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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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 | Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
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| CA | Chaptered by Secretary of State 10/2001 | P-12 | Chapter No.585, Defines the requirements that a school district make a diligent search for certified teachers by listing specific requirements before issuing or renewing emergency teaching or specialist permits.
Title: S.B. 837
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2001 | P-12 | Chapter No.576, Authorizes the Los Angeles Unified School District to develop, on a pilot project basis, a 30-day training program for the teachers it hires on an emergency basis and who will be assigned to schools that have 20% or more teachers on emergency permits. Appropriates funds for implementation of the program.
Title: S.B. 321
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | Public Act No. 92-184., Provides that a teacher holding an early childhood, elementary, high school, or special certificate may substitute teach for a period not to exceed 120 paid school days or 600 paid school hours in any one school district in any one school term.
Title: S.B. 1293
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2001 | P-12 | Establishes a policy advisory board on teacher and administrator certifications for public school teachers and administrators; provides for its composition, meetings, staff support and powers and duties.
Title: S.B. 331
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| DE | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Relates to implementation of the Professional Standards Board; permits the Professional Standards Board, with the approval of the State Board, to establish a time line for implementing certification requirements; permits a temporary extension for teacher applicants seeking initial licensure; and provides for a suspension of licensure if the deadline is not met, pending proof that the teacher passed Praxis I.
Title: S.B. 176
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Directs Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to establish American Indian language teaching license; allows American Indian tribes to develop language test used for licensure; provides that holder of an American Indian language teaching license who does not have an administrative or teacher license or public charter school teacher registration, must participate in technical assistance program with a license teacher.
Title: S.B. 690
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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| HI | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Relates to National Board certification for Department of Education teachers.
Establishes a national board certification support program to provide assistance to any teacher in a public school who becomes a candidate for National Board certification.
Title: S.B. 1214
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Extends from one to three years the length of time for which certain out-of-state teachers are granted nonrenewable provisional teaching certification.
Title: H.B. 221
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Relates to education; permits applicants for a temporary limited teaching license or a personnel variance to submit their application by July 1 in any year; directs the Board of Teaching to amend its rules to conform with the July 1 date.
Title: H.B. 1192
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Recognizes excellence in teaching; provides annual professional stipends to teachers who obtain certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
Title: H.B. 42
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | State board may grant an exception to requirements for licensure and certification and, upon demonstration by an individual of specific competency in the subject area of specialization, may grant a license or certificate to the individual. No teacher candidate shall be eligible for licensing until successfully completing the general education and subject area portions of the competency examination. No licensed teacher shall be eligible for certification until successfully completing the professional education portion of the competency examination. The state board may establish other requirements necessary to grant such exceptions. Authorizes standard certification for any person holding certain National Board certification.
Title: S.B. 388
Source: Oklahoma Legislative Web Site
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Applicants for licensure or certification who did not receive a favorable recommendation from the Teacher Competency Review Panel, including applicants who did not receive a favorable recommendation prior to the effective date of this act, are entitled to appeal the panel's decision to the state board.
Title: S.B. 813
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2001-02SB/sb813_enr.rtf
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Allows certification of educators holding a certificate or other credential issued by another state or country, if they passed a state examination similar to and at least as rigorous as that required in Texas.
Title: H.B. 1721
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Requires the commissioner to establish a master technology teacher grant program to encourage teachers to: (1) become certified as master technology teachers; and (2) work with other teachers and with students in order to increase the use of technology in each classroom. Also establishes Master Technology Teacher Certification to ensure that there are teachers with special training to work with other teachers and with students in order to increase the use of technology in each classroom.
Title: H.B. 1475
Source: http://www.house.state.tx.us/
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Creates a statewide Partnership Grant Program to provide new high quality alternative routes to residency teacher certification; provides for recruitment by school districts of teachers to teach in subject matter shortage areas or areas with shortages of teachers due to location.
Title: S.B. 5695
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Clarifies the statute governing the collection of teaching certification fees so that it applies to all staff or employees that require certification in order to teach a class at a community college.
Title: H.B. 2316
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Relates to elementary and secondary education provisions addressed in the creation of North Dakota Century Code; relates to administration, boards, teacher licenses; school guidance and counseling services; special education; vocational and technology education; school finance; transportation.
