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| GA | Adopted 12/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding the following: single statewide accountability system; accountability system definitions; accountability profiles; and accountability system awards and consequences.
Single statewide accountability system: http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.01.pdf
Definitions: http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.02.pdf
School profiles: http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.03.pdf
Awards and consequences: http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.04.pdf
Title: GAC 160-7-1-.01 thru .04
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the county superintendent, for purposes of enforcing the use of required textbooks and instructional materials, to specifically review at least annually schools that are ranked in any of deciles 1 to 3, inclusive, of the 2003 base Academic Performance Index and that are not currently under review through a state or federal intervention program. If the county superintendent determines that a school does not have sufficient textbooks or instructional materials, the bill would require the county superintendent to prepare a report that identifies and documents the areas or instances of noncompliance, provide a copy of the report to the school district, forward the report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and provide the school district with the opportunity to remedy the deficiency. If the deficiency is not remedied, the county superintendent is required to request the State Department of Education, with approval by the State Board of Education, to purchase textbooks or instructional materials for the school. Requires that the funds necessary for the purchase be considered a loan to the school district to be repaid based upon an agreed-upon schedule with the Superintendent of Public Instruction, or by deducting an amount from the district's next principal apportionment or other apportionment of state funds. Authorizes the department to expend up to $5,000,000 from the State Instructional Materials Fund to acquire instructional materials for school districts for purposes of these provisions. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the county superintendent to annually present a report to the governing board of each school district under his or her jurisdiction and to the board of supervisors of the county describing the state of the schools in the county and of his or her office that are ranked in deciles 1 to 3, inclusive, of the 2003 base Academic Performance Index. Requires the county superintendent for the Counties of Alpine, Amador, Del Norte, Mariposa, Plumas, Sierra, and the City and County of San Francisco to contract with a neighboring county office of education or an independent auditor to conduct the required visits and make all required reports. Makes the priority objective of the visits to determine if there are sufficient textbooks, conditions of facilities that pose an emergency or urgent threat to the health or safety of pupils or staff, and accurate data reported on the school accountability report card with respect to the availability of sufficient textbooks and instructional materials, the safety, cleanliness, adequacy, and good repair of school facilities. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires a master contracts with nonpublic, nonsectarian schools for the provision of special education and related services to include that, with respect to a nonpublic, nonsectarian school that is associated with a licensed children's institution, there be a method of evaluating whether the school meets specified guidelines, and with respect to a nonpublic, nonsectarian school, the school be subject to the alternative accountability system of the Public School Performance Accountability Program in the same manner as public schools during the school's testing period, and each pupil placed in the school be tested in accordance with that accountability program, and the school prepare a school accountability report card. Requires the test results to be reported by the nonpublic, nonsectarian school to the State Department of Education.
Authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to certify a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency for a period of not longer than 18 months. Requires a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency to make notification of its intent to seek certification. Requires that only those nonpublic, nonsectarian schools and agencies that provide special education that utilize staff who hold a certificate, permit, or other document equivalent to that which staff in a public school would be required to hold may be certified.
Requires a nonpublic, nonsectarian school that provides special education and related services to an individual with exceptional needs to certify in writing to the Superintendent of Public Instruction that the school satisfies various requirements relating to, among others, access to standards-based curriculum and instructional materials, access to specific instruction and assistance, and a discipline policy. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1851-1900/ab_1858_bill_20040930_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_1858_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 1858 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| AL | Issued 08/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | The governor issued Executive Order No. 02-2003 on January 30, 2003, creating the Governor's Commission of Education Spending. The Commission was to engage in a thorough examination of how education dollars have been spent in Alabama during the past ten years. http://www.governorpress.state.al.us/pr/ex-02-2003-01-30.asp
The Highlights of the Initial Report focused on: (1) Management and Accountability Reforms for K-12; (2) Student Assessment and Accountability for K-12; (3) Management and Accountability Reforms for the Alabama College System; (4) Management and Accountability Reforms for University Governance; (4) Reforms in Terms of Public Employment; and (5) Education Trust Fund Accountability.
The Working-Group Sessions (December 2003) made the following proposals: (1) Achieve the maximum savings possible from non-state and non-education agencies; (2) Freeze the state appropriations to PEEHIP at the Fiscal 2004 level; (3) Allocate higher education cutbacks to institutions; and (4) Allocation K-12 education cutbacks to school systems. http://www.alabama.gov/onlineservices/egov_pdfs/ESCReport11404.pdf
Title: Executive Order No. 02-2003
Source: Alabama State Web site
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| MS | Rule Adoption 08/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules concerning accountability standards for the four state special schools governed by the Board of Education. MISSISSIPPI REG 9255 (SN)
Title: (Uncodified)
Source: StateNet
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| NM | Rule Adoption 08/2004 | P-12 | Amends to reflect the Public Education Department as the issuing agency, current statutory authority, adds and clarifies definitions, and amends indicators and measurement and school ratings sections. Defines adequate yearly progress (AYP) and requires AYP to be based primarily on academic assessments. AYP is to be based on the criterion-referenced test in grades 3-9 and 11. Clarifies that annual measurable objectives and intermediate objectives will be the same such that each school, grade, subject area, group and subgroup will have the same required percent proficient from year to year as determined by the starting point based on baseline percentages of proficient. Defines "disaggregate" as including five subgroups (ethnic, economically disadvantaged, students with disabilities and English language learners). Defines graduation rate as the percentage of the students who graduated from a high school divided by the number of students who were enrolled in the schools 40th day of the same year. This calculation will be used until four-year cohort data can be collected, with 9th grade students from 2003-2004 as the first cohorts. Statewide Indicators are student achievement, attendance, dropout rate for middle and high schools, school safety, parent and community involvement, and high school graduation rate. Groups are considered for accountability purposes when 10 or more students for the norm referenced test and 25 for the criterion referenced test. Stduents will be tested using the criterion referenced tests in Spanish or English or other assessments, when appropriate, as defined by federal guidelines. NEW MEXICO REG 4161 (SN)
http://www.nmcpr.state.nm.us/nmac/parts/title06/06.019.0001.htm
Title: NMAC 6.19.1, .3, .7, .8, .9
Source: http://www.nmcpr.state.nm.us
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| GA | Adopted 07/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding statewide accountability, applicable definitions, school profiles, and awards and consequences; creates a single statewide accountability system consistent with state and federal law; provides valid, reliable accountability determinations at school, local education agency and state levels with the purpose of promoting continuous improvement in student achievement levels; provides annual profiles for every school and local education agency.
http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.01.pdf; http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.02.pdf; http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.03.pdf; http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.04.pdf
Title: GAC 160-7-1-.01 thru -.04
Source: Georgia State Web site
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| HI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | The education reform in this Act shall be known as the "Reinventing Education Act of 2004." The provisions include (1) establishing a weighted student formula; (2) providing additional information technology; (3) empowering principals through a Hawaii principals academy and other means; (4) strengthening community involvement through school community councils and parent-community networking centers; (5) providing more mathematics textbooks; (6) lowering class size in kindergarten, grade one, and grade two; (7) providing full-time, year-round, high school student activity coordinators; (8) providing support for students who need additional help to succeed in school; (9) establishing a national board certification incentive program for teachers; (10) enhancing teacher education; (11) reducing the bureaucracy that hampers the effectiveness of the department of education; (12) improving the educational accountability system; and (13) requiring board of education members to hold community meetings in their districts. Establishes the after-school plus program revolving fund.Creates a working group to create a plan for principal performance contracts. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/docs/getstatus.asp?qu=HB2002&showstatus=on&showtext=on&press1=docs
Title: H.B. 2002
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Removes the restriction on accommodation school districts located on a military base from issuing impact aid revenue bonds. The district may hold an election to raise impact aid revenue bonds but may not issue the bonds until after the Federal Base Relocation and Closure Commission has affirmed that the base will remain open. Additionally, the bill requires the Arizona Department of Education to put together a guidebook on the approved uses federal impact aid monies. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0313.htm
Title: H.B. 2010
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Sets aside funds in federal impact aid for the establishment of a military liaison position within the department of education and to provide funding for the Joint Venture Education Program to facilitate interaction between the military community and the department of education.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2004/bills/hb1908_cd1_.htm
Title: H.B. 1908
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Provides relative to Education Excellence Fund amounts and related investment earnings credited to ineligible entities. Provides that fund
amounts and related investment earnings credited for a recipient entity shall revert to the fund whenever the entity no longer meets the conditions required for it to be eligible for fund allocations; to provide for an effective date; and to provide for related matters.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT2/OUT/0000LUNG.PDF
Title: H.B. 666
Source: StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Allows school districts to use Impact Aid for teacher housing.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0209.htm
Title: H.B. 2475
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| DE | Rule Adoption 05/2004 | P-12 | Amends regulation to reflect the changes made to Delaware's plan under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Changes include: definitions and the addition of State Progress Determinations. DELAWARE REG 1502 (SN) http://legis.state.de.us/LIS/Register.NSF/vwRegisters/712/$file/June2004.pdf?openelement
Title: 14 DAC 103
Source: Delaware State Web site
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Provides for the revision of certain provisions regarding education flexibility and accountability; requires the State Board of Education to create a single state-wide accountability system by December 31, 2004; amends provisions regarding school councils; amends the history curriculum requirements; amends provisions for early intervention programs; amends provisions related to effectiveness assessments, including end-of-course assessments; amends parental notification concerning compulsory attendance requirements; requires Department of Motor Vehicle notification of students 14 years of age and older who are in violation of attendance requirements; amends student discipline policies; changes the name Office of Education Accountability to Office of Student Achievement. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/search/hb1190.htm
Title: H.B. 1190
Source: Georgia Legislative Web site
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| HI | Veto override 05/2004 | P-12 | Establishes a weighted student formula; provides additional information technology; empowers principals through a Hawaii principals academy and other means; strengthens community involvement through school community councils and parent-community networking centers; provides more mathematics textbooks; lowers class size in kindergarten, grade one, and grade two; provides full-time, year-round student activity coordinators; provides support for students who need additional help to succeed in school; establishes a national board certification incentive program for teachers; enhances teacher education; reduces the bureaucracy that hampers the effectiveness of the department of education; improves the educational accountability system; requires the board of education members to hold community meetings in their districts.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb3238_sd2_.htm
Title: S.B. 3238
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| MS | Rule Adoption 05/2004 | P-12 | Revises public school accountability standards, 2003. MISSISSIPPI REG 9117 (SN)
Title: (Uncodified)
Source: StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Amends KRS 158.6455 to require that a student be enrolled in a specific school for at least 100 days prior to the beginning of the statewide testing period being counted in the school's accountability index. A student's test scores must be counted in the accountability index of the school in which the student was previously enrolled if the student was enrolled in that school for at least 100 days of the school year prior to the beginning of the statewide testing period. A student's test scores must be counted in the accountability index of the district if the student is enrolled in the district at least 100 days of the school year prior to the beginning of the statewide testing period. Requires that a student who is not enrolled for 100 days be counted in the state accountability index. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB176/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 176
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us
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| LA | Adopted 04/2004 | P-12 | Adopts rules relating to the implementation of fundamental changes in the classroom by helping schools and communities focus on student achievement. Clarifies method for calculating a School Performance Score for elementary, middle and high schools. Establishes timelines for schools in School Improvement to submit improvement plans, expands the details of the Supplemental Educational Services process, specifies how LEAP Alternative Assessment students are included in NRT calculations, and creates required definitions for English language proficiency. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0404/0404RUL.pdf (see pages 22-27 of 71)
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.303, 311, 1701, 2701, 2702, 2703, 2713, 2715, 2717, 2719, 2721, 3905, 4001, 4003, 4005
Source: http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires the state board, in consultation with the chairpersons of the eight regional superintendents' study groups, to provide for timely review of the Standards of Learning test scores by school divisions for coding and other errors and prompt reporting to the local school divisions by the Department of Education of the test scores that will be used to determine each school's status pursuant to the provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (P.L. 107-110). http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0404
Title: S.B. 416
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| MS | Rule Adoption 03/2004 | P-12 | Revises rules regarding the public school accountability standards. MISSISSIPPI REG 9027 (SN)
Title: Appendix A
Source: StateNet
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2004 | Postsec. | Ensures the quality of degree-granting institutions of higher education; relates to the accreditation of and site inspections of such institutions; requires public dissemination of information regarding entities that sell or award degrees without requiring appropriate academic achievement at a postsecondary level.
Title: H.B. 2381
Source: StateNet
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Modifies statewide student assessment (WyCAS) to conform with NCLB by expanding grades assessed from grades 4, 8 and 11 to grades 3 through 8 and grade 11 commencing with school year 2005-2006, and by expanding assessment subjects from reading, writing and math to include science effective school year 2007-2008;
· Imposes additional assessment requirements and criteria;
· Establishes a statewide accountability system providing annual school and district accountability determinations imposing a range of educational consequences as required by NCLB;
· Continues the statewide task force established in 2003 to work with the state superintendent in continuing development of assessment and accountability systems;
· Establishes a process for transitioning from WyCAS to a revised assessment system by requiring a pilot testing of the revised assessment in school year 2004-2005 prior to implementation in school year 2005-2006;
· Requires a transitional accountability plan providing a temporary system of rewards and sanctions for all schools and school districts during school year 2004-2005, with recommendations for a permanent plan to be assembled;
· Task force and state superintendent work efforts to be reported to the state board of education, management council and joint education interim committee. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2004/enroll/hb0126.pdf
Title: H.B. 126
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Creates the Division of Public School Accountability and the Arkansas Public Schools Accountability Advisory Council; creates the Division of Public School Academic Facilities to ensure equal access to adequate educational facilities and educational equipment; requires realignment of the state department of education (not to be incorporated into Arkansas Code or published separately) and creates a task force to make recommendations on realignment; amends terms for state board of education. members.http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1009.pdf
Title: H.B. 1009
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| Accountability--Accreditation |
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| OH | Rule Adoption 10/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules regarding accreditation of education programs, applications, fees, suspensions, and revocations. OHIO REG 11562 (SN)
Title: OAC 4715-12-04
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to conduct an investigation onsite at any time without prior notice when there is substantial reason to believe that there is an immediate danger to the health, safety, or welfare of a child, and to monitor the facilities, the educational
environment, and the quality of the educational program of an existing certified nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency on a 3-year cycle. Also requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with respect to a nonpublic, nonsectarian school, to conduct an investigation, which is to include an unannounced onsite visit, if the Superintendent of Public Instruction receives evidence of a significant deficiency in the quality of educational services provided by the school or noncompliance with other specified requirements. Places additional requirements on a nonpublic, nonsectarian school regarding financial recordkeeping, submitting an annual budget and an annual audit, and documenting services and programs. Increases the base fees charged a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency when it applies for certification and when it updates its
application for annual review by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Provides that any educational funds received from a local educational agency for the educational costs of individuals with exceptional needs it has placed in nonpublic, nonsectarian schools are to be used solely for those purposes and not for the costs of a residential program.
Requires the State Department of Education to implement a program to integrate individuals with exceptional needs placed in nonpublic, nonsectarian schools into public schools.
Prohibits a licensed residential school for children with exceptional needs from requiring as a condition of residential placement that it provide the appropriate educational programs to those individuals through a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency owned, operated by, or associated with, a licensed children's institution. Provides that those services may only be provided if the special education local plan area determines that appropriate public alternative education programs are not available. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1851-1900/ab_1858_bill_20040930_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_1858_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 1858 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires a master contracts with nonpublic, nonsectarian schools for the provision of special education and related services to include that, with respect to a nonpublic, nonsectarian school that is associated with a licensed children's institution, there be a method of evaluating whether the school meets specified guidelines, and with respect to a nonpublic, nonsectarian school, the school be subject to the alternative accountability system of the Public School Performance Accountability Program in the same manner as public schools during the school's testing period, and each pupil placed in the school be tested in accordance with that accountability program, and the school prepare a school accountability report card. Requires the test results to be reported by the nonpublic, nonsectarian school to the State Department of Education.
Authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to certify a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency for a period of not longer than 18 months. Requires a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency to make notification of its intent to seek certification. Requires that only those nonpublic, nonsectarian schools and agencies that provide special education that utilize staff who hold a certificate, permit, or other document equivalent to that which staff in a public school would be required to hold may be certified.
Requires a nonpublic, nonsectarian school that provides special education and related services to an individual with exceptional needs to certify in writing to the Superintendent of Public Instruction that the school satisfies various requirements relating to, among others, access to standards-based curriculum and instructional materials, access to specific instruction and assistance, and a discipline policy. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1851-1900/ab_1858_bill_20040930_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_1858_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 1858 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| WV | Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules regarding a process for improving education through a performance based accreditation system. WEST VIRGINIA REG 4415 (SN)
Title: Title 126, Series 13
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Reorganizes the Standards of Quality and makes substantive amendments that would (i) increase from one half-time to one full-time principal in elementary schools with fewer than 300 students; (ii) provide one full-time assistant principal for each 400 students in each school, regardless of grade level; (iii) require five elementary resource positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade five for art, music, and physical education; (iv) lower the pupil-teacher ratio from 25:1 to 21:1 in middle and high schools, to ensure the provision of scheduled teacher planning time; (v) reduce the required speech pathologist caseload from 68 to 60 students; (vi) require one full-time reading specialist for each 1,000 students in average daily membership; (vii) require two technology support positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade 12 divisionwide; and (viii) modify the current funding mechanism for remediation.
A second enactment clause provides that any provision that is not required on June 30, 2004, and does require state funding will not take effect unless the state's share of the funding for the provision is included in the general appropriation act for the period July 1, 2004, through June 30, 2006, passed during the 2004 Session of the General Assembly and signed into law by the Governor.
The Board of Education proposed and approved these changes on June 25, 2003. Because the Virginia Constitution grants the General Assembly "ultimate authority" over educational policy and provides that the Standards are to be "prescribed from time to time by the Board of Education" but are subject to revision "only by the General Assembly," legislation is necessary to enact the Board's proposals.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0939
Title: S.B. 479, H.B. 1014
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Existing law establishes the Public School Performance Accountability Program which consists of the Academic Performance
Index (API), the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program, and the High Achieving/Improving Schools Program. The API
measures the performance of schools and the academic performance of pupils and consists of a variety of indicators.
This bill states the intent of the Legislature to establish the Opportunity for Teaching and Learning (OTL) index as part of the
Public School Performance Accountability Program to measure the opportunities for teaching and learning as evidenced by access to
high-quality learning resources, conditions, and opportunities, based on standards that specify what all schools should have available for
instruction and support.
This bill requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to, beginning in 2006, publish OTL index values for each school at
the same time and in the same manner as the API. The superintendent is required to, no later than October 15, 2005, develop the OTL index that includes various specified indicators. The superintendent is required to determine a method for computing an OTL index for each school on an annual basis, and to determine minimal standards for indicators measured within the OTL index on a school-level basis.
This bill would provide that its provisions are to be implemented only if funds are appropriated for its purposes. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1401-1450/sb_1419_bill_20040818_enrolled.html
Title: S.B. 1419
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Deletes several sections of 49-1-601 and and substitutes new language. Relates to educational performance goals and measures;changes from dropout rates to graduation rates; provides for testing; requires all public schools and local education agencies to make adequate yearly progress in achieving proficiency for all student subgroups in core academic subjects; each school and local education agency is expected to make statistically significant progress toward that goal. The rate of progress within each grade and academic course, necessary to maintain compliance with this part, will be established after two (2) years of consecutive testing with tests adopted for each grade and subject; provides that tests must have fresh, nonredundant items that did not appear on that test in previous years. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0928.pdf
Title: H.B. 3511
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| DE | Rule Adoption 05/2004 | P-12 | Amends regulation to reflect the changes made to Delaware's plan under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Changes include: definitions and the addition of State Progress Determinations. DELAWARE REG 1502 (SN) http://legis.state.de.us/LIS/Register.NSF/vwRegisters/712/$file/June2004.pdf?openelement
Title: 14 DAC 103
Source: Delaware State Web site
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Concerns schools and measures of academic progress; concerns calculation of the measure of academic progress as the extent of academic progress made by each student rather than the percentage of students progressing one academic year. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0034.htm
Title: H.B. 2353
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| LA | Adopted 04/2004 | P-12 | Adopts rules relating to the implementation of fundamental changes in the classroom by helping schools and communities focus on student achievement. Clarifies method for calculating a School Performance Score for elementary, middle and high schools. Establishes timelines for schools in School Improvement to submit improvement plans, expands the details of the Supplemental Educational Services process, specifies how LEAP Alternative Assessment students are included in NRT calculations, and creates required definitions for English language proficiency. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0404/0404RUL.pdf (see pages 22-27 of 71)
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.303, 311, 1701, 2701, 2702, 2703, 2713, 2715, 2717, 2719, 2721, 3905, 4001, 4003, 4005
Source: http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr
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| WV | to governor 03/2004 | P-12 | Part of H.B. 4001 requires standards for determining exemplary student, school and school system performance and progress. These indicators are to be used only as indicators for determining whether accredited and approved schools and school systems should be granted exemplary status. These indicators shall include, but are not limited to, the following:(1) The percentage of graduates who declare their intent to enroll in college and other post-secondary education and training following high school graduation;(2) The percentage of graduates who receive additional certification of their skills, competence and readiness for college, other post-secondary education or employment above the level required for graduation; and (3) The percentage of students who successfully complete advanced placement, dual credit and honors classes.
Title: H.B. 4001- Multiple Sections
Source: West Virginia Legislative Web Site
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| WV | to governor 03/2004 | P-12 | Part of H.B. 4001 requires the state board to adopt and periodically review and update indicators of efficiency for use by the appropriate divisions within the department to ensure efficient management and utilization of resources in the public schools.
Title: H.B. 4001 - Multiple Sections
Source: West Virginia Legislative Web Site
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Requires the department to make available through its web site or the West Virginia education information system an electronic unified school improvement plan boilerplate designed for use by all schools to develop a unified school improvement plan which incorporates all required aspects and satisfies all improvement plan requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act. Each respective plan is to be a five-year plan that includes the mission and goals of the school or school system to improve student, school or school system performance and progress, as applicable. Plan must be revised when required to include each annual performance measure upon which the school or school system fails to meet the standard for performance and progress, the action to be taken to meet each measure, a separate time line and a date certain for meeting each measure, a cost estimate and, when applicable, the assistance to be provided by the department and other education agencies to improve student, school or school system performance and progress to meet the annual performance measure. Requires standards to include annual measures of student, school and school system performance and progress. Requires annual measures to be used for determining school accreditation and school system approval:1) The acquisition of student proficiencies as indicated by student performance and progress in grades 3-8, inclusive, and grade 11 measured by a uniform statewide assessment program. (2) school attendance rate of no less than 90% in attendance excluding student absences excused in accordance with the state board rule, and 3) high school graduation rate of no less than 85% determined from information on the West Virginia education information system on the fifteenth day of August.
Title: H.B. 4001- Mult. Sections - School Improvement
Source: WV Legislative Web Site
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| Accountability--Reporting Results |
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| GA | Adopted 12/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding the following: single statewide accountability system; accountability system definitions; accountability profiles; and accountability system awards and consequences.
Single statewide accountability system: http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.01.pdf
Definitions: http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.02.pdf
School profiles: http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.03.pdf
Awards and consequences: http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.04.pdf
Title: GAC 160-7-1-.01 thru .04
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Existing law establishes the Public School Performance Accountability Program which consists of the Academic Performance
Index (API), the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program, and the High Achieving/Improving Schools Program. The API
measures the performance of schools and the academic performance of pupils and consists of a variety of indicators.
This bill states the intent of the Legislature to establish the Opportunity for Teaching and Learning (OTL) index as part of the
Public School Performance Accountability Program to measure the opportunities for teaching and learning as evidenced by access to
high-quality learning resources, conditions, and opportunities, based on standards that specify what all schools should have available for
instruction and support.
This bill requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to, beginning in 2006, publish OTL index values for each school at
the same time and in the same manner as the API. The superintendent is required to, no later than October 15, 2005, develop the OTL index that includes various specified indicators. The superintendent is required to determine a method for computing an OTL index for each school on an annual basis, and to determine minimal standards for indicators measured within the OTL index on a school-level basis.
This bill would provide that its provisions are to be implemented only if funds are appropriated for its purposes. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1401-1450/sb_1419_bill_20040818_enrolled.html
Title: S.B. 1419
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the comparable improvement in academic achievement to be measured by the Academic Performance Index for all numerically significant pupil subgroups within a school, including ethnic subgroups, socioeconomically disadvantaged pupils, English language learners and pupils with disabilities. Defines a numerically significant pupil subgroup by requiring the test scores of the pupils in the subgroup to be valid test scores and by requiring the subgroup to meet certain other criteria to ensure that the subgroup is numerically significant as compared to the total pupil population. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0701-0750/sb_722_bill_20040930_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 722
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | SEC. 19: Existing law requires the governing board of a school district maintaining an elementary or secondary school to develop and cause to be implemented for each school in the school district a school accountability report card that includes specified information regarding the academic achievement of the school. Other existing law establishes the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program which requires each school district, charter school, and county office of education to administer to each of its pupils in grades 2 to 11, inclusive, an achievement test and a standards-based achievement test, as specified.
This bill would require the Commission on State Mandates, on or before December 31, 2005, to reconsider certain decisions it issued relating to state reimbursement for the school accountability report card and the STAR Program, and to reconsider its parameters and guidelines for calculating the state reimbursement, in light of federal statutes enacted and state court decisions rendered since those mandates were enacted. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2851-2900/ab_2855_bill_20040826_enrolled.html
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2853_2855_2856_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 2855 (multiple provisions)
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Deletes the requirement, under the Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act, that the School Accountability Report Card include information on the degree to which pupils are prepared to enter the workforce and whether the school qualifies for the Governor's Performance Award Program. Requires each school district to include within the report card information regarding career technical education, the availability of sufficient textbooks and materials, any needed maintenance of school facilities to ensure good repair, the misassignments of teachers, including misassignments of English learner teachers, and the number of vacant teacher positions for the most recent 3-year period. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2551-2600/ab_2596_bill_20040827_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2596_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2596
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | SEC. 13: Requires the county superintendent of schools to include in the review of audit exceptions those audit exceptions related to use of instructional materials program funds, teacher misassignments, and information reported on the school accountability report card and to
determine whether the exceptions are either corrected or an acceptable plan of correction developed. Prohibits a local educational agency from being required to repay an apportionment based on a significant audit exception related to the verification of the sufficiency of textbooks and instructional materials, teacher misassignments, and the accuracy of the information reported on the school accountability report card if the county superintendent of schools certifies to the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Controller that the audit exception was corrected or that an acceptable plan of correction was submitted to the county superintendent of schools. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the county superintendent to annually present a report to the governing board of each school district under his or her jurisdiction and to the board of supervisors of the county describing the state of the schools in the county and of his or her office that are ranked in deciles 1 to 3, inclusive, of the 2003 base Academic Performance Index. Requires the county superintendent for the Counties of Alpine, Amador, Del Norte, Mariposa, Plumas, Sierra, and the City and County of San Francisco to contract with a neighboring county office of education or an independent auditor to conduct the required visits and make all required reports. Makes the priority objective of the visits to determine if there are sufficient textbooks, conditions of facilities that pose an emergency or urgent threat to the health or safety of pupils or staff, and accurate data reported on the school accountability report card with respect to the availability of sufficient textbooks and instructional materials, the safety, cleanliness, adequacy, and good repair of school facilities. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | SEC. 2: Requires a district compliance audit to include verification of the reporting requirements for the sufficiency of textbooks and instructional materials, teacher misassignments, and the accuracy of information reported on the school accountability report card. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | SEC. 10: Requires the school accountability report card to include information regarding the availability of sufficient textbooks and other instructional materials for each pupil, any needed maintenance of school facilities to ensure good repair, the misassignments of teachers, including misassignments of English learner teachers, and the number of vacant teacher positions for the most recent 3-year period. Defines ''misassignment'' and ''vacant position'' for this purpose.
Requires the template for the school accountability report card to include a field to report the determination of the sufficiency of textbooks and instructional materials and a summary statement of the condition of school facilities. Requires the department to provide examples of summary statements of the condition of school facilities that are acceptable and those that are unacceptable. Declares that these provisions further the purposes of the Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires a master contracts with nonpublic, nonsectarian schools for the provision of special education and related services to include that, with respect to a nonpublic, nonsectarian school that is associated with a licensed children's institution, there be a method of evaluating whether the school meets specified guidelines, and with respect to a nonpublic, nonsectarian school, the school be subject to the alternative accountability system of the Public School Performance Accountability Program in the same manner as public schools during the school's testing period, and each pupil placed in the school be tested in accordance with that accountability program, and the school prepare a school accountability report card. Requires the test results to be reported by the nonpublic, nonsectarian school to the State Department of Education.
Authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to certify a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency for a period of not longer than 18 months. Requires a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency to make notification of its intent to seek certification. Requires that only those nonpublic, nonsectarian schools and agencies that provide special education that utilize staff who hold a certificate, permit, or other document equivalent to that which staff in a public school would be required to hold may be certified.
Requires a nonpublic, nonsectarian school that provides special education and related services to an individual with exceptional needs to certify in writing to the Superintendent of Public Instruction that the school satisfies various requirements relating to, among others, access to standards-based curriculum and instructional materials, access to specific instruction and assistance, and a discipline policy. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1851-1900/ab_1858_bill_20040930_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_1858_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 1858 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| AK | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Relates to reports on school and school district performance; relates to accountability of public schools and school districts. http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill_text.asp?hsid=HB0405Z&session=23
Title: H.B. 405
Source: Alaska Legislative Web site
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| CO | Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding the administration of accountability for alternative campuses and processes for being designated an alternative campus. http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeboard/brdbook/2004/JULY%202004/VIII-A-1as.pdf
Title: 1 CCR 301-57
Source: Colorado State Web site
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| GA | Adopted 07/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding statewide accountability, applicable definitions, school profiles, and awards and consequences; creates a single statewide accountability system consistent with state and federal law; provides valid, reliable accountability determinations at school, local education agency and state levels with the purpose of promoting continuous improvement in student achievement levels; provides annual profiles for every school and local education agency.
http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.01.pdf; http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.02.pdf; http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.03.pdf; http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.04.pdf
Title: GAC 160-7-1-.01 thru -.04
Source: Georgia State Web site
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| CO | Signed by Governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education, no later than 15 days after the effective date of the act, to choose a public or private entity to develop a model to calculate students' annual academic growth for diagnostic purposes; directs the department to calculate annually the amount of each student's and each school's academic growth in reading, writing, and mathematics over the periods between the administration of the CSAP assessments. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/F4561E2B63FB898087256DEF00574D0F?Open&file=1433_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1433
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Specifies that it is the purpose of the state charter school statutes to encourage the establishment of public charter schools that meet the needs and interests of pupils, parents, communities, regions and the state as a whole. Adds that proposed charter school application must include a projected budget for the next two years. Requires proposed charter school application to include a proposed accountability plan with a school evaluation program and which contains an acknowledgement that a full accountability plan shall be developed and ready to implement prior to the date of opening. Requires the state board to annually report to the joint legislative oversight committee regarding charter school approvals and denials for the preceding 12 months and the reasons for such approvals or denials. http://gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2004/SB0421.html
Title: S.B. 421
Source: gencourt.state.nh.us
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Concerns changes to the school accountability report to include a page that specifies certain information a parent may request from a school. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont2/
Title: H.B. 1217
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Amends KRS 158.6455 to require that a student be enrolled in a specific school for at least 100 days prior to the beginning of the statewide testing period being counted in the school's accountability index. A student's test scores must be counted in the accountability index of the school in which the student was previously enrolled if the student was enrolled in that school for at least 100 days of the school year prior to the beginning of the statewide testing period. A student's test scores must be counted in the accountability index of the district if the student is enrolled in the district at least 100 days of the school year prior to the beginning of the statewide testing period. Requires that a student who is not enrolled for 100 days be counted in the state accountability index. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB176/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 176
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires the state board to include requirements for the reporting of the Standards of Learning assessment scores and averages for each year as part of the board's requirements relating to the School Performance Report Card. Such scores must be disaggregated for each school by gender and by race or ethnicity, and shall be reported to the public within three months of their receipt. These reports must be posted on the portion of the Department of Education's website relating to the School Performance Report Card, in a format and in a manner that allows year-to-year comparisons, and (ii) may include the National Assessment of Educational Progress state-by-state assessment. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB1254ER
Title: H.B. 1254
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires the state board, in consultation with the chairpersons of the eight regional superintendents' study groups, to provide for timely review of the Standards of Learning test scores by school divisions for coding and other errors and prompt reporting to the local school divisions by the Department of Education of the test scores that will be used to determine each school's status pursuant to the provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (P.L. 107-110). http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0404
Title: S.B. 416
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Amends section 22.1-253.13:1 and 22.1-253.13:2 . Specifies that the Standards of Learning form the core of Virginia's educational program and other educational objectives. Specifies that the state board must, at a minimum, define Standards of Learning for English, mathematics, science, history and social science. Specifies that "communication" as included in the Standards of Learning comprises listening, speaking, reading and writing. To passage on public input on proposed revisions to the Standards of Learning, adds that the department must provide and maintain Web capacity to allowing K-12 educators to submit recommendations for improvements to the Standards of Learning, when under review by the state board, as well as to the related assessments. Deletes "career education schools" from language requiring local boards to implement career and technical education programs.
Provisions (i) increase from one half-time to one full-time principal in elementary schools with fewer than 300 students; (ii) provide one full-time assistant principal for each 400 students in each school, regardless of grade level; (iv) lower the pupil-teacher ratio from 25:1 to 21:1 in middle and high schools, to ensure the provision of scheduled teacher planning time; (v) reduce the required speech pathologist caseload from 68 to 60 students; (vi) require two technology support positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade 12 divisionwide; and (viii) modify the current funding mechanism for remediation.
Requires the state board to submit to the governor and the general assembly a report on the condition and needs of public education in the commonwealth and shall identify any school divisions and the specific schools therein that have failed to establish and maintain schools meeting the existing prescribed standards of quality.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Changes the state school accountability report to add information on adequate yearly progress; adds information on achievement levels for various subgroups of students. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/C2D25CD76E178B3687256DE40060AE49?Open&file=1124_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1124
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Allows the Department of Education to extend the deadline for test results if the deadline substantially increases the cost of administration of the tests or compromises the validity of the test results. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1132.pdf
Title: H.B. 1132
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Amends Ark. Code § 6-15-404, adds 6-15-434, 6-15-1806, 6-15-1901, 6-15-1902, 6-15-1903 .Creates the Student Assessment and Educational Accountability act of 2003; requires the establishment of a reporting system of schools' academic performance on the state-mandated criterion-referenced exam; student performance data shall be reported to parents and the public and serve as one of the components in developing a school improvement plan; beginning with the 2004-05 school year, information on the prior school year shall be published annually by October 15 and include demographic breakdowns, graduation rate, drop-out rate, transfers under the unsafe school choice option and transfers under the Public School Choice Act; annual reports must use a school rating system and performance goals.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB33.pdf
Title: S.B. 33 §§ 1, 4, 5, 6
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| Accountability--Rewards |
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| GA | Adopted 12/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding the following: single statewide accountability system; accountability system definitions; accountability profiles; and accountability system awards and consequences.
Single statewide accountability system: http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.01.pdf
Definitions: http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.02.pdf
School profiles: http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.03.pdf
Awards and consequences: http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.04.pdf
Title: GAC 160-7-1-.01 thru .04
Source: StateNet
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| ID | Temporary Rule Adoption - Concurrently Proposed 08/2004 | P-12 | Proposes rules regarding awards, distinguished schools, and Additional Yearly Growth (AYG) Award. http://www2.state.id.us/adm/adminrules/rules/idapa08/0203.pdf
Title: IDAPA 08.02.03
Source: StateNet
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| GA | Adopted 07/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding statewide accountability, applicable definitions, school profiles, and awards and consequences; creates a single statewide accountability system consistent with state and federal law; provides valid, reliable accountability determinations at school, local education agency and state levels with the purpose of promoting continuous improvement in student achievement levels; provides annual profiles for every school and local education agency.
http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.01.pdf; http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.02.pdf; http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.03.pdf; http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.04.pdf
Title: GAC 160-7-1-.01 thru -.04
Source: Georgia State Web site
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| OH | Rule Adoption 05/2004 | P-12 | Rescinds rules pertaining to process and indicators used to identify excellent schools and districts, corrective action plans, state monitors, and academic watch and academic emergency districts. Amends rules regarding provisions for granting exemptions from state statutory provisions and rules. Proposes new rules regarding school building and district improvement planning, parent notification, and consequences procedures. OHIO REG 11285 (SN)
Title: OAC 3301-15-01 thru -05, -56-01
Source: StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Modifies the membership and terms of the nominating and recruiting committee that selects candidates for membership on the State Board of Education (from 4 year terms to 2-year terms, nominated by the governor); provides definitions: "Competency" means a demonstrable acquisition of a specified knowledge, skill, or ability that has been organized into a hierarchical arrangement leading to higher levels of knowledge, skill, or ability. (b) "Competency-based education" means an education approach that requires students to acquire a competency and includes a classroom structure and operation that aid and facilitate the acquisition of specified competencies on an individual basis wherein students are allowed to master and demonstrate competencies as fast as they are able. (c) "Gain score" means the measured difference of a student's score at the beginning and end of a time period that may be aggregated at the class, grade, school, and school district levels.; requires the state board to assist school districts and charter schools to develop and implement:competency-based education; and the use of gain scores; modifies educator licensing provisions (requires an endorsement to be issued upon completion of a competency-based teacher preparation program from a regionally accredited university that meets state content standards). Includes provision that a teacher development program focused on achieving progress in core academics include instruction in explicit, systematic, and intensive phonics for teachers in grades kindergarten through 3); requires the state board to develop and use monetary and nonmonetary incentives, tools, and rewards; requires documentation verifying the qualifications of a person before a competency-based license to teach may be issued; and delays the implementation of new curriculum and graduation requirements. http://se10.utahsenate.org/ptext/enrolled.pdf/sb0185.pdf
Title: S.B. 185
Source: StateNet
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| WV | to governor 03/2004 | P-12 | Part of H.B. 4001 requires standards for determining exemplary student, school and school system performance and progress. These indicators are to be used only as indicators for determining whether accredited and approved schools and school systems should be granted exemplary status. These indicators shall include, but are not limited to, the following:(1) The percentage of graduates who declare their intent to enroll in college and other post-secondary education and training following high school graduation;(2) The percentage of graduates who receive additional certification of their skills, competence and readiness for college, other post-secondary education or employment above the level required for graduation; and (3) The percentage of students who successfully complete advanced placement, dual credit and honors classes.
Title: H.B. 4001- Multiple Sections
Source: West Virginia Legislative Web Site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the Public School Funding Act of 2003; provides equitable funding to public schools; provides a system for monitoring public school expenditures; increases minimum teacher salaries; establishes a knowledge and skills-based pay system for teachers; provides for school-based performance awards. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB42.pdf
Title: S.B. 42
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Adds Ark. Code 6-15-1902(e), 6-15-1907. School receiving annual improving category Level 5 or Level 4 are eligible for school recognition awards and performance-based funding; outlines rewards. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB33.pdf
Title: S.B. 33 § 6
Source: Arkansas Legislative web site
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| WV | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Requires the state board to adopt system standards, including student performance and progress, school and school system progress, etc. Requires performance measures to incude graduation rate, dropout rate, attendance, student performance; percentage of graduates who enroll in college immediately and within one year; percentage of graduates who receive additional certification or other competence above what was required for graduation. Sets indicators for determining efficiency. Establishes a system of performance audits that are primarily based on achievement information. Requires technical assistance. Establishes rewards for exemplary performance or practices and levels of sanctions for schools performing below standards. Includes restructuring for schools seriously impaired over time. Requires that students be allowed to transfer from seriously impaired schools. Requires intervention in "nonapproval" status districts.
Title: H.B. 4111
Source: StateNet
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
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| GA | Adopted 12/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding the following: single statewide accountability system; accountability system definitions; accountability profiles; and accountability system awards and consequences.
Single statewide accountability system: http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.01.pdf
Definitions: http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.02.pdf
School profiles: http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.03.pdf
Awards and consequences: http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.04.pdf
Title: GAC 160-7-1-.01 thru .04
Source: StateNet
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| GA | Adopted 07/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding statewide accountability, applicable definitions, school profiles, and awards and consequences; creates a single statewide accountability system consistent with state and federal law; provides valid, reliable accountability determinations at school, local education agency and state levels with the purpose of promoting continuous improvement in student achievement levels; provides annual profiles for every school and local education agency.
http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.01.pdf; http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.02.pdf; http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.03.pdf; http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-7-1-.04.pdf
Title: GAC 160-7-1-.01 thru -.04
Source: Georgia State Web site
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| SC | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes the state board to implement a training program for the school district board of trustees and the district superintendent; authorizes the state board to act as a mediator of personnel issues between the district board and district superintendent; provides that the education oversight committee recruit and train citizens to form a pool for the appointment of nonvoting members to the district board. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess115_2003-2004/bills/90.htm
Title: S.B. 90
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Defines "academically in crisis" district and "academically unacceptable" school. Requires state superintendent to notify the state board, the president of the local board and the local superintendent when a district is found to be academically in crisis. Limits authority of notified local board. Gives notified local superintendent sole and exclusive authority for all other policy, operation and other matters. Limits notified local superintendent's contract to five years. Requires local superintendent, within 180 days of notification, to submit a report to the local board, state board and legislative auditor on the benefits of outsourcing all or some of the district's financial operations. Within 120 days of notification, local superintendent must develop a structured system improvement plan with specified content and submit the plan to the state board for approval. Upon approval of plan, the superintendent must report quarterly to the state and local boards on the progress of implementing the plan. Bars board of "academically in crisis" district from contracting or employing a superintendent or terminating the contract or employment of the incumbent superintendent unless by at least two-thirds vote of the board, and specifies that notified superintendent may receive no salary decrease while district is academically in crisis. Specifies method by which superintendent must be replaced in event of termination of notified superintendent. Requires notified local board to contract with an independent licensed certified public accountant to conduct an audit of the district finances and financial practices. The audit report must be submitted to the local board, the local superintendent and the legislative auditor. Specifies action to be taken following submission of audit report.
Requires state superintendent to provide to academically in crisis district a team of distinguished educators to provide a team of distinguished educators to provide expertise, direction and support to the district.
A district identified as academically in crisis must continue to be identified as such until student academic performance improves sufficiently to release the district from identification, and all audit findings are corrected.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT7/OUT/0000LRSN.PDF
Title: H.B. 1659
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| RI | Became law without governor's signature 06/2004 | P-12 | Would set eligibility requirements for school attendance to obtain a driver's license for minor students. This act would take effect on January 15, 2005.
Title: H.B. 7397
Source: StateNet
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| RI | To governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Provides that if a minor accumulates fifteen (15) unexcused absences within ninety (90) calendar days, they are ineligible for driving privileges and would provide for enforcement, notification, compliance, reinstatement and jurisdiction of this provision. This act would take effect upon passage.
Title: S.B. 2594
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/gen_assembly/genmenu.html
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Chapter No. 832. Renames low performing schools and school districts as high priority schools and school districts; allows the commissioner to award grants to individual school systems of up to $50,000, to LEAs for planning and implementation purposes. Allows the commissioner to authorize up to 24 school systems to operate as innovative educational programs which emphasize school-based decision making and the creation of small learning communities. Provides that a school operating an innovative education program is not a charter school and cannot convert to a charter school after being authorized to conduct an innovative education program. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0832.pdf
Title: H.B. 1175
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Deletes several sections of 49-1-601 and and substitutes new language. Relates to educational performance goals and measures;changes from dropout rates to graduation rates; provides for testing; requires all public schools and local education agencies to make adequate yearly progress in achieving proficiency for all student subgroups in core academic subjects; each school and local education agency is expected to make statistically significant progress toward that goal. The rate of progress within each grade and academic course, necessary to maintain compliance with this part, will be established after two (2) years of consecutive testing with tests adopted for each grade and subject; provides that tests must have fresh, nonredundant items that did not appear on that test in previous years. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0928.pdf
Title: H.B. 3511
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Part of this bill relates to the Reading Sufficiency Act; limits certain students who are excluded from the reading goals and program of reading instruction; modifies reading skills to include vocabulary; requires the demonstration of reading proficiency for driver license; limits alternative documentation option to certain students. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04HB/hb2477_enr.rtf
Title: H.B. 2477
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Modifies provisions. When the state board has obtained evidence through the school academic review process that the failure of schools within a division to achieve full accreditation status is related to division level failure to implement the Standards of Quality, the board may require a division level academic review. After the conduct of such review and within the time specified by the board of Education, each school board shall submit for approval by the board a corrective action plan. The board has the authority to mandate or otherwise enforce compliance with such standard, including the development or implementation of any required corrective action plan that a local school board has failed or refused to develop or implement in a timely manner. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB1294ER
Title: H.B. 1294
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB1294ER
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Relates to compulsory school attendance; provides for early identification of unexcused absences and truancy; provides for enforcement of habitual truancy; provides for suspension of an habitual truant's driver's license.
Title: H.B. 106
Source: StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Requires the state board to adopt system standards, including student performance and progress, school and school system progress, etc. Requires performance measures to incude graduation rate, dropout rate, attendance, student performance; percentage of graduates who enroll in college immediately and within one year; percentage of graduates who receive additional certification or other competence above what was required for graduation. Sets indicators for determining efficiency. Establishes a system of performance audits that are primarily based on achievement information. Requires technical assistance. Establishes rewards for exemplary performance or practices and levels of sanctions for schools performing below standards. Includes restructuring for schools seriously impaired over time. Requires that students be allowed to transfer from seriously impaired schools. Requires intervention in "nonapproval" status districts.
Title: H.B. 4111
Source: StateNet
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive |
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| RI | Became law without governor's signature 06/2004 | P-12 | Would set eligibility requirements for school attendance to obtain a driver's license for minor students. This act would take effect on January 15, 2005.
Title: H.B. 7397
Source: StateNet
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| RI | To governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Provides that if a minor accumulates fifteen (15) unexcused absences within ninety (90) calendar days, they are ineligible for driving privileges and would provide for enforcement, notification, compliance, reinstatement and jurisdiction of this provision. This act would take effect upon passage.
Title: S.B. 2594
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/gen_assembly/genmenu.html
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Part of this bill relates to the Reading Sufficiency Act; limits certain students who are excluded from the reading goals and program of reading instruction; modifies reading skills to include vocabulary; requires the demonstration of reading proficiency for driver license; limits alternative documentation option to certain students. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04HB/hb2477_enr.rtf
Title: H.B. 2477
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Relates to compulsory school attendance; provides for early identification of unexcused absences and truancy; provides for enforcement of habitual truancy; provides for suspension of an habitual truant's driver's license.
Title: H.B. 106
Source: StateNet
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| Accountability--School Improvement |
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| WV | Signed into law 12/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the procedures governing the process for improving performance education and removing impediments to improving performance and progress.
