonstrated behaviors that put them at risk for aggressive behavior; requires the provisions to include procedures for notifying parents or legal guardians.
Title: H.B. 646
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Amends the Illinois School Records and Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act; provides that after completing an investigation of alleged child abuse the Child Protective Service Unit shall send a copy to the school that the child attends; provides that this information contains the child's school record; provides that this information may be provided to State Board of Education and others.
Title: H.B. 3055
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Amendatory Veto by GOVERNOR 06/2001 | P-12 | Provides that any person who has alcoholic liquor in his or her possession on school district property (instead of on school property during school hours or during a school-sponsored event or activity) is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor; provides for an exemption if the alcoholic liquor is in the original container with the seal unbroken or is in the possession of a person in or for performing a religious service or ceremony authorized by the school board.
Title: H.B. 445
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Requires all schools to have a written crisis management and response plan in place by 1/1/02.
Title: S.B. 115
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Establishes a program of suicide prevention in public schools.
Title: S.B. 792
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Authorizes local school boards to adopt zero-tolerance policies for disciplining students; includes certain requirements in such policies; charges fees relative to such requirements.
Title: H.B. 364
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Session Law Number 244., Ensures that the parents or guardians of students who are suspended or expelled for more than 10 days from school receive notice that is in the appropriate language when foreign language resources are readily avialable.
Title: S.B. 811
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Gives school superintendents flexibility regarding the expunction of records of a student's suspension or expulsion from school; requires expunction when the condition in the preceding sentence exists and the school superintendent determines that the record is no longer needed to maintain safe and orderly schools or to adequately serve the child, and expunction is requested by the student's parent or guardian.
Title: H.B. 620
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Establishes a committee to study the law on justification for the use of physical force and its implications for teachers or other persons entrusted with the care and supervision of minors in settings such as schools or child care centers.
Title: H.B. 594
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Prohibits harassment, intimidation, and discrimination in public schools; requires the Department of Education to prescribe a policy for public schools to provide a safe and respectful learning environment; requires the boards of trustees of school districts to adopt local polices and to provide appropriate training for personnel.
Title: A.B. 459
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Provides for immunity from civil liability for school officials, teachers, pupils and parents who report certain threats of violence.
Title: S.B. 572
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Directs Department of Justice to establish hotline to allow students and other members of the public to report criminal or suspicious activities on school grounds or at school-sponsored activities and to provide certain procedures for confidentiality.
Title: H.B. 3647
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Requires superintendent of Public Instruction to develop model policy prohibiting harassment, intimidation or bullying on school grounds, at school activities, on school transportation or at school bus stops; requires each school district to adopt policy against harassment, intimidation or bullying.
Title: H.B. 3403
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Creates Center for School Safety; specifies administration, mission and duties of center; specifies members and terms for Center for School Safety board of directors; directs board to develop plan for assessment of school safety and discipline; requires school district boards to adopt plans to address school safety and discipline; appropriates moneys from General Fund to Center for School Safety for administration.
Title: H.B. 3429
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Relates to school district disciplinary action against a student with a disability who receives special education services. Any disciplinary action regarding a student with a disability who receives special education services that would constitute a change in placement under federal law may be taken only after the student's admission, review, and dismissal committee conducts a manifestation determination review. Relates to the authority of a juvenile justice alternative education program to obtain a waiver regarding required days of operation.
Title: S.B. 189
Source: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Relates to school district budgets; relates to calculation of student attendance; provides for suspensions for threats of violence against school property, personnel or students.
Title: H.B. 2140
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Requires school districts to include a specific policy concerning bullying prevention and education; requires school districts to submit annual reports to the State Board of Education regarding the district's policy on bullying prevention and education.
Title: S.B. 80
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Filed as Chapter No 05/2001 | P-12 | 2001-125., Relates to provisions regarding juvenile justice including juveniles in community based commitment facilities, zero tolerance in school for victimization of students, prohibiting certain persons from attending certain schools or riding on certain school buses, alternate school attendance and teen court diversion programs; provides for background checks for employees of the Department of Juvenile Justice; pertains to other related provisions.
Title: H.B. 267
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Relates to the provisions of law regarding the use of force by persons with special responsibility for care, discipline or safety of others to include a principal or principal's agent; provides for the use of force at activities supervised by the Department of Education held on or off school property when necessary.
