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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--NAEP (NAEP Results and NAEP Organization) |
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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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| Attendance--Statutory Ages (Upper and Lower) |
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| Attendance--Truancy |
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| Background Checks |
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| Bilingual/ESL |
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| Business Involvement |
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| Career/Technical Education |
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| Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship |
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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--Cyber Charters |
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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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| Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
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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--Alignment |
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| Curriculum--Arts Education |
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| Curriculum--Drivers Education |
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| Curriculum--Environmental Education |
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| Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
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| Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
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| Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education |
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| Curriculum--International 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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| Demographics |
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| Demographics--Enrollments |
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| Desegregation |
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| Economic/Workforce Development |
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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--Bonds |
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| Finance--District |
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| Finance--Equity |
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| Finance--Facilities |
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| Finance--Federal |
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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--School Boards--Training |
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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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| Health--Teen Pregnancy |
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| High School |
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| High School--Advanced Placement |
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| High School--College Readiness |
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| High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
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| High School--Exit Exams |
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| High School--GED (General Education Development) |
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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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| Instructional Approaches--Homework/Study Skills |
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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--District Superintendent--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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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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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Recruitment and Retention |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Tenure |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--African American |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--Hispanic |
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| No Child Left Behind |
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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--Finance |
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| No Child Left Behind--Parent Involvement |
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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 Accountability--Diploma Mills |
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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--Intellectual Property |
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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 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--Completion |
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| Postsecondary Success--Developmental/Remediation |
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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 Attitudes |
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| Public Involvement |
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| Reading/Literacy |
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| Religion |
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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--Week |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Year |
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 | School Safety |
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| IL | Signed into law 12/2003 | P-12 | Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning charter schools. Requires the State Board of Education to maintain data and publish a list of persistently dangerous schools on an annual basis. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=1957&GAID=3&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=5100&SessionID=3
Title: S.B. 1957
Source: Illinois State Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2003 | P-12 | Requires each school district and county office of education to review and approve all comprehensive safety plans for its schools operating any combination of kindergarten to grade 12. Repeals and recasts the provisions of the 1985 School Safety Act. Requires the School/Law Enforcement Partnership to sponsor at least 2 regional conferences to identify programs and techniques that have been effective to reduce school crime. Provides for training. This bill would incorporate additional changes of the Education Code proposed by both this bill and AB 115, which would become operative only if AB 115 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective January 1, 2004, and this bill is chaptered last. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0701-0750/sb_719_bill_20031011_chaptered.html
Title: S.B. 719
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| WA | Emergency Rule Adoption 10/2003 | P-12 | Adopts rules concerning emergency expulsion of students. Ensures that the superintendent is able to immediately expel any student whose presence poses an immediate and continuing danger to self, other students, or school personnel or whose presence poses a continuing threat of substantial disruption of the educational process in order to preserve the health, safety and general welfare of students and staff at the School for the Deaf. WASHINGTON REG 22297 (SN)
Title: WAC 148-120-400 thru -415
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2003 | P-12 | Expands existing law that authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide each eligible school district, county office of education and charter school with a staff development allowance. Authorizes the allowance to be used for training designed to improve intolerance and hatred prevention. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1201-1250/ab_1250_bill_20030912_chaptered.html
Title: A.B. 1250
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2003 | P-12 | Authorizes the filing of a complaint of noncompliance with the school safety plans under the Uniform Complaint Procedures. Increases the monetary penalty to $2000 for a school district or county office of education who willfully fails to make a school safety plan report. Makes other technical changes. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/ab_115_bill_20030922_chaptered.html
Title: A.B. 115
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| DE | Adopted 09/2003 | P-12 | Amends Regulation 881 "Releasing Students to Persons Other Than Their Parents or Legal Guardians" to add the category of "relative caregiver" to the list of individuals who may have legal care of a child. http://www.state.de.us/research/AdminCode/Education/Education%20Administrative%20Code%20-%20800%20Health%20and%20Safety.htm#P4_57
Title: 14 DAC 881
Source: Alabama State Web site
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| NY | Signed into law 09/2003 | Postsec. | Provides that the president or chief administrative officer of each college shall appoint an advisory committee on campus security to publish all statistics concerning campus crime and security; provides that such published statistics shall be made available to students via bulletins, catalogs and the internet; provides for the appointment of private college security officers.
