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| MS | Signed into law 10/2005 | P-12 | Hurrican Katrina and school accountability
S.B. 2012
Authorizes the state board of education to exempt certain schools from accountability standards due to Hurricane Katrina of 2005. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/20055E/pdf/SB/2001-2099/SB2012SG.pdf...
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Evaluation of State Accountability System and Revised Designations
S.B. 214 (Section 1-2)
Requires the department to contract every 3 years for an independent evaluation of the state accountability system and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Requires the evaluation to include:
(1) The impact of the accountability systems on learning and teach...
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | School Safety and Accountability Reports Content/Design/Layout
S.B. 214 (Section 3)
Requires the department to convene a working group of specified members to evaluate the current rules, definitions and reporting of incidents pertaining to school safety. Requires the working group to submit a report of its findings to the state by November 20...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Monitoring system for the statewide system of accountability; honor code
S.B. 214
Establishes a monitoring system for the statewide system of accountability; revises various provisions governing the statewide system of accountability; requires the Department of Education to prescribe an educational involvement accord for use in all public s...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Technical assistance partnerships and regional training programs for professional development of teachers and administrators
H.B. 109
Revises provisions governing the statewide system of accountability for public schools; redesignating the four regional training programs for the professional development of teachers and administrators based upon the geographic regions served by those programs...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Statewide system of accountability for school districts and public schools
H.B. 154
The board of trustees of each school district and the principal of each public school must prepare an annual summary of accountability information for public dissemination. This bill changes the requirements for the annual report of accountability and expand...
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Creates Commission on Educational Excellence.
S.B. 404
Creates the Commission on Educational Excellence; prescribing the membership and duties of the Commission; creating the Trust Fund for Educational Excellence; authorizing school districts and charter schools to apply for grants of money from the Trust Fund to...
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Annual Report of Accountability
H.B. 527
AN ACT relating to education; renaming the University and Community College System of Nevada as the Nevada System of Higher Education; clarifying that the System includes state colleges; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. THE PEOPLE OF THE ...
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| TX | Rule Adoption 05/2005 | P-12 | Accountability and Performance Monitoring
19 TAC 2.97.AA.97.1005
Proposes rules concerning accountability and performance monitoring. Describes the Performance- Based Monitoring Analysis System (PBNAS). Adopts applicable excerpts of the PBMAS 2004-2005 Manual. TEXAS REG 97354 (SN)...
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| Accountability--Accreditation |
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| WV | Rule Adoption 07/2005 | P-12 | Performance Based Accreditation System
Title 126, Series 13
Amends rules relating to a performance based accreditation system to improve education. WEST VIRGINIA REG 4602 (SN)...
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Accreditation Indicators and Dropout/Graduation Rates
S.B. 91
Standardizes the calculation of graduation rates and dropout rates that are required to be reported by school districts for accreditation. Standardizes and requires the reporting of continuing education rates and mobility rates by school districts for accredit...
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Evaluation of State Accountability System and Revised Designations
S.B. 214 (Section 1-2)
Requires the department to contract every 3 years for an independent evaluation of the state accountability system and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Requires the evaluation to include:
(1) The impact of the accountability systems on learning and teach...
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | School Accountability Reports and State Accreditation
S.B. 214 (Section 4-6)
Section 4: Repeals and reenacts 22-7-605 pertaining to the content and format of state-mandated school accountability reports.
Section 5: Adds new subsection requiring the department to print selected school accountability reports in Spanish. Requires the de...
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Diagnostic Academic Growth Calculation
S.B. 214 (Section 7-8)
Section 7: Encourages the state board to establish accreditation indicators based in part on the diagnostic academic growth calculation added by paragraph (d), section 22-7-604.3.
Section 8: Creates new paragraph (d) in section 22-7-604.3. States that a diagn...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Accreditation Standards
H.B. 2757
Requires the department of education to conduct an on-campus Standards for Accreditation of Arkansas Public Schools review for each school district in the state at least once every four years. Authorizes the department of education to visit any school campus f...
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| KS | Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 | P-12 |
H.B. 2247 (section 6)
Requires every accredited school to teach the subjects and areas of instruction adopted by the state board of education as of January 1, 2005. Requires every accredited high school to also teach the subjects and areas of instruction necessary to meet the gradu...
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| KS | Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 | P-12 | 2010 Commission
H.B. 2247 (section 7-9)
Establishes the 2010 Commission. States that the commission shall cease to exist on December 31, 2010. Requires the commission to:
(a) Conduct continuous and on-going monitoring of the implementation and operation of the school district finance and quality per...
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| Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
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| IL | Adopted 11/2005 | P-12 |
23 IAC 1.10, thru .70, .75, .80,
.85, .90, .95,
Makes changes in the accountability system for public schools. Changes the requirement for adequate yearly progress and the indicators that will be considered; the targets for each aspect of performance; the subgroups of students, their participation in state ...
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| KY | Adopted 11/2005 | P-12 | Accountability Rewards and Consequences
703 KAR 5:020
Amends rules which establish a system for identifying and rewarding successful schools and appropriate consequences for schools failing to meet or exceed their assistance line.
AGENCY CONTACT: Kevin Noland, Deputy Commissioner and General Counsel, Bureau of O...
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| TX | Adopted 09/2005 | P-12 | Institutional Reports
19 TAC 1.17.K.17.101
From background information: Proposed amendment to 19 TAC §97.1001 would describe the state accountability rating system and adopt excerpts of the 2005 Accountability Manual, dated June 2005, into rule. The excerpts, Chapters 2-6, 9, 11-13, 16, and 17 of the 2...
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| TX | Adopted 09/2005 | P-12 | Accountability Ratings and Measures
19 TAC §97.1001
BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND SIGNIFICANT ISSUES: Legal counsel with the Texas Education Agency (TEA) has recommended that the procedures for issuing accountability ratings for public school districts and campuses be adopted as part of the Texas Administrative Co...
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| TX | Adopted 09/2005 | P-12 | Annual Accountability Standards
19 TAC 2.97.AA.97.1001
Amends rules regarding the annual accountability standards. Describes the state accountability rating system for districts, campuses, and charter schools, and adopts applicable excerpts of the 2005 Accountability Manual, dated June 2005. TEXAS REG 97908 (SN)...
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Evaluation of State Accountability System and Revised Designations
S.B. 214 (Section 1-2)
Requires the department to contract every 3 years for an independent evaluation of the state accountability system and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Requires the evaluation to include:
(1) The impact of the accountability systems on learning and teach...
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Diagnostic Academic Growth Calculation
S.B. 214 (Section 7-8)
Section 7: Encourages the state board to establish accreditation indicators based in part on the diagnostic academic growth calculation added by paragraph (d), section 22-7-604.3.
Section 8: Creates new paragraph (d) in section 22-7-604.3. States that a diagn...
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| Accountability--Reporting Results |
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| WI | Signed into law 12/2005 | P-12 | Notification of Right to Request Performance Reports
A.B. 425
From Legislative Council Memo: Prior law required each school board to annually distribute, by January 1, to the parent or guardian of each pupil enrolled in the school district a copy of the school district performance report (SPR) or give it to each pupil to...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2005 | P-12 | Accountability Report Cards - Inclusion of Expenditures and Salaries
S.B. 687
The Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act requires each school district to develop and implement a school
accountability report card. This bill would add new sections and impose a state-mandated local program by specifying reporting requir...
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| TX | Adopted 09/2005 | P-12 | Institutional Reports
19 TAC 1.17.K.17.101
From background information: Proposed amendment to 19 TAC §97.1001 would describe the state accountability rating system and adopt excerpts of the 2005 Accountability Manual, dated June 2005, into rule. The excerpts, Chapters 2-6, 9, 11-13, 16, and 17 of the 2...
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Data Reporting
A.B. 110 -- Reporting Section
Legislative intent: (a) Promote good data management practices with respect to education data.
(b) Support the efforts of the State Department of Education to minimize data redundancy, maximize data value, and reduce the reporting
burden on local educational a...
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| KS | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | School Finance
S.B. 3
Makes changes to the School District Finance and Quality Performance Act, other school funding legislation, and enact policies relating to the state department, the Courts, and the Legislature. The bill provides for increases in Base State Aid Per Pupil (BSAPP...
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Educational Data Advisory Committee
S.B. 19
Requires the state board to identify volunteer districts, boards of cooperative services and a charter school to send representatives to form the "educational data advisory committee" to work with the department to review school data reporting requirements. Re...
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Sufficient Academic Growth
H.B. 1217
Modifies definition of "sufficient academic growth" for purposes of diagnostic assessment. Makes related changes to governor's distinguished improvement awards. Repeals provision requiring the state board to contract with a nationally recognized, independent a...
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | School Accountability Reports and State Accreditation
S.B. 214 (Section 4-6)
Section 4: Repeals and reenacts 22-7-605 pertaining to the content and format of state-mandated school accountability reports.
Section 5: Adds new subsection requiring the department to print selected school accountability reports in Spanish. Requires the de...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Statewide system of accountability for school districts and public schools
H.B. 154
The board of trustees of each school district and the principal of each public school must prepare an annual summary of accountability information for public dissemination. This bill changes the requirements for the annual report of accountability and expand...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Annual Performance Ratings
H.B. 3297
From bill analysis: Under current law, public schools and school districts are given annual performance ratings by the Texas Education Agency. The four levels of performance are "exemplary", "recognized", "academically acceptable" or "academically unacceptabl...
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Consolidating Reporting
H.B. 1444
A new section requires the state board to study and assess ways to eliminate, reduce, consolidate, and simplify the number, type, and length of reports, data, statistics, and other information required of any school district or school district personnel by the...
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Student Tracking and Reporting (STAR) Pilot Program
H.B. 1021 (multiple provisions)
One section of this bill creates the Student Tracking and Reporting (STAR) Pilot Program. Requires interoperability with other state student data management and reporting systems; directs exploration of delivery systems for certain purposes; requires utilizati...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School Board of Directors
H.B. 2517
Increases from six to nine the number of hours of training that a newly elected member of a school board of directors is required to obtain following election. Specifies that every local board member who has served for at least 12 consecutive months must compl...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Student Assessment Scores
H.B. 2881
Concerns assessments scores for students attending the Arkansas school for mathematics, sciences and the arts of the University of Arkansas. Requires assessment scores under the Arkansas Comprehensive, Testing, Assessment and Accountability Program for
assessm...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School Accountability and Crime Reporting
S.B. 1044
Authorizes local boards to adopt guidelines for the standardization of the format of school accountability report cards required by section 15-746 http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/ars/15/00746.htm&Title=15&DocType=ARS
Authorizes local bo...
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| KS | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 04/2005 | P-12 | School Records
H.B. 2247 (section 1-2)
Requires districts to report expenditures by categories as directed by the department of education and requires the department to verify costs incurred by school districts providing programs required by law and the number of pupils enrolled in such programs. R...
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| Accountability--Rewards |
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| KY | Adopted 11/2005 | P-12 | Accountability Rewards and Consequences
703 KAR 5:020
Amends rules which establish a system for identifying and rewarding successful schools and appropriate consequences for schools failing to meet or exceed their assistance line.
AGENCY CONTACT: Kevin Noland, Deputy Commissioner and General Counsel, Bureau of O...
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| KY | Adopted 11/2005 | P-12 | District Accountability Rewards and Sanctions
703 KAR 5:130
Establishes a local school district accountability program. Establishes eligibility for district rewards, and procedures for determining assistance and other consequences for local school districts. AGENCY CONTACT: Kevin Noland, Deputy Commissioner and Gener...
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| OK | Adopted 08/2005 | P-12 | Academic Achievement Award Program
OAC 210:20-26-1, -2, -3
Implements the Academic Achievement Award Program. OKLAHOMA 13819
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| GA | Adopted 07/2005 | P-12 | Accountability System
GAC 160-7-1-.01 thru -.04
Clarifies rules regarding the statewide accountability system, including definitions, profiles and awards and school- and district-level consequences. Also sets forth state audit and record retention requirements for schools and districts. http://www.doe.k12.g...
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Rewards for growth
S.B. 630
The personnel in participating schools that achieve a level of expected growth greater than one hundred percent (100%) at a level to be determined by the State Board of Education are eligible for financial awards in amounts set by the State Board. Schools and ...
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Sufficient Academic Growth
H.B. 1217
Modifies definition of "sufficient academic growth" for purposes of diagnostic assessment. Makes related changes to governor's distinguished improvement awards. Repeals provision requiring the state board to contract with a nationally recognized, independent a...
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | International General Certificate of Secondary Education (pre-AICE) and Advanced International Certificate of Education
H.B. 579
Adds International General Certificate of Secondary Education (pre-AICE) and Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) to public school choice options and to rigorous academic programs parents must have the opportunity to learn about. Adds Advance...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Academic Honors Diploma Awards
H.B. 1001 (Section 201)
Districts are eligible for the academic honors diploma awards according to the number of students who successfully completed an academic honors diploma program in the school year ending in the previous calendar year. Reduces the amount for which districts are ...
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Academic Achievement Award (AAA) Program
H.B. 1992
New section of law: 3-152.1 of Title 70. Requires the state board of education to develop an Academic Achievement Award (AAA) program. The AAA program is to provide monetary awards to qualified employees at schools that attain the highest overall student achi...
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Apple Award
H.B. 1998
Adds a new section to chapter 28A.655 RCW. The Apple Award program is created to honor and reward public elementary schools that have the greatest combined average increase in the percentage of students meeting the fourth grade reading, mathematics, and writin...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | End-of-Course Success Incentive Program
H.B. 1983 (multiple provisions)
Creates the End-of-Course Success Incentive Program under the department of education. Awards schools $50.00 for each student passing the end-of-course assessment on his or her first attempt. These funds must be utilized in the schools to improve student acade...
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
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| GA | Signed into law 12/2005 | P-12 | Accountability and Interventions
S.B. 35
Makes the department responsible for the implementation of a single statewide system of accountability. Adds school systems to the system of review and accountability. Strikes subparagraph (D) of paragraph (6) of subsection (a) of Code Section 20-14-41, relati...
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| IL | Adopted 11/2005 | P-12 |
23 IAC 1.10, thru .70, .75, .80,
.85, .90, .95,
Makes changes in the accountability system for public schools. Changes the requirement for adequate yearly progress and the indicators that will be considered; the targets for each aspect of performance; the subgroups of students, their participation in state ...
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| LA | Adopted 11/2005 | P-12 | AYP and Sanctions for Underperforming Schools
LAC 28:LXXXIII.517, 1101, 1501, 1705, 2301, 3301, and 3303
Defines growth label changes for three-star schools. Defines the movement of three-star schools into Academic Assistance if performance significantly declines. Addresses the requirement of districts to address the learning needs of mobile students, the writing...
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| LA | Signed into law 11/2005 | P-12 | Recovery School District
H.B. 121A
Establishes procedures for identifying underperforming schools to be transferred to the Recovery School District. Requires the Recovery School District to provide all educational services to students in transferred schools. Requires the recovery district to ...
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2005 | P-12 | School Intervention Contract Criteria
H.B. 953
This bill would require the Superintendent to provide a list of approved school assistance and intervention teams with which a school
district may contract if it receives funding under the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program.. The bill would...
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| MS | Signed into law 10/2005 | P-12 | Hurrican Katrina and school accountability
S.B. 2012
Authorizes the state board of education to exempt certain schools from accountability standards due to Hurricane Katrina of 2005. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/20055E/pdf/SB/2001-2099/SB2012SG.pdf...
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| GA | Adopted 07/2005 | P-12 | Accountability System
GAC 160-7-1-.01 thru -.04
Clarifies rules regarding the statewide accountability system, including definitions, profiles and awards and school- and district-level consequences. Also sets forth state audit and record retention requirements for schools and districts. http://www.doe.k12.g...
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Corrective Action
H.B. 1216
Repeals and reenacts the corrective action provisions for underperforming public schools. Requires the state board to annually notify each district and the state charter school institute as to which, if any, of its schools received a "low" or "unsatisfactory" ...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | No Pass No Drive Revisions
S.B. 35 - Attendance Provisions
Amends No Pass No Drive law. Adds provision that a student who is pursuing a general education development (GED) diploma will not have his/her drivers license suspended. Amends absences or other behaviors that trigger suspension to include ten or more school d...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Public School Facilities Program Act
S.B. 593
Establishes the Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program Act. Requires the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and
Transportation to develop a comprehensive Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program that includes an academic facili...
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| VA | Emergency Rule Adoption 02/2005 | P-12 | Conducting Division-Level Academic Reviews
8 VAC 20-700-10 thru -50
Outlines the process and procedures for conducting the division-level academic review and submitting the corrective action plan to the Board of Education. Addresses the criteria for selection for the division- level academic review and improvement plans.. VIRG...
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive |
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | No Pass No Drive Revisions
S.B. 35 - Attendance Provisions
Amends No Pass No Drive law. Adds provision that a student who is pursuing a general education development (GED) diploma will not have his/her drivers license suspended. Amends absences or other behaviors that trigger suspension to include ten or more school d...
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers |
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Corrective Action
H.B. 1216
Repeals and reenacts the corrective action provisions for underperforming public schools. Requires the state board to annually notify each district and the state charter school institute as to which, if any, of its schools received a "low" or "unsatisfactory" ...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Public School Facilities Program Act
S.B. 593
Establishes the Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program Act. Requires the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and
Transportation to develop a comprehensive Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program that includes an academic facili...
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| Accountability--School Improvement |
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| KY | Adopted 11/2005 | P-12 | District Accountability Rewards and Sanctions
703 KAR 5:130
Establishes a local school district accountability program. Establishes eligibility for district rewards, and procedures for determining assistance and other consequences for local school districts. AGENCY CONTACT: Kevin Noland, Deputy Commissioner and Gener...
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2005 | P-12 | School Intervention Contract Criteria
H.B. 953
This bill would require the Superintendent to provide a list of approved school assistance and intervention teams with which a school
district may contract if it receives funding under the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program.. The bill would...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | The Parental Participation Pilot Project
S.B. 10
Provides that by the beginning of the 2006-2007 school year, the State Board of Education shall by rule establish a parental participation pilot project to provide grants to the lowest performing school districts to help these districts improve parental partic...
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| OK | Emergency Rule Adoption 08/2005 | P-12 | Timeline for Six Year Comprehensive Local Education Plan
OAC 210:15-8-1, -2
Establishes the submission date for the Plan to the Board of Education for school districts with one or more school sites which are identified for school improvement. No later than three months after being identified as a school in need of school improvement d...
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Corrective Action
H.B. 1216
Repeals and reenacts the corrective action provisions for underperforming public schools. Requires the state board to annually notify each district and the state charter school institute as to which, if any, of its schools received a "low" or "unsatisfactory" ...
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Performance Reviews
S.B. 982, Section 14
Amends Section 3-118.1 to allow for performance reviews by the Office of Accountability. If the Office requests such a review, the Office of Accountability is to pay the full amount. If a districts requests a review, the Office bears 75% of the responsibility...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Arkansas Online Professional Development Initiative
H.B. 2489
Creates the Arkansas Online Professional Development Initiative. Requires the director of the department of education to prioritize identified teacher professional development needs and develop a statewide online professional development program. Requires onli...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Leadership Academy School Support Program
H.B. 2434
Creates the Arkansas Leadership Academy School Support Program to train principals and teachers in schools and districts designated as being in school improvement. Specifies that any school district in school improvement may be invited, strongly encouraged, or...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Role of Colleges and Universities in Achieving State Educational Goals
H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraph 7)
Requires colleges and universities to:
(a) Utilize institution-wide resources to work with elementary and secondary educators and other entities to align curriculum content to ensure that students who achieve proficiency on standards established at the prekin...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Role of Department of Education in Achieving State Educational Goals
H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraph 4)
Mandates that the Kentucky Department of Education provide assistance to schools and teachers, including publicizing professional development opportunities, methods of measuring effective professional development, the availability of high quality instructional...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2005 | P-12 | Adult Learners May Take Exit Exam
A.B. 1057
An act to add Section 60851.3 to the Education Code, relating to education. Require the exit examination to be offered to a person regularly enrolled in an adult education program. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1051-1100/ab_1057_bill_20050908_enrol...
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2005 | Community College
Postsec. | Community College System
H.B. 583
The Community Colleges System Office is designated as the primary lead agency for delivering workforce development training, adult literacy training, and adult education programs in the State.
http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/HTML/H583v5.html...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Professional Development Requirements
S.B. 1150
Limits professional development requirements for certified personnel working solely in the following adult education programs: (1) Adult basic education; (2) General adult education; (3) English as a second language for adults; and (4) General Educational Deve...
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| NM | Pocket Veto by GOVERNOR. 04/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Education Works Program
S.B. 691
Relates to second semester for education works program....
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Committee for Mathematics Achievement
H.B. 93 (Section 2)
Defines terms, including "mathematics coach," "mathematics diagnostic assessment," "mathematics intervention program," "mathematics leader," "mathematics mentor," and "numeracy." Establishes the Committee for Mathematics Achievement to develop a multi-faceted ...
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| UT | Rule Adoption 02/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Adult Education Programs
R277-733
Proposes rule to develop a statewide fee schedule for adult education classes based upon a student's ability to pay. Amends link of fees to free/reduced lunch criteria and establishes a basic fee amount for classes. UTAH REG 27592 (SN)...
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| AK | Adopted 12/2005 | P-12 | Standards-based science assessment
4 AAC 04.140 thru 06.825
Requires the commissioner to select a standards-based science assessment and school districts to administer the assessment in selected grades.
AGENCY CONTACT: Dorothy Knuth, Commissioner's Office at the Department of Education & Early Development, 801 W 10th...
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2005 | P-12 | Assessing English Language Learners; and Posting State Test Items
S.B. 755
This bill would require a pupil identified as limited English proficient who is enrolled in any of grades 2 to 11, and who either receives instruction in his or her primary language or has been enrolled in a school in the United States for less than 12 months,...
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2005 | P-12 | Assessment Accommodations for English Language Learners
S.B. 385
This bill would require a pupil to take achievement tests in his or her primary language, if the pupil is identified as limited English proficient, and is either literate in his or her primary language or receives instruction in his or her primary language. Th...
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| NC | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | School testing program
H.B. 911
Streamline School Testing Program....
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Best Practices of Other State Assessment Programs
H.J.R. 4
This Resolution creates a Task Force to examine best practice models of other state assessment programs for the purpose of providing recommendations for the improvement and/or changes to the Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP). http://www.legis.state.de.us...
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Diagnostic Academic Growth Calculation
S.B. 214 (Section 7-8)
Section 7: Encourages the state board to establish accreditation indicators based in part on the diagnostic academic growth calculation added by paragraph (d), section 22-7-604.3.
Section 8: Creates new paragraph (d) in section 22-7-604.3. States that a diagn...
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Assessment Dates
S.B. 169
Deleted requirement that an assessment shall be administered to students on or after March 1 of a school year if the
assessment is: (A) A mathematics assessment that tests problem solving skills; or (B) An English assessment that tests writing skills; and
is ...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Phonologic Weakness
H.B. 1488
Defines "phonologic weakness." Requires the department of education to develop and implement a plan to
(1) train teachers, especially the teachers directly involved in reading and language arts, about phonologic weakness and its role in reading development;
(...
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| MI | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Provisions in original MEAP authorizing statute relating to administration of state assessment program
H.B. 4142
AN ACT to amend 1970 PA 38, entitled "An act to provide for assessment and remedial assistance programs of students in reading, mathematics and vocational education," by amending section 2 (MCL 388.1082)
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/bille...
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| MS | Rule Adoption 05/2005 | P-12 | Statewide Assessment System
IIB-3
Provides that the information contained within the Guidelines for Testing Students with Disabilities and the Guidelines for Educational Services and Assessement for English Language Learners and any subsequent updates shall apply to all public school personnel...
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Achieving Classroom Excellence Act of 2005
S.B. 982
New law establishing the Achieving Classroom Excellence Act of 2005. One new section establishes the Oklahoma Mathematics Improvement Program. The purpose is to improve student mastery of the Priority Academic Student Skills (PASS) for sixth-grade mathematics ...
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Potential Alternative Assessments
H.B. 1987
Directs the superintendent of public instruction to review the course requirements and assessments in one or more representative career and technical programs that lead to industry certification to determine the alignment of the courses and assessments with th...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Career Counseling for Students
H.B. 2868
Requires each district's student services plan to include a district-level tracking system for students who fail to reach proficiency on state-mandated assessments. Specifies that guidance and counseling services in each district's "student services program" i...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | End of Course Assessment Requirements
H.B. 1983 (multiple provisions)
Establishes system for districts to report all students' scores on end-of-course assessments. Requires the division of public school accountability to:
(i) Match each student's end-of-course test score with the letter grade received in the corresponding cours...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Grade 3-8 Assessments, End-of-Course Exams and Remediation
H.B. 2824
Requires a student not passing an immediately previous grades 3-8 benchmark assessment or in a secondary level end-of-course assessment to participate in remediation activities as required in the student's individualized academic improvement plan beginning in ...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | End-of-Course Success Incentive Program
H.B. 1983 (multiple provisions)
Creates the End-of-Course Success Incentive Program under the department of education. Awards schools $50.00 for each student passing the end-of-course assessment on his or her first attempt. These funds must be utilized in the schools to improve student acade...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Eligibility for the Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship Program
H.B. 1983 (multiple provisions)
Modifies eligibility requirements for the Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship Program, effective for applicants graduating from an Arkansas high school after December 31, 2009. Requires an applicant to have completed the Smart Core curriculum and have met...
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| AZ | Vetoed 04/2005 | P-12 | Department Reporting and Student Testing
H.B. 2033
Requires the department to report to specified members of the legislature on its budget status every two months for the first half of each fiscal year and every month thereafter. Requires every report to include the department's current funding surplus or shor...
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| UT | Rule Adoption 04/2005 | P-12 | Makeup Days: Basic Skills Competency Testing Requirements
R277-705-6
Amends rule to provide for makeup days in administration of required Utah Basic Skills Competency Test (UBSCT). Changes add language for schools to provide a makeup window not to exceed five school days following administration of UBSCT. Amendments also add pa...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Mandatory Norm Referenced Student Assessments
H.B. 1068
From the fiscal note: The bill eliminates the mandatory requirement for norm referenced testing in the third, sixth, and ninth grade classes.
School districts are permitted to offer norm referenced assessments at the districts' own expense and make diagnostic ...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Student Achievement Improvement
H.B. 93 (Section 1, multiple provisions)
Sets forth legislative intent related to early diagnosis of and intervention for elementary students struggling in reading and mathematics, state student achievement goals, provision and quality of diagnostic and intervention services to students below profici...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Committee for Mathematics Achievement
H.B. 93 (Section 2)
Defines terms, including "mathematics coach," "mathematics diagnostic assessment," "mathematics intervention program," "mathematics leader," "mathematics mentor," and "numeracy." Establishes the Committee for Mathematics Achievement to develop a multi-faceted ...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Mathematics Achievement Fund
H.B. 93 (Section 3)
Creates the mathematics achievement fund to provide developmentally appropriate diagnostic assessment and intervention services to students, primary through grade 12, to help them reach proficiency in mathematics on the state assessments and in compliance with...
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| TX | Adopted 03/2005 | P-12 | Student Testing Requirements
§101.5
The adopted amendments update and revise the rules to align with current statute (3-10 testing rather than 3-8). http://www.tea.state.tx.us/rules/board/adopted/0305/101-005-two.pdf...
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| NM | Rule Adoption 02/2005 | P-12 | Examination Opportunities, Results, Verification
11.12, 11.13, 11.15, 11.16
Proposes rules regarding examination opportunities, exam results, verification of exam results, and examination of record purposes. NEW MEXICO REG 4231 (SN)...