Title: H.B. 308
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes specified school districts to operate one or more schools in their districts on a 4-day school week, so long as the school district complies with specified requirements. Revokes the authority of a school added by the bill to operate a 4-day school week if a school fails to meet its growth target on the Academic Performance Index. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1101-1150/sb_1138_bill_20040910_chaptered.html
Title: S.B. 1138
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Provides that if a high school participating in either the High Priority Schools Grant Program or the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program is reorganized into more than one high school, each of those high schools shall continue to receive a specified share of the funds that the former school would have received provided certain eligibility criteria are met, including compliance with specified program requirements. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1801-1850/ab_1841_bill_20040824_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1841_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1841
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the state department of education to identify and notify local educational agencies that are in danger of being identified within three to four years as program improvement local educational agencies under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 200. Requires the department to provide those local educational agencies with research-based criteria to conduct a voluntary self-assessment using department-provided materials and criteria based on current research. Requires the department to invite any local education agency at risk of being identified for program improvement within two years to participate in the Prevention of Local Education Agency Intervention Program, hereby created, which includes a self-assessment as well as follow-up procedures. Requires a local education agency identified for program improvement under NCLB to (1) conduct a self-assessment using the department-provided materials and criteria, (2) contract with a county office of education or another external entity for specified assistance, (3) expeditiously implement the LEA plan based on the self-assessment findings, and (4) contract with an external provider for technical assistance.
Specifies possible sanctions against a local education agency identified for corrective action under NCLB and that did not accept a supplemental grant, as well as sanctions against a local education agency identified for corrective action under NCLB and that did accept a supplemental grant. Authorizes state superintendent to require a local education agency to contract with a district assistance and intervention team to aid a local educational agency.
Provides additional funding to local educational agencies for schools identified as program improvement schools or potential program improvement schools under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, with certain requirements. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2051-2100/ab_2066_bill_20040918_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2066
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Establishes the Pupil Achievement Grant Program to consolidate funding and provide flexibility at the schoolsite in the use of funds from specified categorical education programs in schools identified as underperforming in at least one of the three preceding fiscal years. Requires a school district to ensure that it expends an amount for direct services to pupils in eligible schools in accordance with specified minimum percentages for any purpose authorized by special categorical education programs. Requires a school district receiving program funds to ensure that the school district and each school has or continues to maintain advisory committees and schoolsite councils. Requires a district to have a single school plan that incorporates specified requirements and to use funds allocated to serve and assist pupils eligible for free or reduced price meals and pupils identified as limited English proficient. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2151-2200/ab_2152_bill_20040827_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2152_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2152
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | SEC. 1: Existing law requires the county superintendent of schools to report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction on the financial condition of a school district if the county superintendent determines a school district may be unable to meet its financial obligations for the current or 2 subsequent fiscal years or if a school district has a qualified or negative certification. Existing law requires the county superintendent to take at least one of certain actions and all actions that are necessary to ensure that the district meets its financial obligations.
This bill requires those possible actions to include assigning the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to review district teacher hiring practices, teacher retention rate, percentage of provision of highly qualified teachers, and the extent of teacher misassignment and
also to provide the district with recommendations to streamline and improve the teacher hiring process, teacher retention rate, extent of
teacher misassignment, and provision of highly qualified teachers. The bill requires a school district that is assigned this review to follow the recommendations made unless it shows good cause for failure to do so. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_3001-3050/ab_3001_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 3001 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Provides that a school participating in the High Priority Schools Grant Program that received a planning grant in the 2001-02 fiscal year is eligible to receive program funding in only the 2002-03, 2003-04 and 2004-05 fiscal years. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1951-2000/ab_1987_bill_20040924_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 1987
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Existing law requires the State Department of Education to establish a statewide system of school support that provides intensive and sustained support and technical assistance for school districts, county offices of education, and schools in need of improvement. Existing law requires the system to provide assistance by reviewing and analyzing all facets of a school's operation and by assisting the school in developing recommendations for improving pupil performance and school operations.
This bill requires the review and analysis to include the recruitment, hiring, and retention of principals, teachers, and other staff, including vacancy issues and the roles and responsibilities of district and school management personnel. The bill would authorize the system to access the assistance of the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to review district or school recruitment, hiring, and retention practices. The bill would require the system also to assist schools and districts in efforts to eliminate misassignments of certificated personnel. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_3001-3050/ab_3001_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 3001 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | SEC. 11: Declares that the Legislature encourages school districts to provide all the schools it maintains that are ranked in deciles 1 to 3, inclusive, of the Academic Performance Index first priority to review resumes and job applications received by the district from credentialed teachers. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_3001-3050/ab_3001_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 3001 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires that, commencing with the 2004–05 fiscal year, for a district with a school initially applying to participate in the High Priority Schools Grant Program on or after July 2004, the report include whether at least 80% of the teachers assigned to the school are credentialed and the number of classes in which 20% or more pupils are English learners and assigned to teachers who do not possess a certificate authorizing the holder to teach English language development to English learners or have completed training that would authorize them to teach English language development to English learners or are otherwise authorized by law to do so. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_3001-3050/ab_3001_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 3001 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires schools initially applying to participate in the High Priority Schools Grant Program on or after the 2004–05 fiscal year to include highly qualified teachers and appropriately credentialed teachers for English learners in the component on quality of staff in
the school action plan. Specifies that the mandatory school action plan components on facilities, curriculum, instructional materials, and support services for those schools be on facilities in good repair, curriculum, sufficient instructional materials, and support services. Requires schools initially applying to participate in the High Priority Schools Grant Program on or after the 2004–05 fiscal year to measure the availability of instructional materials against a specified definition of ''sufficient instructional materials.'' http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Requires the State Board of Education to implement and administer a student achievement improvement grant program to provide 2- year grants to school districts on the academic watch list and other school districts that have the lowest achieving students. Requires a school district to establish an accountability program in order to receive a grant. Requires a grant to be automatically renewed when achievement goals are met. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0890
Title: S.B. 2360
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 | P-12 | Requires district strategic plans to extend the range at which the improvement of reading is addressed to include students in grade four (4) and grade five (5).
Title: H.B. 7986
Source: Rhode Island Legislative Web Site
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Defines "academically in crisis" district and "academically unacceptable" school. Requires state superintendent to notify the state board, the president of the local board and the local superintendent when a district is found to be academically in crisis. Limits authority of notified local board. Gives notified local superintendent sole and exclusive authority for all other policy, operation and other matters. Limits notified local superintendent's contract to five years. Requires local superintendent, within 180 days of notification, to submit a report to the local board, state board and legislative auditor on the benefits of outsourcing all or some of the district's financial operations. Within 120 days of notification, local superintendent must develop a structured system improvement plan with specified content and submit the plan to the state board for approval. Upon approval of plan, the superintendent must report quarterly to the state and local boards on the progress of implementing the plan. Bars board of "academically in crisis" district from contracting or employing a superintendent or terminating the contract or employment of the incumbent superintendent unless by at least two-thirds vote of the board, and specifies that notified superintendent may receive no salary decrease while district is academically in crisis. Specifies method by which superintendent must be replaced in event of termination of notified superintendent. Requires notified local board to contract with an independent licensed certified public accountant to conduct an audit of the district finances and financial practices. The audit report must be submitted to the local board, the local superintendent and the legislative auditor. Specifies action to be taken following submission of audit report.
Requires state superintendent to provide to academically in crisis district a team of distinguished educators to provide a team of distinguished educators to provide expertise, direction and support to the district.
A district identified as academically in crisis must continue to be identified as such until student academic performance improves sufficiently to release the district from identification, and all audit findings are corrected.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT7/OUT/0000LRSN.PDF
Title: H.B. 1659
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| FL | To governor 05/2004 | P-12 | Creates the "Middle School Reform Act;" provides definitions; prescribes program criteria and content; provides a timeline for implementation; requires an academic performance study of middle grade students and schools with recommendations for increase in performance; requires school improvement plan to include rigorous reading requirement; provides for individual student plans; provides for additions to academic improvement plans; adds criteria to the assessment process for instructional personnel; requires DOE to conduct study on physical education in public schools; requires school districts to implement mandatory physical education under certain circumstances.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0354er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 354
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes local school boards to employ turnaround specialists to address conditions at a public school that may impede educational progress and effectiveness and academic success. The bill also authorizes local school boards to offer increased retirement benefits and compensation to turnaround specialists and licensed instructional personnel teaching in a subject matter in grades six, seven, or eight under a middle school critical shortage program adopted by the state board. Local school boards may offer such turnaround specialists or other administrative personnel incentives such as increased compensation, improved retirement benefits in accordance with Chapter 6.2 (§ 51.1-617 et seq.) of Title 51.1, increased deferred compensation in accordance with § 51.1-603, relocation expenses, bonuses, and other incentives as may be determined by the board. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0436
Title: H.B. 576
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | On-site review processes are to be conducted only at the specific direction of the state board upon its determination that the performance and progress of the school or school system are persistently below standard or other circumstances exist that warrant an on-site review (and have been below standard for three consecutive years). Includes early detection and intervention programs. Amends duties of the office of education performance audits. Provides that prior to declaring the position of principal vacant, the state board must make a determination that all other resources needed to correct the impairment are present at the school. http://129.71.164.29/Bill_Text_HTML/2004_SESSIONS/RS/House/H_BILLS/hb4001%20enr.htm
Title: H.B. 4001
Source: West Virginia Legislative Web Site
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Requires the department to make available through its web site or the West Virginia education information system an electronic unified school improvement plan boilerplate designed for use by all schools to develop a unified school improvement plan which incorporates all required aspects and satisfies all improvement plan requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act. Each respective plan is to be a five-year plan that includes the mission and goals of the school or school system to improve student, school or school system performance and progress, as applicable. Plan must be revised when required to include each annual performance measure upon which the school or school system fails to meet the standard for performance and progress, the action to be taken to meet each measure, a separate time line and a date certain for meeting each measure, a cost estimate and, when applicable, the assistance to be provided by the department and other education agencies to improve student, school or school system performance and progress to meet the annual performance measure. Requires standards to include annual measures of student, school and school system performance and progress. Requires annual measures to be used for determining school accreditation and school system approval:1) The acquisition of student proficiencies as indicated by student performance and progress in grades 3-8, inclusive, and grade 11 measured by a uniform statewide assessment program. (2) school attendance rate of no less than 90% in attendance excluding student absences excused in accordance with the state board rule, and 3) high school graduation rate of no less than 85% determined from information on the West Virginia education information system on the fifteenth day of August.
Title: H.B. 4001- Mult. Sections - School Improvement
Source: WV Legislative Web Site
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Creates the office of education renewal zones; provides for renewal zones to improve student achievement in smaller schools and districts; provides for collaboration with higher education partners, including community and technical colleges; enables small, rural and low-wealth schools to use the latest distance learning technology to enhance curricula and professional development; requires school improvement plans with certain components. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1056.pdf
Title: H.B. 1056
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Adds Ark. Code § 6-15-1808, 6-15-2001. Requires the state department of education to development and provide technical assistance to school districts that are designated as Level 1 or Level 2. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB33.pdf
Title: S.B. 33 §§ 5, 8
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| Adult Basic Education |
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| GA | Adopted 12/2004 | Postsec. | Establishes rules regarding the Area School Program and adult literacy grants. http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=GRANTS_OF_GEORGIA_DEPARTMENT_OF_TECHNICAL_AND_ADULT_EDUCATION%2FGRANT_PROGRAMS%2Findex.html&d=1
Title: GAC 668-1
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Establishes the Joint Commission on Adult Education for the purpose of making recommendations regarding the coordination of adult education and noncredit community college programs in order to improve adult education services. Requires the joint commission to issue an interim and a final report. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1401-1450/sb_1442_bill_20040825_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB_1442_veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1442
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | Postsec. | Provides that the allocation of statewide authorized adult education average daily attendance would be modified pursuant to a specified formula. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate the excess funds as grants to school districts operating adult education programs, based on an equal amount per unit of adult education average daily attendance. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1301-1350/sb_1309_bill_20040824_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB_1309_veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1309
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| AR | Rule Adoption 06/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Establishes rules regarding secondary area centers as a part of the policies and procedures for secondary programs and adult skill training classes and secondary vocational centers.
Title: Uncodified
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Creates the Ex-Offender Literacy Act that states the success of a pilot program requiring an adult convicted of a nonviolent or nonserious offense to participate in a program designed to assist the person obtain the equivalent of a 12th grade education as a condition of probation would be successful if at least 10% of the persons participating in the program obtain the equivalent of a 12th grade education within 3 years or improve their educational level by 3 years within 3 years. ftp://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1901-1950/ab_1901_bill_20040628_chaptered.html
Title: A.B. 1901
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| FL | Signed by Governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Relates to career, workforce and technical education; requires said education programs within the comprehensive high school program of study to be industry certified; provides academic requirements for students enrolled in said education programs; allows charter technical career center sponsors to submit full-time enrollment membership data as defined in the charter agreement; provides for career education certification on high school diploma; allows incentive funding to school districts for students receiving certifications; redesignates adult technical education programs as workforce education programs; provides certain responsibilities for district school boards and superintendents.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=hb0769er.html&Directory=session/2004/House/bills/billtext/html/
Title: H.B. 769
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| FL | Vetoed 06/2004 | Postsec. | Relates to workforce development education programs; redesignates adult technical education programs as workforce development education programs; provides requirements for funding. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb1258er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 1258
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12
Community College | Allows individuals over 22 years of age to attend vocational programs on a campus that is not a comprehensive high school campus during regular school hours in a county with a population that exceeds one million in a joint technological education district (JTED) if additional student capacity remains after the enrollment of students who are 22 or younger. Students over the age of 22 should not be included in the student count for specified purposes. Requires vocational programs offered by the district to individuals over the age of 22 to be limited to high school curriculum unless offered in conjunction with a community college district. The department of education will not provide funds related to this law for any student who has either graduated from high school or obtained a GED diploma or has reached 22 years of ages (whichever comes first). JTED governing boards are required to establish security policies for student safety. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0263.htm
Title: H.B. 2005
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Correctional Education to arrange for noncustodial parent offenders committed to the custody of the Department of Corrections to be afforded the opportunity to participate in pre- and post- release parenting programs that include parenting skills training, anger management and literacy skills. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=041&typ=bil&val=sb576
Title: S.B. 98
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| Assessment |
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2004 | P-12 | Amends the State School Aid Act of 1979; provides that the Michigan Education Assessment Program tests shall be administered during the last 90 school days, instead of the last 30 school days, of grade 11.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-6230
Title: H.B. 6230
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Replaces high school MEAP test with the Michigan Merit Examination in determining eligibility for Michigan Merit Award scholarships.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-SB-1156
Title: S.B. 1156
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2004 | P-12 | Provides for replacing high school MEAP test with the Michigan Merit Examination in the School Aid Act.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-SB-1155
Title: S.B. 1155
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Provides for replacing high school MEAP test with the Michigan Merit Examination in Postsecondary Enrollment Options Act.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-SB-1154
Title: S.B. 1154
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2004 | P-12 | Provides for replacing high school MEAP test with the Michigan Merit Examination in the School Code for administration under certain conditions.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-SB-1153
Title: S.B. 1153
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Provides for replacing high school MEAP test with the Michigan Merit Examination in the Career and Technical Preparation Act.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-SB-1157
Title: S.B. 1157
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 10/2004 | P-12 | Revises the School Code; provides that the Michigan Education Assessment Program tests be administered to pupils during the last 90 days, other than the las 30 days, of grade 11.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-6231
Title: H.B. 6231
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | SEC. 19: Existing law requires the governing board of a school district maintaining an elementary or secondary school to develop and cause to be implemented for each school in the school district a school accountability report card that includes specified information regarding the academic achievement of the school. Other existing law establishes the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program which requires each school district, charter school, and county office of education to administer to each of its pupils in grades 2 to 11, inclusive, an achievement test and a standards-based achievement test, as specified.
This bill would require the Commission on State Mandates, on or before December 31, 2005, to reconsider certain decisions it issued relating to state reimbursement for the school accountability report card and the STAR Program, and to reconsider its parameters and guidelines for calculating the state reimbursement, in light of federal statutes enacted and state court decisions rendered since those mandates were enacted. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2851-2900/ab_2855_bill_20040826_enrolled.html
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2853_2855_2856_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 2855 (multiple provisions)
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12
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Community College | Places a prohibition from carrying on a program of specific preparation of the pupils for the statewide pupil assessment program or a particular test used in the statewide pupil assessment program on a charter school. Authorizes the use of instructional materials provided by the state department of education in the academic preparation of pupils for the statewide pupil assessment if those instructional materials are embedded in an instructional program that is intended to improve pupil learning. Requires the standard-based achievement test to be administered to pupils in grades 3 and 7. Requires the state department of education to use specified federal funds to develop or adopt primary language assessments that are aligned to the state academic content standards and would require those assessments to be administered in place of the optional second achievement test a pupil with limited English proficiency may take. Requires the department on or before January 1, 2006, to submit to the legislature a report on the development and implementation of the initial primary language assessments and recommendations on the
development and implementation of future assessments and funding requirements. Authorizes and encourages the state superintendent and state board to assist postsecondary educational institutions to use the assessment results of the California Standards Tests for credit or placement and admissions processes, or both. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2401-2450/ab_2413_bill_20040826_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2413_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2413
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Section 2: Repeals the requirement that pupils in American government and civics courses required for high school graduation read and be taught specified documents, including the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution and the Gettysburg Address. Requires the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that those documents are incorporated in the framework when the history-social science framework is revised. Requires the State Board of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to ensure that an appropriate number of questions on the California Standards Tests relate to those documents if any portion of the California Standards Tests is revised. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2851-2900/ab_2855_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2853_2855_2856_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 2855 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| NY | Vetoed 09/2004 | Postsec. | Precludes the use of a minimum standardized test cut-off score for student admission to or rejection by the State University of New York and City University of New York; permits overall assessment of student qualifications for admission, including consideration of such scores together with academic course grades, classroom performance, community service, and extracurricular activities. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=a7143
Title: A.B. 7143
Source: StateNet
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| AL | Issued 08/2004 | P-12
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Community College | The governor issued Executive Order No. 02-2003 on January 30, 2003, creating the Governor's Commission of Education Spending. The Commission was to engage in a thorough examination of how education dollars have been spent in Alabama during the past ten years. http://www.governorpress.state.al.us/pr/ex-02-2003-01-30.asp
The Highlights of the Initial Report focused on: (1) Management and Accountability Reforms for K-12; (2) Student Assessment and Accountability for K-12; (3) Management and Accountability Reforms for the Alabama College System; (4) Management and Accountability Reforms for University Governance; (4) Reforms in Terms of Public Employment; and (5) Education Trust Fund Accountability.
The Working-Group Sessions (December 2003) made the following proposals: (1) Achieve the maximum savings possible from non-state and non-education agencies; (2) Freeze the state appropriations to PEEHIP at the Fiscal 2004 level; (3) Allocate higher education cutbacks to institutions; and (4) Allocation K-12 education cutbacks to school systems. http://www.alabama.gov/onlineservices/egov_pdfs/ESCReport11404.pdf
Title: Executive Order No. 02-2003
Source: Alabama State Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Extends the repeal date of the Leroy Greene California Assessment of Academic Achievement Act to January 1, 2011. Excludes testing students in grade 2 effective July 1, 2007. Permits the release of a pupils record of accomplishment and the results of achievement tests to postsecondary education institutions, upon the request of a pupil or his or her parent or guardian. Expands the law that prohibits any program for of specific preparation of pupils for that statewide assessment program or a particular test to include charter schools; exempts instructional materials provided by the state department of education if the materials are embedded in an instructional program to improve student learning. Requires the department of education to develop and implement primary language assessments aligned with state academic content standards. Provides that the achievement test to be administered to pupils in grades 3 and 8, instead, be administered in grades 3 and 7. Provides that if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement of the costs should be made as provided by statute. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1401-1450/sb_1448_bill_20040816_chaptered.html
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB_1448.pdf
Title: S.B. 1448
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Creates the FY2005 Budget Implementation (Education) Act. Creates several education related funds for receipt of federal moneys for education and other areas; addresses subjects students must be tested on; provides transitional assistance payments; increases the foundation level of support of supplemental state aid in relation to districts with a Low Income Concentration Level over a specified amount; provides for the National Guard Grant Program for tuition assistance. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0838
Title: S.B. 2205
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| CO | Signed by Governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education, no later than 15 days after the effective date of the act, to choose a public or private entity to develop a model to calculate students' annual academic growth for diagnostic purposes; directs the department to calculate annually the amount of each student's and each school's academic growth in reading, writing, and mathematics over the periods between the administration of the CSAP assessments. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/F4561E2B63FB898087256DEF00574D0F?Open&file=1433_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1433
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| FL | Signed by Governor 05/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Revises course requirements in college & career preparatory accelerated high school graduation program; amends requirements for grade point average that must be earned; establishes requirements for selection of accelerated graduation options; authorizes SAT & ACT as alternative assessments to grade 10 FCAT required for high school graduation if students have attempted to pass grade 10 FCAT at least 3 times; provides rights for K-3 students with reading deficiencies; establishes a Reading Enhancement and Acceleration Development (READ) Initiative to prevent the retention of grade 3 students and to offer intensive reading instruction to students with reading deficiencies. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0364er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 364
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Provides for the revision of certain provisions regarding education flexibility and accountability; requires the State Board of Education to create a single state-wide accountability system by December 31, 2004; amends provisions regarding school councils; amends the history curriculum requirements; amends provisions for early intervention programs; amends provisions related to effectiveness assessments, including end-of-course assessments; amends parental notification concerning compulsory attendance requirements; requires Department of Motor Vehicle notification of students 14 years of age and older who are in violation of attendance requirements; amends student discipline policies; changes the name Office of Education Accountability to Office of Student Achievement. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/search/hb1190.htm
Title: H.B. 1190
Source: Georgia Legislative Web site
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| MO | To governor 05/2004 | P-12 | Amends certain policies with regard to MAP testing. Provides that the performance standards of the MAP so that such indicators meet the standards of the National Assessment Educational Progress exam.
This act amends policies with regard to MAP testing by stating that, no later than June 30, 2006, the State Board of Education shall align the performance standards of the MAP so that such indicators meet, but do not exceed, the performance standards of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exam. The department will make other changes necessary to meet existing federal requirements. By July 1, 2006, the department will revise its accreditation standards to permit process and resource standard waivers consistent with academic performance profiles.
http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills041/bills/sb1080.htm
Title: S.B. 1080
Source: StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | From the fiscal note: Requires charter schools to administer state value-added testing for their students. Current law, T.C.A. 49-13-111(a)(2), provides that a public charter school shall meet the same performance standards and requirements adopted by the state board for public schools. T.C.A. 49-13-122 provides that a public charter school agreement may be revoked or denied renewal by the final chartering authority if such chartering authority determines that the school failed to meet or make adequate yearly progress toward achievement of the state's accountability system. This bill requires charter schools to participate in the state assessment program. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB2416.pdf
Title: S.B. 2416
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| DE | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Changes the grades where mandatory State testing is required from grades K-10 to grades 2-10. School districts will have the responsibility to assess student progress in grades Kindergarten and 1 and to provide student progress reports to parents. http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/LIS142.NSF/vwLegislation/
Title: H.B. 304
Source: Delaware Legislative Web site
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| DE | Issued 04/2004 | P-12 | 1. The Delaware Department of Education shall convene a panel of three national experts in the areas of assessment, accountability, and/or standard setting. Said experts will be chosen as follows: one by Delaware Department of Education, one by the members of the Delaware Education Consortium (Delaware Chief School Officers Association, Delaware Association of School Administrators, Delaware State Education Association, Delaware School Boards Association, the State Board of Education and the Delaware Charter Schools Network) and one jointly chosen by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
2. The panel shall be provided with all applicable and related information regarding the development of the assessments, the setting of performance levels, and the design of the student accountability system from the Department of Education and from any other study or paper that has been produced by any other stakeholder groups.
3. The panel may also consider other sources of information from regional or national studies that have been conducted on related matters.
4. The panel shall also examine the levels of incentives and consequences associated with the student accountability system including requirements for student improvement activities such as Individual Improvement Plans, summer school, retention and promotion, and awarding of diplomas and scholarships.
5. The Department of Education shall also contract with three national experts to conduct a full review of the implementation of standards based curriculum in mathematics in both middle and high schools in Delaware. Said experts will be chosen in the same manner as the assessment panel, one by the Department of Education, one by the Education Consortium and one jointly chosen by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
6. To ensure public participation in the process, a posted public comment period shall be utilized to allow members of the public to submit written public comments to either or both panels.
7. The expert panel on assessment and accountability and the expert panel on curriculum shall present findings and recommendations regarding these issues, including a timeline for proposed implementation, to the Governor and the General Assembly not later than February 15, 2005.
http://www.state.de.us/governor/orders/webexecorder54.shtml#TopOfPage
Title: Executive Order #54
Source: www.state.de.us/governor
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Direct the Office of Education Accountability to conduct a study of the Commonwealth Accountability Testing System and to provide Education Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee a draft of the report by September 15, 2004. The study must include but not be limited to an examination of:
(1) The appropriateness of the CATS components used to measure achievement levels of the core content for all Kentucky students;
(2) The validity and adequacy of CATS results as indicators of individual student achievement and to give parents the information they need to know about the individual progress of their children;
(3) The alignment of CATS with the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act;
(4) The validity of the writing portfolio as an assessment component within the CATS system and appropriateness of the writing portfolio to be included in the school accountability index;
(5) The value of the CATS assessment in enhancing instructional practices and curriculum on a day to day basis;
(6) The effects of the CATS assessment on teachers, staff, and administrators; and
(7) The actual costs for the CATS system on a per pupil basis.
Section 3. The Kentucky Department of Education must provide the data, information, and any staff analysis requested by the Office of Education Accountability to facilitate completion of the study. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SJ156.htm
Title: S.J.R. 156
Source: StateNet
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| MA | Rule Adoption 03/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules relating to the Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) performance appeals process, and incorporates provisions regarding student with disabilities. MASSACHUSETTS REG 8280 (SN)
Title: 603 CMR 30.00
Source: StateNet
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Relates to public schools; changes the writing test for certain grades; amends provisions regarding the English Language Reading Test; makes provisions for students determined to be limited English proficient. http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/04%20Regular/final/SB0138.pdf
Title: S.B. 138
Source: http://legis.state.nm.us
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| OH | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 |
· Creates an Educator Standards Board to develop and submit to the State Board of Education recommendations for statewide educator standards and carry out other functions recommended by the Governor's Commission on Teaching Success.
· Directs the Department of Education to establish a state office within the Department to support the Educator Standards Board.
· Requires school districts to use professional development standards developed by the Educator Standards Board.
· Directs the State Board of Education and the Joint Council of the State Board of Education and the Ohio Board of Regents to create guidelines for the evaluation of principals and teachers.
· Eliminates the authority of the State Board of Education to issue internship certificates.
· Eliminates the authority of the State Board of Education to issue temporary educator licenses for employment as a superintendent or another administrative position.
· Requires the State Board of Education to create an alternative principal license and an alternative administrator license.
· Restricts the required delayed effective date for any educator licensing rule adopted, amended, or rescinded by the State Board of Education only to cases where the proposed rule, amendment, or rescission will necessitate curriculum changes in college and university teacher preparation programs.
· Clarifies that an Alternative Educator License must be issued to a qualified applicant upon the request of specified school officials.
· Prescribes the timing of subject area testing for applicants for the Provisional Educator License who are employed as intervention specialists under the Alternative Educator License.
· Provides a qualified immunity for teacher performance assessors, trainers, and coordinators and for teacher performance assessment entities in civil actions concerning performance assessments of candidates for the Professional Educator License.
· Expands the rulemaking authority of the State Board of Education with respect to allowing schools to hire teachers considered to be rehabilitated from past offenses.
· Authorizes the State Board or the Superintendent of Public Instruction to issue subpoenas, take depositions, and compel production of evidence in pre-hearing investigations of educator license applicants or holders.
· Requires the State Board to adopt rules establishing standards and requirements for issuing permits to individuals who are not licensed educators but who wish to be employed by school districts to direct, supervise, or coach pupil activity programs.
· Establishes a Credential Review Board, appointed by the State Board of Education, to perform duties with respect to assessing alternative pathway educators and out-of-state educators.
· Requires the Ohio School Facilities Commission, when reviewing design plans, to consider whether the plans reflect designs recommended by the Governor's Commission on Teaching Success.
· Obligates the Board of Regents to develop regional articulation agreements for teacher education programs among state institutions of higher education by December 31, 2004.
· Directs the Legislative Office of Education Oversight (LOEO) to study minimum teacher salaries in Ohio and selected other states and report findings by September 30, 2004.
· Requires the Department of Education to develop proposals for several pilot programs recommended by the Governor's Commission on Teaching Success.
· Charges the Department of Education with defining a "hard to staff" school within 90 days of the bill's effective date.
· Implements other recommendations of the Governor's Commission on Teaching Success.
· Establishes a grant program for school districts that choose to implement specific changes within a school.
· Requires the Department of Education, when sufficient funding is available, to develop a pilot project in at least two school districts that contain "hard to staff" schools.
· Clarifies the due dates and methodology of several studies conducted by LOEO.
· Repeals the requirement that LOEO issue an annual composite report on community schools.
· Repeals the requirement that the Ohio SchoolNet Commission maintain a clearinghouse of information for classroom teachers.
· Generally limits school districts to spending a combined total of an amount equal to 20% of their Title I funds to pay for transportation for students transferring under public school choice and for supplemental educational services.
· Requires school districts with a three-year average graduation rate of 75% or less (in addition to academic watch and academic emergency districts as under current law) to administer practice versions of the Ohio Graduation Tests (OGT) to ninth grade students.
· Clarifies other requirements related to the administration of practice versions of the OGT.
· Requires the eighth grade social studies achievement test to be phased in beginning in the 2006-2007 school year (one year earlier than under current law).
· Extends the deadline for the summer administration of the third grade reading achievement test.
· Extends the deadline for adoption of diagnostic assessments by the State Board of Education to July 1, 2008.
· Requires school districts to administer diagnostic assessments to intradistrict transfer students only if such students have not taken the assessments at another district school in the current school year.
· Makes technical corrections to the recently enacted law denying state financial aid to college students convicted of riot-related offenses. Link to analysis: http://lsc.state.oh.us/analyses/analysis125.nsf/c68a7e88e02f43a985256dad004e48aa/28756df2eb75b85985256dc70047070f?OpenDocument
Title: S.B. 2
Source: http://lsc.state.oh.us
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Modifies statewide student assessment (WyCAS) to conform with NCLB by expanding grades assessed from grades 4, 8 and 11 to grades 3 through 8 and grade 11 commencing with school year 2005-2006, and by expanding assessment subjects from reading, writing and math to include science effective school year 2007-2008;
· Imposes additional assessment requirements and criteria;
· Establishes a statewide accountability system providing annual school and district accountability determinations imposing a range of educational consequences as required by NCLB;
· Continues the statewide task force established in 2003 to work with the state superintendent in continuing development of assessment and accountability systems;
· Establishes a process for transitioning from WyCAS to a revised assessment system by requiring a pilot testing of the revised assessment in school year 2004-2005 prior to implementation in school year 2005-2006;
· Requires a transitional accountability plan providing a temporary system of rewards and sanctions for all schools and school districts during school year 2004-2005, with recommendations for a permanent plan to be assembled;
· Task force and state superintendent work efforts to be reported to the state board of education, management council and joint education interim committee. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2004/enroll/hb0126.pdf
Title: H.B. 126
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Allows the Department of Education to extend the deadline for test results if the deadline substantially increases the cost of administration of the tests or compromises the validity of the test results. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1132.pdf
Title: H.B. 1132
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| MA | Emergency Rule Adoption 02/2004 | P-12 | Establishes emergency rules relating to students with disabilities. Revises rules that relates to performance appeals. MASSACHUSETTS REG 8283 (SN)
Title: 603 CMR 30.00
Source: StateNet
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| SC | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 02/2004 | P-12 | (Joint Resolution) Approves regulations of the Board of Education; relates to basic skills assessment program writing text; relates to minimum standards of student achievement.
Title: H.B. 3875
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Amends Ark. Code § 6-15-404; adds 6-15-433 and 6-15-1803. Creates the Student Assessment and Educational Accountability act of 2003; establishes a comprehensive system of testing students, known as the Arkansas Comprehensive Assessment Program exams, including criterion-referenced tests by July 1, 2006; participation in the program is mandatory unless exempted by the state board of education; state board exemption shall not be granted if it would result in less than 95% student participation in a school; requires Arkansas to participate in NAEP testing; implements student achievement testing as part of the statewide assessment program; the state department of education shall establish additional course requirements for failing to demonstrate proficiency on end of course exams for submission to legislative committees and implemented for 2009-10 school year. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB33.pdf
Title: S.B. 33 §§ 1, 4, 5
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Adds Ark. Code 6-15-1804. Students exhibiting a reading deficiency will receive intensive reading instruction and beginning with the 2005-06 school year, child's parents will be notified of student's deficiency and available services. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB33.pdf
Title: S.B. 33 § 5
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| MI | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Provides exemption from school accreditation requirements for schools whose Michigan Educational Assessment Program answer sheets were lost by the Department of Education or an assessment contractor; provides this exemption does not preclude the department from determining if a public school or school district has achieved adequate yearly progress for the purposes of the No Child Left Behind Act; states no penalty shall be assessed for the loss of records.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2003-SB-0787
Title: S.B. 787
Source: http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2003-SB-0787
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| WV | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Requires the state board to adopt system standards, including student performance and progress, school and school system progress, etc. Requires performance measures to incude graduation rate, dropout rate, attendance, student performance; percentage of graduates who enroll in college immediately and within one year; percentage of graduates who receive additional certification or other competence above what was required for graduation. Sets indicators for determining efficiency. Establishes a system of performance audits that are primarily based on achievement information. Requires technical assistance. Establishes rewards for exemplary performance or practices and levels of sanctions for schools performing below standards. Includes restructuring for schools seriously impaired over time. Requires that students be allowed to transfer from seriously impaired schools. Requires intervention in "nonapproval" status districts.
Title: H.B. 4111
Source: StateNet
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| Assessment--Accommodations |
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Creates the Advisory Task Force for Education of Blind and Visually Impaired Pupils to provide input to formulate the most effective policy for the education of such pupils. Requires the Department of Education to provide outreach and technical assistance to parents, teachers, and administrators concerning issues relating to the instruction of visually impaired, blind, and deaf-blind pupils. Requires the department of education to establish a data system for submission and collection of data regarding services provided by local education agencies to such pupils. Requires contracts with test publishers for statewide tests to stipulate that the publishers will provide the test materials in formats accessible to pupils with visual disabilities.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0651-0700/ab_662_bill_20040825_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_662_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 662
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| MS | Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules regarding assessment of students with disabilities. Provides that the information contained within the guidelines for testing special populations and any subsequent updates shall apply to all public school personnel who are responsible for the implementation of the Mississippi Statewide Assessment System. Provides that the information shall set forth the rules and procedures required for proper test administration and shall be provided to each school district by the Mississippi Department of Education. MISSISSIPPI REG 9149 (SN)
Title: IIIB-3
Source: StateNet
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| ID | Temporary Rule Adoption 05/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules to allow new Limited English Proficient (LEP) students to take a language proficiency test in lieu of the state reading test.
http://www2.state.id.us/adm/adminrules/bulletin/04jun.pdf (page 30)
Title: IDAPA 08.02.03 §§ 111-112
Source: Idaho State Web site
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| LA | Adopted 04/2004 | P-12 | Adopts rules relating to the implementation of fundamental changes in the classroom by helping schools and communities focus on student achievement. Clarifies method for calculating a School Performance Score for elementary, middle and high schools. Establishes timelines for schools in School Improvement to submit improvement plans, expands the details of the Supplemental Educational Services process, specifies how LEAP Alternative Assessment students are included in NRT calculations, and creates required definitions for English language proficiency. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0404/0404RUL.pdf (see pages 22-27 of 71)
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.303, 311, 1701, 2701, 2702, 2703, 2713, 2715, 2717, 2719, 2721, 3905, 4001, 4003, 4005
Source: http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr
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| LA | Adopted 04/2004 | P-12 | Repeals rules that address alternate assessment and curricular design for students with disabilities in special schools. Provides consistency with rules governing students with disabilities not attending special schools.
Title: LAC 28:I.901
Source: StateNet
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| MA | Rule Adoption 03/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules relating to the Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) performance appeals process, and incorporates provisions regarding student with disabilities. MASSACHUSETTS REG 8280 (SN)
Title: 603 CMR 30.00
Source: StateNet
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| MA | Emergency Rule Adoption 02/2004 | P-12 | Establishes emergency rules relating to students with disabilities. Revises rules that relates to performance appeals. MASSACHUSETTS REG 8283 (SN)
Title: 603 CMR 30.00
Source: StateNet
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| Assessment--Computer Based |
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to require the California Learning Resource Network to establish review criteria and a process for the identification and review of electronic learning assessment resources by December 31, 2004. Requires the review to include a descriptive model for use by administrators and teachers that differentiates and compares the capabilities of the different types of electronic learning assessment resources. Relates to online customer feedback. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1351-1400/sb_1384_bill_20040909_chaptered.html
Title: S.B. 1384
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| UT | Rule Adoption 08/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules concerning online testing. Provides additional definitions and a timeline for expeditious implementation of an educational technology infrastructure for school districts/charter schools to use to satisfy Utah Performance Assessment System for Students (U-PASS) requirements through an online testing system. UTAH REG 27202 (SN)
Title: R277-402
Source: StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | This bill:
< allows the State Board of Education to award grants to school districts and charter
schools to implement a system for the online delivery of summative tests required
under U-PASS (Utah Performance Assessment System for Students);
< provides that an online test delivery system shall: be coordinated by the Utah State Office of Education; ensure the reliability and security of U-PASS tests; and be selected through collaboration between Utah State Office of Education and school district representatives with expertise in technology, assessment, and administration;
< specifies how grant monies may be used; and
< directs the State Board of Education to make rules.
Monies Appropriated in this Bill: $5,000,000 from the Uniform School Fund for fiscal year 2004-05 only to the state board.
http://bb.utahsenate.org/perl/bb/bb_find.pl
Title: S.B. 51
Source: http://www.utah.gov/government/legislative
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| Assessment--End-of-Course |
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| GA | Adopted 07/2004 | P-12 | Requires the results of core subject and end-of-course assessments to be included as a factor in a student's final grade in the core subject course for which the end-of-course assessment is given. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-4-2-.13.pdf
Title: GAC 160-4-2-.13
Source: Georgia State Web site
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Provides for the revision of certain provisions regarding education flexibility and accountability; requires the State Board of Education to create a single state-wide accountability system by December 31, 2004; amends provisions regarding school councils; amends the history curriculum requirements; amends provisions for early intervention programs; amends provisions related to effectiveness assessments, including end-of-course assessments; amends parental notification concerning compulsory attendance requirements; requires Department of Motor Vehicle notification of students 14 years of age and older who are in violation of attendance requirements; amends student discipline policies; changes the name Office of Education Accountability to Office of Student Achievement. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/search/hb1190.htm
Title: H.B. 1190
Source: Georgia Legislative Web site
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| Assessment--Formative/Interim |
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| OH | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 |
· Creates an Educator Standards Board to develop and submit to the State Board of Education recommendations for statewide educator standards and carry out other functions recommended by the Governor's Commission on Teaching Success.
· Directs the Department of Education to establish a state office within the Department to support the Educator Standards Board.
· Requires school districts to use professional development standards developed by the Educator Standards Board.
· Directs the State Board of Education and the Joint Council of the State Board of Education and the Ohio Board of Regents to create guidelines for the evaluation of principals and teachers.
· Eliminates the authority of the State Board of Education to issue internship certificates.
· Eliminates the authority of the State Board of Education to issue temporary educator licenses for employment as a superintendent or another administrative position.
· Requires the State Board of Education to create an alternative principal license and an alternative administrator license.
· Restricts the required delayed effective date for any educator licensing rule adopted, amended, or rescinded by the State Board of Education only to cases where the proposed rule, amendment, or rescission will necessitate curriculum changes in college and university teacher preparation programs.
· Clarifies that an Alternative Educator License must be issued to a qualified applicant upon the request of specified school officials.
· Prescribes the timing of subject area testing for applicants for the Provisional Educator License who are employed as intervention specialists under the Alternative Educator License.
· Provides a qualified immunity for teacher performance assessors, trainers, and coordinators and for teacher performance assessment entities in civil actions concerning performance assessments of candidates for the Professional Educator License.
· Expands the rulemaking authority of the State Board of Education with respect to allowing schools to hire teachers considered to be rehabilitated from past offenses.
· Authorizes the State Board or the Superintendent of Public Instruction to issue subpoenas, take depositions, and compel production of evidence in pre-hearing investigations of educator license applicants or holders.
· Requires the State Board to adopt rules establishing standards and requirements for issuing permits to individuals who are not licensed educators but who wish to be employed by school districts to direct, supervise, or coach pupil activity programs.
· Establishes a Credential Review Board, appointed by the State Board of Education, to perform duties with respect to assessing alternative pathway educators and out-of-state educators.
· Requires the Ohio School Facilities Commission, when reviewing design plans, to consider whether the plans reflect designs recommended by the Governor's Commission on Teaching Success.
· Obligates the Board of Regents to develop regional articulation agreements for teacher education programs among state institutions of higher education by December 31, 2004.
· Directs the Legislative Office of Education Oversight (LOEO) to study minimum teacher salaries in Ohio and selected other states and report findings by September 30, 2004.
· Requires the Department of Education to develop proposals for several pilot programs recommended by the Governor's Commission on Teaching Success.
· Charges the Department of Education with defining a "hard to staff" school within 90 days of the bill's effective date.
· Implements other recommendations of the Governor's Commission on Teaching Success.
· Establishes a grant program for school districts that choose to implement specific changes within a school.
· Requires the Department of Education, when sufficient funding is available, to develop a pilot project in at least two school districts that contain "hard to staff" schools.
· Clarifies the due dates and methodology of several studies conducted by LOEO.
· Repeals the requirement that LOEO issue an annual composite report on community schools.
· Repeals the requirement that the Ohio SchoolNet Commission maintain a clearinghouse of information for classroom teachers.
· Generally limits school districts to spending a combined total of an amount equal to 20% of their Title I funds to pay for transportation for students transferring under public school choice and for supplemental educational services.
· Requires school districts with a three-year average graduation rate of 75% or less (in addition to academic watch and academic emergency districts as under current law) to administer practice versions of the Ohio Graduation Tests (OGT) to ninth grade students.
· Clarifies other requirements related to the administration of practice versions of the OGT.
· Requires the eighth grade social studies achievement test to be phased in beginning in the 2006-2007 school year (one year earlier than under current law).
· Extends the deadline for the summer administration of the third grade reading achievement test.
· Extends the deadline for adoption of diagnostic assessments by the State Board of Education to July 1, 2008.
· Requires school districts to administer diagnostic assessments to intradistrict transfer students only if such students have not taken the assessments at another district school in the current school year.
· Makes technical corrections to the recently enacted law denying state financial aid to college students convicted of riot-related offenses. Link to analysis: http://lsc.state.oh.us/analyses/analysis125.nsf/c68a7e88e02f43a985256dad004e48aa/28756df2eb75b85985256dc70047070f?OpenDocument
Title: S.B. 2
Source: http://lsc.state.oh.us
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| Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2004 | P-12 | Amends the State School Aid Act of 1979; provides that the Michigan Education Assessment Program tests shall be administered during the last 90 school days, instead of the last 30 school days, of grade 11.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-6230
Title: H.B. 6230
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 10/2004 | P-12 | Revises the School Code; provides that the Michigan Education Assessment Program tests be administered to pupils during the last 90 days, other than the las 30 days, of grade 11.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-6231
Title: H.B. 6231
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Establishes the High School Remediation Funding Flexibility Program for the purpose of providing funding flexibility for remediation instruction for high school pupils in grades 9 to 12 who are at risk of not passing the high school exit examination. Provides for remediation instruction class size. Requires such instruction to be in the core subject areas that are tested, and to be provided by a certificated employee who is highly qualified, as defined by the state board of education for purposes of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Authorizes a school district to participate in the program only if it received funding pursuant to the Morgan-Hart Class Size Reduction Act of 1989 continuously since the 2001-02 fiscal year, in which case, the bill would authorize the school district to use any available funds from that act for purposes of the program. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2601-2650/ab_2647_bill_20040825_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2647_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2647
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| NY | Vetoed 09/2004 | Postsec. | Precludes the use of a minimum standardized test cut-off score for student admission to or rejection by the State University of New York and City University of New York; permits overall assessment of student qualifications for admission, including consideration of such scores together with academic course grades, classroom performance, community service, and extracurricular activities. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=a7143
Title: A.B. 7143
Source: StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Amends the School Code. Provides that no student shall receive a regular diploma without taking the Prairie State Achievement Exam. Provides exceptions. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0857
Title: S.B. 2769
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| LA | Vetoed 07/2004 | P-12 | Provides for the awarding of certificates of attendance by the board of elementary and secondary education to any public high school student who fails to pass the graduation exit exam but has completed all required coursework and all other graduation requirements. Such a student would not be barred from receiving a diploma if he or she later passed the exit exam.
Bill text: http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT1/OUT/VETHB740.PDF
Veto message: http://www.legis.state.la.us/archive/04RS/veto/HB740v.pdf
Title: H.B. 740
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| TX | Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules concerning exemption from the requirements of the Texas Success Initiative. Exempts high school students who achieve certain standards on the Mathematics and/or English/Language Arts sections of the exit-level Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills from state mandated testing for college readiness for the corresponding sections. Allows students who achieve certain standards on certain sections of the SAT and ACT to be exempt from the assessment required under this title for those corresponding sections. TEXAS REG 95579 (SN)
Title: 19 TAC 1.4.C.4.54
Source: StateNet
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| DE | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education to award diplomas based on current rules and regulations for students who graduate in 2004; allows the national panel of experts to examine the performance levels and math cut scores of the Student Testing Program and determine whether changes are necessary; provides that students may request recalculation of test scores to determine their eligibility for the Distinguished Achievement Diploma. http://www.legis.state.de.us/Legislature.nsf/fsLIS?openframeset&Frame=Main&Src=/LIS/LIS142.NSF/Home?Openform
Title: S.B. 285
Source: Delaware Legislative Web site
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| FL | Signed by Governor 05/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Revises course requirements in college & career preparatory accelerated high school graduation program; amends requirements for grade point average that must be earned; establishes requirements for selection of accelerated graduation options; authorizes SAT & ACT as alternative assessments to grade 10 FCAT required for high school graduation if students have attempted to pass grade 10 FCAT at least 3 times; provides rights for K-3 students with reading deficiencies; establishes a Reading Enhancement and Acceleration Development (READ) Initiative to prevent the retention of grade 3 students and to offer intensive reading instruction to students with reading deficiencies. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0364er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 364
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| AL | Adopted 03/2004 | P-12 | Allows high schools to confer the High School Diploma on students with disabilities who have failed a subject area test of the Graduation Exam in the area in which they have a disability(s), using alternate requirements for/instead of assessment in conjunction with the attainment of required course credits and all other requirements for graduation. http://www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us/UpdatedMonthly/VolXXIIN6/p188.htm#T1
Title: AAC 290-3-1-.02
Source: Alabama State Web site
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| AL | Emergency Rule Adoption 03/2004 | P-12 | Allows students with disabilities who fail one portion of the Alabama High School Graduation Exam and meet certain other criteria to receive the Alabama High School Diploma. http://www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us/UpdatedMonthly/VolXXIIN6/p189.htm#T1
Title: AAC 290-4-2-.02
Source: Alabama State Web site
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| MS | Rule Adoption 03/2004 | P-12 | Revises rules regarding graduation requirements and exit examinations. MISSISSIPPI REG 9026 (SN)
Title: THF-1
Source: StateNet
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | 1) The high school assessment system shall include but need not be limited to the Washington assessment of student learning, opportunities for a student to retake the content areas of the assessment in which the student was not successful, and if approved by the legislature pursuant to subsection (11) of this section, one or more objective alternative assessments for a student to demonstrate achievement of state academic standards. The objective alternative assessments for each content area shall be comparable in rigor to the skills and knowledge that the student must demonstrate on the Washington assessment of student learning for each content area.