Title: H.B. 384
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Amends the School Code; provides that whoever by threat, menace, or intimidation prevents a child entitled to attend a nonpublic school in this State from attending that school or interferes with the child's attendance at that school is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
Title: S.B. 1026
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Public Act No. 92-64., Amends the School Code; allows a school district to adopt a policy providing that if a student is suspended or expelled for any reason from any public or private school in this or any other state, the student must complete the entire term of the suspension or expulsion before being admitted into the school district.
Title: S.B. 376
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12
Postsec. | Amends the Illinois Domestic Violence Act; provides that a petitioner for an order of protection who is seeking to have a child protected by the order, if that child is enrolled in any day-care facility, pre-school, pre-kindergarten, private school, public school, college, or university, the petitioner has the option of providing with certain school information; provides that the clerk of the circuit court doesn't have to send written notice of the order to the child's school.
Title: S.B. 187
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Defines that sexual misconduct with a minor as a Class A felony as a crime of violence; provides that a person employed in a state agency who works with or around children shall be dismissed if the person has a conviction for sexual misconduct with a minor; expands the definition of child care worker to include a teacher for purposes of the sexual misconduct with a minor statute.
Title: H.B. 1942
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Amends the crime of intimidation to make it a Class A misdemeanor for a person to communicate a threat to another person with the intent of causing a structure or vehicle to be evacuated; raises the offense to a Class C felony if the person draws a deadly weapon; requires school employees who have received such threats to make a report.
Title: S.B. 33
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Relates to exceptional children and youth; clarifies a change in educational placement occurs if, due to a suspension, an exceptional child is removed for more than 10 consecutive days during a school year or the child is subjected to a series of removals that constitute a pattern because of the number of days the child is being removed or other factors.
Title: S.B. 64
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Vetoed 05/2001 | P-12 | Creates a mandatory gun safety education program in public schools in the State; requires the State Department of Education to establish guidelines for the program; requires each county board to develop a specified curriculum.
Title: S.B. 124
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Repeals a prohibition against the possession of portable pagers on public school property, except as the prohibition applies in Baltimore County, certain counties, and Baltimore City.
Title: H.B. 67
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Requires the State Board of Education to create in a county designated by the State Superintendent of Schools a juvenile justice alternative education pilot program for suspended, expelled and other students; authorizes the State Board of Education on a county board of education to enter a partnership with county circuit court judges to oversee the program; allows the Board to select a private agency to administer the program; requires certain students to attend.
Title: H.B. 825
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Relates to hostile, aggressive or threatening behavior toward a student, teacher, administrator or other staff member in the crime of disturbing schools; provides that if a person damages or destroys a school building that person commits a civil offense and damages are doubled; realtes to the procedures for the collection of moneys from parents when a student damages school property.
Title: S.B. 113
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Public Law No. 67., and 69 (LD 269) Requires the Department of Education to develop procedures for school administrative units to use developing local responses to bomb threats, to develop school bomb threat policies and protocols and to include specific information regarding same in student handbooks.
Title: H.B. 232
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Resolve No. 9., (LD 22) Provides for legislative review of the regulations of the Department of Education governing timeout rooms, therapeutic restraints and aversives in public schools and approved private schools.
Title: H.B. 22
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MN | Signed by Governor 05/2001 | P-12 | Relates to education; specifies student conduct as grounds for dismissal or removal from class, including: (a) willful violation of any reasonable school board regulation. Such regulation must be clear and definite to provide notice to pupils that they must conform their conduct to its requirements; (b) willful conduct that materially and substantially disrupts the rights of others to an education: or (c) willful conduct that endangers the pupil or other pupils, or surrounding persons or property of the school.
Title: H.B. 2107
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Establishes a pilot program under which participating local school administrative units place all students who are on short-term out-of-school suspension in alternative learning programs.
Title: S.B. 71
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Expands causes for expulsion to include possession of a dangerous weapon (in addition to term "firearm) while on the premises of any public school, at an activity sponsored by a public school or on any school bus must. For the first occurrence, students must be expelled from the school for a period of not less than 1 year, although he may be placed in another kind of school for a period not to exceed the period of the expulsion. Also applies to students who sell or distribute any controlled substance or who sells or distributes any controlled substance. For second occurences, students are permanently expelled.
