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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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| SD | Adopted 12/2004 | P-12 | Aligns rule to current statutes and removes State Board of Education from the exemption process. Changes new technical education program proposal deadline to April 1. Creates definitions for the proposed three high school courses of study. Defines the requirements of the proposed three high school courses of study. SOUTH DAKOTA REG 4059 (SN)
Title: SDCR 24:03:01:01, 04:16, 17, 17.01, 18, 06:06.01, 31, 32, 10:42:23
Source: StateNet
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| WA | Rule Adoption 11/2004 | P-12 | Adopts rules relating to the high school and beyond plan and culminating graduation requirements. Requires implementation of both via a written district policy. Provides a link within the rules from the culminating project to the high school and beyond plan. WASHINGTON REG 23816 (SN)
Title: WAC 180-51-061
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Establishes the Prison Education Reform Act. Changes the position of Superintendent of Correctional Education to the Deputy Director of Correctional Education, to report directly to the Director of Corrections. Requires deputy director to oversee and administer all prison education programs in conjunction with the Robert E. Burton Correctional Education Committee. Renames the prison education advisory committee the Robert E. Burton Correctional Education Committee, to be composed of 15 appointed members, and established within the Department of Corrections. Requires the Deputy Director of Correctional Education, in consultation with the committee to approve education programs in
correctional institutions and adopt and enforce rules and regulations for the management and operation of education programs within the Department of Corrections. Requires the Deputy Director of Correctional Education, in consultation with the committee and in conjunction
with parole and other aftercare programs, to develop and implement a plan for providing transitional educational services for inmates, including, but not limited to, counseling and placement services.
Requires the Deputy Director of Correctional Education, in consultation with the committee, to develop a plan and make every reasonable effort to provide every inmate who has a reasonable expectation of release, with the opportunity to achieve a specified level of functional literacy,
among other educational benefits, and an opportunity to obtain the equivalent of a high school education if the inmate has demonstrated the intellectual capacity to benefit from that additional education, and to provide college-level academic programs. Requires the committee to advise the Deputy Director of Correctional Education regarding specified goals and objectives, including ensuring that correctional education programs meet minimum performance standards and provide 9th grade literacy skills and marketable vocational skills, developing a procedure, in cooperation with the State Department of Education, to evaluate the effectiveness of correctional education programs, developing a mechanism to test all offenders committed to the custody of the Department of Corrections for academic achievement, and developing a 5-year comprehensive plan for a unified correctional school system.
Additionally requires the committee to submit a report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2007, with recommendations for further restructuring of correctional education in the state and focusing on, among other items, attaining parallel education structures between correctional and public education, funding sources, and correctional education curriculum. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1901-1950/ab_1914_bill_20040824_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1914_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1914
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the governing board of a school district to appoint to its membership a preferential voting pupil member. Requires school districts with more than one high school to select a pupil member from a different high school each year on a rotating basis. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1851-1900/ab_1897_bill_20040824_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1897_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1897
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Deems, for purposes of computing the average daily attendance generated by a pupil enrolled in a history or social science course required by a school district as a condition of receipt of a high school diploma, a pupil serving as a member of a precinct board for an election to be under the immediate supervision of the certificated teacher of the history or social science course. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1901-1950/ab_1944_bill_20040824_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1944_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1944
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Provides that if a high school participating in either the High Priority Schools Grant Program or the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program is reorganized into more than one high school, each of those high schools shall continue to receive a specified share of the funds that the former school would have received provided certain eligibility criteria are met, including compliance with specified program requirements. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1801-1850/ab_1841_bill_20040824_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1841_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1841