(2) Subject to the conditions in this section, a certificate of academic achievement shall be obtained by most students at about the age of sixteen, and is evidence that the students have successfully met the state standard in the content areas included in the certificate. With the exception of students satisfying the provisions of section 104 of this act, acquisition of the certificate is required for graduation from a public high school but is not the only requirement for graduation.
(3) Beginning with the graduating class of 2008, with the exception of students satisfying the provisions of section 104 of this act, a student who meets the state standards on the reading, writing, and mathematics content areas of the high school Washington assessment of student learning shall earn a certificate of academic achievement. If a student does not successfully meet the state standards in one or more content areas required for the certificate of academic achievement, then the student may retake the assessment in the content area up to four times at no cost to the student. If the student successfully meets the state standards on a retake of the assessment then the student shall earn a certificate of academic achievement. Once objective alternative assessments are authorized pursuant to subsection (11) of this section, a student may use the objective alternative assessments to demonstrate that the student successfully meets the state standards for that content area if the student has retaken the Washington assessment of student learning at least once. If the student successfully meets the state standards on the objective alternative assessments then the student shall earn a certificate of academic achievement. The student's transcript shall note whether the certificate of academic achievement was acquired by means of the Washington assessment of student learning or by an alternative assessment.
(4) Beginning with the graduating class of 2010, a student must meet the state standards in science in addition to the other content areas required under subsection (3) of this section on the Washington assessment of student learning or the objective alternative assessments in order to earn a certificate of academic achievement.
(5) The state board of education may not require the acquisition of the certificate of academic achievement for students in home-based instruction under chapter 28A.200 RCW, for students enrolled in private schools under chapter 28A.195 RCW, or for students satisfying the provisions of section 104 of this act.
Title: H.B. 2195
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov
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| Assessment--NAEP (NAEP Results and NAEP Organization) |
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Amends Ark. Code § 6-15-404; adds 6-15-433 and 6-15-1803. Creates the Student Assessment and Educational Accountability act of 2003; establishes a comprehensive system of testing students, known as the Arkansas Comprehensive Assessment Program exams, including criterion-referenced tests by July 1, 2006; participation in the program is mandatory unless exempted by the state board of education; state board exemption shall not be granted if it would result in less than 95% student participation in a school; requires Arkansas to participate in NAEP testing; implements student achievement testing as part of the statewide assessment program; the state department of education shall establish additional course requirements for failing to demonstrate proficiency on end of course exams for submission to legislative committees and implemented for 2009-10 school year. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB33.pdf
Title: S.B. 33 §§ 1, 4, 5
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| Assessment--Performance Based/Portfolio |
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Direct the Office of Education Accountability to conduct a study of the Commonwealth Accountability Testing System and to provide Education Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee a draft of the report by September 15, 2004. The study must include but not be limited to an examination of:
(1) The appropriateness of the CATS components used to measure achievement levels of the core content for all Kentucky students;
(2) The validity and adequacy of CATS results as indicators of individual student achievement and to give parents the information they need to know about the individual progress of their children;
(3) The alignment of CATS with the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act;
(4) The validity of the writing portfolio as an assessment component within the CATS system and appropriateness of the writing portfolio to be included in the school accountability index;
(5) The value of the CATS assessment in enhancing instructional practices and curriculum on a day to day basis;
(6) The effects of the CATS assessment on teachers, staff, and administrators; and
(7) The actual costs for the CATS system on a per pupil basis.
Section 3. The Kentucky Department of Education must provide the data, information, and any staff analysis requested by the Office of Education Accountability to facilitate completion of the study. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SJ156.htm
Title: S.J.R. 156
Source: StateNet
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| Assessment--Value Added |
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| CO | Signed by Governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education, no later than 15 days after the effective date of the act, to choose a public or private entity to develop a model to calculate students' annual academic growth for diagnostic purposes; directs the department to calculate annually the amount of each student's and each school's academic growth in reading, writing, and mathematics over the periods between the administration of the CSAP assessments. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/F4561E2B63FB898087256DEF00574D0F?Open&file=1433_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1433
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Deletes several sections of 49-1-601 and and substitutes new language. Relates to educational performance goals and measures;changes from dropout rates to graduation rates; provides for testing; requires all public schools and local education agencies to make adequate yearly progress in achieving proficiency for all student subgroups in core academic subjects; each school and local education agency is expected to make statistically significant progress toward that goal. The rate of progress within each grade and academic course, necessary to maintain compliance with this part, will be established after two (2) years of consecutive testing with tests adopted for each grade and subject; provides that tests must have fresh, nonredundant items that did not appear on that test in previous years. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0928.pdf
Title: H.B. 3511
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Prohibits a school district governing board from denying a charter school petition, unless it makes findings that the petition lacks a description of the procedures by which a pupil may be subject to discipline and the procedure employed by the school to safeguard the due process rights of pupils and unless it makes findings showing a lack of compliance with the Ralph M. Brown Act. Provides that charter schools are subject to the open meeting requirement of the Ralph M. Brown Act. Prohibits a charter school from expelling a pupil based solely on his or her academic performance. Requires a charter school to notify the governing board of the school district of residence and the county superintendent of schools within 14 days if a pupil is expelled and to notify the governing board of the school district of residence within 14 days of the last day the pupil attended school if a pupil leaves the charter school without graduating or completing the school year for any reason. Requires a charter school to provide the district of residence of a pupil who is expelled or leaves the charter school without graduating or completing the school year for any reason with a copy of the cumulative file of that pupil. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1851-1900/ab_1860_bill_20040826_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1860_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1860
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12
Community College | Appropriates a specified amount of funds from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for the support of the Advancement Via Individual Determination Program. Makes these amounts applicable toward the minimum funding requirements for a school district and community college districts. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_3001-3050/ab_3017_bill_20040827_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_3017_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 3017
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| MI | Signed into law 09/2004 | Community College
Postsec. | Provides community and junior colleges appropriations for fiscal year 2005; provides for community college-level learning disabled students and students who require English as a second language assistance (at-risk students). Requires grant funding to be used to address the special needs of at-risk students or for equipment or upgrade of information technology hardware or software. Activities related to services provided to at-risk students include, but are not limited to, pretesting for academic ability, counseling contacts, and special programs. Equipment or information technology hardware or software purchased under this section need not be associated with the operation of
a program designed to address the needs of at-risk students.
Title: S.B. 1062
Source: StateNet
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| GA | Adopted 08/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding class size, absences and excuses. Renames chapter on absences as Student Attendance. Provides definition of truant and outlines policies and procedures to reduce unexcused absences. Permits a maximum individual class size of 30 for grades 9-12 science classes for school year 2004-05. GEORGIA REG 4246 (SN). http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-5-1-.08.pdf and http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-5-1-.10.pdf
Title: GAC 160-5-1-.08; -.10
Source: Georgia State Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to establish a system for accurate tracking of transfer students. Requires that certain students be counted as dropouts unless the school district sends a notice that the student is enrolled elsewhere. Provides that all records indicating the school or school district to which a student transferred are subject to the School Student Records Act. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0859
Title: S.B. 3109
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Creates the African-American Family Commission Act. Establishes a 15-member African-American Family Commission to serve as a coordinating and advocating body that acts on behalf of the interests of African-Americans to improve and expand existing human services and educational and community development programs. Provides for funding through appropriations. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0867
Title: S.B. 3208
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Amends the School Code. Allows a school or school district to deny enrollment to a student 16 years of age or older for one semester for failure to meet minimum academic or attendance standards if certain conditions are met. Requires a district to identify, track, and report on the educational progress and outcomes of reenrolled students (defined as dropouts who have reenrolled full-time) as a subset of the district's required reporting on all enrollments. Provides that a reenrolled student who again drops out must not be counted again against a district's dropout rate performance measure. Requires the State Board of Education to set performance standards for programs serving reenrolled students. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0803
Title: S.B. 2115
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| MA | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 | P-12 | Relates to establishing an alternative education grant program; contains text of section 126 of H 4850; requires that parents or legal guardians attend specified conferences with teachers; provides for assistance to address needs of children who have been exposed to violence and abuse; provides for at- risk students.
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/ht04914.htm
Title: H.B. 4914
Source: StateNet
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| AZ | Issued 06/2004 | P-12 | Creates the Arizona Statewide Youth Development Task Force to provide policy recommendations relating to youth and youth development issues in the state of Arizona to the Governor's Office for Children, Youth and Families. Establishes membership. Requires the task force to advise the governor through (1) the creation of of policy work groups on matters such as positive youth development, youth workforce development, education and youth voice and advocacy; (2) the development of more and better opportunities for positive use of time,
positive use of self-expression, civic engagement and participation for youth in the state; (3) the coordination of services for Arizona's youth with community-based, faith-based, city, state and local youth-serving agencies and organizations; and (4) the ongoing review of proposed federal and state legislation and existing laws relating to youth and youth development.
http://www.governor.state.az.us/eo/2004_14.pdf
Title: Executive Order 2004-14
Source: www.governor.state.az.us
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Establishes the Department of Juvenile Services Education Department; requires each facility established and operated by the Department of Juvenile Services to have an education center; provides that each child in the custody of the Department receive appropriate educational services; establishes the Department of Juvenile Services Board of Education; provides for the appointment, terms, and removal of members of the Board of Education.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2004rs/bills/hb/hb1139e.rtf
Title: H.B. 1139
Source: StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes the establishment of a Truancy Reduction Pilot Program in certain counties; establishes that failure of children to attend school without a lawful excuse is a code violation; authorizes school officials to petition the juvenile court alleging that a child who is required under law to attend school fails to attend school without lawful excuse; requires the court to hold an adjudicatory hearing after the petition; requires a separate disposition hearing.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2004rs/bills/hb/hb1443t.rtf
Title: H.B. 1443
Source: StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Requires a child discharged from a committed residential placement to receive step down aftercare for a period to be determined by the Department of Juvenile Services; requires a child in a step down aftercare program to receive specified services; requires a child placed in step down aftercare to receive an appropriate education from the State Department of Education; requires the Department of Juvenile Services to keep specified records.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2004rs/bills/sb/sb0767t.rtf
Title: S.B. 767
Source: StateNet
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| MO | To governor 05/2004 | P-12 | Provides a student shall not be considered a drop- out or included in a school district's educational persistence ratio for accreditation purposes for being expelled for bringing a weapon to school, violent behavior or an act of violence; provides assistance to school districts as needed in adopting service-learning programs and projects; relates to investigation of alleged child abuse at a school or child care facility.
http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills041/bills/sb945.htm
Title: S.B. 945
Source: StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Amends KRS 158.145 to require that all students who drop out of school be counted in the annual state dropout index. Amends KRS 158.6455 to specify that a student must be included in a school's annual average dropout rate if the student was enrolled in the school for at least 30 days during the school year prior to the day he or she was recorded as dropping out. Requires that a student not be counted in the school's annual average dropout rate if the student is enrolled and making satisfactory progress in a General Educational Development (GED) diploma program or if the student has dropped out of school and is awarded a GED diploma by a certain date.
Specifies that no state or federal adult education and literacy funds may be used to pay for a high school student enrolled in a GED program.
http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB178/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 178
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Creates an At-Risk Student Academic Achievement Program and fund to provide grants to public school divisions for programs to improve the achievement of at-risk students, decrease the dropout rate and increase the number of students getting advanced studies diplomas. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=041&typ=bil&val=hb1013
Title: H.B. 1013
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Deletes language defining educationally at risk students as those whose scores are in the bottom national quartile on Virginia State Assessment Program tests, and adds that educationally at risk students are those who do not pass a 3-8 Standards of Learning assessment. Deletes language allowing each school board to establish a remediation program standards committee. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Provides school districts with school serving grades kindergarten through four where 25% of the students qualify for free or reduced price lunches must implement a school lunch program; provides school districts with summer academic, enrichment or remedial program where 50% of the students qualify for free or reduced price lunches must implement a summer food service program that is open to area children unless there is a compelling reason for no program.
Title: S.B. 6411
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Determines student drop out rates. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1153.pdf
Title: H.B. 1153
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Amends Ark. Code § 6-15-404, adds 6-15-434, 6-15-1806, 6-15-1901, 6-15-1902, 6-15-1903 .Creates the Student Assessment and Educational Accountability act of 2003; requires the establishment of a reporting system of schools' academic performance on the state-mandated criterion-referenced exam; student performance data shall be reported to parents and the public and serve as one of the components in developing a school improvement plan; beginning with the 2004-05 school year, information on the prior school year shall be published annually by October 15 and include demographic breakdowns, graduation rate, drop-out rate, transfers under the unsafe school choice option and transfers under the Public School Choice Act; annual reports must use a school rating system and performance goals.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB33.pdf
Title: S.B. 33 §§ 1, 4, 5, 6
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Increases the compulsory school age from 16 to 17 years of age, with exceptions. Provides that certain provisions that apply to truant officers apply to the regional superintendent of schools or his designee in a school district that does not have a truant officer. Makes changes concerning the compliance procedure for persons who fail to send a child to school. Allows certain students to enroll in graduation incentives programs. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0858
Title: S.B. 2918
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 07/2004 | P-12 | Provides that a pupil who will attain the age of 16 years during the school year may be admitted to a regional occupational center or program. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1551-1600/sb_1591_bill_20040624_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB_1591_Veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1591
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CO | Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding the administration of accountability for alternative campuses and processes for being designated an alternative campus. http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeboard/brdbook/2004/JULY%202004/VIII-A-1as.pdf
Title: 1 CCR 301-57
Source: Colorado State Web site
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| MA | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 | P-12 | Relates to establishing an alternative education grant program; contains text of section 126 of H 4850; requires that parents or legal guardians attend specified conferences with teachers; provides for assistance to address needs of children who have been exposed to violence and abuse; provides for at- risk students.
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/ht04914.htm
Title: H.B. 4914
Source: StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Implements the recommendation of the house interim committee on providing an appropriate education for students on long-term suspension to direct the state board of education to develop and recommend a funding formula for alternative learning programs and alternative schools. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/html2003/bills/currentversion/ratified/house/hbil1455.full.html; http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/html2003/bills/currentversion/ratified/house/hbil1456.full.html
Title: H.B. 1455 and 1456
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 | P-12 | Each school district is required to adopt a plan to create alternative education programs to educate students who are removed from the classroom because of a suspension of more than ten (10) days or who are chronically truant. The plan must be adopted by the school committee and shall be submitted to the Commissioner for approval no later than January 1, 2005.
Title: H.B. 7722
Source: rilin.state.ri.us/gen_assembly
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Requires that upon a child's discharge or release from the custody of the Department of Youth Services certain records pertaining to the child be released to the superintendent of the school district in which the child is entitled to attend school; specifies that a school district's policy on the assignment of students to alternative school may provide for the assignment of any child released from the custody of the Department of Youth Services to such school.
Title: H.B. 106
Source: StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Establishes the Department of Juvenile Services Education Department; requires each facility established and operated by the Department of Juvenile Services to have an education center; provides that each child in the custody of the Department receive appropriate educational services; establishes the Department of Juvenile Services Board of Education; provides for the appointment, terms, and removal of members of the Board of Education.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2004rs/bills/hb/hb1139e.rtf
Title: H.B. 1139
Source: StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Requires a child discharged from a committed residential placement to receive step down aftercare for a period to be determined by the Department of Juvenile Services; requires a child in a step down aftercare program to receive specified services; requires a child placed in step down aftercare to receive an appropriate education from the State Department of Education; requires the Department of Juvenile Services to keep specified records.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2004rs/bills/sb/sb0767t.rtf
Title: S.B. 767
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes local school boards to expand federal No Child Left Behind Act funds to pay for training, incentives and salary supplements to school district employees; authorizes the expending of moneys to reimburse licensed district employees for relocation expenses for moving for employment purposes; authorizes district to establish dual enrollment programs for high school students to enroll in higher learning institutions; relates to alternative school programs.
http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/extrel/leg/04Edsum.html
Title: H.B. 657
Source: StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Concerns General Assembly, Directed Studies; directs the office of education accountability (with the asasistance of the state board and state department) to study and evaluate the quality of curriculums and policies and procedures relative to punishment utilized by Tennessee alternative schools and present findings and recommendations to the education oversight committee. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Summary.asp?BillNumber=SJR0746
Title: S.J.R. 746
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | The performance of alternative schools that qualify is to be measured under a different set of accountability indicators. Schools that serve a population that is more than 95% "at risk" as defined by the law must demonstrate baseline levels of and measurable annual benchmards on at least one measure of academic performance. These measures must be based upon progres of individual students or groups of students and include one or more other indicators; must measure nonacademic or behavioral improvement appropriate for the particular schools, including average daily attendance, student post-matriculation rates of enrollment, enlistment or employment, rates of stability or retention, reduced rates of suspension or other discipline, or attendance rates. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont2/
Title: S.B. 83
Source:
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Relates to a delinquent child; provides that a youth court must consider additional factors before entering a disposition order or placing the child in a training school; requires review of child's medical history, mental health records and school records; provides for privacy of records.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/html/HB/1500-1599/HB1500SG.htm
Title: H.B. 1500
Source: StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Provides for safe schools through alternative education programs; provides certain juvenile justice records to public school officials.
Title: H.B. 4037
Source: StateNet
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
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| NY | Signed into law 11/2004 | P-12 | Requires students shall be required to demonstrate knowledge in the subject areas of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs through the use of a test, graded project or report, or any other means prescribed by the school authorities. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S00953&sh=t
Title: S.B. 953
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Provides for drug and alcohol testing of a pupil only upon a reasonable suspicion the pupil is unlawfully using or has unlawfully used a controlled substance or alcohol. Requires a school district, if it adopts a drug and alcohol testing policy, to provide adequate notice of the policy to the parent or guardian. Restricts access to test results to specified individuals. Provides a district should seek to ensure any student who
tests positive for the unlawful use of drugs or alcohol is referred to the support persons or services to develop a course of treatment to
address the unlawful use of drugs or alcohol. Also authorizes a school district to conduct a random testing program if specified conditions are met, and requires a school within a district that conducts that testing program to conduct certain surveys and to report to the governing board of
the school district. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1351-1400/sb_1386_bill_20040823_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/SB_1386_veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1386
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Health Services to develop a list of performance enhancing dietary supplements. Requires school districts to prohibit a pupil from participating in high school sports unless the pupil agrees not to use the prohibited substances and the parent or guardian of the pupil signs a notification form regarding those restrictions. Prohibits schools from accepting sponsorships from supplement manufacturers and school employees from selling, distributing or promoting such supplements. Requires each high school sports coach, as defined, to complete a coaching education program developed by his or her school district or by the California Interscholastic Federation that meets specified training requirements. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1601-1650/sb_1630_bill_20040827_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/SB_1630_veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1630
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Prohibits the operation of a clandestine controlled substance laboratory on or within 1,000 feet of school property; provides penalties. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT7/OUT/0000LWNH.PDF
Title: H.B. 1437
Source: StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Urges state board of education to study the inclusion of alcohol awareness and drug usage awareness in K-12 curriculums, including dangers of driving under the influence. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/HJR1006.pdf
Title: H.J.R. 1006
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| NJ | To governor 12/2004 | P-12 | Permits municipalities to adopt school-time curfew ordinances for juveniles.
Title: S.B. 155
Source: StateNet
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| NM | Rule Adoption 12/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules regarding compulsory school attendance. http://www.nmcpr.state.nm.us/nmac/parts/title06/06.010.0008.htm
Title: NMAC 6.10.8
Source: StateNet
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| OH | Rule Adoption 10/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules relating to the establishment of an education program for parents of truant students. OHIO REG 11546 (SN)
Title: OAC 3301-47-01
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Prohibits a school district governing board from denying a charter school petition, unless it makes findings that the petition lacks a description of the procedures by which a pupil may be subject to discipline and the procedure employed by the school to safeguard the due process rights of pupils and unless it makes findings showing a lack of compliance with the Ralph M. Brown Act. Provides that charter schools are subject to the open meeting requirement of the Ralph M. Brown Act. Prohibits a charter school from expelling a pupil based solely on his or her academic performance. Requires a charter school to notify the governing board of the school district of residence and the county superintendent of schools within 14 days if a pupil is expelled and to notify the governing board of the school district of residence within 14 days of the last day the pupil attended school if a pupil leaves the charter school without graduating or completing the school year for any reason. Requires a charter school to provide the district of residence of a pupil who is expelled or leaves the charter school without graduating or completing the school year for any reason with a copy of the cumulative file of that pupil. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1851-1900/ab_1860_bill_20040826_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1860_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1860
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Section 12: Existing law deems a pupil to have complied with the residency requirements for school attendance in a school district if the pupil meets specified requirements, including, among others, that the pupil lives in the home of a caregiving adult that is located within the boundaries of that school district. Existing law contains a caregiver's authorization affidavit which, when completed and signed by a caregiver 18 years of age or older, authorizes the caregiver to enroll the minor in school and consent to school-related medical care on behalf of the minor. Under existing law, the affidavit is not valid for more than one year after the date on which it is executed. This bill would eliminate the one-year expiration date for the affidavit and would provide that the affidavit is invalid once the school, health care provider, or health care service plan receives notice that the minor is no longer living with the caregiver. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2851-2900/ab_2855_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2853_2855_2856_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 2855 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Extends authorization to January 1, 2006 for a court to order a person who is convicted for failing to comply with compulsory attendance laws to immediately enroll the child in the appropriate school or educational program and provide proof of enrollment to the court. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2525_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| GA | Adopted 08/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding class size, absences and excuses. Renames chapter on absences as Student Attendance. Provides definition of truant and outlines policies and procedures to reduce unexcused absences. Permits a maximum individual class size of 30 for grades 9-12 science classes for school year 2004-05. GEORGIA REG 4246 (SN). http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-5-1-.08.pdf and http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-5-1-.10.pdf
Title: GAC 160-5-1-.08; -.10
Source: Georgia State Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Increases the compulsory school age from 16 to 17 years of age, with exceptions. Provides that certain provisions that apply to truant officers apply to the regional superintendent of schools or his designee in a school district that does not have a truant officer. Makes changes concerning the compliance procedure for persons who fail to send a child to school. Allows certain students to enroll in graduation incentives programs. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0858
Title: S.B. 2918
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Amends the School Code. Allows a school or school district to deny enrollment to a student 16 years of age or older for one semester for failure to meet minimum academic or attendance standards if certain conditions are met. Requires a district to identify, track, and report on the educational progress and outcomes of reenrolled students (defined as dropouts who have reenrolled full-time) as a subset of the district's required reporting on all enrollments. Provides that a reenrolled student who again drops out must not be counted again against a district's dropout rate performance measure. Requires the State Board of Education to set performance standards for programs serving reenrolled students. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0803
Title: S.B. 2115
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Provides that each school district shall have the power to require minors from sixteen to seventeen years of age to attend upon full time day instruction. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A01892&sh=t
Title: A.B. 1892
Source: http://assembly.state.ny.us
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| AK | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Amends the required age of a child for school attendance. http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill_text.asp?hsid=HB0338Z&session=23
Title: H.B. 338
Source: Alaska Legislative Web site
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| AR | Rule Adoption 06/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules regarding mandatory attendance requirements for grades 9 - 12. http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/ade%20169%20mandatory%20attendance%20req.pdf
Title: ADE 169
Source: Arkansas State Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes any parish in the state, not just pre-existing pilot program parishes, to create truancy and assessment and service centers. Louisiana State University's office of social services research and development to develop and implement a monitoring and evaluation program for all parishes with truancy and assessment and service centers subject to state funding. Extends end of truancy and assessment and service center pilot program from 2005 to 2007. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT5/OUT/0000LV53.PDF
Title: H.B. 1527
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| RI | Became law without governor's signature 06/2004 | P-12 | Would set eligibility requirements for school attendance to obtain a driver's license for minor students. This act would take effect on January 15, 2005.
Title: H.B. 7397
Source: StateNet
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| RI | To governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Provides that if a minor accumulates fifteen (15) unexcused absences within ninety (90) calendar days, they are ineligible for driving privileges and would provide for enforcement, notification, compliance, reinstatement and jurisdiction of this provision. This act would take effect upon passage.
Title: S.B. 2594
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/gen_assembly/genmenu.html
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Provides for the revision of certain provisions regarding education flexibility and accountability; requires the State Board of Education to create a single state-wide accountability system by December 31, 2004; amends provisions regarding school councils; amends the history curriculum requirements; amends provisions for early intervention programs; amends provisions related to effectiveness assessments, including end-of-course assessments; amends parental notification concerning compulsory attendance requirements; requires Department of Motor Vehicle notification of students 14 years of age and older who are in violation of attendance requirements; amends student discipline policies; changes the name Office of Education Accountability to Office of Student Achievement. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/search/hb1190.htm
Title: H.B. 1190
Source: Georgia Legislative Web site
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Section 1: Allows student age 16 or 17 to be exempt from compulsory attendance requirements if student is regularly enrolled in a school and is concurrently enrolled in a postsecondary educational institution. Makes provisions applicable to children from and after July 1, 1997. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2004/2795.pdf
Title: H.B. 2795 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes the establishment of a Truancy Reduction Pilot Program in certain counties; establishes that failure of children to attend school without a lawful excuse is a code violation; authorizes school officials to petition the juvenile court alleging that a child who is required under law to attend school fails to attend school without lawful excuse; requires the court to hold an adjudicatory hearing after the petition; requires a separate disposition hearing.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2004rs/bills/hb/hb1443t.rtf
Title: H.B. 1443
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Deletes repealer on the Office of Compulsory School Attendance Enforcement.
Extends the repealer on the Office of Compulsory School Attendance Enforcement within the Department of Education to July 1, 2009.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/pdf/HB/0600-0699/HB0663SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 663
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Relates to Adequate Education Program; deletes repealer on high growth school district formula.
If during the year for which adequate education program funds are appropriated, any school district experiences a three percent (3%) or greater increase in average daily attendance during the second and third month over the preceding year's second and third month and the school district has requested a minimum increase of four percent (4%) in local ad valorem revenues over the previous year as authorized in Sections 37-57-104 and 37-57-105, an additional allocation of adequate education program funds calculated in the following manner shall be granted to that district, using any additional funds available to the Department of Education that exceed the amount of funds due to the school districts under the basic adequate education program distribution as provided for in this chapter:
The State Department of Education shall study and develop a report to the Chairmen of the Senate and House Committees on Education by January 1, 2005, with options for legislative consideration that will insure that the Mississippi Adequate Education funds are distributed to school districts based on current year student attendance or enrollment. This subsection (4) shall stand repealed on July 1, 2006
Title: H.B. 741
Source: StateNet
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| NJ | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Establishes the Task Force to Study Attendance in Public Schools to study current practices within school districts in the state regarding student attendance, including, but not limited to absences, tardiness, procedures for addressing students with patterns of unauthorized absences or excessive tardiness, and to investigate what other states are doing with respect to student attendance.
Introduced - 5 pages PDF Format HTML Format
Statement - AED 1/26/04 - 1 pages PDF Format HTML Format
Technical Review Of Prefiled Bill - 5 pages PDF Format HTML Format
Statement - SED 3/29/04 - 1 pages PDF Format HTML Format
Advance Law - 3 pages PDF Format HTML Format
Title: A.J.R. 68
Source: StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Requires the state board to formulate policy for attendance and transfer of students whose custodial parents reside in two local education agencies.
Title: S.B. 3305
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires a school principal to give a student an excused absence of up to ten days to pursue an educational enhancement opportunity of significant educational value, and provides for an appeal of a negative decision to the local board of education. Specifies that an "educational enhancement opportunity" may include an educational foreign exchange program or an intensive instructional, experiential, or performance program in English, math, science, social studies, foreign language or the arts, including programs not sponsored by the district, but may not include nonacademic extracurricular activities. A student's grades may not be adversely affected for lack of class attendance or participation. Provides for an appeal process to the district superintendent, and subsequent appeal process to local board, if an excused absence request is denied by a building principal. Bars a student from receiving an excused absence during state or district assessments, unless the principal determines that extenuating circumstances render an excused absence appropriate. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SB80/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 80
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Provides that an exemption from compulsory attendance student may be granted to 1) a child certified by specified professionals to have a chronic physical condition that prevents or renders inadvisable attendance at school, and which is unlikely to improve substantially within a year, or 2) a student with a disability may be granted if the student's individual education plan specifies that his or her placement in home or hospital is the least restrictive environment. In the case of a child whose licensed physician, advanced registered nurse practitioner, psychologist, psychiatrist, chiropractor or public health officer certifies that the child's chronic physical condition is unlikely to significantly improve within three years, the child's admissions and release committee must annually evaluate the child's condition and documentation to determine whether updated evidence is required. Updated evidence must be presented upon committee need or at least every three years. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB10/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 10
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Provides the State Auditor with authority to establish effective and efficient policies and procedures for auditing student attendance and data in local school districts. In particular, the State Auditor will have more flexibility regarding on-site audits and authority to establish specific policies and procedures to audit the processes, accuracy, validity and procedures used by local school districts to submit electronic student data and other data to the State Department of Education.
Reviews and audits shall be conducted with advance notice, except that unannounced audits may be made upon determination of the State Auditor based on complaints or valid concerns. In addition, examiners shall make every effort to work with school districts in scheduling audits in consideration of instructional activities such as statewide testing.
The State Board of Education shall include reporting standards for school districts as part of the accreditation process to include penalties within the accreditation system for adverse findings resulting from reviews or audits.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/pdf/HB/1200-1299/HB1251SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 1251
Source: StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | LB 868 changes the mandatory ages for compulsory education. From the fiscal note: Currently, ages are from age 7 through
age 15. Beginning in the 2005-06 school year, children will be required to attend school if they will reach the age of 6 by January 1st of
the current school year unless they are attending an alternative education program that will allow them to enter the first grade the
following school year. Children also must attend through the age of 17 unless they have obtained a diploma, have completed an
alternative education program or have reached the age of 16 and the parent or guardian has signed a waiver form.
It is assumed the bill will result in a one-time increase the number of children in kindergarten in the 2005-06 school year. The bill
requires children who will turn age 6 by January 1st of the next year to start school in the current year. The state department does not have statewide data on the number of age-eligible children who delay entrance to kindergarten. However, the
National Center for Education Statistics reports that about 9% of age-eligible kindergarten children postpone their entrance to
kindergarten each year. Using this estimate it is assumed that up to 920 more children will enter kindergarten in the public schools in
the fall of 2005 than would have in the absence of the bill. (This number is derived by taking half of the public school children in
kindergarten in FY03 times 9%. Delayed entrance is assumed for only half of the number of kindergarten students because the bill still
allows delayed entrance for half of the 5 year olds.)
The fiscal impact of additional children in kindergarten in 2005-06 will vary by school district depending upon whether the district can
absorb additional students into existing classrooms without hiring teachers or expanding the number of classrooms. Due to a statewide
decline in elementary membership in the last decade, this fiscal note assumes that most of the additional children will be absorbed into
existing classrooms. It is assumed that very few, if any, new teachers will be hired to meet the one-time influx of additional students in
kindergarten. There may be minimal additional expenses for school textbooks and materials for these students. If this is the case,
then overall "need" in the state aid formula may minimally increase, two years later. The student count used in the state aid formula
will increase one year later. These changes will result in a minimal shift in state aid between school districts to those districts that
receive additional students, one year after the increase occurs, or in 2006-07. The 2007-08 computation of state aid will include any
increased expenditures pursuant to the bill which will increase overall aid for school districts by a minimal amount. http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/legal/SLIP_LB868.pdf
Title: L.B. 868
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Strengthens the mechanisms for enforcement of the compulsory school attendance law; removes the restriction on the court's use of contempt power in enforcing compulsory school attendance and parental responsibility provisions; clarifies and reinforces the court's authority to order the child or the parent, or both, into programs, such as extended day programs and summer school or other educational programs and treatment, such as counselling. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB1326ER
Title: H.B. 1326
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Directs local school boards to notify parents of the educational rights of students who fail to graduate or who have failed to achieve the number of verified units of credit required for graduation as provided in the standards of accreditation or who have been identified as having limited English proficiency or who have been identified as disabled and receive special education of their right to a free public education through age 21. Pursuant to §§ 22.1-1 and 22.1-5, public schools are free to "persons of school age" (at least age five on or before September 30 of the school year and under 20 years of age on or before August 1). In addition, subsection D of § 22.1-5 sets forth for students for whom English is a second language the opportunity for a free public education through the age of 21. Finally, persons who have been identified as disabled who receive special education are entitled to a "free and appropriate education" through 21 years of age pursuant to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and § 22.1-213. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0509
Title: S.B. 438
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Requires a school corporation or an accredited nonpublic school to report to the local health department the percentage of student absences above a threshold determined by the department rule. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2004/HE/HE1202.1.html
Title: H.B. 1202
Source: Indiana Legislative web site
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| ME | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Requires the superintendent to send a notice to the parent of a truant informing the parent that the child is truant and the child is required by law to attend school; requires the superintendent to report the truancy of a child to the local law enforcement agency if a parent has not complied with the notice; makes it a class E crime if a parent fails to enroll a child in school.
Title: H.P. 800
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Excuses from compulsory school attendance requirements persons 16 through 18 years of age who are housed in adult correctional facilities and who are actively pursuing a general education development certificate but who are not enrolled in an individual student alternative education plan.
Title: S.B. 404
Source: StateNet
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| Attendance--Compulsory |
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Extends authorization to January 1, 2006 for a court to order a person who is convicted for failing to comply with compulsory attendance laws to immediately enroll the child in the appropriate school or educational program and provide proof of enrollment to the court. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2525_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Provides that each school district shall have the power to require minors from sixteen to seventeen years of age to attend upon full time day instruction. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A01892&sh=t
Title: A.B. 1892
Source: http://assembly.state.ny.us
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| AR | Rule Adoption 06/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules regarding mandatory attendance requirements for grades 9 - 12. http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/ade%20169%20mandatory%20attendance%20req.pdf
Title: ADE 169
Source: Arkansas State Web site
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Section 1: Allows student age 16 or 17 to be exempt from compulsory attendance requirements if student is regularly enrolled in a school and is concurrently enrolled in a postsecondary educational institution. Makes provisions applicable to children from and after July 1, 1997. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2004/2795.pdf
Title: H.B. 2795 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Provides that an exemption from compulsory attendance student may be granted to 1) a child certified by specified professionals to have a chronic physical condition that prevents or renders inadvisable attendance at school, and which is unlikely to improve substantially within a year, or 2) a student with a disability may be granted if the student's individual education plan specifies that his or her placement in home or hospital is the least restrictive environment. In the case of a child whose licensed physician, advanced registered nurse practitioner, psychologist, psychiatrist, chiropractor or public health officer certifies that the child's chronic physical condition is unlikely to significantly improve within three years, the child's admissions and release committee must annually evaluate the child's condition and documentation to determine whether updated evidence is required. Updated evidence must be presented upon committee need or at least every three years. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB10/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 10
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Strengthens the mechanisms for enforcement of the compulsory school attendance law; removes the restriction on the court's use of contempt power in enforcing compulsory school attendance and parental responsibility provisions; clarifies and reinforces the court's authority to order the child or the parent, or both, into programs, such as extended day programs and summer school or other educational programs and treatment, such as counselling. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB1326ER
Title: H.B. 1326
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| Attendance--Statutory Ages (Upper and Lower) |
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Increases the compulsory school age from 16 to 17 years of age, with exceptions. Provides that certain provisions that apply to truant officers apply to the regional superintendent of schools or his designee in a school district that does not have a truant officer. Makes changes concerning the compliance procedure for persons who fail to send a child to school. Allows certain students to enroll in graduation incentives programs. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0858
Title: S.B. 2918
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Amends the School Code. Allows a school or school district to deny enrollment to a student 16 years of age or older for one semester for failure to meet minimum academic or attendance standards if certain conditions are met. Requires a district to identify, track, and report on the educational progress and outcomes of reenrolled students (defined as dropouts who have reenrolled full-time) as a subset of the district's required reporting on all enrollments. Provides that a reenrolled student who again drops out must not be counted again against a district's dropout rate performance measure. Requires the State Board of Education to set performance standards for programs serving reenrolled students. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0803
Title: S.B. 2115
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Section 1: Allows student age 16 or 17 to be exempt from compulsory attendance requirements if student is regularly enrolled in a school and is concurrently enrolled in a postsecondary educational institution. Makes provisions applicable to children from and after July 1, 1997. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2004/2795.pdf
Title: H.B. 2795 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| Attendance--Truancy |
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| NJ | To governor 12/2004 | P-12 | Permits municipalities to adopt school-time curfew ordinances for juveniles.
Title: S.B. 155
Source: StateNet
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| OH | Rule Adoption 10/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules relating to the establishment of an education program for parents of truant students. OHIO REG 11546 (SN)
Title: OAC 3301-47-01
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Extends authorization to January 1, 2006 for a court to order a person who is convicted for failing to comply with compulsory attendance laws to immediately enroll the child in the appropriate school or educational program and provide proof of enrollment to the court. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2525_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Increases the compulsory school age from 16 to 17 years of age, with exceptions. Provides that certain provisions that apply to truant officers apply to the regional superintendent of schools or his designee in a school district that does not have a truant officer. Makes changes concerning the compliance procedure for persons who fail to send a child to school. Allows certain students to enroll in graduation incentives programs. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0858
Title: S.B. 2918
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes any parish in the state, not just pre-existing pilot program parishes, to create truancy and assessment and service centers. Louisiana State University's office of social services research and development to develop and implement a monitoring and evaluation program for all parishes with truancy and assessment and service centers subject to state funding. Extends end of truancy and assessment and service center pilot program from 2005 to 2007. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT5/OUT/0000LV53.PDF
Title: H.B. 1527
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Strengthens the mechanisms for enforcement of the compulsory school attendance law; removes the restriction on the court's use of contempt power in enforcing compulsory school attendance and parental responsibility provisions; clarifies and reinforces the court's authority to order the child or the parent, or both, into programs, such as extended day programs and summer school or other educational programs and treatment, such as counselling. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB1326ER
Title: H.B. 1326
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Requires a school corporation or an accredited nonpublic school to report to the local health department the percentage of student absences above a threshold determined by the department rule. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2004/HE/HE1202.1.html
Title: H.B. 1202
Source: Indiana Legislative web site
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| Background Checks |
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Amends the School Code, the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code and the Juvenile Court Act with respect to criminal background investigations for applicants for employment with a school district. Provides for reimbursement to school districts and regional superintendents for fees paid to obtain checks. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0909
Title: H.B. 3977
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Amends the Unified Code of Corrections and the Sex Offender Registration Act, including amending the definition of school to include public or private, trade or professional institution. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0979
Title: S.B. 2607
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Relates to existing law which sets forth the duties of various private and public entities, including, but not limited to, county boards of education and school districts, with regard to the employment and certification of persons who have been convicted of specified sex offenses to include the offense of continuous sexual abuse of a child within the definition of sex offense. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0851-0900/ab_891_bill_20040709_chaptered.html
Title: A.B. 891
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| AK | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Relates to criminal history records and background checks; allows persons to teach in the public schools for up to five months without a teaching certificate if the person has applied for a certificate and the application has not been acted upon by the Department of Education and Early Development due to a delay in receiving criminal history records; allows teacher certification for certain persons based on a criminal history background check without fingerprints; and providing for an effective date."
http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill_text.asp?hsid=SB0179Z&session=23
Title: S.B. 179
Source: Alaska Legislative Web site
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| AR | Rule Adoption 06/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules regarding criminal background checks for employment of personnel in school districts, criminal background check for fraudulent acts by fiscal officers of public school districts, and the Board's authority to allow employment eligibility in certain cases. http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/ade%20172%20criminal%20background%20checks.pdf
Title: ADE 172
Source: Arkansas State Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Allows the state board to disqualify an applicant for employment or for a license, permit or certificate for an occupation, trade or profession based solely on the applicant's possession of a prior criminal record. Legislative digest: http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT1/OUT/0000LB4N.PDF Bill: http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT4/OUT/0000LRRZ.PDF
Title: H.B. 96
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | To be licensed as a teacher, requires both a national and state crimial history records check. The applicant is responsible for costs of records. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04SB/sb922_enr.rtf
Title: S.B. 922
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us
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| GA | Vetoed 05/2004 | P-12 | Requires local school boards to adopt a code of ethics; requires local units of administration to request a criminal check of teachers, principals, and other certificated professional personnel within 10 working days of hire. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/fulltext/hb198.htm
Title: H.B. 198
Source: Georgia Legislative Web site
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Provides that private firms under contact with school districts to provide substitute teachers during the temporary absence of the regularly employed teacher shall request that the school district conduct a criminal background check on the contract employee. The determination of eligibility to work shall be made by the school district.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/pdf/SB/2400-2499/SB2498SG.pdf
Title: S.B. 2498
Source: StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2004 | Postsec. | Concerns sexual offenses; makes the name and address of any college in this state at which a sexual offender is employed or attends public information and available by October 1, 2004, on the Tennessee Internet home page for convictions occurring on or after July 1, 1997, rather than October 27, 2002. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0624.pdf
Title: S.B. 2097
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires a school district to submit the name, date of birth, and social security number from the fingerprint form for each nonlicensed employee of the school district to the Department of Education; directs the department to create and maintain a database; requires the school district to notify the department when a nonlicensed employee no longer works for the school district; provides for purge of records for persons no longer employed. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont2/
Title: S.B. 62
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| MI | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires order summary suspension of teacher's certificate, school administrator's certificate or state board approval of a person who has been convicted of any felony; amends provisions regarding powers and duties of the state board of education.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0051.pdf
Title: H.B. 5476
Source: StateNet
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| SC | Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 04/2004 | P-12 | Relates to an applicant for initial education certification being required to undergo a state fingerprint review; revises the time when the applicant shall undergo the review, the manner of the review and the individuals to whom this provision applies.http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess115_2003-2004/prever/154_20040318.htm
Title: S.B. 154
Source: StateNet
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| MN | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Relates to civil actions; provides protection for disclosure of job reference information; requires disclosure of data between school districts and charter schools relating to acts of violence or inappropriate sexual contact with students.
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/slaws/2004/c137.html
Title: H.F. 480
Source: StateNet
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Regards investigation of complaints against school employees of sexual misconduct or physical abuse towards a child.
Title: S.B. 6171
Source: StateNet
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Relates to providing increased access to information on disciplinary actions taken against school employees; relates to providing known information regarding employees' sexual misconduct when those employees attempt to transfer to different school districts.
Title: S.B. 5533
Source: StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Relating to grounds for the revocation of teacher certificates. http://129.71.164.29/Bill_Text_HTML/2004_SESSIONS/RS/House/H_BILLS/hb4552%20enr.htm
Title: H.B. 4552
Source: West Virginia Legislative Web Site
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Requires criminal background checks for fraudulent acts by fiscal officers of public school districts. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1140.pdf
Title: H.B. 1140
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Concerns a criminal records check as a condition for initial employment of noncertified personnel in school districts; allows the state board of education to grant a waiver to allow employment eligibility. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1122.pdf
Title: H.B. 1122
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| Bilingual/ESL |
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Places a prohibition from carrying on a program of specific preparation of the pupils for the statewide pupil assessment program or a particular test used in the statewide pupil assessment program on a charter school. Authorizes the use of instructional materials provided by the state department of education in the academic preparation of pupils for the statewide pupil assessment if those instructional materials are embedded in an instructional program that is intended to improve pupil learning. Requires the standard-based achievement test to be administered to pupils in grades 3 and 7. Requires the state department of education to use specified federal funds to develop or adopt primary language assessments that are aligned to the state academic content standards and would require those assessments to be administered in place of the optional second achievement test a pupil with limited English proficiency may take. Requires the department on or before January 1, 2006, to submit to the legislature a report on the development and implementation of the initial primary language assessments and recommendations on the
development and implementation of future assessments and funding requirements. Authorizes and encourages the state superintendent and state board to assist postsecondary educational institutions to use the assessment results of the California Standards Tests for credit or placement and admissions processes, or both. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2401-2450/ab_2413_bill_20040826_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2413_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2413
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Deletes the requirement, under the Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act, that the School Accountability Report Card include information on the degree to which pupils are prepared to enter the workforce and whether the school qualifies for the Governor's Performance Award Program. Requires each school district to include within the report card information regarding career technical education, the availability of sufficient textbooks and materials, any needed maintenance of school facilities to ensure good repair, the misassignments of teachers, including misassignments of English learner teachers, and the number of vacant teacher positions for the most recent 3-year period. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2551-2600/ab_2596_bill_20040827_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2596_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2596
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Establishes the Pupil Achievement Grant Program to consolidate funding and provide flexibility at the schoolsite in the use of funds from specified categorical education programs in schools identified as underperforming in at least one of the three preceding fiscal years. Requires a school district to ensure that it expends an amount for direct services to pupils in eligible schools in accordance with specified minimum percentages for any purpose authorized by special categorical education programs. Requires a school district receiving program funds to ensure that the school district and each school has or continues to maintain advisory committees and schoolsite councils. Requires a district to have a single school plan that incorporates specified requirements and to use funds allocated to serve and assist pupils eligible for free or reduced price meals and pupils identified as limited English proficient. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2151-2200/ab_2152_bill_20040827_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2152_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2152
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing and, where appropriate, the State Department of Education, to incorporate into licensure requirements for teacher candidates, professional development requirements for renewal of licenses, and accreditation requirements for preparation programs components to ensure that teachers are capable of teaching children with diverse needs, ethnicities, nationalities, and
languages, of teaching children who bring particular challenges to the learning process, and of teaching in urban and rural settings.
Repeals provisions authorizing the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue or renew emergency teaching or specialist permits in accordance with regulations adopted by the commission and provided that certain conditions are met.
Authorizes the commission to issue or renew acute and anticipated emergency credentials, as defined. Requires an applicant seeking an emergency permit to meet specified criteria, including possession of a baccalaureate degree and passage of the state basic skills proficiency test. Provides that both types of permits shall be valid for only one year, except that the anticipated emergency permit may be renewed for
an additional year if the permitholder meets specified requirements.
Existing law requires that a person employed in a position requiring certification qualifications be classified on a salary schedule on the basis or uniform allowance for years of training and years of experience, as specified. This bill imposes a state-mandated local program by requiring the governing board of a school district to review its compensation policies and revise them as needed to ensure that the continuing professional education for which it grants salary credit is targeted to courses likely to yield clear benefit in terms of the pedagogical instructional leadership, management skills, or academic subject matter knowledge of its employees.]