Title: S.B. 296
Source: StateNet
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| DE | Rule Adoption 08/2003 | P-12 | Regulation 878 School District Compliance with the Gun Free School Act replaced with Regulation 603. Requires school districts to have a Gun Free Schools policy implementing the Gun Free Schools Act that now includes charter schools. Continues to contain reporting requirements but the specific content of those requirements has been updated to reflect the language of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. http://www.state.de.us/research/AdminCode/Education/Education%20Administrative%20Code%20-%20600%20Discipline.htm#P31_2651
Title: 14 DAC 603
Source: Delaware State Web site
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| OR | Signed into law 08/2003 | P-12 | Allows a school district to request suspension of driving privileges of a student who has been suspended or expelled at least twice for activities involving controlled substances; defines the mixture or substance for certain controlled substance laws.
Title: S.B. 342
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Amends existing law that provides persons released on parole for specified sex offenses involving child victims may not be placed or reside, for the duration of parole, within 1/4 mile of a school including any or all of kindergarten or grades 1 to 6. Specifies the 1/4 mile exclusion applies to public or private schools and expands the exclusion to cover schools that include the 7th and 8th grade. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1451-1500/ab_1495_bill_20030714_chaptered.html
Title: A.B. 1495
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Relates to possession of a firearm or deadly weapon in a safe school and recreation zone. The federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) amended the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994. The Gun Free Schools Act now requires that a state receiving federal education assistance have a law that students be expelled not just for bringing a firearm to school, but for possessing a firearm in school. This bill amends the criminal code to implement this requirement of NCLB. http://www.legis.state.de.us/Legislature.nsf/fsLIS?openframeset&Frame=Main&Src=/LIS/LIS142.NSF/Home!Openform
Title: S.B. 158
Source: Delaware Legislative Web site
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| GA | Adopted 07/2003 | P-12 | Establishes rules regarding "Unsafe School Choice Option" (USCO). Specifies a three- year process to declare a school as unsafe and an appeal procedure to the State Board of Education. Provides the process which victims of violent criminal offenses occurring at school may follow to transfer to a safe school, as guaranteed by federal legislation. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-4-8-.16.pdf
Title: GAC 160-4-8-.16
Source: Georgia State Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Provides that in order to be eligible for election to a school board (or in Chicago to be eligible for appointment), a person must not be a child sex offender. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=338&GAID=3&DocTypeID=HB&LegID=669&SessionID=3
Title: H.B. 338
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Requires a school board to cooperate with disaster relief organizations, including the Red Cross, with regard to civil defense shelters. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=877&GAID=3&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=3729&SessionID=3
Title: S.B. 877
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that aggravated arson includes the arson of a school building when other elements of the offense are present. School building is defined as a public or private preschool, elementary or secondary school, community college, college or university. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=2446&GAID=3&DocTypeID=HB&LegID=4183&SessionID=3
Title: H.B. 2446
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Effective beginning with the 2003-04 school year and thereafter, eliminates ban on student possession of cell phone or pager on school property, including public school buses. (Retains ban on student use of cell phones or pagers on school property, including school buses). Changes language so that violation of this prohibition is optional rather than mandatory grounds for disciplinary action. Specifies that the school system is the entity authorized to take disciplinary action against student violating ban on cell phone or pager use on school property. Eliminates referral of student to parish juvenile court as possible disciplinary action for cell phone/pager ban violation. Eliminates provision that any person other than a student or school employee who violates the ban on unauthorized cell phone or pager use on school property must be imprisoned with or without hard labor for a maximum of 30 days, or fined a maximum of $100, or both. Adds clarification that nothing in this section prohibits the use of any cell phone or pager by any person, including students, in the event of an emergency. Defines emergency as actual or imminent threat to public health or safety which may result in loss of life, injury or property damage. http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB750&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 750
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Establishes the Teachers' Bill of Rights. The teachers' rights enumerated include: 1) The right to teach free from the fear of frivolous lawsuits, including the right to indemnification by the employing school board for actions taken in the fulfillment of the teacher's duties; 2) The right to appropriately discipline students in accordance with state statutes regarding student discipline and local policies; 3) The right to remove any persistently disruptive student from his or her classroom when the student's behavior prevents the orderly instruction of other students or when the student displays impudent or defiant behavior, and to put the student under the supervision of the principal or his or her designee; 4) The right to have his or her professional judgment respected by school and district administrators in any disciplinary action taken by the teacher in accordance with school and district policy and statute; 5) Right to teach in a safe, secure and orderly environment that is conducive to learnign and free from recognized dangers that cause or are likely to cause serious injury; 6) The right to be be treated with civility and respect; 7) The right to communicate with parents about and involve them in appropriate student disciplinary decisions; and 8) The right to be free from excessively burdensome disciplinary paperwork. Forbids any local board from adopting policies that prevent teachers from exercising the rights set out in this section or in sections of statute dealing with student discipline. Requires every local board to give every teacher a copy of this section of state code at the beginning of every school year. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/03RS/CVT2/OUT/0000KTSR.PDF
