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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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| 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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| CA | Chaptered by Secretary of State 09/2001 | P-12 | Chapter No.268, Authorizes a school district receiving Teaching As A Priority Grant funds to offer incentives to recruit and retain credentialed teachers interested in attaining cross-cultural, language, and academic development certification or bilingual, cross-cultural, language, and academic development certification.
Title: A.B. 1499
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AK | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | From the legislation:
It is the specific intent of this Act to place authority for regulating subject-matter expert teachers with local school boards and regional educational attendance areas and to limit the authority of the state Board of Education and Early Development with respect to subject- matter expert teachers only to the duties specifically given to the board in this Act.
Title: S.B. 86
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2001 | P-12 | Allows retired teachers to substitute as teachers in State and public schools for not more than 90 days in any one school year without a reduction of retirement benefits.
Title: H.B. 5209, S.B. 207
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12
Postsec. | Creates the Transition to Teaching Program; encourages participation by postsecondary education institutions and organizations that represent eligible employees or employ eligible applicants.
Title: S.B. 1684
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Amends the School Code; requires the most current version of an unfilled teaching positions list to be linked to the regional office of education's Internet web site or for Chicago, its school district's web site; provides that if the regional office of education does not have an Internet web site, the regional superintendent of schools must make the list available to the State Board of Education.
Title: H.B. 1048
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Repeals all "reemployment of retiree" laws and replaces them with one law allowing full salary and full benefits after the lapse of a 12-month waiting period and allows substitutes to return immediately for limited service.
Title: H.B. 914
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Adds the agency from which a member retired, any public school system, and any special education district to the list of employers where a Louisiana School Employees' Retirement System retiree cannot be reemployed, relative to the Louisiana School Employees Retirement System.
Title: H.B. 1359
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | , Repeals all reemployment of retiree laws and replaces them with one law allowing full salary and full benefits after the lapse of a 12-month waiting period, relative to the Teachers' Retirement System.
Title: H.B. 1340
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Appropriates $9,950,000 for technology grants for fiscal years 2001-2002 and 2002-2003: $1,250,000 per year for grants for the minimal level necessary to provide a networked computer for each classroom; $1,250,000 per year in grants for repair, replacement and upgrading of computer hardware and software; $150,000 in grants for pilot programs that demonstrate best practices for the use of technology to improve student achievement; $50,000 for hiring a consultant to conduct an evaluation of educational technology. Section 4 appropriates $10 million for signing bonuses for teachers who are newly hired by districts for the 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 school years.
Title: S.B. 427
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/71st/bills/SB/SB427_EN.html
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12
Postsec. | Establishes the Hawaii education loan program and special fund for the purpose of providing financial support to students who graduate with a bachelor's degree in education and who agree to teach in the Hawaii public school system.
Title: H.B. 1667
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | The Board may engage in efforts relating to the improvement of instruction through teacher education and professional development, and to attract qualified candidates for teacher training from among the high school graduates of the state.
Title: S.B. 1212
Source: Legislation
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | , Provides that department of education may rehire retired teachers in teacher shortage areas, with prior approval of superintendent and pursuant to collective bargaining.
Title: H.B. 1668
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Offers an incentive to state teachers to take professional development course work by allowing them a 100% state tax deduction on tuition costs.
Title: S.B. 1315
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Creates new section effective July 1, 2002 establishing Transition to Teaching Program to assist individuals who do not have teaching certification make mid-career switch into teaching field and earn teaching license. Requires every accredited teacher training school and department to create course of study for program partipants, and which must include specified components regarding coursework, classroom experience and participant prerequisites. Establishes criteria for granting of initial standard license to program participant. Specifies that district may hire program participant to teach only in the subject area in which participant meets qualifications. Specifies that after obtaining initial standard license, program participant wishing to renew initial standard license must meet same requirements as other candidates for license renewal. Requires accredited teacher training schools and departments to report annually to state board on number of persons who enroll in and complete the program.
Title: S.B. 165
Source: www.state.in.us/legislative
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12
Postsec. | Relates to professional service scholarships for teachers and ethnic minorities; requires recipients to teach in under-served areas and in hard-to-staff disciplines; provides for repayment of scholarships if teaching agreements are not met; also provides service scholarships for other professions.
