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State |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
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 | Accountability |
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| Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
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| Accountability--Reporting Results |
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| Accountability--Rewards |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive |
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| Accountability--School Improvement |
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| Adult Basic Education |
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| Assessment |
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| Assessment--Accommodations |
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| Assessment--Computer Based |
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| Assessment--End-of-Course |
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| Assessment--Formative/Interim |
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| Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
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| Assessment--NAEP (NAEP Results and NAEP Organization) |
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| Assessment--Performance Based/Portfolio |
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| Assessment--Value Added |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
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| Attendance |
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| Attendance--Compulsory |
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| Attendance--Statutory Ages (Upper and Lower) |
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| Attendance--Truancy |
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| Background Checks |
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| Bilingual/ESL |
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| Business Involvement |
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| Career/Technical Education |
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| Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Charter Districts |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Cyber Charters |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Research |
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| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
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| Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
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| Civic Education |
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| Civic Education--Character Education |
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| Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance |
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| Class Size |
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| Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Alignment |
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| Curriculum--Arts Education |
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| Curriculum--Drivers Education |
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| Curriculum--Environmental Education |
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| Curriculum--Excusal |
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| Curriculum--Family Living Education |
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| Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
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| Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
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| Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education |
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| Curriculum--International Education |
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| Curriculum--Language Arts |
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| Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling |
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| Curriculum--Mathematics |
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| Curriculum--Multicultural |
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| Curriculum--Physical Education |
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| Curriculum--Science |
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| Curriculum--Sex Education |
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| Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
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| Data-Driven Improvement |
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| Demographics--Enrollments |
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| Desegregation |
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| Economic/Workforce Development |
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| Education Research |
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| Equity |
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| Finance |
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| Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
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| Finance--Aid to Private Schools |
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| Finance--Bonds |
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| Finance--District |
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| Finance--Equity |
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| Finance--Facilities |
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| Finance--Funding Formulas |
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| Finance--Local Foundations/Funds |
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| Finance--Lotteries |
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| Finance--Private Giving |
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| Finance--Resource Efficiency |
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| Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
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| Finance--Student Fees |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
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| Governance |
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| Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
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| Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
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| Governance--School Boards |
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| Governance--School Boards--Training |
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| Governance--Site-Based Management |
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| Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
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| Health |
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| Health--Child Abuse |
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| Health--Nutrition |
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| Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
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| Health--Suicide Prevention |
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| Health--Teen Pregnancy |
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| High School |
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| High School--Advanced Placement |
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| High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
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| High School--Exit Exams |
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| High School--GED (General Education Development) |
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| High School--Graduation Requirements |
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| High School--International Baccalaureate |
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| Instructional Approaches--Grading Practices |
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| Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