Title: H.B. 1342
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Previous law barred students from carrying pagers or any other personal communication device in school except for health or other extraordinary reasons. New enactment provides authority, beginning with the 2004-05 school year, for local boards and public school academies to regulate or allow student possession or use of pocket pagers, electronic communication device or other personal communication device in school. http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2003-PA-0132.pdf
Title: H.B. 4218
Source: www.michiganlegislature.org
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12
Postsec. | Amends the laws regarding hazing. Specifies that it is unlawful to subject another student to physical injury as part of an initiation, or as a prerequisite to membership, into any organized school group, including any society, athletic team, fraternity or sorority, or other similar group. Applies to any student in attendance at any university, college, or school in the state. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/html2003/bills/AllVersions/House/H1171vc.html
Title: H.B. 1171
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2003 | P-12 | This act would require schools to adopt policies that prohibit harassment, intimidation and bullying by students at school. Defines harassment, intimidation and bullying. Requires districts to (a) Provide training on the school district's or public school academy's harassment, intimidation or bullying policies to school employees and volunteers who have significant contact with pupils; (b) Develop a process for discussing the harassment, intimidation or bullying policy with pupils. Requires districts or public school academies to incorporate information regarding the school district's or public or private school academy's policy against harassment, intimidation or bullying into each school's employee training program. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/Billtext/BillText03/HouseText03/H5919aa.pdf
Title: H.B. 5919, S.B. 272
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Expands definition of hazing to include any method of initiation or pre-initiation into a student body; authorizes a superintendent or principal of a school to suspend or expel a pupil that engages in, or attempts to engage in, hazing. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1401-1450/ab_1411_bill_20030626_chaptered.html
Title: A.B. 1411
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Requires courts to report felony convictions to the Department of Education when the convicted person is a current or former employee of a school district or charter school in Colorado or the person holds an educator license or authorization. The reporting requirement includes incest offenses where the victim is under 18 years of age. The Department of Education would provide information regarding convictions for
misdemeanor crimes involving domestic violence upon an inquiry from school districts or a nonpublic school. After receiving information from the court or from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Education would report the following arrests or convictions to the school district that is the offender's current or last known employer: a felony offense; certain misdemeanors involving indecent exposure, unlawful sexual behavior, wrongs to children, child prostitution, and any counterpart municipal offenses; and misdemeanors involving domestic violence. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/F6B2F2132B86C7C887256C5A0061E0FD?Open&file=1114_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1114
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| DE | Rule Adoption 06/2003 | P-12 | Establishes rules requiring that a State Education Agency establish a State Unsafe School Choice Option (USCO) policy in order to receive funding under ESEA; identifies the conditions that must exist in order to identify persistently dangerous schools. Defines a violent crime and other relevant terms and identifies the responsibilities of the local school districts and charter schools in implementing the federal statute. http://www.state.de.us/research/AdminCode/Education/Education%20Administrative%20Code%20-%20600%20Discipline.htm#P4_57
Title: 14 DAC 608
Source: Delaware Legislative Web site
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| GA | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Provides that persons required to register as a result of a conviction of a crime against minors or of sexual violence or as a result of having been declared a sexually violent predator shall not reside within 1,000 feet of schools and areas where minors congregate; provides for penalties. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/sum/sb101.htm
Title: S.B. 101
Source: Georgia Legislative Web site
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| GA | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12
Postsec. | Requires the State Board of Education to develop a rape prevention and personal safety education program, and a program for preventing teen dating violence for grade eight through grade 12. Local boards may implement the programs at any time and for any grade level local. The State Board shall encourage the implementation of such programs and shall make information regarding such programs available to the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/sum/sb346.htm
Title: S.B. 346
Source: Georgia Legislative Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Previously adopted law required principal to immediately suspend student found carrying a knife the blade of which is at least 2 inches long. New provision adds that no student may carry or possess a knife of any blade length. A student who is found carrying or possessing a knife with a blade less than two inches in length may be suspended by the school principal but, at a minimum, must be placed in in-school suspension. http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=SB110&doctype=BT
Title: S.B. 110
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| MD | Rule Adoption 06/2003 | P-12 | Establishes that all students in Maryland's public schools, without exception and regardless of race, ethnicity, region, religion, gender, sexual orientation, language, socioeconomic status, age, or disability, have the right to educational environments that are: A. Safe; B. Appropriate for academic achievement; and C. Free from any form of harassment.
