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 | Accountability |
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 | Accountability--Accreditation |
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 | Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
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 | Accountability--Reporting Results |
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 | Accountability--Rewards |
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 | Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
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 | Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive |
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 | Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers |
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 | Accountability--School Improvement |
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 | Adult Basic Education |
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 | Assessment |
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 | Assessment--Accommodations |
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 | Assessment--Computer Based |
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 | Assessment--End-of-Course |
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 | Assessment--Formative/Interim |
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 | Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
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 | Assessment--Value Added |
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 | At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
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 | At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
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 | At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
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 | Attendance |
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 | Attendance--Compulsory |
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 | Attendance--Statutory Ages (Upper and Lower) |
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 | Attendance--Truancy |
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 | Background Checks |
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 | Bilingual/ESL |
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 | Career/Technical Education |
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 | Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship |
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 | Cheating |
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 | Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
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 | Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Charter Districts |
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 | Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Closings |
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 | Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Cyber Charters |
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 | Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
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 | Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Research |
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 | Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
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 | Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools |
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 | Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
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 | Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
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 | Civic Education |
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 | Civic Education--Character Education |
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 | Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance |
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 | Class Size |
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 | Curriculum |
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 | Curriculum--Arts Education |
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 | Curriculum--Censorship |
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 | Curriculum--Core Curriculum |
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 | Curriculum--Drivers Education |
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 | Curriculum--Environmental Education |
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 | Curriculum--Family Living Education |
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 | Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
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 | Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
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 | Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education |
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 | Curriculum--International Education |
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 | Curriculum--Language Arts |
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 | Curriculum--Mathematics |
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 | Curriculum--Multicultural |
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 | Curriculum--Physical Education |
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 | Curriculum--Science |
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 | Curriculum--Sex Education |
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 | Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
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 | Curriculum--Speech Education |
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 | Data-Driven Improvement |
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 | Demographics--Enrollments |
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 | Desegregation |
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 | Economic/Workforce Development |
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 | Education Research |
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 | Equity |
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 | Finance |
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 | Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
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 | Finance--District |
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 | Finance--Equity |
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 | Finance--Facilities |
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 | Finance--Federal |
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 | Finance--Funding Formulas |
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 | Finance--Litigation |
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 | Finance--Local Foundations/Funds |
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 | Finance--Lotteries |
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 | Finance--Resource Efficiency |
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 | Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
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 | Finance--Student Fees |
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 | Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
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 | Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
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 | Governance |
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 | Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
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 | Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
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 | Governance--School Boards |
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 | Governance--School Boards--Training |
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 | Governance--Site-Based Management |
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 | Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
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 | Health |
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 | Health--Child Abuse |
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 | Health--Nutrition |
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 | Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
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 | Health--Suicide Prevention |
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 | High School |
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 | High School--Advanced Placement |
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 | High School--College Readiness |
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 | High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
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 | High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
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 | High School--Early Colleges/Middle Colleges |
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 | High School--Exit Exams |
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 | High School--GED (General Education Development) |
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 | High School--Graduation Requirements |
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 | High School--International Baccalaureate |
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 | Instructional Approaches--Grading Practices |
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 | Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
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 | Instructional Approaches--Single-Sex Education |
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 | Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
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 | Leadership |
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 | Leadership--District Superintendent |
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 | Leadership--Principal/School Leadership |
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 | Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
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 | Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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 | Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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 | Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation |
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 | Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Tenure |
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 | Middle School |
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 | Minority/Diversity Issues |
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 | Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian |
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 | No Child Left Behind |
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 | No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
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 | No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
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 | No Child Left Behind--Choice/Transfer |
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 | No Child Left Behind--Consequences for Schools |
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 | No Child Left Behind--Finance |
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 | No Child Left Behind--Parent Involvement |
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 | No Child Left Behind--Reauthorization Issues/Waivers |
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 | No Child Left Behind--Report Cards |
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 | No Child Left Behind--School Support |
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 | No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
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 | Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
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 | Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
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 | P-16 or P-20 |
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 | P-3 |
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 | P-3 Child Care |
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 | P-3 Early Intervention (0-3) |
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 | P-3 Ensuring Quality |
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 | P-3 Evaluation/Economic Benefits |
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 | P-3 Family Involvement |
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 | P-3 Finance |
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 | P-3 Grades 1-3 |
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 | P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten |
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 | P-3 Preschool |
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 | P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development |
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 | Parent/Family |
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| WI | Signed into law 12/2005 | P-12 | 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 take home. The SPR contains information, by school and by school district, on items such as: academic achievement, including scores on statewide pupil assessment examinations; various indicators of school and school district performance, including attendance data and suspension and expulsion data; certain staffing and financial data; information about use of the open enrollment program; and the method of reading instruction. The SPR also includes a comparison of the school district's performance on academic achievement and certain other indicators of performance with the performance of other school districts in the same athletic conference. 2005 Wisconsin Act 62 does the following:
• Requires that each school board distribute or send home the SPR only upon request; provides that annually, by January 1, each school board must notify the parent or guardian of each pupil enrolled of the right to request the SPR.