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| Instructional Approaches--Problem Based Learning |
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| Instructional Approaches--Tracking/Ability Grouping |
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| Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
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| Leadership |
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| Leadership--District Superintendent |
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| Leadership--District Superintendent--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Recruitment and Retention |
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| Middle School |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--African American |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--Hispanic |
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| No Child Left Behind |
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| No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
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| No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
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| No Child Left Behind--Choice/Transfer |
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| No Child Left Behind--Consequences for Schools |
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| No Child Left Behind--Finance |
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| No Child Left Behind--Parent Involvement |
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| No Child Left Behind--Reauthorization Issues/Waivers |
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| No Child Left Behind--Report Cards |
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| No Child Left Behind--School Support |
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| No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
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| Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
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| Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
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| P-16 or P-20 |
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| P-3 |
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| P-3 Brain Development |
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| P-3 Child Care |
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| P-3 Content Standards and Assessment |
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| P-3 Early Intervention (0-3) |
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| P-3 Ensuring Quality |
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| P-3 Family Involvement |
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| P-3 Finance |
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| P-3 Governance |
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| P-3 Grades 1-3 |
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| P-3 Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Preschool |
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| P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development |
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| Parent/Family |
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| Parent/Family--Parent Rights |
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| Postsecondary |
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| Postsecondary Accountability |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Diploma Mills |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Undocumented Immigrants |
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| Postsecondary Faculty |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Compensation |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Intellectual Property |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Teaching Assistants |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Tenure |
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| Postsecondary Finance |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Private/Independent |
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| Postsecondary Online Instruction |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Access |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Affirmative Action |
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| Postsecondary Students--Disabled |
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| Postsecondary Students--Graduate/Professional |
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| Postsecondary Success--Developmental/Remediation |
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| Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
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| Private Schools |
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| Promotion/Retention |
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| Public Involvement |
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| Reading/Literacy |
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| Religion |
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| Rural |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Summer School |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Year |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Year Round |
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| School Safety |
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| School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
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| School Safety--Code of Conduct |
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| School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension |
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| School Safety--No Child Left Behind--Safe Schools |
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| School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
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 | School/District Structure/Operations |
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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 12/2004 | P-12 | Limits the school districts that operate grades kindergarten through 12 that are annexed by a community college that can elect a member of the board of trustees, to those districts annexed before July 1, 2004.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-6242
Title: H.B. 6242
Source: StateNet
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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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| MI | Signed into law 11/2004 | P-12 | Relates to a conflict of interest policy for intermediate school district officials and employees; requires and prohibits members of constituent district board from serving on an intermediate school board.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-5921
Title: H.B. 5921
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 11/2004 | P-12 | Requires Internet accessible database regarding Intermediate School District expenditures, including air travel, conference or training costs and contracts.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-5475
Title: H.B. 5475
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 11/2004 | P-12 | Requires the annual audit of such school districts to contain the website address where the report can be accessed.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-5627
Title: H.B. 5627
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--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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| MI | Signed into law 10/2004 | P-12 | Allows certain school districts to create a law enforcement agency under the Public Body Law Enforcement Agency Act.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2003-HB-5121
Title: H.B. 5121
Source: StateNet
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| NJ | Signed into law 10/2004 | P-12 | Permits a school district that terminates the operation of a separate school for special education pupils and returns all funds legally uwed to the school districts that sent pupils to the school to use any remaining funds to establish a scholarship foundation for the pupils of the district.