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Establishes the High School Remediation Funding Flexibility Program for the purpose of providing funding flexibility for remediation instruction for high school pupils in grades 9 to 12 who are at risk of not passing the high school exit examination. Provides for remediation instruction class size. Requires such instruction to be in the core subject areas that are tested, and to be provided by a certificated employee who is highly qualified, as defined by the state board of education for purposes of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Authorizes a school district to participate in the program only if it received funding pursuant to the Morgan-Hart Class Size Reduction Act of 1989 continuously since the 2001-02 fiscal year, in which case, the bill would authorize the school district to use any available funds from that act for purposes of the program. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2601-2650/ab_2647_bill_20040825_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2647_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2647
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes training plans for high school principals to include professional development activities that include coaching, mentorship, assistance and intensive support customized to meet the individual needs of high school administrators. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0151-0200/ab_164_bill_20040922_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_164_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 164
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Relates to the Academic Improvement and Achievement Act, which authorizes districts to submit proposals to the state superintendent to fund activities that will increase the percentage of pupils at qualifying high schools who meet the requirements for admission to the California State University and the University of California. Appropriates $5 million from the general fund to the state department of education to fund the Academic Improvement and Achievement Act. Provides these funds would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2051-2100/ab_2080_bill_20040826_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2080_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2080
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Section 2: Repeals the requirement that pupils in American government and civics courses required for high school graduation read and be taught specified documents, including the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution and the Gettysburg Address. Requires the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that those documents are incorporated in the framework when the history-social science framework is revised. Requires the State Board of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to ensure that an appropriate number of questions on the California Standards Tests relate to those documents if any portion of the California Standards Tests is revised. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2851-2900/ab_2855_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2853_2855_2856_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 2855 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Exempts a pupil who, prior to enrollment in grade 9, completes coursework in algebra that meets or exceeds the rigor of the state board content standards for Algebra I, from the high school graduation requirement that at least one course, or a combination of the two math courses required to be completed in grades 9-12, meet or exceed the rigor of the content standards for Algebra I. However, pupil is still not exempted from the graduation requirement that he or she complete two courses in mathematics while enrolled in grades 9-12. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2525_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| SD | Adopted 09/2004 | P-12 | Eliminates requirement that evidence of completion of all required sections of the Dakota STEP assessment must appear on the student's transcript before graduation may be authorized and a signed diploma may be issued; Removes curriculum and special education directors from the administrative program group and places them in the school service program group; revises rules so they are content standards based and allows preparing institutions the flexibility to vary their courses to meet the content standards. SOUTH DAKOTA REG 4035 (SN)
Title: 24:14:04:12.01, 12.02; 15:06:33, 36; 03:06:06.05, 15:01:01; 16:01:01, 05:03; 06:01, 02, 03, 07:01; 16:07:01, 02, 03, 08:01 thru 58 (Non-Seq.), 09:03 thru 05, 10:06 and 07
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Extends authorization to retroactively grant a high school diploma to a former pupil who is veteran of World War II, the Korean War or the Vietnam War. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1501-1550/sb_1517_bill_20040823_chaptered.html
Title: S.B. 1517
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| IA | Issued 08/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Creates the IOWA LEARNS COUNCIL. The Iowa Learns Council shall work towards the ambitious goal of 90% of Iowa children having a quality pre-school experience, and 90% of Iowa high school graduates will go on to complete at least two years of college; shall promote, gather, and share information regarding Iowa's progress to ensure seamless pathways across education sectors and the workplace; shall identify the necessary steps to ensure that Iowans--from pre-school to graduate school--are supported by a well coordinated seamless system of learning and support to provide for successes from early childhood through higher education, and into the workforce in our communities.
http://www.state.ia.us/iowalearns/doc/eo30.html
Iowa Learns Council report with recommendations released August 11, 2004. http://www.state.ia.us/iowalearns/reports.html
Title: Executive Order No. 30 - 2003
Source: Iowa State Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Amends the School Code. Provides that no student shall receive a regular diploma without taking the Prairie State Achievement Exam. Provides exceptions. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0857
Title: S.B. 2769
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| AL | Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules amending language to include the requirements for the Alabama Occupational Diploma. http://www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us/docs/ed/3ED1.htm#T1
Title: AAC 290-3-1-.02
Source: Alabama State Web site
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| AL | Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules amending language to move the requirements for the Alabama Occupational Diploma to 290-3-1-.02(8)(g).