Title: S.B. 115
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Requires local boards and the governing body of each charter school and private school to establish a committee to develop a plan to be used in responding to certain crises involving violence on school property, at school activities or on school buses; requires each school to establish a committee to review plan; requires the state board of education to develop a statewide plan for the management of certain crises that involve violence at school.
Title: S.B. 289
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Relates to assault and battery upon school employees; establishes assault and battery upon a teacher as a felony.
Title: H.B. 1765, S.B. 46
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Relates to wireless telecommunication devices; modifies prohibition; requires school districts to adopt rules prohibiting wireless telecommunication devices; relates to out of school suspension; deletes possession of a wireless telecommunication device as grounds for an out of school suspension; relates to student searches; deletes possession of a wireless telecommunication device as grounds for a student search; relates to student teachers.
Title: H.B. 1092
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Requires local education agencies to adopt written policies prohibiting hazing by any student or organization operating under sanction of those boards/districts. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 1.
Title: H.B. 903
Source: Tennessee Legislative Web Stie
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| TX | Became law without governor's signature 05/2001 | P-12 | Requires the commissioner to adopt procedures for the use of restraint and time-out by a school district employee or volunteer or an independent contractor of a district in the case of a student receiving special education services. Prohibits putting students in seclusion (a locked box, locked closet, or other specially designed locked space as either a discipline management practice or a behavior management technique).
Title: S.B. 1196
Source: http://www.house.state.tx.us/
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Creates the Texas School Safety Center. The purpose of the center is to serve as: (1) a central location for school safety information, including research, training, and technical assistance related to successful school safety programs; and (2) a resource for the prevention of youth violence and the promotion of safety in the state.
Title: S.B. 430
Source: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Relates to the placement in an alternative education program or expulsion of a public school student who makes a false alarm or report or a terroristic threat.
Title: H.B. 1088
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | House accepts governor's recommendations 05/2001 | P-12 | Relates to school and institutional crisis and emergency management plans; requires public schools to institute tornado drills at least once a month during the months of March and April every school year to familiarize students with drill procedures to safeguard their health, safety, and welfare.
Title: S.B. 1022
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Provides that if any person carries about his person a stun weapon or taser, a knife except a pocket knife with a folding blade under 3 inches, or a weapon of like kind, other than a firearm upon the property of any public, private or parochial school grounds or those used for extracurricular activities during such functions or on any school bus shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Title: H.B. 1624
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Creates optional age-appropriate education programs for students in grades K-5 who require guidance, supervision and discipline in a structured learning environment and who need to be redirected toward appropriate classroom decorum and acceptable personal behavior. The programs shall provide instructional and support services that will enable students to maintain academic achievement, attain basic skills and academic proficiencies, and otherwise benefit from a public education during the time that they may be removed from the regular classroom. The programs shall also be designed to accommodate students within the school building to which they have been assigned, facilitate the efficient transition of students between the optional education program and their regular classroom, and provide for the continuity of instruction, a nurturing environment, necessary guidance and supervision, and the participation of the student's parents in correcting his behavior. Such programs shall be adequately staffed by licensed teachers or other persons with demonstrated qualifications to instruct and manage students with a range of academic gifts and deficiencies, disciplinary problems, and the need to develop and use appropriate social skills.
Title: S.B. 1144
Source: http://hod.state.va.us
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| WV | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Prohibits suspension as discipline for failure to attend class; stipulates other methods of discipline may be used for the pupil which may include, but are not limited to, detention, extra class time or alternative class settings; abolishes corporal punishment; gives teachers authority to exclude from classrooms or school bus any pupil who is guilty of disorderly conduct, who in any manner interferes with an orderly educational process, who threatens, abuses or otherwise intimidates or attempts to intimidate a school employee or a pupil, who willfully disobeys a school employee, or who uses abusive or profane language directed at a school employee. Any pupil excluded shall be placed under the control of the principal of the school or a designee. The excluded pupil may be admitted to the classroom or school bus only when the principal, or a designee, provides written certification to the teacher that the pupil may be readmitted and specifies the specific type of disciplinary action, if any, which was taken. When a teacher excludes the same pupil from his or her classroom or from a school bus three times in one school year, and after exhausting all reasonable methods of classroom discipline provided in the school discipline plan, the pupil may be readmitted to the teacher's classroom only after the principal, teacher and, if possible, the parent(s), guardian(s) or custodian(s) of the pupil have held a conference to discuss the pupil's disruptive behavior patterns, and the teacher and the principal agree on a course of discipline for the pupil and inform the parent(s), guardian(s) or custodian(s) of the course of action. Thereafter, if the pupil's disruptive behavior persists, upon the teacher's request, the principal may, to the extent feasible, transfer the pupil to another setting.
