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From the ECS State Policy Database 2002 State Policies / Activities

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The following summary includes policies enacted in 2002. This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the topic of interest. To view all, press the button located at the top labeled "Expand All." Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date]. State Status/Date Level Summary Accountability Accountability--Accreditation Accountability--Measures/Indicators Accountability--Reporting Results Accountability--Rewards Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers Accountability--School Improvement Adult Basic Education Assessment Assessment--Accommodations Assessment--End-of-Course Assessment--Formative/Interim Assessment--High Stakes/Competency Assessment--NAEP (NAEP Results and NAEP Organization) At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol Attendance Attendance--Truancy Background Checks Bilingual/ESL Business Involvement Career/Technical Education Cheating Choice of Schools--Charter Schools Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Charter Districts Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools Choice of Schools--Tax Credits Choice of Schools--Vouchers Civic Education Civic Education--Character Education Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance Class Size Counseling/Guidance Curriculum Curriculum--Arts Education Curriculum--Core Curriculum Curriculum--Drivers Education Curriculum--Environmental Education Curriculum--Family Living Education Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling Curriculum--Mathematics Curriculum--Multicultural Curriculum--Physical Education Curriculum--Science Curriculum--Sex Education Curriculum--Social Studies/History Data-Driven Improvement Demographics--Enrollments Desegregation Economic/Workforce Development Education Research Equity Federal Finance Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost Finance--Bonds Finance--District Finance--Does Money Matter? Finance--Equity Finance--Facilities Finance--Funding Formulas Finance--Local Foundations/Funds Finance--Lotteries Finance--Private Giving Finance--Resource Efficiency Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures Finance--Student Fees Finance--Taxes/Revenues Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues Governance Governance--School Boards Governance--School Boards--Training Governance--Site-Based Management Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies Health Health--Child Abuse Health--Mental Health Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses High School High School--Advanced Placement High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment High School--Exit Exams High School--GED (General Education Development) High School--Graduation Requirements Instructional Approaches--Grading Practices Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling Instructional Approaches--Official English Instructional Approaches--Tracking/Ability Grouping Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools International Baccalaureate International Benchmarking Leadership Leadership--District Superintendent Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Compensation and Diversified Pay Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Recruitment and Retention Mentoring/Tutoring Middle School Minority/Diversity Issues Minority/Diversity Issues--African American Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian Minority/Diversity Issues--Hispanic No Child Left Behind No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress No Child Left Behind--Assessment AK Adopted 12/2002 P-12 High School Graduation Examinations 4 AAC 06.755 Requires every sophomore to take the high school graduation exam. Juniors who have failed must be retested at least once each school year on the portions of the exam that they have not yet passed. On their school reports, high schools must state the number a... More... NE Adopted 12/2002 P-12 Regulations and Procedures/Accreditation of Schools 92 NAC 10 (Rule 10) Establishes major rules regarding regulations and procedures for the accreditation of schools. Repeals 94 NAC 3. NEBRASKA REG 895 (SN)... More... NM Adopted 12/2002 P-12 Indicators and Measurements/School Ratings NMAC 6.19.1.8, 6.19.1.9; 6.19.2.16 Establishes rules annually measuring public schools on the five statewide indicators. All scores, rates, and other measures used in the Accountability Rating System are to be verified by the department. Assessment data is to be considered for accountability ra... More... NM Adopted 12/2002 P-12 Public School Accountability, General Provisions 6.19.1, 6.19.2 NMAC Amends rules regarding the annual measurement of schools. http://www.nmcpr.state.nm.us/nmac/parts/title06/06.019.0001.pdf 6.19.1.9 Addresses school ratings: A. A school's rating will determine when intervention is appropriate. B. A school's rating is deter... More... PA Adopted 12/2002 P-12 No Child Left Behind Act 32 PAB 6096 22 PA. CODE CH. 403 Promulgates rules relating to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Ensures that all children have the opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach, at minimum, proficiency on challenging State achievement standards and academic assessments. Provid... More... UT Adopted 11/2002 P-12 Testing Procedures R277-473 Amends rules to provide additional definitions, terminology changes and new testing windows. Sets turnaround time for certain assessments. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/bull_pdf/2002/b20021001.pdf and http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/code/r277/r277-473.... More... NJ Adopted 10/2002 P-12 Standards and Assessment for Student Achievement STATE ID: 34 NJR 2916 NJAC 6A:8 Establishes rules relating to standards and assessment for student achievement. Specifies: inclusion of all students in the school and district assessment and accountability system, mobility, the Alternate Proficiency Assessment (APA), updates cross-references... More... AL Adopted 09/2002 P-12 Testing Program N/A During the summer of 2003, the state board will review the data on the reading and language subject-area tests of the AHSGE and determine if the passing scores should be revised to a higher level; during the 2002-2003 school year Alabama will administer a new ... More... MA Signed into law 08/2002 P-12 District Programs for and Assessment of Limited English Proficient Students H.B. 5010 Creates within department the office of language acquisition to aid the commissioner in overseeing creation of district English language learners programs, and to gather and disseminate to districts best practices in terms of programs and techniques for bringi... More... AK Adopted 06/2002 P-12 School Report Regulations Change - 4 AAC 06.170 Amends the number of