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State |
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Summary |
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 | Accountability |
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| Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
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| Accountability--Reporting Results |
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| Accountability--Rewards |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive |
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| Accountability--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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| Parent/Family--Parent Rights |
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| Partnerships--University/School |
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| Postsecondary |
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| Postsecondary Accountability |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Diploma Mills |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Undocumented Immigrants |
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| Postsecondary Faculty |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Compensation |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Intellectual Property |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Teaching Assistants |
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| Postsecondary Finance |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Private/Independent |
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| Postsecondary Online Instruction |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Access |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Affirmative Action |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Outreach |
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| Postsecondary Students--Disabled |
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| Postsecondary Students--Minority |
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| Postsecondary Success--Completion |
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| Postsecondary Success--Developmental/Remediation |
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| Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
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| Private Schools |
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| Privatization |
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| Promotion/Retention |
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| Reading/Literacy |
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| Religion |
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| Religion--Prayer/Meditation |
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| Rural |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Day/Class Length |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Summer School |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Year |
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| School Safety |
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| School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
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| School Safety--Code of Conduct |
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| School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension |
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| School Safety--No Child Left Behind--Safe Schools |
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| School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
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| School Safety--Special Education |
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| School Safety--Uniforms/Dress Codes |
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 | School/District Structure/Operations |
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2005 | P-12 | An act to add Article 8 (commencing with Section 41580) to Chapter 3.2 of Part 24 of the Education Code, relating to school finance. - School Transportation Block Grant. This bill requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to apportion block grant funds to a school district to cover costs for special education transportation and costs associated with rural and isolated locations.
Title: H.B. 1110
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2005 | P-12 | This bill specifies requirements and procedures that follow from school district reorganization and consolidation, including school board elections and tax revenue and state aid.
Title: H.B. 1642
Source: StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Allows for the deactivation of an elementary school facility in the same manner as the deactivation of a high school facility, when it is determined such students would be best served by being sent to schools in other districts. Effective immediately. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0213
Title: H.B. 1324
Source: StateNet
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| PA | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Amends funding formula for allocating library funds in 2005-2006. Includes a district center restoration amount. http://www2.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/BI/BT/2005/0/HB1304P2562.pdf
Title: H.B. 1304
Source: http://www2.legis.state.pa.us
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| CA | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Existing law authorizes a county committee on school district organization, except as specified, to establish, rearrange the boundaries of,
and abolish trustee areas, and to make specified changes to the governing boards of school districts. Existing law authorizes a county committee on school district organization to establish a common governing board for a high school district and an elementary school district within the boundaries of the high school district by presenting the issue to the qualified registered voters within those boundaries, as specified.
This bill extends these provisions to the abolition of a common governing board. Existing law provides that a proposal to make any of the changes described above may be initiated by the county committee or made to the county committee either by a petition signed by a certain number of qualified registered voters residing in the district, as provided, or by resolution of the governing board of the district. Requires that the necessary signatures for a petition be obtained within a period of 180 days before the submission of the petition to the county committee.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0801-0850/ab_835_bill_20050630_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 835
Source: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CT | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | 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-threatening food allergies, including training related to the administration of medication with a cartridge injector pursuant to subsection (d) of section 10-212a of the general statutes, (2) procedures for responding to life-threatening allergic reactions to food, (3) a process for the development of individualized health care and food allergy action plans for every student with a life-threatening food allergy, and (4) protocols to prevent exposure to food allergens.
Requires each local and regional board of education, by July 2006, to implement a plan, based on the department guidelines, for the management of students with life-threatening food allergies enrolled in the schools under its jurisdiction. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2005/act/Pa/2005PA-00104-R00SB-01312-PA.htm
Title: S.B. 1312
Source: www.cga.ct.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Establishes procedures for 2 elementary districts in a Class II county school unit to join with a high school district provided specified requirements are met.
