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From the ECS State Policy Database
2005 State Policies / Activities

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The following summary includes policies enacted in 2005. This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the topic of interest. To view all, press the button located at the top labeled "Expand All."

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- At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)
VAAdopted 12/2005P-12Emergency 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 apprenticeship programs. http://legis.state.va.us/codecomm/register/vol22/iss09/v22i9.pdf (pg.207)
Title: 6 VAC 35-190-10 thru -120
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/codecomm/register/issfiles.htm

COAdopted 11/2005P-12The 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 being submitted for funding, the capacity of the staff for the program to deliver the services and a description of how the program will be evaluated for effectiveness. The department will apply the following criteria for awarding grants: the demonstrated need for the program including dropout rates, the
extent to which the program utilizes an arts-based or vocational activity program, the percentage of minority students to be served, free and reduced lunch rates at the school, the quality of the program used to address the needs, the number of students who will participate in the program, the quality of the evaluation and the cost effectiveness of the services.
http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeboard/download/bdregs_301-66.pdf
Title: 1 CCR 301-66
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

CASigned into law 10/2005P-12An 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 "school of origin" or a school to which they are "connected" when placement disputes arise. In addition, each local educational agency shall designate a staff person as the educational liaison for foster children.
Title: H.B. 1261
Source: StateNet

CAConsideration of governor's veto pending 09/2005P-12An 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 plans are required to contain. Provides that the requirements for an at-risk pupil plan be satisfied in any school in which a study team, guidance team, resource panel team, or other assessment-related team has been established and is willing to participate in the development of an at-risk pupil plan.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0451-0500/ab_455_bill_20050819_enrolled.pdf

Title: A.B. 455
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov

ILSigned into law 08/2005P-12Provides 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

NCSigned into law 08/2005P-12Directs 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, effective policies, and model programs in areas such as (i) academic rigor in the curriculum, (ii) early identification of at-risk students, (iii) effective supplemental services for at risk students, (iv) school size, (v) school climate, and (vi) adolescent literacy programs, as they relate to a reduction in the dropout rate.
The State Board shall report its findings to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee by January 2006.

Bill text: http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S408v3.pdf
Preliminary report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/sbe_meetings/0512/0512_HSP09.pdf
Title: S.B. 408
Source: StateNet

ORSigned into law 07/2005P-12When a juvenile court determines that it is in a childĒs 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 which the
child resided prior to the placement; and (B) May continue to attend the school the child attended prior to the placement through
the highest grade level of the school. The public agency that has placed the child is responsible for providing the child with transportation to and from school when the need for transportation is due to the placement by the public agency. http://www.leg.state.or.us/05reg/measpdf/hb3000.dir/hb3075.en.pdf
Title: H.B. 3075
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us

COSigned into law 06/2005P-12Authorizes 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 the outcomes and effectiveness of the program, related to school attendance, attachment and achievement.

http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/86586AF58A7872A987256FB6006E7A5F?Open&file=1311_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1311
Source: www.leg.state.co.us

COSigned into law 06/2005P-12Requires 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 in which the child is enrolled, while not providing the inmate with information that might pose a safety threat to the child or child's family. Requires the department of corrections to collect information on programs that assist students whose parents are incarcerated.

http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/B2C5BB6B29EBD39187256F39006FBF9E?Open&file=1088_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1088
Source: www.leg.state.co.us

HISigned into law 06/2005P-12
Postsec.
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 services; and
(3) Vocational training and retraining. Makes an appropriation for these.

Requires the department of education to consult with the Joint Venture Education Forum to establish a priority listing of public schools that are impacted by a large population of military dependent students. In the development of the priority listing, requires the department to consider establishing priority schools with a twenty per cent or more or one hundred or more population of dependent military students.