students that must be tested in order to publicly report test results from 3 to 10. http://www.eed.state.ak.us/regs/adopted/4AAC06.170_schoolreport.pdf... More... CO Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 Testing and Reporting of K-12 ESL Students S.B. 109 Requires department to develop single test for districts to identify students eligible to participate in K-12 English language proficiency programs; establish statewide proficiency levels and accomodations on test; and disaggregate testing data to track the ac... More... CT Passed 06/2002 P-12 English Language Assessment N/A The Board, pursuant to Section 10-17f of the Connecticut General Statutes and the requirements of the No Child Left Behind legislation, approved the LAS as the instrument to annually assess the acquisition of English of all limited-English-proficient students ... More... FL Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 Education Code Re-Write: Assessment Cutoff Scores, Accommodations S.B. 20E Grandfathers in the scores of 10th-graders who took the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) in spring 2001. Requires that when state board sets higher cutoff scores for 10th-grade FCAT, higher cutoff scores affect only those students who have not yet ... More... IL Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 NAEP Testing, School Report Cards, Parental Notification of Child Placement in Bilingual Program, Supplemental Aid to Low-Income Districts S.B. 1983 Requires schools that are part of the sample drawn by the National Center for Education Statistics to administer the biennial State academic assessments of 4th and 8th grade reading and mathematics under the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Provide... More... IL Active 06/2002 P-12 Standards, Assessments N/A Illinois' content standards and assessment system were reviewed by the USDE. They were approved as of September 2001, with a waiver on the assessment system which runs until December 2002, allowing certain components to be completed as agreed. Standards adopte... More... MO Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 Major Bill - Assessment Component H.B. 1711 For students who receive special education services, the state board must, through a teacher panel, determine if appropriate alternate assessments exist or, if not, create such an assessment. When it is determined by the student's individualized education pla... More... CO Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Diagnosing Student Needs Through Assessments S.B. 59 Requires the department to ensure that assessments administered through the Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) are designed to generate results that may be used as diagnostic tools for improving student performance. Department must implement the recomm... More... CO Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Potential Testing in Mathematics and Science H.B. 1306 Provides that if sufficient funding from the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is obtained, directs the Department of Education to administer, starting at the latest in spring 2006, a statewide assessment in mathematics to public school students grades ... More... CO Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Alternative Education Campuses S.B. 94 Requires state board to establish criteria and application process for a school to be designated an alternative education campus. Mandates that criteria and application process include specified components. Permits charter school meeting criteria to be designa... More... DE Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Below the Standard Score and Individual Improvement Plan for Promotion S.B. 322 Before enactment of this legislation, this subparagraph banned any 3rd-, 5th- or 8th-grader scoring Well Below the Standard on the state reading assessment from being promoted to the next grade unless the student participated in a summer school program and att... More... HI Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 NCLB-Aligned Reading and Math Testing H.B. 2353 Provides for expansion of the statewide educational assessment program to include norm-referenced testing in the same grades as required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 standards- based assessments in reading and math. http://www.capitol.hawaii... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Public Access to Nationally Standardized S.B. 1135 Requires any nationally standardized test that is administered to pupils in multiple states and any questions, answers or scoring keys from any such test that appear in any bid, proposal, contract, documentation or other materials to be exempt from inspection ... More... IA Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Numerous Program Changes H.B. 2515 Adds one nonvoting student member to state board, making total board membership 10, provides for application process and appointment of student member. Also requires school districts and nonpublic schools to report number of ninth graders who do not graduate f... More... KY Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Deadline for Reporting State Assessment Results H.B. 621 Changes the time frame for reporting state assessment results from September 15 to 150 days following the first day the assessment can be administered. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/record/02rs/HB621/bill.doc... More... ID Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Attendance Requirement for Inclusion in Reading Assessment S.B. 1412 Amends existing law to define the students who shall be included in calculations relating to the reading assessment. Students counted must have attended at least 90% of school days between the fall and spring test administrations.... More... WY Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Graduation Standards S.B. 56 Requires state board to set proficiency standards. Modifies requirements for graduation; imposes different types of student proficiency with respect to performance standards; imposes assessment duties upon school districts; conforms statutory provisions accor... More... 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Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds. Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--State Prof. Standards Bds. Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Substitute Teachers Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals Teaching Quality--Preparation Teaching Quality--Professional Development Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention Teaching Quality--Teacher Rights Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining Technology Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware Technology--Equitable Access Technology--Funding Issues Technology--Internet Safety Technology--Teacher/Faculty Training Textbooks and Open Source Urban