Title: A.B. 2257
Source: StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 10/2004 | P-12 | Requires special act school districts to have a certain minority of public members appointed by the Commissioner of Education; defines public members as neither employed by, nor members of, the boards of trustees of the designated child care agencies appointing the non-public members.
Title: A.B. 11364
Source: StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 10/2004 | P-12 | Requires that boards of Education of special act school district include two public members, each serving a term of 4 years.
Title: A.B. 11670
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 | 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 | Specifies that before school may serve irradiated foods, the district must: (1) Take formal action permitting the use of irradiated foods.
(2) Make all of the following information available in any appropriate form to pupils and their parents:
(A) The purpose of irradiation use on foods.
(B) The effects of irradiation on the nutritional value of foods.
(C) Objective and balanced scientifically peer-reviewed research on the use of irradiation on foods.
(3) Ensure that menu items containing irradiated foods are clearly labeled with the phrase ''treated with irradiation'' or
''treated by irradiation.'' http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1951-2000/ab_1988_bill_20040825_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1988_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1988
Source: California Legislative Web site
| |
| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the Field Act that requires the Department of General Services to supervise the design and construction of school buildings to ensure compliance with specific rules and regulations and building codes. Requires written rules and regulations adopted pursuant to that act be made available to the public by the State Architect upon request. Requires building code rules and regulations by an local enforcement agency to clarify the State Building Code be made public. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2601-2650/ab_2638_bill_20040921_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2638
Source: StateNet
| |
| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires a school district to use its uniform complaint process to help identify and resolve any emergency or urgent facilities conditions that pose a threat to the health and safety of the pupils or staff instead of conditions of facilities that are not maintained in a clean and safe manner or in good repair. Becomes operative only if 2003-2004 Senate Bill 850 is also enacted. Declares that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2701-2750/ab_2727_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2727
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
| |
| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Establishes a program in the counties of Fresno, Humboldt, and Ventura to place the duties of approval and disapproval of petitions for the unification of school districts on the county committee. Merges an elementary school district and a high school district if their boundaries become coterminous. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0751-0800/ab_780_bill_20040921_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 780
Source: StateNet
| |
| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998. Authorizes the governing board of a school district to make a written request to any person, corporation, public utility, local publicly owned utility or governmental agency for information necessary or useful to make an assessment of a proposed schoolsite or an addition to an existing schoolsite. Provides response procedures. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2451-2500/ab_2485_bill_20040918_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2485
Source: StateNet
| |
| 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 | 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 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. 12: Requires a school district to use its uniform complaint process to help identify and resolve any deficiencies related to
instructional materials, conditions of facilities that are not maintained in a clean and safe manner or in good repair, and teacher vacancy or
misassignment. Requires a notice to be posted in each classroom in each school in the school district notifying parents and
guardians that there should be sufficient textbooks or instructional materials, school facilities must be clean, safe, and in good repair, and
the location to obtain a form to file a complaint in case of a shortage. 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 | 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 | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Amends existing law that requires a school district seeking to let a contract involving a minimum expenditure for purchase of equipment, materials or supplies to publish a notice calling for bids in newspapers of general circulation. Authorizes school districts to also publish this notice for bids on the district's Web site or through an electronic portal, and authorizes these districts to accept bids that were submitted either electronically or on paper. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1451-1500/sb_1464_bill_20040924_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 1464
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Ensures a minimum level of funding to small, rural and Upper Peninsula or island districts that are not near other schools or accessible by a bridge.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-SB-1069
Title: S.B. 1069
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 08/2004 | P-12 | Revises the provisions governing the formation of first class school district boards; relates to procedures for the formation of school reform boards; requires a special election shall be held in the school district of the City of Detroit to decide whether to approve the form of governance provided for in this legislation or whether to return the district to the form of governance in effect prior to the enactment of certain legislation.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0303.pdf
Title: H.B. 4508
Source: StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Allows a school district to apply to the state commissioner of education to purchase school food items from an association of more than 10 owners of New York state farms, when no other producers or growers have offered to sell to such school. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S06024&sh=t
Title: S.B. 6024
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| MI | To governor 07/2004 | P-12 | Requires election of board members for intermediate school districts.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0234.pdf
Title: H.B. 4338
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Relates to school district election coordinators; prohibits delegation of duties to the Secretary of School Board.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0286.pdf
Title: H.B. 5990
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Relates to election of a school board member; requires written acceptance of office and written affidavit of eligibility.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0288.pdf
Title: H.B. 5992
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Provides general amendments regarding scheduling of local elections; includes school district elections.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0292.pdf
Title: H.B. 5997
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Relates to filling of vacancies in case of school board member; provides for filing a petition with the clerk of the county where the petition was filed announces the result of the recall election; relates to filing with the school district election coordinator.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0298.pdf
Title: H.B. 6003
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Requires notification to school district election coordinators of a person appointed to fill a vacancy.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0289.pdf
Title: H.B. 5993
