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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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| 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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| NJ | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | Permits jointure commissions to provide services to school districts including, education of disabled pupils; states when 2 or more boards of education determine to carry out jointly the duties imposed upon them in regard to education and training of disabled pupils and counseling, inclusionary, and child study team services for disabled pupils, the board may, in accordance to rules of the state board and the commissioner establish a joint commission to provide such services.
Title: S.B. 986
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Provides for a salary supplement for certain school counselors who have met the requirements and acquired the National Board of Certified Counselors credential.
Title: S.B. 247
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Establishes the Small School District Supplement fund; requires the Department of Education to award grants to small school districts with one or more small high schools; requires the department to study the relationship between small school districts size and cost of need for programs; requires the department to review certain programs for children with disabilities.
Title: S.B. 519
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Allows appeal of decisions made by organizations that administer interscholastic activities. Appeals go before the state board, which may hear the matter or by rule may delegate authority to a hearings officer
to hold a hearing and enter a final order.
Title: S.B. 220
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12
Community College
Postsec. | Creates the Utah College of Applied Technology and other regional applied technology colleges in Utah; establishes their governance structure; defines their powers and duties. Each regional applied technology college shall:
(a) offer a post-secondary and extra-secondary applied technology education curriculum;
(b) offer that curriculum at low cost to adult students and at no cost to secondary students
within the college's jurisdiction;
(c) provide applied technology education that will result in:
(i) appropriate licensing, certification, or other evidence of completion of training; and
(ii) qualification for specific employment in business and industry;
(d) offer competency-based associate of applied technology degrees approved by the State
Board of Regents;
(e) develop cooperative agreements with local school districts, other higher education
institutions, businesses, industries, and community and private agencies to maximize the availability
of instructional facilities; and (f) after consulting with local school districts within the geographic area served by the regional applied technology college:
(i) ensure that secondary students in the public education system have access to applied
technology education in the regional applied technology college; and
(ii) prepare and submit an annual report to the Utah College of Applied Technology detailing:
(A) how the applied technology education needs of secondary students within the region are
being met; and
(B) what access secondary students within the region have to programs offered at applied
technology colleges.
(2) A regional applied technology college may offer a competency-based high school diploma
equivalent approved by the State Board of Education in accordance with Section 53A-1-402.
(3) A regional applied technology college may not:
(a) offer courses other than applied technology education;
(b) offer a degree other than a competency-based associate of applied technology degree
approved by the State Board of Regents in accordance with Section 53B-1-103;
(c) provide tenure or academic rank for its instructors; and
(d) participate in intercollegiate athletics.
(4) The mission of a regional applied technology college is limited to applied technology
education and may not expand to include credit-based academic programs typically offered by community colleges or other institutions of higher education.
Title: H.B. 1003A
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2001S1/bills/hbillenr/HB1003.htm
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education to establish risk management and related programs for school administrators, teachers, and other school personnel to mitigate the potential for liability in the performance of their jobs.
Title: S.B. 535
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Concerns townships; relates to the acquisition of property; allows townships to procure not to exceed 3 acres of land for the township, and to build permanent buildings, or to purchase school building or grounds or both the building and grounds the same to be used for public purposes such as meetings relating to township business, political gatherings, township fairs, entertainments, whether for free use or for hire and profit.
Title: H.B. 2068
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Public Law No. 156., (LD 1479) Amends current law to allow school year employees to receive their pay over a period of either 10 or 12 months as determined by a written agreement between the employees and the school administrative unit.
Title: H.B. 1110
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Public Law No. 192.,& 181 (LD 1754)Relates to the Maine State Retirement System; establishes the Consumer Price Index as the benchmark for the cost-of-living adjustments; establishes standards for the determination by the Board of Trustees of the Maine State Retirement System; allows service credit in order to qualify for a service retirement benefit under a special plan to a State employee, teacher member or participating local district member interrupting employment for any services.
Title: S.B. 576
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Authorizes the trustees of a school district to enter into an interlocal cooperative agreement with another K-12 accredited public institution to provide educational services to supplement the district's educational program; requires that credits received and classes be approved by the school district and meet graduation requirements; requires that credits must be reported to the district of residence; provides that the district of residence is not responsible for transportation costs.
Title: S.B. 394
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Authorizes a school district to use a portion of its impact aid funds for repayment of bonds.
Title: S.B. 457
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Authorizes a school district to enter into a cooperative purchasing contract with one or more districts for the procurement of supplies and services; provides bidding and advertisement requirements for a cooperative purchasing contract; provides for rejection of all bids.
Title: H.B. 108
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Provides start-up costs for school districts to establish school breakfast programs.
Title: H.B. 353
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Allows school districts that consolidate to each retain their basic entitlement for 6 years; retains 100% of the entitlement for the 1st 3 years; reduces the entitlement over the next 3 years by 25% each year.