Title: COMAR 13A.01.04.03
Source: StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Requires that disciplinary, attendance and health records be included in the records that follow a student who transfers to another school either within or outside the state. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/billtexts/LD026201-1.asp
Title: S.P. 96 (LD 262)
Source: www.mainelegislature.org
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Revises provisions governing the plan required of each public school for the progressive discipline of pupils and on-site review of disciplinary decisions; requiring the principal of each public school to submit to the superintendent of schools of the school district the plan established for the progressive discipline of pupils and on-site review of disciplinary decisions; requiring each school district and the state superintendent to prepare certain compilations and reports concerning the plans submitted by each public school. http://www.leg.state.nv.us/72nd/bills/AB/AB218_EN.pdf
Title: A.B. 218
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Part of this law prohibits the possession of a firearm on school property; provides an exception for persons officially licensed to carry a handgun; provides eligibility requirements for such license. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04SB/sb834_enr.rtf
Title: S.B. 834
Source: StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Expands expulsion of students from public schools to include (1) actions on school property of a school in another district in the state or (2) actions while attending a school-sponsored or school-related activity of a school in another district in this state.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=78&SESS=R&CHAMBER=H&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=00552&VERSION=5&TYPE=B
Title: H.B. 552
Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Clarifies the hours during which it is unlawful to sell, manufacture, deliver, or possess controlled substances within specified distances of child care facilities or specified schools. http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2003/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0160er.pdf
Title: S.B. 160
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Authorizes each local board of education to establish a policy to either permit or prohibit the possession of electronic communication devices by students in school. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/fulltext/sb29.htm
Title: S.B. 29
Source: Georgia Legislative web site
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| IA | Signed into law 05/2003 | Postsec. | Requires the state board of regents to create a policy by August 1, 2003 that every postsecondary institution under the regents' control must adopt and enforce, that would forbid students, staff and faculty from "harassing or intimidating a student or any other person on institution property" wearing all or a portion of a uniform of the U.S. armed forces. This policy may not bar an individual from wearing such a uniform on institution property if this person may wear the uniform under state or federal laws. Requires the policy to include appropriate sanctions.
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us
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| IA | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Makes appropriation from the healthy Iowans tobacco trust and the tobacco settlement trust fund for various initiatives, including for a $400,000 grant to a program that utilizes high school mentors to teach life skills, violence prevention, and character education in an effort to reduce the illegal use of alcohol, tobacco, and other substances. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00600/HF00685/Current.html
Title: H.F. 685
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us
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| ID | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Appropriates funds for Public Schools Division of Children's Programs, including the allocation of moneys and requirements for the Idaho Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1198.html
Title: S.B. 1198
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Revises policies a school may adopt concerning criminal history checks; requires a prosecuting attorney to notify the state superintendent of public instruction and the employer when a licensed school employee is convicted of certain offenses; revises grounds for which teachers' licenses may be revoked and contracts may be canceled; makes changes concerning liability in legal actions; provides civil immunity for making certain reports concerning a teacher; changes the law concerning seduction of a child at least 16 years of age to add certain actions that constitute the offense and to expand coverage to all employees of a child's school. http://www.in.gov/serv/lsa_billinfo?year=2003&request=getBill&docno=1620
Title: H.B. 1620
Source: Indiana Legislative Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | States that mandatory minimum 24-month expulsion of any student age 16 or older, or mandatory minimum 12-month expulsion of student under age 16 in grades six through 12, who is found guilty of possession of, or knowledge of and intentional distribution of, or possession with intent to distribute any drug or controlled substance on school grounds does not apply if the student participates full time in a juvenile drug court program operated by a Louisiana court. States that the district may place the student in an state board-approved alternative education program for suspended and expelled students.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB639&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 639
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Repeals the prohibition against possessing a portable pager on public school property in Baltimore City and Caroline, Dorchester, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico, and Worcester counties. Requires every local board, in collaboration with the state department of education, to develop its own policies regarding the use of portable pagers and cell phones on public school property. Specifies that it is not the intent of the general assembly to encourage the use of portable pagers and cellular telephones on public school property during school hours in any county. http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/sb/sb0466e.rtf
Title: S.B. 466
Source: mlis.state.md.us
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | (House Resolve) Directs the Department of Education to develop standards for outdoor playground surfaces.