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| UT | Rule Adoption 02/2005 | P-12 | Testing Procedures
R277-473
Removes 'Constructed response portions' from definitions and language. Updates Criterion Reference Test (CRT) assessment window and adds new language regarding Utah State Office of Education responsibilities and school responsibilities for crisis indicators in...
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| GA | Adopted 12/2005 | P-12 | Procedures for Exemption from Graduation Exam
GAC 160-1-3-.09
Establishes "variance" procedure for a student not eligible for waiver (not rendered incapable of passing a section of the GHSGT or the
GHSWT due to a disability or substantial hardship) to demonstrate proficiency on Georgia High School Graduation Tests (GHSGT...
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| LA | Adopted 12/2005 | P-12 | Testing Students with Disabilities
LAC 28:XXXIX.503 and 1301
Revises high stakes testing policy for students with disabilities to meet federal requirements.
Page 39 of 106: http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0512/0512RUL.pdf...
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| LA | Adopted 12/2005 | P-12 | Alternate Assessment Participation Guidelines
LAC 28:XCVII.901-907
Establishes guidelines for the participation of students with disabilities in alternate assessments who cannot participate in regular assessment.
Page 38 of 106: http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0512/0512RUL.pdf...
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| LA | Adopted 12/2005 | P-12 | General Education Exam and Students with Disabilities
LAC 28: CXV.2319
Allows the Superintendent of Education to waive the final component of the General Education Exam for student with disabilities if the Department of Education determines that the student's disability significantly impacts their ability to pass the final requir...
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| LA | Adopted 11/2005 | P-12 | NCLB Assessment and AYP
LAC 28:LXXXIII.305, 509, 703, 3901-3905
Amends the accountability system calculations to take advantage of new flexibility in guidance for No Child Left Behind and address situations that were not considered when the accountability policy was initially written.
§305. Calculating the CRT Index
§509....
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| WV | Adopted 11/2005 | P-12 | Alternate Academic Achievement Standards
Title 126, Series 44P
WEST VIRGINIA 4765, SUMMARY: Amends rules relating to alternate academic achievement standards for West Virginia schools.
EFFECTIVE DATE: 12/14/2005...
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2005 | P-12 | Assessing English Language Learners; and Posting State Test Items
S.B. 755
This bill would require a pupil identified as limited English proficient who is enrolled in any of grades 2 to 11, and who either receives instruction in his or her primary language or has been enrolled in a school in the United States for less than 12 months,...
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2005 | P-12 | Assessment Accommodations for English Language Learners
S.B. 385
This bill would require a pupil to take achievement tests in his or her primary language, if the pupil is identified as limited English proficient, and is either literate in his or her primary language or receives instruction in his or her primary language. Th...
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| GA | Adopted 07/2005 | P-12 | Student Assessments
GAC 160-3-1-.07
Clarifies rules regarding testing programs and student assessment. Clarifies assessment participation requirements for English language learners, students with disabilities, students in each grade K-8, and students taking the Georgia High School Graduation Tes...
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| ID | Temporary Rule Adoption - Concurrently Proposed 06/2005 | P-12 | Alternate Standard Achievement Test for LEP Students
IDAPA 08.02.03
Proposes rules regarding the Limited English Proficient (LEP) students. Sets forth rules for LEP students to take an alternate Standard Achievement Test. ...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Alternative Assessments/Accomodations
S.B. 214
AN ACT To amend and reenact R.S. 17:24.4(F)(3), relative to alternative assessments for students with certain disabilities. Requires that, in addition to the alternate assessment accommodations for students with significant cognitive disabilities, the departme...
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in State Assessment
H.B. 1246
Provides that if, as part of a student's individual educational program (IEP), a student attends part-time a school or program away from the school where the student is enrolled, the district in which a student is enrolled may designate either the school of re...
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| MS | Rule Adoption 05/2005 | P-12 | Statewide Assessment System
IIB-3
Provides that the information contained within the Guidelines for Testing Students with Disabilities and the Guidelines for Educational Services and Assessement for English Language Learners and any subsequent updates shall apply to all public school personnel...
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Achieving Classroom Excellence Task Force
S.B. 982, Section 4
Section 4 creates the Achieving Classroom Excellence Task Force. The purpose of the task force is to study the testing requirements for eighth-grade students and high school students. The task force is to study, hold public hearings, and make recommendations ...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Special Education and the AIMS
S.B. 1352
States that a student with an individualized education program (IEP) is not required to earn a passing score on a competency test required for high school graduation unless the student is learning at a level appropriate for the student's grade level in a speci...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Minimum School Program
H.B. 382
Establishes the value of the weighted pupil unit at $2,280; establishes a ceiling for the state contribution to the maintenance and operations
portion of the Minimum School Program for fiscal year 2005-06 of $1,795,446,575; modifies the funding formula for the...
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| Assessment--End-of-Course |
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | End-of-Course Tests
S.B. 982, Sections 6 and 8
Creates new section. Beginning with students entering the ninth grade in the 2008-2009 school year, every student must demonstrate mastery of the state academic content standards in a minimum of four out of six selected subject areas in order to receive a high...
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| Assessment--Formative/Interim |
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2005 | P-12 | Assistance to Students Failing the Exit Exam
A.B. 128
States that funds received through section 37252 for supplemental instruction may be used to provide intensive instruction and services to students who have failed one or both parts of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE). Requires the state su...
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Sufficient Academic Growth
H.B. 1217
Modifies definition of "sufficient academic growth" for purposes of diagnostic assessment. Makes related changes to governor's distinguished improvement awards. Repeals provision requiring the state board to contract with a nationally recognized, independent a...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Mandatory Norm Referenced Student Assessments
H.B. 1068
From the fiscal note: The bill eliminates the mandatory requirement for norm referenced testing in the third, sixth, and ninth grade classes.
School districts are permitted to offer norm referenced assessments at the districts' own expense and make diagnostic ...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Committee for Mathematics Achievement
H.B. 93 (Section 2)
Defines terms, including "mathematics coach," "mathematics diagnostic assessment," "mathematics intervention program," "mathematics leader," "mathematics mentor," and "numeracy." Establishes the Committee for Mathematics Achievement to develop a multi-faceted ...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Teacher' Professional Growth Fund
H.B. 93 (Sections 5 and 6)
Specifies that the teachers' professional growth fund is to provide teachers with high quality professional development in content knowledge in reading and classroom-based screening, diagnostic, assessment and intervention strategies. States that the fund may ...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Mathematics Achievement Fund
H.B. 93 (Section 3)
Creates the mathematics achievement fund to provide developmentally appropriate diagnostic assessment and intervention services to students, primary through grade 12, to help them reach proficiency in mathematics on the state assessments and in compliance with...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | The Center for Mathematics
H.B. 93 (Section 4)
Creates the Center for Mathematics to make available professional development for teachers in reliable, research-based diagnostic assessment and intervention strategies, coaching and mentoring models, and other programs in mathematics. Specifies the duties of ...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Role of Department of Education in Achieving State Educational Goals
H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraph 4)
Mandates that the Kentucky Department of Education provide assistance to schools and teachers, including publicizing professional development opportunities, methods of measuring effective professional development, the availability of high quality instructional...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Reading Diagnostic and Intervention Program
S.B. 19
This act is to be cited as the "Read to Achieve Act of 2005." Relates to reading; makes an appropriation therefor; describes the general assembly's findings and intent regarding reading. Defines "comprehensive reading program," "reading diagnostic assessment,"...
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| Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
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| MI | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Provisions in original MEAP authorizing statute relating to administration of state assessment program
H.B. 4142
AN ACT to amend 1970 PA 38, entitled "An act to provide for assessment and remedial assistance programs of students in reading, mathematics and vocational education," by amending section 2 (MCL 388.1082)
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/bille...
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| NV | Adopted 05/2005 | P-12 | High School Proficiency Examinations
NAC 389.027, .051, .056, .058, .061, .071
Amends provisions governing high school proficiency examinations. NEVADA REG 3705 (SN)...
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Achieving Classroom Excellence Task Force
S.B. 982, Section 4
Section 4 creates the Achieving Classroom Excellence Task Force. The purpose of the task force is to study the testing requirements for eighth-grade students and high school students. The task force is to study, hold public hearings, and make recommendations ...
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| Assessment--Value Added |
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Diagnostic Academic Growth Calculation
S.B. 214 (Section 7-8)
Section 7: Encourages the state board to establish accreditation indicators based in part on the diagnostic academic growth calculation added by paragraph (d), section 22-7-604.3.
Section 8: Creates new paragraph (d) in section 22-7-604.3. States that a diagn...
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
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| VA | Adopted 12/2005 | P-12 | Juvenile Work Release Programs
6 VAC 35-190-10 thru -120
Emergency regulation effective December 14, 2005, through December 13, 2006 that assists juveniles in acquiring necessary work habits, developing marketable skills, and identifying career goals through a range of career opportunities and mentoring apprenticesh...
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| CO | Adopted 11/2005 | P-12 | Dropout Prevention Activity Grant Program
1 CCR 301-66
The Dropout Prevention Activity Grant Program requires the State Board of Education to define procedures for applying for a grant, and the criteria for awarding grants. The grant application requires a statement of student needs used to determine the program b...
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2005 | P-12 | School Placement for Foster Children
H.B. 1261
An act to amend Sections 48853, 48853.5, 48859, 49069.5, 52052, 56034, 56366.1, and 56366.2 of the Education Code, and to amend Sections 319, 361, and 391 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. This bill stipulates the rights of foster children to attend their ...
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| CA | Consideration of governor's veto pending 09/2005 | P-12 | Counseling for At-risk Students
A.B. 455
An act to amend Section 49600 of the Education Code, relating to at-risk pupils. Requires that educational counseling include, in addition to the above, counseling for the development of an at-risk pupil plan for at-risk pupils. Specifies the components those ...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | The Parental Participation Pilot Project
S.B. 10
Provides that by the beginning of the 2006-2007 school year, the State Board of Education shall by rule establish a parental participation pilot project to provide grants to the lowest performing school districts to help these districts improve parental partic...
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| NC | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Study Ways to Reduce Dropout Rate
S.B. 408
Directs the State Board of Education to identify research-based methods to reduce the dropout rate, especially in high-poverty schools with diverse student populations. As part of its study, the State Board shall review the research for best practices, effect...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Continued Attendance After Legal Placement
H.B. 3075
When a juvenile court determines that it is in a child˘s best interest to continue to attend the school that the child attended prior to placement by a public agency, the child: (A) Shall be considered resident for school purposes in the school district in whi...
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Evaluation of Expelled and At-Risk Student Services Grant Program
H.B. 1311
Authorizes the department of education to retain up to 1% of any appropriation for the expelled and at-risk student services grant program to evaluate the program. Beginning January 1, 2006, requires the department to annually report to the general assembly on...
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Students Whose Parents Are Incarcerated
H.B. 1088
Requires the department of corrections to obtain information from each inmate on whether the inmate is the parent of a child under the age of 18 in Colorado, and if so, whether the child is enrolled in a school in the state and the district or charter school i...
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Deployment of Hawaii Based Military Members
S.B. 1394
The purpose of this Act is for schools whose student population includes at least twenty per cent or one hundred students from military families as determined by the department of education to provide for the following:
(1) Additional staff;
(2) Child care ser...
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Dropout Prevention Activity Grant Program
H.B. 1024
Creates the dropout prevention activity grant program to fund before- and after-school arts-based and vocational activity programs for students in grades 6-12, with the goal of reducing the student dropout rate. Defines as schools eligible to participate publi...
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Teacher Loan Forgiveness Pilot Program
S.B. 191
Defines "high-poverty school" and "rural school district." Expands teacher loan forgiveness pilot program to include teachers who (1) contract to teach in a high-poverty public elementary school in a rural school district or in a facility school in a rural sch...
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| TN | to governor 05/2005 | P-12 | Request for More Funding for Dropout Prevention
H.J.R. 117
A resolution to urge increased funding for the development and expansion of dropout prevention programs in Tennessee. ...
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Funding for Dropout Prevention Programs
H.J.R. 117
From the fiscal note: A resolution to urge the Governor to include an earmarked appropriation within the administration's general appropriations act for fiscal year 2005-06 for an increase in funding for LEAs to be utilized for the development and expansion of...
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Learning Assistance Program
H.B. 1066
Revises the funding formula for the Learning Assistance Program from one based equally on assessment results and family need to one
based solely on family need....
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Ability to Learn
H.B. 2604
Authorizes the department of human services to communicate with a foster child's school concerning placement issues that may impact the child's ability to learn. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB2604.pdf...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Social Workers in Public Schools
S.B. 1187
Increases the number and availability of social workers in the public schools. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1187.pdf...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Public School Funding Act of 2003
S.B. 939
Amends the public school funding act of 2003. Requires the State Board of Education to promulgate rules clarifying not only which alternative learning environment programs qualify for funding, but also the characteristics of students who qualify for funding be...
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | High School Dropout Parental Notice
S.B. 164
Requires districts to provide written notification to parents of a high school dropout who is not subject to compulsory education laws. States that the notice should have the goal of attempting to return the student to school and of conveying ot the student's ...
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Free Quality Schools
S.B. 152
Defines basic system of free quality public elementary and secondary schools and identifies the educationally relevant factors upon which the state's share of the basic system must be funded; includes at-risk students, students who were not born in the United ...
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| WA | Partially Vetoed 04/2005 | P-12 | Dropout Prevention
H.B. 1708
From fiscal note: Section 2 requires that, to the extent funds are appropriated, the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) in
conjunction with the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) must convene a work group to evaluate issues relate...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Learning Assistance Program Distribution Formula
H.B. 1066
HB 1066 changes the school district distribution of Learning Assistance Program (LAP) funds from a distribution based 50% on assessment of students and 50% on one or more family income factors measure economic need, to a distribution based 100% on one or more ...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Continuity of Educational Services for Foster Children
H.B. 1710
Ensures the continuity of educational services to foster children. Prohibits the grades of a child in foster care from being lowered for school absences resulting from a change in the child's school enrollment, the child's attendance at a dependency-neglect co...
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| IL | Signed into law 01/2005 | P-12 | School Code
H.B. 757
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code to allow a child with a disability who has completed four years of high school to participate in the graduation ceremony and receive a certificate of completion under specified circumstances. Fur...
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
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| NC | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Alternative schools
H.B. 1076
AN ACT to direct the state board of education to adopt standards for alternative learning programs, and to require local boards of education to develop proposals that are submitted to the State Board of education before establishing any alternative learning pr...
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Options for Expelled Students
A.B. 110 --Expulsion Section
Governing boards that expel pupils must provide access to an educational program for those students. Such a program may be operated by the school district, the county superintendent of schools, or a consortium of districts or in joint agreement with the county...
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Evaluation of Expelled and At-Risk Student Services Grant Program
H.B. 1311
Authorizes the department of education to retain up to 1% of any appropriation for the expelled and at-risk student services grant program to evaluate the program. Beginning January 1, 2006, requires the department to annually report to the general assembly on...
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Resolution Urging Greater Funding of Alternative Schools
H.J.R. 116
Urges the Governor to include increased funding for alternative education programs in the 2005-06 General Appropriations Act. Currently, LEAs are required to have at least one alternative school in grades 7-12. Link to fiscal note summary: http://www.legislatu...
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| TN | SIGNED BY GOVERNOR. 05/2005 | P-12 | Alternative Schools Okay for Younger Students
H.B. 1938
Allows local boards of education to establish evening alternative schools for students in grades six (age 11) through twelve (6-12). Previous provision allowed alternative schools only for students over 16. http://tennessee.gov/sos/acts/104/pub/pc0200.pdf...
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| WV | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Alternative Education
H.B. 3018
House Bill 3018 includes provisions relating to alternative education programs and the Mountaineer Challenge Academy. Attendees of both are given an extra year to graduate or pass the General Education Degree (GED) tests, subject to federal law. Additionally, ...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Conditions Not Requiring Certification
S.B. 1044 (sections 16-17)
States that teacher certification requirements do not apply to persons teaching concurrent credit courses or advanced placement courses who: (i) Are employed by a postsecondary institution; (ii) Meet the qualification requirements of that institution or the d...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Public School Funding Act of 2003
S.B. 939
Amends the public school funding act of 2003. Requires the State Board of Education to promulgate rules clarifying not only which alternative learning environment programs qualify for funding, but also the characteristics of students who qualify for funding be...
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
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| NJ | Rule Adoption 08/2005 | P-12 | Programs To Support Student Development
NJAC 6A:16-1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.5 thru 5.8, 6.1 thru 6.3,7.1, 7.2 thru 7.10, 8 thru 11
Establishes and amends requirements for school district boards relating to development and implementation of school safety plans, cooperation with law enforcement on certain matters if they occur at school grounds and functions, development and implementation ...
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Steroid Abuse Prevention Education
S.B. 64
Requires a school district to provide steroid abuse prevention education to students who participate in interscholastic athletic programs. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0014...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Child Maltreatment Act
S.B. 392
Amends the Child Maltreatment Act to includes acts involving drugs, alcohol, mistreatment and obscene behavior; includes school boards, superintendents and principals in reporting requirements. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb392.pdf...
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Division of Children's Programs
S.B. 1224
Establishes legislative intent for the Idaho Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program. Requires program to include the following:
(1) Districts will develop a policy and plan which will provide a guide for their substance abuse programs.
(2) Districts will have an a...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Alcohol on School Premises
H.B. 275
Prohibits alcohol possession or consumption on public school premises; establishes penalties.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/05%20Regular/final/HB0275.pdf...
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| NM | Vetoed 03/2005 | P-12 | School
S.B. 410
Teaches effects of alcohol & drugs in schools....
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| LA | Emergency Rule Adoption 10/2005 | P-12 | Truancy Assessment and Service Centers
LAC 67:III.5539
Re-establishes Truancy Assessment and Service Centers to identify, assess and intervene to ensure K-6 students attend school regularly. While established under TANF provisions, rules specify that eligibility for services is not limited to needy families. http:...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | The Parental Participation Pilot Project
S.B. 10
Provides that by the beginning of the 2006-2007 school year, the State Board of Education shall by rule establish a parental participation pilot project to provide grants to the lowest performing school districts to help these districts improve parental partic...
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Parent Responsibility for Truant Children
H.B. 109
Amends 2728 and 2729 of Title 14 to clarify that when both parents are listed on a student's school records and both parents are Delaware residents, they each are responsible for their child's school attendance. Reflects the view of the Truancy Task Force that...
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Change of Residence Due to Parent's Military Service Obligation
H.B. 156
Provides that if a pupil's change of residence is due to the military service obligation of a person who has legal custody of the pupil, then, upon the written request of the person having legal custody of the pupil, the residence of the pupil is deemed for pu...
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| CA | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Attendance Review Board Recommendations
A.B. 656
Under existing law, a county school attendance review board may be established in each county to propose and promote the
use of alternatives to the juvenile court system for pupils with school attendance problems or school behavioral problems.
Existing law aut...
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| NV | (H) APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR. CHAPTER 47. 05/2005 | P-12 | Authorizes boards of trustees of school districts to accommodate medical absences in policy for attendance of pupils at school
H.B. 76
AN ACT relating to education; authorizing the board of trustees of a school district to accommodate certain pupils who are physically or mentally unable to attend school in the policy for attendance of pupils at school....
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2005 | Postsec. | Excusal for Military Service
H.B. 1630
From bill analysis: Requires an institution of higher education to excuse a student from attending classes or engaging in other required activities, including examinations, in order for the student to participate in active military service to which the student...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | General Assembly Pages
H.B. 2461
Provides an excused absence from school for the one day a student is serving as a page for the general assembly. States that the student may be allowed additional instructional assignment days at the discretion of the school district.
http://www.arkleg.state.a...
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| GA | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Compulsory Attendance Laws
H.B. 26
Repeals the authority for the Governor to suspend all or any part of compulsory attendance requirements because of a riot, insurrection, public disorder, disturbance of the peace, natural calamity, or disaster. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/versio...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School District Attendance Policies
H.B. 955
Relates to compulsory school attendance; requires that school district attendance policies use withdrawal of students pursuant to the definition of membership in the Public School Finance Act only after exhausting efforts to keep students in educational settin...
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Habitual Truant
S.B. 1066
Revises the definition of a "habitual truant." Revises the provisions applicable to proceedings against parents and guardians whose children are habitual truants. Allows proceedings to be brought against any parent of a habitual truant who is found to have kno...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Nonresident Student Contracts
H.B. 197
Relates to nonresident student contracts; allows two local school districts to enter into a nonresident student contract for more than one year. http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB197.htm...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Habitual Truancy
H.B. 72
Establishes that any student enrolled in a public school who is over 18 but not 21 years of age and who has been absent from school without valid excuse for three or more days, or tardy without valid excuse on three or more days, is a truant. Reduces from thre...
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| ND | To governor 03/2005 | P-12 | School Attendance
H.B. 1194
Relates to contract terms for the cross-border attendance of elementary and high school students.
http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/59-2005/bill-text/FAKJ0200.pdf...
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Cross Border Education Contracts
H.B. 1149
Allows the Department of Education to enter into certain enrollment agreements with the State of North Dakota; compensates certain school districts for lost revenue due to the agreements. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2005/bills/HB1149enr.pdf...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | False Statements on Child Residency
H.B. 2382
Creates a Class 4 misdemeanor charge for making a false statement concerning the residency of a child in a particular school division or school attendance zone. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0178...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Educational Protections for Foster Care Children
S.B. 1006
Clarifies that the public schools in a school divisions shall be free to children in foster care living in that school division in the same manner as provided to homeless children and youth pursuant to the McKinney-Vento Act and state law. http://leg1.state.va...
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| IL | Signed into law 01/2005 | P-12 | School Code
H.B. 757
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code to allow a child with a disability who has completed four years of high school to participate in the graduation ceremony and receive a certificate of completion under specified circumstances. Fur...
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| NV | (H) APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR. CHAPTER 151. 05/2005 | P-12 | Authorizes school districts to prescribe minimum attendance requirements for pupils in kindergarten and first grade and for pupils in certain remedial programs.
H.B. 518
AN ACT relating to education; authorizing the boards of trustees of school districts to apply to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for additional days or minutes of instruction for certain programs of remedial education; authorizing the board of trustee...
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| IL | Signed into law 01/2005 | P-12 | School Code
H.B. 757
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code to allow a child with a disability who has completed four years of high school to participate in the graduation ceremony and receive a certificate of completion under specified circumstances. Fur...
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| Attendance--Statutory Ages (Upper and Lower) |
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | High School Dropout Parental Notice
S.B. 164
Requires districts to provide written notification to parents of a high school dropout who is not subject to compulsory education laws. States that the notice should have the goal of attempting to return the student to school and of conveying ot the student's ...
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| IL | Signed into law 01/2005 | P-12 | School Code
H.B. 757
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code to allow a child with a disability who has completed four years of high school to participate in the graduation ceremony and receive a certificate of completion under specified circumstances. Fur...
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| Attendance--Truancy |
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| LA | Emergency Rule Adoption 10/2005 | P-12 | Truancy Assessment and Service Centers
LAC 67:III.5539
Re-establishes Truancy Assessment and Service Centers to identify, assess and intervene to ensure K-6 students attend school regularly. While established under TANF provisions, rules specify that eligibility for services is not limited to needy families. http:...
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| NC | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Increased penalty for truancy
H.B. 779
AN ACT to increase the penalty for aiding and abetting a student's unlawful absence from school. Any person who aids or abets a student's unlawful absence from the School shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. http://www.ncleg.net/Session...
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Parent Responsibility for Truant Children
H.B. 109
Amends 2728 and 2729 of Title 14 to clarify that when both parents are listed on a student's school records and both parents are Delaware residents, they each are responsible for their child's school attendance. Reflects the view of the Truancy Task Force that...
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| NH | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Truancy Defined
H.B. 150
Truancy Defined.
I. For the purposes of this subdivision, "truancy" means an unexcused absence from school or class and "unexcused absence" is an absence without parental or administrative permission.
II. Twenty half days of unexcused absence during a school...
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Habitual Truant
S.B. 1066
Revises the definition of a "habitual truant." Revises the provisions applicable to proceedings against parents and guardians whose children are habitual truants. Allows proceedings to be brought against any parent of a habitual truant who is found to have kno...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Habitual Truancy
H.B. 72
Establishes that any student enrolled in a public school who is over 18 but not 21 years of age and who has been absent from school without valid excuse for three or more days, or tardy without valid excuse on three or more days, is a truant. Reduces from thre...
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| MI | (H) PRESENTED TO THE GOVERNOR 9/16/2005 @ 2:54 PM 09/2005 | P-12 | Criminal background checks
H.B. 4402
Criminal background checks on school employees.
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/publicact/pdf/2005-PA-0129.pdf...
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| MI | (H) PRESENTED TO THE GOVERNOR 9/16/2005 @ 2:58 PM 09/2005 | P-12 | Criminal history checks
H.B. 4930
If a person who is employed in any capacity by a school district, intermediate school district, public
school academy, or nonpublic school; who has applied for a position with a school district, intermediate school district,
public school academy, or nonpublic...
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| MI | Signed into law 09/2005 | P-12 | Criminal records check
S.B. 601
In addition to the criminal history check required under section 1230, the board of a school district or
intermediate school district or the governing body of a public school academy or nonpublic school shall request the
department of state police to conduct a...
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Extension of Background Checks
H.B. 3451
The Illinois State Police will be required to conduct, in addition to a fingerprint-based background check, a check of the Sex Offender Registry (SOR) under the Sex Offender and Child Murderer Community Notification Law, and a check of all valid and recorded o...
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Prohibits Hiring Those Convicted of Certain Crimes
H.B. 178
Prohibits, except under certain circumstances, city, parish, and other local public school boards and nonpublic schools and school systems from hiring specified persons who have been convicted of or pled nolo contendere to certain crimes as provided in present...
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Individual Contracts for Teaching Positions
S.B. 1516 (Section 8)
Authorizes a local superintendent, with the local board's approval, to issue individual contracts for teaching positions.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1516...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Education
S.B. 1044 (sections 1-10)
Incorporates references to the state's Automated Fingerprint Identification System. Expands the definition of "cause" for purposes of waiving or suspending a teacher's license. Among changes to definition, includes knowingly falsifying or directing another to ...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Student Criminal History Background Check
H.B. 2595
Allows criminal history background checks of certain students and prospective students. Allows electronic dissemination of criminal history information to institutions of higher education for students enrolled in, and prospective students seeking enrollment to...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Charter Schools
H.B. 2596
Allows charter schools to hire personnel who have not yet received a fingerprint clearance card provided the charter school has followed specified procedures.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2596...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Charter Schools
S.B. 1059
Exempts volunteers and guest speakers engaged in instructional or supervisory work in a charter school from having a valid fingerprint clearance card provided they are accompanied in the classroom by a person with a valid fingerprint clearance card.
http://www...
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Contract personnel with contact with students
H.B. 1377
Contract personnel with contact with students; revise procedure for criminal background checks....
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School District Criminal Background Checks
H.B. 88
Permits a school district superintendent to require a national criminal history background check for a certificated job applicant who has resided in Kentucky twelve months or less; requires any national history background check results to be sent to the hiring...
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| CA | (S) IN SENATE. TO UNFINISHED BUSINESS. (VETO) 10/2005 | P-12 | Instructional Materials for English Language Learners
S.B. 72
This bill would provide specified funding to school districts to provide supplementary instructional materials specifically for
English language learners in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, for the purpose of accelerating those pupils as rapidly as
possible to...