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Provides procedures for recall of school board members.
Title: H.B. 5994
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Rule Adoption 06/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules regarding school district audits not conducted by legislative audit. Establishes requirements for completion and filing of audits not conducted by Legislative Audit effective beginning on June 30, 2005, for the 2005-2006 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter. http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/ade%20168%20school%20districts%20audits.pdf
Title: ADE 168
Source: Arkansas State Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Includes guidance counselors holding appropriate ancillary certificates issued by the state department of education in definitions of persons eligible for certain sabbatical and sick leave benefits provided by law. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT4/OUT/0000LUZS.PDF
Title: H.B. 493
Source: StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Permits city, parish, or other local public or nonpublic school systems to contract with local law enforcement agencies to provide for school resource officers. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT3/OUT/0000LV4G.PDF
Title: H.B. 1163
Source: StateNet
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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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| 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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| AR | Emergency Rule Adoption 04/2004 | P-12 | Establishes emergency rules regarding the administrative consolidation or annexation of public school districts. http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/condensed%20version.pdf
Title: ADE 165
Source: Arkansas State Web site
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| AR | Emergency Rule Adoption 04/2004 | P-12 | Establishes emergency rules regarding the administrative consolidation or annexation of public school districts. http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/condensed%20version.pdf
Title: 005.01.04-001
Source: Arkansas State Web site
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes districts to discuss issues relating to consolidation of such districts. Specifies that such meetings may be held within the boundaries of any of the districts proposing to form the consolidated district. (Under previous statute, districts were authorized only to enter into agreements to consolidate two or more districts, not to enter into discussions thereof). http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2004/373.pdf
Title: S.B. 373
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires local school boards to award a minimum ten days sick leave during the school year to all full time employees; includes full time employees in other sick leave provisions that previously pertained only to teachers; amends definition of "immediate family" to include the immediate family members of all school employees. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB309/bill.doc
Fiscal impact: http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB309/FN.doc
Title: H.B. 309
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us
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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 | 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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| 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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| NE | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | One part of this bill creates the School District Reorganization Fund. From the fiscal note: AM 3480 provides that the state will fund incentive payments to encourage Class II and III school districts with less than 390 students to reorganize into Class II, III, IV or V school districts with greater than 390 students. The incentive payments apply to consolidations after May 31, 2005 and before June 1, 2007. Incentives are paid to reorganized schools for two years. Base year incentives are paid in the initial year of reorganization. $1 million in transfers from the Education Innovation Fund (lottery proceeds) will be available in 2005-06 and 2006-07 for base year incentives. The funds are to be prorated if the total is insufficient to fund all schools qualified for incentives.
Base year incentives will be equal to 50% of the amount calculated based upon a formula established in the amendment.
Incentives in the second year of a consolidation will equal the other 50% of the original calculation unless funds were prorated for the
base year. If funds were prorated, the second year incentive will include the amount not paid in the first year due to proration of funds.
Second year incentives will be funded with General Funds as part of the distribution of state aid in 2006-07 and 2007-08. Base year
incentives are not included in formula resources for purposes of state aid and schools may exceed the budget lid by the amount of
incentive payments received. The fiscal impact of the amendment for the state depends upon the consolidations that occur. In 2002-03, there were 134 Class II and III school districts with less than 390 students. These systems had an average daily membership (ADM) of 32,891 students. It is estimated that if all school districts (76) in the standard cost grouping with less than 390 students were to consolidate, the fiscal impact for incentives will be $36.4 million over the three year period from 2005-06 to 2007-08.
The potential fiscal impact is overstated since all Class II and III school districts in the standard cost group with less than 390 students
will probably not consolidate. The fiscal impact is understated due to the use of 2002-03 ADM. This is because declining membership
in smaller school systems results in a greater number of schools being eligible for future incentives which may be higher as
membership declines. The fiscal impact may also be understated if school systems in the sparse or very sparse cost groups
consolidate. The fiscal impact may also be impacted by consolidations of Class I and Class VI districts with Class II and III districts.
This fiscal notes assumes that about 5%-10% of the eligible districts will consolidate and be eligible for incentives during the period
allowed in the bill. This assumption is based upon the number of consolidations of school districts that occurred from 1997-98 through
2001-02 when a prior incentive plan was funded by the state. If this number of consolidations occur, then the total fiscal impact will
range from $1.8 to $3.6 million over the three year period. The estimated amount will be higher if all of the consolidations occur in
districts which receive the largest incentive payments pursuant to the bill.
The amount of additional state aid required each fiscal year for incentives will depend upon the timing of consolidations. The fiscal
impact in the bill's initial year is a maximum of $1 million of lottery funds set aside for base year incentives. If $1million of base year
incentives are distributed in 2005-06, the fiscal impact in 2006-07 would be $1 million of general funds for second year incentives
authorized in 2005-06 and an additional $1 million of lottery funds for 2006-07 base year incentives. If base year incentives are
prorated in 2005-06, the General Fund fiscal impact in 2006-07, will be greater than $1 million for second year incentives, since the
amount of the proration will have to be made up in the second year.
The reorganization of schools into districts with 390 or more students will result in reorganization efficiencies which will reduce the
amount expended by schools to operate with less than 390 students. These efficiencies should result in a savings for property
taxpayers in those merged school districts with costs greater than their cost grouping cost prior to the merger. The state will also
realize a savings in state aid payments two years after the consolidation due to lower overall school expenditures. Lower school
spending results in lower cost group costs which will reduce state aid for schools receiving equalization aid. Any savings in state aid
will occur beginning in 2007-08.