Title: H.P. 458
Source: StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Clarifies that the Maine Juvenile Code does not preclude a law enforcement officer or criminal justice agency from sharing information pertaining to a juvenile with superintendents or principals for purposes of school safety, order and discipline, or to prevent harm to persons or property. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/billdocs/LD042701.doc
Title: S.P. 145 (LD 427)
Source: www.mainelegislature.org
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| ME | Resolve No. 05/2003 | P-12 | Applies uniform fire code standards to preschool facilities located in public schools regardless of whether they are a child care center or a Head Start center. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/billdocs/LD110501.doc
Title: H.P. 808 (LD 1105)
Source: www.mainelegislature.org
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Requires the boards of trustees of school districts to adopt policies concerning the use and possession by pupils of pagers, cellular telephones and other similar electronic devices while on the premises of a public school or while at an activity sponsored by a public school; repeals the prohibition against pupils carrying or possessing any electronic device used for paging or communication while on school grounds. http://www.leg.state.nv.us/72nd/Reports/history.cfm?ID=310
Title: A.B. 138
Source: StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Creates a safety zone against sex offenders on elementary and junior high school and licensed child care facility property and playgrounds; states distance for safety zone property; provides penalties for violation; excepts certain offenders from safety zone for certain purpose; provides exception to prosecution as habitual offender. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04SB/sb554_enr.rtf
Title: S.B. 554
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2003 | Postsec. | Allows a higher education institution to disclose to an alleged victim of any crime of violence or a nonforcible sex offense, the final results of any disciplinary proceeding conducted by such institution against the alleged perpetrator of such crime or offense. Allows such institution to disclose to anyone the final results of any disciplinary proceeding conducted by such institution against an alleged perpetrator of a crime of violence or nonforcible sex offense, if the institution determines, as a result of that disciplinary proceeding, that the student committed a violation of the institution's rules or policies with respect to such crime or offense. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Fiscal/SB0272.pdf
Title: S.B. 272
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Relates to sexual offenders; provides that no defined sexual offender shall knowingly reside or accept employment within 1,000 feet from a public, private or parochial school, licensed day care center or any other child care facility; makes provisions regarding residences and living accommodations within a specified distance of former victims or victim's immediate family members or knowingly come within a certain distance of former victims. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0095.pdf
Title: S.B. 740, H.B. 865
Source: StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Concerns juvenile offenders; strengthens procedures for notifying school principals of enrollment of students who have been convicted of serious criminal offenses. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0238.pdf
Title: S.B. 1744
Source: StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Allows a public school to expel a student who assaults, murders, or attempts to murder another student, or for the offense of aggravated robbery under Section 29.03, even if the event took place off campus. (Bill Analysis, Senate Research Center) http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=78&SESS=R&CHAMBER=H&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=00567&VERSION=5&TYPE=B
Title: H.B. 567
Source: StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Under current law, if a disciplinary action is being taken against a student who is transferring from a charter school to a public school, the charter school is not required to send a copy of the student's order of disciplinary action to the public school. As a result, a public school's administration is unaware of the student transferee's disciplinary problems. However, a copy of the order of disciplinary action is required when a student is transferring between two public schools. H.B. 2061 requires a charter school to send a transferring student's order of disciplinary action to the enrolling school, just as public schools are required to do. (Bill Analysis, Senate Research Center) http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=78&SESS=R&CHAMBER=H&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=02061&VERSION=5&TYPE=B
Title: H.B. 2061
Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2003 | Postsec. | Revises provisions relating to registration of sex offenders and kidnapping offenders; requires such offenders who gain employment or student status at an institution of higher education to register with the sheriff of the county of residence or location of the institution. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2003-04/House/1700-1724/1712_pl_04252003.txt
Title: H.B. 1712
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12
Postsec. | Subjects an offender to an enhanced sentence of an additional ten years in prison for manufacturing a controlled substance nears various facilities including a school or college. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2155.pdf
Title: H.B. 2155
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Adds § 6-15-431. Creates the Unsafe School Choice Program required by No Child Left Behind; provides for transfer of students attending a persistently dangerous school and students who are victims of violent crimes. Requires the State Board of Education to adopt regulations necessary to administer the Unsafe School Choice Program. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2697.pdf
