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State |
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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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| Counseling/Guidance |
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| Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Alignment |
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| Curriculum--Arts Education |
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| Curriculum--Drivers Education |
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| Curriculum--Environmental Education |
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| Curriculum--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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| 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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| International Baccalaureate |
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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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| Mentoring/Tutoring |
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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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| Remediation (K-12) |
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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 | Schools Cooperative Purchasing Program
H.B. 5913
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 Depa...
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2004 | P-12 | School District Purchasing Requirements
H.B. 5875
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.michiganle...
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2004 | P-12 | Annexed School District Trustee
H.B. 6242
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...
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| MT | Rule Adoption 12/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Out Of State Attendance Agreements
ARM 10.10.301C
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-stat...
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| MI | Signed into law 11/2004 | P-12 | Intermediate School District Board Membership
H.B. 5921
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=get...
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| MI | Signed into law 11/2004 | P-12 | Intermediate School District Database Requirements
H.B. 5475
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...
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| MI | Signed into law 11/2004 | P-12 | Intermediate School District Audit Report
H.B. 5627
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...
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| MI | Signed into law 11/2004 | P-12 | Intermediate School District Audits
H.B. 5457
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...
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| CA | Vetoed--in Senate to unfinished business 10/2004 | P-12 | Grant Joint Union High School District
S.B. 1271
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 certai...
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| MI | Signed into law 10/2004 | P-12 | Public School Officers
H.B. 5121
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...
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| NJ | Signed into law 10/2004 | P-12 | School District Scholarship Foundation
A.B. 2257
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...
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| NY | Signed into law 10/2004 | P-12 | Minority members of Special Act School Districts
A.B. 11364
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 appointin...
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| NY | Signed into law 10/2004 | P-12 | Special Act School Districts Board of Education
A.B. 11670
Requires that boards of Education of special act school district include two public members, each serving a term of 4 years....
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | School Districts: Reorganizations
A.B. 2841
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 distr...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | School Facilities
A.B. 736
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 t...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Schools: Irradiated Foods
A.B. 1988
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 ...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Building Standards: Public Information
A.B. 2638
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 p...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Schools: Uniform Complaint Process
A.B. 2727
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 maint...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | School Districts: Reorganization
A.B. 780
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...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Schools: Environmental and Endangerment Assessment
A.B. 2485
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 necessar...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Preschool for All Program
A.B. 712
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 workfo...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Annual Report on Status of Low-Performing Schools
S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
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 offic...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Applicants to High Priority Schools Grant Program
S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
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 s...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | District Uniform Complaint Process
S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
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 teache...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Facilities Inspection System
S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
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 d...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | School Accountability Report Cards
S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
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 misassign...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Public Contracts
S.B. 1464
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 district...
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| MI | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | 2005 School Aid Budget
S.B. 1069
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...
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| NY | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | School District Funding
S.B. 2917
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 d...
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| MI | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | School Reform Boards
H.B. 4508
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 ...
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Food Items from Farms
S.B. 6024
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.s...
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| MI | To governor 07/2004 | P-12 | Board Election
H.B. 4338
Requires election of board members for intermediate school districts.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0234.pdf...
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | School District Election Coordinators
H.B. 5990
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...
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Election of School Board Members
H.B. 5992
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...
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Scheduling of Local Elections
H.B. 5997
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...
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Filling Vacancies on School Boards
H.B. 6003
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 coordinato...
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Election of School Board Members
H.B. 5993
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...
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Recall of School Board Member
H.B. 5994
Provides procedures for recall of school board members....
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| AR | Rule Adoption 06/2004 | P-12 | School District Audits
ADE 168
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 ...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Counselors Guidance
H.B. 493
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/CV...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | School Employees
H.B. 1163
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...
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Multiple Provisions
S.B. 304
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 ast...
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Adequate Education Program
H.B. 741
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 avera...
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| AR | Emergency Rule Adoption 04/2004 | P-12 | Consolidation/Annexing/Public School Districts
ADE 165
Establishes emergency rules regarding the administrative consolidation or annexation of public school districts. http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/condensed%20version.pdf...
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| AR | Emergency Rule Adoption 04/2004 | P-12 | Consolidation/Annexing/Public School Districts
005.01.04-001
Establishes emergency rules regarding the administrative consolidation or annexation of public school districts. http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/condensed%20version.pdf...
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Consolidation of School Districts
S.B. 373
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 auth...
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Sick Leave for School Employees
H.B. 309
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 famil...
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Education Fiscal Accountability and Oversight Act
S.B. 894
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 loc...
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Educational Service Agencies
S.B. 3016
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 bo...
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | School District Purchases
H.B. 667
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/06...
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| NE | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Incentives for Districts to Consolidate
L.B. 1091
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, I...
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | School Division Consolidation
H.B. 978
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 ...
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Smaller School Divisions
S.B. 518
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 contig...
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Art, Music and Physical Education at the Elementary Level
H.B. 1014
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...
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Substantial Amendments to the Standards of Learning
H.B. 1014
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 Eng...
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Activities At School
H.B. 1363
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...
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Workers Compensation/School District Employees
H.B. 602
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...
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| KS | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | School District Territory Transfers
H.B. 2592
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...
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | School Lunch Programs
S.B. 6411
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 pro...
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Administratively Consolidated School Districts
H.B. 1177
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...
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | School District Administrative Consolidation
H.B. 1161
Provides administrative consolidation assistance to school districts that administratively consolidate. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1161.pdf...
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Department of Education Consolidation Incentives
S.B. 49
Makes an appropriation to the Department of Education to reimburse certain school districts for consolidation incentives....
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | School Districts Consolidation
S.B. 35
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...
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Isolated School Districts
H.B. 1018
Provides for the continued funding support of isolated school districts. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1018.pdf...
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| AR | Became law without governor's signature 01/2004 | P-12 | Public Education Reorganization
H.B. 1109
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/bil...
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