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2005 | P-12 | Assessment Accommodations for English Language Learners
S.B. 385
This bill would require a pupil to take achievement tests in his or her primary language, if the pupil is identified as limited English proficient, and is either literate in his or her primary language or receives instruction in his or her primary language. Th...
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| DE | Rule Adoption 08/2005 | P-12 | Educational Programs for Students with Limited English
14 DAC 920
Amends regulations relating to educational programs for students with limited English proficiency to align with the federal statute No Child Left Behind. http://www.state.de.us/research/AdminCode/title14/900/920.shtml#TopOfPage...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Testing English Language Learners
H.B. 678
Provides that for elementary school students who are in a state-approved transitional bilingual education program or transitional program of instruction, the time allotted to take state tests may be extended as determined by the State Board of Education by rul...
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| CT | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Bilingual Education Teachers
H.B. 6678
For the period from July 1, 2005, to July 1, 2008, the State Board of Education is to require an applicant for certification as a bilingual education teacher to demonstrate competency in English and the other language of instruction as a condition of certifica...
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| ID | Temporary Rule Adoption - Concurrently Proposed 06/2005 | P-12 | Alternate Standard Achievement Test for LEP Students
IDAPA 08.02.03
Proposes rules regarding the Limited English Proficient (LEP) students. Sets forth rules for LEP students to take an alternate Standard Achievement Test. ...
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| MS | Rule Adoption 05/2005 | P-12 | Statewide Assessment System
IIB-3
Provides that the information contained within the Guidelines for Testing Students with Disabilities and the Guidelines for Educational Services and Assessement for English Language Learners and any subsequent updates shall apply to all public school personnel...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Special Education
S.B. 1072
Specifies that "child with a disability" does not mean a child who has difficulty in writing, speaking or understanding the English language due to an environmental background in which a language other than English is primarily or exclusively used. Deletes lan...
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Free Quality Schools
S.B. 152
Defines basic system of free quality public elementary and secondary schools and identifies the educationally relevant factors upon which the state's share of the basic system must be funded; includes at-risk students, students who were not born in the United ...
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | English language learners - Program of instruction
H.B. 1374
English language learners - Program of instruction. Each school district shall provide a
program of instruction for students who are English language learners. The program may be provided
by a school district or in conjunction with one or more districts.
Progr...
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| OK | Emergency Rule Adoption 04/2005 | P-12 | English as a Second Language Requirements
OAC 210:20-9-172
Establishes rules concerning full (subject matter) competencies for licensure and certification of teachers. Adds English as a Second Language requirements. From analysis: Teachers will have the opportunity to become licensed/certified in English as a Second L...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Data Collection and Analysis
S.B. 779, H.B. 1762
Revises the Standards of Quality to require local school boards to (i) provide for data collection and analysis and to use such results in instructional program evaluation; (ii) implement any actions identified through the academic review of schools accredited...
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| DE | Adopted 12/2005 | P-12 | Requirements for Career Technical Education Programs
14 DAC 525
All school districts and charter schools that offer state approved career technical education programs must: a) have the approval of the Department of Education before implementing new programs; b) have adequate funding to support and sustain the instructional...
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| VA | Adopted 12/2005 | P-12 | Juvenile Work Release Programs
6 VAC 35-190-10 thru -120
Emergency regulation effective December 14, 2005, through December 13, 2006 that assists juveniles in acquiring necessary work habits, developing marketable skills, and identifying career goals through a range of career opportunities and mentoring apprenticesh...
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| IL | Adopted 11/2005 | P-12 | High Technology School-to-Work
14 IAC 110.170
The goal of the High Technology School-to-Work Program is to improve education and to prepare Illinois' students to transition from school to high skilled, high paying jobs in the areas of science, mathematics, and advanced technology. Increasing the number of...
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| NY | Signed into law 11/2005 | P-12 | Learning Opportunities in Technology
S.B. 5729
Relates to establishing the Tech Valley High School in the Capital Region and Questar III BOCES districts to provide expanded learning
opportunities in the area of technology as well as core academics to students in those districts., ...
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| MI | Signed into law 10/2005 | P-12 | Career and technical preparation enrollment options
H.B. 4144
Amends the act establishing career and technical preparation enrollment options for certain students enrolled in Michigan schools. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/billenrolled/house/pdf/2005-HNB-4144.pdf...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2005 | P-12 | Career Education Data on State Report Cards
H.B. 1609
An act to amend Section 33126 of the Education Code, relating to vocational education. This bill would amend the act to also require the school accountability report card to include assessment of career-technical education data measures, such as the number of ...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2005 | P-12 | Career Technical Education Vision Council.
H.B. 917
This bill would create the Career Technical Education Vision Council to make recommendations regarding career technical education,
as specified, and to develop a workforce preparation and strategic plan on or before December 31, 2007. The bill also would creat...
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12
Community College | Vocational Academies Act
H.B. 3646
Creates the Vocational Academies Act to integrate workplace competencies and career and technical education with core academic subjects.
A school district, in partnership with community colleges, local employers, and community-based organizations, may establi...
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2005 | Community College | Technical Education
H.B. 505
Requires the commissioner of higher education, not later than August 16, 2005, to appoint or assign a person with appropriate expertise and background to research, prepare, and propose a plan for the organization of the technical division. Assigned person is t...
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| DE | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Delaware Advisory Council on Career and Technical Education
H.B. 71
Establishes the Delaware Advisory Council on Career and Technical Education (DACCTE) to advise the Governor, General Assembly, Secretary of Education and the State Board of Education on all matters pertaining to career and technical education with emphasis on ...
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Deployment of Hawaii Based Military Members
S.B. 1394
The purpose of this Act is for schools whose student population includes at least twenty per cent or one hundred students from military families as determined by the department of education to provide for the following:
(1) Additional staff;
(2) Child care ser...
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| HI | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Quality of Apprenticeship Programs
S.B. 1889
Amends the standards for apprenticeship agreements to include assurances of qualified training personnel, adequate job supervision, and the requisite licenses. Requires the director of DLIR to establish an apprenticeship council whose purpose is to promote and...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | TOPS-Tech Early Start Awards
S.B. 355
AN ACT To enact R.S. 17:3048.5. Establishes the TOPS-Tech Early Start Award as part of the Louisiana Tuition Opportunity Program for Students for eligible 11th- and 12th-grade students attending Louisiana public high schools. States that a TOPS-Tech Early Star...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2005 | Community College
Postsec. | Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges
S.B. 84
AN ACT To amend and reenact R.S. 17:1871(A)(2), relative to membership of the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges; to provide relative to terms and qualifications of appointees to the board; to provide with regard to experience as a condit...
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| MS | Rule Adoption 06/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | 2005 Workforce Project Policies
Uncodified
Amends rules concerning 2005 Workforce Project Policies. Establishes policies to aid in the provision of workforce education. MISSISSIPPI REG 10005 (SN)...
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | State funding of regional vocational education centers
H.B. 78
This bill clarifies the capital appropriation requirements for funding regional vocational education projects, provides that the state shall fund a maximum of 75 percent of the cost of renovation or expansion of a regional vocational education center, and adds...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Career/technical education diplomas and advisory committees
H.B. 388
Calls for the establishment of "advisory technical skills committees" by superintendents of districts with career and technical education.
Establishes that a pupil who successfully completes a program of career and technical education and who otherwise sati...
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Joint Technological Education District
H.B. 2418
States that a student in a K-8 program who enrolls in courses offered by the joint technological education district is not to be included in the joint district's average daily attendance or average daily membership. Also states that a student in a K-6 program ...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Joint Agricultural Education Study Committee
H.R. 50
Creates the Joint Agricultural Education Study Committee for the purposes of promoting the importance and study of agriculture in the state. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/versions/hr50_HR_50_AP_6.htm...
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| MS | Rule Adoption 05/2005 | P-12 | Academic and Elective Carnegie Unit Credit
Uncodified
Approves the granting of academic and elective Carnegie unit credit for certain Vocational and Technical secondary course offerings to meet the requirements for high school graduation in response to the call for additional rigor in high school coursework and ...
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| SC | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Vocational Becomes Career and Technology
H.B. 3413
Act No. 49 changes references from "vocational" to "career and technology." http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/prever/3413_20050427.htm...
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| SC | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | South Carolina Education and Economic Development Act
H.B. 3155
Adds a new chapter (59) establishing the South Carolina Education and Economic Development Act. Provides for the development of a curriculum organized around a career cluster system that must provide students with both strong academics and real-world problem s...
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Notification of Potential Career Opportunities
S.B. 709
Adds new subsection 49-7-202. Requires the commission, with the assistance of the University of Tennessee system and the state university and community college system, to develop information concerning the potential career opportunities in each curriculum or m...
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12
Community College | Tech-Prep Consortia
S.B. 1809
From bill analysis:
The Texas Tech-Prep Program was enacted in 1999 to allow high school students to begin a college technical
major while still attending high school. Texas' Tech-Prep law emphasizes the important role played by Texas' ...
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| HI | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School-to-Work Council
S.B. 1249
Repeals the school-to-work executive council. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb1249_.htm...
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Division of Professional-Technical Education and the Office of the State Board of Education
S.B. 1234
Reaffirms that the Division of Professional-Technical Education and the Office of the State Board of Education each play unique and vital roles in the state's educational system. Authorizes these agencies to share administrative resources only to the extent n...
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Private Postsecondary Institution Operations
S.B. 2120
Relates to fees provided to the state board for career and technical education for authorizations to operate private postsecondary institutions; relates to the authorizations to operate private postsecondary institutions and use of false academic degrees; prov...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Vocational Education Under Public Commission
H.B. 176
Makes the Public Education Commission the governing authority and sole state agency for supervision of the state plan relating to vocational education.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/05%20Regular/final/HB0176.pdf...
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| NM | Pocket Veto by GOVERNOR. 04/2005 | P-12 | School District
S.B. 308
Relates to School District additions to other Districts.
http://legis.state.nm.us/lcs/_session.asp?chamber=S&type=++&number=308&year=05...
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2005 | Postsec. | School Districts
H.B. 693
Relates to higher education; provides procedures for adding portions of school districts to existing technical and vocational institute districts.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/05%20Regular/final/HB0693.pdf...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Utah College of Applied Technology
H.B. 86
This bill:
< allows Utah College of Applied Technology courses to fulfill high school graduation requirements, subject to State Board of Education approval;
< repeals the authority for the Utah College of Applied Technology to offer a high school diploma;
< es...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Entrepreneurship Education Program
S.B. 969
Creates the Entrepreneurship Education Program, consisting of grants administered by the state board to public secondary schools to support innovative educational programs designed to assist students in the development of their entrepreneurial, academic, and l...
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | Department Of Education
H.B. 1073
Appropriates FY 2004-2005 emergency supplemental funds to department to disburse for grants and aid to state secondary vocational area centers. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1073.pdf...
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| Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship |
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| HI | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Quality of Apprenticeship Programs
S.B. 1889
Amends the standards for apprenticeship agreements to include assurances of qualified training personnel, adequate job supervision, and the requisite licenses. Requires the director of DLIR to establish an apprenticeship council whose purpose is to promote and...
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| Cheating |
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Monitoring system for the statewide system of accountability; honor code
S.B. 214
Establishes a monitoring system for the statewide system of accountability; revises various provisions governing the statewide system of accountability; requires the Department of Education to prescribe an educational involvement accord for use in all public s...
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| LA | Signed into law 11/2005 | P-12 | Recovery School District
H.B. 121A
Establishes procedures for identifying underperforming schools to be transferred to the Recovery School District. Requires the Recovery School District to provide all educational services to students in transferred schools. Requires the recovery district to ...
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2005 | P-12 | Charter Schools and High School Exit Exams
H.B. 1610
An act to amend Sections 33054, 47605, 47605.6, 47607, 47612.5, and 51745.6 of, and to add Section 47612.6 to, the Education Code, relating to charter schools. Existing law requires that charter schools meet specified statewide standards and conduct the specif...
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| DE | Rule Adoption 08/2005 | P-12 | Charter Schools
14 DAC 275
Amends regulations to clarify what matters are to be considered minor modifications, major modifications, modifications that are considered as a new charter, and establishes a process by which these modifications are decided. http://www.state.de.us/research/Ad...
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| NC | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Evergreen Charter Schoolparticipating in the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System
H.B. 485
Authorizes Evergreen Charter School to elect to participate in the teachers' and state employees' retirement system. http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/HTML/H485v3.html...
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| NC | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Charter schools participating in the teachers' and state employees' retirement system and the North Carolina teachers' and state employees' major medical plan
H.B. 182
Charter schools participation in the teachers' and state employees' retirement system and the North Carolina teachers' and state employees' major medical plan....
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Charter School Facilities
S.B. 1054
An act to amend Section 47610 of , and to add Section 47610.5 to, the Education Code, relating to charter schools. Expressly includes the California Building Standards Code amongst those state laws from which a charter school is not exempt. Requires charter sc...
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| CA | Vetoed 07/2005 | P-12 | Charter School Renewals
S.B. 166
An act to amend Section 47607 of the Education Code, relating to charter schools. Existing law provides procedures that
relate to the renewal of a charter and specifies that a renewal is for a period of 5 years, inclusive. This bill provides, as an alternative...
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Minor Modifications to Charters
H.B. 156
This Act is based on a recommendation by the Charter School Standards and Licensing Task Force created by House Resolution No. 78 of the 142nd General Assembly. Allows a modification requested by a charter school relating to financial matters, enrollment prefe...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Process of Renewal for Charters
H.B. 3174
Requires that initial charters be in effect for a period of not more than five years and are to be renewed upon the authorization of the sponsor. The first renewal of a charter are for the same time period as the initial charter. Subsequent renewals of a char...
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Corrective Action
H.B. 1216
Repeals and reenacts the corrective action provisions for underperforming public schools. Requires the state board to annually notify each district and the state charter school institute as to which, if any, of its schools received a "low" or "unsatisfactory" ...
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 |
S.B. 1643
Clarifies definitions of "new century charter schools" and "public schools". Requires charter school plans to include a plan for identifying, recruiting, and retaining highly-qualified instructional faculty. Requires a charter school's governance structure to ...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Grants to Charter Schools
S.B. 239
AN ACT To amend and reenact R.S. 17:24.10(A) and 3995(C). Authorizes charter schools to apply for and receive funding from the department to provide early childhood development and enrichment activity classes, .a.k.a. LA 4 classes, as provided for in statute. ...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Charter schools
H.B. 162
AN ACT relating to education; revising provisions governing the operation of charter schools, the employees of charter schools and the enrollment of pupils in charter schools; providing for the issuance of a license to teach to certain persons with graduate de...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Charter school applications
H.B. 168
Revises provisions governing the review of applications to form charter schools submitted for sponsorship by the State Board of Education and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to submit a report to the Legislature concerning the applications to...
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| NV | (S) APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR. CHAPTER 490. 06/2005 | P-12 | Charter schools
H.B. 180
Revises the provisions governing the review of applications to form charter schools submitted to the board of trustees of a school district and the State Board of Education. Requires the governing body of a charter school sponsored by the board of trustees of...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Charter schools
S.B. 56
AN ACT relating to education; requiring the governing body of a charter school sponsored by the board of trustees of a school district to enroll pupils who reside in the district before enrolling pupils who reside outside the district; making various changes c...
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Revises Charter School Act
S.B. 2167
Amends charter school governing board membership to include a parent of a student attending the charter school. States that public charter schools may be formed to provide quality educational options for students and describes prospective student population:
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Charter School Admissions
H.B. 1111
Allows the governing body of an open-enrollment charter school that specializes in one or more performing arts to require an applicant to audition for admission to the school. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=79&SESS=R&CHAMBER=H&BIL...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Charter Schools
S.B. 598
Requires the department of education to publish in its school performance reports, in addition to ISTEP scores, any nationally recognized comprehensive assessment program data submitted by a school corporation, including a charter school. Increases the review ...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Matching Funds for Federal Charter School Facilities Initiative
H.B. 1001 (Section 129)
States that if the U.S. Department of Education approves a new competition for states to receive matching funds for charter school facilities, the department must pursue this federal funding. Appropriates $10 million from the state general fund to provide sta...
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| NV | Temporary Rule Adoption 05/2005 | P-12 | Governing Bodies of Charter Schools/Meetings
NAC 386.345
Amends provisions regarding meetings of governing bodies of charter schools. NEVADA REG 3708 (SN)...
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| NV | Temporary Rule Adoption 05/2005 | P-12 | Charter Schools/Insurance/Apportionment of Funding
NAC 386.140, .355
Revises various provisions governing charter schools, including certain insurance information to be provided with applications to form charter schools, and apportionment of funding. NEVADA REG 3707 (SN)...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Historical Artifact Preservation
H.B. 2732
Ensures the preservation of historical artifacts of school districts subject to consolidation, deconsolidation or reclassification as a conversion charter. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2732.pdf...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Charter School Law
S.B. 1130
Authorizes charter schools to enter into public-private partnerships whereby the charter school enters into lease purchase agreements for school buildings built by the private entities with federal tax-exempt facilities bonds. Extends the charter school perfor...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Consolidation Provisions
S.B. 1044 (sections 21-27)
Deletes definitions of "consolidated average daily membership," "consolidated national school lunch student total" and "national school lunch students" from consolidation/reorganization provisions. Deletes provision that no school facility in a school district...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Charter Schools
H.B. 2596
Allows charter schools to hire personnel who have not yet received a fingerprint clearance card provided the charter school has followed specified procedures.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2596...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Charter Schools
S.B. 1059
Exempts volunteers and guest speakers engaged in instructional or supervisory work in a charter school from having a valid fingerprint clearance card provided they are accompanied in the classroom by a person with a valid fingerprint clearance card.
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Charter Schools
S.B. 1223
Permits a school district to sell used equipment to a charter school before the school district attempts to sell or dispose of the equipment by other means.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1223...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Charter Schools
H.B. 2438
Bars the sponsoring entity of a charter school from charging the charter school any fees unless the sponsor has provided services to the charter school and the fees represent the full value of those services. On request, requires the value of the services pro...
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| AZ | Vetoed 04/2005 | P-12 | Charter Schools
S.B. 1085
Allows a public or private nonprofit university, a public or private nonprofit college or a community college to sponsor a charter school and approve a charter school application; includes these institutions in charter school financial provisions. Beginning J...
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Charter School Funding
S.B. 1221
Bars a public charter school from receiving an increase in support units that exceeds the support units it received in the prior year by more than 20. To begin operations, requires a newly-chartered public school to be authorized by no later than January 1 of ...
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Public Charter Schools
S.B. 1170
Amends and adds to existing law to revise the definition for public virtual school; revises limitations applicable to the creation of public charter schools; revises terminology; to provide that the board of directors of a public charter school shall be deemed...
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| ID | Temporary Rule Adoption - Concurrently Proposed 04/2005 | P-12 | Rules Governing Charter Schools
IDAPA 08.02.04
Rewrites rules governing charter schools. http://www2.state.id.us/adm/adminrules/rules/idapa08/0204.pdf...
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| ID | Temporary Rule Adoption - Concurrently Proposed 04/2005 | P-12 | Rules Governing the Charter School Commission
IDAPA 08.03.01
Clarifies the petition submission process, information needed by the Commission for compliance monitoring and oversight, how public hearings before the Commission will be conducted, and the format of all petitions that are submitted to the Commission. http://w...
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Establishment and Operation of Charter Schools
H.B. 238
Establishment and operation of charter schools; extend repealer on; establishes a commission to study and report on the feasibility of the charter school concept in the state....
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Extracurricular Activities
S.B. 789
Relates to program units for extracurricular activities for home school and charter school students....
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School
H.B. 510
Relates to Charter School Standards.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/05%20Regular/bills/house/HB0510.html...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Educational Financial Accounting and Reporting
H.B. 1568
Expands upon the Arkansas Educational Financial Accounting and Reporting Act of 2004. Requires charter schools to follow the financial reporting procedures required of public school districts. Expands upon and clarifies initial and ongoing training requirement...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School District Auditors
H.B. 2700
Requires school district auditors to comply with the requirements and prohibitions of the federal Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB2700.pdf...
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| AZ | Vetoed 03/2005 | P-12 | Student Counts and Charter School Funding
S.B. 1405
Increases charter school funding and makes changes in provisions for student counts for districts.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1405...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Charter School Reporting
H.B. 206
This bill allows charter schools to annually report innovative practices (such as innovative teaching practices) to the Charter School Board. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2005/bills/hbillenr/hb0206.pdf...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Liability Protection of Educators
S.B. 58
The governing body of a charter school or a district must ensure that, prior to the beginning of each school year, each of its employees signs a document acknowledging that the employee has received:
(i) the disclosure required by law re: if the charter school...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Charter School Applicant Selection
H.B. 136
Allows a charter school with more applicants than enrollment capacity to give enrollment preference based on a student's proximity to the school. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2005/bills/hbillenr/hb0136.pdf...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Charter School Amendments
S.B. 178
This bill:
< removes the cap on the number of charter schools that the State Charter School Board may authorize;
< removes a time limitation imposed on the State Charter School Board for approving or denying a charter school application;
< prohibits charter sc...
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| UT | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | Minimum School Program Act Amendments
H.B. 3
Relates to minimum school program act amendments. This bill:
< establishes a ceiling for the state contribution to the maintenance and operations portion of the Minimum School Program for fiscal year 2005-06 of $1,783,631,186;
< establishes the value of the we...
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| UT | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | Charter School Construction Amendments
H.B. 36
Exempts charter schools from certain municipal land use regulations; exempts charter schools from certain county land use regulations; allows the termination of the nonconforming status of charter school property when the property ceases to be used for charter...
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| CO | Rule Adoption 01/2005 | P-12 | Administration of the State Charter School Institute
1 CCR 302-1
Establishes rules regarding the State Charter School Institute. Includes procedures for acceptance of applications, evaluating and authorizing schools and overseeing procedures. http://www.cde.state.co.us/choice/download/CSIpermRulesFinal.pdf...
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| DE | Rule Adoption 01/2005 | P-12 | Professional Employee Work Stoppage or Strike
14 DAC 714
Amends regulation relating to professional employee work stoppage or strike by adding charter schools to the regulation....
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Charter Districts |
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Charter School District
H.B. 1101
Enacts the Charter School District Act of 2005; provides the procedures for a school district to become a charter school district.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/05%20Regular/final/HB1101.pdf...
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Closings |
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Corrective Action
H.B. 1216
Repeals and reenacts the corrective action provisions for underperforming public schools. Requires the state board to annually notify each district and the state charter school institute as to which, if any, of its schools received a "low" or "unsatisfactory" ...
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Cyber Charters |
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Charter Schools
S.B. 598
Requires the department of education to publish in its school performance reports, in addition to ISTEP scores, any nationally recognized comprehensive assessment program data submitted by a school corporation, including a charter school. Increases the review ...
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 |
S.B. 1643
Clarifies definitions of "new century charter schools" and "public schools". Requires charter school plans to include a plan for identifying, recruiting, and retaining highly-qualified instructional faculty. Requires a charter school's governance structure to ...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Grants to Charter Schools
S.B. 239
AN ACT To amend and reenact R.S. 17:24.10(A) and 3995(C). Authorizes charter schools to apply for and receive funding from the department to provide early childhood development and enrichment activity classes, .a.k.a. LA 4 classes, as provided for in statute. ...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Charter Schools
S.B. 598
Requires the department of education to publish in its school performance reports, in addition to ISTEP scores, any nationally recognized comprehensive assessment program data submitted by a school corporation, including a charter school. Increases the review ...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Matching Funds for Federal Charter School Facilities Initiative
H.B. 1001 (Section 129)
States that if the U.S. Department of Education approves a new competition for states to receive matching funds for charter school facilities, the department must pursue this federal funding. Appropriates $10 million from the state general fund to provide sta...
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Charter School Funding
S.B. 1221
Bars a public charter school from receiving an increase in support units that exceeds the support units it received in the prior year by more than 20. To begin operations, requires a newly-chartered public school to be authorized by no later than January 1 of ...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Educational Financial Accounting and Reporting
H.B. 1568
Expands upon the Arkansas Educational Financial Accounting and Reporting Act of 2004. Requires charter schools to follow the financial reporting procedures required of public school districts. Expands upon and clarifies initial and ongoing training requirement...
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| AZ | Vetoed 03/2005 | P-12 | Student Counts and Charter School Funding
S.B. 1405
Increases charter school funding and makes changes in provisions for student counts for districts.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1405...
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| UT | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | Minimum School Program Act Amendments
H.B. 3
Relates to minimum school program act amendments. This bill:
< establishes a ceiling for the state contribution to the maintenance and operations portion of the Minimum School Program for fiscal year 2005-06 of $1,783,631,186;
< establishes the value of the we...
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| UT | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | Charter School Construction Amendments
H.B. 36
Exempts charter schools from certain municipal land use regulations; exempts charter schools from certain county land use regulations; allows the termination of the nonconforming status of charter school property when the property ceases to be used for charter...
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Research |
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Corrective Action
H.B. 1216
Repeals and reenacts the corrective action provisions for underperforming public schools. Requires the state board to annually notify each district and the state charter school institute as to which, if any, of its schools received a "low" or "unsatisfactory" ...
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 |
S.B. 1643
Clarifies definitions of "new century charter schools" and "public schools". Requires charter school plans to include a plan for identifying, recruiting, and retaining highly-qualified instructional faculty. Requires a charter school's governance structure to ...
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| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
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| WI | Signed into law 12/2005 | P-12 | Transportation, Open Enrollment
S.B. 206 (Act. No. 68)
From Legislative Council Memo: Current law, in s. 121.54 (10), Stats., authorizes a school board to provide transportation under the Open Enrollment Program for nonresident pupils who are attending public school in the school district or for resident pupils wh...
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Transfers for Children of Military Personnel
A.B. 208
Authorizes a school district that accepts interdistrict transfers to give priority for attendance to children of military personnel, if the school district elected to accept transfer pupils by a resolution adopted by the governing board of the school district ...
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Establishment of School Districts in Unorganized Territory
S.B. 1199
States that if more than 150 students from a single unorganized territory are attending an adjacent district through open enrollment, the residents of the unorganized territory must be notified that the residents' children no longer qualify for open enrollment...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Tuition Payments for Transfers
S.B. 372
Specifies that if a transferor school corporation fails to take action within thirty (30) days after receipt of a transfer tuition request, the request is considered approved. Provides that a student who is placed in a facility, a home, or an institution may a...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Public School Facilities Program Act
S.B. 593
Establishes the Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program Act. Requires the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and
Transportation to develop a comprehensive Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program that includes an academic facili...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 |
S.B. 1044 (sections 14-15)
Repeals provision that notation must be made on a student's transcript to indicate each special education class included on the transcript.
Establishes that school day must consist of at least rather than fewer than six hours of instructional time.
Allows a...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Arkansas Public School Choice
S.B. 1040
Amends the Arkansas Public School Choice Act of 1989. Requires the department of education to develop a proposed set of rules as the department deems necessary or desirable to amend the provisions of Arkansas Code § 6-18-206, to present to the House Interim Co...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Nonresident Student Contracts
H.B. 197
Relates to nonresident student contracts; allows two local school districts to enter into a nonresident student contract for more than one year. http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB197.htm...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Texas Academy for Mathematics and Science Studies
S.B. 1452
From bill analysis: S.B. 1452 establishes the Texas Academy for Mathematics and Science Studies (academy) at The University of Texas at Brownville (UT-Brownsville) to provide high school students with the opportunity to pursue mathematics education. Students...
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| CT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Educational Cost Sharing Distribution Technical Error
H.B. 6489
Corrects a technical error in educational cost sharing distribution and enables the provision of existing funds to interdistrict magnet schools. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2005/act/Pa/2005PA-00002-R00HB-06489-PA.htm...
