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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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| 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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| CA | Vetoed 09/2001 | P-12 | Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop a teacher qualification index for each public school to measure the distribution of teachers within school districts across the State and to assign a rating that will demonstrate comparable improvement in the assignment of credentialed teachers and underqualified teachers. Provides for the composition of the index. Requires the publishing of the index on the Internet.
Title: A.B. 833
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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| OR | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Creates Professional Organizations Certification Fund (separate and distinct from the General Fund). Interest earned on moneys in the Professional Organizations Certification Fund are to be credited to the fund. The Teacher Standards and Practices Commission may accept from any source any grant, donation or gift of money or other valuable thing made to the commission for pur-poses of the Professional Organizations Certification Fund. Moneys credited to the Professional Organizations Certification Fund are continuously appropriated to the commission for the purposes of advanced certifications of teachers
and administrators.
Title: S.B. 324
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Relates to the rights of a public school teacher who is assaulted during the performance of the teacher's regular duties.
Title: H.B. 1188
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Requires educator professional liability insurance coverage for all full-time instructional personnel; provides for specific appropriations in the General Appropriations Act; extends educator professional liability insurance coverage at cost to all part-time instructional personnel and administrative personnel; requires competitive procurement of any insurance carrier that provides state-funded liability coverage; providing for reversion of certain funds.
Title: H.B. 409
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12
Postsec. | Waives the residency requirement for tuition purposes for public school teachers under certain circumstances at public senior higher education institutions and community collages; defines a term; establishes circumstances when a public school teacher is responsible for in-State tuition.
Title: H.B. 401
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Revises provisions governing sexual conduct between pupils and persons in position of authority at schools.
Title: S.B. 183
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | One portion of this large bill stipultes that teachers receiving National Board certification receive $7,000 annually as long as they continue teaching in the state and continue their National certification.
Title: H.B. 1499--Multiple Components
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Directs Department of Education to award grants to school districts to support teachers in obtaining national board certification; expands teacher mentorship program to include beginning administrator mentoring.
Title: S.B. 250
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SC | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12
Postsec. | Amends Section 59-101-280. "Colleges and universities of this State shall emphasize teaching as a career opportunity and those institutions with teacher education programs should make the preparation of teachers a fundamental part of the institution's mission. These colleges and universities should allocate resources appropriate for support of this mission, support of professional development programs for practicing teachers and teacher education faculties to include technology training. Greater attention should be given to attracting diversity in race and ethnicity in faculties and students. Opportunities also should be developed to provide students interested in a teaching career with opportunities to tutor other students. All teacher education programs should strengthen alliances with K-12 education to increase the clinical opportunities for their students and to become more responsive to the needs of practicing teachers. Closer alliances also should be established with the business community and should integrate critical workforce skills into content and methods courses. Teacher education faculties should provide teacher candidates with a variety of effective teaching practices to ensure the state's diverse student population achieve at high levels of learning."
Title: H.B. 3534, Section 1
Source: South Carolina Legislative Web Site
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Revises provisions for teachers' duty-free planning periods; requires reporting to state department of education, and prohibits combining duty-free lunch period with duty-free planning period. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-302(e).
Title: H.B. 1039
Source: Tennessee Legislative Web Site
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to reimburse up to 100 teachers for evaluation fees incurred while obtaining certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Current law authorizes reimbursement of up to 25 teachers. Requires payment of $2,500 per year to nationally certified public school teachers who have a valid teaching license and valid certification, subject to funding in the general appropriations act.
Title: S.B. 1881/H.B. 1921--Omnibus Bill
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.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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| WV | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Establishes the National Institute for Teaching Excellence to be implemented by the secretary with the assistance of the superintendent and the chancellor. The Insitute is to encourage/promote excellence and awareness of quality teacher preparation programs in the state. Establishes a board for the Institute that has the responsibility for developing, overseeing and implementing the operations of the institute. It consists of seven members selected as follows: (1) The secretary or a designee; (2) The superintendent or a designee; (3) The chancellor or a designee; (4) One certified teacher, selected by the state board; and
(5) Three members selected by the secretary representing West Virginia higher education institutions with approved teacher education programs. Of the three members selected by the secretary, one shall represent a state university, one shall represent a public college, and one shall represent a private college.
Title: H.B. 3245
Source: West Virginia Legislative Web Site
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | From the legislation:
EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL PROVIDE TO EACH PRE-KINDERGARTEN THROUGH SIXTH GRADE TEACHER IN EACH FISCAL YEAR AT LEAST TEN DOLLARS ($ 10.00) PER STUDENT OR TWO HUNDRED FIFTY ($ 250) PER CLASSROOM TO PURCHASE RELATED COMMODITIES FOR USE BY THAT TEACHER IN HIS OR HER CLASSROOM OR FOR CLASS ACTIVITIES.
Title: H.B. 2621
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Specifies that parents as teachers programs are included among the parent information programs eligible to receive Step Ahead early childhood grant funds.
Title: H.B. 1417
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Amends 15.1-13-02 --changing the membership of the Education Standards and Practices Board from nine to ten members. 1. The governor shall appoint to the education standards and practices board:
Four individuals who are public school classroom teachers; one individual who is a nonpublic school classroom teacher; two individuals who are school board member members; two individuals who are administrators; and one dean of a college of education or chairman of a department of education.
2. The superintendent of public instruction or the superintendent's designee shall serve as a
nonvoting ex officio member.
Title: H.B. 1326
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2001 | P-12 | Section 42 states that effective with the 2002-2003 school year parents must be notified if their student is being taught by a non-licensed teacher for longer than 30 days.
Title: S.B. 308
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Relates to teacher proficiency and contract status; states any teacher hired on or after July 1, 2001, will be required, as a condition of achieving continuing contract status, to have completed training in strategies and techniques for intervention for or remediation of students who fail or risk failing the Standards of Learning assessment; requires local divisions to offer training; states if a division fails to offer timely training, no teacher will be denied such contract status.
Title: S.B. 1304
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Concerns a limitation on information in school reports concerning the percentage of teachers teaching in a subject in which the teacher received a degree.
Title: H.B. 1215
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Modifies provisions related to State System of Public and Higher Education to address issues of teacher quality in recognition of relationship to student success; provides for comprehensive policy on teacher quality to include components on recruitment, preservice, licensure, induction, professional development, and evaluation; requires annual report to Legislature on state of teacher quality in state, to include reliable data on state's supply of and demand for teachers.
Title: S.B. 16
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Relates to the national teacher certification incentive; modifies program reimbursement levels; eliminates the delayed repeal of the program.
Title: S.B. 13
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Prohibits school boards from employing any person whose certificate has been revoked or suspended.
Title: H.B. 1067
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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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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