Title: H.B. 2697 §17 (Omnibus Bill)
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| CO | Adopted 04/2003 | P-12 | Establishes emergency rules concerning schools, specifying the following: general provisions; grounds; sanitary facilities and controls; building, occupancy, space and use; mechanical requirements; equipment and supplies; school food service; laboratory, industrial, art, and vocational hazards; health service; prohibited chemicals; and restricted chemicals. http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/op/regs/consumer/101006schools.pdf
Title: 6 CCR 1010-6
Source: Colorado State Web site
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| DE | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Limits the use and justification of corporal punishment by public teachers, administrators and school employees. http://www.legis.state.de.us/Legislature.nsf/fsLIS?openframeset&Frame=Main&Src=/LIS/LIS142.NSF/Home!Openform
Title: S.B. 15
Source: Delaware Legislative Web site
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Adds to current law to provide for reports of threats of violence or potential violence at a school; governs liability for defamation. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/H0269.html
Title: H.B. 269
Source: State legislative web site
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2003 | Postsec. | Allows any university system security department to seek an agreement with local law enforcement agencies that specifies geographic and subject matter jurisdiction of campus security officers in areas outside 1) the campuses of the Montana university system and for campus-related activities, an area within 1 mile of the exterior boundaries of each campus, and 2) other grounds or properties owned, operated, controlled, or administered by the regents or any unit of the Montana university system. http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/2003/billhtml/HB0256.htm
Title: H.B. 256
Source: data.opi.state.mt.us
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2003 | Postsec. | Creates a criminal offense that makes it unlawful to carry a firearm on university premises.
Title: S.B. 901
Source: StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Amends 70 O.S. 2001, Section 5- 144. Upon filing an information or indictment for a felony or violent misdemeanor, the district attorney shall endeavor to ascertain whether or not the person arrested is a student or employee of a school district or a public school in the state, and if the person is, the district attorney is required to notify the superintendent of the district of the charges filed against the student or employee. The school district may take any action it deems necessary that is in compliance with the requirements of the Family Education Right to Privacy Act of 1974 with regard to such information. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04HB/hb1707_enr.rtf
Title: H.B. 1707
Source: http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/
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| AL | Adopted 03/2003 | P-12 | Establishes rules adding section (e) to the existing rule which will allow notification for schools that have been identified as persistently dangerous. ALABAMA REG 6102 (SN) http://www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us/UpdatedMonthly/VolXXIN6/p218.htm#T1
Title: AAC 290-3-1-.02(l)(e)
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Provides an act to require school districts to develop a plan to provide for the safety of students and employees in the event of a terrorist attack or war. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/SB452.pdf
Title: S.B. 452
Source: State legislative web site
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Requires school districts to adopt anti-bullying policies; requires the policies to be filed with the Department of Education. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2274.pdf
Title: H.B. 2274
Source: State legislative web site
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Requires each public school to provide the parents of students a statement identifying where and the procedures to obtain information concerning registered sex offenders and that the schools may post the statement on a website; requires the departments of Education and Public Safety to develop the statement and other related materials. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/pubhome.nsf
Title: S.B. 72
Source: State legislative web site
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Requires the Kentucky Missing Child Information Center to provide the state registrar and the commissioner of education with names of all missing and recovered children who were born in the Commonwealth; requires the Department of Education to distribute weekly to public and private schools the names of all missing and recovered children and require a school to notify local law enforcement or the Kentucky State Police, rather than the department as previously required, of contact with a missing child. Requires a school to report to local law enforcement or the Kentucky State Police, rather than the justice cabinet as was previously required, any request of school records pertaining to a missing child or knowledge of the whereabouts of any missing child. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/SB156/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 156
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Establishes a Safety Education Fund to be administered by the Commission on Fire Protection Personnel Standards and Education to initiate education programs in the public schools and other agencies to reduce and prevent injuries and the loss of life. Specifies that fund must provide funds to initiate injury prevention curricula and training program; allots grants to fire departments for education programs. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/HB398/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 398