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| Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Math and Science Teacher Scholarships
S.B. 138
Allows the board of education of any school district, any teacher of mathematics, science, physics, chemistry or biology, and a business firm to enter a partnership agreement under which such business firm agrees to employ such teacher in a position that requi...
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| AZ | Vetoed 03/2005 | P-12 | Tax Credits
H.B. 2379
After December 31, 2005, allows a taxpayer to deduct from his/her tax penalty any amount of voluntary cash contributions up to $10,000 made by the taxpayer to a school tuition organization, and a portion of contributions of $10,000 or more. Prohibits the depar...
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
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| WI | Vetoed 09/2005 | P-12 | Pupils Eligible for Milwaukee Parental Choice
H.B. 3
An Act to amend 119.23 (2) (b), relating to: the number of pupils eligible to participate in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. This bill eliminates the 15 percent cap for the 2005-06 school year. The bill provides that the number of pupils who attend priv...
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| WI | Vetoed 05/2005 | P-12 | Cap on Milwaukee Vouchers
AB 3
Under current law, the number of pupils who may attend a private school under the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program is capped at 15 percent of the enrollment of the Milwaukee Public Schools (approximately 15,000 pupils). If in any school year there are more sp...
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Math and Science Teacher Scholarships
S.B. 138
Allows the board of education of any school district, any teacher of mathematics, science, physics, chemistry or biology, and a business firm to enter a partnership agreement under which such business firm agrees to employ such teacher in a position that requi...
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| AZ | Vetoed 03/2005 | P-12 | Tax Credits
H.B. 2379
After December 31, 2005, allows a taxpayer to deduct from his/her tax penalty any amount of voluntary cash contributions up to $10,000 made by the taxpayer to a school tuition organization, and a portion of contributions of $10,000 or more. Prohibits the depar...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Carson Smith Special Needs Scholarships
H.B. 249
Creates a program to award scholarships to students with disabilities who attend a private school. Specifies criteria for qualifying for a scholarship; specifies criteria for private schools to enroll scholarship students; specifies the amount, timing, and for...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2005 | P-12 | Curriculum and Tolerance Instruction
H.B. 723
Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt statewide academically rigorous content standards in core curriculum
areas, and requires the board to review and modify existing curriculum frameworks where appropriate to bring them into alignment
wi...
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Character Education
H.B. 1336
Amends the School Code. Requires teachers to teach students character education, which includes the teaching of respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, trustworthiness, and citizenship in order to raise pupils' honesty and kindness, justice, discipline, res...
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| MN | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Character education
H.F. 141 - Multiple Components
The legislature encourages districts to integrate or offer instruction on character education including, but not limited to, character qualities such as attentiveness, truthfulness, respect for authority, diligence, gratefulness, self-discipline, patience, for...
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Civics Education
H.B. 5748
The general assembly recognizes the importance of a citizenry well educated in the principles of democracy as enunciated in the constitutions of the state of Rhode Island and the United States. The general assembly directs the board of regents for elementary a...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Louisiana Commission on Civic Education
S.B. 39
AN ACT To amend and reenact R.S. 24:971(B)(1), 972(A)(18), (B) and (C), and 973(A)(1)(introductory paragraph), and to enact R.S. 24:972(A)(23) and 973(B), relative to the Louisiana Commission on Civic Education. Expands commission's purpose to include educatin...
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| RI | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Civics Education Standards
S.B. 864
Directs the board of regents for elementary and secondary education to develop and adopt a set of grade level standards K-12 in civics education no later than August 31, 2007. These standards are to include, but not be limited to, the history of the state of R...
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Constitutional Commemoration Committee
H.B. 2426
Mandates that the constitutional commemoration committee collaborate and cooperate with public, private and nonprofit entities to promote public understanding of the amendments to the U.S. constitution, including those that made advancements in civil rights an...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Display of Flag, Pledge of Allegiance
S.B. 332
Requires a United States flag to be displayed in each classroom of a school corporation. Requires a school corporation to provide a daily opportunity for students to voluntarily recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Provides an exemption for students who choose (or...
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Character Education
H.B. 1704
Amends 70 O.S. 2001, Section 1210.229- 6, which relates to character education programs. Requries school districts to develop and implement character education programs; directs the state board to develop and provide certain services through an Internet web si...
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| SC | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | South Carolina Education and Economic Development Act
H.B. 3155
Adds a new chapter (59) establishing the South Carolina Education and Economic Development Act. Provides for the development of a curriculum organized around a career cluster system that must provide students with both strong academics and real-world problem s...
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Teaching of History, Culture and Civil Government
S.B. 200 (Section 14)
Requires the department to help districts develop and promote elementary- and secondary-level programs addressing the state model content standards for civics and promoting best practices in civic education. Authorizes these activities to be funded through the...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Civics/Government Education Fund
H.B. 268
Creates a New Mexico Government Education Fund to be administered by the department. Money in the fund is
appropriated to the department to contract for annual, weeklong, high school civics courses focusing on New Mexico state government for boys and girls to ...
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| UT | Adopted 03/2005 | P-12 | Understanding of Legislative Process
H.C.R. 6
Concurrent resolution emphasizes the importance of legislators promoting greater understanding of the legislative process and building public trust and confidence in representative democracy through civic education; recognizes Utah's high level of participatio...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Golden Rule Project
S.C.R. 6
This resolution recognizes the practice and promotion of the Golden Rule as a commitment for the common good; and expresses a shared sense of duty to support and practice the Golden Rule and urges all Utahns to live by it. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2005/bills...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Commission on Civics Education
H.B. 1769
Creates the 23-member Commission on Civics Education, comprised of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, legislators, executive branch officials, and citizens. The Commission is to, among other things, (i) identify civic education projects in the Commonwealth and...
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| GA | Adopted 01/2005 | P-12 | Instruction in Citizenship, United States and Georgia History
GAC 160-4-2-.07
Establishes rules regarding instruction in United States and Georgia history and government. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-4-2-.07.pdf...
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| Civic Education--Character Education |
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2005 | P-12 | Curriculum and Tolerance Instruction
H.B. 723
Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt statewide academically rigorous content standards in core curriculum
areas, and requires the board to review and modify existing curriculum frameworks where appropriate to bring them into alignment
wi...
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Character Education
H.B. 1336
Amends the School Code. Requires teachers to teach students character education, which includes the teaching of respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, trustworthiness, and citizenship in order to raise pupils' honesty and kindness, justice, discipline, res...
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| MN | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Character education
H.F. 141 - Multiple Components
The legislature encourages districts to integrate or offer instruction on character education including, but not limited to, character qualities such as attentiveness, truthfulness, respect for authority, diligence, gratefulness, self-discipline, patience, for...
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Civics Education
H.B. 5748
The general assembly recognizes the importance of a citizenry well educated in the principles of democracy as enunciated in the constitutions of the state of Rhode Island and the United States. The general assembly directs the board of regents for elementary a...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Louisiana Commission on Civic Education
S.B. 39
AN ACT To amend and reenact R.S. 24:971(B)(1), 972(A)(18), (B) and (C), and 973(A)(1)(introductory paragraph), and to enact R.S. 24:972(A)(23) and 973(B), relative to the Louisiana Commission on Civic Education. Expands commission's purpose to include educatin...
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| RI | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Civics Education Standards
S.B. 864
Directs the board of regents for elementary and secondary education to develop and adopt a set of grade level standards K-12 in civics education no later than August 31, 2007. These standards are to include, but not be limited to, the history of the state of R...
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Constitutional Commemoration Committee
H.B. 2426
Mandates that the constitutional commemoration committee collaborate and cooperate with public, private and nonprofit entities to promote public understanding of the amendments to the U.S. constitution, including those that made advancements in civil rights an...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Display of Flag, Pledge of Allegiance
S.B. 332
Requires a United States flag to be displayed in each classroom of a school corporation. Requires a school corporation to provide a daily opportunity for students to voluntarily recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Provides an exemption for students who choose (or...
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Character Education
H.B. 1704
Amends 70 O.S. 2001, Section 1210.229- 6, which relates to character education programs. Requries school districts to develop and implement character education programs; directs the state board to develop and provide certain services through an Internet web si...
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| SC | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | South Carolina Education and Economic Development Act
H.B. 3155
Adds a new chapter (59) establishing the South Carolina Education and Economic Development Act. Provides for the development of a curriculum organized around a career cluster system that must provide students with both strong academics and real-world problem s...
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Teaching of History, Culture and Civil Government
S.B. 200 (Section 14)
Requires the department to help districts develop and promote elementary- and secondary-level programs addressing the state model content standards for civics and promoting best practices in civic education. Authorizes these activities to be funded through the...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Civics/Government Education Fund
H.B. 268
Creates a New Mexico Government Education Fund to be administered by the department. Money in the fund is
appropriated to the department to contract for annual, weeklong, high school civics courses focusing on New Mexico state government for boys and girls to ...
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| UT | Adopted 03/2005 | P-12 | Understanding of Legislative Process
H.C.R. 6
Concurrent resolution emphasizes the importance of legislators promoting greater understanding of the legislative process and building public trust and confidence in representative democracy through civic education; recognizes Utah's high level of participatio...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Golden Rule Project
S.C.R. 6
This resolution recognizes the practice and promotion of the Golden Rule as a commitment for the common good; and expresses a shared sense of duty to support and practice the Golden Rule and urges all Utahns to live by it. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2005/bills...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School Boards' Policies on Bullying
H.B. 2266
Directs the state board to include bullying in its standards for school board policies on student conduct and requires school boards to include (i) instruction on the inappropriateness of bullying in their character education programs and (ii) bullying provisi...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Commission on Civics Education
H.B. 1769
Creates the 23-member Commission on Civics Education, comprised of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, legislators, executive branch officials, and citizens. The Commission is to, among other things, (i) identify civic education projects in the Commonwealth and...
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| Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance |
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Display of Flag, Pledge of Allegiance
S.B. 332
Requires a United States flag to be displayed in each classroom of a school corporation. Requires a school corporation to provide a daily opportunity for students to voluntarily recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Provides an exemption for students who choose (or...
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| Class Size |
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| LA | Signed into law 11/2005 | P-12 | Class Size Ratio Exemption
H.B. 19A
Exempts LA 4 (prekindergarten) classes from class size ratio for the 2005-2006 school year if the district or charter school enrolled any students during the 2005-2006 school year who were displaced that year due to school closures as a result of natural catas...
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| GA | Adopted 10/2005 | P-12 | Maximum Individual Class Size
GAC 160-5-1-.08
Changes the maximum individual class size for science grades 9-12 for school years 2007-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07 from 28 to 30. Amends the funding class size and maximum individual class size for students with disabilities., AGENCY CONTACT: Patricia L. Mills, ...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Control of Class Size Reduction Funding
H.B. 2589
Under the K-3 class size reduction grant program, provides that if a school board determines that a school is using funds awarded under the program for purposes not authorized by the program, then the school board, rather than the school, shall determine how ...
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| FL | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Class Size Reduction
S.B. 1678
States that, beginning in the 2005-2006 school year, if the actual student membership in the October survey exceeds the student membership estimate included in the Florida Education Finance Program first calculation, the maximum student membership enrollment u...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Class size
H.B. 526
Each school district that does not meet the ratio of pupils per class (15:1 in grades k-3) must request a variance from the State Board by providing a written statement that includes the reasons for the request and the justification for exceeding the applicabl...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Class size reduction
S.B. 460
Authorizes certain school districts to develop plans for alternative pupil-teacher ratios. In lieu of complying with the pupil-teacher ratio, a school district in a county whose population is less than 100,000 may, in consultation with the recognized associat...
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| NV | (H) APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR. CHAPTER 433. 06/2005 | P-12 | Class size reducation appropriation
H.B. 575
Makes appropriations to the State Distributive School Account for purposes relating to class-size reduction. The state appropriates from the State General Fund to the State Distributive School Account the sum of $125,552,187 for distribution by the Superinte...
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| WI | Emergency Rule Adoption 02/2005 | P-12 | Student Achievement Guaranteed in Education Program (SAGE)
PI 24
Amends class size reduction funding under the Student Achievement Guaranteed in Education Program (SAGE). WISCONSIN REG 20485 (SN) http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/dfm/pb/sageemerg.html...
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| IN | Signed into law 01/2005 | P-12 | Funding Formula for K-3 Class Size Reduction
H.B. 1001 (Section 181 and 233)
Revises the funding formula for the K-3 class size reduction program. Effective retroactive to January 1, 2005. Makes other adjustments.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/HE/HE1001.1.html...
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| Counseling/Guidance |
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| CA | Consideration of governor's veto pending 09/2005 | P-12 | Counseling for At-risk Students
A.B. 455
An act to amend Section 49600 of the Education Code, relating to at-risk pupils. Requires that educational counseling include, in addition to the above, counseling for the development of an at-risk pupil plan for at-risk pupils. Specifies the components those ...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2005 | P-12 | California Career Resource Network
S.B. 665
Repeals the California Occupational Information Coordination Committee and instead establishes the California Career Resource Network for the purpose of providing career development information and resources. Specifies that the primary duty of the California C...
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| NJ | Rule Adoption 08/2005 | P-12 | Programs To Support Student Development
NJAC 6A:16-1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.5 thru 5.8, 6.1 thru 6.3,7.1, 7.2 thru 7.10, 8 thru 11
Establishes and amends requirements for school district boards relating to development and implementation of school safety plans, cooperation with law enforcement on certain matters if they occur at school grounds and functions, development and implementation ...
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| SC | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | South Carolina Education and Economic Development Act
H.B. 3155
Adds a new chapter (59) establishing the South Carolina Education and Economic Development Act. Provides for the development of a curriculum organized around a career cluster system that must provide students with both strong academics and real-world problem s...
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Notification of Potential Career Opportunities
S.B. 709
Adds new subsection 49-7-202. Requires the commission, with the assistance of the University of Tennessee system and the state university and community college system, to develop information concerning the potential career opportunities in each curriculum or m...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Career Counseling for Students
H.B. 2868
Requires each district's student services plan to include a district-level tracking system for students who fail to reach proficiency on state-mandated assessments. Specifies that guidance and counseling services in each district's "student services program" i...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Social Workers in Public Schools
S.B. 1187
Increases the number and availability of social workers in the public schools. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1187.pdf...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Incentives for Teacher Recruitment and Retention in High-Priority Districts
S.B. 1044 (section 31)
Includes guidance counselors and librarians in definition of "teacher" or "teachers" in provisions relating to incentives for teacher recruitment and retention in high-priority districts. Clarifies that all teachers not newly signed to work in a high-priority ...
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| Curriculum |
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2005 | P-12 |
S.B. 684
Social sciences curriculum. This bill would encourage a school district to provide instruction in social sciences that accurately reflects the role of affected populations of the continent of Asia, the subcontinent of South Asia, and the Pacific Islands in th...
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| NY | Signed into law 10/2005 | P-12 | Amistad Commission
H.B. 6362
Establishes and creates the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and
other programs on slavery and African-American history. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A06362&sh=t...
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| OK | Adopted 10/2005 | P-12 | Racial and Ethnic Education
OAC 210:20-19-2 thru -4
Replaces the term multicultural education with the term racial and ethnic education. Establishes new school board policy for the rule change. OKLAHOMA 13851...
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| CA | Consideration of governor's veto pending 09/2005 | P-12 | Role of Filipinos in World War II
A.B. 15
Allows social studies instruction in grades 7-12 to include instruction the role of Filipinos in World War II and
that war, and encourages this instruction to include specific components.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_15_bill_20050823...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2005 | P-12 | Driver's Ed at Private High Schools
A.B. 846
Rewrites Section 51220.6 of the Education Code, relating to driver education. Specifies that a private school is not required to offer driver's education. Provides that the satisfactory completion of an Internet-based, correspondence, or other distance-learnin...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2005 | P-12 | Curriculum and Tolerance Instruction
H.B. 723
Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt statewide academically rigorous content standards in core curriculum
areas, and requires the board to review and modify existing curriculum frameworks where appropriate to bring them into alignment
wi...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Study of Acts of Genocide
H.B. 312
Provides that in addition to the unit of instruction studying the events of the Holocaust, the curriculum of every public elementary school and high school shall include a unit of instruction studying other acts of genocide across the globe, including, but not...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Cost of Drivers Education
S.B. 69
Adds that the total amount from driver education fees and reimbursement from the state for driver education must not exceed the total cost of the driver education program in any year and must be deposited into the school district's driver education fund as a s...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Advanced Placement and pre-Advanced Placement
S.B. 574
Creates the College and Career Success for All Students Act. Requires a teacher of an Advanced Placement course to obtain appropriate training, subject to appropriation. Requires the State Board of Education to establish training guidelines that require teache...
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| AL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | American Sign Language
S.B. 94
Amends Section 16-6B-2 to specify that American Sign Language is a foreign language for purposes of satisfying certain curriculum requirements; and to apply such provision to hearing-impaired students for the 2005-2006 school year and to all students beginning...
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Physical Education
H.B. 1540
A physical education course of study must include a developmentally planned and sequential curriculum that fosters the development of movement skills, enhances health-related fitness, increases students' knowledge, offers direct opportunities to learn how to w...
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Amistad Commission
H.B. 383
Creates the Amistad Commission. Contains provisions concerning the membership and duties of the Commission. These duties include:
(i) providing assistance and advice to schools within the state with respect to the implementation of education, awareness progra...
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 |
H.B. 236
Requires instructions regarding the correct use of an automated external defibrillator be included as a part of the health education curriculum in all senior high schools when cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction is being provided. In addition to the r...
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Accreditation Indicators and Dropout/Graduation Rates
S.B. 91
Standardizes the calculation of graduation rates and dropout rates that are required to be reported by school districts for accreditation. Standardizes and requires the reporting of continuing education rates and mobility rates by school districts for accredit...
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Statewide Physical Education Recognition Program
H.B. 1237
Establishes the statewide physical education recognition program to recognize and reward public schools and physical education teachers meeting established criteria. Creates the statewide physical education recognition board to establish objective criteria for...
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| DE | SIGNED 06/2005 | P-12 | Uniform, Statewide Curricula
H.B. 47
In order to support state-wide academic standards and to ensure that students in Delaware public school do not suffer in the event they should change schools for whatever reason, it is essential that the Department of Education establish uniform, state-wide cu...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Adoption Awareness
H.B. 777
Requires the inclusion of the topic of adoption awareness in middle or high school courses that include material related to family life, including Family Life and Consumer Science Education courses. Defines adoption awareness.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/bill...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Health and Physical Activity Mandates
S.B. 146 (Sections K-
Beginning in the 2006-2007 school year and thereafter, requires all public elementary and secondary schools to:
(1) Encourage and motivate children of all physical abilities to participate in physical activity for the purpose of allowing all children to reach...
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| SC | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Physical Education, School Health Services, and Nutritional Standards
H.B. 3499
Adds Chapter 10, entitled Physical Education, School Health Services, and Nutritional Standards. Applies to elementary schools. Sets the amount of physical education instruction that each student in kindergarten through fifth grade must receive each week on a ...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Financial Literacy Pilot Program
S.B. 851
Contingent on funding, requires state board to establish and implement a financial literacy pilot program to provide students in participating school districts with the knowledge and skills necessary as self-supporting adults to make critical decisions relatin...
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Stranger Danger Instruction
S.B. 1289
Authorizes districts and charter schools to incorporate into the existing curricula instruction on the dangers of unsupervised interaction with strangers. Allows each district and charter school to develop its own course of study thereon.
http://www.azleg.stat...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Joint Agricultural Education Study Committee
H.R. 50
Creates the Joint Agricultural Education Study Committee for the purposes of promoting the importance and study of agriculture in the state. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/versions/hr50_HR_50_AP_6.htm...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Driver's Education
S.B. 226
Creates the Georgia Driver's Education Commission. Authorizes the commission to recommend to the governor and the general assembly changes in state programs, statutes, policies, budgets and standards relating to the provision of driver education and training t...
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Agricultural Education
S.B. 1563/H.B. 2123
All high school agricultural education programs that were twelve-month programs for the 1992-1993 fiscal year, or any fiscal year thereafter, are to be maintained as twelve-month programs by the local board of education, so long as a quality agricultural educa...
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Personal Financial Literacy
H.B. 492
Amends Sec. 28.0021. Requires instruction in personal financial literacy in one or more courses required for high school graduation. Requires districts and open-enrollment charter schools to incorporate instruction in personal financial literacy into any cour...
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| WV | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Healthy Foods, Physical Education Requirements
H.B. 2816
Adds a new article, designated §5-1E-1, §5-1E-2, §5-1E-3, §5-1E-4 and §5-1E-5; and amends and reenacts §18-2-6a and §18-2-7a, all relating to promoting healthy lifestyles; creating a Healthy Lifestyles Office in the Department of Education and the Arts; establ...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Interschool Athletic Programs
H.B. 2916
Includes salaries or supplemental pay for staff for organized physical activity courses as provided under Act 660 of 2005 in the definitions of "Athletic expenditures" and "Interschool scholastic activity expenditures."
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/b...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | History In Service Training
S.B. 187
Amends in-service training requirements for teachers of Arkansas history . http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb187.pdf...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | International Baccalaureate Diploma Program
S.B. 1054
Allows a high school course offered under the international baccalaureate diploma program to be treated the same as an advanced placement course in terms of the state grading scale and weighted credit, teacher licensure requirements, district reporting of cour...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Seized Motor Vehicles
H.B. 2828
Allows motor vehicles seized by law enforcement agencies to be donated to school districts for driver's education courses. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2828.pdf...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Public School Curriculum
H.B. 2964
Requires the Arkansas Science and Technology Authority to develop a knowledge-based technology curriculum for use in grades 7-12 beginning in the 2007-2008 school year. Requires the curriculum to include a collection of the substantive material used to teach a...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School Curriculum
S.B. 1271
Creates new section allowing school districts and charter schools to offer a one-semester course in firearm marksmanship and gun safety, to be designated as the Arizona Gun Safety Course. Specifies the areas of instruction that the course must include. Require...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Mandatory Physical Education Implementation Task Force
H.B. 2111
Establishes the mandatory physical education implementation task force. Sets forth task force's membership. Requires the task force to develop an implementation plan that will result in a uniform physical education program in grades K-8 and that takes the foll...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Instruction on Skin Cancer Prevention
S.B. 1297
Requires all public schools to incorporate instruction on skin cancer prevention into the existing curriculum in the common school grades if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provides a comprehensive program on skin cancer prevention free of charge to s...
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Food and Beverages
S.B. 154
Requires the state board to develop nutrition guidelines for all foods and beverages made available to public school students during the school day. Requires the state board of education to consult with other state agencies, private foundations and other priva...
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Physical Education
S.B. 312
Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, the state board of Education must require, as a condition of accreditation, that school districts provide to all students physical education programs which may include athletics. The state board must also require that ...
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | "Oklahoma Kids Fitness Challenge Act"
H.B. 1647
Requires the state board of education to establish a physical activity program for public school students in the fifth grade, which each school district may elect to implement. The program is to incorporate the fitness challenges adopted by the Presidents Cou...
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| SC | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Financial Literacy Instruction Act
H.B. 3020
Enacts the Financial Literacy Instruction Act; provides a curriculum for local school boards to teach financial literacy; provides for a fund to receive public and private contributions for financial literacy instruction. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_20...
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| WA | To governor 04/2005 | P-12 | Tribal History
H.B. 1495
Encourages that Washington's tribal history be taught in the common schools. Also adds a new section that requires, beginning in 2006, and at least once annually through 2010, the Washington state school directors' association is encouraged to convene regional...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Family Preservation Education Program
H.B. 1252
Encourages each school district board of directors to adopt a family preservation education program curriculum and offer a family preservation unit in high school. The board of directors may adopt the model curriculum developed by the superintendent of public...
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| WV | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Prescribing Personal Finance Instruction In Second
H.B. 2837
Adds new section: §18-2-7c, to read as follows:(a) The Legislature finds and declares that persons with an understanding of personal finance are better prepared to manage their money and that providing a personal finance program in secondary schools in West Vi...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Sports Activities
S.B. 2
Defines "organized physical activity course." Beginning in the 2005-2006 school year, allows a student in grades 9-12 successfully completing an organized physical activity course meeting certain specifications to earn .5 unit of physical education credit towa...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Fish and Wildlife Conservation Education
S.B. 394
Allows grant funds for fish and wildlife conservation education to be distributed to conservation districts in addition to school districts. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/SB394.pdf...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Role of Colleges and Universities in Achieving State Educational Goals
H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraph 7)
Requires colleges and universities to:
(a) Utilize institution-wide resources to work with elementary and secondary educators and other entities to align curriculum content to ensure that students who achieve proficiency on standards established at the prekin...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Committee for Mathematics Achievement
H.B. 93 (Section 2)
Defines terms, including "mathematics coach," "mathematics diagnostic assessment," "mathematics intervention program," "mathematics leader," "mathematics mentor," and "numeracy." Establishes the Committee for Mathematics Achievement to develop a multi-faceted ...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Health and Nutrition in Schools
S.B. 172
Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, requires each school to limit access to no more than one day each week to retail fast foods in the cafeteria, whether sold by contract, commercial vendor, or otherwise.
Requires every district to appoint a food servic...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Elementary Schools
S.B. 1130
Clarifies that physical education is to include activities such as, but not limited to, cardiovascular, muscle
building, or stretching exercises, as appropriate. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0350+pdf...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Entrepreneurship Education Program
S.B. 969
Creates the Entrepreneurship Education Program, consisting of grants administered by the state board to public secondary schools to support innovative educational programs designed to assist students in the development of their entrepreneurial, academic, and l...
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| WI | Issued 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Creation of the Governor's Council on Financial Literacy
Executive Order # 92
Creates the governor's council on financial literacy. The council's mission is to measurably improve the financial literacy of Wisconsin citizens. In addition to other tasks, the council will serve as a sounding board for the governor's office and the office...
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| GA | Adopted 01/2005 | P-12 | Instruction in Citizenship, United States and Georgia History
GAC 160-4-2-.07
Establishes rules regarding instruction in United States and Georgia history and government. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-4-2-.07.pdf...
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| Curriculum--Arts Education |
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Charter School Admissions
H.B. 1111
Allows the governing body of an open-enrollment charter school that specializes in one or more performing arts to require an applicant to audition for admission to the school. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=79&SESS=R&CHAMBER=H&BIL...
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Dropout Prevention Activity Grant Program
H.B. 1024
Creates the dropout prevention activity grant program to fund before- and after-school arts-based and vocational activity programs for students in grades 6-12, with the goal of reducing the student dropout rate. Defines as schools eligible to participate publi...
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| SC | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Arts Awareness License Plates
S.B. 418
Adds a new Section 56-3-5400. Allows the department to issue Arts Awareness special license plates to establish a special fund to be used by the South Carolina Arts Commission for the purpose of funding activities that support a thriving arts environment in So...
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| SC | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Provisions Affecting Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities
S.B. 362
Amends Chapter 50, Title 59, relating to the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities. Sets standards for the faculty (hold advanced degrees in recognized arts fields including, but not limited to, dance, music, theater or drama, visual art...
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| WI | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Property Tax Exemption for Arts/Arts Education Centers
S.B. 3
An Act to create 70.11 (43) of the statutes; creates a property tax exemption for arts and arts education centers. http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/acts/05Act4.pdf...
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| KS | Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 | P-12 |
H.B. 2247 (section 6)
Requires every accredited school to teach the subjects and areas of instruction adopted by the state board of education as of January 1, 2005. Requires every accredited high school to also teach the subjects and areas of instruction necessary to meet the gradu...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Define Instructional Materials
H.B. 2099
Expands list of "instructional materials" that may be exempt from sales tax when purchased by schools, to include sheet music, electronic software, maps, globes, art supplies, workbooks, flash cards, educational blocks, educational models, manipulatives, chart...