Title: S.B. 439
Source: West Virginia Legislative Web Site
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| WV | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Specifies that counties must establish policies prohibiting harassment, intimidation and bullying by December 2001; requires the department of education to develop a model policy by September 2001.
Title: H.B. 3023
Source: West Virginia Department of Education Legislative Update
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Makes it unlawful for any person to use profane, violent, vulgar, abusive or insulting language toward any public school teacher during the course of his or her duties.
Title: H.B. 2394
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Requires students to be seated while the school bus is moving.
Title: H.B. 2464
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Requires notification to a school district when a juvenile is arrested or adjudicated delinquent for any offense that may affect the safety of the juvenile while at school or the safety any other person while at school.
Title: H.B. 1583
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Any public school district employee who commits a sexual offense against a minor shall, upon conviction, be dismissed from employment and shall not thereafter be eligible for employment by any school in this state.
Title: H.B. 2191
Source: Legislation
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | EVERY PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION IN THIS STATE SHALL ADOPT, POST AND ENFORCE A HAZING PREVENTION POLICY. THE HAZING PREVENTION POLICY SHALL BE PRINTED IN EVERY STUDENT HANDBOOK FOR DISTRIBUTION TO PARENTS AND STUDENTS. EACH HAZING PREVENTION POLICY SHALL INCLUDE
Title: H.B. 2476
Source: State Legislation
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| IN | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Relates to conflict resolution in school curriculum; requires the Department of Education to develop and make available to school corporations models of conflict resolution instruction, which may consist of a program of teacher training with application of the techniques to the children in the classroom, by a specified date.
Title: H.B. 1971
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | An Act concerning school safety; revising the definition of weapon; providing for suspension of the driver's license or privilege to drive of pupils for the commission of certain acts at school, on school property or at school-supervised activities.
Title: H.B. 2289
Source: Kansas Legislative Web Site
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Authorizes a school resource officer to deny access to buildings or grounds of school institutions; authorizes a school resource officer to demand identification and evidence of qualification of persons on premises of school institutions.
Title: S.B. 469
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2001 | Postsec. | Authorizes the use of a campus security force or building guards in addition to a campus police force at a constituent institution of the University of Maryland.
Title: H.B. 1409
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MN | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Requires notification to schools by law enforcement when a student within their jurisidiction is found in possession of drug paraphernalia.
Title: S.B. 991
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Relates to records of a school law enforcement unit; relates to court and law enforcement records of a juvenile.
Title: H.B. 1267
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Expands from five schools to five LEAs in each grand division who are required to file report with commissioner of education on conflict resolution intervention programs. - Amends TCA Section 49-2-118.
Title: S.B. 215
Source: Tennessee Legislative Web Site
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Establishes the offense of threatening a school employee or student, establishes the offense of threatening damage to a school structure.
Title: S.B. 11
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Prohibits future liquor stores from being located within 1,000 feet of a church or schoolhouse.
Title: S.B. 511
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Promotes Gun Violence Prevention Week in elementary schools.
Title: H.B. 1503
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Requires the court to impose a mandatory minimum period of detention for certain felony misdemeanor weapons offenses committed by a juvenile offender; provides for the scheduling time frame for a trail when a juvenile is held without bail or the bail is revoked or increased; requires reporting of juvenile delinquency petitions to school district superintendents within 72 hours.
Title: H.B. 1168
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Authorizes grants within the scope of the School Safety and Health Revolving Loan Fund; restricts the qualification for loans; provides eligibility for grants and the method for determining the qualifying percentage; extends the scope of the Uniform School Building Safety Act to charter schools and certain schools operated by the state.
Title: H.B. 315
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Directs the state board of education to develop conflict resolution and peer mediation models and curricula in the public schools.
Title: S.B. 2390
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Creates the School Safety Act of 2001; establishes a school safety center to provide technical and crisis assistance to school districts; authorizes school safety grants to local school districts to finance certain programs; establishes a school crisis management program; requires the State Board of Education to develop conflict resolution and peer mediation models and curricula; requires the automatic expulsion of a habitually disruptive student.