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to eliminate waivers authorizing the assignment of a credentialholder to a position not authorized by the credential of the holder and that they be authorized only in cases where there is no other alternative but to fill the position with a 30-day substitute teacher. The bill would further express the intent of the Legislature that each teacher serving in a school ranked in the bottom 3 deciles of the Academic Performance Index possess a valid teaching credential authorizing the holder to provide the service to which the holder is assigned.
This bill would also express the intent of the Legislature that this act accomplish specified objectives, including, but not limited to, establishing professional development activities that reward exceptional teachers for continuing to render services in a classroom, collaborations among school districts, professional associations, and postsecondary educational institutions to develop and offer preparation and degree or credential programs that will prepare educational leaders, and that the California State University and the University of California develop technologically delivered professional development and coursework for teachers in geographically isolated areas.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0201-0250/ab_242_bill_20040827_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_242_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 242
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Existing law requires the county superintendent of schools to annually monitor and review school district certificated employee assignment practices according to certain priorities with first priority going to schools and school districts that are likely to have problems with teacher misassignment and teacher vacancies based on past experience or other available information. Existing law requires a county superintendent of schools to submit an annual report to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing summarizing the results of all assignment monitoring and reviews.
This bill requires the county superintendent of schools to give priority to schools ranked in deciles 1 to 3, inclusive, of the Academic Performance Index, as defined, if those schools are not currently under review through a state or federal intervention program. The bill requires a county superintendent of schools to investigate school and district efforts to ensure that any credentialed teacher in an assignment requiring a certificate authorizing the holder to teach English language development to English learners or training that authorizes the holder to teach English language development to English learners completes the necessary requirements for one of those certificates or completes the required training.
This bill requires a county superintendent of schools to submit the annual report summarizing the results of assignment monitoring and reviews to the department. The bill requires that report to include information on certificated employee assignment practices in schools ranked in deciles 1 to 3, inclusive, of the Academic Performance Index, as defined, to ensure that in any classes in these schools in which 20% or more pupils are English learners, the assigned teachers possess a certificate authorizing the holder to teach English language development to English learners or have completed training that would authorize them to teach English language development to English learners or are to the duties of county superintendents of schools, the bill imposes a state-mandated local program.
The bill requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to submit a summary of the reports submitted by county superintendents of schools to the Legislature and requires the Legislature to hold public hearings on pupil access to teachers and to related statutory provisions. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_3001-3050/ab_3001_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 3001 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires that, commencing with the 2004–05 fiscal year, for a district with a school initially applying to participate in the High Priority Schools Grant Program on or after July 2004, the report include whether at least 80% of the teachers assigned to the school are credentialed and the number of classes in which 20% or more pupils are English learners and assigned to teachers who do not possess a certificate authorizing the holder to teach English language development to English learners or have completed training that would authorize them to teach English language development to English learners or are otherwise authorized by law to do so. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_3001-3050/ab_3001_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 3001 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires schools initially applying to participate in the High Priority Schools Grant Program on or after the 2004–05 fiscal year to include highly qualified teachers and appropriately credentialed teachers for English learners in the component on quality of staff in
the school action plan. Specifies that the mandatory school action plan components on facilities, curriculum, instructional materials, and support services for those schools be on facilities in good repair, curriculum, sufficient instructional materials, and support services. Requires schools initially applying to participate in the High Priority Schools Grant Program on or after the 2004–05 fiscal year to measure the availability of instructional materials against a specified definition of ''sufficient instructional materials.'' http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | SEC. 18: Requires the governing board of every district to hold a public hearing and make a determination as to whether each pupil in each school in the district has sufficient textbooks or instructional materials in each subject that are consistent with the content and cycles of the curriculum frameworks. Requires the hearing to be held at a time that will encourage the attendance of teachers and parents and guardians of pupils who attend the schools in the district and prohibits the hearing from taking place during or immediately following school hours. Defines ''sufficient textbooks or instructional materials'' to mean that each pupil, including English learners, has a textbook or instructional materials, or both, to use in class and to take home to complete required homework assignments but specifies that 2 sets of textbooks or instructional materials for each pupil are not required. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | SEC. 10: Requires the school accountability report card to include information regarding the availability of sufficient textbooks and other instructional materials for each pupil, any needed maintenance of school facilities to ensure good repair, the misassignments of teachers, including misassignments of English learner teachers, and the number of vacant teacher positions for the most recent 3-year period. Defines ''misassignment'' and ''vacant position'' for this purpose.
Requires the template for the school accountability report card to include a field to report the determination of the sufficiency of textbooks and instructional materials and a summary statement of the condition of school facilities. Requires the department to provide examples of summary statements of the condition of school facilities that are acceptable and those that are unacceptable. Declares that these provisions further the purposes of the Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| MI | Signed into law 09/2004 | Community College
Postsec. | Provides community and junior colleges appropriations for fiscal year 2005; provides for community college-level learning disabled students and students who require English as a second language assistance (at-risk students). Requires grant funding to be used to address the special needs of at-risk students or for equipment or upgrade of information technology hardware or software. Activities related to services provided to at-risk students include, but are not limited to, pretesting for academic ability, counseling contacts, and special programs. Equipment or information technology hardware or software purchased under this section need not be associated with the operation of
a program designed to address the needs of at-risk students.
Title: S.B. 1062
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Extends the repeal date of the Leroy Greene California Assessment of Academic Achievement Act to January 1, 2011. Excludes testing students in grade 2 effective July 1, 2007. Permits the release of a pupils record of accomplishment and the results of achievement tests to postsecondary education institutions, upon the request of a pupil or his or her parent or guardian. Expands the law that prohibits any program for of specific preparation of pupils for that statewide assessment program or a particular test to include charter schools; exempts instructional materials provided by the state department of education if the materials are embedded in an instructional program to improve student learning. Requires the department of education to develop and implement primary language assessments aligned with state academic content standards. Provides that the achievement test to be administered to pupils in grades 3 and 8, instead, be administered in grades 3 and 7. Provides that if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement of the costs should be made as provided by statute. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1401-1450/sb_1448_bill_20040816_chaptered.html
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB_1448.pdf
Title: S.B. 1448
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Relates to existing law which requires teachers instructing limited-English-proficient pupils to complete 45 hours of staff development in methods of specially designed content instruction delivered in English. Extends the January 1, 2005, deadline for the completion of the required staff development to January 1, 2008. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2901-2950/ab_2913_bill_20040716_chaptered.html
Title: A.B. 2913
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| HI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 | P-12
Community College | Authorizes Leeward Community College to develop a program to provide services for Freely Associated States students as well as the Microesian, Marshallese and Palauan community at large, to ensure their success in school through cultural education and integration, language, employment, training and legal services, that may include by not limited to skill for success in school, development of a multidisciplinary community-based family support system. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb214_cd1_.htm
Title: S.B. 214
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| CT | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Concerning English as a second language instruction and in-service training for teachers and teacher preparation courses; requires persons seeking professional educator certification to complete coursework in English as a second language instruction. http://www.cga.state.ct.us/2004/act/Pa/2004PA-00227-R00HB-05438-PA.htm
Title: H.B. 5438
Source: Connecticut Legislative Web site
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Relates to education personnel; provides for expunging of criminal history records of applicants for employment at certain education related offices; requires background screening for charter school employees and board members; amends requirements for admission to teacher preparation programs; authorizes programs providing experiences as teacher assistants prior to entering teacher preparation programs for individuals meeting specified criteria; creates teacher preparation institutes that provide professional development, instruction for substitute teachers, alternative certificate programs and establishes criteria for applicants; provides for the creation of guidelines for mentoring of first-time teachers and other programs geared toward the recruitment and retention of quality teachers; requires background screenings and fingerprinting of instructional and noninstructional hires or contractual employees who come in contact with students; specifies a school district's performance assessment may include criteria for assessment of instructional and administrative personnel and student performance; requires training in teaching of reading for certified personnel who teach students who have limited English proficiency; establishes qualifications, requirements and evaluation of substitute teachers; provides for educator discipline by the Education Practices Commission and the Department of Education; amends the Recovery Network Program that assists educators impaired as the result of alcohol abuse, drug abuse or a mental condition. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb2986er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 2986
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| ID | Temporary Rule Adoption - Concurrently Proposed 06/2004 | P-12 | Proposes rules regarding the implementation of English Language Proficiency (ELP) Standards and Language Instruction for Limited English Proficient and Immigrant Students. http://www2.state.id.us/adm/adminrules/rules/idapa08/0203.pdf
Title: IDAPA 08.02.03 (§§ 670-755 [not inclusive])
Source: Idaho State Web site
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| ID | Temporary Rule Adoption 05/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules to allow new Limited English Proficient (LEP) students to take a language proficiency test in lieu of the state reading test.
http://www2.state.id.us/adm/adminrules/bulletin/04jun.pdf (page 30)
Title: IDAPA 08.02.03 §§ 111-112
Source: Idaho State Web site
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| LA | Adopted 04/2004 | P-12 | Adopts rules relating to the implementation of fundamental changes in the classroom by helping schools and communities focus on student achievement. Clarifies method for calculating a School Performance Score for elementary, middle and high schools. Establishes timelines for schools in School Improvement to submit improvement plans, expands the details of the Supplemental Educational Services process, specifies how LEAP Alternative Assessment students are included in NRT calculations, and creates required definitions for English language proficiency. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0404/0404RUL.pdf (see pages 22-27 of 71)
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.303, 311, 1701, 2701, 2702, 2703, 2713, 2715, 2717, 2719, 2721, 3905, 4001, 4003, 4005
Source: http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr
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| LA | Adopted 04/2004 | P-12 | Adopts rules that contain English language development standards for limited English proficient students in each of the four domains of language, listening, speaking, reading and writing. Establishes five levels of proficiency within each domain. Guides curriculum development for limited English proficient students. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0404/0404RUL.pdf (see pages 27 through 31 of 71)
Title: LAC 28:Part LXXXV.Chapters 1-7
Source: www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Requires the development of goals for English language learners, formulation of district plans, reports to the State Board of Education and recommendations to the Legislature. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/H0787.html#billtext
Title: H.B. 787
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Provides for accountability in bilingual multicultural education programs; specifies the permissible uses of bilingual multicultural education program funds; amends, repeals and enacts sections of the NMSA 1978; provides for a district's professional development plan. http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/04%20Regular/final/SB0471.pdf
Title: S.B. 471
Source: http://legis.state.nm.us
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Relates to public schools; changes the writing test for certain grades; amends provisions regarding the English Language Reading Test; makes provisions for students determined to be limited English proficient. http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/04%20Regular/final/SB0138.pdf
Title: S.B. 138
Source: http://legis.state.nm.us
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| WV | Rule Adoption 03/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules concerning programs for limited English proficient students. WEST VIRGINIA REG 4387 (SN)
Title: Title 126, Series 15
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Abolishes the Advisory Council of Virginia Business- Education Partnership Program and the Virginia Business-Education Partnership Program created to assist local programs in obtaining federal funding to establish local business-education partnerships.
Title: H.B. 9
Source: StateNet
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| Career/Technical Education |
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| AR | Rule Adoption 12/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules related to special policies and procedures related to secondary area technical centers. http://dwe.arkansas.gov/SecondaryAreaCenters/centerpoliciesprcoeduresdecember2004.doc
Title: Uncodified
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Provides for replacing high school MEAP test with the Michigan Merit Examination in the Career and Technical Preparation Act.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-SB-1157
Title: S.B. 1157
Source: StateNet
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| SD | Adopted 12/2004 | P-12 | Aligns rule to current statutes and removes State Board of Education from the exemption process. Changes new technical education program proposal deadline to April 1. Creates definitions for the proposed three high school courses of study. Defines the requirements of the proposed three high school courses of study. SOUTH DAKOTA REG 4059 (SN)
Title: SDCR 24:03:01:01, 04:16, 17, 17.01, 18, 06:06.01, 31, 32, 10:42:23
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 11/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies and limits duration of intermediate school district millages to fund special education and vocational education; relates to the limited use of bonds for special education and vocational education facilities.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-5839
Title: H.B. 5839
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes a school district to provide a pupil with an individualized academic and career exploration plan prior to the completion of grade 9. The plan must be developed jointly by the student, parent and a school counselor with a valid credential in pupil personnel services. Requires the plan to include (1) a sequence consisting of academic courses that satisfy state and district requirements and standards for entry into postsecondary education, (2) a sequence consisting of courses or career exploration activities, training for entry to the work world after high school graduation, or both, and (3) participation in small learning communities, academies, partnership academies, career and technical training programs, work experience programs, and other programs that focus on career exploration or career and technical education, or both. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2251-2300/ab_2295_bill_20040823_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2295_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2295
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | Postsec. | Relates to the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act of 1989. Defines nationally accredited institution to mean an institution that provides a degree, diploma or certificate and that is accredited by a recognized national institutional accrediting body. Recasts and revises the standards of approval of a non-WASC regionally accredited institution to issue degrees, diplomas or certificates and financial responsibility requirements. Defines ''recognized national institutional accrediting body'' to mean an institutional accrediting agency that is recognized by the United States Department of Education pursuant to a specified provision of federal law as a reliable authority as to the quality of education and training offered by postsecondary educational institutions, and the scope of the recognition of which is not limited to a specific region of the United States. Also specifies 5 bodies to which this definition is limited. Exempts nationally accredited institutions and non-WASC nationally accredited institutions that meet prescribed standards from being required to apply to the bureau to issue degrees, diplomas, or certificates that were not previously included in the bureau's approval to operate these institutions. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0701-0750/ab_711_bill_20040826_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_711_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 711
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Deletes the requirement, under the Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act, that the School Accountability Report Card include information on the degree to which pupils are prepared to enter the workforce and whether the school qualifies for the Governor's Performance Award Program. Requires each school district to include within the report card information regarding career technical education, the availability of sufficient textbooks and materials, any needed maintenance of school facilities to ensure good repair, the misassignments of teachers, including misassignments of English learner teachers, and the number of vacant teacher positions for the most recent 3-year period. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2551-2600/ab_2596_bill_20040827_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2596_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2596
Source: StateNet
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| AL | Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules amending language to include the requirements for the Alabama Occupational Diploma. http://www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us/docs/ed/3ED1.htm#T1
Title: AAC 290-3-1-.02
Source: Alabama State Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 07/2004 | P-12 | Provides that a pupil who will attain the age of 16 years during the school year may be admitted to a regional occupational center or program. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1551-1600/sb_1591_bill_20040624_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB_1591_Veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1591
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| HI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 | P-12
Community College | Authorizes Leeward Community College to develop a program to provide services for Freely Associated States students as well as the Microesian, Marshallese and Palauan community at large, to ensure their success in school through cultural education and integration, language, employment, training and legal services, that may include by not limited to skill for success in school, development of a multidisciplinary community-based family support system. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb214_cd1_.htm
Title: S.B. 214
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Clarifies the process for issuance of certain registrations and licenses; expands the process to include discount and refund language; relates to training occupation schools; exempts certain professions.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0264.pdf
Title: S.B. 1231
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Rule Adoption 06/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Establishes rules regarding secondary area centers as a part of the policies and procedures for secondary programs and adult skill training classes and secondary vocational centers.
Title: Uncodified
Source: StateNet
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| FL | Signed by Governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Relates to career, workforce and technical education; requires said education programs within the comprehensive high school program of study to be industry certified; provides academic requirements for students enrolled in said education programs; allows charter technical career center sponsors to submit full-time enrollment membership data as defined in the charter agreement; provides for career education certification on high school diploma; allows incentive funding to school districts for students receiving certifications; redesignates adult technical education programs as workforce education programs; provides certain responsibilities for district school boards and superintendents.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=hb0769er.html&Directory=session/2004/House/bills/billtext/html/
Title: H.B. 769
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| FL | Vetoed 06/2004 | Postsec. | Relates to workforce development education programs; redesignates adult technical education programs as workforce development education programs; provides requirements for funding. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb1258er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 1258
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2004 | Postsec. | Amends the Private Business and Vocational Schools Act. Provides that certain educational institutions that enroll students in one or more bachelor-level programs and are accredited by a national accrediting agency that is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education are not considered to be private business and vocational schools. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=&SessionId=3&GA=93&DocTypeId=HB&DocNum=3088&GAID=3&LegID=5667&SpecSess=&Session=
Title: H.B. 3088
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| MS | Rule Adoption 06/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules concerning the vocational technical management training system (EMTS) instruction manual. MISSISSIPPI REG 9118 (SN)
Title: (uncodified)
Source: StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12
Community College | Allows individuals over 22 years of age to attend vocational programs on a campus that is not a comprehensive high school campus during regular school hours in a county with a population that exceeds one million in a joint technological education district (JTED) if additional student capacity remains after the enrollment of students who are 22 or younger. Students over the age of 22 should not be included in the student count for specified purposes. Requires vocational programs offered by the district to individuals over the age of 22 to be limited to high school curriculum unless offered in conjunction with a community college district. The department of education will not provide funds related to this law for any student who has either graduated from high school or obtained a GED diploma or has reached 22 years of ages (whichever comes first). JTED governing boards are required to establish security policies for student safety. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0263.htm
Title: H.B. 2005
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2004 | Community College
Postsec. | Directs the State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education to adopt policies to ensure the transfer of credits from area vocational schools to institutions within the state system of community and technical colleges. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/8728C3A121C617F687256E2900554012?Open&file=1361_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1361
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| DE | Rule Adoption 05/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules to comply with statutory changes regarding licensure and certification of educators. Defines terms and clarifies the requirements for course work by trade and industrial teachers. (Previously 14 DAC 341) http://legis.state.de.us/LIS/Register.NSF/vwRegisters/712/$file/June2004.pdf
Title: 14 DAC 1559
Source: Delaware State Web site
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| LA | Adopted 05/2004 | P-12 | Codifies rules relating to the business education content standards and the curriculum framework for Louisiana. Provides rules relating to the mission and goals of education in the state, the mission statement of business education in the state, business education framework development and structure, as well as other related guidelines and rules.
Title: LAC 28:LXVII.Chapters 1-9
Source: StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | The bill provides that by fiscal year 2009-10 the state share of kindergarten to grade 12 education funding, as described by essential programs and services, must be 55%. It also establishes a local cost share expectation for property tax years beginning on or after April 1, 2005. The Commissioner of Education shall annually notify each school administrative unit of its expectation. This expectation must decline over the period from fiscal year 2005-06 to fiscal year 2009-10. The expectation may not exceed 9.0 mills in fiscal year 2005-06. It may not exceed 8.0 mills in fiscal year 2009-10. The legislative body of a school administrative unit may not adopt a property tax rate that exceeds its mill expectation unless, in a vote separate from its adoption of the school budget, it votes to increase the property tax rate.
The bill also places transportation operating costs into the essential programs and services funding formula. It also states that special education costs will be included in essential programs and services starting in fiscal year 2005-06. Beginning in fiscal year 2004-05, the Department of Education will provide training in state-approved guidelines for identification of special education students. The bill also places early childhood education program costs and vocational education program costs into essential programs and services no later than fiscal year 2007-08.
Note Sec. 16:
Basis for funding costs of education from kindergarten to grade 12. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning in fiscal year 2005-06, funding of the costs of education from kindergarten to grade 12 must be based on the cost of providing essential programs and services as described in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, chapter 606-B.
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/ld_title.asp?ld=1924
Title: S.P. 761
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Establishes the "Mississippi Comprehensive Workforce Training and Education Consolidation Act of 2004" to create one comprehensive workforce training system for the state by consolidating the Mississippi Workforce Development Advisory Council and the Workforce Investment Act Board. Composed of 37 members, the Mississippi Workforce Investment Board includes the State Superintendent of Education. One of the tasks of the board is to advise the Governor, public schools, community/junior colleges and institutions of higher learning on effective school-to-work transition policies and programs that link students moving from high school to higher education and students moving between community colleges and four-year institutions in pursuit of academic and technical skills training. The Board will also work with industry to identify barriers that inhibit the delivery of quality workforce education and the responsiveness of educational institutions to the needs of industry.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/pdf/HB/0900-0999/HB0973SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 973
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2004 | Postsec. | Relates to income taxation; increases the tax credit for employers providing skills training at a local community or junior college.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2710SG.htm
Title: S.B. 2710
Source: StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Extends chapter 534 of the laws of 2000, which clarifies the definition of work activities to include certain work study and internship positions, further ensures that students will have the opportunity to continue in school even if assigned to other work activities by extending the provisions of this chapter. Chapter was to expire June 30, 2004 and will now expire on June 30, 2006.
Title: S.B. 6358
Source: StateNet
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| LA | Adopted 04/2004 | P-12 | Adopts rules to revise current course offerings, bringing them in-line with current industry standards. Up-dates career and technical course offerings. Assures that these rules will be more aligned with national standards.
Title: LAC 28:I.901 (Sections 2.105.25 thru .27)
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12
Community College | Directs local school boards to include, within the currently required career and technical education program, curricula that promote knowledge of entrepreneurship and small business ownership. Current programs are to address "all types of employment opportunities," such as apprenticeships, the military, and career education schools. The bill also requires that notice of dual enrollment opportunities between high schools and community colleges be provided to students and parents. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0848
Title: H.B. 769
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Amends section 22.1-253.13:1 and 22.1-253.13:2 . Specifies that the Standards of Learning form the core of Virginia's educational program and other educational objectives. Specifies that the state board must, at a minimum, define Standards of Learning for English, mathematics, science, history and social science. Specifies that "communication" as included in the Standards of Learning comprises listening, speaking, reading and writing. To passage on public input on proposed revisions to the Standards of Learning, adds that the department must provide and maintain Web capacity to allowing K-12 educators to submit recommendations for improvements to the Standards of Learning, when under review by the state board, as well as to the related assessments. Deletes "career education schools" from language requiring local boards to implement career and technical education programs.
Provisions (i) increase from one half-time to one full-time principal in elementary schools with fewer than 300 students; (ii) provide one full-time assistant principal for each 400 students in each school, regardless of grade level; (iv) lower the pupil-teacher ratio from 25:1 to 21:1 in middle and high schools, to ensure the provision of scheduled teacher planning time; (v) reduce the required speech pathologist caseload from 68 to 60 students; (vi) require two technology support positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade 12 divisionwide; and (viii) modify the current funding mechanism for remediation.
Requires the state board to submit to the governor and the general assembly a report on the condition and needs of public education in the commonwealth and shall identify any school divisions and the specific schools therein that have failed to establish and maintain schools meeting the existing prescribed standards of quality.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2004 | Community College | Concerns an increase in the amount of moneys transferred by the State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education from the Colorado Customized Training Program to the Colorado Existing Industry Training Program. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/6F0C42C5766A932487256DEF00572AC8?open&file=1166_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1166
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Concerns authorization for counties to increase participation in vocational education by Colorado works participants to meet federal requirements. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/AF4C96D0CE809CD287256D8D006992C5?Open&file=1029_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1029
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes school boards to create joint or regional schools offering a specialized curriculum leading to a high school diploma and a postsecondary credential, such as industry certification, career certificated, or degree.
Title: S.B. 553
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Transfers funds for the state technical careers student loan forgiveness program. Enacted to partial meet the State Supreme Court requirements of providing children with an adequate and equitable education. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB44.pdf
Title: S.B. 44
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| SD | Rule Adoption 01/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules requiring the director of the Office of Career and Technical Education to convene a meeting of the technical directors and an Office of Economic Development staff member to review applications for new or expanded programs prior to their presentation to the State Board of Education. SOUTH DAKOTA REG 3969 (SN)
Title: 24:10:42:23
Source: StateNet
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| Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship |
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes school boards to create joint or regional schools offering a specialized curriculum leading to a high school diploma and a postsecondary credential, such as industry certification, career certificated, or degree.
Title: S.B. 553
Source: StateNet
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
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| CO | Emergency Rule Adoption 12/2004 | P-12 | Establishes emergency rules regarding administration of the State Charter School Institute.
Title: 1 CCR 302-1
Source: StateNet
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| MA | Emergency Rule Adoption 12/2004 | P-12 | Establishes a new charter school formula. Implements the new provisions of state law so that the next quarterly tuition payments may be made on schedule. MASSACHUSETTS REG 8469 (SN)
Title: 603 CMR 1.00
Source: StateNet
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| DE | Rule Adoption 11/2004 | P-12 | Amends regulations relating to compensating of district personnel under specific project proposals by adding a reference to charter schools and changing the title to refer only to federal projects.
Title: 14 DAC, 742
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Exempts a charter high school chartered by the Riverside Unified School District and operated in cooperation with the Riverside Community College District from certain requirements of existing law relating to teacher certification and student residency and age for enrollment. Provides that a pupil attending a charter high school that is chartered by the Riverside Unified School District generates average daily attendance for the charter school. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1351-1400/sb_1386_bill_20040823_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/SB_1423_veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1423
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Prohibits a school district governing board from denying a charter school petition, unless it makes findings that the petition lacks a description of the procedures by which a pupil may be subject to discipline and the procedure employed by the school to safeguard the due process rights of pupils and unless it makes findings showing a lack of compliance with the Ralph M. Brown Act. Provides that charter schools are subject to the open meeting requirement of the Ralph M. Brown Act. Prohibits a charter school from expelling a pupil based solely on his or her academic performance. Requires a charter school to notify the governing board of the school district of residence and the county superintendent of schools within 14 days if a pupil is expelled and to notify the governing board of the school district of residence within 14 days of the last day the pupil attended school if a pupil leaves the charter school without graduating or completing the school year for any reason. Requires a charter school to provide the district of residence of a pupil who is expelled or leaves the charter school without graduating or completing the school year for any reason with a copy of the cumulative file of that pupil. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1851-1900/ab_1860_bill_20040826_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1860_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1860
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Provides that for pupils who reside in a basic aid school district and are attending a countywide charter school operating at multiple sites throughout the county, the sponsoring local educational agency is the pupil's school district of residence. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2525_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov/
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Provides if a charter school chooses to participate in the Public Employees' Retirement System, its qualified classified employees shall be covered under the system in the same manner as the employees of the school district that granted the charter. Provides that disability retirement benefits under the system are applicable to a member who retires for nonindustrial disability. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1601-1650/sb_1603_bill_20040816_chaptered.html
Title: S.B. 1603
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| ID | Temporary Rule Adoption - Concurrently Proposed 08/2004 | P-12 | Repeals rules governing public charter schools. http://www2.state.id.us/adm/adminrules/rules/idapa08/0204.pdf
Title: IDAPA 08.02.04
Source: StateNet
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| ID | Temporary Rule Adoption - Concurrently Proposed 08/2004 | P-12 | Proposes rules governing public charter schools. Establishes a consistent application and review process for the approval and maintenance of public charter schools. http://www2.state.id.us/adm/adminrules/rules/idapa08/0204.pdf
Title: IDAPA 08.02.04
Source: StateNet
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| ID | Temporary Rule Adoption - Concurrently Proposed 08/2004 | P-12 | Proposes rules establishing Public Charter School Commission. Outlines the Commission definitions, proceedings, and board meetings. http://www2.state.id.us/adm/adminrules/rules/idapa08/0301.pdf
Title: IDAPA 08.03.01
Source: StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Amends the Charter Schools Law of the School Code. Allows the Chicago Board of Education to designate attendance boundaries for a specified amount of charter schools. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0861
Title: H.B. 5562
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| NC | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes existing charter schools to elect to participate in the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System and the North Carolina Teachers' and State Employees' Major Medical Plan. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/html2003/bills/CurrentVersion/house/hbil1723.full.html
Title: H.B. 1723
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| NJ | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Provides that charter school administrators and trustees are subject to provisions of School Ethics Act.
Title: S.B. 337
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | Amends regulations relating to the Charter School Facilities Program. Adopts new regulations that establish uniform terms and conditions that shall apply equally to all projects for funding. http://ccr.oal.ca.gov/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?clientID=106162&E22=Title%204&E23=10152&E24=&infobase=ccr&querytemplate=%261.%20Go%20to%20a%20Specific%20Section&record={EBE4}&softpage=Browse_Frame_Pg42
Title: Title 4 CCR 10152 - 10162, 10163 and 10164
Source: California State Web site
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Extends the initial term of a charter school to 4 school years; provides a uniform date upon which an approved charter expires; establishes a deadline for applications to renew a charter; extends to four years the initial charters of previously approved charter schools. http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/LIS142.NSF/vwLegislation/SB+330/$file/2381420186.doc/?openelement
Title: S.B. 330
Source: Delaware Legislative Web site
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Current law requires that the State Auditor perform two audits of each charter school's enrollment each spring. This legislation discontinues that wasteful practice and, instead, provides each school district with certificates from each charter school regarding student enrollment.
The legislation also gives the Department of Education and local districts access to underlying documents maintained by each charter school. With this access to information, school districts will be aware of the number of students planning to attend a charter school early enough to permit appropriate planning. http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/LIS142.NSF/vwLegislation/SB+275/$file/2381420066.doc/?openelement
Title: S.B. 275
Source: Delaware Legislative Web site
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| HI | Vetoed 07/2004 | P-12 | Requires accountings conducted by new century charter schools to be subject to audit and inspection by the charter school administrative office. Requires disclosure of certain financial records and policies and procedures. Requires compliance with health and safety requirements, county laws and requirements, and state and county land use laws. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/hb2911_cd1_.htm
Title: H.B. 2911
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Provides for priority funding of type 2 charter schools which have been renewed for ten years. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT8/OUT/0000LVUP.PDF
Title: S.B. 874
Source: StateNet
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| MA | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Relates to the School Building Assistance Program; provides for grants, investments, trusts and bonds; creates the School Building Authority; provides for children with disabilities; prohibits racial desegregation; provides for public-private partnerships, charter schools, construction that will facilitate early education and care programs; financial incentives to cities that adopt zoning policies for increased affordable housing production; provides for hearings.
Title: H.B. 4978
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Emergency Rule Adoption 06/2004 | P-12 | Establishes emergency rules concerning the Leroy F. Green School Facilities Act of 1998 - Charter School Program. Provides funding to qualifying entities for the purpose of establishing school facilities for charter school pupils. CALIFORNIA REG 15988 (SN) http://ccr.oal.ca.gov/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?clientID=85952&E22=title%202&E23=1859.2&E24=&infobase=ccr&querytemplate=%261.%20Go%20to%20a%20Specific%20Section&record={37B5}&softpage=Browse_Frame_Pg42
Title: Title 2 CCR 1859.2 - 1859.171
Source: StateNet
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| CO | Signed by Governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Concerns charter schools and legislative intent to provide multiple avenues for obtaining charter school authorization, including the creation of state charter schools. Amends the charter school law to require charter school contracts to include goals, objectives and students performance standards for meeting state accreditation standards and goals and applicable federal standards and goals; measurable annual achievement goals based on state accreditation goals; a description of how the charter school will gather and use longitudinal assessment data to assess and improve student academic progress. Specifies how school districts may unilaterally impose conditions on charter schools or charter applicants. Requires the local board of education to annually report to the state department of education requested data to determine the effectiveness of charter schools. Prohibits the chartering authority from limiting the number of students a charter school may enroll except as negotiated between a charter school and the chartering authority based on specified criteria. A charter school's renewal application must include information on their students progress on Colorado student assessments. Charter schools should receive 100% of the district's per-pupil revenues except the district may retain the actual cost of central administrative costs for services in an amount of up to 5% of per-pupil revenues. Charter schools can appeal to the state board of education if the school believes the chartering district improperly withheld funds. Requires specified reports to the governor and the legislature.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/070DD2229CD69D4587256D78006373FB?Open&file=1141_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1141
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Concerns the authorization of institute charter schools, particularly schools for at-risk students, by the state Charter School Institute; deems institute charter schools to be part of the free public schools in the state, thereby adjusts the funding for free lunches provided to the students within the school district; creates a graduated reimbursement to school districts, and allows a school district to retain exclusive authority to authorize charter schools within the school districts boundaries. Intent of the Legislature is for the Institute to model best practices in authorizing charter schools and to make these practices available to school districts. Includes establishment of accountability requirements for student performance and school improvement at institute charter schools. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/012657ADB873A05C87256DB0004CFCFF?Open&file=1362_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1362
Source: Colorado Legislative web site
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Relates to charter schools; revises qualifications for sponsoring charter school; revises requirements regarding which provisions of building code and fire safety code said school facilities must comply with; allows certain educational impact fees to be allocated to construction of said facilities; requires written agreement between party responsible for paying for impact fees and local zoning authority that levies fee. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb3000er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 3000
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| FL | Signed by Governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Relates to career, workforce and technical education; requires said education programs within the comprehensive high school program of study to be industry certified; provides academic requirements for students enrolled in said education programs; allows charter technical career center sponsors to submit full-time enrollment membership data as defined in the charter agreement; provides for career education certification on high school diploma; allows incentive funding to school districts for students receiving certifications; redesignates adult technical education programs as workforce education programs; provides certain responsibilities for district school boards and superintendents.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=hb0769er.html&Directory=session/2004/House/bills/billtext/html/
Title: H.B. 769
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Allows the legislature to adjust the most recent consolidated annual financial report of the department of education and make additional appropriations for fringe or other employee benefits, and facility costs; requires the charter school administrative office to provide the initial 50% of a new century charter school's per pupil allocation no later than July 20 of each year, 40% no later than November 15 of each year, and provides the remaining 10% no later than January 1 of each year; appropriates funding. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb2425_cd1_.htm
Title: S.B. 2425
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Establishes a committee to study the issue of school choice in New Hampshire any issue relating to school choice which it deems relevant. Requires the committee to report its findings and recommendations by November 30, 2004. http://gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2004/HB0727.html
Title: H.B. 727
Source: gencourt.state.nh.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Amends the membership of the State Board for Charter Schools to include at least one resident of an Indian reservation, a charter school teacher, and an operator of a charter school. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0257.htm.
Title: H.B. 2580
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Concerns the financing of public schools; relates to calculations of pupil enrollment; relates to charter school contracts. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/28517E5E9054E56887256E0400738CE5?Open&file=1397_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1397
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Continues existing civil service rights, privileges, and benefits to applicable personnel in new century conversion charter schools. Requires employees hired subsequent to conversion to have civil service status. Authorizes employees of new century conversion charter schools to retain civil service status upon transfer to another civil service position. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb2424_cd1_.htm
Title: S.B. 2424
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Deletes repealer on authorization of charter schools.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/pdf/HB/0600-0699/HB0664SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 664
Source: StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes the state department to allocate funds on a per-pupil basis for purposes of providing matching funds for the federal State Charter School Facilities Incentive Grants Program created by the No Child Left Behind Act. Changes the notice necessary to deny a charter school renewal from 60 days to 8 months. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04SB/sb713_enr.rtf
Title: S.B. 713
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | From the fiscal note: Requires charter schools to administer state value-added testing for their students. Current law, T.C.A. 49-13-111(a)(2), provides that a public charter school shall meet the same performance standards and requirements adopted by the state board for public schools. T.C.A. 49-13-122 provides that a public charter school agreement may be revoked or denied renewal by the final chartering authority if such chartering authority determines that the school failed to meet or make adequate yearly progress toward achievement of the state's accountability system. This bill requires charter schools to participate in the state assessment program. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB2416.pdf
Title: S.B. 2416
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Concerns school district and charter school procurement; concerns contracts for materials and services the governing board may authorize for purchase which do not comply with requirements of procurement rules adopted by the State Board of Education; specifies criteria; applies to General Services Administration contracts. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0050.htm
Title: H.B. 2105
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Allows the sponsor of a charter school to direct the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) to withhold a portion of state aid if the charter school is out of compliance with federal law, state law or with the charter; amends provisions regarding daily membership and daily enrollment for pupils for apportionment of funds; provides for students who attend both schools. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0120.htm
Title: H.B. 2255
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Adds to and amends existing law relating to the public charter schools to provide transportation reimbursement for public virtual schools; clarifies computation of support units for charter schools formed by conversion of an existing traditional public school; provides funding for public virtual schools; provides proper terminology. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1443.html#billtext
Title: S.B. 1443
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Amends existing law to require that employment of charter school teachers and administrators shall be on written contract in a form as approved by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction conditioned upon a valid certificate being held by such professional personnel at the time of entering upon the duties thereunder. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1363.html#billtext
Title: S.B. 1363
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Relates to public charter schools; revises limits on the number of public charter schools; governs methods of forming a public charter school; provides additional limitations on authorizing a charter; provides rules to be adopted by the State Board of Education; designates certain local educational agencies; clarifies liability for public charter schools; requires certain financial reporting; creates an independent public charter school commission. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1444.html#engr
Title: S.B. 1444
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Amends existing law relating to charter schools to authorize advance payment of a portion of estimated transportation costs. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1347.html#billtext
Title: S.B. 1347
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Amends existing law to require that each petition submitted to convert an existing school or to establish a new charter school shall contain a copy of the articles of incorporation and bylaws of the nonprofit corporation. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1361.html#billtext
Title: S.B. 1361
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Changes from April 1 to April 15 the date by which the state board must notify local boards and charter school petitioners of the approval or disapproval of an application. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2004/2558.pdf
Title: H.B. 2558
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires charter school applications to disclose any ownership or financial interest in the public charter school, by the charter applicant and the governing body, administrators, and other personnel of the proposed public charter school, and requires that the successful applicant and the governing body, administrators, and other personnel of the public charter school have a continuing duty to disclose such interests during the term of any charter. The charter applicant must include in the proposed agreement the results of any Board of Education review of the public charter school application that may have been conducted. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB380ER
Title: H.B. 380
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| WI | Vetoed 04/2004 | P-12 | From Legislative Reference Bureau analysis: Under current law, school boards may enter into contracts with individuals,
groups, businesses, or governmental bodies to establish charter schools, which operate with fewer constraints than traditional public schools. Current law also permits the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, the University of Wisconsin–Parkside, the Milwaukee Area Technical College, and the city of Milwaukee to operate charter schools (independent charter schools) directly or to contract for the operation of charter schools. Only pupils who reside in the school district in which an independent charter school is located may attend the charter school.
This bill allows any 4–year institution or 2–year college campus within the University of Wisconsin System to operate or to contract for the operation of a charter school with the approval of the Board of Regents.http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2003/data/SB-253.pdf
Title: S.B. 253
Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Amends existing law to provide criteria governing the attendance area of a charter school. The attendance area of a charter
school shall be composed of compact and contiguous area. For the purposes of this section, if services are available to students
throughout the state, the state of Idaho is considered a compact and contiguous area. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1346.html#engr
Title: S.B. 1346
Source: Idaho Legislative web site
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| UT | Rule Adoption 03/2004 | P-12 | Provides Comprehensive Guidance funding for charter schools and adjusts the funding base slightly for all schools. UTAH REG 26850 (SN)
Title: R244-462
Source: StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Modifies the State System of Public Education Code and the Utah State Retirement and Insurance Benefit Act to amend employee benefit provisions for charter schools; allows a charter school applying for sponsorship to make an election of nonparticipation in the state retirement systems for its employees at the time of the application as a charter school; allows a charter school discretion to select and offer employee benefit plans.
Title: H.B. 108
Source: StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | This bill creates the State Charter School Board consisting of seven members appointed by the governor; specifies the powers and duties of the State Charter School Board, including the power to: authorize and promote the establishment of charter schools, subject to approval of the state board; and • hold charter schools accountable for their performance; < provides for a staff director for the State Charter School Board appointed by the superintendent of public instruction, with the consent of the State Charter School Board; provides for the dissolution of charters with the state board and directs the State Charter School Board to grant charters to schools previously chartered by the state board; expands the purposes of charter schools; expands the provisions to be addressed in a school's charter; exempts charter schools from various state laws and rules of the state board; requires the State Charter School Board to study existing state law and administrative rules for the purpose of determining from which laws and rules charter schools should be exempt, and submit recommendations to the state board and the Education Interim Committee; and clarifies the duties of local school boards in authorizing charter schools. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2004/bills/hbillenr/hb0152.pdf
Title: H.B. 152
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Provides for the procedures, rules and responsibilities for the development of a charter school within the State. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2003-04/House/2275-2299/2295-s2_sl.pdf
Title: H.B. 2295
Source: Washington Legislative Web site
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| WI | Vetoed 03/2004 | P-12 | Relates to eligibility to attend an independent charter school and payments made to independent charter schools.
Title: A.B. 746
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Rule Adoption 02/2004 | P-12 | Amends rule to provide that a pupil over the age of 19 years may generate attendance for apportionment purposes in a charter school only if the pupil was enrolled in public school in pursuit of a high school diploma or in keeping with an individualized education plan while 19 years of ages, is enrolled in a charter school without a break in public school enrollment since that time, and is not over the age of 22. http://ccr.oal.ca.gov/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?clientID=81458&E22=Title%205&E23=11960&E24=&infobase=ccr&querytemplate=%261.%20Go%20to%20a%20Specific%20Section&record={102D2}&softpage=Document42
Title: Title 5 CCR 11960
Source: California State Web site
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| GA | Adopted 02/2004 | P-12 | Submits rules regarding charter school planning grants, implementation grants and dissemination grants. http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=GEORGIA_DEPARTMENT_OF_EDUCATION%2Findex.html&d=1
Title: GAC 160-1-4-.155, .255, .267
Source: Georgia State Web site
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Charter Districts |
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Requires a study of the feasibility of establishing a host culture charter school district and a charter school district in order to solidify existing host culture focused charter schools, increase charter school autonomy, and provide opportunities for additional federal funding. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb3148_cd1_.htm
Title: S.B. 3148
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Cyber Charters |
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| CO | Signed by Governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Concerns charter schools and legislative intent to provide multiple avenues for obtaining charter school authorization, including the creation of state charter schools. Amends the charter school law to require charter school contracts to include goals, objectives and students performance standards for meeting state accreditation standards and goals and applicable federal standards and goals; measurable annual achievement goals based on state accreditation goals; a description of how the charter school will gather and use longitudinal assessment data to assess and improve student academic progress. Specifies how school districts may unilaterally impose conditions on charter schools or charter applicants. Requires the local board of education to annually report to the state department of education requested data to determine the effectiveness of charter schools. Prohibits the chartering authority from limiting the number of students a charter school may enroll except as negotiated between a charter school and the chartering authority based on specified criteria. A charter school's renewal application must include information on their students progress on Colorado student assessments. Charter schools should receive 100% of the district's per-pupil revenues except the district may retain the actual cost of central administrative costs for services in an amount of up to 5% of per-pupil revenues. Charter schools can appeal to the state board of education if the school believes the chartering district improperly withheld funds. Requires specified reports to the governor and the legislature.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/070DD2229CD69D4587256D78006373FB?Open&file=1141_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1141
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Concerns the authorization of institute charter schools, particularly schools for at-risk students, by the state Charter School Institute; deems institute charter schools to be part of the free public schools in the state, thereby adjusts the funding for free lunches provided to the students within the school district; creates a graduated reimbursement to school districts, and allows a school district to retain exclusive authority to authorize charter schools within the school districts boundaries. Intent of the Legislature is for the Institute to model best practices in authorizing charter schools and to make these practices available to school districts. Includes establishment of accountability requirements for student performance and school improvement at institute charter schools. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/012657ADB873A05C87256DB0004CFCFF?Open&file=1362_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1362
Source: Colorado Legislative web site
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Adds to and amends existing law relating to the public charter schools to provide transportation reimbursement for public virtual schools; clarifies computation of support units for charter schools formed by conversion of an existing traditional public school; provides funding for public virtual schools; provides proper terminology. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1443.html#billtext
Title: S.B. 1443
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Relates to public charter schools; revises limits on the number of public charter schools; governs methods of forming a public charter school; provides additional limitations on authorizing a charter; provides rules to be adopted by the State Board of Education; designates certain local educational agencies; clarifies liability for public charter schools; requires certain financial reporting; creates an independent public charter school commission. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1444.html#engr
Title: S.B. 1444
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Provides that for pupils who reside in a basic aid school district and are attending a countywide charter school operating at multiple sites throughout the county, the sponsoring local educational agency is the pupil's school district of residence. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2525_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov/
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| CA | Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | Amends regulations relating to the Charter School Facilities Program. Adopts new regulations that establish uniform terms and conditions that shall apply equally to all projects for funding. http://ccr.oal.ca.gov/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?clientID=106162&E22=Title%204&E23=10152&E24=&infobase=ccr&querytemplate=%261.%20Go%20to%20a%20Specific%20Section&record={EBE4}&softpage=Browse_Frame_Pg42
Title: Title 4 CCR 10152 - 10162, 10163 and 10164
Source: California State Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Provides for priority funding of type 2 charter schools which have been renewed for ten years. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT8/OUT/0000LVUP.PDF
Title: S.B. 874
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Emergency Rule Adoption 06/2004 | P-12 | Establishes emergency rules concerning the Leroy F. Green School Facilities Act of 1998 - Charter School Program. Provides funding to qualifying entities for the purpose of establishing school facilities for charter school pupils. CALIFORNIA REG 15988 (SN) http://ccr.oal.ca.gov/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?clientID=85952&E22=title%202&E23=1859.2&E24=&infobase=ccr&querytemplate=%261.%20Go%20to%20a%20Specific%20Section&record={37B5}&softpage=Browse_Frame_Pg42
Title: Title 2 CCR 1859.2 - 1859.171
Source: StateNet
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| CO | Signed by Governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Concerns charter schools and legislative intent to provide multiple avenues for obtaining charter school authorization, including the creation of state charter schools. Amends the charter school law to require charter school contracts to include goals, objectives and students performance standards for meeting state accreditation standards and goals and applicable federal standards and goals; measurable annual achievement goals based on state accreditation goals; a description of how the charter school will gather and use longitudinal assessment data to assess and improve student academic progress. Specifies how school districts may unilaterally impose conditions on charter schools or charter applicants. Requires the local board of education to annually report to the state department of education requested data to determine the effectiveness of charter schools. Prohibits the chartering authority from limiting the number of students a charter school may enroll except as negotiated between a charter school and the chartering authority based on specified criteria. A charter school's renewal application must include information on their students progress on Colorado student assessments. Charter schools should receive 100% of the district's per-pupil revenues except the district may retain the actual cost of central administrative costs for services in an amount of up to 5% of per-pupil revenues. Charter schools can appeal to the state board of education if the school believes the chartering district improperly withheld funds. Requires specified reports to the governor and the legislature.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/070DD2229CD69D4587256D78006373FB?Open&file=1141_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1141
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Concerns the authorization of institute charter schools, particularly schools for at-risk students, by the state Charter School Institute; deems institute charter schools to be part of the free public schools in the state, thereby adjusts the funding for free lunches provided to the students within the school district; creates a graduated reimbursement to school districts, and allows a school district to retain exclusive authority to authorize charter schools within the school districts boundaries. Intent of the Legislature is for the Institute to model best practices in authorizing charter schools and to make these practices available to school districts. Includes establishment of accountability requirements for student performance and school improvement at institute charter schools. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/012657ADB873A05C87256DB0004CFCFF?Open&file=1362_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1362
Source: Colorado Legislative web site
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Relates to charter schools; revises qualifications for sponsoring charter school; revises requirements regarding which provisions of building code and fire safety code said school facilities must comply with; allows certain educational impact fees to be allocated to construction of said facilities; requires written agreement between party responsible for paying for impact fees and local zoning authority that levies fee. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb3000er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 3000
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Allows the legislature to adjust the most recent consolidated annual financial report of the department of education and make additional appropriations for fringe or other employee benefits, and facility costs; requires the charter school administrative office to provide the initial 50% of a new century charter school's per pupil allocation no later than July 20 of each year, 40% no later than November 15 of each year, and provides the remaining 10% no later than January 1 of each year; appropriates funding. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb2425_cd1_.htm
Title: S.B. 2425
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Concerns the financing of public schools; relates to calculations of pupil enrollment; relates to charter school contracts. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/28517E5E9054E56887256E0400738CE5?Open&file=1397_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1397
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Allows the sponsor of a charter school to direct the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) to withhold a portion of state aid if the charter school is out of compliance with federal law, state law or with the charter; amends provisions regarding daily membership and daily enrollment for pupils for apportionment of funds; provides for students who attend both schools. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0120.htm
Title: H.B. 2255
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Adds to and amends existing law relating to the public charter schools to provide transportation reimbursement for public virtual schools; clarifies computation of support units for charter schools formed by conversion of an existing traditional public school; provides funding for public virtual schools; provides proper terminology. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1443.html#billtext
Title: S.B. 1443
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Amends existing law relating to charter schools to authorize advance payment of a portion of estimated transportation costs. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1347.html#billtext
Title: S.B. 1347
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| UT | Rule Adoption 03/2004 | P-12 | Provides Comprehensive Guidance funding for charter schools and adjusts the funding base slightly for all schools. UTAH REG 26850 (SN)
Title: R244-462
Source: StateNet
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| GA | Adopted 02/2004 | P-12 | Submits rules regarding charter school planning grants, implementation grants and dissemination grants. http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=GEORGIA_DEPARTMENT_OF_EDUCATION%2Findex.html&d=1
Title: GAC 160-1-4-.155, .255, .267
Source: Georgia State Web site
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Research |
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| CO | Signed by Governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Concerns charter schools and legislative intent to provide multiple avenues for obtaining charter school authorization, including the creation of state charter schools. Amends the charter school law to require charter school contracts to include goals, objectives and students performance standards for meeting state accreditation standards and goals and applicable federal standards and goals; measurable annual achievement goals based on state accreditation goals; a description of how the charter school will gather and use longitudinal assessment data to assess and improve student academic progress. Specifies how school districts may unilaterally impose conditions on charter schools or charter applicants. Requires the local board of education to annually report to the state department of education requested data to determine the effectiveness of charter schools. Prohibits the chartering authority from limiting the number of students a charter school may enroll except as negotiated between a charter school and the chartering authority based on specified criteria. A charter school's renewal application must include information on their students progress on Colorado student assessments. Charter schools should receive 100% of the district's per-pupil revenues except the district may retain the actual cost of central administrative costs for services in an amount of up to 5% of per-pupil revenues. Charter schools can appeal to the state board of education if the school believes the chartering district improperly withheld funds. Requires specified reports to the governor and the legislature.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/070DD2229CD69D4587256D78006373FB?Open&file=1141_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1141
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Concerns the authorization of institute charter schools, particularly schools for at-risk students, by the state Charter School Institute; deems institute charter schools to be part of the free public schools in the state, thereby adjusts the funding for free lunches provided to the students within the school district; creates a graduated reimbursement to school districts, and allows a school district to retain exclusive authority to authorize charter schools within the school districts boundaries. Intent of the Legislature is for the Institute to model best practices in authorizing charter schools and to make these practices available to school districts. Includes establishment of accountability requirements for student performance and school improvement at institute charter schools. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/012657ADB873A05C87256DB0004CFCFF?Open&file=1362_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1362
Source: Colorado Legislative web site
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| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
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| CA | Vetoed--in Senate to unfinished business 10/2004 | P-12 | The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for costs mandated by the state and incurred by a local agency or school district to implement a new program or higher level of service. Existing law creates certain exceptions. This bill includes within that exception costs mandated by a statute or executive order that imposes a duty on a local agency or school district that was expressly included in a ballot measure approved by the voters in a local election.