Requires the University of Hawaii to establish a program to allow readmission to military members who have been deployed. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb1394_sd1_.htm
Title: S.B. 1394
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov

COSigned into law 05/2005P-12Creates 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 public and charter schools serving any grades 6-12 and that received a "low" or "unsatisfactory" rating in the state accountability system for the school year preceding the school year in which the school is seeking a grant for the program.

States that a qualified school seeking grant program funding must apply to its local board for permission to apply to the department for a grant. If the district board grants permission, directs the qualified school to submit an application to the department. Defines a "qualified community organization" as a nonprofit or not-for-profit, nonsectarian, community-based organization that provides before- and after-school, arts-based or vocational activity programs to low-income youth in grades 6-12. Allows a qualified community organization to seek a program grant by entering into a partnership agreement with a qualified school. Requires the department to review each grant application received and to make recommendations to the state board on the awarding of program grants. Specifies that first priority must be given to schools that have had high dropout rates for the 3 years prior to the submission of the application, and that the department must also fund schools with high percentages of minority and low-income students. Also requires the department to consider the format of the program and determine its cost-effectiveness, the number of students who will be able to participate, and the quality of the experience offered, with the goal of funding arts-based and vocational activity programs that offer a large number of students the opportunity to directly participate in and experience an arts-based or vocational activity. Encourages the department to fund programs that have a school-business or include a community service component, so that programs demonstrate a connection with the community outside the school and provide a benefit to that community.

Creates the dropout prevention activity grant fund.

Requires each qualified school that receives a program grant to report to the department, for each year in which it receives a grant, a description of the arts-based or vocational activity program, the projects accomplished through the program, and the number of participating students. Directs the department to annually report to the education committees of the general assembly and to the governor on the number and amounts of dropout prevention activity program grants awarded, a description of the programs that received funding, the number of students participating in the programs, and the dropout rates for the schools where the funded arts-based and vocational activity programs were operated.

Requires that for income tax years commencing on and after January 1, 2005, but before January 1, 2008, a voluntary contributor designation line for the program shall appear on individual income tax forms. Repeals voluntary contributor designation line for the program effective January 1, 2009.

http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/0AF7F5020FB4A25987256F5C007F669F?Open&file=1024_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1024
Source: www.leg.state.co.us

COSigned into law 05/2005P-12Defines "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 school district; (2) work at least half-time in a qualified position in a rural district or, beginning in the 2005-2006 school year, full-time in a qualified position if employed in a district other than a rural district; and (3) will be liable for an outstanding balance on a CollegeInvest loan or a loan through a lender with an agreement with CollegeInvest to offer loans.

Specifies that if a teacher qualifies for the teacher loan forgiveness pilot program by working in a high-poverty elementary school in a rural district and in a subsequent academic year the school is no longer classified as a high-poverty elementary school in a rural district, the teacher may continue to participate in the teacher loan forgiveness pilot program if he/she continues to teach in the same school. Adds, however, that a participating teacher who transfers to a nonqualifying school forfeits participant status.

Requires the department to annually identify high-poverty elementary schools in rural districts.

http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/77BA02C2AD41CBA087256F90007DF598?Open&file=191_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 191
Source: www.leg.state.co.us

TNto governor 05/2005P-12A resolution to urge increased funding for the development and expansion of dropout prevention programs in Tennessee.
Title: H.J.R. 117
Source: Westlaw/StateNet

TNSigned into law 05/2005P-12From 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 dropout prevention programs. Current law provides that to the extent funding is available, on each occasion that an initiative is selected as a model dropout prevention program, the model program is to receive from the state department a grant in the amount of $6,000. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/HJR0117.pdf
Title: H.J.R. 117
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us

WASigned into law 05/2005P-12Revises 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.
Title: H.B. 1066
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov

ARSigned into law 04/2005P-12Authorizes 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
Title: H.B. 2604
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us

ARSigned into law 04/2005P-12Increases the number and availability of social workers in the public schools. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1187.pdf
Title: S.B. 1187
Source: StateNet

ARSigned into law 04/2005P-12Amends 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 because they have been placed in an alternative learning environment program. Clarifies attendance record requirements for purposes of state funding. Adds definitions of the teacher's salary fund, operating fund and debt service fund. Modifies language defining "National school lunch students." Modifies formula for calculating student growth funding for 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 school years.