• Requires that, if requested, the SPR be distributed or sent home annually by May 1.
• Provides that if the school district maintains an Internet site, the SPR must be made available to the public on that site.
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/lc_act/act062-ab425.pdf
Title: A.B. 425
Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | 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 participation through certain activities, including parent-teacher conferences, open houses, family nights, volunteer opportunities, and family outreach materials. Requires the pilot project to be for a period of at least 4 school years. Allows a school district to apply to the State Board for the establishment of a parental participation pilot project for the entire district or for a particular school or group of schools in the district. Requires the state board to select 4 school districts in specified geographic areas to participate in the pilot project. Requires the board, when selecting participants, to consider the following criteria:
(1) whether the district or school has any of the following problems and whether those problems can be mitigated or addressed through enhanced parental participation:
(A) low rates of satisfactory performance on state assessments;
(B) high rates of low-income students, limited English proficient students, dropouts, chronically truant students, and student mobility; or
(C) low student attendance rates; and
(2) the methods the district or school will use to measure the progress of the pilot project in the district or school.
Requires each participating district or school to establish a parental participation committee to assist in developing and implementing the parental participation pilot project. Requires the committee to develop an academic improvement plan that details how the pilot project should be implemented in the participating district or school, and to make recommendations to the local board on specified matters. Requires local boards to submit annual progress reports to the state board detailing the effect of the pilot project on the district or school. Provides for a review and final evaluation of the project. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Parental Participation Pilot Project Fund as a special fund in the state treasury. Repeals these provisions on December 31, 2010. Effective immediately. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0507
Title: S.B. 10
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| MN | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | The commissioner must adopt and publish a policy to provide public and parental access for review of basic skills tests, Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments, or any other such statewide test and assessment. Upon receiving a written request, the commissioner must make available to parents or guardians a copy of their student's actual answer sheet to the test questions to be reviewed by the parent.
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0141.1&session_year=2005&session_number=1
Title: H.F. 141 - Multiple Components
Source: http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us
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| MN | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | School officials must not use the refusal of a parent or guardian to consent to the administration of psychotropic drugs to their student or to consent to a psychiatric evaluation, screening or examination of the student as a ground, by itself, to prohibit the student from attending class or participating in a school-related activity, or as a basis of a charge of child abuse, child neglect or medical or educational neglect.
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0141.1&session_year=2005&session_number=1
Title: H.F. 141 - Multiple Components
Source: http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | 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 department to work with each district and the state charter school institute to determine whether a school's report will be printed in Spanish and the number of reports to be printed in Spanish for each selected public school.
Section 6: Requires state acceditation process to be based on individual student improvement (in addition to student achievement), both in the subjects tested in the state assessment system (reading, writing, math and science) and in subjects for which there are state model content standards but no statewide assessment.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/489B14D223FBDD2087256F5D006BE665?open&file=214_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 214 (Section 4-6)
Source: www.leg.state.co.us
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | 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 schools which includes a description of how the parent or legal guardian will be involved in the education of the pupil; requires the Department of Education to prescribe a code of honor relating to cheating.
http://leg.state.nv.us/73rd/bills/SB/SB214_EN.pdf
Title: S.B. 214
Source: StateNet
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| AK | (H) PERMANENTLY FILED LEGIS RESOLVE 19 05/2005 | P-12 | Proclaiming July 24, 2005, as Parents' Day. States that the Alaska State Legislature encourages all parents to commit themselves to responsible and nurturing parenting to ensure the sound development of their children and to build strong and healthy communities. http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill_text.asp?hsid=HCR011Z&session=24
Title: H.C.R. 11
Source: www.legis.state.ak.us
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| FL | Vetoed 05/2005 | P-12 | 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 purposes of
classification or placement for special education for any disorder listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the parent must be notified that:
(a) The behaviors prompting the evaluation could be the result of underlying physical conditions.