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | Visual Art or Music in the Classroom
H.B. 1034
Strikes language requiring districts to increase instruction in grades one through six to one hour each in music and art by June 1, 2005. Continues the requirement for forty minutes of visual art and music every week for students in grades one through six. Add...
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| MN | to governor 07/2005 | P-12 | History education
H.F. 141 - Multiple Components
Districts may not censor or restrain instruction in American or Minnesota state history or heritage based on religious references in original source documents, writings, speeches, proclamations, or records.
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?...
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| Curriculum--Core Curriculum |
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Core School Curriculum and Grants
S.B. 138
Provides for core curriculum framework for kindergarten through grade six; provides for grants. School districts and charter schools may create
core curriculum frameworks to provide high quality curricula in kindergarten through grade six to prepare students ...
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| Curriculum--Drivers Education |
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2005 | P-12 | Driver's Ed at Private High Schools
A.B. 846
Rewrites Section 51220.6 of the Education Code, relating to driver education. Specifies that a private school is not required to offer driver's education. Provides that the satisfactory completion of an Internet-based, correspondence, or other distance-learnin...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Cost of Drivers Education
S.B. 69
Adds that the total amount from driver education fees and reimbursement from the state for driver education must not exceed the total cost of the driver education program in any year and must be deposited into the school district's driver education fund as a s...
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Driver education instructors
S.B. 208
Driver education instructors are not be required to be certified as secondary school teachers.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2005/SB0208.html...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Driver's Education
S.B. 226
Creates the Georgia Driver's Education Commission. Authorizes the commission to recommend to the governor and the general assembly changes in state programs, statutes, policies, budgets and standards relating to the provision of driver education and training t...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Seized Motor Vehicles
H.B. 2828
Allows motor vehicles seized by law enforcement agencies to be donated to school districts for driver's education courses. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2828.pdf...
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| Curriculum--Environmental Education |
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Fish and Wildlife Conservation Education
S.B. 394
Allows grant funds for fish and wildlife conservation education to be distributed to conservation districts in addition to school districts. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/SB394.pdf...
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| Curriculum--Family Living Education |
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Adoption Awareness
H.B. 777
Requires the inclusion of the topic of adoption awareness in middle or high school courses that include material related to family life, including Family Life and Consumer Science Education courses. Defines adoption awareness.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/bill...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Family Preservation Education Program
H.B. 1252
Encourages each school district board of directors to adopt a family preservation education program curriculum and offer a family preservation unit in high school. The board of directors may adopt the model curriculum developed by the superintendent of public...
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| Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Adoption Awareness
H.B. 777
Requires the inclusion of the topic of adoption awareness in middle or high school courses that include material related to family life, including Family Life and Consumer Science Education courses. Defines adoption awareness.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/bill...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Financial Literacy Pilot Program
S.B. 851
Contingent on funding, requires state board to establish and implement a financial literacy pilot program to provide students in participating school districts with the knowledge and skills necessary as self-supporting adults to make critical decisions relatin...
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Personal Financial Literacy
H.B. 492
Amends Sec. 28.0021. Requires instruction in personal financial literacy in one or more courses required for high school graduation. Requires districts and open-enrollment charter schools to incorporate instruction in personal financial literacy into any cour...
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| SC | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Financial Literacy Instruction Act
H.B. 3020
Enacts the Financial Literacy Instruction Act; provides a curriculum for local school boards to teach financial literacy; provides for a fund to receive public and private contributions for financial literacy instruction. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_20...
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| WV | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Prescribing Personal Finance Instruction In Second
H.B. 2837
Adds new section: §18-2-7c, to read as follows:(a) The Legislature finds and declares that persons with an understanding of personal finance are better prepared to manage their money and that providing a personal finance program in secondary schools in West Vi...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Entrepreneurship Education Program
S.B. 969
Creates the Entrepreneurship Education Program, consisting of grants administered by the state board to public secondary schools to support innovative educational programs designed to assist students in the development of their entrepreneurial, academic, and l...
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| WI | Issued 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Creation of the Governor's Council on Financial Literacy
Executive Order # 92
Creates the governor's council on financial literacy. The council's mission is to measurably improve the financial literacy of Wisconsin citizens. In addition to other tasks, the council will serve as a sounding board for the governor's office and the office...
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| OK | Emergency Rule Adoption 02/2005 | Postsec. | Financial Aid for Financial Literacy
OAC 610:25-35-1 thru -7
Establishes emergency rules to address the state's deficit in financial instruction and to combat the considerable cost of fiscal illiteracy, by developing a financial literacy initiative, Oklahoma Money Matters (OKMM) under the state student loan program. OKL...
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| Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
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| AL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | American Sign Language
S.B. 94
Amends Section 16-6B-2 to specify that American Sign Language is a foreign language for purposes of satisfying certain curriculum requirements; and to apply such provision to hearing-impaired students for the 2005-2006 school year and to all students beginning...
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| MO | DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR 05/2005 | P-12 | American Sign Language
H.B. 530
This bill treats American Sign Language (ASL) as a foreign language for the granting of academic credit at public schools and public higher education institutions. Students may receive academic credit for demonstrating proficiency or completing a course with a...
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Italian language classes
H.B. 1163
Italian language classes; establish a pilot program to offer to students in grades K-12.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2005/html/HB/1100-1199/HB1163SG.htm...
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| Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education |
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| NJ | Adopted 06/2005 | P-12 | Model School Nutrition Policy
Nutrition Rule, Department of Agriculture
State Board of Agriculture has approved Agriculture Department's amended Nutrition Rule. Will be phased in. By September 1, 2006, districts are required to adopt a school nutrition policy. By September 1, 2007, districts must match their policies to the Model ...
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| SC | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Physical Education, School Health Services, and Nutritional Standards
H.B. 3499
Adds Chapter 10, entitled Physical Education, School Health Services, and Nutritional Standards. Applies to elementary schools. Sets the amount of physical education instruction that each student in kindergarten through fifth grade must receive each week on a ...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Instruction on Skin Cancer Prevention
S.B. 1297
Requires all public schools to incorporate instruction on skin cancer prevention into the existing curriculum in the common school grades if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provides a comprehensive program on skin cancer prevention free of charge to s...
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Food and Beverages
S.B. 154
Requires the state board to develop nutrition guidelines for all foods and beverages made available to public school students during the school day. Requires the state board of education to consult with other state agencies, private foundations and other priva...
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| Curriculum--International Education |
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | International Education Advisory Council
H.B. 1087
Recognizes the importance of international education in public elementary and secondary schools. Directs the state board of education to appoint an international education advisory council to explore international opportunities for learning, professional devel...
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| Curriculum--Language Arts |
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Honors Classes
S.B. 69
Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, each school district shall offer at least one honors or similar academically rigorous class each in mathematics and language arts in each high school.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/05%20Regular/final/SB0069.pdf...
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| Curriculum--Mathematics |
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| OK | Adopted 10/2005 | P-12 | Middle School Mathematics Laboratories
OAC 210:15-31-1 thru -2
Adopts rules for curriculum and instruction, in regards to Middle School Mathematics Laboratories for Public Schools with Low Student Achievementin Mathematics Program. Includes identification criteria for the schools thatwill receive the laboratories, require...
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| GA | Adopted 05/2005 | P-12 | Mathematics and Science Partnerships Grants
GAC 160-1-4-.266, -.269
Establishes rules regarding the Mathematics and Science Partnerships Grants to build mathematics and science teachers' content knowledge and skills....
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Secondary Mathematics Endorsements Approved for Fifth Grade
H.B. 1273
Beginning July 1, 2005, any teacher with certification or endorsement to teach mathematics at the secondary level may teach mathematics in grade five. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2005-06HB/hb1273_enr.rtf...
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Achieving Classroom Excellence Act of 2005
S.B. 982
New law establishing the Achieving Classroom Excellence Act of 2005. One new section establishes the Oklahoma Mathematics Improvement Program. The purpose is to improve student mastery of the Priority Academic Student Skills (PASS) for sixth-grade mathematics ...
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| MS | Rule Adoption 04/2005 | P-12 | Roadways into the Development of Elementary Students
941-9001--01500
Describes the process for prospective elementary schools to become involved in the Roadways into the Development of Elementary Students (RIDES) Program. MISSISSIPPI REG 9715 (SN)...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Honors Classes
S.B. 69
Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, each school district shall offer at least one honors or similar academically rigorous class each in mathematics and language arts in each high school.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/05%20Regular/final/SB0069.pdf...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Student Achievement Improvement
H.B. 93 (Section 1, multiple provisions)
Sets forth legislative intent related to early diagnosis of and intervention for elementary students struggling in reading and mathematics, state student achievement goals, provision and quality of diagnostic and intervention services to students below profici...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Role of Colleges and Universities in Achieving State Educational Goals
H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraph 7)
Requires colleges and universities to:
(a) Utilize institution-wide resources to work with elementary and secondary educators and other entities to align curriculum content to ensure that students who achieve proficiency on standards established at the prekin...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Committee for Mathematics Achievement
H.B. 93 (Section 2)
Defines terms, including "mathematics coach," "mathematics diagnostic assessment," "mathematics intervention program," "mathematics leader," "mathematics mentor," and "numeracy." Establishes the Committee for Mathematics Achievement to develop a multi-faceted ...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Teacher' Professional Growth Fund
H.B. 93 (Sections 5 and 6)
Specifies that the teachers' professional growth fund is to provide teachers with high quality professional development in content knowledge in reading and classroom-based screening, diagnostic, assessment and intervention strategies. States that the fund may ...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Mathematics Achievement Fund
H.B. 93 (Section 3)
Creates the mathematics achievement fund to provide developmentally appropriate diagnostic assessment and intervention services to students, primary through grade 12, to help them reach proficiency in mathematics on the state assessments and in compliance with...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | The Center for Mathematics
H.B. 93 (Section 4)
Creates the Center for Mathematics to make available professional development for teachers in reliable, research-based diagnostic assessment and intervention strategies, coaching and mentoring models, and other programs in mathematics. Specifies the duties of ...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Role of the Council of Postsecondary Education in Achieving State Educational Goals
H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraph 5)
Specifies that, for the state to achieve its student achievement goals, the Council on Postsecondary Education, in cooperation with the Education Professional Standards Board, must exercise its duties and functions under KRS 164.020 to ensure that teacher educ...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Role of Department of Education in Achieving State Educational Goals
H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraph 4)
Mandates that the Kentucky Department of Education provide assistance to schools and teachers, including publicizing professional development opportunities, methods of measuring effective professional development, the availability of high quality instructional...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Roles of School Councils, Local Boards and Superintendents in Achieving State Education Goals
H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraphs 8-10)
(8) School councils at all school levels are encouraged to identify and allocate resources to qualified teachers to become coaches or mentors in mathematics or coaches or mentors in reading with a focus on improving student achievement in their respective scho...
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| NY | Signed into law 10/2005 | P-12 | Amistad Commission
H.B. 6362
Establishes and creates the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and
other programs on slavery and African-American history. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A06362&sh=t...
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| OK | Adopted 10/2005 | P-12 | Racial and Ethnic Education
OAC 210:20-19-2 thru -4
Replaces the term multicultural education with the term racial and ethnic education. Establishes new school board policy for the rule change. OKLAHOMA 13851...
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Amistad Commission
H.B. 383
Creates the Amistad Commission. Contains provisions concerning the membership and duties of the Commission. These duties include:
(i) providing assistance and advice to schools within the state with respect to the implementation of education, awareness progra...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | American Indian School Curriculum
S.B. 215
Adds that the Indian education division shall:
develop or select for implementation a challenging, sequential, culturally relevant curriculum to provide instruction to American Indian students in kindergarten through sixth grade to prepare them for pre-advance...
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| Curriculum--Physical Education |
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Physical Education
H.B. 1540
A physical education course of study must include a developmentally planned and sequential curriculum that fosters the development of movement skills, enhances health-related fitness, increases students' knowledge, offers direct opportunities to learn how to w...
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Statewide Physical Education Recognition Program
H.B. 1237
Establishes the statewide physical education recognition program to recognize and reward public schools and physical education teachers meeting established criteria. Creates the statewide physical education recognition board to establish objective criteria for...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Health and Physical Activity Mandates
S.B. 146 (Sections K-
Beginning in the 2006-2007 school year and thereafter, requires all public elementary and secondary schools to:
(1) Encourage and motivate children of all physical abilities to participate in physical activity for the purpose of allowing all children to reach...
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| SC | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Physical Education, School Health Services, and Nutritional Standards
H.B. 3499
Adds Chapter 10, entitled Physical Education, School Health Services, and Nutritional Standards. Applies to elementary schools. Sets the amount of physical education instruction that each student in kindergarten through fifth grade must receive each week on a ...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Health, Nutrition and Physical Education Guidelines
S.B. 42
From bill analysis: This Act allows for the expansion of physical activity requirements to middle and junior high schools, up to the eighth grade; encourages the use of nationally recognized health and physical education guidelines; directs the reporting of in...
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| TN | SIGNED BY GOVERNOR. 05/2005 | P-12 | Healthy Lifestyles
H.J.R. 88
Resolution urging the state board, in cooperation with all local education agencies, to develop and implement a curriculum of instruction which will enable students to adopt and maintain healthy lifestyle habits. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/curre...
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| WV | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Healthy Foods, Physical Education Requirements
H.B. 2816
Adds a new article, designated §5-1E-1, §5-1E-2, §5-1E-3, §5-1E-4 and §5-1E-5; and amends and reenacts §18-2-6a and §18-2-7a, all relating to promoting healthy lifestyles; creating a Healthy Lifestyles Office in the Department of Education and the Arts; establ...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Interschool Athletic Programs
H.B. 2916
Includes salaries or supplemental pay for staff for organized physical activity courses as provided under Act 660 of 2005 in the definitions of "Athletic expenditures" and "Interschool scholastic activity expenditures."
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/b...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Mandatory Physical Education Implementation Task Force
H.B. 2111
Establishes the mandatory physical education implementation task force. Sets forth task force's membership. Requires the task force to develop an implementation plan that will result in a uniform physical education program in grades K-8 and that takes the foll...
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Food and Beverages
S.B. 154
Requires the state board to develop nutrition guidelines for all foods and beverages made available to public school students during the school day. Requires the state board of education to consult with other state agencies, private foundations and other priva...
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Student Health Promotion Act of 2005
S.B. 473
Requiring each county board of education to include the importance of physical activity as part of instruction in health education; requiring all vending machines in public schools to have and use a timing device in accordance with specified policies.
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Physical Education Director
S.B. 233
Requiring the State Department of Education to employ a full-time director of physical education.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/sb0233.htm...
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Physical Education
S.B. 312
Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, the state board of Education must require, as a condition of accreditation, that school districts provide to all students physical education programs which may include athletics. The state board must also require that ...
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | "Oklahoma Kids Fitness Challenge Act"
H.B. 1647
Requires the state board of education to establish a physical activity program for public school students in the fifth grade, which each school district may elect to implement. The program is to incorporate the fitness challenges adopted by the Presidents Cou...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Sports Activities
S.B. 2
Defines "organized physical activity course." Beginning in the 2005-2006 school year, allows a student in grades 9-12 successfully completing an organized physical activity course meeting certain specifications to earn .5 unit of physical education credit towa...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Health and Nutrition in Schools
S.B. 172
Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, requires each school to limit access to no more than one day each week to retail fast foods in the cafeteria, whether sold by contract, commercial vendor, or otherwise.
Requires every district to appoint a food servic...
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| ND | To governor 03/2005 | P-12 | High School Units
H.B. 1048
Changes what each public and nonpublic high school must make available to each student In order to be approved by the superintendent of public instruction from one-half unit of health and one-half unit of physical education during each school year, to just one...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Elementary Schools
S.B. 1130
Clarifies that physical education is to include activities such as, but not limited to, cardiovascular, muscle
building, or stretching exercises, as appropriate. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0350+pdf...
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| AK | Adopted 12/2005 | P-12 | Standards-based science assessment
4 AAC 04.140 thru 06.825
Requires the commissioner to select a standards-based science assessment and school districts to administer the assessment in selected grades.
AGENCY CONTACT: Dorothy Knuth, Commissioner's Office at the Department of Education & Early Development, 801 W 10th...
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| MA | Rule Adoption 07/2005 | P-12 | Comprehensive Assessment System and Standards
603 CMR 30.00
Amends the Comprehensive Assessment System and Standards for Competency Determination rules. Adds one discipline in science and technology and engineering to the subjects to be included in the competency determination required for high school graduation starti...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Refusal to Dissect Animals
S.B. 383
Allows any student to refuse to dissect any vertebrate or invertebrate animal or the parent or legal guardian of a public school student to refuse to allow the student to dissect any vertebrate or invertebrate animal. A school district that includes dissection...
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| GA | Adopted 05/2005 | P-12 | Mathematics and Science Partnerships Grants
GAC 160-1-4-.266, -.269
Establishes rules regarding the Mathematics and Science Partnerships Grants to build mathematics and science teachers' content knowledge and skills....
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| NV | Temporary Rule Adoption 05/2005 | P-12 | Academic Standards for Science
NAC 389.244, .2947, .411, .491, .4915
Revises state academic standards for science. ...
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| MS | Rule Adoption 04/2005 | P-12 | Roadways into the Development of Elementary Students
941-9001--01500
Describes the process for prospective elementary schools to become involved in the Roadways into the Development of Elementary Students (RIDES) Program. MISSISSIPPI REG 9715 (SN)...
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| DE | Rule Adoption 01/2005 | P-12 | Standard Certificate Science Teacher Middle Level
14 DAC 1542
Amends regulation relating to the certification of a science teacher of middle level by removing the requirements for earth science and physical science from this regulation, as middle school science is taught as an integrated science. Aligns the requirements ...
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| DE | Rule Adoption 01/2005 | P-12 | Standard Certificate Science Teacher
14 DAC 1540, 1.0 - 4.0
Amends regulation relating to the Certification for a Science Teacher to clarify some of the requirements for a standard certificate and to add an additional category of certification for integrated science, which is aligned with the Delaware content standards...
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| MA | In HOUSE. Placed on the Orders of the Day. 03/2005 | P-12 | Abstinence Education Project Funds
H.B. 44
Relates to the use of abstinence education project funds....
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| Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2005 | P-12 |
S.B. 684
Social sciences curriculum. This bill would encourage a school district to provide instruction in social sciences that accurately reflects the role of affected populations of the continent of Asia, the subcontinent of South Asia, and the Pacific Islands in th...
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| NY | Signed into law 10/2005 | P-12 | Amistad Commission
H.B. 6362
Establishes and creates the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and
other programs on slavery and African-American history. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A06362&sh=t...
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| CA | Consideration of governor's veto pending 09/2005 | P-12 | Role of Filipinos in World War II
A.B. 15
Allows social studies instruction in grades 7-12 to include instruction the role of Filipinos in World War II and
that war, and encourages this instruction to include specific components.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_15_bill_20050823...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Study of Acts of Genocide
H.B. 312
Provides that in addition to the unit of instruction studying the events of the Holocaust, the curriculum of every public elementary school and high school shall include a unit of instruction studying other acts of genocide across the globe, including, but not...
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Amistad Commission
H.B. 383
Creates the Amistad Commission. Contains provisions concerning the membership and duties of the Commission. These duties include:
(i) providing assistance and advice to schools within the state with respect to the implementation of education, awareness progra...
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| MN | to governor 07/2005 | P-12 | History education
H.F. 141 - Multiple Components
Districts may not censor or restrain instruction in American or Minnesota state history or heritage based on religious references in original source documents, writings, speeches, proclamations, or records.
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | History In Service Training
S.B. 187
Amends in-service training requirements for teachers of Arkansas history . http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb187.pdf...
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Task Force to Implement Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance Education
S.B. 440
Establishes the Task Force to Implement Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance Education and requires the University System of Maryland to provide staff for the Task Force.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/sb0440.htm...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Public School Graduation Requirement
H.B. 139
Requires one-half unit in New Mexico history for students entering the ninth grade beginning in the 2005-2006
school year as part of the units required for graduation.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/05%20Regular/final/HB0139.pdf...
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| WA | To governor 04/2005 | P-12 | Tribal History
H.B. 1495
Encourages that Washington's tribal history be taught in the common schools. Also adds a new section that requires, beginning in 2006, and at least once annually through 2010, the Washington state school directors' association is encouraged to convene regional...
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| GA | Adopted 01/2005 | P-12 | Instruction in Citizenship, United States and Georgia History
GAC 160-4-2-.07
Establishes rules regarding instruction in United States and Georgia history and government. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-4-2-.07.pdf...
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| LA | Adopted 12/2005 | P-12 | Monitoring Special Education Programs
LAC 28:XCI.101, 105-111, 301, 303-317, 507, and 509
These changes clarify that all local education agencies must be monitored, eliminates the exemplary category, and adds a new category called targeted monitoring. It also clarifies that agencies must begin correcting non-compliance upon receipt of the monitorin...
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| MI | Signed into law 10/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Postsecondary enrollment options
H.B. 4143
Establishes a postsecondary enrollment options program for certain students enrolled in Michigan schools; to prescribe certain duties of public schools; to prescribe certain powers and duties of certain state departments, officials, and agencies; and to repeal...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Continued Attendance After Legal Placement
H.B. 3075
When a juvenile court determines that it is in a child˘s best interest to continue to attend the school that the child attended prior to placement by a public agency, the child: (A) Shall be considered resident for school purposes in the school district in whi...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Tampering with Residency for Enrollment
H.B. 126
Makes it a Class C Misdemeanor penalty for tampering with a governmental record establishing residency for enrollment in a public school. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=79&SESS=R&CHAMBER=H&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=00126&VERSION=5&TYP...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Procedures for Conducting the School Enrollment Census
S.B. 1044 (section 18)
Modifies procedures for conducting the school enrollment census. Requires school census to reflect students transferring into or out of the school from October 1 to September 30th of the following school year, rather than from October 1 to the end of the same...
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| MD | (H) THIRD READING PASSED (131-0) 04/2005 | P-12 | Children in State-Supervised Care - Transfer of Educational Records
S.B. 426
Requiring a placement agency responsible for a child in State-supervised care, or the agency's designee, to provide notice to a public school or a specified nonpublic school regarding the enrollment or imminent enrollment of a child in State-supervised care; r...
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | SCHOOL DISTRICT TUITION LAWS
H.B. 83
AN ACT REVISING THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TUITION LAWS; REQUIRING THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION TO PAY TUITION FOR CHILDREN WHO ATTEND SCHOOL OUTSIDE OF THE DISTRICT OF RESIDENCE BECAUSE OF PLACEMENT IN FOSTER CARE OR A GROUP HOME; ELIMINATING THE REQUIRE...
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| KS | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School Enrollment in Districts with Armed Forces Bases
H.B. 2059
Relates to enrollment. For this purpose, defines "pupils" as students who are dependents of a fulltime active duty member of the military service or miliary reserve who are engaged in mobilizing for war, international peacekeeping missions, national emergency,...
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| MT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School District Enrollment
S.B. 359
Revise statutes related to school district enrollment and calculation; provides for tuition to be paid for a nonresident public school student who reaches the age of 18 during the school year.
http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/2005/billhtml/SB0359.htm...
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Student Residency Requirements
S.B. 2033
Concerns enrollment and provision of services to elementary and high school students placed by out- of-state agencies or entities; relates to elementary and high school student residency determinations.
http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/59-2005/bill-text/FAD...
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Cross Border Education Contracts
H.B. 1149
Allows the Department of Education to enter into certain enrollment agreements with the State of North Dakota; compensates certain school districts for lost revenue due to the agreements. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2005/bills/HB1149enr.pdf...
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| NJ | Signed into law 02/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Student Active Duty Re Enrollment Refund
S.B. 532
Provides for re-enrollment right or refund of fees for student in public institutions of higher education who is called to active duty for certain military operations....
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Closure of Isolated Schools
H.B. 1289
Allows a school district to close an isolated school or part thereof following an annexation or consolidation. Specifies that the state board may approve a motion to close such a school if the closure is in the best interest of the students in the school distr...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Desegregation Litigation
H.B. 2701
Allows the Desegregation Litigation Oversight Subcommittee to conduct a comprehensive feasibility study to facilitate a final resolution of the various desegregation cases in the state to which the state of Arkansas or its officers are a party. Authorizes the ...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Desegregation Lawsuit Resolution Task Force
S.B. 974
Creates the Arkansas Public School Desegregation Lawsuit Resolution Task Force to serve with the members of the Desegregation Litigation Oversight Subcommittee. Requires the task force to (1) Study methods of bringing a final resolution to desegregation litiga...
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| AZ | Vetoed 04/2005 | P-12 | School Finance
H.B. 2498
Provides restrictions on desegregation funds for districts that, as of June 30, 2005, were under desegregation orders or an administrative agreement with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights directed toward remediating alleged or proven r...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School Finance
H.B. 2497
Replaces the biennial reporting requirements for desegregation districts with an annual report that lists specific items to be reported on a district-wide and school-by-school basis beginning in FY 2006-07. Districts that become subject to a court order or ad...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2005 | P-12 | California Career Resource Network
S.B. 665
Repeals the California Occupational Information Coordination Committee and instead establishes the California Career Resource Network for the purpose of providing career development information and resources. Specifies that the primary duty of the California C...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2005 | P-12 | Incorporating SCANS into Teacher Training Programs
A.B. 693
Defines the competencies and personal skills identified in the Secretary of Labor's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) report. Establishes legislative intent to investigate how and to what degree SCANS competencies can be incorporated into teache...
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| OR | Signed into law 08/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Oregon Innovation Council
S.B. 838
Creates the Oregon Innovation Council to provide advice to the Governor, the Legislative Assembly, public and private post-secondary educational institutions, public agencies that provide economic development and the private sector on issues related to:
(a) Pr...
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| AK | Issued 07/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Apprenticeship Utilization
Administrative Order NO. 226
Directs the commissioner of the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities to strive to require that no less than 15% of the labor hours on certain highway and heavy construction projects reported to the Department of Labor and Workforce Development be...
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| CT | Signed into law 07/2005 | Postsec. | Nanoscale Science and Engineering
S.B. 1167
Allows the Commissioner of Higher Education to create degree programs and pathways in the field of nanoscale science and engineering.
Requires the Board for State Academic Awards and the Commissioner of Higher Education, in consultation with the Office of Wor...
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| LA | Vetoed 07/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Film Institutes
H.B. 797
Authorizes the creation of one or more film institutes by public institutions of higher education. Such institutes shall be nonprofit corporations under state law and under the Internal Revenue Code. Provides that the institute will be governed by the administ...
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12
Community College | Information Systems, Workforce Development Council
H.B. 841
Appropriates funds to subsidize state department information systems projects, provide for additional support personnel and training and additional data processing systems analysts, and to continue the implementation of Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004. Imp...
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2005 | Community College
Postsec. | Community College System
H.B. 583
The Community Colleges System Office is designated as the primary lead agency for delivering workforce development training, adult literacy training, and adult education programs in the State.
http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/HTML/H583v5.html...
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| OR | (S) GOVERNOR SIGNED. 06/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Needs Assessment
S.B. 882
Requires the Employment Department, in consultation with health care industry employers, shall perform a statewide and regional needs assessment for health care occupations to identify emerging occupations and occupations for which there is high demand or a sh...