Repeals provisions requiring a school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District to use, for home-to-school transportation, the funding made available pursuant to voluntary desegregation programs and requires that pupils in grades 7 to 12 who apply to transfer from a school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District to another school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District to be granted a transfer according to certain priorities, among which is that the transfer would mitigate schoolsite segregation. Replaces with statement of the intent of the Legislature that, if the Grant Joint Union High School District is reorganized to create two new unified school districts, the reorganization must be implemented in a manner that provides constitutionally permissible opportunities for the voluntary racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic integration of pupils attending each school district.
Requires a proposal to reorganize the Grant Joint Union High School District that is initiated by the Sacramento County Committee on School District Organization and approved by the State Board of Education before December 31, 2007, to include requirements that pupils eligible to enroll in any of grades 7 to 12, except expelled pupils, whose parents are residents of any school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union
High School District have the same rights to enroll in any secondary school in a district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District as a pupil whose parents are residents of that other district, and that the successor school districts to the Grant Joint Union High School District provide free transportation to these pupils if they so request, hold joint annual meetings to review segregation issues, and grant seniority rights to employees of school districts that cease to exist as a result of the proposal who become employees of the successor districts.
Requires a ballot measure to approve this proposal to clearly inform the voters that by approving the measure the voters are mandating the successor school districts to incur costs to implement the requirements described above and that these costs would not be reimbursed by the state. Makes legislative findings and declarations in this regard. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1251-1300/sb_1271_bill_20040823_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/SB_1271_veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1271
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Providing parents with a choice among available public schools is an important component to both State and national educational reforms. This bill recognizes the Choice Program as a means of satisfying the objectives of the Neighborhood Schools Act of creating strong local schools that are easily accessible and focal points for their communities. http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/LIS142.NSF/vwLegislation/HB+187/$file/0041420096.doc/?openelement
Title: H.B. 187
Source: Delaware Legislative Web site
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| AR | Rule Adoption 06/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules regarding the guidelines, procedures and enforcement of the Arkansas Opportunity Public School Choice Act of 2004. http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/ade%20173%20opportunity%20school%20choice.pdf
Title: ADE 173
Source: Arkansas State Web site
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| IA | Adopted 06/2004 | P-12 | Codifies open enrollment policies and procedures from the department's guidelines and decisions. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/2004/iac/281iac/28117/28117.pdf
Title: 281 IAC 17.2 thru .14 (non seq)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Establishes a committee to study the issue of school choice in New Hampshire any issue relating to school choice which it deems relevant. Requires the committee to report its findings and recommendations by November 30, 2004. http://gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2004/HB0727.html
Title: H.B. 727
Source: gencourt.state.nh.us
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Allows students to apply for further transfers pursuant to the Education Open Transfer Act, particularly on an emergency basis.http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04HB/hb1855_enr.rtf
Title: H.B. 1855
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us
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| CA | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes the governing board of any school district to admit pupils residing in another district to attend any school in that district. Authorizes the accepting district to adopt a resolution to determine the number of students it will accept and to assure the acceptance process is unbiased. Authorizes automatic renewal of the transfer unless the district opts out of the program. Credits the accepting district with a corresponding daily average increase. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0051-0100/ab_97_bill_20040305_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 97
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| OK | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Relates to schools; amends 70 O.S. 2001, Section 8- 101, which relates to the right to transfer; updates statutory language; limits number of certain types of transfers; allows students to apply for further transfers pursuant to the Education Open Transfer Act; removes obsolete language; declares an emergency. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04SB/sb1129_enr.rtf
Title: S.B. 1129
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Allows students in administratively consolidated school districts to attend classes and programs in other schools in the district. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1177.pdf
Title: H.B. 1177
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Amends Ark. Code § 6-15-404, adds 6-15-434, 6-15-1806, 6-15-1901, 6-15-1902, 6-15-1903 .Creates the Student Assessment and Educational Accountability act of 2003; requires the establishment of a reporting system of schools' academic performance on the state-mandated criterion-referenced exam; student performance data shall be reported to parents and the public and serve as one of the components in developing a school improvement plan; beginning with the 2004-05 school year, information on the prior school year shall be published annually by October 15 and include demographic breakdowns, graduation rate, drop-out rate, transfers under the unsafe school choice option and transfers under the Public School Choice Act; annual reports must use a school rating system and performance goals.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB33.pdf
Title: S.B. 33 §§ 1, 4, 5, 6
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Adds Ark. Code 6-15-1903, 6-18-227. Students attending schools receiving an annual performance category Level 1 for two consecutive years must be offered a transfer under the Arkansas Opportunity Public School Choice Act of 2004. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB33.pdf
Title: S.B. 33 §§ 6, 7
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools |
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Increases certain fees imposed by the board of directors of the state school of math, science, and the arts. Increases maximum possible security deposit from $100 to $150; increases maximum possible room and board fee for summer session from $300 to $400 per student. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT8/OUT/0000LUZM.PDF
Title: H.B. 431
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
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| WI | Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | Establishes emergency rules regarding financial reporting requirements under the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. WISCONSIN REG 20410 (SN)
Title: PI 35
Source: StateNet
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Establishes a committee to study the issue of school choice in New Hampshire any issue relating to school choice which it deems relevant. Requires the committee to report its findings and recommendations by November 30, 2004. http://gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2004/HB0727.html
Title: H.B. 727
Source: gencourt.state.nh.us
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Establishes the College Opportunity Fund Program; requires each state and private institution of higher education which does not receive loan services through the Colorado Student Loan Program to pay an implementation fee and an on going disbursement fee; specifies the college opportunity fund shall be trust fund for eligible undergraduate students. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont2/e1e067acaeb853c887256df8005f11e2?OpenDocument&Click=87256D6C00679B13.b925f7d822283ac087256dd3003efcdb/$Body/1.2
Title: S.B. 189
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| IA | Vetoed 05/2004 | P-12 | Allows individual income tax credits for contributions made to certain school tuition organizations and including an applicability date provision. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=SF2295
Title: S.F. 2295
Source: StateNet
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| WI | Assembly Sustained Governor's Veto 05/2004 | P-12 | Relates to eligibility for participation in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. (Governor vetoed in November 2003; veto sustained in May 2004)
Title: A.B. 259
Source: StateNet
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| UT | Vetoed 03/2004 | P-12 | Creates a program to award scholarships to students with disabilities who attend a private school; specifies criteria for qualifying for a scholarship; specifies criteria for private schools to enroll scholarship students; specifies the amount, timing, and form of scholarship payments.
Title: H.B. 115
Source: StateNet
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| WI | Vetoed 03/2004 | P-12 | Requires a private school participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program to conduct a criminal background check on each new employee and all existing employees; requires a private school to submit a copy of the school's certificate of occupancy issued by the city of Milwaukee and evidence of sound fiscal practices.
Title: A.B. 836
Source: StateNet
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| WI | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Relate the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program; requires a private school to conduct a criminal background check on all persons employed as instructional staff; requires a private school to submit to the Department of Public Instruction a copy of the school's certificate of occupancy issued by the city of Milwaukee, proof that the administrator of the school participated in a fiscal management training program, and evidence of sound fiscal practices.
Title: A.B. 847
Source: StateNet
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| Civic Education |
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Deems, for purposes of computing the average daily attendance generated by a pupil enrolled in a history or social science course required by a school district as a condition of receipt of a high school diploma, a pupil serving as a member of a precinct board for an election to be under the immediate supervision of the certificated teacher of the history or social science course. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1901-1950/ab_1944_bill_20040824_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1944_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1944
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that specified historical
documents are incorporated into the framework when the history-social science framework is revised. These documents are: (1) The Declaration of Independence; (2) The United States Constitution, including the Bill of Rights; (3) The Federalist Papers; (4) The Emancipation Proclamation;
(5) The Gettysburg Address; and (6) George Washington's Farewell Address. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2525_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Establishes the Louisiana Commission on Civic Education. Establishes that the commission must: (1) Develop and coordinate outreach programs in collaboration with schools to educate students on the importance of understanding specific principles of democracy; (2) Identify civic education projects in Louisiana and provide technical assistance as may be needed to such programs; (3) Build a network of civic education professionals to share information and strengthen partnerships; (4) Develop, in consultation with entities having representatives on the commission and others as determined by the commission, an Internet clearinghouse; (5) Value and support successful civic education programs in the state and encourage expansion of such efforts; (6) Prepare and provide an annual report of activities to the governor and to the legislature. Provides for funding. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT3/OUT/0000LVJ0.PDF
Title: S.B. 11
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 | P-12 | Adds seven (7) new members to the civic education commission (from 17 to 24).
Title: H.B. 7990
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/gen_assembly
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) to issue character education special license plates if the Department of Education (DOE) pays $32,000 by January 1, 2005; provides for allocation of monies through a private nonprofit foundation; provides for State Treasurer's investment of fund monies; provides criteria for implementation.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0316.htm
Title: H.B. 2206
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| AZ | Issued 06/2004 | P-12 | Creates the Arizona Statewide Youth Development Task Force to provide policy recommendations relating to youth and youth development issues in the state of Arizona to the Governor's Office for Children, Youth and Families. Establishes membership. Requires the task force to advise the governor through (1) the creation of of policy work groups on matters such as positive youth development, youth workforce development, education and youth voice and advocacy; (2) the development of more and better opportunities for positive use of time,
positive use of self-expression, civic engagement and participation for youth in the state; (3) the coordination of services for Arizona's youth with community-based, faith-based, city, state and local youth-serving agencies and organizations; and (4) the ongoing review of proposed federal and state legislation and existing laws relating to youth and youth development.
http://www.governor.state.az.us/eo/2004_14.pdf
Title: Executive Order 2004-14
Source: www.governor.state.az.us
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Requires the department of education to institute a program to recognize those schools that have developed model instructional methods and
administrative policies for the delivery of character education and provide professional development opportunities for the dissemination of these "best practices" to local education agencies statewide. The department must use existing resources in the implementation of this section. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0919.pdf
Title: H.B. 3456
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Relates to Carey Baker Freedom Flag Act; requires a flag of the U.S. to be displayed in each classroom in public K-20 educational institutions; provides for procurement of the flags. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=hb1757er.html&Directory=session/2004/House/bills/billtext/html/
Title: H.B. 1757
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| IA | Vetoed 05/2004 | P-12 | Relates to and making appropriations from the healthy Iowans tobacco trust and the tobacco settlement trust fund and providing an effective date; provides for 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://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=HF2577
Title: H.F. 2577
Source: StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | (Resolution)Proposes to implement the recommendations of the Commission to Study the Scope and Quality of Citizenship Education; includes the recommendations of the Commission to Study the Scope and Quality of Citizenship Education related to implications for the system of learning results; provides for the Department of Education and the State Board of Education to establish a Task Force; includes voter education.
Title: H.P. 1417
Source: StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Part of this bill adds a new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 24-106.1 of Title 70, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: Principals and teachers in each public elementary and secondary school of each school district in this state may display in each classroom, school auditorium, and school cafeteria under their supervision the following motto of the United States of America: "E PLURIBUS UNUM (Out of Many One)" and "IN GOD WE TRUST". For purposes of this section, "classroom" means any room of a public school where instruction takes place. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04HB/hb2477_enr.rtf
Title: H.B. 2477
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Urges the establishment of a committee to evaluate existing school civic literacy programs, determine a strategy for enhancing long-term civic engagement and literacy, and recommend a plan for improving civic engagement and literacy before the 2005 regular session of the general assembly. Requires the committee, if established, to include a diverse range of student, teacher and administrator representatives from K-16 education, media, civic organizations and elected officials, and to report its findings and recommendations to the office of the secretary of state by December 1, 2004. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SJ80/bill.doc
Title: S.J.R. 80
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Green schools program; education programs to promote waste reduction and resource efficiency. Authorizes the state board to assist local school boards in the development and implementation of programs of instruction that comply with the provisions of Standard 1 of the Standards of Quality, specifically relating to citizenship and environmental issues and geography necessary for responsible participation in American society and the international community, by cooperating with the environmental groups, other relevant state agencies, such as, but not limited to, the Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Health, and other stakeholders in the development of a green schools program for Virginia. Any such green schools program will focus on waste reduction through recycling and other mechanisms and educating students to help schools contain costs and to reduce waste production through resource efficiency. In the development and implementation of any such program, the Board must examine other states' green schools programs and must receive input from parents, teachers, school administrators, school boards, business and industry leaders, and local governments. The Board must also strive to identify businesses and other organizations that may provide support in the form of resources or funding for appropriate awards for any green schools program that may be implemented in the Commonwealth. This provision must not be construed to require the Board or any school board in the Commonwealth to implement a green school program or to imply or otherwise indicate that state or local funding is required to develop or implement any green school program. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0882
Title: S.B. 315
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Deletes language requiring the Standards of Learning to include the development of personal qualities such as self-esteem, sociability, self-management, integrity and honesty. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Amends the Pledge of Allegiance statute to make the statute constitutional as required by the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in the 1992 decision of Sherman v Community Consolidated School District 21 of Wheeling Township;provides an opportunity for elementary and secondary students to recite the Pledge daily. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont2/4b69aaeb4cb752f487256d9500661f52?OpenDocument&Click=87256D6C00679B13.b925f7d822283ac087256dd3003efcdb/$Body/0.2F64
Title: H.B. 1002
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Provides legislative recognition of the fundamental civic purpose and constitutional responsibility of public education; requires Civic and Character Education to be taught through an integrated curriculum in connection with regular school work; consolidates requirements for the teaching of Civic and Character Education.
Title: H.B. 22
Source: StateNet
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| Civic Education--Character Education |
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Deems, for purposes of computing the average daily attendance generated by a pupil enrolled in a history or social science course required by a school district as a condition of receipt of a high school diploma, a pupil serving as a member of a precinct board for an election to be under the immediate supervision of the certificated teacher of the history or social science course. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1901-1950/ab_1944_bill_20040824_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1944_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1944
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that specified historical
documents are incorporated into the framework when the history-social science framework is revised. These documents are: (1) The Declaration of Independence; (2) The United States Constitution, including the Bill of Rights; (3) The Federalist Papers; (4) The Emancipation Proclamation;
(5) The Gettysburg Address; and (6) George Washington's Farewell Address. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2525_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Establishes the Louisiana Commission on Civic Education. Establishes that the commission must: (1) Develop and coordinate outreach programs in collaboration with schools to educate students on the importance of understanding specific principles of democracy; (2) Identify civic education projects in Louisiana and provide technical assistance as may be needed to such programs; (3) Build a network of civic education professionals to share information and strengthen partnerships; (4) Develop, in consultation with entities having representatives on the commission and others as determined by the commission, an Internet clearinghouse; (5) Value and support successful civic education programs in the state and encourage expansion of such efforts; (6) Prepare and provide an annual report of activities to the governor and to the legislature. Provides for funding. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT3/OUT/0000LVJ0.PDF
Title: S.B. 11
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 | P-12 | Adds seven (7) new members to the civic education commission (from 17 to 24).
Title: H.B. 7990
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/gen_assembly
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) to issue character education special license plates if the Department of Education (DOE) pays $32,000 by January 1, 2005; provides for allocation of monies through a private nonprofit foundation; provides for State Treasurer's investment of fund monies; provides criteria for implementation.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0316.htm
Title: H.B. 2206
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| AZ | Issued 06/2004 | P-12 | Creates the Arizona Statewide Youth Development Task Force to provide policy recommendations relating to youth and youth development issues in the state of Arizona to the Governor's Office for Children, Youth and Families. Establishes membership. Requires the task force to advise the governor through (1) the creation of of policy work groups on matters such as positive youth development, youth workforce development, education and youth voice and advocacy; (2) the development of more and better opportunities for positive use of time,
positive use of self-expression, civic engagement and participation for youth in the state; (3) the coordination of services for Arizona's youth with community-based, faith-based, city, state and local youth-serving agencies and organizations; and (4) the ongoing review of proposed federal and state legislation and existing laws relating to youth and youth development.
http://www.governor.state.az.us/eo/2004_14.pdf
Title: Executive Order 2004-14
Source: www.governor.state.az.us
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Requires the department of education to institute a program to recognize those schools that have developed model instructional methods and
administrative policies for the delivery of character education and provide professional development opportunities for the dissemination of these "best practices" to local education agencies statewide. The department must use existing resources in the implementation of this section. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0919.pdf
Title: H.B. 3456
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Relates to Carey Baker Freedom Flag Act; requires a flag of the U.S. to be displayed in each classroom in public K-20 educational institutions; provides for procurement of the flags. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=hb1757er.html&Directory=session/2004/House/bills/billtext/html/
Title: H.B. 1757
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| IA | Vetoed 05/2004 | P-12 | Relates to and making appropriations from the healthy Iowans tobacco trust and the tobacco settlement trust fund and providing an effective date; provides for 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://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=HF2577
Title: H.F. 2577
Source: StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | (Resolution)Proposes to implement the recommendations of the Commission to Study the Scope and Quality of Citizenship Education; includes the recommendations of the Commission to Study the Scope and Quality of Citizenship Education related to implications for the system of learning results; provides for the Department of Education and the State Board of Education to establish a Task Force; includes voter education.
Title: H.P. 1417
Source: StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Part of this bill adds a new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 24-106.1 of Title 70, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: Principals and teachers in each public elementary and secondary school of each school district in this state may display in each classroom, school auditorium, and school cafeteria under their supervision the following motto of the United States of America: "E PLURIBUS UNUM (Out of Many One)" and "IN GOD WE TRUST". For purposes of this section, "classroom" means any room of a public school where instruction takes place. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04HB/hb2477_enr.rtf
Title: H.B. 2477
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Urges the establishment of a committee to evaluate existing school civic literacy programs, determine a strategy for enhancing long-term civic engagement and literacy, and recommend a plan for improving civic engagement and literacy before the 2005 regular session of the general assembly. Requires the committee, if established, to include a diverse range of student, teacher and administrator representatives from K-16 education, media, civic organizations and elected officials, and to report its findings and recommendations to the office of the secretary of state by December 1, 2004. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SJ80/bill.doc
Title: S.J.R. 80
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Green schools program; education programs to promote waste reduction and resource efficiency. Authorizes the state board to assist local school boards in the development and implementation of programs of instruction that comply with the provisions of Standard 1 of the Standards of Quality, specifically relating to citizenship and environmental issues and geography necessary for responsible participation in American society and the international community, by cooperating with the environmental groups, other relevant state agencies, such as, but not limited to, the Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Health, and other stakeholders in the development of a green schools program for Virginia. Any such green schools program will focus on waste reduction through recycling and other mechanisms and educating students to help schools contain costs and to reduce waste production through resource efficiency. In the development and implementation of any such program, the Board must examine other states' green schools programs and must receive input from parents, teachers, school administrators, school boards, business and industry leaders, and local governments. The Board must also strive to identify businesses and other organizations that may provide support in the form of resources or funding for appropriate awards for any green schools program that may be implemented in the Commonwealth. This provision must not be construed to require the Board or any school board in the Commonwealth to implement a green school program or to imply or otherwise indicate that state or local funding is required to develop or implement any green school program. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0882
Title: S.B. 315
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Deletes language requiring the Standards of Learning to include the development of personal qualities such as self-esteem, sociability, self-management, integrity and honesty. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Amends the Pledge of Allegiance statute to make the statute constitutional as required by the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in the 1992 decision of Sherman v Community Consolidated School District 21 of Wheeling Township;provides an opportunity for elementary and secondary students to recite the Pledge daily. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont2/4b69aaeb4cb752f487256d9500661f52?OpenDocument&Click=87256D6C00679B13.b925f7d822283ac087256dd3003efcdb/$Body/0.2F64
Title: H.B. 1002
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Provides legislative recognition of the fundamental civic purpose and constitutional responsibility of public education; requires Civic and Character Education to be taught through an integrated curriculum in connection with regular school work; consolidates requirements for the teaching of Civic and Character Education.
Title: H.B. 22
Source: StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Amends the Pledge of Allegiance statute to make the statute constitutional as required by the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in the 1992 decision of Sherman v Community Consolidated School District 21 of Wheeling Township;provides an opportunity for elementary and secondary students to recite the Pledge daily. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont2/4b69aaeb4cb752f487256d9500661f52?OpenDocument&Click=87256D6C00679B13.b925f7d822283ac087256dd3003efcdb/$Body/0.2F64
Title: H.B. 1002
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Controller to deduct from the next principal apportionment of a school district a specified amount based on the annual pupil enrollment of the class above a different prescribed number. Authorizes a district located in the counties of Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego or Ventura to claim class size reduction funding for 2003-04 based on enrollment counts before the October 2003 fires, if the district lost or exceeded enrollment due to the fires. This bill declares that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0301-0350/sb_311_bill_20040930_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB_311_sign.pdf
Title: S.B. 311
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| GA | Adopted 08/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding class size, absences and excuses. Renames chapter on absences as Student Attendance. Provides definition of truant and outlines policies and procedures to reduce unexcused absences. Permits a maximum individual class size of 30 for grades 9-12 science classes for school year 2004-05. GEORGIA REG 4246 (SN). http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-5-1-.08.pdf and http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-5-1-.10.pdf
Title: GAC 160-5-1-.08; -.10
Source: Georgia State Web site
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| GA | Adopted 07/2004 | P-12 | Class size is amended to comply with changes in law that were adopted by the Georgia General Assembly during the 2004 session regarding the number of students allowed in grades 4-12 for the 2004-2005 school year, the number of students allowed in kindergarten classes with a paraprofessional, and the system averaging for class size. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-5-1-.08.pdf
Title: GAC 160-5-1-.08
Source: Georgia State Web site
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| HI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | The education reform in this Act shall be known as the "Reinventing Education Act of 2004." The provisions include (1) establishing a weighted student formula; (2) providing additional information technology; (3) empowering principals through a Hawaii principals academy and other means; (4) strengthening community involvement through school community councils and parent-community networking centers; (5) providing more mathematics textbooks; (6) lowering class size in kindergarten, grade one, and grade two; (7) providing full-time, year-round, high school student activity coordinators; (8) providing support for students who need additional help to succeed in school; (9) establishing a national board certification incentive program for teachers; (10) enhancing teacher education; (11) reducing the bureaucracy that hampers the effectiveness of the department of education; (12) improving the educational accountability system; and (13) requiring board of education members to hold community meetings in their districts. Establishes the after-school plus program revolving fund.Creates a working group to create a plan for principal performance contracts. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/docs/getstatus.asp?qu=HB2002&showstatus=on&showtext=on&press1=docs
Title: H.B. 2002
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Creates a K-3 class size reduction grant program. Provides that only schools that are on the early academic warning list or academic watch list and that maintain grades K-3 are grant eligible. Limits use of the grant funds to operating and maintaining classes in grades K-3 with a class size within a specific grade of no more than 20 pupils. Proves that a school may use grant funds for teacher aides if the facilities are inadequate. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0814
Title: S.B. 2135
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| HI | Veto override 05/2004 | P-12 | Establishes a weighted student formula; provides additional information technology; empowers principals through a Hawaii principals academy and other means; strengthens community involvement through school community councils and parent-community networking centers; provides more mathematics textbooks; lowers class size in kindergarten, grade one, and grade two; provides full-time, year-round student activity coordinators; provides support for students who need additional help to succeed in school; establishes a national board certification incentive program for teachers; enhances teacher education; reduces the bureaucracy that hampers the effectiveness of the department of education; improves the educational accountability system; requires the board of education members to hold community meetings in their districts.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb3238_sd2_.htm
Title: S.B. 3238
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Amends section 22.1-253.13:1 and 22.1-253.13:2 . Specifies that the Standards of Learning form the core of Virginia's educational program and other educational objectives. Specifies that the state board must, at a minimum, define Standards of Learning for English, mathematics, science, history and social science. Specifies that "communication" as included in the Standards of Learning comprises listening, speaking, reading and writing. To passage on public input on proposed revisions to the Standards of Learning, adds that the department must provide and maintain Web capacity to allowing K-12 educators to submit recommendations for improvements to the Standards of Learning, when under review by the state board, as well as to the related assessments. Deletes "career education schools" from language requiring local boards to implement career and technical education programs.
Provisions (i) increase from one half-time to one full-time principal in elementary schools with fewer than 300 students; (ii) provide one full-time assistant principal for each 400 students in each school, regardless of grade level; (iv) lower the pupil-teacher ratio from 25:1 to 21:1 in middle and high schools, to ensure the provision of scheduled teacher planning time; (v) reduce the required speech pathologist caseload from 68 to 60 students; (vi) require two technology support positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade 12 divisionwide; and (viii) modify the current funding mechanism for remediation.
Requires the state board to submit to the governor and the general assembly a report on the condition and needs of public education in the commonwealth and shall identify any school divisions and the specific schools therein that have failed to establish and maintain schools meeting the existing prescribed standards of quality.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us
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| UT | Rule Adoption 12/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules concerning driver education programs for state schools. Reflects revision date change made to the Driver Education for Utah High Schools Manual. UTAH REG 27423 (SN)
Title: R277-746
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Provides that the satisfactory completion of a course in automobile driver education offered by a private secondary school satisfies the instructional requirements for a provisional driver's license for persons under 18 years of age if specified conditions are met. Existing law generally regulates driving schools and driving instructors. However, existing law provides, until a July 1, 2004, inoperative date, that those provisions are not to be construed to direct or restrict driver education courses offered by private secondary schools, or to require credentialed or certified instructors for courses offered by those private schools. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2005. This bill deletes the July 1, 2004, inoperative date and the January 1, 2005, repeal date, thereby continuing these provisions indefinitely. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_524_bill_20040918_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 524
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Deems, for purposes of computing the average daily attendance generated by a pupil enrolled in a history or social science course required by a school district as a condition of receipt of a high school diploma, a pupil serving as a member of a precinct board for an election to be under the immediate supervision of the certificated teacher of the history or social science course. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1901-1950/ab_1944_bill_20040824_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1944_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1944
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Permits a school district to include instruction on personal finance, including budgeting, savings and credit, in social sciences courses for students in grades 7 through 12. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2401-2450/ab_2435_bill_20040826_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2435_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2435
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Eliminates the requirement imposed on school district governing boards to include certain environmental education materials as part of the adopted instructions materials. Provides that a contribution to the Environmental Education Account will satisfy the requirement for an entity receiving a permit from a regional water quality control board or the State Water Resources Control Board to provide elementary and secondary public schools with storm water pollution educational materials. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1651-1700/ab_1696_bill_20040825_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1696_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1696
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12
Community College | Appropriates a specified amount of funds from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for the support of the Advancement Via Individual Determination Program. Makes these amounts applicable toward the minimum funding requirements for a school district and community college districts. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_3001-3050/ab_3017_bill_20040827_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_3017_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 3017
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Section 2: Repeals the requirement that pupils in American government and civics courses required for high school graduation read and be taught specified documents, including the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution and the Gettysburg Address. Requires the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that those documents are incorporated in the framework when the history-social science framework is revised. Requires the State Board of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to ensure that an appropriate number of questions on the California Standards Tests relate to those documents if any portion of the California Standards Tests is revised. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2851-2900/ab_2855_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2853_2855_2856_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 2855 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires schools initially applying to participate in the High Priority Schools Grant Program on or after the 2004–05 fiscal year to include highly qualified teachers and appropriately credentialed teachers for English learners in the component on quality of staff in
the school action plan. Specifies that the mandatory school action plan components on facilities, curriculum, instructional materials, and support services for those schools be on facilities in good repair, curriculum, sufficient instructional materials, and support services. Requires schools initially applying to participate in the High Priority Schools Grant Program on or after the 2004–05 fiscal year to measure the availability of instructional materials against a specified definition of ''sufficient instructional materials.'' http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | SEC. 18: Requires the governing board of every district to hold a public hearing and make a determination as to whether each pupil in each school in the district has sufficient textbooks or instructional materials in each subject that are consistent with the content and cycles of the curriculum frameworks. Requires the hearing to be held at a time that will encourage the attendance of teachers and parents and guardians of pupils who attend the schools in the district and prohibits the hearing from taking place during or immediately following school hours. Defines ''sufficient textbooks or instructional materials'' to mean that each pupil, including English learners, has a textbook or instructional materials, or both, to use in class and to take home to complete required homework assignments but specifies that 2 sets of textbooks or instructional materials for each pupil are not required. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Provides that if any part of a school's instruction in health conflicts with the religious training and beliefs of a parent or guardian of a pupil, the pupil, upon the parent or guardian's written request, shall be excused from the part of the instruction that conflicts
with the religious training and beliefs. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2525_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that specified historical
documents are incorporated into the framework when the history-social science framework is revised. These documents are: (1) The Declaration of Independence; (2) The United States Constitution, including the Bill of Rights; (3) The Federalist Papers; (4) The Emancipation Proclamation;
(5) The Gettysburg Address; and (6) George Washington's Farewell Address. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2525_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires a master contracts with nonpublic, nonsectarian schools for the provision of special education and related services to include that, with respect to a nonpublic, nonsectarian school that is associated with a licensed children's institution, there be a method of evaluating whether the school meets specified guidelines, and with respect to a nonpublic, nonsectarian school, the school be subject to the alternative accountability system of the Public School Performance Accountability Program in the same manner as public schools during the school's testing period, and each pupil placed in the school be tested in accordance with that accountability program, and the school prepare a school accountability report card. Requires the test results to be reported by the nonpublic, nonsectarian school to the State Department of Education.
Authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to certify a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency for a period of not longer than 18 months. Requires a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency to make notification of its intent to seek certification. Requires that only those nonpublic, nonsectarian schools and agencies that provide special education that utilize staff who hold a certificate, permit, or other document equivalent to that which staff in a public school would be required to hold may be certified.
Requires a nonpublic, nonsectarian school that provides special education and related services to an individual with exceptional needs to certify in writing to the Superintendent of Public Instruction that the school satisfies various requirements relating to, among others, access to standards-based curriculum and instructional materials, access to specific instruction and assistance, and a discipline policy. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1851-1900/ab_1858_bill_20040930_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_1858_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 1858 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| DE | Rule Adoption 09/2004 | P-12 | Amends regulations relating to the requirements for a standard certificate for educational personnel. Changes are made to conform to changes in statute regarding licensure and certification of educators. Section is renumbered to reflect its movement to the Professional Standards section.
Title: 14 DAC, 331, 1566, 1.0 - 3.3.12
Source: StateNet
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| SD | Adopted 09/2004 | P-12 | Eliminates requirement that evidence of completion of all required sections of the Dakota STEP assessment must appear on the student's transcript before graduation may be authorized and a signed diploma may be issued; Removes curriculum and special education directors from the administrative program group and places them in the school service program group; revises rules so they are content standards based and allows preparing institutions the flexibility to vary their courses to meet the content standards. SOUTH DAKOTA REG 4035 (SN)
Title: 24:14:04:12.01, 12.02; 15:06:33, 36; 03:06:06.05, 15:01:01; 16:01:01, 05:03; 06:01, 02, 03, 07:01; 16:07:01, 02, 03, 08:01 thru 58 (Non-Seq.), 09:03 thru 05, 10:06 and 07
Source: StateNet
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| NM | Rule Adoption 08/2004 | P-12 | Amends issuing agency and statutory references; requires that disciplinary records be included in the records of transferring students; requires elective courses meet PED standards; requires that accountability data system numbers be included in transcripts. NEW MEXICO REG 4162 (SN)
Title: NMAC 6.30.2.1, .3, .10
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 07/2004 | P-12 | Encourages the instruction of World War II and the role of Filipinos in that war in social science instruction in grades 7 through 12, inclusive. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2512_bill_20040624_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2512_Veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2512
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the physical activity and nutrition of students. Identifies childhood obesity as a growing problem in Louisiana. Identifies benefits of regular physical activity and healthy eating habits. States purposes of this section are: (1) To promote, encourage, and motivate children of all physical abilities to participate in physical activity for children to reach their full potential as individuals; (2) To promote physical activity and fitness in schools by encouraging innovative physical education programs that consist of physical exertion of a moderate to vigorous intensity level; (3) To promote improved nutritional levels in children by providing for snacks with higher nutritional value during the school day; (4) To inform children and their parents about the importance of physical activity and improved nutrition and the effects of both on positive outcomes. (5) To increase parental awareness of their children's activity and fitness levels. (6) To promote daily physical activity, the enjoyment of physical activity, the improvement of nutritional levels and eating habits and the development of lifelong patterns of physical activity.
Deletes existing provision that, beginning with the 2004-05 school year, schools serving children in grades K-6 provide at least thirty minutes of quality physical activity for students each school day. Replaces with provision that in 2004-05 school year, schools serving children in such grades provide at least thirty minutes of "quality moderate to vigorous" physical activity for students every school day. Requires every public elementary school to annually report to its local board on compliance with this provision. Also requires every local board to annually report to the state board on compliance with this provision. Requires suitably adapted physical activity to be included as part of the individual education plans for students with chronic health problems, other disabling conditions or other special needs that preclude participation in regular physical activity.
Encourages secondary school students not enrolled in a physical education course to participate in moderate to vigorous physical activity commensurate with student ability for at least 30 minutes a day.
Requires various state agents, including the department of education and the department of health and hospitals, as well as the American Heart Association, to collaborate to develop an outreach and communication plan consisting of current information and research on health, nutrition and physical education and fitness issues. This plan must be disseminated to every local public school board and made available to parents and students.
Beginning with the 2004-05 school year, requires a public elementary or secondary school selected from each regional education service center region in the state to be annually identified for an outstanding program of physical activity implemented at the school. As funds are available, requires monetary awards to be given these outstanding schools.
Allows any public school serving students in grades 7, 8, 9 or 10 to apply to participate in a three-year pilot program to begin in the 2005-06 school year. Requires the state board to choose up to eight schools from each of the eight regional service districts to participate in the program, striving to achieve equal geographic distribution. Identifies areas of study: (1) An annual assessment that measures aspects of health-related fitness, rather than skill or agility, of the students in participating schools; (2) An assessment of the changes in weight status of the students who are enrolled in participating schools and who are receiving combined nutritional and physical activity intervention versus a nutritional intervention or physical activity intervention alone; and (3) The collection of individual baseline and longitudinal data to measure the improvement of each individual student. No assessment shall compare any student to another. Idenfities state entities required to collaborate to develop the elements of the pilot program and the recommendations for its implementation. Requires every school selected to participate in the program to provide a comprehensive report to the state board at the end of each school year on the effectiveness of the pilot program in accomplishing the pilot program objectives.
States that the pilot program established in this bill must in no way interfere with or replace any effort, purpose, assessment or program implemented by the Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT7/OUT/0000LVUO.PDF
Title: S.B. 871
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| ND | Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules regarding initial licenses, distance learning instructor - definition - qualifications - licensure, two-year and five-year renewals, professional development for license renewal, multicultural education and native american studies, and reentry.
Title: NDAC 67.1-02-02-, -04, -05, -07, -09
Source: StateNet
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 | P-12
Community College | Places driver education course requirements under the Board of Governors for Higher Education instead of the Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education. which substantially conform with the current curriculum utilized by the instructor(s) at the Community College of Rhode Island, including a minimum of three (3) hours of instruction focusing upon specific Rhode Island traffic laws, the specific requirements of the Rhode Island graduated licensing statute in section 31-10-6 and eight (8) hours specifically for instruction on the effects of alcohol and drugs on a driver. All driver's education programs shall include information concerning the Anatomical Gift Act chapter 18.6 of title 23, and information on donor cards pursuant to the applicable provisions of chapter 18.6 of title 23. The program does not offer outside the classroom road test instruction or driving lessons to Rhode Island students.
Title: H.B. 8665
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/gen_assembly
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Requires (a) The board of regents for elementary and secondary education to adopt a statewide curriculum in mathematics and English-language arts for students in grades 3-10 by May 1, 2005. (b) The curriculum adopted by the board of regents must:
(1) be aligned with state standards and assessments utilized by the state department of education; (2) contain sufficient detail to guide teachers in planning lessons aligned with state standards and assessments; and (3) be offered on a voluntary basis to school districts; provided, however, school districts shall not be required to utilize or implement such curriculum.
Title: H.B. 7714
Source: rilin.state.ri.us/gen_assembly/
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Board of Regents for elementary and secondary education to select and/or develop a statewide curriculum in mathematics and English/Language arts in grades kindergarten (k) through twelve by August 31, 2006. The curriculum selected and/or developed by the board of regents must (1) be aligned with state standards and assessments utilized by the state department of education; and (2) contain sufficient detail to guide teachers in planning lessons aligned with state standards and assessments. The state commissioner is to convene an advisory committee in each area (math and English/language arts).
Title: S.B. 2672
Source: Rhode Island Legislative Web Site
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Provides an additional duty of incorporating instruction of Native American history into appropriate existing curricula; provides that the instruction curriculum for all schools shall include the history of Native Americans in Arizona. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0339.htm
Title: S.B. 1365
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| CO | Signed by Governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Encourages each school district and charter school to adopt a financial literacy curriculum and to make successful completion of the program a graduation requirement. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/88DE0C519CF9551087256D790053005C?Open&file=1360_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1360
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Establishes a Hawaiian language medium education program. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/hb2667_cd1_.htm
Title: H.B. 2667
Source: Hawaii Legislative web site
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| VT | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | The purpose of the act is to encourage wellness programs in Vermont public schools and in Vermont communities. Wellness programs will be designed to encourage life-long patterns of healthy eating and regular physical exercise among Vermont citizens. Provides for physical activity programs and physical education programs; provides for nutrition education; provides for assistance to school districts on wellness; provides for a definition of nutritious foods. Requires the development of a model school fitness and nutrition policy. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2004/acts/ACT161.HTM
Title: H.B. 272
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Urges schools to provide instruction on healthy lifestyle choices including programs for physical education; urges restrictions on granting waivers for physical education. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp
Title: S.J.R. 97
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Promotes "Colorado History Day" (NHD), a year-long academic enrichment program that engages students in grades six to twelve in the process of discovery and interpretation of historical topics. and making an appropriation to schools. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/CFD276C782F7232787256DDE00801172?Open&file=1202_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1202
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Concerns limitations on education regarding manifestations of human sexuality. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/6B239FC2932F199287256E1A00062311?Open&file=1375_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1375
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| FL | To governor 05/2004 | P-12 | Creates the "Middle School Reform Act;" provides definitions; prescribes program criteria and content; provides a timeline for implementation; requires an academic performance study of middle grade students and schools with recommendations for increase in performance; requires school improvement plan to include rigorous reading requirement; provides for individual student plans; provides for additions to academic improvement plans; adds criteria to the assessment process for instructional personnel; requires DOE to conduct study on physical education in public schools; requires school districts to implement mandatory physical education under certain circumstances.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0354er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 354
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| IA | Vetoed 05/2004 | P-12 | Creates new section allowing driver's education to be provided by a teaching parent. Teaching parent must provide, among other requirements, thirty hours of classroom instruction, and four hours of classroom instruction concerning substance abuse. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=HF2394
Title: H.F. 2394
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Urges state board of education to study the inclusion of alcohol awareness and drug usage awareness in K-12 curriculums, including dangers of driving under the influence. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/HJR1006.pdf
Title: H.J.R. 1006
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| VA | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the Family Life Education Program in grades K through 12; provides additions to the curriculum include steps to take to avoid sexual assault, the availability of counseling and legal resources and, in the event of such sexual assault, the importance of immediate medical attention and advice, as well as the requirements of the law.
Title: H.B. 1015
Source: StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Allows high schools with driver education programs to educate students enrolled in the program about organ donation options. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0125.htm
Title: H.B. 2513
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Concerns the treatment of American Sign Language as a foreign language in education that counts toward graduation requirements. http://www.state.co.us/gov_dir/leg_dir/olls/sl2004a/sl_74.htm
Title: H.B. 1037
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| GA | Adopted 04/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding the list of state-funded K-8 school subjects and grades 9-12 courses. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-4-2-.03.pdf
Title: GAC 160-4-2-.03
Source: Georgia State Web site
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| HI | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Designated April as "Financial Literacy for Youth" month. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/hb1898_hd1_.htm
Title: H.B. 1898
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Designates Millersburg Military Institute as the official Kentucky military school. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SJ83/bill.doc
Title: S.J.R. 83
Source: StateNet
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| PA | Issued 04/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Creates the office of financial education, responsible for: (1) Coordinating financial education programs across agencies; (2) Developing and maintaining a comprehensive database of financial education programs, materials and resources; (3) Providing support for the task force on working families; (4) Advising the governor and state agencies on financial education matters; (5) Representing the Commonwealth in developing partnerships with appropriate public and private financial education agencies; and (6) Performing other duties as assigned by the Governor or the Secretary of Banking. Creates the governor's task force for working families, defines responsibilities, membership and directs task force to issue report by March 1, 2005.
http://www.oa.state.pa.us/oac/cwp/view.asp?A=351&Q=185699
Title: Executive Order
Source: http://www.oa.state.pa.us/
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| UT | Rule Adoption 04/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules concerning elementary and secondary school core curriculum. Revises several middle and high school Core Curriculum requirements. UTAH REG 26902 (SN)
Title: R277-700
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Creates new section requiring school divisions to provide students alternatives to student dissection of animals. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0918
Title: H.B. 1018
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires local boards to incorporate art, music, and physical education as a part of the instructional program at the elementary school level, and to employ five elementary resource positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade five for art, music, and physical education.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Amends section 22.1-253.13:1 and 22.1-253.13:2 . Specifies that the Standards of Learning form the core of Virginia's educational program and other educational objectives. Specifies that the state board must, at a minimum, define Standards of Learning for English, mathematics, science, history and social science. Specifies that "communication" as included in the Standards of Learning comprises listening, speaking, reading and writing. To passage on public input on proposed revisions to the Standards of Learning, adds that the department must provide and maintain Web capacity to allowing K-12 educators to submit recommendations for improvements to the Standards of Learning, when under review by the state board, as well as to the related assessments. Deletes "career education schools" from language requiring local boards to implement career and technical education programs.
Provisions (i) increase from one half-time to one full-time principal in elementary schools with fewer than 300 students; (ii) provide one full-time assistant principal for each 400 students in each school, regardless of grade level; (iv) lower the pupil-teacher ratio from 25:1 to 21:1 in middle and high schools, to ensure the provision of scheduled teacher planning time; (v) reduce the required speech pathologist caseload from 68 to 60 students; (vi) require two technology support positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade 12 divisionwide; and (viii) modify the current funding mechanism for remediation.
Requires the state board to submit to the governor and the general assembly a report on the condition and needs of public education in the commonwealth and shall identify any school divisions and the specific schools therein that have failed to establish and maintain schools meeting the existing prescribed standards of quality.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Amends existing law relating to reimbursement to public school districts for driver training courses to increase the average cost per pupil reimbursement from $110 to $125. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1255.html#daily
Title: S.B. 1255
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Amends existing law to remove language setting forth alternative requirements for driver training programs; to provide that the State Board of Education shall adopt rules to provide students with driver education opportunities while students are enrolled in commercial driver training programs; to revise license application requirements; to set forth standards for courses of instruction. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1353.html#billtext
Title: S.B. 1353
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| WA | Vetoed 03/2004 | P-12 | Provides for financial literacy; provides for the creation of a set of financial literacy learning guidelines, providing information on instructional materials that help students meet the learning guidelines, data collection and creating a public- private partnership to help provide instructional tools and professional development to school districts that wish to increase the financial literacy of their students.