(b) The parent should consider consulting a medical doctor to rule out physical causes.
(c) The parent has the right to decline the evaluation.
(d) The evaluation and subsequent classification or placement may be documented on the student's cumulative record.
(Vetoed because similar bill enacted, S.B. 1090: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/bills_detail.aspx?Id=16186&iSessionSelectedIndex=1&sBillSubjectText=&sBillNumberText=1090&iSponsorSelectedIndex=0&iBillListSelectedIndex=0&sStatueAmendedText=&iBillTypeSelectedIndex=0&iReferredToSelectedIndex=0&iChamberSelectedIndex=1&iBillSearchListPageIndex=0)
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/bills_detail.aspx?Id=15715&iSessionSelectedIndex=1&sBillSubjectText=&sBillNumberText=1090&iSponsorSelectedIndex=0&iBillListSelectedIndex=0&sStatueAmendedText=&iBillTypeSelectedIndex=0&iReferredToSelectedIndex=0&iChamberSelectedIndex=1&iBillSearchListPageIndex=0
Title: H.B. 209
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov
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| MN | EFFECTIVE DATE '05-'06 SCHOOL YEAR AND LATER 05/2005 | P-12 | A parent or guardian of twins or higher order multiples may request that the children be placed in the same classroom or in separate classrooms if the children are in the same grade level at the same school. The school may recommend classroom placement to the parents and provide professional education advice to the parents to assist them in making the best decision for their children's education. A school must provide the placement requested by the children's parent or guardian, unless the school board makes a classroom placement determination following the school principal's request according to this section. The parent or guardian must request the classroom placement no later than 14 days after the first day of each school year or 14 days after the first day of attendance of the children during a school year if the children are enrolled in the school after the school year commences. At the end of the initial grading period, if the school principal, in consultation with the children's classroom teacher, determines that the requested classroom placement is disruptive to the school, the school principal may request that the school board determine the children's classroom placement.
Title: S.F. 180
Source: StateNet
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| MO | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | This act requires the State Board of Education to adopt a policy by December 1, 2005, that encourages effective involvement by parents and families in support of the education of their children. The act delineates elements and goals for the development of the policy adopted by the State Board. Further, the act requires the Board of Education of each school district to adopt policies no later than March 1, 2006, that encourage effective involvement by parents and families in support of their children and the education of their children. This act is identical to SB 1208 (2004)
http://www.senate.mo.gov/05info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=21100
Title: S.B. 480
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Clarifies requirements regarding parental notification by school personnel of student misconduct, law enforcement access to a student or a student's being taken into custody. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB2688.pdf
Title: H.B. 2688
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | 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" include academic advisement for class selection by establishing academic goals in elementary, middle, and high school; interpretation of criterion-referenced and norm-referenced testing and dissemination of results to the school, students, parents, and community; academic assessment counseling and career counseling, including advising students on the national college assessments, workforce opportunities, and and alternative programs that could provide postsecondary opportunities for students; and guidance in understanding the relationship between classroom performance and success in school.
Specifies that the psychological services offered through a district's student services program include consultation and counseling with parents, students, and school personnel to ensure that all students are ready to succeed and that all students are preparing for college and work.
Specifies that the career services offered through a district's student services program include the dissemination of appropriate course-taking patterns and the effect of taking more rigorous courses so that students are better prepared for college and work success.