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | State Workforce Investment Board
S.B. 187
Aligns the membership of the State Workforce Investment Board to the requirements of the Federal Act. http://www.leg.state.or.us/05reg/measpdf/sb0100.dir/sb0187.en.pdf...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Tools to Address Nursing Shortage
S.B. 132
From bill analysis: Gives nursing schools the tools to address the nursing shortage. This bills sets statewide goals for increasing the number of initial RN graduates, developing strategies for increasing graduation rates from nursing programs, and promoting ...
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| TX | SENT TO THE GOVERNOR 06/2005 | P-12
Community College | Career Centers
H.B. 1253
From bill analysis: This bill amends the Development Corporation Act of 1979 (the Act) to allow industrial development corporations to undertake projects required or suitable for career centers. Under current law, an industrial development corporation (corpora...
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| TX | SENT TO THE GOVERNOR 06/2005 | P-12
Postsec. |
H.B. 1765
From fiscal note: The bill creates the Texas Emerging Technology Fund as a dedicated account in the general revenue fund. Requires that 50 percent of the money appropriated to the Texas Emerging Technology Fund be used for incentives for private or nonprofit e...
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Nursing Education Demonstration Project
S.B. 1517 (Section 15-16)
Establishes the Arizona partnership for nursing education demonstration project to increase the capacity of nursing education programs in the state by fostering collaboration among the state's education and health care communities and the state and federal gov...
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2005 | Postsec. | Joint Study Committee on Medical School Education
S.B. 1517 (Section 14)
Establishes the joint study committee on medical school education. Requires the committee to:
1. Evaluate the medical education and training needs for health professions and careers throughout the state, including the medical and nursing fields.
2. Review and...
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| OH | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Partnership for Continued Learning
S.B. 6
Establishes the "Partnership for Continued Learning" to promote systemic approaches to education. The Partnership must (1) support regional efforts to foster collaboration among providers of preschool through postsecondary education, (2) identify the workforc...
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| SC | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | South Carolina Education and Economic Development Act
H.B. 3155
Adds a new chapter (59) establishing the South Carolina Education and Economic Development Act. Provides for the development of a curriculum organized around a career cluster system that must provide students with both strong academics and real-world problem s...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | Postsec. | Nurses Education
S.B. 578
Expands the opportunities for nurses to receive graduate education through the student loan and scholarship program. Defines "advanced nursing practice," "advanced practice nursing" and "nurse administrator." Eliminates definition of "primary care nursing." Al...
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| ME | Issued 04/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Order Establishing a Task Force to Plan for Higher Education in the Kennebec Valley
Executive Order
Establishes 10-member task force to plan for higher education in the Kennebec Valley. Establishes membership composition, duties and procedures for task force. Task force is to submit a final report by December 1, 2005.
http://www.maine.gov/governor/baldacci...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Technology Research Collaborative
S.B. 169
Creates the technology research collaborative; relates to higher education. Included in the act is:
"The purposes of the collaborative are to: (1) establish advanced technology centers based on the wealth of scientific and technical talent that
exists in the...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | Postsec. | The Mission and Scope of Higher Education
S.B. 287
An act to strengthen the connection between the mission and scope of Arkansas institutions of higher education and the economic goals of the state. Requires the department of economic development to provide the department of higher education with a list of the...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Role and Scope of Each Higher Education Institution
S.B. 795
Appropriates $85,000 to the the Department of Higher Education to use national consultants to review the role and scope of each higher education institution relative to the state's overall and regional economic development goals. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Legislative Task Force
H.C.R. 55
Creates a legislative task force to examine the effect of school calendars on Kentucky's tourism industry and the potential effect that changes in school calendars may have on Kentucky's educational system. Establishes task force membership. Requires the task ...
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Unemployment Taxes and Workforce Training
S.B. 2480
Provides for a reduction in the unemployment compensation contribution rate for certain employers; provides for a workforce training enhancement contribution for certain employers subject to the Unemployment Compensation Law; establishes the Workforce Training...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2005 | Postsec. | High Technology Initiatives at Research Universities
S.B. 192
This bill appropriates ongoing monies to recruit persons to conduct high technology research and development and makes those appropriations nonlapsing; appropriates one-time monies to purchase equipment and supplies for high technology research and development...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Jobs Now Economic Development Initiative
H.B. 313
This bill establishes a Jobs Now Economic Development Initiative within the state system of higher education to promote workforce preparation programs that meet critical needs and shortages throughout the state; and provides a distribution process for moneys r...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2005 | Postsec. | Venture Capital Funding Amendments
S.B. 35
Provides that a state institution of higher education may enter into a business relationship or dealing with a private seed or venture capital partnership or entity; provides that the relationship or dealing does not preclude the private entity or partnership ...
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2005 | Postsec. | Centers Of Excellence At Colleges
S.B. 285
Defines a "center of excellence" as a consortium of two or more institutions of higher education working in collaboration with regional economic developers to address the workforce education and training needs of a region for existing, expanding, or attracting...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Phonologic Weakness
H.B. 1488
Defines "phonologic weakness." Requires the department of education to develop and implement a plan to
(1) train teachers, especially the teachers directly involved in reading and language arts, about phonologic weakness and its role in reading development;
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Participation in Research
S.B. 982, Section 13
Requires the state board to develop rules that allow every school district, school, administrator, teacher, and student of the public school system in this state to choose to participate in scientifically based research designed for the purpose of improving ac...
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2005 | Postsec. | Independent Nonprofit Washington Academy of Sciences
S.B. 5381
Authorizes an independent nonprofit Washington Academy of Sciences. The legislature finds that public policies and programs will be improved when informed by independent scientific analysis and communication with state and local policymakers. Throughout the st...
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| AR | Issued 04/2005 | P-12 | Declares Arkansas will participate in the Compact for Education Research and Development
Executive Order 04-01
Declares Arkansas will participate in the Compact for Education Research and Development. Council is intended to create a partnership among member states for purposes of creating a high quality, sustained research and development effort that would improve tea...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Role of Colleges and Universities in Achieving State Educational Goals
H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraph 7)
Requires colleges and universities to:
(a) Utilize institution-wide resources to work with elementary and secondary educators and other entities to align curriculum content to ensure that students who achieve proficiency on standards established at the prekin...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Teacher' Professional Growth Fund
H.B. 93 (Sections 5 and 6)
Specifies that the teachers' professional growth fund is to provide teachers with high quality professional development in content knowledge in reading and classroom-based screening, diagnostic, assessment and intervention strategies. States that the fund may ...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Reading Diagnostic and Intervention Program
S.B. 19
This act is to be cited as the "Read to Achieve Act of 2005." Relates to reading; makes an appropriation therefor; describes the general assembly's findings and intent regarding reading. Defines "comprehensive reading program," "reading diagnostic assessment,"...
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| NY | (H) INTRODUCED AND REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ASSEMBLY EDUCATION 05/2005 | P-12 | Single gender core course academies demonstration program
H.B. 8092
Establishes the single gender core course academies demonstration program within the education department; provides that such program shall be established in 4 elementary schools, 8 middle schools and 1 high school which are lowperforming schools in each of th...
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2005 | P-12 | Instructional Materials Fund
S.B. 657
Existing law establishes the State Instructional Materials Fund and continuously appropriates the money in the fund to the State
Department of Education. This bill would extend the operation of these provisions to January 1, 2008, and would require the state b...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12
Community College | Donation of Political Subdivisions' Surplus Computer Equipment
S.B. 218
Requires political subdivisions to establish procedures to give first priority for donation of their surplus computer equipment to public elementary and secondary schools in the state and community and technical colleges under the management and control of the...
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| LA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Financially At Risk Districts
S.B. 307
AN ACT To amend and reenact R.S. 39:1351(A) and (B), 1352, 1353, and 1354, and to enact R.S. 17:10.1(C). Requires the state board to define "financially at risk" as a status of any city, parish, or other local school board the unresolved finding of which subje...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Seized Motor Vehicles
H.B. 2828
Allows motor vehicles seized by law enforcement agencies to be donated to school districts for driver's education courses. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2828.pdf...
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| GA | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Education Grants
H.B. 27
Repealed the following provision and related provisions: The General Assembly, being mindful of the primary obligation of the state to provide an adequate education for the citizens of this state under Article VIII, Section I, Paragraph I of the Constitution o...
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Technology and Remediation Support
S.B. 1223
Appropriates $283,113,100 for the Educational Support Program/Division of Operations for fiscal year 2006; provides for expenditures for certain technology and remediation programs; appropriates moneys for property tax replacement; provides an estimate of disc...
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| KS | Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 | P-12 | 2010 Commission
H.B. 2247 (section 7-9)
Establishes the 2010 Commission. States that the commission shall cease to exist on December 31, 2010. Requires the commission to:
(a) Conduct continuous and on-going monitoring of the implementation and operation of the school district finance and quality per...
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| KS | Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 | P-12 | School District Audit Team
H.B. 2247 (section 4-5)
Creates a school district audit team within the division of post audit. Requires the school district audit team to conduct performance
audits and monitor school district funding and other oversight issues through audit work as directed by the 2010 commission. ...
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Mississippi Adequate Education Program
S.B. 2731
Creates a Commission on Restructuring the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP) to revise certain components and creates a commission to study the effectiveness and efficiency of the administration of college tuition assistance programs administered by...
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | REVISING SCHOOL FINANCE LAWS
H.B. 63
AN ACT GENERALLY REVISING SCHOOL FINANCE LAWS; ALLOWING SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO LEASE PERSONAL PROPERTY; EXPANDING THE USES FOR CERTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICT FUNDS; CHANGING A BUDGET DEADLINE FOR JOINT DISTRICTS; INCREASING THE ENTITLEMENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR SCHOOL...
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Department of Public Instruction Appropriations
H.B. 1013
AN ACT to provide an appropriation for defraying the expenses of the department of public instruction, the school for the deaf, North Dakota vision services - school for the blind, and the state library; to provide an appropriation to the division of independe...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Teacher' Professional Growth Fund
H.B. 93 (Sections 5 and 6)
Specifies that the teachers' professional growth fund is to provide teachers with high quality professional development in content knowledge in reading and classroom-based screening, diagnostic, assessment and intervention strategies. States that the fund may ...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Mathematics Achievement Fund
H.B. 93 (Section 3)
Creates the mathematics achievement fund to provide developmentally appropriate diagnostic assessment and intervention services to students, primary through grade 12, to help them reach proficiency in mathematics on the state assessments and in compliance with...
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Supplemental Payments to High Schools
H.B. 1032
Relates to the formula for calculating supplemental payments to high school districts; relates to property taxes, transportation levy, and high school tuition levy.
http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/59-2005/bill-text/FAIC0200.pdf...
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| NE | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School State Aid Payment Adjustments
L.B. 198
Relates to schools. Provides for payment adjustments to reflect transfers of property as prescribed.
(1) State aid payments shall be adjusted to reflect transfers of property due to annexation, to any dissolution of a Class I school district, and to any reorg...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Annual Reporting of the Use of Student Fees
H.B. 1816
Adds new section: § 23-2.3. Annual reporting of the use of student fees. Requires each public two- and four-year institution of higher education to publish annually a descriptive report detailing the (i) amount and distribution of student activity fees assesse...
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Penalties
S.F. 73
Unless otherwise provided by law, all civil or administrative fines or penalties collected under this article are to be paid over to the state treasurer to be credited to the public school fund of the county in which the violation for which the fine or penalty...
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| ME | Signed into law 01/2005 | P-12 | Education Costs and Property Taxes
H.P. 6
Increases the State share of education costs; provides for reduction in property taxes; reduces government spending at all levels; provides a formula for adjustment of levy calculation; creates the Maine Budget Stabilization Fund; provides for transfers from a...
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| AK | Passed 06/2005 | P-12 | School Finance Task Force
H.R. 10
Establishes a seven-member task force on school district cost factors and foundation formula to evaluate proposals that are based on available facts and conclusions pertaining to school district cost differentials. Requires the task force to provide a written...
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| KS | Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 | P-12 | 2010 Commission
H.B. 2247 (section 7-9)
Establishes the 2010 Commission. States that the commission shall cease to exist on December 31, 2010. Requires the commission to:
(a) Conduct continuous and on-going monitoring of the implementation and operation of the school district finance and quality per...
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| KS | Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 | P-12 | K-12 Cost Study Analysis
H.B. 2247 (section 3)
Requires the division of post audit to conduct a professional cost study analysis to determine the costs of delivering the K-12 curriculum, related services and other programs mandated by state statute in accredited schools. Such review must include high schoo...
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Mississippi Adequate Education Program
S.B. 2731
Creates a Commission on Restructuring the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP) to revise certain components and creates a commission to study the effectiveness and efficiency of the administration of college tuition assistance programs administered by...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Education and Higher Education Finance Study
S.B. 5441
Section 2 creates the comprehensive education study steering committee. The director of the Office of Financial Management (OFM) is a member. The steering committee will appoint members to three advisory committees: early learning, K-12, and higher education. ...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | House Interim Committee on Education Act
H.B. 1258
Allows the house interim committee on education and the senate interim committee on education to contract with experts to conduct interim adequacy reviews. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1258.pdf...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Reading and Literacy Proficiency
S.J.R. 92
Directs the department of education to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the professional development, training and resources needed in each school to help each child achieve reading and literacy proficiency by 2014. Requires the department of education to s...
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | School Finance
H.B. 228
Relates to school finance; establishes a select committee to conduct school finance model recalibration; provides for model recalibration subject to management council approval; imposes duties upon the department of education pertaining to school finance data ...
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| MS | Signed into law 10/2005 | P-12 | Financial advisor for districts affected by Hurrican Katrina
S.B. 2013
Authorizes the state superintendent to appoint a financial advisor for school districts where the state auditor has expressed concern over financial statements. If any concern expressed by such auditor(s) is a result of conditions caused by Hurricane Katrina 2...
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| MS | Signed into law 10/2005 | P-12 | Money borrowed by districts
H.B. 39
If the amount of revenue collected or estimated to be collected from local sources, on behalf of a school district during a fiscal year, is less than the amount provided for in the duly adopted budget of the school district for the fiscal year as a result of H...
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| MS | Signed into law 10/2005 | P-12 | Hurricane Katrina - Extreme emergency financial situation
S.B. 2014
Upon written request of a local school board, the State Board of Education may certify that a public school district is in an extreme emergency financial situation which jeopardizes the safety, security or educational interests of the students enrolled in the ...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2005 | P-12 | Site Based Decisionmaking Pilot Program
S.B. 1053
Establishes the Local Improvement Program as a pilot program, with up to 5% of all public schools and up to 15 school districts participating. Requires participating districts to allocate instructional program funding to participating schools with maximum flex...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2005 | P-12 | Bids for Construction Work
A.B. 490
An act to amend Section 20112 of the Public Contract Code, relating to public contracts. Requires notice for bids for district projects to be
mailed to all construction trade journals specified in Section 22036 for the county or counties in the attendance area...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2005 | P-12 | Replacing or Reconditioning Older School Buses
A.B. 1107
An act to amend Section 42291 of the Education Code. Establishes a priority for allocations to small school districts to replace or recondition schoolbuses owned by a school district or county office of education that were manufactured prior to 1987. http://ww...
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| IL | Amendatory veto 08/2005 | P-12 | Expenditure and Revenue Disclosure
H.B. 3480
Provides that the annual budget of a school district under 500,000 inhabitants shall separately identify cash on hand from taxes and cash on hand from all other sources, including without limitation vending machines, at the beginning of the fiscal year. Requir...
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| TX | Issued 08/2005 | P-12 | Comprehensive financial accountability and reporting system
Executive Order RP47
Directs the commissioner of education to create and implement a comprehensive financial accountability and reporting system to ensure transparency and fiscal efficiency in school district operations. The financial accountability and reporting system must incl...
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | School Finance Authority
S.B. 1853
Amends the Downstate School Finance Authority Law of the School Code. Provides that the purpose of an Authority's power to appoint a chief executive officer, chief fiscal officer, and chief educational officer is to administer and manage, under the director of...
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| KS | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | School Finance
S.B. 3
Makes changes to the School District Finance and Quality Performance Act, other school funding legislation, and enact policies relating to the state department, the Courts, and the Legislature. The bill provides for increases in Base State Aid Per Pupil (BSAPP...
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| AK | Passed 06/2005 | P-12 | School Finance Task Force
H.R. 10
Establishes a seven-member task force on school district cost factors and foundation formula to evaluate proposals that are based on available facts and conclusions pertaining to school district cost differentials. Requires the task force to provide a written...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Group Purchasing for School Libraries
S.B. 483
Relating to allowing designated public school libraries to participate in group purchasing agreements with the TexShare Library Consortium....
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| VT | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | School Finance
S.B. 159
Authorizes the voters to eliminate the office of auditor and to employ instead a public accountant annually to audit the financial statements of the union school district. Adds tuition payments for technical education to the list of exclusions for calculating ...
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Common Purchases and Student Materials Spending
H.B. 258
Includes "common purchases" as element that may be funded as classroom instructional support. States that any funds allocated by the legislature for student materials must be given directly to each teacher as specified in the allocation for use directly in his...
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Proposed Budgets Posted on the Department Web Site
H.B. 2349 (section 3)
Allows school districts the option to post their proposed budget or summary of proposed budget on a website maintained by the department of education. If the school district prefers to submit their proposed budget for posting on the department website, requir...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Unreimbursed Costs of Textbooks for Low-Income Students
H.B. 1001 (Section 183-184)
Requires each district's debt service fund to pay all unreimbursed costs of textbooks for the district's students who were eligible for free or reduced lunches in the previous school year. Authorizes the governing body to transfer the amount levied to cover u...
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| LA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Financially At Risk Districts
S.B. 307
AN ACT To amend and reenact R.S. 39:1351(A) and (B), 1352, 1353, and 1354, and to enact R.S. 17:10.1(C). Requires the state board to define "financially at risk" as a status of any city, parish, or other local school board the unresolved finding of which subje...
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Training for District Employees
S.B. 668
A new section requires several district-level finance positions to receive training in state school finance laws. Amended section adds a requirement that any contract include the the following signed statement: "The undersigned (architect, contractor, supplier...
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Fund Balances
H.B. 1262
Amends Section 49-3-352. Allows any fund balance remaining unexpended at the end of a fiscal year in the general fund of the local public education system to be carried forward into the subsequent fiscal year. Such fund balance is to be available to offset sho...
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| WA | to governor 05/2005 | P-12 | Bidding Requirements
H.B. 1719
Regarding School District Bidding Requirements - Increases the bid limit requirements for school districts. ...
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Bidding and Purchasing of Buses
H.B. 1485
Revises the state bidding and purchasing process for school buses. Requires SPI to solicit competitive price quotes for base buses and optional features and to publish a list of accepted quotes. Permits school districts to buy directly from any dealer on the l...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School Buildings and Facilities
H.B. 1448
Amends Arkansas code 6-20-402. Allows a district to terminate a long-term lease agreement at the end of any fiscal year for the district. Requires all school buildings or related facilities to comply with the requirements of the Arkansas School Facility Manual...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Energy Savings Contracts
S.B. 1095
Concerns energy savings contracts for school districts. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1095.pdf...
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| KS | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 04/2005 | P-12 | School Records
H.B. 2247 (section 1-2)
Requires districts to report expenditures by categories as directed by the department of education and requires the department to verify costs incurred by school districts providing programs required by law and the number of pupils enrolled in such programs. R...
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| KS | Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 | P-12 | School District Audit Team
H.B. 2247 (section 4-5)
Creates a school district audit team within the division of post audit. Requires the school district audit team to conduct performance
audits and monitor school district funding and other oversight issues through audit work as directed by the 2010 commission. ...
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School Districts
H.B. 624
Relates to holding school districts harmless for disequalized budget status.
"A school district that adopted a general fund budget over its maximum general fund budget under any provision of subsection (3)(a) at any time between fiscal year 2001 and fiscal ...
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | REVISING SCHOOL FINANCE LAWS
H.B. 63
AN ACT GENERALLY REVISING SCHOOL FINANCE LAWS; ALLOWING SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO LEASE PERSONAL PROPERTY; EXPANDING THE USES FOR CERTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICT FUNDS; CHANGING A BUDGET DEADLINE FOR JOINT DISTRICTS; INCREASING THE ENTITLEMENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR SCHOOL...
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School District State Aid
H.B. 1311
Provides an appropriation for eligible school districts receiving reduced amounts of state aid.
The superintendent of public instruction shall use the first $119,190, or so much of that
amount as is necessary, for the purpose of reimbursing eligible school di...
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| NM | Pocket Veto by GOVERNOR. 04/2005 | P-12 | Public School
H.B. 873
Changes public school budget requests due date....
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Carryover Amounts
S.B. 531
Relates to the state aid Formula; modifies allowable general fund carryover amounts; requires districts to exceed limits for two consecutive years before penalty assessed. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2005-06SB/sb531_enr.rtf...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Educational Financial Accounting and Reporting
H.B. 1568
Expands upon the Arkansas Educational Financial Accounting and Reporting Act of 2004. Requires charter schools to follow the financial reporting procedures required of public school districts. Expands upon and clarifies initial and ongoing training requirement...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Audit Requirements
H.B. 1185
Clarifies audit requirements for schools, municipalities and counties. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1185.pdf...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | County School Fund Distribution
H.B. 1373
To amend sections of the Arkansas code pertaining to distributions of county's school fund. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1373.pdf...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Define Instructional Materials
H.B. 2099
Expands list of "instructional materials" that may be exempt from sales tax when purchased by schools, to include sheet music, electronic software, maps, globes, art supplies, workbooks, flash cards, educational blocks, educational models, manipulatives, chart...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School Financial Statements
H.B. 2449
Provides a regulatory basis of financial statement presentation for schools. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB2449.pdf...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School District Efficiency and Effectiveness Review
H.B. 267
Provision of budget bill. Directs the Office of Education Accountability to conduct an inventory and assessment of indicators that may be used to analyze financial, academic, and demographic data in order to evaluate school performance. The inventory and asses...
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School District Finance Report
S.B. 2083
Requires the state superintendent to submit an annual report on the financial condition of school districts to the governor, legislative council, and the secretary of state. http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/59-2005/bill-text/FQOT0300.pdf...
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School District Business Manager
H.B. 1228
Allows the board of a school district to adopt policies governing the disbursement of school district moneys by the business manager. The policies adopted under subdivision a may include:
(1) The authorization, creation, and approval of negotiable instruments;...
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School Facilities Land Disposition
S.F. 131
Requires school facility commission review of school district land sales. The commission will review any proposed sale of existing land
owned by a district, which land is within the scope of the district's five (5) year facility plan, and the impact of the lan...
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | School District Budget Filing
H.B. 1154
Extends from September 1 to September 15 the deadline for school districts to file a budget and expenditures report with the department of education. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1154.pdf...
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| UT | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | Minimum School Program Act Amendments
H.B. 3
Relates to minimum school program act amendments. This bill:
< establishes a ceiling for the state contribution to the maintenance and operations portion of the Minimum School Program for fiscal year 2005-06 of $1,783,631,186;
< establishes the value of the we...
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | School District Audits
H.B. 70
After March 31 of any school year, the state superintendent may not adjust any district's entitlement or fiscal information used to
compute a district's entitlement for that school year, and the entitlement or fiscal information shall only be adjusted thereaft...
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | School Finance
S.F. 47
Continues assistance to school districts for full-day kindergarten programs ($5 million) and the summer school grant program ($4.5 million); provides assistance to school districts for health insurance ($33,321,419). http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2005/enroll/SF...
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| ME | FILED. 01/2005 | P-12 | School Sports Programs
L.R. 1668
Requires schools and school districts to line item sports programs for municipal veto....
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| KS | Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 | P-12 | 2010 Commission
H.B. 2247 (section 7-9)
Establishes the 2010 Commission. States that the commission shall cease to exist on December 31, 2010. Requires the commission to:
(a) Conduct continuous and on-going monitoring of the implementation and operation of the school district finance and quality per...
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| HI | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Facilities Funding and Oversight
S.B. 1660
Transfers the management of the state educational facilities improvement special fund and capital improvement and repair and maintenance programs of school facilities to the department of education. Establishes the educational design and construction project a...
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| NH | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | School building aid grants
S.B. 38
This bill provides that a receiving district situated in this state providing an education to pupils from one or more sending districts situated in this state under a contract entered into pursuant to RSA 194:21-a or RSA 194:22, shall be eligible, under certai...
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2005 | Postsec. | College Opportunity Fund
S.B. 132
Specifies that a student who is eligible to receive a stipend may receive a stipend for graduate level courses that apply toward the student's undergraduate degree. Requires the Colorado student loan program to reduce the amount of the stipend per credit hour ...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Repeals Public Schools Facilities Funding Act
H.B. 1106
Repeals the Public School Facilities Funding Act. From analysis: School Facilities Act was established in 1989 to be administered by the Bond Review Board. The board was authorized to issue bonds and place the proceeds in the public school facilities fund. T...
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| TX | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Procurement
H.B. 2525
From bill analysis: Consolidates alternate project delivery processes into a single chapter of the Government Code. This is similar to the legal approach to procurement of professional services, under which the same process applies to all governmental entitie...
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| NH | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | School building aid
H.B. 71
This bill makes an appropriation of $2,730,411 to the department of education for the purpose of fully funding all school building aid projects approved in the 2005 fiscal year
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2005/HB0071.html...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Academic Oversight Committee
S.B. 591
Creates the Academic Facilities Oversight Committee and the advisory committee on public school academic facilities. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/SB591.pdf...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Public School Facilities Program Act
S.B. 593
Establishes the Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program Act. Requires the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and
Transportation to develop a comprehensive Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program that includes an academic facili...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Design Build Construction
S.B. 1093
Defines "design-build," "design-builder" and "design-build contract." Permits any school district to use design-build construction as a project delivery method for the building, altering, repairing, improving, maintaining, or demolishing of any structure, or a...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School Buildings and Facilities
H.B. 1448
Amends Arkansas code 6-20-402. Allows a district to terminate a long-term lease agreement at the end of any fiscal year for the district. Requires all school buildings or related facilities to comply with the requirements of the Arkansas School Facility Manual...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Public School Academic Facilities Funding
H.B. 2508
This subchapter is known as and may be cited as the "Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Funding Act." Determines the value of total assesed valuation of taxable real, personal and utility property in the school district.
Establishes the the Academic F...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Energy Savings Contracts
S.B. 1095
Concerns energy savings contracts for school districts. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1095.pdf...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School Buildings in Consolidated School Districts
H.B. 2936
Establishes procedures for the preservation, sale and/or disposal of school buildings in school districts that have been consolidated. Allows a district that determines any real estate it owns or controlls is not required for the district's present or anticipa...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School Facilities Board
H.B. 2287
Reduces the length of the comprehensive plan for the proposed use of Building Renewal Fund monies from five years to three years.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2287...
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| KS | Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 | P-12 | Funding Formulas, Bonds, Tax Levies and Mill Rates
H.B. 2247 (section 19-29)
Establishes procedures for local tax levies. Establishes in every district a fund called the teacher salary enhancement fund. Creates a formula for determining a district's cost of living weighting. Authorizes any balance remaining in a district's vocational e...
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Public School Facilities
S.B. 766
Repeals a provision of law requiring the transfer of public school facilities and property from the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners; repeals a requirement that prohibits the State from funding capital imp...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Public School Finance
H.B. 1091
Relates to public school finance; removes the requirement that a portion of local and federal revenue be used for capital outlay; provides for the calculation of MEM on the eightieth and one hundred twentieth days.
Removes the requirement that the school dist...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Education Service Cooperatives
H.B. 1357
An act to allow education service cooperatives to purchase or construct buildings as may be required to provide authorized programs and services and to provide for distribution of assets upon dissolution. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Public School Facilities and Transportation
S.B. 590
Revises the duties and responsibilities of the division of public school academic facilities and transportation and creates the commission on public school academic facilities and transportation.