Title: AAC 290-8-9-.10
Source: StateNet
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes and directs the Department of Education to conduct alignment studies on additional academic indicators to be used for diploma granting decisions; specifies that no additional indicators will be approved until the alignment studies have been completed and the expert panel created by Executive Order 54 has been consulted; requires the Department to recommend appropriate changes to statutes concerning the use of additional indicators. http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/LIS142.NSF/vwLegislation/HJR+34/$file/1901420309.doc/?openelement
Title: H.J.R. 34
Source: Delaware Legislative Web site
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| TX | Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules concerning exemption from the requirements of the Texas Success Initiative. Exempts high school students who achieve certain standards on the Mathematics and/or English/Language Arts sections of the exit-level Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills from state mandated testing for college readiness for the corresponding sections. Allows students who achieve certain standards on certain sections of the SAT and ACT to be exempt from the assessment required under this title for those corresponding sections. TEXAS REG 95579 (SN)
Title: 19 TAC 1.4.C.4.54
Source: StateNet
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2004 | P-12 | Creates a High School Commission to assess the quality of education provided in the state's public high schools and to make recommendations to school districts and the general assembly by December 31, 2004. The commission should address at least the following issues: whether Colorado high school graduates are ready for postsecondary education and employment and strategies to help districts improve readiness; focusing and clarifying high school graduation requirements and expectations; improving high school students' achievement levels; the effectiveness and availability of enrollment option including choice, charter school and educational voucher programs; and the existing data systems to measure the quality of high school education, student outcomes and student growth. The commission should consider local commissions recommendations and avoid duplication of local commissions' reform recommendations.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/FCF5FBA591D5C19887256E1A0063628F?open&file=1283_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1283
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Relates to juvenile justice education; increases percentage of Florida Education Finance Program funding generated by students in juvenile justice programs which must be spent on instructional costs; requires school districts to provide GED exit option for such programs; requires workgroup to suggest strategies for meeting requirements of No Child Left Behind Act and for rewarding such programs for high performance; requires gender-specific information. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=hb1989er.html&Directory=session/2004/House/bills/billtext/html/
Title: H.B. 1989
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Provides relative to student eligibility for Louisiana Tuition Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) scholarship program. Eliminates provision that completion of one-half unit of computer science, computer literacy and computer business applications is requirement only through the 2006-2007 school year. (Continues one-half unit requirement through 2007-08 school year and beyond). Deletes language that students graduating during the 2007-08 school year and thereafter must complete one and one-half units of computer science, computer literacy or business computer applications; replaces with requirement that students graduating during the 2007-08 school year and thereafter complete at least one unit as an elective from among other math or science subjects listed in core curriculum. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT7/OUT/0000LUSP.PDF
Title: H.B. 32
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Concerns honorably discharged veterans who served in United States Armed Forces during certain dates and who did not receive high school diploma due to service to receive diploma. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp?SESSION=1029
Title: H.B. 24
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site
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| DE | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education to award diplomas based on current rules and regulations for students who graduate in 2004; allows the national panel of experts to examine the performance levels and math cut scores of the Student Testing Program and determine whether changes are necessary; provides that students may request recalculation of test scores to determine their eligibility for the Distinguished Achievement Diploma. http://www.legis.state.de.us/Legislature.nsf/fsLIS?openframeset&Frame=Main&Src=/LIS/LIS142.NSF/Home?Openform
Title: S.B. 285
Source: Delaware Legislative Web site
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Relates to Korean War veteran's high school diploma; amends certain prerequisites to allow award of standard high school diploma to honorably discharged veterans of Korean War who did not complete necessary graduation requirements. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb1096er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 1096
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| IA | Vetoed 05/2004 | P-12 | Relates to and making appropriations from the healthy Iowans tobacco trust and the tobacco settlement trust fund and providing an effective date; provides for high school mentors to teach life skills, violence prevention and character education in an effort to reduce the illegal use of alcohol, tobacco and other substances. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=HF2577
Title: H.F. 2577
Source: StateNet