Title: H.B. 2455
Source: StateNet
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Relates to public schools; establishes a pilot project for expansion of foreign language instruction through grade six; imposes requirements upon participant schools; establishes initial and on-going training and professional development for teachers and teacher assistants; provides for program implementation and administration through the state superintendent.
Title: H.B. 170
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Requires that advanced placement courses be available in the four core areas (English, math, science, social studies) in high school; exempts high schools offering the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1154.pdf
Title: H.B. 1154
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Requires public school districts to offer a personal finance course to students in grades nine through twelve. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB41.pdf
Title: S.B. 41
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| Curriculum--Alignment |
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes and directs the Department of Education to conduct alignment studies on additional academic indicators to be used for diploma granting decisions; specifies that no additional indicators will be approved until the alignment studies have been completed and the expert panel created by Executive Order 54 has been consulted; requires the Department to recommend appropriate changes to statutes concerning the use of additional indicators. http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/LIS142.NSF/vwLegislation/HJR+34/$file/1901420309.doc/?openelement
Title: H.J.R. 34
Source: Delaware Legislative Web site
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| Curriculum--Arts Education |
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Increases the amount of the fees imposed for issuance and renewal of specified special interest license plates approved by the DMV in consultation with the California Arts Council. Requires the council to use the revenue exclusively for arts education and local arts programming. Prohibits the council from using the revenue for its administrative costs. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1201-1250/sb_1213_bill_20040909_chaptered.html
Title: S.B. 1213
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Increases certain fees imposed by the board of directors of the state school of math, science, and the arts. Increases maximum possible security deposit from $100 to $150; increases maximum possible room and board fee for summer session from $300 to $400 per student. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT8/OUT/0000LUZM.PDF
Title: H.B. 431
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires local boards to incorporate art, music, and physical education as a part of the instructional program at the elementary school level, and to employ five elementary resource positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade five for art, music, and physical education.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us
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| Curriculum--Drivers Education |
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| UT | Rule Adoption 12/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules concerning driver education programs for state schools. Reflects revision date change made to the Driver Education for Utah High Schools Manual. UTAH REG 27423 (SN)
Title: R277-746
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Provides that the satisfactory completion of a course in automobile driver education offered by a private secondary school satisfies the instructional requirements for a provisional driver's license for persons under 18 years of age if specified conditions are met. Existing law generally regulates driving schools and driving instructors. However, existing law provides, until a July 1, 2004, inoperative date, that those provisions are not to be construed to direct or restrict driver education courses offered by private secondary schools, or to require credentialed or certified instructors for courses offered by those private schools. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2005. This bill deletes the July 1, 2004, inoperative date and the January 1, 2005, repeal date, thereby continuing these provisions indefinitely. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_524_bill_20040918_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 524
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 | P-12
Community College | Places driver education course requirements under the Board of Governors for Higher Education instead of the Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education. which substantially conform with the current curriculum utilized by the instructor(s) at the Community College of Rhode Island, including a minimum of three (3) hours of instruction focusing upon specific Rhode Island traffic laws, the specific requirements of the Rhode Island graduated licensing statute in section 31-10-6 and eight (8) hours specifically for instruction on the effects of alcohol and drugs on a driver. All driver's education programs shall include information concerning the Anatomical Gift Act chapter 18.6 of title 23, and information on donor cards pursuant to the applicable provisions of chapter 18.6 of title 23. The program does not offer outside the classroom road test instruction or driving lessons to Rhode Island students.
Title: H.B. 8665
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/gen_assembly
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| IA | Vetoed 05/2004 | P-12 | Creates new section allowing driver's education to be provided by a teaching parent. Teaching parent must provide, among other requirements, thirty hours of classroom instruction, and four hours of classroom instruction concerning substance abuse. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=HF2394
Title: H.F. 2394
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Allows high schools with driver education programs to educate students enrolled in the program about organ donation options. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0125.htm
Title: H.B. 2513
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Amends existing law relating to reimbursement to public school districts for driver training courses to increase the average cost per pupil reimbursement from $110 to $125. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1255.html#daily
Title: S.B. 1255
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Amends existing law to remove language setting forth alternative requirements for driver training programs; to provide that the State Board of Education shall adopt rules to provide students with driver education opportunities while students are enrolled in commercial driver training programs; to revise license application requirements; to set forth standards for courses of instruction. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1353.html#billtext
Title: S.B. 1353
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| Curriculum--Environmental Education |
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Eliminates the requirement imposed on school district governing boards to include certain environmental education materials as part of the adopted instructions materials. Provides that a contribution to the Environmental Education Account will satisfy the requirement for an entity receiving a permit from a regional water quality control board or the State Water Resources Control Board to provide elementary and secondary public schools with storm water pollution educational materials. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1651-1700/ab_1696_bill_20040825_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1696_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1696
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Green schools program; education programs to promote waste reduction and resource efficiency. Authorizes the state board to assist local school boards in the development and implementation of programs of instruction that comply with the provisions of Standard 1 of the Standards of Quality, specifically relating to citizenship and environmental issues and geography necessary for responsible participation in American society and the international community, by cooperating with the environmental groups, other relevant state agencies, such as, but not limited to, the Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Health, and other stakeholders in the development of a green schools program for Virginia. Any such green schools program will focus on waste reduction through recycling and other mechanisms and educating students to help schools contain costs and to reduce waste production through resource efficiency. In the development and implementation of any such program, the Board must examine other states' green schools programs and must receive input from parents, teachers, school administrators, school boards, business and industry leaders, and local governments. The Board must also strive to identify businesses and other organizations that may provide support in the form of resources or funding for appropriate awards for any green schools program that may be implemented in the Commonwealth. This provision must not be construed to require the Board or any school board in the Commonwealth to implement a green school program or to imply or otherwise indicate that state or local funding is required to develop or implement any green school program. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0882
Title: S.B. 315
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| Curriculum--Excusal |
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Provides that if any part of a school's instruction in health conflicts with the religious training and beliefs of a parent or guardian of a pupil, the pupil, upon the parent or guardian's written request, shall be excused from the part of the instruction that conflicts
with the religious training and beliefs. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2525_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| Curriculum--Family Living Education |
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| DE | Rule Adoption 09/2004 | P-12 | Amends regulations relating to the requirements for a standard certificate for educational personnel. Changes are made to conform to changes in statute regarding licensure and certification of educators. Section is renumbered to reflect its movement to the Professional Standards section.
Title: 14 DAC, 331, 1566, 1.0 - 3.3.12
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Correctional Education to arrange for noncustodial parent offenders committed to the custody of the Department of Corrections to be afforded the opportunity to participate in pre- and post- release parenting programs that include parenting skills training, anger management and literacy skills. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=041&typ=bil&val=sb576
Title: S.B. 98
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Permits a school district to include instruction on personal finance, including budgeting, savings and credit, in social sciences courses for students in grades 7 through 12. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2401-2450/ab_2435_bill_20040826_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2435_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2435
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| DE | Rule Adoption 09/2004 | P-12 | Amends regulations relating to the requirements for a standard certificate for educational personnel. Changes are made to conform to changes in statute regarding licensure and certification of educators. Section is renumbered to reflect its movement to the Professional Standards section.
Title: 14 DAC, 331, 1566, 1.0 - 3.3.12
Source: StateNet
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| CO | Signed by Governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Encourages each school district and charter school to adopt a financial literacy curriculum and to make successful completion of the program a graduation requirement. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/88DE0C519CF9551087256D790053005C?Open&file=1360_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1360
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| HI | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Designated April as "Financial Literacy for Youth" month. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/hb1898_hd1_.htm
Title: H.B. 1898
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes 12 or more school districts to enter into an agreement to establish an Educational Service Agency (ESA). The ESA would be managed by an advisory board composed of the superintendents or their designees from each participating school district. The board of directors would be elected on an annual basis from the advisory board and hire an Executive Director. The ESA would provide a variety of services as determined by the participating school districts. In addition, the bill authorizes local school boards to implement a financial literacy program for students in grades 10 and 11. Implementation of this program is discretionary with the local board.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/pdf/SB/3000-3099/SB3016SG.pdf
Title: S.B. 3016
Source: StateNet
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| PA | Issued 04/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Creates the office of financial education, responsible for: (1) Coordinating financial education programs across agencies; (2) Developing and maintaining a comprehensive database of financial education programs, materials and resources; (3) Providing support for the task force on working families; (4) Advising the governor and state agencies on financial education matters; (5) Representing the Commonwealth in developing partnerships with appropriate public and private financial education agencies; and (6) Performing other duties as assigned by the Governor or the Secretary of Banking. Creates the governor's task force for working families, defines responsibilities, membership and directs task force to issue report by March 1, 2005.
http://www.oa.state.pa.us/oac/cwp/view.asp?A=351&Q=185699
Title: Executive Order
Source: http://www.oa.state.pa.us/
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| WA | Vetoed 03/2004 | P-12 | Provides for financial literacy; provides for the creation of a set of financial literacy learning guidelines, providing information on instructional materials that help students meet the learning guidelines, data collection and creating a public- private partnership to help provide instructional tools and professional development to school districts that wish to increase the financial literacy of their students.
Title: H.B. 2455
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Requires public school districts to offer a personal finance course to students in grades nine through twelve. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB41.pdf
Title: S.B. 41
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
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| DE | Rule Adoption 06/2004 | P-12 | Amends regulations that apply to the requirements for Standard Certificates for Foreign Language and Bilingual Teachers. These amendments reflect the adoption of PRAXIS II qualifying scores for Delaware educators. Additionally, course requirements and requirements for acquisition of foreign languages by teachers have been revised. http://www.state.de.us/research/AdminCode/title14/1500/index.shtml
Title: 14 DAC 1528, 1529, 1533, 1537, and 1558
Source: Delaware State Web site
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Concerns the treatment of American Sign Language as a foreign language in education that counts toward graduation requirements. http://www.state.co.us/gov_dir/leg_dir/olls/sl2004a/sl_74.htm
Title: H.B. 1037
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Relates to public schools; establishes a pilot project for expansion of foreign language instruction through grade six; imposes requirements upon participant schools; establishes initial and on-going training and professional development for teachers and teacher assistants; provides for program implementation and administration through the state superintendent.
Title: H.B. 170
Source: StateNet
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| Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education |
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Requires, if instruction in comprehensive sexual health education and HIV/AIDS prevention will be taught by outside consultants, or if that instruction is to be given in an assembly by guest speakers, a school district to notify the parent or guardian of a pupil about that instruction no fewer than 14 days in advance of the instruction. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1901-1950/ab_1925_bill_20040830_chaptered.html
Title: A.B. 1925
Source: California Web site
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| MI | To governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Revises requirements for instruction in sex education; requires teaching abstinence relative to HIV/AIDS issues; requires emphasis on marriage when teaching about sexual intercourse; requires teaching that adoption is a positive option for teen mothers; requires teaching of criminal consequences of having sex with someone under age 16.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0165.pdf
Title: S.B. 943
Source: StateNet
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| Curriculum--International Education |
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| CT | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Encourages international studies programs; encourages the development of international education opportunities and programs; requires the Commissioner of Education to establish an international education advisory committee to explore international opportunities for learning, exchange programs and the availability of curriculum materials for students, teacher, administrators and educational policy makers. http://www.cga.state.ct.us/2004/act/Pa/2004PA-00153-R00HB-05577-PA.htm
Title: H.B. 5577
Source: Connecticut Legislative Web site
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| Curriculum--Language Arts |
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Amends section 22.1-253.13:1 and 22.1-253.13:2 . Specifies that the Standards of Learning form the core of Virginia's educational program and other educational objectives. Specifies that the state board must, at a minimum, define Standards of Learning for English, mathematics, science, history and social science. Specifies that "communication" as included in the Standards of Learning comprises listening, speaking, reading and writing. To passage on public input on proposed revisions to the Standards of Learning, adds that the department must provide and maintain Web capacity to allowing K-12 educators to submit recommendations for improvements to the Standards of Learning, when under review by the state board, as well as to the related assessments. Deletes "career education schools" from language requiring local boards to implement career and technical education programs.
Provisions (i) increase from one half-time to one full-time principal in elementary schools with fewer than 300 students; (ii) provide one full-time assistant principal for each 400 students in each school, regardless of grade level; (iv) lower the pupil-teacher ratio from 25:1 to 21:1 in middle and high schools, to ensure the provision of scheduled teacher planning time; (v) reduce the required speech pathologist caseload from 68 to 60 students; (vi) require two technology support positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade 12 divisionwide; and (viii) modify the current funding mechanism for remediation.
Requires the state board to submit to the governor and the general assembly a report on the condition and needs of public education in the commonwealth and shall identify any school divisions and the specific schools therein that have failed to establish and maintain schools meeting the existing prescribed standards of quality.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us
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| Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling |
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| SC | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 02/2004 | P-12 | (Joint Resolution) Approves regulations of the Board of Education; relates to basic skills assessment program writing text; relates to minimum standards of student achievement.
Title: H.B. 3875
Source: StateNet
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| Curriculum--Mathematics |
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Exempts a pupil who, prior to enrollment in grade 9, completes coursework in algebra that meets or exceeds the rigor of the state board content standards for Algebra I, from the high school graduation requirement that at least one course, or a combination of the two math courses required to be completed in grades 9-12, meet or exceed the rigor of the content standards for Algebra I. However, pupil is still not exempted from the graduation requirement that he or she complete two courses in mathematics while enrolled in grades 9-12. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2525_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Board of Regents for elementary and secondary education to select and/or develop a statewide curriculum in mathematics and English/Language arts in grades kindergarten (k) through twelve by August 31, 2006. The curriculum selected and/or developed by the board of regents must (1) be aligned with state standards and assessments utilized by the state department of education; and (2) contain sufficient detail to guide teachers in planning lessons aligned with state standards and assessments. The state commissioner is to convene an advisory committee in each area (math and English/language arts).
Title: S.B. 2672
Source: Rhode Island Legislative Web Site
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Increases certain fees imposed by the board of directors of the state school of math, science, and the arts. Increases maximum possible security deposit from $100 to $150; increases maximum possible room and board fee for summer session from $300 to $400 per student. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT8/OUT/0000LUZM.PDF
Title: H.B. 431
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| ME | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 |
In 1993, the United States Congress authorized the "Department
of Defense STARBASE Program" and authorized the Department of
Defense to enter into agreements with the states for the purpose
of conducting programs designed to improve the knowledge and
skills of students in mathematics, science and technology. This
bill authorizes the establishment of a STARBASE program to provide science, mathematics and technology education improvement program for school children; removes the provisions of the bill that authorize the Adjutant General to contract with public and private entities to operate the program; retains and clarifies the provisions of the bill that authorizes the Adjutant General to hire a Director and other employees to operate the program.
http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/externalsiteframe.asp?ID=280011947&LD=1690&Type=1
Title: http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/externalsiteframe.asp?ID=280011947&LD=1690&Type=1
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Amends section 22.1-253.13:1 and 22.1-253.13:2 . Specifies that the Standards of Learning form the core of Virginia's educational program and other educational objectives. Specifies that the state board must, at a minimum, define Standards of Learning for English, mathematics, science, history and social science. Specifies that "communication" as included in the Standards of Learning comprises listening, speaking, reading and writing. To passage on public input on proposed revisions to the Standards of Learning, adds that the department must provide and maintain Web capacity to allowing K-12 educators to submit recommendations for improvements to the Standards of Learning, when under review by the state board, as well as to the related assessments. Deletes "career education schools" from language requiring local boards to implement career and technical education programs.
Provisions (i) increase from one half-time to one full-time principal in elementary schools with fewer than 300 students; (ii) provide one full-time assistant principal for each 400 students in each school, regardless of grade level; (iv) lower the pupil-teacher ratio from 25:1 to 21:1 in middle and high schools, to ensure the provision of scheduled teacher planning time; (v) reduce the required speech pathologist caseload from 68 to 60 students; (vi) require two technology support positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade 12 divisionwide; and (viii) modify the current funding mechanism for remediation.
Requires the state board to submit to the governor and the general assembly a report on the condition and needs of public education in the commonwealth and shall identify any school divisions and the specific schools therein that have failed to establish and maintain schools meeting the existing prescribed standards of quality.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us
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| AR | Vetoed 01/2004 | P-12 | Creates the advisory commission on math excellence to improve math education in Arkansas. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1010.pdf
Title: H.B. 1010
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| Curriculum--Multicultural |
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| ND | Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules regarding initial licenses, distance learning instructor - definition - qualifications - licensure, two-year and five-year renewals, professional development for license renewal, multicultural education and native american studies, and reentry.
Title: NDAC 67.1-02-02-, -04, -05, -07, -09
Source: StateNet
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| Curriculum--Physical Education |
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the physical activity and nutrition of students. Identifies childhood obesity as a growing problem in Louisiana. Identifies benefits of regular physical activity and healthy eating habits. States purposes of this section are: (1) To promote, encourage, and motivate children of all physical abilities to participate in physical activity for children to reach their full potential as individuals; (2) To promote physical activity and fitness in schools by encouraging innovative physical education programs that consist of physical exertion of a moderate to vigorous intensity level; (3) To promote improved nutritional levels in children by providing for snacks with higher nutritional value during the school day; (4) To inform children and their parents about the importance of physical activity and improved nutrition and the effects of both on positive outcomes. (5) To increase parental awareness of their children's activity and fitness levels. (6) To promote daily physical activity, the enjoyment of physical activity, the improvement of nutritional levels and eating habits and the development of lifelong patterns of physical activity.
Deletes existing provision that, beginning with the 2004-05 school year, schools serving children in grades K-6 provide at least thirty minutes of quality physical activity for students each school day. Replaces with provision that in 2004-05 school year, schools serving children in such grades provide at least thirty minutes of "quality moderate to vigorous" physical activity for students every school day. Requires every public elementary school to annually report to its local board on compliance with this provision. Also requires every local board to annually report to the state board on compliance with this provision. Requires suitably adapted physical activity to be included as part of the individual education plans for students with chronic health problems, other disabling conditions or other special needs that preclude participation in regular physical activity.
Encourages secondary school students not enrolled in a physical education course to participate in moderate to vigorous physical activity commensurate with student ability for at least 30 minutes a day.
Requires various state agents, including the department of education and the department of health and hospitals, as well as the American Heart Association, to collaborate to develop an outreach and communication plan consisting of current information and research on health, nutrition and physical education and fitness issues. This plan must be disseminated to every local public school board and made available to parents and students.
Beginning with the 2004-05 school year, requires a public elementary or secondary school selected from each regional education service center region in the state to be annually identified for an outstanding program of physical activity implemented at the school. As funds are available, requires monetary awards to be given these outstanding schools.
Allows any public school serving students in grades 7, 8, 9 or 10 to apply to participate in a three-year pilot program to begin in the 2005-06 school year. Requires the state board to choose up to eight schools from each of the eight regional service districts to participate in the program, striving to achieve equal geographic distribution. Identifies areas of study: (1) An annual assessment that measures aspects of health-related fitness, rather than skill or agility, of the students in participating schools; (2) An assessment of the changes in weight status of the students who are enrolled in participating schools and who are receiving combined nutritional and physical activity intervention versus a nutritional intervention or physical activity intervention alone; and (3) The collection of individual baseline and longitudinal data to measure the improvement of each individual student. No assessment shall compare any student to another. Idenfities state entities required to collaborate to develop the elements of the pilot program and the recommendations for its implementation. Requires every school selected to participate in the program to provide a comprehensive report to the state board at the end of each school year on the effectiveness of the pilot program in accomplishing the pilot program objectives.
States that the pilot program established in this bill must in no way interfere with or replace any effort, purpose, assessment or program implemented by the Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT7/OUT/0000LVUO.PDF
Title: S.B. 871
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| VT | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | The purpose of the act is to encourage wellness programs in Vermont public schools and in Vermont communities. Wellness programs will be designed to encourage life-long patterns of healthy eating and regular physical exercise among Vermont citizens. Provides for physical activity programs and physical education programs; provides for nutrition education; provides for assistance to school districts on wellness; provides for a definition of nutritious foods. Requires the development of a model school fitness and nutrition policy. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2004/acts/ACT161.HTM
Title: H.B. 272
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Urges schools to provide instruction on healthy lifestyle choices including programs for physical education; urges restrictions on granting waivers for physical education. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp
Title: S.J.R. 97
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site
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| FL | To governor 05/2004 | P-12 | Creates the "Middle School Reform Act;" provides definitions; prescribes program criteria and content; provides a timeline for implementation; requires an academic performance study of middle grade students and schools with recommendations for increase in performance; requires school improvement plan to include rigorous reading requirement; provides for individual student plans; provides for additions to academic improvement plans; adds criteria to the assessment process for instructional personnel; requires DOE to conduct study on physical education in public schools; requires school districts to implement mandatory physical education under certain circumstances.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0354er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 354
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires local boards to incorporate art, music, and physical education as a part of the instructional program at the elementary school level, and to employ five elementary resource positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade five for art, music, and physical education.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us
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| Curriculum--Science |
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | SEC. 17: Existing law provides that no pupil shall receive a diploma of graduation from high school who, while in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, has
not completed specified courses, including 2 courses in science. Prior law required a pupil to complete only one course in science to receive
a diploma.
This bill provides that for purposes of calculating the amount of the state reimbursement for the state-mandated local program imposed by increasing the science course requirement from one science course to 2 science courses, if the school district or county office claims reimbursement for a new science facility, the reimbursement shall be reduced by the amount of state bond funds, if any, received by the school
district or county office to construct the new science facility. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2851-2900/ab_2855_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2853_2855_2856_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 2855 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.go
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| MA | Vetoed 07/2004 | P-12 | Provides that the Board of Education be directed to establish guidelines for dissections in science classes in the public schools of the Commonwealth; allows students who choose not to participate in dissection to be allowed to demonstrate competency through an alternative method which does not include being required to watch another student performing a dissection; provides that a teacher shall not discriminate for a student for not participating.
Title: H.B. 1252
Source: StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Increases certain fees imposed by the board of directors of the state school of math, science, and the arts. Increases maximum possible security deposit from $100 to $150; increases maximum possible room and board fee for summer session from $300 to $400 per student. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT8/OUT/0000LUZM.PDF
Title: H.B. 431
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| ME | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 |
In 1993, the United States Congress authorized the "Department
of Defense STARBASE Program" and authorized the Department of
Defense to enter into agreements with the states for the purpose
of conducting programs designed to improve the knowledge and
skills of students in mathematics, science and technology. This
bill authorizes the establishment of a STARBASE program to provide science, mathematics and technology education improvement program for school children; removes the provisions of the bill that authorize the Adjutant General to contract with public and private entities to operate the program; retains and clarifies the provisions of the bill that authorizes the Adjutant General to hire a Director and other employees to operate the program.
http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/externalsiteframe.asp?ID=280011947&LD=1690&Type=1
Title: http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/externalsiteframe.asp?ID=280011947&LD=1690&Type=1
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Creates new section requiring school divisions to provide students alternatives to student dissection of animals. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0918
Title: H.B. 1018
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Amends section 22.1-253.13:1 and 22.1-253.13:2 . Specifies that the Standards of Learning form the core of Virginia's educational program and other educational objectives. Specifies that the state board must, at a minimum, define Standards of Learning for English, mathematics, science, history and social science. Specifies that "communication" as included in the Standards of Learning comprises listening, speaking, reading and writing. To passage on public input on proposed revisions to the Standards of Learning, adds that the department must provide and maintain Web capacity to allowing K-12 educators to submit recommendations for improvements to the Standards of Learning, when under review by the state board, as well as to the related assessments. Deletes "career education schools" from language requiring local boards to implement career and technical education programs.
Provisions (i) increase from one half-time to one full-time principal in elementary schools with fewer than 300 students; (ii) provide one full-time assistant principal for each 400 students in each school, regardless of grade level; (iv) lower the pupil-teacher ratio from 25:1 to 21:1 in middle and high schools, to ensure the provision of scheduled teacher planning time; (v) reduce the required speech pathologist caseload from 68 to 60 students; (vi) require two technology support positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade 12 divisionwide; and (viii) modify the current funding mechanism for remediation.
Requires the state board to submit to the governor and the general assembly a report on the condition and needs of public education in the commonwealth and shall identify any school divisions and the specific schools therein that have failed to establish and maintain schools meeting the existing prescribed standards of quality.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us
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| Curriculum--Sex Education |
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Requires, if instruction in comprehensive sexual health education and HIV/AIDS prevention will be taught by outside consultants, or if that instruction is to be given in an assembly by guest speakers, a school district to notify the parent or guardian of a pupil about that instruction no fewer than 14 days in advance of the instruction. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1901-1950/ab_1925_bill_20040830_chaptered.html
Title: A.B. 1925
Source: California Web site
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| MI | To governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Revises requirements for instruction in sex education; requires teaching abstinence relative to HIV/AIDS issues; requires emphasis on marriage when teaching about sexual intercourse; requires teaching that adoption is a positive option for teen mothers; requires teaching of criminal consequences of having sex with someone under age 16.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0165.pdf
Title: S.B. 943
Source: StateNet
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| MI | To governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Revises penalties related to instruction in sex education and provides for complaint process.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0166.pdf
Title: H.B. 5478
Source: StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Concerns limitations on education regarding manifestations of human sexuality. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/6B239FC2932F199287256E1A00062311?Open&file=1375_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1375
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| VA | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the Family Life Education Program in grades K through 12; provides additions to the curriculum include steps to take to avoid sexual assault, the availability of counseling and legal resources and, in the event of such sexual assault, the importance of immediate medical attention and advice, as well as the requirements of the law.
Title: H.B. 1015
Source: StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Eliminates a requirement for school districts to provide abortion information.
Title: L.B. 172
Source: StateNet
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| Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Permits a school district to include instruction on personal finance, including budgeting, savings and credit, in social sciences courses for students in grades 7 through 12. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2401-2450/ab_2435_bill_20040826_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2435_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2435
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Section 2: Repeals the requirement that pupils in American government and civics courses required for high school graduation read and be taught specified documents, including the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution and the Gettysburg Address. Requires the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that those documents are incorporated in the framework when the history-social science framework is revised. Requires the State Board of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to ensure that an appropriate number of questions on the California Standards Tests relate to those documents if any portion of the California Standards Tests is revised. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2851-2900/ab_2855_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2853_2855_2856_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 2855 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that specified historical
documents are incorporated into the framework when the history-social science framework is revised. These documents are: (1) The Declaration of Independence; (2) The United States Constitution, including the Bill of Rights; (3) The Federalist Papers; (4) The Emancipation Proclamation;
(5) The Gettysburg Address; and (6) George Washington's Farewell Address. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2525_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 07/2004 | P-12 | Encourages the instruction of World War II and the role of Filipinos in that war in social science instruction in grades 7 through 12, inclusive. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2512_bill_20040624_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2512_Veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2512
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Provides an additional duty of incorporating instruction of Native American history into appropriate existing curricula; provides that the instruction curriculum for all schools shall include the history of Native Americans in Arizona. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0339.htm
Title: S.B. 1365
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Promotes "Colorado History Day" (NHD), a year-long academic enrichment program that engages students in grades six to twelve in the process of discovery and interpretation of historical topics. and making an appropriation to schools. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/CFD276C782F7232787256DDE00801172?Open&file=1202_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1202
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Amends section 22.1-253.13:1 and 22.1-253.13:2 . Specifies that the Standards of Learning form the core of Virginia's educational program and other educational objectives. Specifies that the state board must, at a minimum, define Standards of Learning for English, mathematics, science, history and social science. Specifies that "communication" as included in the Standards of Learning comprises listening, speaking, reading and writing. To passage on public input on proposed revisions to the Standards of Learning, adds that the department must provide and maintain Web capacity to allowing K-12 educators to submit recommendations for improvements to the Standards of Learning, when under review by the state board, as well as to the related assessments. Deletes "career education schools" from language requiring local boards to implement career and technical education programs.
Provisions (i) increase from one half-time to one full-time principal in elementary schools with fewer than 300 students; (ii) provide one full-time assistant principal for each 400 students in each school, regardless of grade level; (iv) lower the pupil-teacher ratio from 25:1 to 21:1 in middle and high schools, to ensure the provision of scheduled teacher planning time; (v) reduce the required speech pathologist caseload from 68 to 60 students; (vi) require two technology support positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade 12 divisionwide; and (viii) modify the current funding mechanism for remediation.
Requires the state board to submit to the governor and the general assembly a report on the condition and needs of public education in the commonwealth and shall identify any school divisions and the specific schools therein that have failed to establish and maintain schools meeting the existing prescribed standards of quality.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us
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| Data-Driven Improvement |
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2004 | Postsec. | Allows the Director of the Department of Administration and the Executive Director of the Board of Regents to establish a performance based incentives program of state employee appraisal. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0047.htm
Title: H.B. 2032
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| WV | to governor 03/2004 | P-12 | Part of H.B. 4001 requires the state board to adopt and periodically review and update indicators of efficiency for use by the appropriate divisions within the department to ensure efficient management and utilization of resources in the public schools.
Title: H.B. 4001 - Multiple Sections
Source: West Virginia Legislative Web Site
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| Demographics--Enrollments |
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Current law requires that the State Auditor perform two audits of each charter school's enrollment each spring. This legislation discontinues that wasteful practice and, instead, provides each school district with certificates from each charter school regarding student enrollment.
The legislation also gives the Department of Education and local districts access to underlying documents maintained by each charter school. With this access to information, school districts will be aware of the number of students planning to attend a charter school early enough to permit appropriate planning. http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/LIS142.NSF/vwLegislation/SB+275/$file/2381420066.doc/?openelement
Title: S.B. 275
Source: Delaware Legislative Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 05/2004 | Postsec. | Adds promotion of Master Plan goals to the Board of Regents authority to advertise and specifies postsecondary learning centers to advertise; relates to increasing the number of other race students enrolled in a public institution of higher learning.
Title: S.B. 629
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Relates to Adequate Education Program; deletes repealer on high growth school district formula.
If during the year for which adequate education program funds are appropriated, any school district experiences a three percent (3%) or greater increase in average daily attendance during the second and third month over the preceding year's second and third month and the school district has requested a minimum increase of four percent (4%) in local ad valorem revenues over the previous year as authorized in Sections 37-57-104 and 37-57-105, an additional allocation of adequate education program funds calculated in the following manner shall be granted to that district, using any additional funds available to the Department of Education that exceed the amount of funds due to the school districts under the basic adequate education program distribution as provided for in this chapter:
The State Department of Education shall study and develop a report to the Chairmen of the Senate and House Committees on Education by January 1, 2005, with options for legislative consideration that will insure that the Mississippi Adequate Education funds are distributed to school districts based on current year student attendance or enrollment. This subsection (4) shall stand repealed on July 1, 2006
Title: H.B. 741
Source: StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Requires the state board to formulate policy for attendance and transfer of students whose custodial parents reside in two local education agencies.
Title: S.B. 3305
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| CA | Rule Adoption 02/2004 | P-12 | Amends rule to provide that a pupil over the age of 19 years may generate attendance for apportionment purposes in a charter school only if the pupil was enrolled in public school in pursuit of a high school diploma or in keeping with an individualized education plan while 19 years of ages, is enrolled in a charter school without a break in public school enrollment since that time, and is not over the age of 22. http://ccr.oal.ca.gov/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?clientID=81458&E22=Title%205&E23=11960&E24=&infobase=ccr&querytemplate=%261.%20Go%20to%20a%20Specific%20Section&record={102D2}&softpage=Document42
Title: Title 5 CCR 11960
Source: California State Web site
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| Desegregation |
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| CA | Vetoed--in Senate to unfinished business 10/2004 | P-12 | The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for costs mandated by the state and incurred by a local agency or school district to implement a new program or higher level of service. Existing law creates certain exceptions. This bill includes within that exception costs mandated by a statute or executive order that imposes a duty on a local agency or school district that was expressly included in a ballot measure approved by the voters in a local election.
Repeals provisions requiring a school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District to use, for home-to-school transportation, the funding made available pursuant to voluntary desegregation programs and requires that pupils in grades 7 to 12 who apply to transfer from a school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District to another school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District to be granted a transfer according to certain priorities, among which is that the transfer would mitigate schoolsite segregation. Replaces with statement of the intent of the Legislature that, if the Grant Joint Union High School District is reorganized to create two new unified school districts, the reorganization must be implemented in a manner that provides constitutionally permissible opportunities for the voluntary racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic integration of pupils attending each school district.
Requires a proposal to reorganize the Grant Joint Union High School District that is initiated by the Sacramento County Committee on School District Organization and approved by the State Board of Education before December 31, 2007, to include requirements that pupils eligible to enroll in any of grades 7 to 12, except expelled pupils, whose parents are residents of any school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union
High School District have the same rights to enroll in any secondary school in a district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District as a pupil whose parents are residents of that other district, and that the successor school districts to the Grant Joint Union High School District provide free transportation to these pupils if they so request, hold joint annual meetings to review segregation issues, and grant seniority rights to employees of school districts that cease to exist as a result of the proposal who become employees of the successor districts.
Requires a ballot measure to approve this proposal to clearly inform the voters that by approving the measure the voters are mandating the successor school districts to incur costs to implement the requirements described above and that these costs would not be reimbursed by the state. Makes legislative findings and declarations in this regard. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1251-1300/sb_1271_bill_20040823_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/SB_1271_veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1271
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| MA | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Relates to the School Building Assistance Program; provides for grants, investments, trusts and bonds; creates the School Building Authority; provides for children with disabilities; prohibits racial desegregation; provides for public-private partnerships, charter schools, construction that will facilitate early education and care programs; financial incentives to cities that adopt zoning policies for increased affordable housing production; provides for hearings.
Title: H.B. 4978
Source: StateNet
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| IA | Adopted 06/2004 | P-12 | Codifies open enrollment policies and procedures from the department's guidelines and decisions. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/2004/iac/281iac/28117/28117.pdf
Title: 281 IAC 17.2 thru .14 (non seq)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules
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| AL | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Amended S.J.R. 16 (Act 2003-500, 2003 2nd Sp. Sess) that related to the Alabama Interim Brown versus Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission, members increased, authority expanded, dissolution date extended to January 1, 2005. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp
Title: S.J.R. 32
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site
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| Economic/Workforce Development |
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| MS | Rule Adoption 11/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Establishes the terms and conditions for WIA incentive grants to community/junior colleges to comply with the Comprehensive Workforce Training and Education Act of 2004. MISSISSIPPI REG 9396 (SN)
Title: Policy No. 24
Source: StateNet
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| AZ | Issued 10/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | The creation of the Governor's Council on Innovation and Technology, which shall replace the Arizona Science and Technology Council, and shall be charged with: Strengthening the innovation and technology infrastructure of Arizona; Enhancing university research and education in high technology fields; Inspiring cooperation between industry and university researchers; and Creating and retaining high quality jobs in Arizona.
Title: Executive Order 2003-7
Source: Governor's Web Site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Defines workforce infrastructure as provisions for the delivery of public services essential to the viability of the state workforce. Requires the Governor to submit annually a proposed 5-year workforce infrastructure plan about the infrastructure needs for provision of public instruction and public libraries. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0651-0700/ab_671_bill_20040827_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_671_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 671
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the California Children and Families Commission to complete and submit a cost study that provides an estimate of the cost of a voluntary Preschool for All program in the state. Convenes a Workforce Development Blue Ribbon Committee to develop a workforce development plan that establishes an infrastructure for educating, preparing and supporting a well-trained, culturally and linguistically diverse teaching and administrative staff in early care and education programs, Preschool for All programs, and kindergarten and grades 1 to 3. Requires the committee, by January 1, 2006, to present a workforce development plan. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0701-0750/ab_712_bill_20040828_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_712_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 712
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | Postsec. | Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to maintain a Health Professions Career Opportunity Program to increase the numbers of minorities in health professions training. Establishes the Nursing Workforce Education Investment Act to provide a state nursing contract program with accredited schools and programs that train licensed vocational and registered nurses to increase the number of nurses in the state.
Bill text as sent to governor: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/03-04//bill/asm/ab_1801-1850/ab_1821_bill_20040824_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1821_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1821
Source: StateNet
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| IA | Issued 08/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Creates the IOWA LEARNS COUNCIL. The Iowa Learns Council shall work towards the ambitious goal of 90% of Iowa children having a quality pre-school experience, and 90% of Iowa high school graduates will go on to complete at least two years of college; shall promote, gather, and share information regarding Iowa's progress to ensure seamless pathways across education sectors and the workplace; shall identify the necessary steps to ensure that Iowans--from pre-school to graduate school--are supported by a well coordinated seamless system of learning and support to provide for successes from early childhood through higher education, and into the workforce in our communities.
http://www.state.ia.us/iowalearns/doc/eo30.html
Iowa Learns Council report with recommendations released August 11, 2004. http://www.state.ia.us/iowalearns/reports.html
Title: Executive Order No. 30 - 2003
Source: Iowa State Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Creates the African-American Family Commission Act. Establishes a 15-member African-American Family Commission to serve as a coordinating and advocating body that acts on behalf of the interests of African-Americans to improve and expand existing human services and educational and community development programs. Provides for funding through appropriations. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0867
Title: S.B. 3208
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| MS | Rule Adoption 07/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Amends rules concerning the 2005 workforce project guidelines. MISSISSIPPI REG 9245 (SN)
Title: (Uncodified)
Source: StateNet
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 | Postsec. | Addresses the shortage of nurses in health care facilities by establishing a nursing education repayment program to provide loan repayment for nurses who agree to serve in health care facilities for designated periods of time; takes effect upon passage.
Title: H.B. 7680
Source: StateNet
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| WY | Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | Establishes emergency rules to make funding available to individuals who wish to pursue a career in nursing and to alleviate a shortage of nurses within a state. Covers definitions, application and approval process, eligibility requirements, loan terms, loan amounts, interest, terms of repayment, and procedures for default. WYOMING REG 4505 (SN)
Title: Chapter 1
Source: StateNet
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| AZ | Issued 06/2004 | P-12 | Creates the Arizona Statewide Youth Development Task Force to provide policy recommendations relating to youth and youth development issues in the state of Arizona to the Governor's Office for Children, Youth and Families. Establishes membership. Requires the task force to advise the governor through (1) the creation of of policy work groups on matters such as positive youth development, youth workforce development, education and youth voice and advocacy; (2) the development of more and better opportunities for positive use of time,
positive use of self-expression, civic engagement and participation for youth in the state; (3) the coordination of services for Arizona's youth with community-based, faith-based, city, state and local youth-serving agencies and organizations; and (4) the ongoing review of proposed federal and state legislation and existing laws relating to youth and youth development.
http://www.governor.state.az.us/eo/2004_14.pdf
Title: Executive Order 2004-14
Source: www.governor.state.az.us
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| CT | Signed into law 06/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Concerning workforce development; establishes a competitive grant program for the development of educational programs in emerging and interdisciplinary technology fields and related issues, to give the Office of Workforce Competitiveness responsibility for coordinating state-wide development and implementation of all technology-based talent and workforce innovation strategies and to make technical corrections to workforce development statutes. http://www.cga.state.ct.us/2004/act/Pa/2004PA-00212-R00SB-00517-PA.htm
Title: S.B. 517
Source: Connecticut Legislative Web site
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| CT | Signed into law 06/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Concerning allied health workforce needs; creates a State Allied Health Workforce Policy Board to monitor data and trends in the allied health workforce including the state's current and future supply and demand for health professionals, identify recruitment and retention strategies and the capacity of the state system of higher education to educate and train students in health care professions. http://www.cga.state.ct.us/2004/act/Pa/2004PA-00220-R00SB-00519-PA.htm
Title: S.B. 519
Source: Connecticut Legislative Web site
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| CT | Signed into law 06/2004 | Community College | Establishes a State Nursing Incentive Program within the Department of Higher Education to provide program assistance to the state's 4 regional community-technical colleges; requires the Office of Workforce Competitiveness to establish a challenge grant program for regional workforce development boards for FY-2004-05. http://www.cga.state.ct.us/2004/act/Pa/2004PA-00253-R00HB-05571-PA.htm
Title: H.B. 5571
Source: Connecticut Legislative Web site
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| FL | Signed by Governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Relates to career, workforce and technical education; requires said education programs within the comprehensive high school program of study to be industry certified; provides academic requirements for students enrolled in said education programs; allows charter technical career center sponsors to submit full-time enrollment membership data as defined in the charter agreement; provides for career education certification on high school diploma; allows incentive funding to school districts for students receiving certifications; redesignates adult technical education programs as workforce education programs; provides certain responsibilities for district school boards and superintendents.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=hb0769er.html&Directory=session/2004/House/bills/billtext/html/
Title: H.B. 769
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| FL | Vetoed 06/2004 | Postsec. | Relates to workforce development education programs; redesignates adult technical education programs as workforce development education programs; provides requirements for funding. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb1258er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 1258
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Amends Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49. Requires the Tennessee higher education commission to study and report to the general assembly by February 1, 2005, on the appropriateness and the relevance of current training and educational programs offered by institutions authorized for members of the allied health care professions to determine the extent to which training and educational activities are structured to assure the availability of up to date training that reflects current responsibilities of the various allied health fields. The regionally accredited, degree granting institutions are exempted from this provision. Authorizes the commission to require an institution to publish placement rates and other information indicating actual employment and earnings in relevant occupations post successful completion of offered programs. Creates a special committee to study issues related to the cost and adequacy of certain programs. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0831.pdf
Title: H.B. 1093
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Creates and expands opportunities in Maine to retain and attract youth of 15 to 35 years of age by developing a comprehensive marketing strategy to promote Maine to youth as an attractive location to pursue education, employment and business development opportunities; provides that higher education and business opportunities must be highlighted; establishes an advisory body.
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/billtexts/LD188301-1.asp
Title: H.P. 1399
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Establishes the "Mississippi Comprehensive Workforce Training and Education Consolidation Act of 2004" to create one comprehensive workforce training system for the state by consolidating the Mississippi Workforce Development Advisory Council and the Workforce Investment Act Board. Composed of 37 members, the Mississippi Workforce Investment Board includes the State Superintendent of Education. One of the tasks of the board is to advise the Governor, public schools, community/junior colleges and institutions of higher learning on effective school-to-work transition policies and programs that link students moving from high school to higher education and students moving between community colleges and four-year institutions in pursuit of academic and technical skills training. The Board will also work with industry to identify barriers that inhibit the delivery of quality workforce education and the responsiveness of educational institutions to the needs of industry.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/pdf/HB/0900-0999/HB0973SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 973
Source: StateNet
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| AK | Signed into law 04/2004 | Postsec. | Provides that the president of the University of Alaska may approve a contract between the University of Alaska and an employee that authorizes the employee to conduct research or other development of intellectual property and to develop, operate, or own a business related to or resulting from the research conducted during the employment; provides that the business may be jointly owned by the employee and the University of Alaska. http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill_text.asp?hsid=HB0282Z&session=23
Title: H.B. 282
Source: Alaska Legislative Web site
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2004 | Community College | Concerns Community College District Workforce Development accounts; requires community colleges, including tribal community colleges, to complete biennial development plan activity reports. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0088.htm
Title: H.B. 2026
Source: Arizona Legislative web site
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2004 | Postsec. | The department of economic development shall establish and administer a university-based research utilitzation program for the purpose of encouraging university-based research, primarily in the area of high technology, in new or existing businesses.
Title: H.F. 2431
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Adds the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research to the list of those entities characterized as "educational institutions" and "governmental instrumentalities for the dissemination of education." This designation will not empower the Institute to establish unfunded scholarships (§ 23-31), nor will it place the Institute under the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV), the coordinating council for two- and four-year public colleges and universities. In addition, the designation does not require the Institute to submit an annual report to SCHEV regarding financial statements (§ 23-1.01). http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0857
Title: H.B. 933
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Increases the membership of the governing board of the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research from nine to 15 by adding six citizen representatives, two each appointed by the Governor, the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, and the Speaker of the House of Delegates. Created by the 2002 Session, the Institute is located in Danville and was founded by Averett University, Danville Community College, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The Institute is authorized to enter into and administer agreements with institutions of higher education to deliver traditional and electronic education and is to diversify the region's economy by providing a site for the development of technology and a trained workforce and expanding access to higher education in Southside Virginia. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0856
Title: H.B. 932
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | Postsec. | Directs the State Council of Higher Education to develop policies and strategies to eliminate the barriers between the Commonwealth's institutions of higher education and industry and enhance the development of human capital in the Commonwealth. More specifically, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) shall develop policies to eliminate the barriers between the Commonwealth's institutions of higher education and industry and enhance the development of human capital in the Commonwealth. These policies and strategies shall include a review of (i) offering incentives for industry to partner with universities in the practical training of undergraduate and graduate students; (ii) providing opportunities and incentives for corporate scientists and engineers to have adjunct appointments at universities to train and collaborate with faculty and students; (iii) assisting universities in acquiring funding to build or buy facilities where academic labs and corporate entities can work together; (iv) providing opportunities and assistance for academic researchers to take one- to two-year sabbaticals in a corporate setting or national lab and bring that experience back to the institution; (v) increasing the two-year leave of absence for science and engineering faculty to generate more industrial-sponsored research; (vi) allowing industry to fully fund faculty salaries and allow the faculty to work in industry while remaining a university employee, with proper safeguards in place; and (vii) allowing faculty to be part-time university employees and part-time industry employees, also with proper safeguards in place. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) shall report its findings to the Governor and the General Assembly by November 30, 2004. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB547ER
Title: H.B. 547
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| WV | Signed into law 04/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Changes certain reporting requirements in the West Virginia Workforce Investment Act; requires a public agenda in the strategic five-year state workforce investment plan; creates the workforce investment interagency collaborative team to designate and revise local workforce investment areas, and revise allocation formulas for the distribution of funds for adult employment and training activities and youth activities to local areas.
Title: H.B. 4411
Source: StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2004 | Community College | Concerns an increase in the amount of moneys transferred by the State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education from the Colorado Customized Training Program to the Colorado Existing Industry Training Program. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/6F0C42C5766A932487256DEF00572AC8?open&file=1166_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1166
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Effective January 1, 2005, each public institution of higher education shall include in its strategic plan information indicating to what extent, if any, it will use distance learning to expand access, improve quality, and minimize the cost of education. For institutions using or planning to use distance learning in the future, such information shall include the degree to which distance learning will be integrated into the curriculum, benchmarks for measuring such integration, and a schedule for the evaluation of such courses. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0146
Title: H.B. 617
Source: StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 02/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Requires certain reporting to the legislative oversight commission on workforce investment for economic development; provides for administration and oversight of grants to community and technical colleges for workforce development education.
Title: H.B. 4131
Source: StateNet
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| SD | Rule Adoption 01/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules requiring the director of the Office of Career and Technical Education to convene a meeting of the technical directors and an Office of Economic Development staff member to review applications for new or expanded programs prior to their presentation to the State Board of Education. SOUTH DAKOTA REG 3969 (SN)
Title: 24:10:42:23
Source: StateNet
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| Education Research |
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes a local educational agency that provides every pupil in kindergarten and grades 1 to 3, inclusive, with instructional materials in reading that were adopted by the state board of education in January 2002, to determine which supplemental instruction materials are scientifically based and aligned with the reading/language arts content standards adopted by the state board. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2401-2450/ab_2416_bill_20040817_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2416_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2416
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the state department of education to identify and notify local educational agencies that are in danger of being identified within three to four years as program improvement local educational agencies under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 200. Requires the department to provide those local educational agencies with research-based criteria to conduct a voluntary self-assessment using department-provided materials and criteria based on current research. Requires the department to invite any local education agency at risk of being identified for program improvement within two years to participate in the Prevention of Local Education Agency Intervention Program, hereby created, which includes a self-assessment as well as follow-up procedures. Requires a local education agency identified for program improvement under NCLB to (1) conduct a self-assessment using the department-provided materials and criteria, (2) contract with a county office of education or another external entity for specified assistance, (3) expeditiously implement the LEA plan based on the self-assessment findings, and (4) contract with an external provider for technical assistance.