Provides that the enumerated duties of the Division of Public ...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Public-Public Partnerships
S.B. 858
Defines "public-public partnership" as a contractual agreement between a school district and another governmental agency, political subdivision, or institution of higher education to meet a clearly defined need for facilities, infrastructure, or goods and serv...
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| AZ | Vetoed 03/2005 | P-12 | School Facilities Board
S.B. 1394
Amends provisions relating to the school facilities board. Bars the school facilities board from entering into lease-to-own transactions as of June 30, 2005; provides exception. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1394...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School Facility Construction Commission (SFCC) Review
H.B. 267 (Facility Component)
Directs the Office of Education Accountability to conduct a review of the SFCC's ability to provide local school districts with necessary debt service assistance to maintain a facility program that will be conducive to a positive learning environment. ...
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| OK | Signed into law 03/2005 | Postsec. | Higher Education Promise of Excellence Act
H.B. 1191
Enacts the Higher Education Promise of Excellence Act of 2005; authorizes the issuance of certain obligations to the Regents for Higher Education, the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, the Board of Regents for the Agricultural and Mechanical coll...
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| UT | To governor 03/2005 | P-12 | Enrollment Growth Program Amendments
H.B. 124
This bill modifies the funding formula for a program that provides money to school districts for school building construction.
This bill: defines terms, including "yield per ADM"; removes the requirement that a school district be a recipient of monies distribu...
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School Facilities
H.B. 269
Specifies district major maintenance payment expenditures from the required separate account. Account expenditures may include the expenses of district personnel performing work described under paragraph (a)(iii) of this section if approved by the commission a...
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | Capital Construction
S.F. 29
Relates to school capital construction program; modifies the date by which state funding is provided for major facilities maintenance/replacement and makes payments based upon square footage computations computed on September 1 of the prior school year. http:...
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| NY | Pocket Veto by GOVERNOR. 01/2005 | P-12 | School Cafeteria Renovations
S.B. 7474
Relates to the renovation of cafeterias in school districts located in cities with a population of one million or more....
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Matching Funds for Federal Charter School Facilities Initiative
H.B. 1001 (Section 129)
States that if the U.S. Department of Education approves a new competition for states to receive matching funds for charter school facilities, the department must pursue this federal funding. Appropriates $10 million from the state general fund to provide sta...
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Federal Funding to the State Board
S.B. 200 (Section 18)
Requires the state board to annually report to the legislature the total amount of federal funds received by the state board in the prior fiscal year, accounting how the funds were used, specifying the federal law or regulation governing the use of the federal...
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| AL | to governor 07/2005 | P-12 | Increasing Foundation Program
S.B. 48
From the fiscal note: Increases the obligations of the Education Trust Fund for funding the calculated cost of the K-12 Foundation Program due to the expected increase in pupils in average daily membership (ADM) calculated using the first 20 school days follow...
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| KS | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | School Finance
S.B. 3
Makes changes to the School District Finance and Quality Performance Act, other school funding legislation, and enact policies relating to the state department, the Courts, and the Legislature. The bill provides for increases in Base State Aid Per Pupil (BSAPP...
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| AK | Passed 06/2005 | P-12 | School Finance Task Force
H.R. 10
Establishes a seven-member task force on school district cost factors and foundation formula to evaluate proposals that are based on available facts and conclusions pertaining to school district cost differentials. Requires the task force to provide a written...
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Date for Counting Preschoolers and 3- and 4-Year-Olds with Disabilities
S.B. 32
Makes an accomodation for counting preschoolers and 3- and 4-year olds with disabilities enrolled (for state funding purposes) by letting schools count them on November 1 or the school date closest to November 1, instead of October 1.
http://www.leg.state.co....
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| FL | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Class Size Reduction
S.B. 1678
States that, beginning in the 2005-2006 school year, if the actual student membership in the October survey exceeds the student membership estimate included in the Florida Education Finance Program first calculation, the maximum student membership enrollment u...
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| NE | Signed by Governor 06/2005 | P-12 | Early Childhood programs, funding.
L.B. 577
Changes provisions relating to early childhood education programs as prescribed; to define and redefine terms; to provide a weighting factor and a calculation; to change provisions relating to applicable allowable growth rates; to change provisions relating to...
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Distribution of State Lands Funds
H.B. 3183
Requires the Department of State Lands to transfer the balance of the Distributable Income Account of the Common School Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction semiannually or more frequently if the State Land Board so orders, and requires the the sup...
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| VT | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | School Finance
S.B. 159
Authorizes the voters to eliminate the office of auditor and to employ instead a public accountant annually to audit the financial statements of the union school district. Adds tuition payments for technical education to the list of exclusions for calculating ...
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Remediation Funding
S.B. 1516 (Section 2)
Replaces reference to "reimbursement" with reference to "certificate of supplemental instruction" for student attending a school designated
as an underperforming school or a school failing to meet academic standards. Eliminates option for parent to request rei...
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Joint Technological Education District
H.B. 2418
States that a student in a K-8 program who enrolls in courses offered by the joint technological education district is not to be included in the joint district's average daily attendance or average daily membership. Also states that a student in a K-6 program ...
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Additional Revenues for Education
H.B. 1350
From the fiscal note: This bill specifies that moneys in the General Fund Exempt Account shall be appropriated or transferred in the following manner:
• if the voters approve the ballot issue set forth in HJR05-1057 (submitted to the voters as Referendum "D"),...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Funding Formula Revisions
S.B. 35 - Funding Section
One section changes program weights for funding purposes. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/pdf/sb35.pdf...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Academic Honors Diploma Awards
H.B. 1001 (Section 201)
Districts are eligible for the academic honors diploma awards according to the number of students who successfully completed an academic honors diploma program in the school year ending in the previous calendar year. Reduces the amount for which districts are ...
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| MO | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Education funding formula
S.B. 287
Currently, the state's education formula is essentially an equalized tax-rate driven formula, meaning that the formula provides a certain amount of money per student, per penny of tax rate. This act seeks to transition the state away from this tax-rate driven ...
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Learning Assistance Program
H.B. 1066
Revises the funding formula for the Learning Assistance Program from one based equally on assessment results and family need to one
based solely on family need....
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | State Foundation Funding
H.B. 1559
Increases state foundation funding to provide sufficient funds for teacher insurance. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB1559.pdf...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Interschool Athletic Programs
H.B. 2916
Includes salaries or supplemental pay for staff for organized physical activity courses as provided under Act 660 of 2005 in the definitions of "Athletic expenditures" and "Interschool scholastic activity expenditures."
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/b...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Consolidation Provisions
S.B. 1044 (sections 21-27)
Deletes definitions of "consolidated average daily membership," "consolidated national school lunch student total" and "national school lunch students" from consolidation/reorganization provisions. Deletes provision that no school facility in a school district...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Public School Finance
S.B. 338
Updates various provisions of the Arkansas code related to public school finance. One provision changes policy from allowing to requiring any increase in Educational Excellence Trust Fund funds allocated for teacher salaries to be used by school districts to p...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Procedures for Conducting the School Enrollment Census
S.B. 1044 (section 18)
Modifies procedures for conducting the school enrollment census. Requires school census to reflect students transferring into or out of the school from October 1 to September 30th of the following school year, rather than from October 1 to the end of the same...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Public School Funding Act of 2003
S.B. 939
Amends the public school funding act of 2003. Requires the State Board of Education to promulgate rules clarifying not only which alternative learning environment programs qualify for funding, but also the characteristics of students who qualify for funding be...
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School Finance
S.B. 200 (Section 1-4)
Increases the statewide base funding amount for at-risk students. Amends definition of "at-risk pupils" to include the number of district students who are English language learners plus the greater of (1) the number of district students eligible for free lunch...
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Full-Day Kindergarten for Schools Rated "Unsatisfactory"
S.B. 200 (Section 5-7)
Revises certain language related to funding full-day kindergarten for students in a school receiving an "unsatisfactory" rating in the state accountability system. In implementing such a full-day kindergarten program, allows a local board to contract with any ...
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| KS | Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 | P-12 | 2010 Commission
H.B. 2247 (section 7-9)
Establishes the 2010 Commission. States that the commission shall cease to exist on December 31, 2010. Requires the commission to:
(a) Conduct continuous and on-going monitoring of the implementation and operation of the school district finance and quality per...
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| KS | Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 | P-12 | Special Education Funding
H.B. 2247 (section 10-11)
Creates a new formula for determining each district's special education allocation. Specifies that if the appropriation for special education and related services is insufficient to pay in full the amount of state aid each school district is entitled to receiv...
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| KS | Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 | P-12 | Funding Formulas
H.B. 2247 (section 12-18)
Amends pupil definitions and weighting. Repeals language referring to ''correlation weighting.'' Adds new language referring to ''cost of living weighting.'' Includes at-risk education fund as part of the ''program weighted fund. Raises base state aid per pupi...
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| KS | Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 | P-12 | Funding Formulas, Bonds, Tax Levies and Mill Rates
H.B. 2247 (section 19-29)
Establishes procedures for local tax levies. Establishes in every district a fund called the teacher salary enhancement fund. Creates a formula for determining a district's cost of living weighting. Authorizes any balance remaining in a district's vocational e...
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| MT | To governor 04/2005 | P-12 | School Funding Formula Study
S.B. 525
Creates a quality schools interim committee. The committee shall continue the work of the joint select committee on education funding established during the 59th legislative session. By December 1, 2005, the committee shall, among other duties,:
(a) asses...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Learning Assistance Program Distribution Formula
H.B. 1066
HB 1066 changes the school district distribution of Learning Assistance Program (LAP) funds from a distribution based 50% on assessment of students and 50% on one or more family income factors measure economic need, to a distribution based 100% on one or more ...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Education and Higher Education Finance Study
S.B. 5441
Section 2 creates the comprehensive education study steering committee. The director of the Office of Financial Management (OFM) is a member. The steering committee will appoint members to three advisory committees: early learning, K-12, and higher education. ...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | County School Fund Distribution
H.B. 1373
To amend sections of the Arkansas code pertaining to distributions of county's school fund. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1373.pdf...
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| AZ | Vetoed 03/2005 | P-12 | Student Counts and Charter School Funding
S.B. 1405
Increases charter school funding and makes changes in provisions for student counts for districts.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1405...
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| AZ | Vetoed 03/2005 | P-12 | Education Funding Formula
S.B. 1406
Adds a provision to the education funding formula. Ddisqualifies districts from obtaining "growth funding" until the district attains the prior audited full-time student equivalent (FTSE) count if the FTSE is reduced from one year to the next.
http://www.azle...
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| CT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Educational Cost Sharing Distribution Technical Error
H.B. 6489
Corrects a technical error in educational cost sharing distribution and enables the provision of existing funds to interdistrict magnet schools. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2005/act/Pa/2005PA-00002-R00HB-06489-PA.htm...
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School District Tuition Rate
S.B. 1050
Amends existing law to authorize a school district board of trustees to apply for an exemption to any portion of a tuition rate for out of district students. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1050.html...
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| KS | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School Enrollment in Districts with Armed Forces Bases
H.B. 2059
Relates to enrollment. For this purpose, defines "pupils" as students who are dependents of a fulltime active duty member of the military service or miliary reserve who are engaged in mobilizing for war, international peacekeeping missions, national emergency,...
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Funding Formula Study Task Force
S.B. 125
The "funding formula study task force" is
created. The task force shall function from the date of its
appointment until December 15, 2006.
F. The task force shall:
(1) develop a work plan and budget for
approval by the New Mexico legislative council;
(2) appr...
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | State Aid to Education Formula Student Allocation
S.B. 157
Directs the state department to undertake a study of the allocation of state funds to the various public school districts (due by Dec. 1, 2005). The study must include, but is not limited to consideration of the following factors:
(1) The allocation of funds ...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Minimum School Program
H.B. 382
Establishes the value of the weighted pupil unit at $2,280; establishes a ceiling for the state contribution to the maintenance and operations
portion of the Minimum School Program for fiscal year 2005-06 of $1,795,446,575; modifies the funding formula for the...
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| IA | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | State Percent of Growth
S.F. 36
Provides for the establishment of the state percent of growth for purposes of the state school foundation program. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF36...
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| UT | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | Minimum School Program Act Amendments
H.B. 3
Relates to minimum school program act amendments. This bill:
< establishes a ceiling for the state contribution to the maintenance and operations portion of the Minimum School Program for fiscal year 2005-06 of $1,783,631,186;
< establishes the value of the we...
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| IN | Signed into law 01/2005 | P-12 | Funding Formula for K-3 Class Size Reduction
H.B. 1001 (Section 181 and 233)
Revises the funding formula for the K-3 class size reduction program. Effective retroactive to January 1, 2005. Makes other adjustments.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/HE/HE1001.1.html...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Arkansas Supreme Court Decision
H.B. 2646
Conforms the Arkansas Code to comply with the Arkansas Supreme Court decision in the Lake View case. Requires any school district that was administratively consolidated or administratively annexed under §§6-13-1601 32 through 6-13-1605 to file a written report...
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| Finance--Local Foundations/Funds |
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Public Funds to Local Foundations
S.B. 326
Deleted "No public funds shall be deposited in any account owned or controlled by a local foundation" and replaced with: "A public school district shall not directly or indirectly transfer any funds to any local foundation or render services or provide any thi...
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| Finance--Lotteries |
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Use of Lottery Money
H.B. 841
States that eighty percent of all unclaimed lottery prize money must be deposited in the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund. Allows these funds to be used to match private contributions received under the postsecondary matching grant programs. Reduces from all...
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| Finance--Resource Efficiency |
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| TX | Issued 08/2005 | P-12 | Comprehensive financial accountability and reporting system
Executive Order RP47
Directs the commissioner of education to create and implement a comprehensive financial accountability and reporting system to ensure transparency and fiscal efficiency in school district operations. The financial accountability and reporting system must incl...
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Task Force on School District Administrative Efficiency
H.B. 1021(multiple provisions)
Establishes the Task Force on School District Administrative Efficiency. The purpose of the Task Force (which expires December 31, 2006) is to determine how school administration and operations may be made more efficient through administrative reorganization a...
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| WV | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Staffing Ratios
H.B. 2578
House Bill 2578 increases the ratios of professional and service personnel to students in net enrollment. The increases in the ratios of professional and service personnel per 1,000 students will be done in a manner that will reflect the greater need of counti...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School District Efficiency and Effectiveness Review
H.B. 267
Provision of budget bill. Directs the Office of Education Accountability to conduct an inventory and assessment of indicators that may be used to analyze financial, academic, and demographic data in order to evaluate school performance. The inventory and asses...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School Efficiency Review Program
H.B. 1967
The bill requires school divisions to pay 25 percent of the cost of the school efficiency review in the fiscal year immediately following the completion of the final school efficiency review report. Provides for the Director of the Department of Planning and B...
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| Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2005 | P-12 | School Transportation Block Grant
A.B. 1110
An act to add Article 8 (commencing with Section 41580) to Chapter 3.2 of Part 24 of the Education Code. Would create the School Transportation Block Grant to replace existing system of funding public school transportation in the state. http://www.leginfo.ca.g...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | State Budget Review and Government Efficiency Commission
H.B. 1001 (Section 255-256)
Establishes legislative intent that the state budget be reviewed comprehensively before the budgetary process for the next biennium begins in 2007. Asks the governor to direct the office of management and budget to thoroughly review the budget of each executiv...
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Budget Bill
H.B. 1020 (budget provisions)
Budget bill funds public schools at $2.15 billion. Provided an increase of more than $145 million per year to boost teacher pay and benefits, as well as helping schools struggling with growing operational expenses. The increased appropriation includes $57.7 mi...
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| WV | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Budget Bill
S.B. 604
The FY 06 Budget, passed in 2005, is $3.19 billion. A breakdown in approximate percentages goes as follows:
Public Education = 51% at $1.6 billion of the General Revenue budget. Further funding for public education includes an additional $50.5 million, provide...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Appropriation of Funds
S.B. 877
States the purposes and sources of funds for the Educational Facilities Partnership Fund Account and the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation Fund Account.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb877.pdf...
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| AZ | Vetoed 04/2005 | P-12 | School Finance
H.B. 2498
Provides restrictions on desegregation funds for districts that, as of June 30, 2005, were under desegregation orders or an administrative agreement with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights directed toward remediating alleged or proven r...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School Finance
H.B. 2497
Replaces the biennial reporting requirements for desegregation districts with an annual report that lists specific items to be reported on a district-wide and school-by-school basis beginning in FY 2006-07. Districts that become subject to a court order or ad...
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Federal Funding to the State Board
S.B. 200 (Section 18)
Requires the state board to annually report to the legislature the total amount of federal funds received by the state board in the prior fiscal year, accounting how the funds were used, specifying the federal law or regulation governing the use of the federal...
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| KS | Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 | P-12 | 2010 Commission
H.B. 2247 (section 7-9)
Establishes the 2010 Commission. States that the commission shall cease to exist on December 31, 2010. Requires the commission to:
(a) Conduct continuous and on-going monitoring of the implementation and operation of the school district finance and quality per...
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School District State Aid
H.B. 1311
Provides an appropriation for eligible school districts receiving reduced amounts of state aid.
The superintendent of public instruction shall use the first $119,190, or so much of that
amount as is necessary, for the purpose of reimbursing eligible school di...
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Supplemental Payments to High Schools
H.B. 1032
Relates to the formula for calculating supplemental payments to high school districts; relates to property taxes, transportation levy, and high school tuition levy.
http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/59-2005/bill-text/FAIC0200.pdf...
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | House Bill 1220 Appropriation Repeal
S.B. 224
Repeals the appropriation of $3,006,960 from the state's General Fund to the Education Enhancement Trust Fund - contained in House Bill 1220, as previously enacted by the Eightieth Session (2005) of the South Dakota Legislature. ...
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | Department Of Education
H.B. 1073
Appropriates FY 2004-2005 emergency supplemental funds to department to disburse for grants and aid to state secondary vocational area centers. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1073.pdf...
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| UT | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | Minimum School Program Act Amendments
H.B. 3
Relates to minimum school program act amendments. This bill:
< establishes a ceiling for the state contribution to the maintenance and operations portion of the Minimum School Program for fiscal year 2005-06 of $1,783,631,186;
< establishes the value of the we...
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| MI | Signed into law 01/2005 | P-12 | Multisection School Aid
S.B. 1193
Relates to multisection school aid; provides the fiscal year 2004- 2005 year budget; amends appropriations from the state school aid fund and the school aid stabilization fund; amends provisions regarding special education and shared employment....
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| Finance--Student Fees |
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Transportation Fees
H.B. 1191
Authorizes school districts to impose a fee for transportation by resolution of the board, rather than by a vote of the people. Adds that districts are authorized to impose the fee for transporting students who are eligible for a free or reduced lunch. Require...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Verification of Eligibility for Fee Waivers
H.B. 183
Requires the state board to make rules requiring a parent or guardian of a student applying for a fee waiver to provide documentation and certification verifying the student's eligibility for a fee waiver or specifying the acceptable forms of documentation to ...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Annual Reporting of the Use of Student Fees
H.B. 1816
Adds new section: § 23-2.3. Annual reporting of the use of student fees. Requires each public two- and four-year institution of higher education to publish annually a descriptive report detailing the (i) amount and distribution of student activity fees assesse...
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
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| HI | Became law without governor's signature 07/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Impact Fees
S.B. 1814
Authorizes the department of education to assess and collect impact fees as fair share contributions of developers for state public school facilities construction. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb1814_hd2_.htm...
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| TX | SENT TO THE GOVERNOR 06/2005 | P-12
Community College | Career Centers
H.B. 1253
From bill analysis: This bill amends the Development Corporation Act of 1979 (the Act) to allow industrial development corporations to undertake projects required or suitable for career centers. Under current law, an industrial development corporation (corpora...
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| TX | SENT TO THE GOVERNOR 06/2005 | P-12
Postsec. |
H.B. 1765
From fiscal note: The bill creates the Texas Emerging Technology Fund as a dedicated account in the general revenue fund. Requires that 50 percent of the money appropriated to the Texas Emerging Technology Fund be used for incentives for private or nonprofit e...
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Additional Revenues for Education
H.B. 1350
From the fiscal note: This bill specifies that moneys in the General Fund Exempt Account shall be appropriated or transferred in the following manner:
• if the voters approve the ballot issue set forth in HJR05-1057 (submitted to the voters as Referendum "D"),...
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| KS | Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 | P-12 | Funding Formulas, Bonds, Tax Levies and Mill Rates
H.B. 2247 (section 19-29)
Establishes procedures for local tax levies. Establishes in every district a fund called the teacher salary enhancement fund. Creates a formula for determining a district's cost of living weighting. Authorizes any balance remaining in a district's vocational e...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School Election Code
H.B. 2468
Amends sections of the Arkansas code pertaining to school elections. Specifies that the annual school election may concern only issues
authorized to be on the ballot by the Arkansas Constitution or by statute and no other issues shall appear on the ballot. Per...
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Education Funding Study
S.B. 2404
Directs a study of education funding by the legislative council.
1. The legislative council shall study enhanced funding for elementary and secondary
education and methods, including sales tax, income tax, and tax exemptions, by which the
state's reliance on...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2005 | Postsec. | Individual Income Tax Contributions for Education
H.B. 7
Repeals language designating certain individual income tax contributions to higher education because the contributions failed to generate $30,000 per year for three consecutive taxable years and the State Tax Commission was required by statute to remove the de...
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| WI | Vetoed 03/2005 | P-12
Community College
Postsec. | School District Revenue Limits
A.B. 58
Relates to school district revenue limits and levy limits for cities, villages, towns, counties, and technical college districts. Generally, the bill prohibits a political subdivision from increasing its levy by a percentage that exceeds the percentage change ...
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| VT | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | Education Property Tax Rates
H.B. 61
Reduces education property tax rates for fiscal year 2006. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2006/acts/ACT001.HTM...
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| ME | Signed into law 01/2005 | P-12 | Education Costs and Property Taxes
H.P. 6
Increases the State share of education costs; provides for reduction in property taxes; reduces government spending at all levels; provides a formula for adjustment of levy calculation; creates the Maine Budget Stabilization Fund; provides for transfers from a...
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12
Community College | Donation of Political Subdivisions' Surplus Computer Equipment
S.B. 218
Requires political subdivisions to establish procedures to give first priority for donation of their surplus computer equipment to public elementary and secondary schools in the state and community and technical colleges under the management and control of the...
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| SC | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Arts Awareness License Plates
S.B. 418
Adds a new Section 56-3-5400. Allows the department to issue Arts Awareness special license plates to establish a special fund to be used by the South Carolina Arts Commission for the purpose of funding activities that support a thriving arts environment in So...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Seized Motor Vehicles
H.B. 2828
Allows motor vehicles seized by law enforcement agencies to be donated to school districts for driver's education courses. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2828.pdf...
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Penalties
S.F. 73
Unless otherwise provided by law, all civil or administrative fines or penalties collected under this article are to be paid over to the state treasurer to be credited to the public school fund of the county in which the violation for which the fine or penalty...
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| WA | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Education Governance
S.B. 5732
Revises the powers, duties, and membership of the state board of education and the Washington professional educator standards
board and eliminates the academic achievement and accountability commission. Changes state board membership from all members elected b...
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| RI | Vetoed 06/2005 | Postsec. | Higher Education Governance
H.B. 6206
Would have reduced the membership of the board of governors for higher education from 15 to 13, including the chairperson of the board of regents for elementary and secondary education (or designee) a member. Would have made members of the board removable by t...
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2005 | Postsec. | Review Committee
H.B. 372
Requires the establish a review committee to aid in development or revision of the higher education master plan and funding formulae. The committee is to include the executive director of the higher education commission, the chancellor of the board of regents,...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Office of Management and Budget
H.B. 1001 (Section 38)
Adds a new chapter creating an Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Requires all state boards and agencies to comply with the policies and procedures related to fiscal management established by the OMB, cooperate with and provide assistance to the OMB.
http...
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Creates Commission on Educational Excellence.
S.B. 404
Creates the Commission on Educational Excellence; prescribing the membership and duties of the Commission; creating the Trust Fund for Educational Excellence; authorizing school districts and charter schools to apply for grants of money from the Trust Fund to...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2005 | Postsec. | HIgher Education Department
H.B. 745
Replaces the Commission on Higher Education with the Higher Education Department -- a cabinet department; creates an Advisory Board; provides for the powers and duties; provides for the transfer of appropriations, money, property, contractual obligations and s...
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| WV | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Local Government Flexibility Act
S.B. 419
Creates a pilot program; cites the Local Government Flexibility Act of 2005; relates to the ability of local government and school districts to request waivers. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2005_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/SB419%20SUB1.htm...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Education Service Cooperatives
H.B. 1357
An act to allow education service cooperatives to purchase or construct buildings as may be required to provide authorized programs and services and to provide for distribution of assets upon dissolution. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public...
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| MT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Governance for Certain School Districts
H.B. 397
Clarifies governance for certain school districts.
http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/2005/billhtml/HB0397.htm...
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| GA | Adopted 01/2005 | P-12 | Regional Educational Service Agencies
GAC 160-5-1-.13
Clarifies rules regarding regional education service agencies. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-5-1-.13.pdf...
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| Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
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| GA | Adopted 10/2005 | P-12 | Waiver Requests
GAC 160-1-3-.02
Clarifies rules so that school systems may apply for waivers of certain education law for the purpose of increasing student achievement.
AGENCY CONTACT: Patricia L. Mills, Department of Education, 2052 Twin Towers East, Atlanta, GA 30334, 404- 656-4689, fax 4...
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| WV | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Local Government Flexibility Act
S.B. 419
Creates a pilot program; cites the Local Government Flexibility Act of 2005; relates to the ability of local government and school districts to request waivers. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2005_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/SB419%20SUB1.htm...
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| Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School Districts' Employment of Board Members' Relatives
H.B. 1867
An act to restrict school districts from employing relatives of board members.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB1867.pdf...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School District Auditors
H.B. 2700
Requires school district auditors to comply with the requirements and prohibitions of the federal Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB2700.pdf...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Open Meetings and Open Records Information
H.B. 77
Requires the attorney general to distribute Open Meetings and Open Records Act information to local government officials, superintendents of public school districts, and presidents of public universities. Requires superintendents and presidents of public unive...
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| Governance--School Boards |
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | School Board Members and Group Health Insurance
H.B. 881 -- Board Member Health Insurance
Clarifies that nothing in statute may preclude an elected school board member from participating in a group health insurance program provided to an employee of the school district that the board member serves if the board member is a dependent of that employee...
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Student Representation
S.B. 1638
Allows a board of school directors (except for the Chicago board of education) to appoint a student to the board to serve in an advisory capacity. The student member is to serve for a term as determined by the board. The board may not grant the student member ...
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Public Comment in Large Districts
H.B. 252
Exempts any school board in a parish containing a municipality with a population of 400,000 or more from the requirement that the school board allow public comment prior to taking any vote and preceding each agenda item at board meetings. Provides instead that...
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Public Comment Period
H.B. 635
Requires at least one public comment period per month at a regular meeting of a local board of education, county board of commissioners, or municipal governing board. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/HTML/H635v5.html...
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Training for Board Members
H.B. 6082
One section requires every trustee or voting member of a board of education of a school district or a board of cooperative educational services, elected or appointed for a term beginning on or after July first, two thousand five, shall, within the first year...
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Student Representatives on School Boards
H.B. 88
Provides that there may be more than one student representative on a school board and for the manner of their selection....