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| MD | Rule Adoption 05/2004 | P-12 | Proposes rules regarding standards for kindergarten programs and graduation requirements for public high schools. MARYLAND REG 9845 (SN)
Title: COMAR 13A.03.01, .01, .04, 13A.03.02, .01-.12
Source: StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Directs the state board to establish a task force comprised of superintendents, principals, teachers, and representatives of school
boards and higher education no later than June 30, 2004. The task force is to make recommendations to the board including, but not limited to, the following: consistent numerical breaks for letter grades; consideration of standards to define an honors course; appropriate weighting of courses; and determination of courses and weightings to be used in the calculation of class rank. The task force is required to report its findings to the state board of education no later than December 31, 2004. Authorizes the state board of education is authorized to promulgate
rules and regulations for the administration of this section. The comptroller's office of education accountability is directed to evaluate the uniform grading system four (4) years after its implementation and to report its findings to the education oversight committee of the general assembly. Such evaluation must include an analysis of the relationship of grade point averages to ACT and SAT scores of high school students. Each local education agency must adopt and use the uniform grading system for students enrolled in grades 9-12. Students' grades are to be reported for the purposes of application for postsecondary financial assistance administered by the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation using the uniform grading system. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0679.pdf
Title: S.B. 2205
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Amends KRS 158.145 to require that all students who drop out of school be counted in the annual state dropout index. Amends KRS 158.6455 to specify that a student must be included in a school's annual average dropout rate if the student was enrolled in the school for at least 30 days during the school year prior to the day he or she was recorded as dropping out. Requires that a student not be counted in the school's annual average dropout rate if the student is enrolled and making satisfactory progress in a General Educational Development (GED) diploma program or if the student has dropped out of school and is awarded a GED diploma by a certain date.
Specifies that no state or federal adult education and literacy funds may be used to pay for a high school student enrolled in a GED program.
http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB178/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 178
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Allows an individual honorably discharged from military service to apply to specified county boards of education to obtain a high school diploma if the individual withdrew from a specified full-time public or private high school under specified circumstances.
Title: H.B. 474
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes local school boards to award honorary high school diplomas to Vietnam veterans who were scheduled to graduate from high school between 1964 and 1973. The State Board of Education and the State Veterans Affairs Board shall work together to develop a uniform application for persons seeking such diplomas.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/pdf/SB/2400-2499/SB2446SG.pdf
Title: S.B. 2446
Source: StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Relates to curriculum requirements for high school graduation; authorizes technology center school districts to offer certain programs; requires approval of State Board of Education and district board of education; prescribes certain teacher certification requirement; provides an effective date. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04SB/sb1271_enr.rtf
Title: S.B. 1271
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Creates an At-Risk Student Academic Achievement Program and fund to provide grants to public school divisions for programs to improve the achievement of at-risk students, decrease the dropout rate and increase the number of students getting advanced studies diplomas. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=041&typ=bil&val=hb1013
Title: H.B. 1013
Source: StateNet
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| AL | Emergency Rule Adoption 03/2004 | P-12 | Provides emergency regulation to effective change for those eligible for a regular high school diploma in the Spring of 2004. ALABAMA REG 6513 (SN)
Title: AAC 290-3-1-.02-.01; -4-2-.02-.01
Source: StateNet
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| AL | Adopted 03/2004 | P-12 | Allows high schools to confer the High School Diploma on students with disabilities who have failed a subject area test of the Graduation Exam in the area in which they have a disability(s), using alternate requirements for/instead of assessment in conjunction with the attainment of required course credits and all other requirements for graduation. http://www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us/UpdatedMonthly/VolXXIIN6/p188.htm#T1
Title: AAC 290-3-1-.02
Source: Alabama State Web site
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| AL | Emergency Rule Adoption 03/2004 | P-12 | Allows students with disabilities who fail one portion of the Alabama High School Graduation Exam and meet certain other criteria to receive the Alabama High School Diploma. http://www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us/UpdatedMonthly/VolXXIIN6/p189.htm#T1
Title: AAC 290-4-2-.02
Source: Alabama State Web site
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| DE | Rule Adoption 03/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules regarding credit requirements for High School Graduation, diplomas and certificate of performance, options for awarding credit toward high school graduation by combining them into a single regulation, graduation requirements and diplomas. Amends rules to clarify language. Repeals sections 511, 515, and 520.