Specifies possible sanctions against a local education agency identified for corrective action under NCLB and that did not accept a supplemental grant, as well as sanctions against a local education agency identified for corrective action under NCLB and that did accept a supplemental grant. Authorizes state superintendent to require a local education agency to contract with a district assistance and intervention team to aid a local educational agency.
Provides additional funding to local educational agencies for schools identified as program improvement schools or potential program improvement schools under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, with certain requirements. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2051-2100/ab_2066_bill_20040918_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2066
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 | P-12 | Requires that activities under this act include strategies to improve the performance of students in mathematics, reading and writing. Such activities must be founded on a scientific research base, as described in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Reading instruction to improve the reading skills of all students in the early grades (specifically kindergarten (K) through to and including grade five (5) are to be consistent with the board of regents reading policy.
Title: H.B. 8180
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/gen_assembly
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| RI | To governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Activities under this act must include strategies to improve the performance of students in mathematics, reading and writing. Such activities must be founded on a scientific research base, as described in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Reading instruction to improve the reading skills of all students in the early grades (specifically kindergarten (K) through to and including grade five must be consistent with the board of regents reading policy.
Title: S.B. 2623
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires the English Standards of Learning for reading in grades K-3 to be based on components of effective reading instruction, including, at a minimum, phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary development, and text comprehension. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955
Title: H.B. 1014
Source: leg1.state.va.us
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| Equity |
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the state to implement the principles underlying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) by addressing discrimination against women and girls. Requires the Department of Corrections, the State Department of Education and the State Department of Health Services to conduct, in consultation with the State Commission on the Status of Women, an evaluation of their departments to ensure that the state does not discriminate against women through the allocation of funding and the delivery of services. Require these departments to report their findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2007. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0351-0400/ab_358_bill_20040827_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_358_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 358
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| AL | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Amended S.J.R. 16 (Act 2003-500, 2003 2nd Sp. Sess) that related to the Alabama Interim Brown versus Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission, members increased, authority expanded, dissolution date extended to January 1, 2005. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp
Title: S.J.R. 32
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site
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| Finance |
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2004 | P-12 | Provides for the creation and operation of a cooperative bulk purchasing program for school districts, public school academies, nonpublic schools, and intermediate school districts on a fee basis to reduce the costs of purchasing goods and services by the Department of Management and Budget.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-5913
Title: H.B. 5913
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2004 | P-12 | Provides for inapplicability of school district requirements to obtain competitive bids for purchasing if the school district makes purchase through the cooperative bulk purchasing program through the Department of Management and Budget.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-5875
Title: H.B. 5875
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 11/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Treasury to conduct random financial audits of intermediate school districts.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-5457
Title: H.B. 5457
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Permits a county committee on school district organization to abolish a common governing board of an elementary school district and a high school district upon a vote of the electors of the school districts. Provides that an election relating to a school district reorganization may be held solely by mail, with certain requirements, and that an election may not be called for a petition to transfer uninhabited territory. Provides procedures for a charter school affected by reorganization. Relates to school district bonds. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2801-2850/ab_2841_bill_20040816_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2841_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2841
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | SEC. 1: Existing law requires the county superintendent of schools to report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction on the financial condition of a school district if the county superintendent determines a school district may be unable to meet its financial obligations for the current or 2 subsequent fiscal years or if a school district has a qualified or negative certification. Existing law requires the county superintendent to take at least one of certain actions and all actions that are necessary to ensure that the district meets its financial obligations.
This bill requires those possible actions to include assigning the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to review district teacher hiring practices, teacher retention rate, percentage of provision of highly qualified teachers, and the extent of teacher misassignment and
also to provide the district with recommendations to streamline and improve the teacher hiring process, teacher retention rate, extent of
teacher misassignment, and provision of highly qualified teachers. The bill requires a school district that is assigned this review to follow the recommendations made unless it shows good cause for failure to do so. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_3001-3050/ab_3001_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 3001 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| MI | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Provides school aid zero budget for fiscal year 2005. http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0351.pdf
Title: S.B. 1069
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Provides Department of Education zero budget for fiscal year 2005.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0346.pdf
Title: S.B. 1065
Source: StateNet
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| NY | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Provides for the funding of certain approved non- public special education programs and special act public school districts including making changes in the reimbursement methodology for tuition and maintenance and makes an appropriation therefor; allows such districts to retain a portion of annual budget for unexpected expenditures; makes numerous other related provisions. Allows such districts to retain up to 2.5% of annual budget for unexpected expenditures and makes numerous other related provisions; also authorizes a surplus factor of not more than two percent.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=s2917
Title: S.B. 2917
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Increases the amount of funding for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, appropriated for the public school of the state from the General Fund. For the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, there is appropriated for the public schools of this state
and certain other state purposes relating to education the sum of $10,962,387,100.00 from the state school aid fund
established by section 11 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963 and the sum of $377,800,000.00 from the general
fund. In addition, available federal funds are appropriated for each of those fiscal years.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0185.pdf
Title: S.B. 1194
Source: StateNet
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| MT | Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules relating to school finance and transportation. MONTANA REG 4551 (SN)
Title: ARM 10.7.101,.109 thru .111,.115,.118;10.10.202,.309,.316, .320, .611, .614; 10.15.101; 10.20.102, .106; 10.21.101B thru .102E (non-seq),10.22.102 thru .30.403 (non-seq)
Source: WestLaw
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Removes the restriction on accommodation school districts located on a military base from issuing impact aid revenue bonds. The district may hold an election to raise impact aid revenue bonds but may not issue the bonds until after the Federal Base Relocation and Closure Commission has affirmed that the base will remain open. Additionally, the bill requires the Arizona Department of Education to put together a guidebook on the approved uses federal impact aid monies. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0313.htm
Title: H.B. 2010
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Sets aside funds in federal impact aid for the establishment of a military liaison position within the department of education and to provide funding for the Joint Venture Education Program to facilitate interaction between the military community and the department of education.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2004/bills/hb1908_cd1_.htm
Title: H.B. 1908
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Amends the School Code. Relates to the basis for apportionment of general State financial aid and supplemental State aid to the common schools; provides for school district claims. Provides that some school districts are not required to exert a minimum Operating Tax Rate in order to qualify for assistance. Relates to corporate personal property replacement taxes. Provides for children with disabilities below the age of six years. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0679
Title: S.B. 1553
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | Postsec. | Creates the Louisiana State University National Champions and Southern University Black College National Champions prestige license plates. Each license issued shall be assessed a one-time $25 royalty fee, which monies must be used solely for academic or financial need-based scholarships for Louisiana State University and Southern University Black College. The management boards of the institutions shall be responsible for disbursing the funds and for establishing the scholarship program. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT8/OUT/0000LPIA.PDF
Title: H.B. 246
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Provides relative to Education Excellence Fund amounts and related investment earnings credited to ineligible entities. Provides that fund
amounts and related investment earnings credited for a recipient entity shall revert to the fund whenever the entity no longer meets the conditions required for it to be eligible for fund allocations; to provide for an effective date; and to provide for related matters.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT2/OUT/0000LUNG.PDF
Title: H.B. 666
Source: StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Allows school districts to use Impact Aid for teacher housing.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0209.htm
Title: H.B. 2475
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| FL | Became law without governor's signature 05/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Relates to education funding; requires school districts to establish certain policies and procedures regarding lottery fund enhancements; provides tax credit cap for contributions to nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations; prohibits use of funds for lab schools for certain overhead or indirect costs; redesignates specified community colleges as colleges; specifies maximum fee waiver percentage for school districts and community colleges; authorizes use of the Dale Hickam Excellent Teaching Program funds; requires reports regarding inmate education provided by community colleges; authorizes Florida State University to construct classroom building. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=hb1867er.html&Directory=session/2004/House/bills/billtext/html/
Title: H.B. 1867
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Requires a person or organization sponsoring a distinctive license plate to submit to the Division of Vehicles a nonrefundable amount not to exceed $10,000 to defray the division's cost for developing the distinctive license plate; discontinues issuance of distinctive license plates and educational institution license plates in quantities of fewer that 500 plates. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2004/2947.pdf and http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2004/SN2947.pdf and http://www.kslegislature.org/fiscalnotes/2004/2947.pdf
Title: H.B. 2947
Source: StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | The bill provides that by fiscal year 2009-10 the state share of kindergarten to grade 12 education funding, as described by essential programs and services, must be 55%. It also establishes a local cost share expectation for property tax years beginning on or after April 1, 2005. The Commissioner of Education shall annually notify each school administrative unit of its expectation. This expectation must decline over the period from fiscal year 2005-06 to fiscal year 2009-10. The expectation may not exceed 9.0 mills in fiscal year 2005-06. It may not exceed 8.0 mills in fiscal year 2009-10. The legislative body of a school administrative unit may not adopt a property tax rate that exceeds its mill expectation unless, in a vote separate from its adoption of the school budget, it votes to increase the property tax rate.
The bill also places transportation operating costs into the essential programs and services funding formula. It also states that special education costs will be included in essential programs and services starting in fiscal year 2005-06. Beginning in fiscal year 2004-05, the Department of Education will provide training in state-approved guidelines for identification of special education students. The bill also places early childhood education program costs and vocational education program costs into essential programs and services no later than fiscal year 2007-08.
Note Sec. 16:
Basis for funding costs of education from kindergarten to grade 12. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning in fiscal year 2005-06, funding of the costs of education from kindergarten to grade 12 must be based on the cost of providing essential programs and services as described in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, chapter 606-B.
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/ld_title.asp?ld=1924
Title: S.P. 761
Source: StateNet
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| MN | To governor 05/2004 | P-12 | Relates to education finance; provides for K-12 education; amends provisions regarding school safety patrol apparel, capital expenditures, pupil transportation, vocational instruction, special education, essential personnel, parents residing separately, property tax levy, academic standards, graduation requirements, prescription nonsyringe injectors of epinephrine, immunity from liability, teachers, nonpublic schools and charter schools.
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/slaws/2004/c294.html
Title: H.F. 1793
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Relates to an appropriation for the State Department of Education General Programs, Education Reform Act and Vocational Education.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/pdf/HB/1600-1699/HB1696SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 1696
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Relates to Adequate Education Program; deletes repealer on high growth school district formula.
If during the year for which adequate education program funds are appropriated, any school district experiences a three percent (3%) or greater increase in average daily attendance during the second and third month over the preceding year's second and third month and the school district has requested a minimum increase of four percent (4%) in local ad valorem revenues over the previous year as authorized in Sections 37-57-104 and 37-57-105, an additional allocation of adequate education program funds calculated in the following manner shall be granted to that district, using any additional funds available to the Department of Education that exceed the amount of funds due to the school districts under the basic adequate education program distribution as provided for in this chapter:
The State Department of Education shall study and develop a report to the Chairmen of the Senate and House Committees on Education by January 1, 2005, with options for legislative consideration that will insure that the Mississippi Adequate Education funds are distributed to school districts based on current year student attendance or enrollment. This subsection (4) shall stand repealed on July 1, 2006
Title: H.B. 741
Source: StateNet
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Regulates distinctive license plates; requires an organization sponsoring a distinctive license plate to submit a nonrefundable fee; creates the distinctive license plate fund to deposit the distinctive license plate application fees; discontinues issuance of distinctive license plates in small quantities; provides for issuance of educational institution license plates, firefighter license plates and the helping schools license plate. Bill: http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2004/2143.pdf and supplemental note: http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2004/SN2143.pdf
Title: H.B. 2143
Source: StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Superintendent and the Department of Education to monitor the financial status of each county board of education and report to the Governor and General Assembly on a biannual basis; requires local superintendents or chief executive officers of local school systems to file biannual reports and to make specified attestations; provides that if a local school system does not file a annual audit, the Superintendent is required to instruct the Comptroller to withhold 10% of state aid installments.
Title: S.B. 894
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies that all school districts – not just those school districts within a county – can make joint purchases of maintenance, operational and scholastic services, supplies, materials, and equipment.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/pdf/HB/0600-0699/HB0667SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 667
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Provides the State Auditor with authority to establish effective and efficient policies and procedures for auditing student attendance and data in local school districts. In particular, the State Auditor will have more flexibility regarding on-site audits and authority to establish specific policies and procedures to audit the processes, accuracy, validity and procedures used by local school districts to submit electronic student data and other data to the State Department of Education.
Reviews and audits shall be conducted with advance notice, except that unannounced audits may be made upon determination of the State Auditor based on complaints or valid concerns. In addition, examiners shall make every effort to work with school districts in scheduling audits in consideration of instructional activities such as statewide testing.
The State Board of Education shall include reporting standards for school districts as part of the accreditation process to include penalties within the accreditation system for adverse findings resulting from reviews or audits.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/pdf/HB/1200-1299/HB1251SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 1251
Source: StateNet
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| MI | To HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION. 03/2004 | P-12 | Makes school aid requirements subject to a waiver under an educational flexibility and empowerment contract.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/billenrolled/house/pdf/2003-HNB-4724.pdf
Title: H.B. 4724
Source: http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/billenrolled/house/pdf/2003-HNB-4724.pdf
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Requires audit reports of school districts not conducted by legislative audit to be filed with the Department of Education by December 31 following the end of each fiscal year.http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1114.pdf
Title: H.B. 1114
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| MA | Rule Adoption 01/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules relating to school finance regulations. Implements changes in the formula used to calculate special education reimbursements in the so-called circuit breaker program. Clarifies that payments and reimbursements for approved private school summer program placements will be made through the sending school district. MASSACHUSETTS REG 8229 (SN)
Title: 603 CMR 10.00
Source: StateNet
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| Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
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| IL | Signed into law 10/2004 | P-12 | Amends the Common School Fund Article of the School Code. Provides for a grant to be paid to a school district if there has been an increase in a school districts' student population over the most recent 2 school years of over 1.5% in a district with over 10,000 pupils in average daily attendance or over 7.5% in any other district. If the appropriated money in any fiscal year is insufficient to pay all grants, then the amount appropriated shall be prorated among eligible districts. Provides penalties for intentionally reporting incorrect data.
http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-1042
Title: H.B. 766
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| HI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | The education reform in this Act shall be known as the "Reinventing Education Act of 2004." The provisions include (1) establishing a weighted student formula; (2) providing additional information technology; (3) empowering principals through a Hawaii principals academy and other means; (4) strengthening community involvement through school community councils and parent-community networking centers; (5) providing more mathematics textbooks; (6) lowering class size in kindergarten, grade one, and grade two; (7) providing full-time, year-round, high school student activity coordinators; (8) providing support for students who need additional help to succeed in school; (9) establishing a national board certification incentive program for teachers; (10) enhancing teacher education; (11) reducing the bureaucracy that hampers the effectiveness of the department of education; (12) improving the educational accountability system; and (13) requiring board of education members to hold community meetings in their districts. Establishes the after-school plus program revolving fund.Creates a working group to create a plan for principal performance contracts. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/docs/getstatus.asp?qu=HB2002&showstatus=on&showtext=on&press1=docs
Title: H.B. 2002
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 | P-12 | Creates the "Education Equity and Property Tax Relief Act, " and would create a joint legislative committee of ten members to establish a permanent education foundation and education formula for the state - the committee's final report is due October 1, 2005..
Title: S.B. 3182
Source: StateNet
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| AK | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Increases the base student allocation used in the formula for state funding of public education; and providing for an effective date." http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill_text.asp?hsid=HB0233Z&session=23
Title: H.B. 233
Source: Alaska Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Provides teachers with quality professional development that will promote and enhance learning opportunities for students. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1170.pdf
Title: H.B. 1170
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Creates the educational adequacy fund. Relates to HB 1030. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB93.pdf and http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1030.pdf
Title: S.B. 93
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 02/2004 | P-12 | Provides additional revenue to fund the education system; increases sales and wholesale vending tax; imposes sales tax on certain services; creates the Educational Adequacy Trust Fund. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1030.pdf
Title: H.B. 1030
Source: Arkansas Legislative web site
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| AR | Became law without governor's signature 01/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the public education re-organization act; to ensure equal opportunities for an adequate education to all students; provides for administrative annexation and administrative consolidation of school districts. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1109.pdf
Title: H.B. 1109
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | The General Assembly recognizes the state is responsible to provide an adequate education and to know how state revenues are spent; provides for the continuing adequacy evaluation act of 2004; provides for a study. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1111.pdf
Title: H.B. 1111
Source: Arkansas Legislative web site
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| Finance--Aid to Private Schools |
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| LA | Adopted 04/2004 | P-12 | Adopts rules to allow local education agencies (LEAs) to secure a deposit, equal to the replacement costs, for textbooks provided to students in approved home study programs. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0404/0404RUL.pdf (see page 39 of 71)
Title: LAC 28:XXXIII.517
Source: StateNet
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| Finance--Bonds |
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| IL | Signed into law 10/2004 | P-12 | Amends the School Code. Provides that a community unit school district may issue bonds up to a specified amount if the district has a specified equalization valuation and a specified daily attendance if the bonds are issued to build, equip and repair specified school buildings. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/93/PDF/093-1045.pdf
Title: H.B. 759
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Permits a county committee on school district organization to abolish a common governing board of an elementary school district and a high school district upon a vote of the electors of the school districts. Provides that an election relating to a school district reorganization may be held solely by mail, with certain requirements, and that an election may not be called for a petition to transfer uninhabited territory. Provides procedures for a charter school affected by reorganization. Relates to school district bonds. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2801-2850/ab_2841_bill_20040816_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2841_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2841
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| IL | Veto overridden by both houses of legislature 07/2004 | P-12 | Amends the Property Tax Code and the School Code. Allows a school district located in a county subject to the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law, with a total enrollment of a certain number of students, and that had a school building condemned to levy an annual property tax not to exceed .05% and 7 years to provide funds to repay state moneys distributed for temporary relocation expenses of the district. Permits issuance of bonds to finance school repairs. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0690
Title: H.B. 753
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Removes the restriction on accommodation school districts located on a military base from issuing impact aid revenue bonds. The district may hold an election to raise impact aid revenue bonds but may not issue the bonds until after the Federal Base Relocation and Closure Commission has affirmed that the base will remain open. Additionally, the bill requires the Arizona Department of Education to put together a guidebook on the approved uses federal impact aid monies. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0313.htm
Title: H.B. 2010
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Relates to special purpose revenue bonds for Island Pacific Academy. The legislature finds and determines that the planning and construction constitute a project as defined in part VIII, chapter 39A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and the financing of such a project is to assist not-for-profit private nonsectarian and sectarian elementary schools, secondary schools, colleges, and universities serving the general public. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb3086_cd1_.htm
Title: S.B. 3086
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| CA | Approved by voters 03/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Enacts the Kindergarten - University Public Facilities Bond Act of 2004 for $12.3 million; funds education facilities to relieve overcrowding and repair of older schools; funds upgrade and new classrooms in the California Community Colleges, the California State University and the University of California to provide adequate higher education facilities to accommodate growing student enrollment; funds will be targeted to areas of greatest needs and must be spent according to strict accountability measures. http://vote2004.ss.ca.gov/Returns/prop/00.htm
Title: Proposition 55 (AB 16)
Source: California State Web site
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Amends existing law relating to the Bond Levy Equalization Support Program to prohibit utilization of assistance pursuant to the program for projects previously subsidized by state grants; provides that an otherwise eligible school district shall not be deemed ineligible due to prior participation in safe school programs under certain conditions. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/H0780.html#engr
Title: H.B. 780
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| NM | Partial Veto, November 2004 Ballot 03/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Authorizes the issuance and sale of capital projects general obligation bonds to make capital expenditures for senior citizen facility improvements and acquisitions, for higher educational capital improvements and acquisitions, for water project improvements, for public library acquisitions, for kindergarten construction and renovation, for other state capital expenditures and for public school educational technology. http://legis.state.nm.us/newsite/_session.asp?chamber=H&type=++&number=294&year=04
Title: H.B. 294
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web site
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| Finance--District |
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| MT | Rule Adoption 12/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Relates to out-of-state attendance agreements. The superintendent of public instruction shall
provide payment of the amount calculated in (4)(a), but not
more than the amount of tuition paid by the district for
resident students who attended school out-of-state, in the
year the out-of-district attendance report is submitted,
provided it is submitted with documentation
of payment, to the superintendent of public instruction within
the school year following the year of attendance
Title: ARM 10.10.301C
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes the governing board of a school district to request approval from the State Board of Education in order to claim apportionments for the attendance of pupils attending a suspension classroom staffed by a noncertified school employee provided that a pupil attending such a classroom is allowed to complete for credit any assignments or tests that would otherwise by missed during the period of suspension, the apportionments are for no more than 5 pupils per day, a certified employee monitors the classroom at least 2 times per day, and apportionments for a particular pupil are for no more than 10 days per academic year. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0051-0100/sb_76_bill_20040828_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/SB_76_veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 76
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Controller to collect data regarding the total assessed valuation of all taxable property in each school district and compile the information on a county basis. Requires data to be made available on the Controller's web site. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1751-1800/sb_1791_bill_20040826_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/SB_1791_veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1791
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | SEC. 1: Existing law requires the county superintendent of schools to report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction on the financial condition of a school district if the county superintendent determines a school district may be unable to meet its financial obligations for the current or 2 subsequent fiscal years or if a school district has a qualified or negative certification. Existing law requires the county superintendent to take at least one of certain actions and all actions that are necessary to ensure that the district meets its financial obligations.
This bill requires those possible actions to include assigning the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to review district teacher hiring practices, teacher retention rate, percentage of provision of highly qualified teachers, and the extent of teacher misassignment and
also to provide the district with recommendations to streamline and improve the teacher hiring process, teacher retention rate, extent of
teacher misassignment, and provision of highly qualified teachers. The bill requires a school district that is assigned this review to follow the recommendations made unless it shows good cause for failure to do so. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_3001-3050/ab_3001_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 3001 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | SEC. 13: Requires the county superintendent of schools to include in the review of audit exceptions those audit exceptions related to use of instructional materials program funds, teacher misassignments, and information reported on the school accountability report card and to
determine whether the exceptions are either corrected or an acceptable plan of correction developed. Prohibits a local educational agency from being required to repay an apportionment based on a significant audit exception related to the verification of the sufficiency of textbooks and instructional materials, teacher misassignments, and the accuracy of the information reported on the school accountability report card if the county superintendent of schools certifies to the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Controller that the audit exception was corrected or that an acceptable plan of correction was submitted to the county superintendent of schools. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes the Santa Clara Unified School District to use the proceeds from the sale of surplus real and personal property to deposit the proceeds into the general fund of the school district or county office of education, and to use the proceeds from that transaction for any one-time general fund purpose. If the purchase of the property was made using the proceeds of a general obligation bond act or revenue derived from developer fees, the amount deposited into the general fund of the school district or county office of education is prohibited from exceeding the difference between the purchase price of the property and the proceeds of the transaction divided by the amount of the proceeds of the transaction. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1901-1950/sb_1906_bill_20040928_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 1906
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Relates to emergency apportionments to school districts experiencing financial problems or that become insolvent. Makes those payments available by the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank through lease financing. Requires a qualifying district to bear 100% of all costs associated with implementing the conditions associated with receiving an emergency apportionment, replacing the current requirement of the district bearing 60% of the costs and the county office of education bearing 40% of the cost. Contains provisions relating to specific school districts. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1551-1600/ab_1554_bill_20040823_chaptered.html
Title: A.B. 1554
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Amends the School Code. In the State aid formula provisions, provides that calculation of Available Local Resources shall exclude tax amnesty funds received as a result of Public Act 93-26. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0875
Title: S.B. 2362
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 07/2004 | P-12 | Relates to school district contracts. Provides for a standardized questionnaire and financial statement in a form specified by the school district. Prohibits proposal forms from being accepted, if the completed questionnaire and financial statement for prequalification is not submitted at least 15 days prior to the date fixed for the public opening of the sealed bids. Requires the notice to include the web site or place where bids will be processed. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2601-2650/ab_2614_bill_20040621_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2614_Veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2614
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 07/2004 | P-12 | Deletes the reduction in base revenue limit funding that results to certain school districts for offering less than 180 days of instruction. Conditions the entitlement to the same support from the State School Fund due to the average daily attendance on the districts operating under the provisions of law relating to the 180-day school year. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1101-1150/sb_1142_bill_20040701_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB1142Veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1142
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Provides that if, at the time of enrollment, dependents of United States military personnel are housed in temporary housing located outside of a school district, but will be living within that school district within 60 days after the time of initial enrollment, the dependents shall be enrolled, upon a sufficient showing of proof, and shall not be charged non-resident tuition but may be counted in determining state aid. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0740
Title: S.B. 2444
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| NJ | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Revises calculation of budget caps and reduces allowable surplus for public school districts.
Title: S.B. 1701
Source: StateNet
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| PA | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Amends the Public School Code of 1949. Makes provisions regarding school budgets, limitations on balances, auxiliary services, cost of tuition for exceptional children in private schools, charter school tuition for the deaf and blind, Head Start supplemental assistance, school improvement grants, educational improvement tax credits, vocational curriculums, special education payments, and reimbursements for charter and cyber charter schools.
Title: H.B. 564
Source: StateNet
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Allows Rhode Island school committees (school boards) to enter into agreement with any school committee or group of school committees (e.g., Rhode Island Association of School Committees) to purchase goods and services on a cooperative basis.
Title: S.B. 2423
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/gen_assembly
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Allows a school district to include in the budget balance carry-forward up to 50% of any unspent K-3 override monies.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0315.htm
Title: H.B. 2074
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Amends provisions relating to unified school districts; provides for school board membership; provides for use of student counts from common school districts prior to unification for unified school district budget calculations; relates to bonded indebtedness and assessment of taxes; relates to secondary assessed valuation; provides for common school student count and authorization for override after consolidation. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0341.htm
Title: H.B. 2396
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Requires school district governing boards that budget for excess utilities to annually review the costs associated with the direct operational costs of utilities, establish financial goals to include excess utilities costs within the school district's Revenue Control Limit (RCL) by June 30, 2009 and to review progress toward compliance. Suspends school-by-school budgeting and reporting for two years, repeals some reports and allows the school district governing board to delegate purchasing authority to one or more employees. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0340.htm
Title: H.B. 2104
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the revisions of standards and criteria for the development and management of local educational agency annual budgets and emergency appropriations to insolvent school districts, county superintendent of school approval of a district's budget, the review of administrative and fiscal condition of a district or charter school, and local education agency employment contracting. Requires school districts to report all compensation received by the superintendent. ftp://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2751-2800/ab_2756_bill_20040621_chaptered.html
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2756.pdf
Title: A.B. 2756
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Concerns reviews of school districts, and, in connection therewith, requiring pilot efficiency reviews of a limited number of school districts to identify administrative savings that can be gained through best practices. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/7559053176F837C087256E19005E1CFA?Open&file=144_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 144
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the determination of the amount of taxes to be raised to support a cooperative school district; permits an alternative cost apportionment method in a cooperative school district; establishes a legislative oversight committee for the school administrative unit system; relates to notification of educational grant amounts to municipalities; permits a specific amount of the state education grant to be applied to operating costs of the cooperative school district. http://gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2004/HB1281.html
Title: H.B. 1281
Source: http://gencourt.state.nh.us
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes the Rutland school commissioners to adopt annual general fund budgets without voter approval provided that the actual homestead tax rate in a year does not exceed the adjusted equalized homestead rate established by the state; authorizes the board of aldermen to assess upon the grand list of the city taxes necessary to meet the educational or school purposes of the city.
Title: H.B. 774
Source: StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Concerns school district and charter school procurement; concerns contracts for materials and services the governing board may authorize for purchase which do not comply with requirements of procurement rules adopted by the State Board of Education; specifies criteria; applies to General Services Administration contracts. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0050.htm
Title: H.B. 2105
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| GA | Adopted 04/2004 | P-12 | Adds rules regarding the provisions under which school systems can receive low-wealth funding. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-5-4-.05.pdf
Title: GAC 160-5-4-.05
Source: Georgia State Web site
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Superintendent and the Department of Education to monitor the financial status of each county board of education and report to the Governor and General Assembly on a biannual basis; requires local superintendents or chief executive officers of local school systems to file biannual reports and to make specified attestations; provides that if a local school system does not file a annual audit, the Superintendent is required to instruct the Comptroller to withhold 10% of state aid installments.
Title: S.B. 894
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Vetoed 04/2004 | P-12 | Provides a school district, intermediate school district or public school academy is not required to obtain competitive bids for items purchased through the cooperative bulk purchasing program operated by the Department of Management and Budget.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/billenrolled/house/pdf/2003-HNB-4722.pdf
Title: H.B. 4722
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Emergency Rule Adoption 03/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules to provide guidance to auditors in the conduct of required annual audits of local education agencies (LEAs). Provides definitions of terms and prescribes procedures to be followed by accountants in the conduct of audits of California LEAs for agencies' fiscal year 2003-04 operations. Specifies qualifications, terms and standards for auditors. http://ccr.oal.ca.gov/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?clientID=93183&E22=title%205&E23=19810&E24=&infobase=ccr&querytemplate=%261.%20Go%20to%20a%20Specific%20Section&record={117CC}&softpage=Document42
Title: Title 5 CCR 19810 thru 19831
Source: California State Web site
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Concerns public school finance; changes the basis for calculating the amount of excess cash balance of school districts and charter schools.
Title: H.B. 158
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Allows all consolidated, annexed, or otherwise reorganized school districts to enjoy the benefit of fund balances accrued by the affected school district prior to consolidation, annexation, or reorganization. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1157.pdf
Title: H.B. 1157
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Requires criminal background checks for fraudulent acts by fiscal officers of public school districts. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1140.pdf
Title: H.B. 1140
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Provides administrative consolidation assistance to school districts that administratively consolidate. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1161.pdf
Title: H.B. 1161
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Track the amount of state funds that may be used to support interschool athletic programs in public schools. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1008.pdf
Title: H.B. 1008
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Requires school districts in fiscal distress to complete and file an annual audit with the Department of Education within 6 months following the end of the fiscal year. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1087.pdf
Title: H.B. 1087
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Creates the Educational Accounting and Reporting Act of 2004; provides that the board of directors of each school district shall annually prepare a budget of expenditure and receipts to be filed by a specified date; amends provisions regarding distribution of all grants and aids from the state; provides conditions under which state aid may be withhold from any school district; provides for training of preparers. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1094.pdf
Title: H.B. 1094
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the Public School Funding Act of 2003; provides equitable funding to public schools; provides a system for monitoring public school expenditures; increases minimum teacher salaries; establishes a knowledge and skills-based pay system for teachers; provides for school-based performance awards. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB42.pdf
Title: S.B. 42
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Requires audit reports of school districts not conducted by legislative audit to be filed with the Department of Education by December 31 following the end of each fiscal year.http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1114.pdf
Title: H.B. 1114
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Adds Ark. Code 6-15-2001. The state department of education and the Division of Legislative Audit of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee of the General Assembly are directed to develop a system for reviewing the financial management practices of school districts and identifies "best financial management code practices." School districts are evaluated and rated on compliance with best practices. Districts that don't conform to best practices are required to develop a plan for meeting best practices within two years. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB33.pdf
Title: S.B. 33 § 9
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| Finance--Equity |
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 | P-12 | Adds a new chapter: the Education Equity and Property Tax Relief Act; creates a joint legislative committee to establish a permanent education foundation and education formula for the state.
Title: H.B. 8318
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/gen_assembly
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Requires the commissioner of revenue administration, when determining the amount of statewide enhanced education tax to be raised by a municipality, to make an adjustment to the municipality's total equalized value by subtracting the value of certain property which was taxable in the prior year but is currently non-taxable; changes criteria for taxability of transfers of manufactured housing under the real estate transfer tax.
Title: S.B. 324
Source: StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Deleted and replaced a previous sub-section of law. Requires development of a master plan for future development of public higher education, including technology centers; requires the master plan to include specific goals, including: (A) Increasing educational attainment levels of
Tennesseans; (B) Improving retention and graduation rates of public universities; (C) Creating improved linkages with regional economic and community development entities; (D) Increasing degree production in areas central to the public agenda; (E) Creating improved regional and statewide linkages with K-12 education to ensure that students are prepared for post-secondary education; (F) Improving teacher education programs to ensure that graduates are prepared for the classroom; (G) Increasing participation in adult literacy programs; and (H) Broadening research and development initiatives in areas central to the public agenda.provides for equitable dispersal of funds. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0882.pdf
Title: H.B. 2865
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | This act establishes an equalized pupil count for union and unified union school districts, removes the system of assessing member districts to fund union and unified union school districts, and directs the commissioner of education to send funding directly to union and unified union school districts. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2004/acts/ACT130.HTM
Title: S.B. 315
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us
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| GA | Adopted 04/2004 | P-12 | Adds rules regarding the provisions under which school systems can receive low-wealth funding. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-5-4-.05.pdf
Title: GAC 160-5-4-.05
Source: Georgia State Web site
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| TX | Adopted 03/2004 | P-12 | Sets administrative ratios for funding purposes; addresses "gap funding" to meet equalization requirements.
Title: 61.AA
Source: www.tea.state.us
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Creates the Division of Public School Accountability and the Arkansas Public Schools Accountability Advisory Council; creates the Division of Public School Academic Facilities to ensure equal access to adequate educational facilities and educational equipment; requires realignment of the state department of education (not to be incorporated into Arkansas Code or published separately) and creates a task force to make recommendations on realignment; amends terms for state board of education. members.http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1009.pdf
Title: H.B. 1009
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Became law without governor's signature 01/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the public education re-organization act; to ensure equal opportunities for an adequate education to all students; provides for administrative annexation and administrative consolidation of school districts. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1109.pdf
Title: H.B. 1109
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the Public School Funding Act of 2003; provides equitable funding to public schools; provides a system for monitoring public school expenditures; increases minimum teacher salaries; establishes a knowledge and skills-based pay system for teachers; provides for school-based performance awards. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB42.pdf
Title: S.B. 42
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Amends Ark. Code § 6-15-404 and 15-15-402. Arkansas does not guarantee student success or that individual schools will perform at level indicated in goals. Arkansas is committed to giving all students an opportunity to perform at grade appropriate levels. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB33.pdf
Title: S.B. 33 §§ 1,3
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| Finance--Facilities |
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| FL | Signed into law 12/2004 | P-12 | Creates the Educational Facilities Hurricane Restoration Cash Flow Loan Program to assist district school boards in making timely payments in restoring educational facilities; requires the department of education to administer the loan program and distribute loan funds; requires eepartment of community affairs to notify department of education when certain federal payments have been distributed; requires repayment from funds received from insurance claims. Bill text: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/loadDoc.aspx?FileName=_h0011Aer.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0011A&Session=2004A
Title: H.B. 11A
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2004 | P-12 | Requires the establishment of rules for the standards and requirements for the relocation and reuse of used modular classroom; provides the rules shall require an inspection of a relocated used modular classroom at its original location, at its new location or at any location where repairs are made to the used modular classroom.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2003-SB-0677
Title: S.B. 677
Source: StateNet
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| UT | Adopted 12/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules concerning the State School Building Program. Provides definition for the 'Enrollment Growth Program.' Adds procedures for school districts to use when applying for Enrollment Growth Program funds. Describes how funds are distributed. Adds new language in the Capital Outlay Loan Program. UTAH REG 27422 (SN)
Title: R277-451
Source: StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 10/2004 | P-12 | Amends the School Code. Provides that a community unit school district may issue bonds up to a specified amount if the district has a specified equalization valuation and a specified daily attendance if the bonds are issued to build, equip and repair specified school buildings. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/93/PDF/093-1045.pdf
Title: H.B. 759
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Permits the calculation of eligibility for new construction funding if the existing school building capacity in any high school attendance area would prevent another school attendance area from receiving the maximum per-unhoused-pupil grant specified for the school district as a whole. Provides that the board may permit an elementary school district to utilize this calculation if the district's average daily attendance is greater than 9,000 pupils, the high school district contains more than 5 high schools, and the eligibility will serve an overcrowded student population. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0601-0650/sb_628_bill_20040824_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/SB_628_veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 628
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Establishes the School Facilities Needs Assessment Grant Program, to be administered by the State Allocation Board, for the
purpose of awarding grants to school districts for schoolsites ranked in deciles 1 to 3 on the Academic Performance Index, to conduct a one-time comprehensive assessment of school facilities needs. Establishes in the State Treasury the School Facilities Emergency Repair Account, to be administered by State Allocation Board, for the purpose of reimbursing school districts with schools ranked in deciles 1 to 3 on the Academic Performance Index, for emergency facility repairs. Specifies the source of the funds to be deposited into this account, including from the Proposition 98 Reversion Account, and prescribes other requirements relating to the transfer of those funds. Requires the State Allocation Board, for purposes of the above new program and account, to adopt regulations, establish and publish any procedures and policies for their administration, apportion funds to eligible school districts, provide technical assistance to school districts, and make specified reports to the Governor and the Legislature. Establishes in the General Fund the Proposition 98 Reversion Account. Makes appropriations. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sb_6_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 6
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the State Allocation Board to adopt regulations to implement design standards for school facilities in accordance with guidelines established by the Collaborative for High Performance Schools. Provides that eligibility for funding for projects under the Leroy F. Green School Facilities Act from the proceeds of general obligation bonds approved by voters after January 1, 2006, is contingent on the applicant school district meeting design standards equivalent to the regulations. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0701-0750/ab_736_bill_20040824_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_736_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 736
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires an automatic sprinkler system to be installed in facilities modernized pursuant to the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act under certain circumstances. Permits the State Allocation Board to waive the requirement that a project include an automatic sprinkler system, under certain circumstances. Deletes a provision that when repairs due to fire damage are to be made to a school building that was previously approved by the Department of General Services, the approved plans and specifications used in the original work may be used without
modification. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2301-2350/ab_2343_bill_20040826_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2343_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2343
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Amends the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act relating to funding for construction of small high schools. Provides for adjustments of new construction grants on a pilot program basis for small high schools meeting certain criteria. Reduces local matching funds requirement to 40% of project cost and permits the State Allocation Board to release 60% of project cost funding. Authorizes additional modernization funds for certain larger high school seeking to reconfigure into 2 or more smaller schools. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/03-04/bill/asm/ab_1451-1500/ab_1465_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 1465
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Amends the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act. Deletes teacher education facilities as eligible joint-use facilities. Includes parks and preschool facilities as eligible joint-use facilities. Permits a joint-use facility to be located adjacent to an existing schoolsite. Establishes a priority for funding such projects, if sufficient funding is not available to fund all of the submitted projects. Authorizes a school district the option to pay up to 50% of the local share of eligible project costs if a local bond measure specifies the amount to be used for joint-use projects. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2401-2450/ab_2446_bill_20040826_enrolled.html
http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2446_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2446
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Deems regional occupational centers to be school districts for school modernization funding purposes of the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act if the centers would not otherwise qualify for school modernization funding. Requires the State Allocation Board to adopt specified regulations. Makes regional occupation centers ineligible for financial hardship assistance. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2001-2050/ab_2035_bill_20040826_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2035_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2035
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the State Allocation Board to adjust for inflation the calculation used to determine the total funding eligibility of a school district for modernization funding on a monthly basis, rather than annually. Requires the board to review project costs resulting from compliance with the accessibility standards of the California Building Standards Code for modernization projects approved since July 1, 2003 and to report to the Legislature on the results of the review. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1101-1150/ab_1126_bill_20040827_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1126_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1126
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998, requires the State Allocation Board to allocate to applicant school districts, prescribed per-unhoused-pupil state funding for construction and modernization of school facilities, including hardship funding, and supplemental funding for site development and acquisition. Eligibility for new construction funding under the act is determined, in part, by calculating enrollment projections determined by utilizing a cohort survival enrollment projection system. Existing law also includes provisions that make apportionments, for eligible applicants with critically overcrowded schools, in advance of full compliance with all the application requirements otherwise required for an apportionment. Under existing law, upon the completion of preliminary process procedures required by the act, the apportionment made in advance of full compliance is converted into a final apportionment when the preliminary applicant complies with all the
conditions required for a final apportionment.
Provides alternative methods for an applicant school district in the critically overcrowded schools program to calculate enrollment for purposes of determining eligibility for a final apportionment for a project funded from the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2002. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2901-2950/ab_2950_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2950
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the offer to sell or lease real estate with an option to purchase by a school district to be provided in writing to other specified public agencies and nonprofit organizations be directly notified of the offer. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2801-2850/ab_2838_bill_20040922_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2838
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Establishes a competitive proposal process for leases that provide for the construction of a building or buildings for the use of the school district during the term of the lease. Authorizes the governing board of a district to enter into a lease-back contract. Imposes certain requirements related to requests for proposals. Requires the district to establish procedures for final proposal selection, bonding and performance requirements. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1451-1500/ab_1486_bill_20040827_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1486_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1486
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | SEC. 17: Existing law provides that no pupil shall receive a diploma of graduation from high school who, while in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, has
not completed specified courses, including 2 courses in science. Prior law required a pupil to complete only one course in science to receive
a diploma.
This bill provides that for purposes of calculating the amount of the state reimbursement for the state-mandated local program imposed by increasing the science course requirement from one science course to 2 science courses, if the school district or county office claims reimbursement for a new science facility, the reimbursement shall be reduced by the amount of state bond funds, if any, received by the school
district or county office to construct the new science facility. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2851-2900/ab_2855_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2853_2855_2856_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 2855 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.go
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene State School Building Lease-Purchase Law of 1976, the Leroy F. Greene State School Building
Lease-Purchase Law of 1998, and the State Relocatable Classroom Law of 1979, requires the State Allocation Board to require a school district
that receives funds for a school construction or modernization project to make all necessary repairs, renewals, and replacement to ensure that a project is at all times kept in good repair, working order and condition.
As a condition of participation in the school facilities program and the receipt of funds pursuant to the deferred maintenance program, the current bill requires a school district to establish a facilities inspection system to ensure that each of its schools is in good repair, as defined in
the bill. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | SEC. 10: Requires the school accountability report card to include information regarding the availability of sufficient textbooks and other instructional materials for each pupil, any needed maintenance of school facilities to ensure good repair, the misassignments of teachers, including misassignments of English learner teachers, and the number of vacant teacher positions for the most recent 3-year period. Defines ''misassignment'' and ''vacant position'' for this purpose.
Requires the template for the school accountability report card to include a field to report the determination of the sufficiency of textbooks and instructional materials and a summary statement of the condition of school facilities. Requires the department to provide examples of summary statements of the condition of school facilities that are acceptable and those that are unacceptable. Declares that these provisions further the purposes of the Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 08/2004 | P-12 | Makes certain findings and declarations related to seismic safety upgrades and would state the intent of the Legislature to consider the development of a seismic safety upgrade program for school facilities. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1751-1800/ab_1790_bill_20040816_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_1790_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1790
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Creates the Fire Sprinkler Dormitory Act. The installation of fire sprinklers is required in all dormitories by 2013, unless excepted. Provides for the Finance Authority and the State Fire Marshall to administer a revolving loan program. Creates the Fire Sprinkler Dormitory Revolving Loan Fund. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0887
Title: H.B. 4361
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Reduces, for the 2004-05 fiscal year only, the amount required to be deposited by a school district into its restricted account to 2% of the district's general fund expenditures, including other financing areas. Provides that for that fiscal year, the annual deposit into the restricted account in excess of 1 1/2% of the district's general fund budget may count towards the amount a school district's contribution to receive State School Deferred Maintenance Fund funding. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0401-0450/sb_409_bill_20040727_chaptered.html
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB_409.pdf
Title: S.B. 409
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| HI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Relates to school repair and maintenance and the Hawaii 3R's program; establishes a coordinator position to coordinate the public and private efforts to repair and maintain public schools. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/hb1929_sd2_.htm
Title: H.B. 1929
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| IL | Veto overridden by both houses of legislature 07/2004 | P-12 | Amends the Property Tax Code and the School Code. Allows a school district located in a county subject to the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law, with a total enrollment of a certain number of students, and that had a school building condemned to levy an annual property tax not to exceed .05% and 7 years to provide funds to repay state moneys distributed for temporary relocation expenses of the district. Permits issuance of bonds to finance school repairs. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0690
Title: H.B. 753
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| MA | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Relates to the School Building Assistance Program; provides for grants, investments, trusts and bonds; creates the School Building Authority; provides for children with disabilities; prohibits racial desegregation; provides for public-private partnerships, charter schools, construction that will facilitate early education and care programs; financial incentives to cities that adopt zoning policies for increased affordable housing production; provides for hearings.
Title: H.B. 4978
Source: StateNet
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| MA | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the School Building Assistance Program; provides for the dedicated sales tax revenue amount; creates the School Modernization and Reconstruction Trust Fund; provides for bonds, notes and trusts.
Title: H.B. 4977
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Rule Adoption 06/2004 | P-12 | Amends regulations to update the critically overcrowded schools regulations to clarify the possibility of using use of grants in preliminary applications, provide hazardous material clean up money for existing schools in preliminary applications, and specify a construction cost inflation factor for new applications. http://ccr.oal.ca.gov/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?clientID=105884&E22=title%202&E23=1859.2&E24=&infobase=ccr&querytemplate=%261.%20Go%20to%20a%20Specific%20Section&record={37B5}&softpage=Browse_Frame_Pg42 and http://ccr.oal.ca.gov/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?clientID=105888&E22=title%202&E23=1859.145&E24=&infobase=ccr&querytemplate=%261.%20Go%20to%20a%20Specific%20Section&record={3B1F}&softpage=Browse_Frame_Pg42
Title: Title 2 CCR 1859.2, 1859.145, 1859.145.1
Source: California State Web site
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| CO | Partial veto 06/2004 | P-12 | Allows the state department of education to add employees to assist with school capital construction. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/9C325359D40DBB8D87256E850065FF92?Open&file=1464_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1464
Source: Colorado Legislative web site
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Relates to special purpose revenue bonds for Island Pacific Academy. The legislature finds and determines that the planning and construction constitute a project as defined in part VIII, chapter 39A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and the financing of such a project is to assist not-for-profit private nonsectarian and sectarian elementary schools, secondary schools, colleges, and universities serving the general public. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb3086_cd1_.htm
Title: S.B. 3086
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| TN | To governor 06/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Present law authorizes the state to issue and sell general obligation bonds for any purpose authorized by the general assembly, including the funding of education. All revenues earmarked and allocated specifically and exclusively for educational purposes and any other law providing for the collection of state taxes allocated for educational purposes are deposited into the education trust fund. All deposits to the education trust fund are credited to the basic education program account. THIS BILL This bill would authorize the state to issue and sell direct general obligation interest-bearing bonds in amounts not exceeding $260,000,000 for postsecondary and higher education institutions. This bill would also permit the allocation of funds to local education agencies (LEAs) for the purpose of land acquisition, acquisition of student transportation, technology, and science laboratory equipment, and the construction and equipment of sites and buildings. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Summary.asp?BillNumber=SB0429
Title: S.B. 429
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Concerns the financing of public schools; relates to calculations of pupil enrollment; relates to charter school contracts. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/28517E5E9054E56887256E0400738CE5?Open&file=1397_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1397
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| CT | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Provides that if a town, whose school district is the priority district with the largest student enrollment, uses federal funds to finance school construction projects, such funds shall be deemed to be part of the town's local share for such projects; provides any local or regional board of education that scheduled a graduation date for students and has been force to close the building for emergency repairs, may hold the graduation on that date, if certain conditions are met. http://www.cga.state.ct.us/2004/act/Pa/2004PA-00251-R00SB-00343-PA.htm
Title: S.B. 343
Source: Connecticut Legislative Web site
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| FL | Became law without governor's signature 05/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Relates to education funding; requires school districts to establish certain policies and procedures regarding lottery fund enhancements; provides tax credit cap for contributions to nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations; prohibits use of funds for lab schools for certain overhead or indirect costs; redesignates specified community colleges as colleges; specifies maximum fee waiver percentage for school districts and community colleges; authorizes use of the Dale Hickam Excellent Teaching Program funds; requires reports regarding inmate education provided by community colleges; authorizes Florida State University to construct classroom building. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=hb1867er.html&Directory=session/2004/House/bills/billtext/html/
Title: H.B. 1867
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Board of Public Works to include modular construction as an approved public school construction or capital cost; requires the Board of Public Works to adopt specified regulations.