Requires every school counselor to provide a career planning process for each student to include career awareness, employment readiness, career information, and the knowledge and skill necessary to achieve career goals. Requires school counselors to also encourage parents, during regular parent conferences, to support partnerships in their children's learning and career planning process.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2868.pdf
Title: H.B. 2868
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | 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 with the legislature and the department of education on the (1) inclusion of parents in the resulting district's activities, including parent-teacher associations, booster clubs and parent involvement committees; (2) the extent of student participation in extracurricular activities, itemized by each extracurricular activity offered by the district and for each activity indicate which district the student attended prior to reorganization; and (3) the employment status of each administrator by name, gender and race before the annexation or consolidation, which school employed the administrator prior to consolidation, and his or her employment status in the receiving or resulting school district.
Requires resulting school districts to use a state-approved instrument to survey parents and students on: (1) Opportunities for inclusion or participation in the resulting or receiving school district; and (2) The efforts, if any, that were made to include parents from the affected school district in the receiving or resulting school district's activities, including but not limited to parent-teacher associations, booster clubs, and parent involvement committees.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2646.pdf
Title: H.B. 2646
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | 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 boards to adopt policies that require parental notification when a law enforcement officer interviews a student on school grounds. Provides both optional and mandatory parameters for such policies, including under what circumstances a parent may be present when a law enforcement officer interviews the student.
Expands school crime reporting requirements to mandate that school report cards report the total number of incidents that occurred not only on school grounds but also at school bus stops, on school buses and at school sponsored events that required a law enforcement officer, including a certified peace officer who serves as a school resource officer, to be contacted. Specifies that the total number of incidents reported must only include reports that law enforcement officers report to the school are supported by probable cause.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1044
Title: S.B. 1044
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Transfers the family literacy program from the state board's division of adult education to the division of early childhood education programs. Adds that the representative of an adult education provider funded by the division of adult education on any project team can be filled by a provider that complies with the policies, academic standards, performance outcomes, assessment and data collection requirements of adult education as prescribed by the division of adult education. In required grant application provisions, allows application to include determination that the family literacy programs will document efforts to continually recruit eligible families in place of a determination that at least ten but no more than twenty parents with children will be eligible for and enrolled in the family literacy program at all times.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2050
Title: H.B. 2050
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Vetoed 04/2005 | P-12 | Requires every local board, in consultation with parents, teachers and administrators, to develop and adopt a policy to promote the involvement of parents and guardians of children enrolled in the schools within the school district, including:
--PROCEDURES BY WHICH PARENTS MAY LEARN ABOUT CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES THAT ARE PART OF THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM AND EXTRACURRICULAR CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES THAT HAVE BEEN APPROVED BY THE SCHOOL.
--PROCEDURES BY WHICH PARENTS MAY LEARN ABOUT PARENTAL RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES UNDER THE LAWS OF THIS STATE, INCLUDING A DOCUMENT THAT IS NOT INTENDED TO EXCEED TWO PAGES AND THAT CONTAINS A SUMMARY AND A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING:
(a) THE RIGHT TO OPT OUT OF SEX EDUCATION CURRICULUM IF ONE IS PROVIDED BY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT PURSUANT TO RULES ADOPTED BY THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
(b) OPEN ENROLLMENT RIGHTS PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-816.01.
(c) HOME SCHOOLING RIGHTS PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 15-745, 15-802 AND 15-802.01.
(d) THE RIGHT TO OPT OUT OF ASSIGNMENTS
(e) THE RIGHT TO OPT OUT OF IMMUNIZATIONS
(f) THE RIGHT TO ENGLISH IMMERSION WAIVERS AND THE RIGHT TO PURSUE LEGAL ACTION FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS RIGHT
(g) THE RIGHT TO SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES
(h) THE PROMOTION REQUIREMENTS PRESCRIBED IN SECTION 15-701.
(i) THE MINIMUM COURSE OF STUDY AND COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL PRESCRIBED IN SECTION 15-701.01.
(j) THE RIGHT TO OPT OUT OF INSTRUCTION ON THE ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-716.
(k) THE RIGHT TO REVIEW TEST RESULTS PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-743.
(l) THE RIGHT TO GIFTED PROGRAMS PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-770.
(m) THE RIGHT TO ACCESS INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-730.
(n) THE RIGHT TO RECEIVE A SCHOOL REPORT CARD PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-746.
(o) THE ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS PRESCRIBED IN SECTIONS 15-802, 15-803 AND 15-821.