Title: 14 DAC 505
Source: Delaware State Web site
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Relates to education; establishes requirements for high school graduation and student curriculum plans.
Title: H.B. 522
Source: StateNet
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| OH | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 |
· Creates an Educator Standards Board to develop and submit to the State Board of Education recommendations for statewide educator standards and carry out other functions recommended by the Governor's Commission on Teaching Success.
· Directs the Department of Education to establish a state office within the Department to support the Educator Standards Board.
· Requires school districts to use professional development standards developed by the Educator Standards Board.
· Directs the State Board of Education and the Joint Council of the State Board of Education and the Ohio Board of Regents to create guidelines for the evaluation of principals and teachers.
· Eliminates the authority of the State Board of Education to issue internship certificates.
· Eliminates the authority of the State Board of Education to issue temporary educator licenses for employment as a superintendent or another administrative position.
· Requires the State Board of Education to create an alternative principal license and an alternative administrator license.
· Restricts the required delayed effective date for any educator licensing rule adopted, amended, or rescinded by the State Board of Education only to cases where the proposed rule, amendment, or rescission will necessitate curriculum changes in college and university teacher preparation programs.
· Clarifies that an Alternative Educator License must be issued to a qualified applicant upon the request of specified school officials.
· Prescribes the timing of subject area testing for applicants for the Provisional Educator License who are employed as intervention specialists under the Alternative Educator License.
· Provides a qualified immunity for teacher performance assessors, trainers, and coordinators and for teacher performance assessment entities in civil actions concerning performance assessments of candidates for the Professional Educator License.
· Expands the rulemaking authority of the State Board of Education with respect to allowing schools to hire teachers considered to be rehabilitated from past offenses.
· Authorizes the State Board or the Superintendent of Public Instruction to issue subpoenas, take depositions, and compel production of evidence in pre-hearing investigations of educator license applicants or holders.
· Requires the State Board to adopt rules establishing standards and requirements for issuing permits to individuals who are not licensed educators but who wish to be employed by school districts to direct, supervise, or coach pupil activity programs.
· Establishes a Credential Review Board, appointed by the State Board of Education, to perform duties with respect to assessing alternative pathway educators and out-of-state educators.
· Requires the Ohio School Facilities Commission, when reviewing design plans, to consider whether the plans reflect designs recommended by the Governor's Commission on Teaching Success.
· Obligates the Board of Regents to develop regional articulation agreements for teacher education programs among state institutions of higher education by December 31, 2004.
· Directs the Legislative Office of Education Oversight (LOEO) to study minimum teacher salaries in Ohio and selected other states and report findings by September 30, 2004.
· Requires the Department of Education to develop proposals for several pilot programs recommended by the Governor's Commission on Teaching Success.
· Charges the Department of Education with defining a "hard to staff" school within 90 days of the bill's effective date.
· Implements other recommendations of the Governor's Commission on Teaching Success.
· Establishes a grant program for school districts that choose to implement specific changes within a school.
· Requires the Department of Education, when sufficient funding is available, to develop a pilot project in at least two school districts that contain "hard to staff" schools.
· Clarifies the due dates and methodology of several studies conducted by LOEO.
· Repeals the requirement that LOEO issue an annual composite report on community schools.
· Repeals the requirement that the Ohio SchoolNet Commission maintain a clearinghouse of information for classroom teachers.
· Generally limits school districts to spending a combined total of an amount equal to 20% of their Title I funds to pay for transportation for students transferring under public school choice and for supplemental educational services.
· Requires school districts with a three-year average graduation rate of 75% or less (in addition to academic watch and academic emergency districts as under current law) to administer practice versions of the Ohio Graduation Tests (OGT) to ninth grade students.
· Clarifies other requirements related to the administration of practice versions of the OGT.
· Requires the eighth grade social studies achievement test to be phased in beginning in the 2006-2007 school year (one year earlier than under current law).