School systems that opt to consolidate and receive incentive aid will have increased state incentive aid for two fiscal years. School
systems receiving aid may exceed budget lids by the incentive payment amount. Consolidated school systems may also have
increased expenditures related to consolidation such as retirement incentives, staff development assistance and transportation. Based
on the current school finance formula, consolidated systems may also receive stabilization aid for a couple of years after the state
incentive aid payments end. Slip Law: http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/legal/SLIP_LB1091.pdf Fiscal Note: http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/PDF/FiscalNote_LB1091_0002.pdf
Title: L.B. 1091
Source: http://www.unicam.state.ne.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Relates to School division consolidation; provides for a process whereby school divisions may submit proposals for the consolidation of school divisions to include holding public hearings regarding the proposal, consolidation of and the election of a board to assure all representation for all localities, and a plan for the transfer of school property from the two divisions to one division.
School division proposals must include, among other things, (i) evidence of the cost savings to be realized by such consolidation; (ii) a plan for the transfer of title to school board property to the resulting school board; (iii) procedures and a schedule for the proposed consolidation, including completion of current division superintendent and school board member terms; (iv) a plan for proportional school board representation of the localities comprising the new school division, including details regarding the appointment or election processes currently ensuring such representation and other information as may be necessary to evidence compliance with federal and state laws governing voting rights; and (v) evidence of local support for the proposed consolidation.
For five years following completion of such consolidation, the computation of the state and local share for an educational program meeting the standards of quality for school divisions resulting from consolidations shall be the lower composite index of local ability-to-pay of the applicant school divisions, as provided in the appropriation act. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0917
Title: H.B. 978
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Creates a mechanism whereby any school board of a school division in which fewer than 350 students (Highland County) were included in average daily membership (ADM) for the preceding school year, upon entering into certain cost-savings agreements with a contiguous school division for the sharing of educational, administrative, or support services, shall receive the state share for basic aid computed on the basis of the composite index of local ability-to-pay of the contiguous school division, calculated annually, for a period of 15 years. Board of Education eligibility criteria will address the cost-savings and service-sharing agreements and will provide for the adjustment of the state share for basic aid, consistent with the appropriation act.
The local school board receiving the adjusted state share cannot use the additional funds received to supplant local funds appropriated for education. In addition, the adjusted state share cannot be used to reduce local operating expenditures for public education from the prior fiscal year. However, no school division shall be required to maintain a per pupil expenditure for operations that exceeds the per pupil expenditure in the prior fiscal year. If any such contractual agreements between the relevant school divisions terminate prior to the end of the applicable period, the state's obligation to provide the adjusted share shall cease.
The agreement and adjusted state payment shall be in lieu of any existing funds a locality receives from a Small School Division Assistance grant. Pursuant to §§ 22.1-26 and 22.1-27, school boards are already empowered to operate joint schools and to make agreements with adjacent school boards "for furnishing public school facilities and for school services." This bill is effective July 1, 2005. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0820
Title: S.B. 518
Source: http://leg1.state.va.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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| 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 | Permits students to participate in activities in another district if activity is not offered within a student's school district. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/0E61296035330B9087256E39000345C9?Open&file=1363_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1363
Source: Colorado Legislative web site
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Amends existing law relating to school district employees to authorize the use of accrued sick leave to supplement worker's compensation payments. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/H0602.html#billtext
Title: H.B. 602
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| KS | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Proscribes general guidelines the state board must adopt in establishing rules on the transfer of territory between districts through a mediation process. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2004/2592.pdf
Title: H.B. 2592
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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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 | 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 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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| SD | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Makes an appropriation to the Department of Education to reimburse certain school districts for consolidation incentives.
Title: S.B. 49
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Encourages larger school districts to voluntarily merge with smaller school districts; concerns the establishment of an interim board; provides for annexation and school elections. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB35.pdf
Title: S.B. 35
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Provides for the continued funding support of isolated school districts. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1018.pdf
Title: H.B. 1018
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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