Title: H.B. 2014
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12
Postsec. | Creates the Critical Teacher Shortage Incentive Program. The program provides newly certified teachers who agree to practice in their profession as a classroom teacher in elementary or secondary schools in the area of mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics or special education, three thousand dollars per year for the first four consecutive years for which they practice.
Title: H.B. 651
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Deletes the automatic repealer on the State Employer Assisted Housing Loan Program for teachers in critical teacher shortage areas.
Title: S.B. 2181
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12
Community College | Session Law Number 146. Directs the state university system, the community colleges system, and the department of public instruction to work cooperatively to expand opportunities for military personnel to take teacher education classes prior to discharge from the military; includes expansion of teacher education classes and programs on military bases and at alternate nearby sites, through Internet-based course offerings, and through cooperative education programs.
Title: S.B. 803
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Concerns Academic Performance Awards Programs, continuing education for mathematics teachers, National Board certification; removes authority of Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to establish repayment of certain student loans program; establishes teacher shortage employment incentive program; authorizes State Regents to make certain employment incentive payments, with limit on amount of certain incentive payments; authorizes reduction of employment incentive payments if funds not available; addresses extended programs. Implementation of these sections is to be delayed until the current expenditure per pupil in average daily attendance in public elementary and secondary schools in unadjusted dollars for the 1998-99 school year or any school year thereafter for Oklahoma, as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics annually in the Digest of Education Statistics, reaches at least ninety percent (90%) of the regional average expenditure for that same year, and funds are provided.
Title: H.B. 1499--Multiple Components
Source: Oklahoma Legislative Web Site
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| SC | Signed into law 05/2001 | Postsec. | One part of this bill relates to colleges and universities emphasizing teaching as a career opportunity; provides manner in which requirements are implemented, and for content of teacher education programs.
Title: H.B. 3534
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | To governor 05/2001 | P-12 | Creates a scholarship program for college juniors, seniors, and post-graduate students who pledge to teach in public schools for a required number of years. Requires the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation (TSAC) to administer the scholarship program and to provide the department of education with rosters of program participants and their areas of endorsement for job placement. TSAC, in conjunction with the State Board of Education and the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, is authorized to make rules. Each scholarship may be up to the amount of tuition, fees, books, and room and board charged at a public institution of higher education in Tennessee. A scholarship could be renewed two times. A scholarship would be evidenced by a note payable at 9% interest. Authorizes scholarships to be forgiven at the rate of one year's scholarship for two years of teaching or one and one-half years of teaching in a
geographical shortage area or low performing school. A scholarship loan could be terminated for withdrawal from school or failure to meet academic standards.
Title: S.B. 1881/H.B. 1921--Omnibus Bill
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Establishes the Careers to Classrooms Program to assist persons in obtaining certification in this state as elementary or secondary school teachers or educational aides; and to facilitate the employment of those persons by school districts in this state. Preference is given to a person who: (1) has substantial, demonstrated career experience in science, mathematics, computer science, or engineering and agrees to seek employment as a teacher in one of those subjects in a public elementary or secondary school in this state; or (2) has substantial, demonstrated career experience in a field other than science, mathematics, computer science, or engineering that is identified by the agency as a field important for state educational objectives and agrees to seek employment as a teacher in a subject related to that field in a public elementary or secondary school in the state.
Title: H.B. 704
Source: http://www.house.state.tx.us/
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | The board of trustees of a school district shall establish a plan to encourage the hiring of educational aides who show a willingness to become certified teachers. The governing board of an institution of higher education that offers courses required for teacher certification shall establish a plan to make those courses more accessible to those who seek teacher certification. The board shall consider as part of its plan to make those courses more accessible for teacher certification, evening classes, Internet classes, or other means approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Title: H.B. 1130
Source: http://www.house.state.tx.us/
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Relates to allowing certain retirees of the Teacher Retirement System to be employed as classroom teachers without losing retirement benefits.
Title: H.B. 3147
Source: Texas Legislative Web Site
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| VA | Vetoed 05/2001 | P-12 | Provides that retired persons who are members of the Virginia Retirement System may be hired as teachers without interrupting their retirement benefits.
Title: S.B. 954
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education to identify critical teacher shortage areas; identifies the areas of the state that make up the arkansas Delta Region.
Title: H.B. 2478
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Allows school districts in the delta and in geographical teacher shortage areas to reimburse teachers for interviewing and moving expenses.