· Extends the deadline for the summer administration of the third grade reading achievement test.
· Extends the deadline for adoption of diagnostic assessments by the State Board of Education to July 1, 2008.
· Requires school districts to administer diagnostic assessments to intradistrict transfer students only if such students have not taken the assessments at another district school in the current school year.
· Makes technical corrections to the recently enacted law denying state financial aid to college students convicted of riot-related offenses. Link to analysis: http://lsc.state.oh.us/analyses/analysis125.nsf/c68a7e88e02f43a985256dad004e48aa/28756df2eb75b85985256dc70047070f?OpenDocument
Title: S.B. 2
Source: http://lsc.state.oh.us
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Modifies the membership and terms of the nominating and recruiting committee that selects candidates for membership on the State Board of Education (from 4 year terms to 2-year terms, nominated by the governor); provides definitions: "Competency" means a demonstrable acquisition of a specified knowledge, skill, or ability that has been organized into a hierarchical arrangement leading to higher levels of knowledge, skill, or ability. (b) "Competency-based education" means an education approach that requires students to acquire a competency and includes a classroom structure and operation that aid and facilitate the acquisition of specified competencies on an individual basis wherein students are allowed to master and demonstrate competencies as fast as they are able. (c) "Gain score" means the measured difference of a student's score at the beginning and end of a time period that may be aggregated at the class, grade, school, and school district levels.; requires the state board to assist school districts and charter schools to develop and implement:competency-based education; and the use of gain scores; modifies educator licensing provisions (requires an endorsement to be issued upon completion of a competency-based teacher preparation program from a regionally accredited university that meets state content standards). Includes provision that a teacher development program focused on achieving progress in core academics include instruction in explicit, systematic, and intensive phonics for teachers in grades kindergarten through 3); requires the state board to develop and use monetary and nonmonetary incentives, tools, and rewards; requires documentation verifying the qualifications of a person before a competency-based license to teach may be issued; and delays the implementation of new curriculum and graduation requirements. http://se10.utahsenate.org/ptext/enrolled.pdf/sb0185.pdf
Title: S.B. 185
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes school boards to create joint or regional schools offering a specialized curriculum leading to a high school diploma and a postsecondary credential, such as industry certification, career certificated, or degree.
Title: S.B. 553
Source: StateNet
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| WA | Vetoed 03/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Strengthens linkages between K-12 and higher education systems. Requires the state board for community and technical colleges, the higher education coordinating board, the council of presidents, the work force training and education coordinating board, public school secondary principals, public school district superintendent representatives, and the superintendent of public instruction to take actions to strengthen, expand, and create dual enrollment programs available to students on high school campuses by removing barriers that inhibit the availability of the programs and, where possible, by creating incentives to offer the courses and programs. These actions are not intended to decrease the number or types of dual enrollment programs available to students on college campuses. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2003-04/Senate/6550-6574/6561_pl.pdf
Title: S.B. 6561
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | 1) The high school assessment system shall include but need not be limited to the Washington assessment of student learning, opportunities for a student to retake the content areas of the assessment in which the student was not successful, and if approved by the legislature pursuant to subsection (11) of this section, one or more objective alternative assessments for a student to demonstrate achievement of state academic standards. The objective alternative assessments for each content area shall be comparable in rigor to the skills and knowledge that the student must demonstrate on the Washington assessment of student learning for each content area.
(2) Subject to the conditions in this section, a certificate of academic achievement shall be obtained by most students at about the age of sixteen, and is evidence that the students have successfully met the state standard in the content areas included in the certificate. With the exception of students satisfying the provisions of section 104 of this act, acquisition of the certificate is required for graduation from a public high school but is not the only requirement for graduation.