Title: H.B. 1045
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Relates to special education credentials and mental retardation credential; provides an expiration date.
Title: H.B. 1465
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 | Sections 31 through 41 provide new language to the existing Public School Code and enact a three-tiered system of teacher licensure with a minimum salaries specified for each licensure level. This would apply to both standard 9 ½ month contract and for an annualized contract.
Title: S.B. 308
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site
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| NV | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Authorizes commission on professional standards in education to provide exemption for certain persons from examinations required for initial licensure of educational personnel. The regulations may provide an exemption from the examinations required for initial licensure for teachers and other educational personnel who have previous experience in teaching or performing other educational functions in another state.
Title: A.B. 223
Source: Nevada Legislative Web Site
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| OK | Vetoed 04/2001 | P-12 | Creates the Task force on Career-Technology Professional Certification; states purpose.
Title: H.B. 1914
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | SENATE accepts GOVERNOR'S recommended amendments 04/2001 | P-12 | Directs the Board of Education, in setting passing scores for the professional teacher's examination required for initial licensure, to establish an alternative for the Praxis I assessments, which test academic skills; states a passing score in a specialty area is also required for initial licensure.
Title: H.B. 2123
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Directs the Board of Education, in setting passing scores for the professional teacher's examination required for initial licensure, to establish an alternative for the Praxis I assessments. Currently, applicants for initial licensure must pass the Praxis I: Academic Skills Assessments, which includes mathematics, reading, and writing tests, each of which has a specified passing score. In addition, a passing score in a specialty area is also required for initial licensure; the Praxis II tests fulfill this latter requirement, which is necessary for endorsement in a teaching specialty.
Title: H.B. 2123
Source: http://hod.state.va.us/welcome.htm
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Permits a holder of a lapsed teaching certification, not a revoked or suspended certification, to be employed on a conditional basis by a school district provided the holder must complete certification renewal requirements within 2 years of reemployment.
Title: H.B. 1120
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Increases the bonus for teachers obtaining the National Board Professional Teaching Certification.
Title: S.B. 245
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | If an individual has been licensed to teach in North Dakota for a period of thirty years, the education standards and practices board shall grant the individual lifetime licensure. Nothing in this section precludes the board from taking any action against an individual's lifetime license if the board determines that the action is warranted under this chapter.
Title: S.B. 2412
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | LB 314 exempts certain applicants for an entry-level teacher or administrator certificate from the requirement to take and pass a basic skills competency examination. An applicant is exempted from the test if the person has a certificate issued by another state based on successful completion of a teacher education program and has three or more successive years of experience in a school. Applicants with current credentials from a national nonprofit organization that issues credentials to teachers based upon meeting certain standards are also exempt. The bill repeals a requirement for the State Department of Education (NDE) to administer a basic skills examination for prospective teachers and administrators from outside the state.
Title: L.B. 314
Source: Nebraska Unicameral Web Site
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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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| SD | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Revises the definition of illegal substances for purposes of revoking or refusing to issue a certificate to a teacher or administrator; permits revocation or refusal to issue a certificate for certain offenses involving moral turpitude, including certain traffic and marijuana offenses.
Title: S.B. 63
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Repeals § 13-42-1 that made it a petty offense for a person to teach in a nonpublic school any of state required courses without being certified to teach the courses in the state's public schools. A violation of this section is sufficient grounds for revocation of any teacher's certificate held by a violator. This does not apply to persons providing alternative instruction.
Title: S.B. 62
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us/
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Teacher proficiency; continuing contract status. Provides that any teacher hired on or after July 1, 2001, will be required, as a condition of achieving continuing contract status, to have successfully completed training in instructional strategies and techniques for intervention for or remediation of students who fail or are at risk of failing the Standards of Learning assessments. Local school divisions will be required to provide the training at no cost to teachers employed in their division. In the event a local school division fails to offer the training in a timely manner, no teacher will be denied continuing contract status for failure to obtain such training. This bill is identical to SB 1304.
Title: H.B. 2514
Source: http://hod.state.va.us/welcome.htm
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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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