Title: H.B. 2247
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Creates the University Assisted Teacher Recruitment and Retention Grant Program.
Title: H.B. 1939
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Creates the Arkansas Geographical Critical Needs Minority Teacher Scholarship Program.
Title: H.B. 1940
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Enacts a loan forgiveness program for teachers in shortage areas identified by the state superintendent. To be eligible, students must have been admitted as a full-time student in a teacher preparation program, with the declared intention to teach at grade level or content area in which a shortage exits. Can receive up to $1,000 per year, to a maximum of $5,000. Opon notification that individual has completed a full year of teaching, funds are distributed to pay outstanding loan principal balances.
Title: H.B. 1444
Source: http://www.state.nd.us/lr
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Relates to retired teachers returning to teaching under the Teachers' Fund for Retirement.
Title: S.B. 2180
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Enacts the Teacher Loan for Service Act; provides funding for loans to students pursuing post-secondary education in teacher training.
Title: H.B. 68
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2001 | P-12 | Sections 60-62 amends the Educational Retirement Act (ERA) to provide incentives to retain experienced teachers in the classroom. First, it increases the multiplier for calculating retirement benefits for employees under the ERA who have more than 25 years of service. On a incremental scale, the multiplier will increase from 2.35 percent up to a maximum of 2.50 percent for employees with 30 or more years of service. Second, it enhances average annual salary computations for certain members. Finally, it establishes provisions allowing for the return to employment during retirement.
Title: S.B. 308
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2001 | P-12 | Effective January 1, 2002, a retired member may be re-employed without having to suspend retirement benefits if the member has not been employed as an employee or independent contractor by a local administrative unit for at least twelve consecutive months from the date of retirement. Such person is entitled to continue to receive retirement benefits but is not entitled to acquire service credit. A retired member who returns to employment shall not make contributions to the fund. Appropriates $121,500 to the educational retirement board for expenditure in fiscal year 2002 to fund three full-time-equivalent employees to carry out the provisions of this act.
Title: H.B. 152
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Allows retired employees for return to employment with continued retirement benefits.
Title: S.B. 716
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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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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| CO | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Concerns the maintenance of public employee retirement benefits for retirees who are hired by a school district during a critical shortage of employees.
Title: H.B. 1186
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Relates to the reorganization of the Education Professional Education Standards Board; authorizes the Board to be one of accrediting authorities for a standard college or university; requires educators to be certified by the Board; the Board and the Kentucky Department of Education shall develop a strategy to increase the number of minority teachers and administrators..
Title: H.B. 78
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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| UT | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12
Postsec. | Establishes a Public Education Job Enhancement Program to attract, train and retain highly qualified secondary teachers in math, physics, chemistry, physical science, learning technology and information technology. States that eligible teachers are those nominated by a district superintendent or school principal who agree to teach at the secondary level for at least 4 years. Provides awards, on a competitive basis, for up to $20,000, or a scholarship to cover tuition for a master's degree, endorsement, or graduate education in one of the specified areas. Requires the teacher to repay a portion of the initial payment if the teacher does not complete 2 of the 4-year teaching agreement in the agreed-upon subject area(s).
Title: S.B. 61
Source: ECS
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12
Postsec. | Moves and amends the Teacher Scholarship Loan Program; requires Board of Education and State Council of Higher Education to notify parents, students, teachers, guidance counselors, academic advisors and financial aid administrators at institutions concerning the Program, eligibility criteria for loans, and terms and conditions under which loans are awarded in order that students seeking careers in the teaching profession may be informed of the availability of financial aid.
Title: H.B. 2589
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Requires Superintendent of Public Instruction to survey local school divisions to identify critical shortages of teachers by area, school division or subject; states retired members of the retirement system may be hired as teachers or administration without interrupting their benefits if their allowance is based on licensed instructor or administrator service, they have received benefits for a minimum time, did not utilize early retirement incentives and are filling critical shortages.
Title: H.B. 1589
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Relates to Virginia Retirement System retirees hired as teachers; requires Superintendant of Public Instruction to annually survey school divisions for shortages of teachers by area, division or subject; states system members may be hired as teachers or administrators without interrupting benefits if they retired from service as an administrator or teacher, have received such allowance for a minimum required time, did not use early retirement incentives and are filling a critical shortage.
Title: H.B. 252
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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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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