(p) THE RIGHT TO PUBLIC REVIEW OF COURSES OF STUDY AND TEXTBOOKS PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-721.
(q) THE RIGHT TO BE EXCUSED FROM SCHOOL ATTENDANCE FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-806.
(r) POLICIES RELATED TO PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION.
(s) THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE ON SCHOOL COUNCILS PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-351.
(t) THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A PARENTAL SATISFACTION SURVEY PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-353.
(u) INFORMATION ABOUT THE STUDENT ACCOUNTABILITY INFORMATION SYSTEM AS PRESCRIBED IN SECTION 15-1042.
(v) THE RIGHT TO ACCESS THE FAILING SCHOOLS TUTORING FUND PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-241.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2431
Title: H.B. 2431
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | 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 parent the long-term ramifications to the student of dropping out of school.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/3482A575C7AF359787256F81006BF303?Open&file=164_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 164
Source: www.leg.state.co.us
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | 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 knowingly allowed such pupil to become an habitual truant. Identifies such parent or guardian as guilty of a misdemeanor. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1066.html
Title: S.B. 1066
Source: www3.state.id.us
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | 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 materials, and developmentally appropriate screening and diagnostic assessments of student competency in mathematics and reading. Also requires the department to provide access to samples of units of study, annotated student work, diagnostic instruments, and research findings, and give guidance on parental engagement.
Also requires that the department conduct an annual review of the state grant programs it manages and make recommendations, when needed, to the Interim Joint Committee on Education for changes to statutory requirements that are necessary to gain a greater return on investment.
Requires the department to provide administrative support and oversight to programs to train classroom coaches and mentors to help teachers with reading and mathematics instruction. Declares an emergency.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93.htm
Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93/FN.doc
Title: H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraph 4)
Source: lrc.ky.gov
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| MT | Signed into law 03/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Create parents as scholars program. For the purpose of this program(1) "Approved educational program" means:
(a) a program in a unit of the Montana university system, as provided in 20-25-201, a community college, a tribal college, or any other accredited college in Montana in which an individual is enrolled in pursuit of an associate's or baccalaureate degree; or
(b) an accredited high school or training program approved by the department by rule.
http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/2005/billhtml/HB0555.htm
Title: H.B. 555
Source: StateNet
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| UT | Vetoed 03/2005 | P-12 | Prohibits school personnel from making certain medical recommendations for a minor, including the use of psychotropic drugs; prohibits the removal of a minor from parental custody based on a parent's refusal to consent to the administration of psychotropic drugs; prohibits the consideration of a petition for removal of a minor from parental custody based on a parent's refusal to consent to the administration of psychotropic drugs. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2005/bills/hbillenr/hb0042.pdf
Title: H.B. 42
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Provides that the noncustodial parent of a student enrolled in a public school or day care center must be included, upon the request of such noncustodial parent, as an emergency contact for events occurring during school or day care activities. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0034
Title: S.B. 981
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | An act to ensure the continuation of district honor roll and academic achievement recognition programs. Specifies that no district may be prohibited from identifying students for honor roll, for valedictorian and salutatorian, or for other academic honors. Allows any parent or student who does not want to have the student identified as an honor student or listed on the honor roll to submit a written request to the principal of the school requesting that the student not be identified. Requires school and district to honor such written request.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb250.pdf
Title: S.B. 250
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| OH | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | Designates the fourth week of September as Parent's Week; revises provisions governing child support collection. Qualifies teachers employed by chartered nonpublic schools for annual stipends for holding valid certificates issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Allows students who otherwise must pass the ninth grade proficiency tests for a high school diploma to substitute passage of the Ohio Graduation Test in a particular subject for passage of the ninth grade test in the same subject to satisfy that testing requirement.
http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses125/04-hb493-revised-125.pdf
http://lsc.state.oh.us/analyses/analysis125.nsf/6407a071d8587c3c85256da200703bb6/
Title: H.B. 493
Source: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us
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| NY | Signed into law 01/2005 | P-12 | Authorizes caregivers to review school records and to consent to medical and dental diagnosis and treatment of a minor child, excuse absences from school and participation in school sponsored activities.
Title: S.B. 6818
Source: StateNet
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