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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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| Counseling/Guidance |
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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--Early Colleges/Middle Colleges |
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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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| Mentoring/Tutoring |
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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 Involvement |
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| Purposes of Public Education |
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| Reading/Literacy |
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| Religion |
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| Remediation (K-12) |
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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 | Unsafe Schools Choice Option
S.B. 1957
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/b...
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2003 | P-12 | School Safety
S.B. 719
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 ...
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| WA | Emergency Rule Adoption 10/2003 | P-12 | Emergency Expulsion
WAC 148-120-400 thru -415
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 con...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2003 | P-12 | Teacher Development: Intolerance and Hatred
A.B. 1250
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 ...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2003 | P-12 | School Safety
A.B. 115
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 p...
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| DE | Adopted 09/2003 | P-12 | Releasing Students to Caregivers
14 DAC 881
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/Edu...
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| NY | Signed into law 09/2003 | Postsec. | Campus Security
S.B. 296
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 t...
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| DE | Rule Adoption 08/2003 | P-12 | Gun Free School Act
14 DAC 603
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 repor...
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| OR | Signed into law 08/2003 | P-12 | Suspension of Driving Privileges
S.B. 342
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....
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Parole Placement
A.B. 1495
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. Specifie...
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Gun-Free Schools Act
S.B. 158
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 educati...
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| GA | Adopted 07/2003 | P-12 | Unsafe School Choice Option
GAC 160-4-8-.16
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 a...
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | School Board Election Eligibility
H.B. 338
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&Ses...
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Disaster Relief Organizations and School Boards
S.B. 877
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...
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Arson Involving School Facilities
H.B. 2446
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 coll...
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Students Possession or Use of Cell Phones or Pagers on School Property
H.B. 750
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 s...
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Teachers' Bill of Rights
H.B. 1342
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 ...
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Student Pager and Cell Phone Use
H.B. 4218
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 scho...
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12
Postsec. | Hazing Laws
H.B. 1171
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 so...
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2003 | P-12 | Harassment, Bullying
H.B. 5919, S.B. 272
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 aca...
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| CA | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | School Safety: Hazing
A.B. 1411
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.go...
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Criminal Conviction and Background Checks
H.B. 1114
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 req...
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| DE | Rule Adoption 06/2003 | P-12 | Unsafe School Choice Option
14 DAC 608
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...
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| GA | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Sexually Violent Predators
S.B. 101
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 congr...
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| GA | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12
Postsec. | Teen Dating Violence
S.B. 346
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 ...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Discipline of Student With a Small Knife
S.B. 110
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 ...
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| MD | Rule Adoption 06/2003 | P-12 | Student Right to Safe School Environment
COMAR 13A.01.04.03
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 a...
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Health Records
S.P. 96 (LD 262)
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...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Placement of Disruptive Pupils
A.B. 218
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 d...
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Prohibits Firearms
S.B. 834
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...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Expulsion of Students
H.B. 552
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....
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Controlled Substances
S.B. 160
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/s0160e...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Electronic and Communication Devices
S.B. 29
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...
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| IA | Signed into law 05/2003 | Postsec. | Policy Forbidding Harassment of Wearers of U.S. Military Uniforms on Postsecondary Campuses
H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
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 othe...
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| IA | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund
H.F. 685
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 educ...
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| ID | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Safe and Drug-Free Schools
S.B. 1198
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...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Background checks, criminal acts, contract and license termination, liability,
H.B. 1620
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 ...
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| LA | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Expulsion Provisions for Students Found Guilty of Certain Drug Charges
H.B. 639
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...
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Pager Ban on School Grounds Repealed
S.B. 466
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 edu...
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Outdoor Playground Surface Standards
H.P. 458
(House Resolve) Directs the Department of Education to develop standards for outdoor playground surfaces....
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Record Sharing Between Law Enforcement and School Administrators
S.P. 145 (LD 427)
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 preven...
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| ME | Resolve No. 05/2003 | P-12 | Uniform Fire Code Standards
H.P. 808 (LD 1105)
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...
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Pupils And Pager Restrictions
A.B. 138
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 ...
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Safety Zones
S.B. 554
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 f...
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2003 | Postsec. | Student Disciplinary Records
S.B. 272
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 offens...
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Sexual Offenders
S.B. 740, H.B. 865
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 regardin...
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Juvenile Offenders
S.B. 1744
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...
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Student Expulsion
H.B. 567
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.ca...
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Public School Disciplinary Action
H.B. 2061
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 ...
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2003 | Postsec. | Registration of Sex Offenders
H.B. 1712
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 th...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12
Postsec. | Manufacturing a Controlled Substance
H.B. 2155
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...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Quality Education Act of 2003 - Safe Schools
H.B. 2697 §17 (Omnibus Bill)
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 ado...
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| CO | Adopted 04/2003 | P-12 | Schools
6 CCR 1010-6
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, indus...
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| DE | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Use and Justification of Corporal Punishment
S.B. 15
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...
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Reporting School Violence
H.B. 269
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...
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2003 | Postsec. | Clarify And Expand Jurisdiction Of Campus Police
H.B. 256
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 an...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2003 | Postsec. | Firearms on University Premises
S.B. 901
Creates a criminal offense that makes it unlawful to carry a firearm on university premises....
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Notice to Superintendent
H.B. 1707
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 sc...
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| AL | Adopted 03/2003 | P-12 | Persistently Dangerous Schools
AAC 290-3-1-.02(l)(e)
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...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | School Safety: Terrorist Attacks
S.B. 452
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...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | School Districts to Adopt Anti Bullying Policies
H.B. 2274
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...
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Sex Offender Information
S.B. 72
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 Educ...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Missing Child Information
S.B. 156
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 weekl...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Safety Education
H.B. 398
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...
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12
Community College | Schools
H.B. 744
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 secti...
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | School Firearm and Weapon Policies
H.B. 1237
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...
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| NJ | Signed into law 03/2003 | Postsec. | Megans Law
A.B. 3173
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...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12
Postsec. | Hazing
H.B. 1617, S.B. 864
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. h...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | School Safety Audits
H.B. 2621
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. Howe...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Firearms In Schools
H.B. 1907
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 ...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Juvenile Criminal Information
H.B. 1572
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://l...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | School Aulthorities Crime Reports
H.B. 2680
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...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Firearms on School Property
H.B. 2763
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...
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Student Supervision
S.B. 206
Relates to authorizing aides to supervise students who are undergoing in-school suspension....
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| UT | Rule Adoption 02/2003 | P-12 | Persistently Dangerous Schools
R277-483
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)...
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