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12
Community College | Changes repealer from 2003 to 2007 on 1) the School Crisis Management Program, 2) the transfer of the industrial and adult short-term training programs to the State Board of Community Colleges, 3) the School Administrator Sabbatical Leave Program, 4) the section permitting expulsion for certain disruptive students, 5) requirement that state board develop and make available to district and schools a list of recommended conflict resolution, mediation, cultural diversity and other such materials, and 6) creation of permanent records and cumulative folders for each student in state public schools, to include among other data student's grades, attendance and date of any expulsion from the school system and a description of the student's act or behavior resulting in the expulsion. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2003/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0744SG.htm
Title: H.B. 744
Source: StateNet
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Allows expulsion for possession of a weapon (non-firearm) in schools for up to 12 months. For possession of a firearm, expulsion must be for 12 months. Adds due process procedures. http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/58-2003/bill_text/DAKB0300.pdf
Title: H.B. 1237
Source: http://www.state.nd.us/lr
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| NJ | Signed into law 03/2003 | Postsec. | Amends Megan's Law to comply with requirements of federal Campus Sex Crimes Prevention Act. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2002/Bills/AL03/34_.HTM
Title: A.B. 3173
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12
Postsec. | Defines hazing; Revises the hazing law to authorize public educational institutions, or schools to sanction and discipline students found guilty of hazing or mistreating another student so as to cause bodily injury; provides for civil and criminal liability. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=031&typ=bil&val=hb1617
Title: H.B. 1617, S.B. 864
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Directs local school boards to require schools to conduct school safety audits annually, requires the audits to include specific recommendations, and provides that the results of such school safety audits shall be made public within 90 days of completion. However, the local school board retains authority to withhold or limit the release of any security plans and specific vulnerability assessment components, which are provided a qualified exemption from the Freedom of Information Act. The exemption from the FOI will not be construed to prohibit the disclosure of records relating to the effectiveness of security plans after a fire, explosion, natural disaster or other catastrophic event, or after any person has been injured or threatened with personal injury. Current law defines the school safety audit as a written assessment of the safety conditions in each public school that identifies and develops solutions for various physical and personal safety and security concerns. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?031+ful+CHAP0801
Title: H.B. 2621
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Modifies the Gun-Free Schools statute to add possession of an air rifle or BB gun on school property or at a school-sponsored activity to those firearm related offenses for which school boards are to expel students for 1 calender year, unless the school board determines that special circumstances exist and no disciplinary action, another disciplinary action or another term of expulsion is appropriate. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=031&typ=bil&val=hb1907
Title: H.B. 1907
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Rewrites provisions regarding the notification to a school division superintendent or school principal of criminal involvement of students; requires notification when the juvenile is found not guilty or the charges are dismissed, withdrawn or reduced. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=031&typ=bil&val=hb1572
Title: H.B. 1572
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Clarifies and revises the requirements for principals' reports to local law enforcement of incidents occurring on school buses, school property or at school-sponsored activities by (i) restructuring the clusters of incidents to separate assault and assault and battery without bodily injury from the more serious incidents involving assault and battery with bodily injury, sexual assault, death, shooting, stabbing, cutting, or wounding and (ii) eliminating the mandate that principals report all incidents involving assault and assault and battery to local law enforcement. The principal must still notify the parents of the students involved and the division superintendent and still has the discretion to report assaults and assaults and batteries without bodily injury to local law enforcement. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?031+ful+CHAP0954
Title: H.B. 2680
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Clarifies an exception for a person possessing an unloaded firearm on school property in a "closed container" by providing that the definition of "closed container" includes a locked vehicle trunk. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?031+ful+CHAP0619
Title: H.B. 2763
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Relates to authorizing aides to supervise students who are undergoing in-school suspension.
Title: S.B. 206
Source: StateNet
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| UT | Rule Adoption 02/2003 | P-12 | Provides criteria and procedures designating schools as persistently dangerous and provides for parent notification and transfers for students if residents of a designated school or a victim of a specific violent criminal offense. UTAH REG 25965 (SN)
Title: R277-483
Source: StateNet
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