(3) Beginning with the graduating class of 2008, with the exception of students satisfying the provisions of section 104 of this act, a student who meets the state standards on the reading, writing, and mathematics content areas of the high school Washington assessment of student learning shall earn a certificate of academic achievement. If a student does not successfully meet the state standards in one or more content areas required for the certificate of academic achievement, then the student may retake the assessment in the content area up to four times at no cost to the student. If the student successfully meets the state standards on a retake of the assessment then the student shall earn a certificate of academic achievement. Once objective alternative assessments are authorized pursuant to subsection (11) of this section, a student may use the objective alternative assessments to demonstrate that the student successfully meets the state standards for that content area if the student has retaken the Washington assessment of student learning at least once. If the student successfully meets the state standards on the objective alternative assessments then the student shall earn a certificate of academic achievement. The student's transcript shall note whether the certificate of academic achievement was acquired by means of the Washington assessment of student learning or by an alternative assessment.
(4) Beginning with the graduating class of 2010, a student must meet the state standards in science in addition to the other content areas required under subsection (3) of this section on the Washington assessment of student learning or the objective alternative assessments in order to earn a certificate of academic achievement.
(5) The state board of education may not require the acquisition of the certificate of academic achievement for students in home-based instruction under chapter 28A.200 RCW, for students enrolled in private schools under chapter 28A.195 RCW, or for students satisfying the provisions of section 104 of this act.
Title: H.B. 2195
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Requires the higher education coordinating board, the office of the superintendent of public instruction and the state board for community and technical colleges to convene a work group to (a) Discuss standards and expectations for the knowledge and skills high school graduates need for college-level work and strategies for communicating those standards to all Washington high schools; (b) Identify the causes of current gaps in knowledge and skills of recent high school graduates; (c) Identify innovative strategies currently used by school districts and other initiatives or programs designed to provide graduates with the knowledge and skills for college-level work; and (d) Develop and initiate actions to address the gaps in knowledge and skills so that the need for remediation of recent high school graduates in public higher education institutions is significantly reduced. Requires the state education and higher education agencies to jointly submit a report to the legislature by December 15, 2004. The report will summarize the findings of the work group and describe actions taken by the agencies, higher education institutions, and school districts to enhance the knowledge and skills of high school graduates. The report will also recommend additional strategies, timelines, and measurable benchmarks for reducing remediation of recent high school graduates over the next three years. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2003-04/Senate/5125-5149/5139-s_sl.pdf
Title: S.B. 5139
Source: www.leg.wa.gov
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| WV | to governor 03/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | One section of H.B. 4001 requires high quality education standards and efficiency standards to include an assurance that graduates are prepared for continuing postsecondary education, training and work, and that schools and school systems are making progress toward achieving the education goals of the state.
Title: H.B. 4001-- Multiple Sections
Source:
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Provides for a basic high school program and a recommended high school program; requires most students to complete the recommended one; sets forth procedures for determining eligibility of school districts to receive state foundation aid.
Title: H.B. 1001
Source: StateNet
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| VT | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Repeals the governor's diploma. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2004/acts/ACT078.HTM
Title: H.B. 490
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Amends Ark. Code § 6-15-404, adds 6-15-434, 6-15-1806, 6-15-1901, 6-15-1902, 6-15-1903 .Creates the Student Assessment and Educational Accountability act of 2003; requires the establishment of a reporting system of schools' academic performance on the state-mandated criterion-referenced exam; student performance data shall be reported to parents and the public and serve as one of the components in developing a school improvement plan; beginning with the 2004-05 school year, information on the prior school year shall be published annually by October 15 and include demographic breakdowns, graduation rate, drop-out rate, transfers under the unsafe school choice option and transfers under the Public School Choice Act; annual reports must use a school rating system and performance goals.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB33.pdf
Title: S.B. 33 §§ 1, 4, 5, 6
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Adds Ark. Code 6-15-2201. Requires postsecondary education to report on the readiness of high school students for higher education; the state board of education shall require schools and districts to develop strategies to improve student readiness for postsecondary education and reduce remediation for high school graduates. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB33.pdf
Title: S.B. 33 § 10
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| MS | Rule Adoption 01/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules concerning GED State Policy, with regard to, minimum requirements and eligibility for testing. MISSISSIPPI REG 9040 (SN)
Title: (Uncodified)
Source: StateNet
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