Title: S.B. 2239
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Modifies provisions related to the State System of Public Education by requiring any student who has been expelled from school for a firearm, explosive, or flammable material violation to meet with the school district superintendent to determine if the expulsion should be modified.
Title: S.B. 115
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Relates to child protective services and corporal punishment by school personnel; clarifies within the child abuse and neglect statute that teachers, principals or other persons employed by a school board or employed in a school operated by the Commonwealth are prohibited from subjecting a student to corporal punishment.
Title: H.B. 1866
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Reorganizes the student discipline statutes and moves some sections to other articles of Title 22.1. Requires division superintendents, in making recommendations for expulsion for violations other than those involving weapons or drugs, to consider various factors such as the student's age, grade level, academic and attendance records, and disciplinary history, and the appropriateness and availability of an alternative education placement or program; allows school boards to exclude from attendance students who have been suspended for more than 30 days or expelled by another school division or for whom private school admission has been withdrawn regardless of the offense; allows school boards to permit students who have been expelled, excluded, are subject to a long-term suspension, or have been found guilty or not innocent of a crime which could have resulted in injury to others, to attend an alternative education program provided by teh school division.
Title: H.B. 2512
Source: http://hod.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Requires each local school board to transmit one complete copy of all its schools' safety audits to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, who must receive such safety audits and may review a random sample of some school safety audits.
Title: S.B. 1334
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Reorganizes student discipline statutes; defines disciplinary actions; requires superintendents in expulsion cases to consider factors like student age, grade, attendance, academic and disciplinary history and the feasibility of alternative education; requires expulsion confirmation by the board; excludes students denied private admission; provides for admissions re-petitioning; allows for alternative education programs; requires student reimbursement for unreturned school property.
Title: S.B. 1359
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Relates to oral, written or electronic threats to commit acts of violence on school property; rewrites statute to provide that it is a Class 6 felony to knowingly communicate a written threat to kill or harm a person or a member of his family if the threat places the person in fear of death or injury to himself or his family; states a written threat to kill or do harm on school property or at a school event is a Class 6 felony, received or not; classifies like oral threats as Class 1 misdemeanor.
Title: H.B. 197
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Relates to allowing students to possess electronic communication devices on a school campus after normal school activities for Extracurricular activities.
Title: S.B. 10
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Repeals the law which makes it unlawful for a student to possess an electronic paging device, beeper, or similar communication device while on school property.
Title: S.B. 218
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Provides notice to schools if a student commits a crime of violence.
Title: H.B. 1004
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Modifies the Criminal Code; creates the offense of unlawful use of a laser pointer.
Title: S.B. 101
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Relates to exclusion from public school attendance; allows school boards to exclude from attendance students who have been suspended for over 30 days or expelled by another school division or for whom private school admission has been withdrawn regardless of why the disciplinary action was imposed, upon a finding that the student presents a danger to the students or staff of the school division and upon compliance with a hearing process; provides for readmission procedures.
Title: H.B. 1706
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Relates to the discharge of firearms in schools; provides that the hunting exemption and the exemption for an established shooting range do not apply to the willful discharge of a firearm upon the buildings and grounds of a school; provides that there is no established shooting range exemption for discharge of a firearm within 1,000 feet of the property line of a school.
Title: H.B. 247
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Requires schools to submit their school safety audits to their school division superintendent; states that division superintendent is to collate and submit these school safety audits to the Virginia Center for School Safety.
Title: H.B. 1587
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Relates to Criminal Justice Services; pertains to school resource officers; provides that the Board may disburse to localities annually up to five percent of the School Resource Officer Grants Fund for the training of the school resource officers.
Title: H.B. 1652
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Specifies that the chief law enforcement officer of a jurisdiction may disclose to school officials that a juvenile is a suspect in or has been charged with a violent juvenile felony, a crime involving arson or bombs, a crime involving drugs or drug paraphernalia or a crime involving weapons.
Title: H.B. 2841
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Requires the establishment of guidelines for the storage and disposal of toxic chemicals at public schools; requires school districts to implement safe storage and disposal standards for toxic chemicals and other hazardous substances.
Title: H.B. 324
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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 | Student Achievement--Closing the Achievement Gap |
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 | Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
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 | Students |
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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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