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Military Board Members
S.B. 144
Current state law does not permit military officers to serve on the school boards of military reservation school districts, which is inconsistent with federal policy. S.B. 144 amends the Texas Education Code to authorize the state board to appoint military off...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Insurance, Retirement and Other Benefits for School Board Members
S.B. 98
States that local boards of education are authorized to expend local funds for life, disability, and liability insurance, retirement and pension coverage, social security coverage, and similar benefits for members of such local boards of education who elect to...
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| OR | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Potential Conflict of Interest
H.B. 2443
Amends the prohibition of district employees or charter school employees from serving as a board member in that district. Allows a district employee or public charter school employee to serve if:
(a) The person is employed by the district or public charter sc...
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Board Vacancies
H.B. 201
Stipulates that the school board instead of the selectboard is to fill a vacancy on a town or union school board. If a town does not have a school board, the town's selectboard is to appoint a person who is otherwise eligible to serve as a director from that d...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School Districts' Employment of Board Members' Relatives
H.B. 1867
An act to restrict school districts from employing relatives of board members.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB1867.pdf...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School Board of Directors
H.B. 2517
Increases from six to nine the number of hours of training that a newly elected member of a school board of directors is required to obtain following election. Specifies that every local board member who has served for at least 12 consecutive months must compl...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | County Boards of Education
H.B. 1701
Repeals county boards of education. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1701.pdf...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Odd Number of Members on Local Boards
S.B. 1044 (sections 11-13)
Bars all local boards from having an even number of members, regardless of prior annexation or consolidation agreements. Requires any resultant change in the number of members on a local school board to be effective upon the directors' taking office following ...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Election of School District Boards of Directors
S.B. 1044 (section 32)
Repeals Arkansas Code § 6-14-120 pertaining to the election of school district boards of directors.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1044.pdf...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Governing Boards
H.B. 2368
Repeals provision granting a school district and its employees immunity from civil liability for the consequences of the good faith adoption and implementation of policies and procedures relating to the health and safety of all pupils participating in district...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School Election Code
H.B. 2468
Amends sections of the Arkansas code pertaining to school elections. Specifies that the annual school election may concern only issues
authorized to be on the ballot by the Arkansas Constitution or by statute and no other issues shall appear on the ballot. Per...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School District Auditors
H.B. 2700
Requires school district auditors to comply with the requirements and prohibitions of the federal Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB2700.pdf...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Open Meetings and Open Records Information
H.B. 77
Requires the attorney general to distribute Open Meetings and Open Records Act information to local government officials, superintendents of public school districts, and presidents of public universities. Requires superintendents and presidents of public unive...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Roles of School Councils, Local Boards and Superintendents in Achieving State Education Goals
H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraphs 8-10)
(8) School councils at all school levels are encouraged to identify and allocate resources to qualified teachers to become coaches or mentors in mathematics or coaches or mentors in reading with a focus on improving student achievement in their respective scho...
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School Board Power
S.B. 2226
Relates to the power of school boards to lease equipment, furniture, supplies and textbooks; and dismiss district personnel.
http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/59-2005/bill-text/FARU0300.pdf...
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Local Officials
S.B. 171
Prohibits certain officials from voting if a conflict of interest exists. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2005/bills/SB171enr.pdf...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Local School Board Amendments
H.B. 139
Provides that when a vacancy occurs in the office of president or vice president of a local school board for any reason, a replacement shall be elected for the unexpired term; and requires attendance of a simple majority of the board members to constitute a qu...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School Board Salaries
H.B. 1989
Increases the maximum salary to be paid members of the school board (affects the Salem board). Across the state, salaries range from $240 to $5300. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0536...
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | Continuity of School Boards Protection Act
H.B. 1266
An act to protect the continuity of school boards by amending the procedure for election of school boards following annexation; allows certain districts to return to at-large elections. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1266.pdf...
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| IL | Signed into law 01/2005 | P-12 | School Code
H.B. 757
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code to allow a child with a disability who has completed four years of high school to participate in the graduation ceremony and receive a certificate of completion under specified circumstances. Fur...
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Training for Board Members
H.B. 6082
One section requires every trustee or voting member of a board of education of a school district or a board of cooperative educational services, elected or appointed for a term beginning on or after July first, two thousand five, shall, within the first year...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School Board of Directors
H.B. 2517
Increases from six to nine the number of hours of training that a newly elected member of a school board of directors is required to obtain following election. Specifies that every local board member who has served for at least 12 consecutive months must compl...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2005 | P-12 | Site Based Decisionmaking Pilot Program
S.B. 1053
Establishes the Local Improvement Program as a pilot program, with up to 5% of all public schools and up to 15 school districts participating. Requires participating districts to allocate instructional program funding to participating schools with maximum flex...
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| MN | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Site based management team
H.F. 141 - Multiple Components
A school site decision-making team must include at east one parent of a pupil in the school. For purposes of formation of a new site, a school site decision-making team may be a team of teachers that is recognized by the board as a site. At least one-half of ...
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | School Community Council's Responsibilities
S.B. 1253
Clarifies a school community council's responsibilities. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb1253_cd1_.htm...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School Council Membership
S.B. 1011
Provides that a parent or guardian who is employed by a school district may serve as a member of a school council if not employed at the same school where child is enrolled.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1011...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Open Meetings and Open Records Information
H.B. 77
Requires the attorney general to distribute Open Meetings and Open Records Act information to local government officials, superintendents of public school districts, and presidents of public universities. Requires superintendents and presidents of public unive...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Student Achievement Improvement
H.B. 93 (Section 1, multiple provisions)
Sets forth legislative intent related to early diagnosis of and intervention for elementary students struggling in reading and mathematics, state student achievement goals, provision and quality of diagnostic and intervention services to students below profici...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Mathematics Achievement Fund
H.B. 93 (Section 3)
Creates the mathematics achievement fund to provide developmentally appropriate diagnostic assessment and intervention services to students, primary through grade 12, to help them reach proficiency in mathematics on the state assessments and in compliance with...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Roles of School Councils, Local Boards and Superintendents in Achieving State Education Goals
H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraphs 8-10)
(8) School councils at all school levels are encouraged to identify and allocate resources to qualified teachers to become coaches or mentors in mathematics or coaches or mentors in reading with a focus on improving student achievement in their respective scho...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Health and Nutrition in Schools
S.B. 172
Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, requires each school to limit access to no more than one day each week to retail fast foods in the cafeteria, whether sold by contract, commercial vendor, or otherwise.
Requires every district to appoint a food servic...
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| OR | Signed into law 09/2005 | P-12 | Education Service Districts
H.B. 3184
Requires education service districts to provide regionalized core services to component school districts. The goals of these services are to:
(a) Assist component school districts in meeting the requirements of state and federal law;
(b) Improve student learni...
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| HI | Became law without governor's signature 07/2005 | P-12 | Department of Education Employees' Benefits
H.B. 1614
Ensures that department of education civil service employees' benefits related to transfer, reduction in force, promotion, medical placement, and seniority are the same as those provided to civil service employees of other executive branch agencies. http://www...
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| WA | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Education Governance
S.B. 5732
Revises the powers, duties, and membership of the state board of education and the Washington professional educator standards
board and eliminates the academic achievement and accountability commission. Changes state board membership from all members elected b...
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| CT | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Review of Department Programs and Services
H.B. 6989
New section: Requires the state board to review the programs and services administered or provided by the Department of Education in order to: (1) Evaluate the effectiveness and benefits of such programs and services, and (2) assign priority for the continued ...
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Homeland Security
H.B. 1715
Requires that assessments of any building, facility, or structure owned or leased by a state agency, state university or community college not previously provided to the chief of domestic security must be completed by the state agency, state university or comm...
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Personal Care Attendant Program
S.B. 720
Eliminates requirement that for purposes of participating in the personal care attendant program, the department of education determine the applicant eligible for training services. Eliminates requirement that the association, in cooperation with the Division ...
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 |
S.B. 1643
Clarifies definitions of "new century charter schools" and "public schools". Requires charter school plans to include a plan for identifying, recruiting, and retaining highly-qualified instructional faculty. Requires a charter school's governance structure to ...
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | State Board Powers
H.B. 2349 (section 1 and 5)
Allows the state board to adopt any rules and policies it deems necessary to exercise general supervision over and regulate the conduct of the public school system. Exempts the state board from the formal rule-making process, unless otherwise required by law. ...
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Proposed Budgets Posted on the Department Web Site
H.B. 2349 (section 3)
Allows school districts the option to post their proposed budget or summary of proposed budget on a website maintained by the department of education. If the school district prefers to submit their proposed budget for posting on the department website, requir...
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Arizona Performance Based Compensation System Task Force
S.B. 1074
Establishes the Arizona Performance Based Compensation System Task Force within the state board of education. By Februrary 2006 and annually thereafter, requires the superintendent of public instruction to submit specified school district data to the task forc...
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Paper Reduction Task Force
H.B. 281
Establishes the Paper Reduction Task Force for the purpose of recommending strategies to reduce the paperwork required of school districts and school district personnel, with special emphasis given to the reduction of paperwork required of teachers. Provides m...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | State Accounting Office
H.B. 293
Creates the state accounting office, to be overseen by the state accounting officer. Creates the position of state accounting officer, to be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the governor. Requires the state accounting officer to:
(1) Prescribe state...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Office of Technology Established
H.B. 1137
Creates the office of technology by combining the duties performed by the division of information technology of the department of administration, the information technology oversight commission, and the enhanced data access review committee. Provides that the ...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | State Budget Review and Government Efficiency Commission
H.B. 1001 (Section 255-256)
Establishes legislative intent that the state budget be reviewed comprehensively before the budgetary process for the next biennium begins in 2007. Asks the governor to direct the office of management and budget to thoroughly review the budget of each executiv...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Academic Oversight Committee
S.B. 591
Creates the Academic Facilities Oversight Committee and the advisory committee on public school academic facilities. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/SB591.pdf...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Distance Learning Coordinating Council
S.B. 592
Repeals language relating to the Arkansas Interagency Distance Learning Review Commission. Establishes the Distance Learning Coordinating Council. Assigns the council to evaluate distance learning activities for K-12 education across the state and determine if...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Department of Education
H.B. 2530
Renames the position of director of the department of education the commissioner of education. Reorganizes the department of education into departments under the commissioner of education. Effective July 1, 2007, shifts oversight for the division of public sch...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Special Education Provisions
S.B. 1044 (sections 28-30)
Modifies membership of Advisory Council for the Education of Children with Disabilities from "parents of children with disabilities" to parents of persons from birth to age 26 with disabilities. Includes officials who carry out activities under subtitle B of t...
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| AZ | Vetoed 04/2005 | P-12 | Department Reporting and Student Testing
H.B. 2033
Requires the department to report to specified members of the legislature on its budget status every two months for the first half of each fiscal year and every month thereafter. Requires every report to include the department's current funding surplus or shor...
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| HI | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School-to-Work Council
S.B. 1249
Repeals the school-to-work executive council. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb1249_.htm...
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Division of Professional-Technical Education and the Office of the State Board of Education
S.B. 1234
Reaffirms that the Division of Professional-Technical Education and the Office of the State Board of Education each play unique and vital roles in the state's educational system. Authorizes these agencies to share administrative resources only to the extent n...
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| ME | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | State Board of Education Term Limit
H.P. 186
Limits the number of terms of office for members of the State Board of Education to 2 5-year terms, which need not be consecutive, beginning with new appointments by the Governor at the expiration of the current board members' terms of office.
http://janus.st...
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Department of Public Instruction Appropriations
H.B. 1013
AN ACT to provide an appropriation for defraying the expenses of the department of public instruction, the school for the deaf, North Dakota vision services - school for the blind, and the state library; to provide an appropriation to the division of independe...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2005 | Postsec. | HIgher Education Department
H.B. 745
Replaces the Commission on Higher Education with the Higher Education Department -- a cabinet department; creates an Advisory Board; provides for the powers and duties; provides for the transfer of appropriations, money, property, contractual obligations and s...
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| NM | Pocket Veto by GOVERNOR. 04/2005 | Postsec. | Education
S.B. 677
Relates to higher education as Cabinet Department....
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Eliminates Academic Achievement and Accountability Commission
S.B. 5732
Revises the powers, duties, and membership of the state board and the Washington professional educator standards board and eliminates the Academic Achievement and Accountability Commission. The governor will appoint seven of the 16 board members, with another ...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Public School Facilities and Transportation
S.B. 590
Revises the duties and responsibilities of the division of public school academic facilities and transportation and creates the commission on public school academic facilities and transportation.
Provides that the enumerated duties of the Division of Public ...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Student Achievement Improvement
H.B. 93 (Section 1, multiple provisions)
Sets forth legislative intent related to early diagnosis of and intervention for elementary students struggling in reading and mathematics, state student achievement goals, provision and quality of diagnostic and intervention services to students below profici...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Committee for Mathematics Achievement
H.B. 93 (Section 2)
Defines terms, including "mathematics coach," "mathematics diagnostic assessment," "mathematics intervention program," "mathematics leader," "mathematics mentor," and "numeracy." Establishes the Committee for Mathematics Achievement to develop a multi-faceted ...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Role of the Council of Postsecondary Education in Achieving State Educational Goals
H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraph 5)
Specifies that, for the state to achieve its student achievement goals, the Council on Postsecondary Education, in cooperation with the Education Professional Standards Board, must exercise its duties and functions under KRS 164.020 to ensure that teacher educ...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Role of Department of Education in Achieving State Educational Goals
H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraph 4)
Mandates that the Kentucky Department of Education provide assistance to schools and teachers, including publicizing professional development opportunities, methods of measuring effective professional development, the availability of high quality instructional...
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| IL | Adopted 02/2005 | P-12 | Access to Information
2 IAC 5001.100 thru .600 (non seq)
Clarifies rules regarding access to information of the state board of education under the Freedom of Information Act. http://www.isbe.state.il.us/rules/archive/pdfs/5001ARK.pdf...
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| NJ | Issued 12/2005 | P-12 | Steroid Use
Executive Order No. 72
Executive order No. 72 addresses many of the Governor's Task Force on Steroid Use and Prevention. Directs the Department of Education to work with the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association to develop and implement a program of random testing fo...
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2005 | P-12 | School Wellness Policies
S.B. 567
This bill would require local educational agencies that participate in specified federal school lunch programs to establish
and implement a local school wellness policy. This bill would require local educational agencies that are subject to this
requirement to...
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2005 | P-12 | High School Athletes and Use of Steroids
S.B. 37
Prohibited substances. The bill would prohibit specified dietary supplements from being used by a pupil participating in interscholastic high school sports 60 days after specified information is posted on the State Departmentof Education's Internet Web site. ...
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2005 | P-12 | Content Standards for Health Education
H.B. 689
Existing law requires the State Department of Education to incorporate nutrition education curriculum content into the health
curriculum framework at its next revision, with a focus on pupils' eating behaviors. This bill would require the state board to adopt,...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2005 | Community College
Postsec. | Health Supervision and Services Fees for Community College Students
A.B. 982
An act to amend Section 76355 of the Education Code, relating to community colleges. Expresses findings and declarations of the Legislature with respect to the funding of student health services in the California Community Colleges. Deletes the provision exem...
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| NY | Signed into law 09/2005 | P-12 | Immunization
S.B. 3165
Provides that each school shall require that every child entering or attending such school shall produce proof of immunization in accordance with the public health law. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S03165&sh=t...
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| NY | Rule Adoption 09/2005 | P-12 | School Health Services
Title 8 NYCRR 136.1 - 136.3
Implements and otherwise conforms the commissioner's regulations to L. of 2004, ch. 477. NEW YORK REG 17638 (SN)
http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2005/sept28/pdfs/Rules.pdf...
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| PA | Active 09/2005 | P-12 | Pennsylvania Growth Screening Program
Health Program
A Pennsylvania Department of Health Program. Pre-existing school health regulations require that a school nurse or teacher conduct height and weight measurements of students annually and that every effort be made to determine the pattern of growth for each chi...
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| IL | Vetoed 08/2005 | P-12 | School Wellness Policies
H.B. 733
Requires the State Board of Education to establish a state goal that all school districts have a wellness policy consistent with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations, which include the following:
(1) nutrition guidelines for all foods sol...
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Using school space to improve student access to health
S.B. 5352
Provides for the utilization of school space to improve student access to health, dental and mental health clinic services through interagency collaboration. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=s5352...
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Cleaning products in schools
S.B. 5435
Requires the procurement and use of environmentally sensitive cleaning and maintenance products in elementary and secondary schools; defines terms;authorizes the commissioners of general services and education to promulgate necessary rules and regulations. htt...
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| AK | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Self-Medication
H.B. 85
An Act relating to self-administration and documentation of certain types of medication prescribed to a child attending school....
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| CT | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Pesticide Applications
S.B. 916
Defines "pesticide" and adds an emergency exception to the pesticide application prohibition at day care centers. The exception includes emergency applications to address mosquitoes and stinging insects. ftp://159.247.160.79/textofbill/s/2005SB-00916-R04-SB.ht...
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| HI | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Asbestos Testing
H.B. 1295
Requires the Department of Education (DOE) to conduct asbestos tests prior to renovations or painting of school facilities at all DOE schools. Directs DOE to maintain a record of all students at King intermediate who may have been exposed to asbestos
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Health Program Recognition
H.B. 1541
Requires the state board of education to establish a school health recognition program that: (1) publicly identifies those schools that have implemented programs to increase the level of physical activity of their students; (2) publicly identifies those schoo...
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 |
H.B. 236
Requires instructions regarding the correct use of an automated external defibrillator be included as a part of the health education curriculum in all senior high schools when cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction is being provided. In addition to the r...
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Asthma Medications
H.B. 2767
Establishes a protocol to allow school districts to maintain asthma treatment agents as stock medication, in response to the epidemic of pediatric asthma. ...
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| NY | Vetoed 07/2005 | P-12 | Sun exposure and instruction regarding skin cancer
H.B. 8737
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to protection from sun exposure and instruction regarding skin cancer.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A08737&sh=t...
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Modifications to Mercury Reduction and Education Act
H.B. 6598
Extends the implementation dates for several provisions of the Mercury Reduction and Education Act. In addition, it would clarify the definitions of certain products regulated by the act....
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| RI | SIGNED BY GOVERNOR 07/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Performance Enhancing Dietary Supplements
H.B. 6277
Prohibits a high school or public or private university or college from accepting any sponsorship or other payment from a performance-enhancing dietary supplement manufacturer to promote such manufacturer's performance-enhancing dietary supplement. Requires de...
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| CT | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Students with Life-Threatening Allergies
S.B. 1312
Requires the department to develop and make available guidelines for the management of students with life-threatening food allergies. Requires the guidelines to include: (1) Education and training for school personnel on the management of students with life-th...
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| CT | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Healthy Food at Schools
S.B. 1309
Clarifies that K-5 daily physical exercise requirement must include at least 20 minutes of exercise per full school day in addition to any physical education requirements.
Authorizes every local and regional board of education to establish a School Wellness C...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Health and Physical Activity Mandates
S.B. 146 (Sections K-
Beginning in the 2006-2007 school year and thereafter, requires all public elementary and secondary schools to:
(1) Encourage and motivate children of all physical abilities to participate in physical activity for the purpose of allowing all children to reach...
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| MN | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 |
S.F. 232
A secondary student may possess and use nonprescription pain relief in a manner consistent with the labeling, if the district has received a written authorization from the student's parent or guardian permitting the student to self-administer the medication....
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| MO | DELIVERED TO SECRETARY OF STATE 06/2005 | P-12 | Model School Wellness Program
H.B. 568
The department of elementary and secondary education shall establish a "Model School Wellness Program", and any moneys appropriated, other than general revenue, by the general assembly for this program shall be used by selected school districts to establish sc...
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| MT | Rule Adoption 06/2005 | P-12 | School Immunization Requirements
ARM New Rules I thru III, 37.114.701, .702, .704, .705, .708, .709, .710, .715, .716, .720, .721
Establishes rules regarding school immunization requirements. MONTANA REG 4718 (SN)...
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| RI | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Health and Wellness
H.B. 5563, S.B. 565
Gives school committees (boards) the authority to address the health and wellness of students and employees and to establish a subcommittee to decrease obesity and address school health and wellness policies for students and employees. Requires strategic plans...
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| SC | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Physical Education, School Health Services, and Nutritional Standards
H.B. 3499
Adds Chapter 10, entitled Physical Education, School Health Services, and Nutritional Standards. Applies to elementary schools. Sets the amount of physical education instruction that each student in kindergarten through fifth grade must receive each week on a ...
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| SC | SIGNED BY GOVERNOR 06/2005 | P-12 | Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention and Control Act
H.B. 3582
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention and Control Act addresses circumstances relating to children and lead poisoning. Revises requirements. Affects child care facilities. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/prever/3582_20050526.htm...
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| TN | SIGNED BY GOVERNOR. 06/2005 | P-12 | Indoor Air Quality
S.B. 641
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49 and Title 68, relative to indoor air quality and mold in schools Encourages each district to conduct an inspection and evaluation program, such as the Environmental Protection Agency's Indoor Air Quality Tools...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Students with Diabetes
H.B. 984
The bill adds Chapter 168, Health and Safety Code to establish provisions relating to the care of public school elementary and secondary school students with diabetes. Requires an individualized health care plan for any student who will seek care for diabetes...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Anabolic Steroids
H.B. 3563
Requires the University Interscholastic League (UIL) to develop an educational program for students engaged in extracurricular athletic activities by September 1, 2005. Requires UIL to commission a survey during the 2005-06 school year to gather data on illega...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Health, Nutrition and Physical Education Guidelines
S.B. 42
From bill analysis: This Act allows for the expansion of physical activity requirements to middle and junior high schools, up to the eighth grade; encourages the use of nationally recognized health and physical education guidelines; directs the reporting of in...
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| AK | Signed into law 05/2005 | Postsec. | Immunization of Postsecondary Students for Meningitis
H.B. 185
Requires a postsecondary educational institution in the state to provide written notice to each student who intends to reside in campus housing before the student's initial period of residence. Requires written notice to include information on the seriousness ...
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Student Self-Administration of Epinephrine
S.B. 1309
Authorizes local boards to adopt policies allowing students diagnosed with anaphylaxis to carry and self-administer emergency medications, including auto-injectible epinephrine while at school and school-sponsored activities. Specifies related provisions and p...
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Self-Administration of Epinephrine
H.B. 279
Authorizes a K-12 student who has experienced or is at risk for life-threatening allergic reactions to self-administer epinephrine by auto-injector at school, on school grounds or at school functions with prior parental and physician authorization. Requires th...
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| FL | Vetoed 05/2005 | P-12 | Psychotropic Medication
H.B. 209
Defines term "psychotropic medication." Prohibits a recipient of state funds from requiring student to be prescribed or administered psychotropic medication as condition of receipt of educational services. Requires that, before a student is evaluated for the p...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Athletic Trainers
H.B. 217
Relates to athletic trainers; amend Chapter 5 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to athletic trainers, so as to require that students, teachers, or other persons who serve as athletic trainers for a public or private elementary sch...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Notification of Meningoccal Meningitis Vaccines
S.B. 326
Requires public and nonpublic schools to distribute materials concerning meningococcal meningitis and its vaccines. Requires the department of education to develop the material to be distributed. Provides for medication possessed by a school for administration...
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| NV | (H) APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR. CHAPTER 43. 05/2005 | P-12 | Self-administering prescribed medications
H.B. 182
AN ACT relating to pupils; requiring a principal or a school nurse of a public school to allow pupils to self-administer prescribed medications for asthma and anaphylaxis under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto...
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | CPR and Heimlich Maneuver
S.B. 618
Allows schools to offer instruction in the Heimlich maneuver to students in physical education classes; requires districts to ensure that a minimum of one certified teacher and one noncertified staff member at each school site receives training in cardiopulmon...
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| OR | Adopted 05/2005 | P-12 | School-Based Health Services
OAR 410-133-0000, -0040, -0060, -0080, -0090, -0100, -0120, -0140, -0160, -0180, -0200, -0220, -0280, - 0300, -0320, -0340
Amends rules regarding School-Based Health Services (SBHS). Relates to the requirements and operations for conducting SBHS. Describes the Medicaid covered services available to Medicaid eligible students receiving Health Services on a fee-for-service basis whe...
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| SC | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Student Individual Health Care Plan
S.B. 144
Requires districts to adopt policy requiring a student with special health care needs to have an individual health care plan that allows stuents to self-administer medication and to require parents to provide medical information and approval for self-medicatio...
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| TN | SIGNED BY GOVERNOR. 05/2005 | P-12 | Health Report Card on Children
H.B. 445
Amends Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 68. Authorizes local districts to implement a program that identifies public school children who are at risk for obesity. Such programs would use volunteers to determine students' body mass indexes, provide each student's p...
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| TN | SIGNED BY GOVERNOR. 05/2005 | P-12 | Healthy Lifestyles
H.J.R. 88
Resolution urging the state board, in cooperation with all local education agencies, to develop and implement a curriculum of instruction which will enable students to adopt and maintain healthy lifestyle habits. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/curre...
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| TN | SIGNED BY GOVERNOR. 05/2005 | P-12 | Childhood Obesity
H.J.R. 85
Resolution urges the Department of Health and the Department of Education to develop and implement a suitable program, one which
accommodates increased physical activity, reduced vending machine usage, and enhanced dietary lunches, for Tennessee's elementary,...
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Smoke-Free Institutions
S.B. 757
With respect to public institutions of higher education, upon the adoption of smoking policies by the administrative head of such institution, the administrative head is not required to provide an indoors smoking area in each student dormitory or other facilit...
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Mercury in Schools
S.B. 84
One section of this bill (§ 7109) deals with mercury in schools. After July 1, 2006, no school in Vermont may use, or purchase for use, in a primary or secondary nonvocational education program, any of the following: elemental mercury, chemicals containing me...
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| WA | Paritally Vetoed 05/2005 | Postsec. | Meningococcal Immunizations
H.B. 1463
Requires schools to provide information on meningococcal immunization....
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| WA | to governor 05/2005 | P-12 | Meningococcal Disease
H.B. 1463
Requires that public and private schools provide the parents and guardians of students with information about meningococcal disease at the beginning of every school year. http://www.leg.wa.gov...
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| WV | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Healthy Foods, Physical Education Requirements
H.B. 2816
Adds a new article, designated §5-1E-1, §5-1E-2, §5-1E-3, §5-1E-4 and §5-1E-5; and amends and reenacts §18-2-6a and §18-2-7a, all relating to promoting healthy lifestyles; creating a Healthy Lifestyles Office in the Department of Education and the Arts; establ...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Student Medications
H.B. 2976
Allows a student to carry and use an asthma inhaler or auto-injectable epinephrine, or both, while in school, at an on-site school-sponsored activity, or at an off-site school-sponsored activity with parental written authorization and appropriate medical docum...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School Pupil Breathing Medication
H.B. 2229
Permits students authorized by a licensed health care professional to possess and self-administer breathing medication in handheld inhaler devices.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2229...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School Districts
S.B. 1122
Requires school employees' administration of prescription or other medicine to a minor student to occur only on the parent's written request or authorization. States that a district, a charter school or employees thereof are immune from civil liability for th...
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| AZ | Vetoed 04/2005 | P-12 | Privacy in Schools
S.B. 1270
Bars a teacher, principal, counselor or other district or charter school employee, unless the parent is notified in writing and provides written consent to the disclosure of the information requested, from:
(1) Undertaking or contracting to undertake any behav...
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Asthma And Anaphylaxis Treatment Plans
S.B. 156
Authorizes a student with asthma, severe allergies or another related, life-threatening condition to possess and self-administer prescribed medications during school, while at school-sponsored activities, or while in transit to or from school or school-sponsor...
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