Title: H.B. 199
Source: StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes a county to finance the construction or renovation of public school facilities, under specified circumstances, using alternative financing methods; authorizes specified counties to issue bonds under specified circumstances; alters the amount of grants provided to counties under the Aging Schools Program; provides an exception to a specified mandatory level of State funds to be granted to Prince George's County and Baltimore City.
Title: S.B. 787
Source: StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes a county to finance the construction or renovation of public school facilities, under specified circumstances, using alternative financing methods; authorizes specified counties to issue bonds under specified circumstances; alters the amount of grants provided to counties under the Aging Schools Program; provides an exception to a specified mandatory level of State funds to be granted to Prince George's County and Baltimore City.
Title: H.B. 1230
Source: StateNet
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| NH | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Excludes amounts transferred to capital reserve from the formula for computing school building aid grant amounts.
For the purposes of computing grants hereunder, the amount of the annual payment of principal shall be increased by an amount equal to the amount of capital reserve or the amount raised by taxation which was actually expended for the project at any time, divided by the number of years for which bonds or notes were issued to provide funds for such school building or school administrative unit facilities; provided, however that received from trusts, bequests, gifts or insurance policies shall not be eligible for computing grants hereunder. When bonds and notes are issued for a period of less than 5 years, the amount of aid for which the district is eligible shall be paid in no fewer than 5 equal installments.
http://gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2004/SB0352.html
Title: S.B. 352
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | Postsec. | Bond bill; Commonwealth of Virginia Higher Educational Institutions Bond Bill of 2004. Authorizes the issuance of 9 (c) bonds in a principal amount not to exceed $255,316,600 for the financing of revenue-producing capital projects at institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth. Of the total amount of bonds authorized, $137,700,600 is allocated for previously authorized projects and $117,616,000 is allocated for new projects. This bill is identical to HB 31. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0813
Title: S.B. 31
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| CA | Approved by voters 03/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Enacts the Kindergarten - University Public Facilities Bond Act of 2004 for $12.3 million; funds education facilities to relieve overcrowding and repair of older schools; funds upgrade and new classrooms in the California Community Colleges, the California State University and the University of California to provide adequate higher education facilities to accommodate growing student enrollment; funds will be targeted to areas of greatest needs and must be spent according to strict accountability measures. http://vote2004.ss.ca.gov/Returns/prop/00.htm
Title: Proposition 55 (AB 16)
Source: California State Web site
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2004 | Postsec. | Concerns the enterprise status of auxiliary facilities of state institutions of higher education. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/32AD98B37C17816487256DB9006E00A3?open&file=1005_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1005
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Concerns the modification of the process used to make matching grants for school district capital construction from the school construction and renovation fund.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/03DE7EE7F88A911587256DB0004D0816?Open&file=1055_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1055
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| CT | Signed into law 03/2004 | Postsec. | Concerns an authorization of bonds of the state for higher education capital improvements and other purposes; implements the Governors budget recommendations. http://www.cga.state.ct.us/2004/act/Pa/2004PA-00003-R00SB-00030-PA.htm
Title: S.B. 30
Source: Connecticut Legislative Web site
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Amends existing law relating to the Bond Levy Equalization Support Program to prohibit utilization of assistance pursuant to the program for projects previously subsidized by state grants; provides that an otherwise eligible school district shall not be deemed ineligible due to prior participation in safe school programs under certain conditions. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/H0780.html#engr
Title: H.B. 780
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Relates to public school capital outlay; authorizes severance tax bonds and supplemental severance tax bonds for public school capital outlay projects; establishes funding priorities; expands the purpose for which funds may be used, increases the state distribution and adjust state distributions by an inflation factor; provides a tax imposition as a remedy for certain school violations.
Title: S.B. 399
Source: StateNet
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| NM | Partial Veto, November 2004 Ballot 03/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Authorizes the issuance and sale of capital projects general obligation bonds to make capital expenditures for senior citizen facility improvements and acquisitions, for higher educational capital improvements and acquisitions, for water project improvements, for public library acquisitions, for kindergarten construction and renovation, for other state capital expenditures and for public school educational technology. http://legis.state.nm.us/newsite/_session.asp?chamber=H&type=++&number=294&year=04
Title: H.B. 294
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web site
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| SC | GOVERNOR'S veto overridden by SENATE. 03/2004 | Postsec. | Provides that the proceeds of bonds authorized under the South Carolina Research University Infrastructure Act are appropriated and authorized to be expended for the purposes and in the manner set forth in the act; provides that the proceeds of bonds authorized pursuant to amendments to the State General Obligation Economic Development Bond Act are appropriate and authorized to be expended for the purposes set forth in the act.
Title: H.B. 3900
Source: StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Creates the school building legislative task force; provides for a final report to the Education Interim Committee.
Title: S.B. 154
Source: StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Relates to levies by county boards of education and expenditure of taxes collected; allows growth counties to use provisions of the Growth County School Facilities Act; provides high-growth counties may place certain property tax revenues in growth county facility act fund to be used for the benefit of school facilities in the county; provides moneys in the fund are not considered local share for purposes of the state aid formula.http://129.71.164.29/Bill_Text_HTML/2004_SESSIONS/RS/Senate/S_BILLS/SB408%20SUB2%20enr.htm
Title: S.B. 408
Source: West Virginia Legislative Web Site
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Creates a State Tax Penalty and Interest Amnesty Program for taxpayers who make a voluntary payment of State taxes during the period of July 1, 2004 through December 31, 2004; provides all moneys collected under the program would be deposited in a special Public School Facilities Fund to be used for improvements, construction or repair of school facilities. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1100.pdf
Title: H.B. 1100
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Creates the Division of Public School Accountability and the Arkansas Public Schools Accountability Advisory Council; creates the Division of Public School Academic Facilities to ensure equal access to adequate educational facilities and educational equipment; requires realignment of the state department of education (not to be incorporated into Arkansas Code or published separately) and creates a task force to make recommendations on realignment; amends terms for state board of education. members.http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1009.pdf
Title: H.B. 1009
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Establishes criteria for custodial and maintenance care for school facilities. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB53.pdf
Title: S.B. 53
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| MT | Rule Adoption 12/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Relates to out-of-state attendance agreements. The superintendent of public instruction shall
provide payment of the amount calculated in (4)(a), but not
more than the amount of tuition paid by the district for
resident students who attended school out-of-state, in the
year the out-of-district attendance report is submitted,
provided it is submitted with documentation
of payment, to the superintendent of public instruction within
the school year following the year of attendance
Title: ARM 10.10.301C
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed--in Senate to unfinished business 10/2004 | P-12 | The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for costs mandated by the state and incurred by a local agency or school district to implement a new program or higher level of service. Existing law creates certain exceptions. This bill includes within that exception costs mandated by a statute or executive order that imposes a duty on a local agency or school district that was expressly included in a ballot measure approved by the voters in a local election.
Repeals provisions requiring a school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District to use, for home-to-school transportation, the funding made available pursuant to voluntary desegregation programs and requires that pupils in grades 7 to 12 who apply to transfer from a school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District to another school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District to be granted a transfer according to certain priorities, among which is that the transfer would mitigate schoolsite segregation. Replaces with statement of the intent of the Legislature that, if the Grant Joint Union High School District is reorganized to create two new unified school districts, the reorganization must be implemented in a manner that provides constitutionally permissible opportunities for the voluntary racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic integration of pupils attending each school district.
Requires a proposal to reorganize the Grant Joint Union High School District that is initiated by the Sacramento County Committee on School District Organization and approved by the State Board of Education before December 31, 2007, to include requirements that pupils eligible to enroll in any of grades 7 to 12, except expelled pupils, whose parents are residents of any school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union
High School District have the same rights to enroll in any secondary school in a district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District as a pupil whose parents are residents of that other district, and that the successor school districts to the Grant Joint Union High School District provide free transportation to these pupils if they so request, hold joint annual meetings to review segregation issues, and grant seniority rights to employees of school districts that cease to exist as a result of the proposal who become employees of the successor districts.
Requires a ballot measure to approve this proposal to clearly inform the voters that by approving the measure the voters are mandating the successor school districts to incur costs to implement the requirements described above and that these costs would not be reimbursed by the state. Makes legislative findings and declarations in this regard. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1251-1300/sb_1271_bill_20040823_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/SB_1271_veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1271
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Deems, for purposes of computing the average daily attendance generated by a pupil enrolled in a history or social science course required by a school district as a condition of receipt of a high school diploma, a pupil serving as a member of a precinct board for an election to be under the immediate supervision of the certificated teacher of the history or social science course. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1901-1950/ab_1944_bill_20040824_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1944_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1944
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the California Quality Education Commission to examine the advantages and disadvantages of allowing a school district to allocate funds to each school in its district based on a weighted per pupil formula and to make recommendations regarding its findings.
This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 64201 of the Education Code proposed by AB 2776 that would become
operative only if AB 2776 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2005, and this bill is chaptered
last. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2351-2400/ab_2373_bill_20040824_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2373_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2373
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Establishes a task force to develop options for restructuring the funding formula for state aid. Authorizes the use of specified funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 2004 for implementing these provisions. Makes an appropriation. Relates to economic impact aid to school districts based on the number of economically disadvantaged pupils and other factors. Requires the task force to submit its findings and recommendations to the Governor, the Legislature, and the Quality Education Commission on or before January 1, 2006. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1601-1650/sb_1645_bill_20040823_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB_1645_veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1645
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Controller to deduct from the next principal apportionment of a school district a specified amount based on the annual pupil enrollment of the class above a different prescribed number. Authorizes a district located in the counties of Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego or Ventura to claim class size reduction funding for 2003-04 based on enrollment counts before the October 2003 fires, if the district lost or exceeded enrollment due to the fires. This bill declares that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0301-0350/sb_311_bill_20040930_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB_311_sign.pdf
Title: S.B. 311
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | Postsec. | Provides that the allocation of statewide authorized adult education average daily attendance would be modified pursuant to a specified formula. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate the excess funds as grants to school districts operating adult education programs, based on an equal amount per unit of adult education average daily attendance. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1301-1350/sb_1309_bill_20040824_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB_1309_veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1309
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Establishes the Pupil Achievement Grant Program to consolidate funding and provide flexibility at the schoolsite in the use of funds from specified categorical education programs in schools identified as underperforming in at least one of the three preceding fiscal years. Requires a school district to ensure that it expends an amount for direct services to pupils in eligible schools in accordance with specified minimum percentages for any purpose authorized by special categorical education programs. Requires a school district receiving program funds to ensure that the school district and each school has or continues to maintain advisory committees and schoolsite councils. Requires a district to have a single school plan that incorporates specified requirements and to use funds allocated to serve and assist pupils eligible for free or reduced price meals and pupils identified as limited English proficient. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2151-2200/ab_2152_bill_20040827_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2152_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2152
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to examine home-to-school transportation funding formulas and determine how current formulas should be modified to allow school districts and county offices of education to initiate new transportation programs and receive state funding on a equitable basis. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1251-1300/ab_1253_bill_20040828_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1253_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1253
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes, commencing with the 2006-07 fiscal year, home-to-school transportation programs to receive a state funding increase in lieu of an inflation or cost-of-living increase. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2451-2500/ab_2462_bill_20040824_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2462_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2462
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Establishes block grants to be composed of funding for specified existing categorical education programs. Repeals dates of the Early Intervention for School Success Program. Establishes a pupil retention block grant, school safety consolidated block grants, teacher credentialing block grant, professional development block grant, a new targeted instructional improvement block grant and school library improvement block grant. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0801-0850/ab_825_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_825_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 825
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Revises the procedures for receiving claims and for hearings on claims from local governmental agencies, including school district, for reimbursement of costs of state mandates with the Commission on State Mandates. Revises the definitions of terms related to the procedure and hearing and defines additional terms. Abolishes the State Mandates Claims Fund. Deletes the option of paying claims from the fund. Makes other technical changes and deletes obsolete references. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2851-2900/ab_2856_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2853_2855_2856_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 2856
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Consolidates the funding for programs aimed at promoting the development of teachers in specific areas, and establishes the Teacher Support and Development Act of 2005 to provide flexible professional development block grants to school districts. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually award the block grants from funding provided in the annual Budget Act. Provides for the block grant amounts to be calculated according to a specified formula and would require a school district to demonstrate that its staff development programs meet
specified criteria prior to receiving a block grant. Requires the State Department of Education to conduct an evaluation to assess the impact of the act on teacher quality and pupil improvement and would require an interim report to be submitted to the Governor and the Legislature no later than January 1, 2007, and a final report to be submitted no later than January 1, 2009. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1601-1650/ab_1650_bill_20040826_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1650_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1650
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| NY | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Provides that the transportation of pupils by a school district in child safety zones shall be considered regular aidable transportation; eliminates expiration of and makes permanent provisions of the education law providing for the transportation of pupils in child safety zones. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S04772&sh=t
Title: S.B. 4772
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12
Community College | Suspends the minimum funding obligation of school districts and community college districts. Requires the amount of money to be applied by the state for these district's support during the 2004-05 fiscal year to be calculated by subtracting a certain amount of funding that would otherwise be required to be applied for the support of these districts during the 2004-05 fiscal year if the suspension had not occurred. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1101-1150/sb_1101_bill_20040811_chaptered.html
Title: S.B. 1101
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 08/2004 | P-12 | Requires the California Quality Education Commission to examine the advantages and disadvantages of apportioning funds to school districts on the basis of enrollment rather than on the basis of average daily attendance. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2751-2800/ab_2776_bill_20040812_enrolled.html
AB 2373 would incorporate additional changes in Section 64201 of the Education Code proposed by AB 2776 that would become
operative only if AB 2776 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2005, and AB 2373 is chaptered
last. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2351-2400/ab_2373_bill_20040824_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2776_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2776
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| GA | Active 08/2004 | P-12 | The governor announced "The Quality Basic Education (QBE) Task Force in February 2004. The task force will look at realigning the school funding formula to ensure it serves all students in the new era of accountability. The task force is authorized under O.C.G.A. 20-2-161. http://www.gov.state.ga.us/press/2004/press369.shtml
Title: N/A
Source: Georgia State Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Amends the School Code. In the State aid formula provisions, provides that calculation of Available Local Resources shall exclude tax amnesty funds received as a result of Public Act 93-26. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0875
Title: S.B. 2362
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 07/2004 | P-12 | Deletes the reduction in base revenue limit funding that results to certain school districts for offering less than 180 days of instruction. Conditions the entitlement to the same support from the State School Fund due to the average daily attendance on the districts operating under the provisions of law relating to the 180-day school year. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1101-1150/sb_1142_bill_20040701_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB1142Veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1142
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Provides that if, at the time of enrollment, dependents of United States military personnel are housed in temporary housing located outside of a school district, but will be living within that school district within 60 days after the time of initial enrollment, the dependents shall be enrolled, upon a sufficient showing of proof, and shall not be charged non-resident tuition but may be counted in determining state aid. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0740
Title: S.B. 2444
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Amends the School Code. In the State aid formula provisions, increases the foundation level of support from $4,810 to $5,060. Effective July 1, 2004. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0808
Title: H.B. 4266
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Creates the FY2005 Budget Implementation (Education) Act. Creates several education related funds for receipt of federal moneys for education and other areas; addresses subjects students must be tested on; provides transitional assistance payments; increases the foundation level of support of supplemental state aid in relation to districts with a Low Income Concentration Level over a specified amount; provides for the National Guard Grant Program for tuition assistance. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0838
Title: S.B. 2205
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| PA | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Amends the Public School Code of 1949. Makes provisions regarding school budgets, limitations on balances, auxiliary services, cost of tuition for exceptional children in private schools, charter school tuition for the deaf and blind, Head Start supplemental assistance, school improvement grants, educational improvement tax credits, vocational curriculums, special education payments, and reimbursements for charter and cyber charter schools.
Title: H.B. 564
Source: StateNet
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 | P-12 | Creates the "Education Equity and Property Tax Relief Act, " and would create a joint legislative committee of ten members to establish a permanent education foundation and education formula for the state - the committee's final report is due October 1, 2005..
Title: S.B. 3182
Source: StateNet
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| AK | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Increases the base student allocation used in the formula for state funding of public education; and providing for an effective date." http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill_text.asp?hsid=HB0233Z&session=23
Title: H.B. 233
Source: Alaska Legislative Web site
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| AR | Rule Adoption 06/2004 | P-12 | Repeals rules regarding Act 2 of 1994 as amended by Act 1228 of 1995, relating to the determination of the amount of Minimum Foundation Program Aid for each district. ARKANSAS REG 3948 (SN) http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/Repeal%20Act%202%20of%201994.pdf
Title: ADE 171
Source: Arkansas State Web site
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Concerns the financing of public schools; relates to calculations of pupil enrollment; relates to charter school contracts. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/28517E5E9054E56887256E0400738CE5?Open&file=1397_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1397
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| HI | Veto override 05/2004 | P-12 | Establishes a weighted student formula; provides additional information technology; empowers principals through a Hawaii principals academy and other means; strengthens community involvement through school community councils and parent-community networking centers; provides more mathematics textbooks; lowers class size in kindergarten, grade one, and grade two; provides full-time, year-round student activity coordinators; provides support for students who need additional help to succeed in school; establishes a national board certification incentive program for teachers; enhances teacher education; reduces the bureaucracy that hampers the effectiveness of the department of education; improves the educational accountability system; requires the board of education members to hold community meetings in their districts.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb3238_sd2_.htm
Title: S.B. 3238
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Concerns the computation of the amount of state financial aid received by school districts that consolidate;
establishes the Center for Innovative School Leadership; establishes membership requirements of school site councils, allows self-administration of asthma or allergy medication by student. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2004/304.pdf Supplemental Note: http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2004/SN0304.pdf Fiscal Note: http://www.kslegislature.org/fiscalnotes/2004/304.pdf
Title: S.B. 304
Source: StateNet
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| TX | Rule Adoption 05/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules concerning the foundation school program. Relates to rules for the definition of tax and levy and tax collection. TEXAS REG 95053 (SN) http://www.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tacupdates/may2004/ch062.pdf
Title: 19 TAC 105.A.105.1
Source: http://www.tea.state.tx.us/rules
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Reorganizes the Standards of Quality and makes substantive amendments that would (i) increase from one half-time to one full-time principal in elementary schools with fewer than 300 students; (ii) provide one full-time assistant principal for each 400 students in each school, regardless of grade level; (iii) require five elementary resource positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade five for art, music, and physical education; (iv) lower the pupil-teacher ratio from 25:1 to 21:1 in middle and high schools, to ensure the provision of scheduled teacher planning time; (v) reduce the required speech pathologist caseload from 68 to 60 students; (vi) require one full-time reading specialist for each 1,000 students in average daily membership; (vii) require two technology support positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade 12 divisionwide; and (viii) modify the current funding mechanism for remediation.
A second enactment clause provides that any provision that is not required on June 30, 2004, and does require state funding will not take effect unless the state's share of the funding for the provision is included in the general appropriation act for the period July 1, 2004, through June 30, 2006, passed during the 2004 Session of the General Assembly and signed into law by the Governor.
The Board of Education proposed and approved these changes on June 25, 2003. Because the Virginia Constitution grants the General Assembly "ultimate authority" over educational policy and provides that the Standards are to be "prescribed from time to time by the Board of Education" but are subject to revision "only by the General Assembly," legislation is necessary to enact the Board's proposals.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0939
Title: S.B. 479, H.B. 1014
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| IA | Vetoed 03/2004 | P-12 | Relates to education funding, providing for the establishment of the state percent of growth for purposes of the state school foundation program, making appropriations, and providing an applicability date. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=SF2124 and http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/80GA/Session.2/SJournal//sj040308.pdf#page=18
Title: S.F. 2124
Source: StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Increases the per student allocation in the state aid to education formula.
Title: S.B. 206
Source: StateNet
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| TX | Adopted 03/2004 | P-12 | Sets administrative ratios for funding purposes; addresses "gap funding" to meet equalization requirements.
Title: 61.AA
Source: www.tea.state.us
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Provides assistance to districts for reading assessment and intervention programs; implements the adjustment to the education resource block grant model for experience and longevity of school district classified staff; modifies the at-risk adjustment to include mobile students; modifies the small school adjustment; provides a foundation program hold harmless; clarifies cost of living index computations; imposes duties upon the Department of Education.
Title: H.B. 93
Source: StateNet
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| UT | Rule Adoption 02/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules to provide a formula and procedures for funding for school districts that have certain percentages of licensed professional staff. UTAH REG 26828 (SN)
Title: R277-486
Source: StateNet
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| Finance--Local Foundations/Funds |
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | The bill provides that by fiscal year 2009-10 the state share of kindergarten to grade 12 education funding, as described by essential programs and services, must be 55%. It also establishes a local cost share expectation for property tax years beginning on or after April 1, 2005. The Commissioner of Education shall annually notify each school administrative unit of its expectation. This expectation must decline over the period from fiscal year 2005-06 to fiscal year 2009-10. The expectation may not exceed 9.0 mills in fiscal year 2005-06. It may not exceed 8.0 mills in fiscal year 2009-10. The legislative body of a school administrative unit may not adopt a property tax rate that exceeds its mill expectation unless, in a vote separate from its adoption of the school budget, it votes to increase the property tax rate.
The bill also places transportation operating costs into the essential programs and services funding formula. It also states that special education costs will be included in essential programs and services starting in fiscal year 2005-06. Beginning in fiscal year 2004-05, the Department of Education will provide training in state-approved guidelines for identification of special education students. The bill also places early childhood education program costs and vocational education program costs into essential programs and services no later than fiscal year 2007-08.
Note Sec. 16:
Basis for funding costs of education from kindergarten to grade 12. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning in fiscal year 2005-06, funding of the costs of education from kindergarten to grade 12 must be based on the cost of providing essential programs and services as described in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, chapter 606-B.
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/ld_title.asp?ld=1924
Title: S.P. 761
Source: StateNet
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| Finance--Lotteries |
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| WV | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Makes supplementary appropriation to department of education from net lottery proceeds.
Title: S.B. 2007
Source: StateNet
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| FL | Became law without governor's signature 05/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Relates to education funding; requires school districts to establish certain policies and procedures regarding lottery fund enhancements; provides tax credit cap for contributions to nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations; prohibits use of funds for lab schools for certain overhead or indirect costs; redesignates specified community colleges as colleges; specifies maximum fee waiver percentage for school districts and community colleges; authorizes use of the Dale Hickam Excellent Teaching Program funds; requires reports regarding inmate education provided by community colleges; authorizes Florida State University to construct classroom building. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=hb1867er.html&Directory=session/2004/House/bills/billtext/html/
Title: H.B. 1867
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Adds the Select Committee on the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation to education committees as committees reviewing governor's proposed appropriations for educational programs and purposes prior to final action by the finance, ways and means committees.
Title: S.B. 2115
Source: StateNet
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| Finance--Private Giving |
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Requires university foundations to adopt codes of ethics and provides procedure for removal of foundation board members who violate such codes. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0879.pdf
Title: H.B. 2853
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Creates tax credit for qualified contributions for qualified public school support organizations; provides that seventy-five percent of the operating and implementation costs shall be satisfied from any increase in local sales tax revenues and twenty-five percent of such costs from increases in state sales tax revenues. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0835.pdf
Title: H.B. 1302
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| Finance--Resource Efficiency |
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Concerns reviews of school districts, and, in connection therewith, requiring pilot efficiency reviews of a limited number of school districts to identify administrative savings that can be gained through best practices. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/7559053176F837C087256E19005E1CFA?Open&file=144_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 144
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Concerns school district and charter school procurement; concerns contracts for materials and services the governing board may authorize for purchase which do not comply with requirements of procurement rules adopted by the State Board of Education; specifies criteria; applies to General Services Administration contracts. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0050.htm
Title: H.B. 2105
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Amends existing law relating to school property to provide that certain contracts shall not be executed unless in cooperation with a cooperative agency or through a contract that has been competitively bid by the state of Idaho, one of its subdivisions, or an agency of the federal government. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1345.html#billtext
Title: S.B. 1345
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| WV | to governor 03/2004 | P-12 | Part of H.B. 4001 requires the state board to adopt and periodically review and update indicators of efficiency for use by the appropriate divisions within the department to ensure efficient management and utilization of resources in the public schools.
Title: H.B. 4001 - Multiple Sections
Source: West Virginia Legislative Web Site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Requires an audit of staffing needs of the Department of Education. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1108.pdf
Title: H.B. 1108
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the Public School Funding Act of 2003; provides equitable funding to public schools; provides a system for monitoring public school expenditures; increases minimum teacher salaries; establishes a knowledge and skills-based pay system for teachers; provides for school-based performance awards. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB42.pdf
Title: S.B. 42
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Adds Ark. Code 6-15-2001. The state department of education and the Division of Legislative Audit of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee of the General Assembly are directed to develop a system for reviewing the financial management practices of school districts and identifies "best financial management code practices." School districts are evaluated and rated on compliance with best practices. Districts that don't conform to best practices are required to develop a plan for meeting best practices within two years. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB33.pdf
Title: S.B. 33 § 9
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
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| IL | Signed into law 10/2004 | P-12 | Amends the Common School Fund Article of the School Code. Provides for a grant to be paid to a school district if there has been an increase in a school districts' student population over the most recent 2 school years of over 1.5% in a district with over 10,000 pupils in average daily attendance or over 7.5% in any other district. If the appropriated money in any fiscal year is insufficient to pay all grants, then the amount appropriated shall be prorated among eligible districts. Provides penalties for intentionally reporting incorrect data.
http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-1042
Title: H.B. 766
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Controller to deduct from the next principal apportionment of a school district a specified amount based on the annual pupil enrollment of the class above a different prescribed number. Authorizes a district located in the counties of Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego or Ventura to claim class size reduction funding for 2003-04 based on enrollment counts before the October 2003 fires, if the district lost or exceeded enrollment due to the fires. This bill declares that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0301-0350/sb_311_bill_20040930_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB_311_sign.pdf
Title: S.B. 311
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes, commencing with the 2006-07 fiscal year, home-to-school transportation programs to receive a state funding increase in lieu of an inflation or cost-of-living increase. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2451-2500/ab_2462_bill_20040824_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2462_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2462
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Establishes block grants to be composed of funding for specified existing categorical education programs. Repeals dates of the Early Intervention for School Success Program. Establishes a pupil retention block grant, school safety consolidated block grants, teacher credentialing block grant, professional development block grant, a new targeted instructional improvement block grant and school library improvement block grant. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0801-0850/ab_825_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_825_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 825
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Deletes the date of repeal on the Instructional Materials Program and the contingency of program implementation funding on funding from the Annual Budget Act. Also makes technical changes to the appropriation to the Instructional Materials Fund. Appropriates $20,200,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education and, of that amount $5,000,000 is appropriated for transfer to the State Instructional Materials Fund for purposes of acquiring instructional materials, $15,000,000 is appropriated for allocation to county offices of education for review and monitoring of schools, and $200,000 is appropriated for purposes of implementing this act. The funds appropriated by the bill for purposes of acquiring instrucional materials and for review and monitoring activities are applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Revises the procedures for receiving claims and for hearings on claims from local governmental agencies, including school district, for reimbursement of costs of state mandates with the Commission on State Mandates. Revises the definitions of terms related to the procedure and hearing and defines additional terms. Abolishes the State Mandates Claims Fund. Deletes the option of paying claims from the fund. Makes other technical changes and deletes obsolete references. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2851-2900/ab_2856_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2853_2855_2856_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 2856
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Consolidates the funding for programs aimed at promoting the development of teachers in specific areas, and establishes the Teacher Support and Development Act of 2005 to provide flexible professional development block grants to school districts. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually award the block grants from funding provided in the annual Budget Act. Provides for the block grant amounts to be calculated according to a specified formula and would require a school district to demonstrate that its staff development programs meet
specified criteria prior to receiving a block grant. Requires the State Department of Education to conduct an evaluation to assess the impact of the act on teacher quality and pupil improvement and would require an interim report to be submitted to the Governor and the Legislature no later than January 1, 2007, and a final report to be submitted no later than January 1, 2009. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1601-1650/ab_1650_bill_20040826_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1650_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1650
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| MI | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Provides Department of Education zero budget for fiscal year 2005.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0346.pdf
Title: S.B. 1065
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 09/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Makes appropriations for the state institutions of higher education and certain state purposes related to education for the fiscal year ending September 3.,2004; and for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0352.pdf
Title: S.B. 1067
Source: StateNet
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| AL | Issued 08/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | The governor issued Executive Order No. 02-2003 on January 30, 2003, creating the Governor's Commission of Education Spending. The Commission was to engage in a thorough examination of how education dollars have been spent in Alabama during the past ten years. http://www.governorpress.state.al.us/pr/ex-02-2003-01-30.asp
The Highlights of the Initial Report focused on: (1) Management and Accountability Reforms for K-12; (2) Student Assessment and Accountability for K-12; (3) Management and Accountability Reforms for the Alabama College System; (4) Management and Accountability Reforms for University Governance; (4) Reforms in Terms of Public Employment; and (5) Education Trust Fund Accountability.
The Working-Group Sessions (December 2003) made the following proposals: (1) Achieve the maximum savings possible from non-state and non-education agencies; (2) Freeze the state appropriations to PEEHIP at the Fiscal 2004 level; (3) Allocate higher education cutbacks to institutions; and (4) Allocation K-12 education cutbacks to school systems. http://www.alabama.gov/onlineservices/egov_pdfs/ESCReport11404.pdf
Title: Executive Order No. 02-2003
Source: Alabama State Web site
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| CA | Signed into law, with line items vetoed 08/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Relates to revenue limit calculation factors for school districts and county superintendents of schools for specified fiscal years. Relates to apportionments and minimum funding to school districts and community college districts, funding for the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program, special education funding for non-public non-sectarian institutions. Requires dual admissions programs in State institutions of higher education. Relates to student loans and fees. (Line Item veto of small competitive grants program, Arts Work.) http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1101-1150/sb_1108_bill_20040811_chaptered.html
Title: S.B. 1108
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12
Community College | Suspends the minimum funding obligation of school districts and community college districts. Requires the amount of money to be applied by the state for these district's support during the 2004-05 fiscal year to be calculated by subtracting a certain amount of funding that would otherwise be required to be applied for the support of these districts during the 2004-05 fiscal year if the suspension had not occurred. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1101-1150/sb_1101_bill_20040811_chaptered.html
Title: S.B. 1101
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Amends the School Code. Relates to recomputing a general State aid claim. Provides for a qualifying reduction in equalized assessed valuation deduction. Amends provisions regarding the necessity to prorate claims that are approved but not paid in the current fiscal year. Provides that adjustments must not exceed a specified amount. Provides that approved prorated claims not paid in the current fiscal year may be resubmitted. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0845
Title: S.B. 2349
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Increases the amount of funding for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, appropriated for the public school of the state from the General Fund. For the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, there is appropriated for the public schools of this state
and certain other state purposes relating to education the sum of $10,962,387,100.00 from the state school aid fund
established by section 11 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963 and the sum of $377,800,000.00 from the general
fund. In addition, available federal funds are appropriated for each of those fiscal years.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0185.pdf
Title: S.B. 1194
Source: StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Provides for early retirement for state employee retirement members with actuarial reduction of benefits; requires abolition of positions vacated by early retirement and permits reestablishment only as provided. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT8/OUT/0000LRSO.PDF
Title: H.B. 58
Source: StateNet
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| MO | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the State Board of Education and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills041/biltxt/truly/HB1002T.HTM
Title: H.B. 1002
Source: StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Makes appropriations to the state board; transfers funds to the Teachers' Retirement System; provides funds for an Internet school, parent training, advanced placement programs, alternate education, staff development and early intervention programs. Caps the number of employees at the State Department of Education for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005 at 400 FTE. Also targets numbers of employees within the 400 to specific areas (e.g., 87.75 for the Oklahoma Early Intervention Act; 1 to coordinate support personnel concerns). http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/house/ohorpage.htm
Title: H.B. 2012
Source: http://www.lsb.state.ok.us
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Concerns the financing of public schools; relates to calculations of pupil enrollment; relates to charter school contracts. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/28517E5E9054E56887256E0400738CE5?Open&file=1397_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1397
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Relates to funds and funding; provides with respect to the Support Education in Louisiana First Fund.
The monies in this fund shall be used only as provided in this bill and only in the amounts appropriated by the legislature. Requires that all unexpended and unencumbered monies in this fund at the end of each fiscal year shall remain in the fund. and shall retain their allocation for use and expenditure in accordance with the provisions this bill.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT8/OUT/0000LL9V.PDF
Title: S.B. 506
Source: StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | The bill provides that by fiscal year 2009-10 the state share of kindergarten to grade 12 education funding, as described by essential programs and services, must be 55%. It also establishes a local cost share expectation for property tax years beginning on or after April 1, 2005. The Commissioner of Education shall annually notify each school administrative unit of its expectation. This expectation must decline over the period from fiscal year 2005-06 to fiscal year 2009-10. The expectation may not exceed 9.0 mills in fiscal year 2005-06. It may not exceed 8.0 mills in fiscal year 2009-10. The legislative body of a school administrative unit may not adopt a property tax rate that exceeds its mill expectation unless, in a vote separate from its adoption of the school budget, it votes to increase the property tax rate.
The bill also places transportation operating costs into the essential programs and services funding formula. It also states that special education costs will be included in essential programs and services starting in fiscal year 2005-06. Beginning in fiscal year 2004-05, the Department of Education will provide training in state-approved guidelines for identification of special education students. The bill also places early childhood education program costs and vocational education program costs into essential programs and services no later than fiscal year 2007-08.
Note Sec. 16:
Basis for funding costs of education from kindergarten to grade 12. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning in fiscal year 2005-06, funding of the costs of education from kindergarten to grade 12 must be based on the cost of providing essential programs and services as described in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, chapter 606-B.
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/ld_title.asp?ld=1924
Title: S.P. 761
Source: StateNet
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| MN | To governor 05/2004 | P-12 | Relates to state government; appropriates money for prekindergarten through grade 12 education, including general education, education excellence, special programs, and facilities and technology; early childhood and family education, including prevention and self-sufficiency and lifelong learning; and health and human services.
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/slaws/2004/c272.html
Title: H.F. 2867
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Relates to an appropriation for the State Department of Education General Programs, Education Reform Act and Vocational Education.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/pdf/HB/1600-1699/HB1696SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 1696
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Relates to Junior Colleges Administration appropriation.
Title: S.B. 3121
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Relates to Junior Colleges support appropriation.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/html/SB/3100-3199/SB3122PS.htm
Title: S.B. 3122
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Relates to a Institution of Higher Learning general support appropriation.
Title: S.B. 3120
Source: StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Adds the Select Committee on the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation to education committees as committees reviewing governor's proposed appropriations for educational programs and purposes prior to final action by the finance, ways and means committees.
Title: S.B. 2115
Source: StateNet
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | This act establishes an equalized pupil count for union and unified union school districts, removes the system of assessing member districts to fund union and unified union school districts, and directs the commissioner of education to send funding directly to union and unified union school districts. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2004/acts/ACT130.HTM
Title: S.B. 315
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2004 | Postsec.
Community College | Appropriates funds to the State Board of Education and the Board of Regents of the University of Idaho; requires the state board of education to track faculty, nonfaculty exempt and classified employees turnover; provides legislative intent regarding funding equity among the state's four-year institutions; specifies other expenditures. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/2004/H0768.html
Title: H.B. 768
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| TN | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Basic Education Program (BEP) - Provides that 40 percent of growth funds under the BEP are to be distributed to eligible LEAs by January 1 with the remainder distributed by the subsequent June 30.
Title: S.B. 3349
Source: StateNet
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| IA | Vetoed 03/2004 | P-12 | Relates to education funding, providing for the establishment of the state percent of growth for purposes of the state school foundation program, making appropriations, and providing an applicability date. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=SF2124 and http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/80GA/Session.2/SJournal//sj040308.pdf#page=18
Title: S.F. 2124
Source: StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the investment of permanent endowment funds to clarify market value allocation between the permanent endowment funds and the earnings reserve funds; establishes benchmark values to be annually modified for comparison with the current market value of the permanent endowment fund; provides for making up reducing transfers or appropriations which exceed a benchmark value. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1306.html#billtext
Title: S.B. 1306
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Creates a restricted account for the deposit of the earnings derived from the investment of the permanent State School Fund.
Title: H.B. 78
Source: StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2004 | Postsec. | Makes a supplementary appropriation of public moneys out of the treasury from the balance of moneys remaining as an unappropriated balance in the state fund, general revenue, to higher education policy commission - higher education policy commission - system - control account, fund 0586, fiscal year 2005, organization 0442, supplements and amends the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005.
Title: S.B. 1014
Source: StateNet
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the investment of state funds; modifies spending policy amounts from investments of permanent Wyoming mineral trust funds and the common school account within the permanent land fund.
Title: H.B. 101
Source: StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Appropriations bill. Appropriates money to enhance the quality of education in the state; provides also for postsecondary education.
Title: S.B. 150
Source: StateNet
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| Finance--Student Fees |
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| IA | Emergency Rule Adoption 09/2004 | Postsec. | Removes references to specific amounts for application fees in Chapters 1 and 2; creates a new rule with all application fees listed.
1.2 and 1.7: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/Current/iac/681/6811/6811.pdf
2.27: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/Current/iac/681/6812/6812.pdf
Title: 681 IAB 1.2, 1.7, 2.27
Source: StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 04/2004 | Postsec. | Gives each governing board the authority to impose, collect and expend the proceeds of a special equity fee under the following conditions: (a) The fee shall be used solely for the purpose of complying with the athletic provisions of 20 U. S. C. 1681, et seq., known as Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972;(b) The fee is exempt from limitations on fee increases set forth in this article for three years from the effective date of this section;(c) The fee may not be used by an institution to advance its classification of participation in its athletics governing body; and (d) The fee may not be imposed upon part-time students or students enrolled in an administratively linked community and technical college.http://129.71.164.29/Bill_Text_HTML/2004_SESSIONS/RS/Senate/S_BILLS/SB448%20enr.htm
Title: S.B. 448
Source: West Virginia Legislative Web Site
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| MI | Signed into law 11/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies and limits duration of intermediate school district millages to fund special education and vocational education; relates to the limited use of bonds for special education and vocational education facilities.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-5839
Title: H.B. 5839
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Increases the amount of the fees imposed for issuance and renewal of specified special interest license plates approved by the DMV in consultation with the California Arts Council. Requires the council to use the revenue exclusively for arts education and local arts programming. Prohibits the council from using the revenue for its administrative costs. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1201-1250/sb_1213_bill_20040909_chaptered.html
Title: S.B. 1213
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Controller to collect data regarding the total assessed valuation of all taxable property in each school district and compile the information on a county basis. Requires data to be made available on the Controller's web site. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1751-1800/sb_1791_bill_20040826_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/SB_1791_veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1791
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the auditor of a qualified county to increase the amount of ad valorem property tax revenue allocated to that county by the county equity amount, and to commensurately reduce the amount of ad valorem property tax revenue allocated to that county's Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund. Requires that ad valorem property tax revenue allocations made in subsequent fiscal years fully incorporate the allocation adjustments required herein.
Bill as sent to governor: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/03-04//bill/sen/sb_1901-1950/sb_1909_bill_20040827_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/SB_1909_veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1909
Source: StateNet
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| ME | On November 2004 Ballot 09/2004 | P-12 | TITLE: An Act to Impose Limits on Real and Personal Property Taxes
QUESTION: "Do you want to limit property taxes to 1% of the assessed value of the property?"
Title: Ballot Initiative
Source: Maine State Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Amends the School Code. In the State aid formula provisions, provides that calculation of Available Local Resources shall exclude tax amnesty funds received as a result of Public Act 93-26. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0875
Title: S.B. 2362
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| MI | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Increases the wagering tax imposed on the adjusted gross receipts of an authorized casino gaming licensee; provides an increase in the taxation of a gaming licensee by a city due as the result of a development agreement; increases the percentage of the moneys collect from such taxation to be deposited in the state school aid fund to provide additional funding for k-12 classroom education and to the cities for certain services including employment and crime prevention programs.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0306.pdf
Title: H.B. 4612
Source: StateNet
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| FL | Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | Implements the provisions of the law specifying a period during which the sale of certain books, clothing, and school supplies are exempt from sales and use tax. Ensures that the public is notified in the most expedient and appropriate means regarding the exemption during the period from 12:01 a.m., July 24, 2004, through midnight, August 1, 2004, for sales of books, clothing, wallets, or bags having a selling price of $50 or less per item and for sales of school supplies having a selling price of $10 per item or less. FLORIDA REG 28608 (SN) http://faw.dos.state.fl.us/newfaw/FawVolumeFolders2004/3027/SECTIV.pdf
Title: FAC 12AER04-5
Source: Florida State Web site
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Enacts provisions of law necessary to implement emergency appropriations for the support of government; amends the property tax law relating to improving the administration of the school tax relief program and other laws; extends the quick draw lottery game; extends provisions of the Loft Law in relation to interim multiple dwellings; relates to the designation of empire zones.
Title: A.B. 11761
Source: StateNet
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 | P-12 | Adds a new chapter: the Education Equity and Property Tax Relief Act; creates a joint legislative committee to establish a permanent education foundation and education formula for the state.
Title: H.B. 8318
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/gen_assembly
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 | P-12 | Creates the "Education Equity and Property Tax Relief Act, " and would create a joint legislative committee of ten members to establish a permanent education foundation and education formula for the state - the committee's final report is due October 1, 2005..
Title: S.B. 3182
Source: StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) to issue character education special license plates if the Department of Education (DOE) pays $32,000 by January 1, 2005; provides for allocation of monies through a private nonprofit foundation; provides for State Treasurer's investment of fund monies; provides criteria for implementation.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0316.htm
Title: H.B. 2206
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Relates to Ad Valorem Reimbursement Fund to reimburse counties for school districts that claim a loss of revenues due to a tax exemption granted for a new or expanded manufacturing or research and development facility. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04SB/sb912_enr.rtf
Title: S.B. 912
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Creates tax credit for qualified contributions for qualified public school support organizations; provides that seventy-five percent of the operating and implementation costs shall be satisfied from any increase in local sales tax revenues and twenty-five percent of such costs from increases in state sales tax revenues. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0835.pdf
Title: H.B. 1302
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Specifies the period each year during which sales of clothing, books and school supplies are exempt from sales tax; provides definitions and exceptions; provides reduction in motor fuel tax for one month; provides dealer requirements; authorizes dealers to manage motor fuel inventory to maximize tax reduction benefits; provides for revocation of licenses for violations.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=hb0237er.html&Directory=session/2004/House/bills/billtext/html/
Title: H.B. 237
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Renewed the exemptions from state sales and use tax, so as to provide for an exemption with respect to the sale of certain school supplies, clothing, footwear, computers, and computer related accessories for a limited period of time in 2004. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/fulltext/hb1184.htm
Title: H.B. 1184
Source: Georgia Legislative Web site
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| IA | Vetoed 05/2004 | P-12 | Allows individual income tax credits for contributions made to certain school tuition organizations and including an applicability date provision. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=SF2295
Title: S.F. 2295
Source: StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | The bill provides that by fiscal year 2009-10 the state share of kindergarten to grade 12 education funding, as described by essential programs and services, must be 55%. It also establishes a local cost share expectation for property tax years beginning on or after April 1, 2005. The Commissioner of Education shall annually notify each school administrative unit of its expectation. This expectation must decline over the period from fiscal year 2005-06 to fiscal year 2009-10. The expectation may not exceed 9.0 mills in fiscal year 2005-06. It may not exceed 8.0 mills in fiscal year 2009-10. The legislative body of a school administrative unit may not adopt a property tax rate that exceeds its mill expectation unless, in a vote separate from its adoption of the school budget, it votes to increase the property tax rate.
The bill also places transportation operating costs into the essential programs and services funding formula. It also states that special education costs will be included in essential programs and services starting in fiscal year 2005-06. Beginning in fiscal year 2004-05, the Department of Education will provide training in state-approved guidelines for identification of special education students. The bill also places early childhood education program costs and vocational education program costs into essential programs and services no later than fiscal year 2007-08.
Note Sec. 16:
Basis for funding costs of education from kindergarten to grade 12. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning in fiscal year 2005-06, funding of the costs of education from kindergarten to grade 12 must be based on the cost of providing essential programs and services as described in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, chapter 606-B.
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/ld_title.asp?ld=1924
Title: S.P. 761
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Revises reimbursement for collection of State Education Tax to certain cities and counties; provides that the cities and counties may keep $2.50 each parcel for property in the county for the tax collected before transmitting the tax collected to the State Treasurer.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0108.pdf
Title: H.B. 5545
Source: StateNet
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| TX | Rule Adoption 05/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules concerning the foundation school program. Relates to rules for the definition of tax and levy and tax collection. TEXAS REG 95053 (SN) http://www.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tacupdates/may2004/ch062.pdf
Title: 19 TAC 105.A.105.1
Source: http://www.tea.state.tx.us/rules
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes the Rutland school commissioners to adopt annual general fund budgets without voter approval provided that the actual homestead tax rate in a year does not exceed the adjusted equalized homestead rate established by the state; authorizes the board of aldermen to assess upon the grand list of the city taxes necessary to meet the educational or school purposes of the city.
Title: H.B. 774
Source: StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Amends KRS 160.615 to require payments and returns to be submitted to the Revenue Cabinet rather than the school districts.
Creates new sections of KRS 160.613 to 160.617 to provide for the administration of the tax by the Revenue Cabinet and provides for the distribution of the tax revenues to the school districts imposing the tax.
Creates a new section of KRS 160.613 to 160.617 to require school districts to report school district boundaries to the Revenue Cabinet and to each entity providing utility services within the school district
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/04RS/HB163.htm
Title: H.B. 163
Source: St |