Title: H.B. 488
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Eliminates unnecessary and duplicative paperwork in the public schools.
Title: S.B. 708
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Changes the definition of general fund operating expenditures for purposes of the state aid formula. General fund operating expenditures will not include retirement incentive plans and staff development assistance. The exclusion of these items from general fund operating expenditures will reduce formula "need." resulting in a minimal decrease in state aid paid to schools. The state department of education indicates that the amount of retirement incentive plans and staff development assistance is not a significant amount on a statewide basis, so the exclusion of these items will result in a minimal decrease in state aid paid to schools.
Title: L.B. 797
Source: Nebraska Legislative Web Site
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| OR | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Allows the district school board to open a school outside of district with permission of the school district in which the school will be located; provides for withholding of State School Fund moneys if the school opened without permission; allows school district to contract bonded indebtedness for uses outside district.
Title: H.B. 2291
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | States that Basic Education Program funds generated in salary components for non-licensed personnel may be used to increase salaries for currently employed non-licensed personnel except where such funds are generated for new or additional positions.
Title: S.B. 346
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Senate Bill 826 amends the Education Code to authorize the board of trustees of a school district to operate a school or program or hold a class on the campus of an institution of higher education if the board
obtains written consent from the president or other chief executive officer of the institution. The bill authorizes the president or other chief executive officer of the institution to provide written consent regardless of whether the institution is located within the boundaries of the district.
Title: S.B. 826
Source: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/
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| TX | Vetoed 05/2001 | P-12 | Requires trustees of each district to adopt a policy to limit redundant requests for information and the number and length of written reports that a classroom teacher is required to prepare. A classroom teacher may not be required to prepare a written report other than (1) a report of a student's grade on a particular assignment or examination; (2) a report of a student's grades at the end of a grade reporting period; (3) a textbook report; (4) a unit or weekly lesson plan report that outlines, in a brief and general manner, the information to be presented during each period at the secondary level or in each subject or topic at the elementary level; (5) an attendance report; (6) a report required for accreditation review; (7) any other report specifically required by law or state board rule to be prepared by a classroom teacher; or (8) any other report directly related to the professional duties of the classroom teacher.
Title: H.B. 106
Source: http://www.house.state.tx.us/
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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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| AR | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Requires districts to establish web pages and then post relevant district information on that web page.
Title: H.B. 2503
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Creates a procedure for the creation of a school district by detachment.
Title: H.B. 1882
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Vetoed 04/2001 | P-12 | Requires county board of education to draft specifications encouraging maximum competition in public school procurement contracts when advertising is required; prohibits specifications favoring a single prospective bidder or offerer.
Title: S.B. 438
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Revises school district operating expense and purchasing laws by allowing a district to make transfers between different funds or between the final budget and a budget amendment; prohibits transfers from the general fund.
Title: S.B. 436
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Expands the Interlocal Cooperation Act to allow school districts to share teachers, specialists, or superintendents.
Title: S.B. 182
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Regional education cooperatives authorized by the state board may own, and have control and management over, buildings and land independent of the control division of the general services department; cooperatives shall submit budgets to the department of education. The state board shall, by rule, determine the provisions of the Public School Finance Act relating to budgets and expenditures that are applicable to cooperatives; and pursuant to the rules of the state board, the state superintendent may, designate a cooperative as a board of finance with which all funds appropriated or distributed to it shall be deposited. The state board, with full participation by the cooperatives, shall develop a statewide long-range plan for educational and technical assistance activities in public and charter schools served by the cooperatives.
Title: H.B. 139
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site
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| TN | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Authorizes counties with metropolitan governments in which principal city is not county seat to adopt consolidation plan for school systems with approval of governing body of metropolitan government and approval by all affected school boards. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2.
Title: H.B. 465
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | AN ACT TO DIRECT THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO ESTABLISH RULES AND REGULATIONS REGARDING THE DISPOSITION OF PUBLIC PROPERTY BY PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL ENTITIES; TO RESTRICT THE DONATION OF SCHOOL PROPERTY TO RETIREES; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Title: S.B. 819
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Revises the procedures for opening or reopening an elementary school; allows parents of at least two pupils to petition the trustees; lowers the required average number belonging to two; allows the trustees to open or reopen the school during the current school fiscal year; requires a school to be classified as isolated before opening of reopening during the current school fiscal year.
Title: H.B. 358
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Changes provisions relating to inspection of pupil transportation vehicles.
Title: L.B. 36
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Repeals that the requirement that school districts consist of adjoining territory.
Title: H.B. 1123
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Allows any local governing body, school district or public institution of higher education to enter into energy performance-based contracts to significantly reduce energy and operating costs of a facility.
Title: H.B. 1967
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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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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