Adds language that a school district that has experienced a significant growth in enrolled students in the previous 3 years must receive funding for the expected increase in the number of national school lunch students based on the expected increase in enrolled students based on the levels of funding provided in this section for national school lunch students. Requires the state board to adopt rules determining specified provisions of this policy.

ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/bills/2005/public/SB939.pdf
Title: S.B. 939
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us

COSigned into law 04/2005P-12Requires 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

MTSigned into law 04/2005P-12Defines 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 States or who are American Indians and come from an environment in which a language other than English has had a significant impact on the student.

Add the definition of "at-risk" student to mean "any student who is affected by environmental conditions that negatively impact the student's educational performance or threaten a student's likelihood of promotion or graduation," and defines "student with limited English proficiency."

http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/2005/billhtml/SB0152.htm
Title: S.B. 152
Source: StateNet

WAPartially Vetoed 04/2005P-12From 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 related to school attendance, including the implementation of the Becca bill and other school attendance measures. The work group would include the Administrator for the Courts and court judges, among others. OSPI would be required to report the findings of the work group no later than January 10, 2006. It is assumed that work group participants would be reimbursed out of the appropriated funds. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2005-06/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202005/1708-S.SL.pdf
Title: H.B. 1708
Source: StateNet

WASigned into law 04/2005P-12HB 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 family income factors measuring economic needs. The bill does not detail the specific formula change, exact measure(s) of economic need to use for allocation, or the weights to apply one or more measures of economic need. From fiscal note: This legislation is a request of Governor Locke, necessary to implement his LAP budget proposal. In his budget proposal Governor Locke assumed one the following formulas as appropriate for calculating the LAP distribution. 1. For district where the percentage of October headcount enrollment in grades K-12 eligible for free or reduced price lunch is 40 percent or less: The district's full-time equivalent enrollment in grades K-11 for the prior school year multiplied by the district's percentage of October headcount enrollment in grades K-12 eligible for free or reduced price lunch and then multiplied by $163.61.* 2. For district where the percentage of October headcount enrollment in grades K-12 eligible for free or reduced price lunch exceeds 40 percent: The district's full-time equivalent enrollment in grades K-11 for the prior school year multiplied by the district's percentage of October headcount enrollment in grades K-12 eligible for free or reduced price lunch times 1.80 and then multiplied by $163.61. 3. Further, an additional amount is allocated to a school district for each school year in which the district's allocation is less than the amount the district received for LAP in the 2004-05 school year (hold harmless allocation). The amount of the hold harmless allocation maintains the 2004-05 school year allocation level for all districts, each year of the biennium. *$163.61 is allocated per LAP student in 2005-06; $164.96 in 2006-07. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2005-06/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1066.PL.pdf
Title: H.B. 1066
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov

ARSigned into law 03/2005P-12Ensures 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 court proceeding, or the child's attendance at court-ordered counseling or treatment. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB1710.pdf
Title: H.B. 1710
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us

ILSigned into law 01/2005P-12Amends 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. Further amends the School Code to make changes to the ballot forms for school board elections. Amends provisions concerning enrollment of pupils below or above the compulsory school age; specifies circumstances under which a school or school district may deny enrollment to a student 17 years of age or older for one semester for failure to meet minimum attendance or academic standards. Defines "reenrolled student". Changes eligibility age for graduation incentives program to "below the age of 20". http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09300HB0757enr&GA=93&SessionId=3&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=1162&DocNum=757&GAID=3&Session=
Title: H.B. 757
Source: StateNet

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+ Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining--Strikes
+ Technology
+ Technology--Computer Skills
+ Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware
+ Technology--Equitable Access
+ Technology--Funding Issues
+ Technology--Internet Safety
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