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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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| CA | Signed into law 09/2001 | P-12 | Establishes, until a certain date, the Principal Training Program to provide incentive funding to provide school site administrators with instruction and training. Requires the State Board of Education, with the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, to develop criteria for the approval of state-qualified training providers. Requires the Department of Education to develop, and the State Board of Education to review and approve, interim and final reports.
Title: A.B. 75
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Limits the right to employment as a first-year probationary faculty member to persons previously employed as administrators who were not employed pursuant to prescribed types of contracts; provides that community college district governing boards may employ academic employees, including educational administrators, on contract with respect to prescribed projects. (Chapter No.144)
Title: S.B. 838
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Adds school administrators as eligible to earn the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards certification salary adjustment of $ 5000 and extends the period of eligibility for such adjustment to certified by 7/1/10.
Title: S.B. 114
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 06/2001 | Postsec. | (Joint Resolution) Extends the reporting date of the special legislative commission to study the feasibility of allowing unionized classified employees at all higher education institutions to be able to negotiate directly with Rhode Island Board of Governors from January 27, 2001 to January 29, 2002 and said commission shall expire on March 29, 2002.
Title: H.B. 5188
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Relates to local superintendent of education, newly elected or appointed, required to complete financial and legal training program; relates to committee establishment to develop and implement.
Title: S.B. 93
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Repeals the requirement that principals and vice-principals have served as teachers for a period of not less than 5 years; requires principals and vice-principals to have appropriate school-level experience as determined by the department of education.
Title: H.B. 469
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Requires the board of education to adopt a classification and compensation structure for education officers that more accurately reflects the level of work being performed.
Title: S.B. 1385
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Provides incentives to keep exemplary principals and vice-principals at the school level; encourages exemplary principals and vice principals to accept long-term assignments to hard-to-staff schools, special needs schools, and schools with high teacher turnover; encourages exemplary teachers to become vice principals.
Title: S.B. 530
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Provides that a school principal's performance evaluation may not be based wholly on Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress (ISTEP) scores of students in the principal's school, but the scores may be used as one factor in the evaluation; authorizes a school corporation or other entity to which the Federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) applies to release of education records to a juvenile justice agency.
Title: S.B. 204
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Permits an individual who has leadership, management and administrative ability in a field other than education to serve as a local superintendent of schools.
Title: S.B. 378
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | If a postprobationary teacher who is an administrator is not reemployed as an administrator after either year of his probationary period, and there is a position as a teacher available for the ensuing school year in the school district in which the person is employed, that person must be offered contract as a teacher for the ensuing school year. If the person fails to accept the contract as a teacher, the person shall be deemed to have rejected the offer of a contract as a teacher. An administrator who has completed his probationary period and is thereafter promoted to the position of principal must serve an additional probationary period of 1 year in the position of principal. If the administrator serving the additional probationary period is not reemployed as a principal after the expiration of the additional probationary period, the board must offer the person a contract for the ensuing school year for the administrative position in which [he] the person attained postprobationary status. If the person fails to accept such a contract, the person shall
be deemed to have rejected the offer of employment.
Title: A.B. 130
Source: Nevada Legislative Web Site
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| SC | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Amends Section 59-18-1930. The Education Oversight Committee shall provide for a comprehensive review of state and local professional development to include principal leadership development and teacher staff development. The review must provide an analysis of training to include what professional development is offered, how it is offered, the support given to implement skills acquired from professional development, and how the professional development enhances the academic goals outlined in district and school strategic plans. The oversight committee shall recommend better ways to provide and meet the needs for professional development, to include the use of the existing five contract days for in service. Needed revisions shall be made to state regulations to promote use of state dollars for training which meets national standards for staff development. Upon receipt of the recommendations from the comprehensive review of state and local professional development, the state department of education shall develop an accountability system to ensure that identified professional development standards are effectively implemented.
Title: H.B. 3534
Source: South Carolina Legislative Web Site
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Requires boards of education to announce when applications for superintendent are to be submitted and when superintendent will be employed. - Amends TCA Section 49-2-203.
Title: H.B. 389
Source: Tennessee Legislative Web Site
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Requires the commissioner to reduce a district's Foundation School Program funds by any amount paid to a terminated superintendent if it exceeds the amount earned by the superintendent under the contract as of the date of termination, including any amount that exceeds the amount of earned standard salary and benefits that is paid as a condition of early termination of the contract.
Title: S.B. 1446
Source: http://www.house.state.tx.us/
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Amends educational service districts' superintendent review committees composition to include a subcommittee of the board, two school district superintendents from within the educational service district selected by the educational service district board, and a representative of the state superintendent of public instruction selected by the state superintendent of public instruction. Also stipulated that prior to the employment of a new educational service district superintendent, the review committee must screen all applicants against the established qualifications for the position and recommend to the board a list of three or more candidates. The educational service district board must either select the new superintendent from the list of three or more candidates, ask the review committee to add additional names to the list, or reject the entire list and ask the review committee to submit three or more additional candidates for consideration. The board must repeat this process until a superintendent is selected.
Title: H.B. 1256
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov/senate/default.htm
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| WV | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Requires first-class permits for superintendents; provides that principals chair the process for interviewing prospective professional and paraprofessional employees; requires superintendent to allow principals the opportunity to interview and make recommendations on prospective personnel; provides $500 for early notice of resignation or retirement at end of school year; expands use of retired teachers as substitutes; provides for statewide job return for personnel terminated because of reductions in force (RIF); requires job postings to be written to ensure largest pool of qualified applicants and to not require criteria unnecessary for successful job performance; requires county boards to compile, annually update and make available a list of professional personnel, areas of certification and seniority; requires study and report by state board and secretary of education and the arts on policies, programs and statutes relating to training, certification and licensing of professional educator development funding for education and training of RIF teachers to gain certification in areas of critical need and shortage.
Title: S.B. 227
Source: West Virginia Department of Education Legislative Update
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| WV | Vetoed 05/2001 | P-12 | Limits absences of school principals from school duties to attend the principals academy.
Title: H.B. 2954
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Exempts from an offset of a retirement allowance, retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System or the Teachers' Pension System who are reemployed as principals and supervisors of principals; requires county boards of education to provide information to the State Retirement Agency; clarifies that retirees must meet performance requirements for each year of their employment prior to retirement; provides for the act's termination.
Title: H.B. 442, S.B. 221
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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| MS | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Extends the automatic repealer in the school administrator sabbatical leave program.
Title: S.B. 2229
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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| SD | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Subjects uncertified school administrators to a code of ethics.
Title: S.B. 153
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Provides that the failure of a Virginia public high school to achieve full accreditation pursuant to the Standards of Accreditation promulgated by the board of education shall not be the sole criterion for denial of admission and enrollment of a student graduating from such high school to a public institution of higher education in Virginia.
Title: S.B. 1324
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Exempts district superintendents from certification requirements by the Wyoming professional teaching standards board.
Title: S.B. 126
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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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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| 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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