Effective immediately. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0432
Title: S.B. 1493
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | 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 and that the residents are required to organize their own district or join an adjoining unified school district. Requires the county superintendent to prepare a ballot question for the next election to determine whether to create a unified school district or join an adjacent district. Establishes procedures for a county superintendent to propose an election to establish a unified school district on unorganized territory or join an adjacent district. States that if the newly established unified school district is unable to provide a complete academic program to students in the district, the districtg may transport students to an adjacent school district. Requires unorganized territory joining an adjacent district to provide the same educational services currently provided to students in the current boundaries of the district to all students within the revised boundaries at the beginning of the next school year.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1199
Title: S.B. 1199
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | 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 membership. Requires the task force to develop recommendations to minimize the paperwork burden placed on school districts and school district personnel. Requires the task force to report its findings and recommendations to the legislature by February 1, 2006. States that task force will be abolished upon transmittal of the report to the legislature. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/loadDoc.aspx?FileName=_h0281er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0281&Session=2005
Title: H.B. 281
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Requires each district school board to develop a plan to sponsor a summer nutrition program beginning in the summer of 2006. Provides criteria for operating program sites. Authorizes exemption from sponsoring said program and provides procedures therefor. Authorizes school boards to encourage not-for-profit entities to sponsor said program under certain circumstances. Authorizes the superintendent of schools to collaborate with municipal and county governmental agencies and private, not-for-profit leaders in implementing the plan.
Requires the department to provide to each local board by February 15 of each year a list of local organizations that have filed letters of intent to participate in the summer nutrition program in order for the board to be able to determine how many sites are needed to serve the children and where to place each site.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/bills_detail.aspx?Id=15724&iSessionSelectedIndex=1&sBillSubjectText=&sBillNumberText=227&iSponsorSelectedIndex=0&iBillListSelectedIndex=0&sStatueAmendedText=&iBillTypeSelectedIndex=0&iReferredToSelectedIndex=0&iChamberSelectedIndex=2&iBillSearchListPageIndex=0
Title: H.B. 227
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Authorizes the department of education to set school lunch prices of up to 1/2, rather than 1/3, of the cost of preparing the lunches, to allow for cost recovery from lunch sales. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/hb843_.htm
Title: H.B. 843
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| MO | DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR 05/2005 | P-12 | This bill removes the requirement that school districts take an annual census of children up to age 21 with disabilities, removes obsolete provisions concerning funding for the census, and removes references to the repealed sections
Title: H.B. 258
Source: StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | AN ACT ALLOWING A SCHOOL DISTRICT TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES AT AN OFFSITE INSTRUCTIONAL SETTING TO CHILDREN ATTENDING SCHOOL IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT; REQUIRING THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION TO ADOPT RULES; REVISING THE DEFINITION OF "AVERAGE NUMBER BELONGING" TO CLARIFY THE INCLUSION OF PUPILS EDUCATED OFFSITE; DEFINING "OFFSITE INSTRUCTIONAL SETTING"; AMENDING SECTION 20-1-101, MCA; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE AND AN APPLICABILITY DATE
Title: S.B. 224
Source: StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | From bill analysis: Requires school districts to allow employees an opportunity to apply for an open position by posting notice of job vacancies for at least 10 school days in the following places: on a bulletin board, at a place convenient to the public in the district's central administrative office; on the district's Internet website if the district has a website; and by publishing the position in a newspaper of general circulation in the district. S.B. 387 also allows the district to fill the position in an emergency situation. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=79&SESS=R&CHAMBER=S&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=00387&VERSION=5&TYPE=B
Title: S.B. 387
Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | From bill analysis: SB 493 states that at least once each even-numbered year the commissioner of education is required to review and, to the extent possible, reduce written reports and other paperwork required of a school district by the agency. The commissioner is to adopt a policy that limits written reports and other paperwork that a principal or classroom teacher may be required by the agency to complete. Additionally, the Education Code is amended in that the commissioner may authorize special accreditation investigations to be conducted in response to repeated complaints submitted to the TEA concerning imposition of excessive paperwork requirements on classroom teachers. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=79&SESS=R&CHAMBER=S&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=00493&VERSION=5&TYPE=B
Title: S.B. 493
Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/
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| WA | to governor 05/2005 | P-12 | Subject to funding, requires school districts, by the 2005-06 school year, to begin school breakfast programs in schools in which more
than 40 percent of the students qualify for free or reduced price lunches. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to consult with certain education interests when adopting the criteria for waiving school meal requirements.
Title: H.B. 1771
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | An act to restrict school districts from employing relatives of board members.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB1867.pdf
Title: H.B. 1867
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | 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
Title: S.B. 591
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | 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 district as a whole. Bars the state board from allowing an isolated school to be closed if it finds the closure will have any negative impact on desegregation efforts or will violate any valid court order from a court of proper jurisdiction.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB1289.pdf
Title: H.B. 1289
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | 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 facilities master plan program; an academic facilities custodial, maintenance, repair, and renovation manual; a public school academic facility manual; a public school academic equipment manual; and an academic facilities distress program. Defines each of the components of the Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program and the areas each component must address.
Establishes the provisions of the academic facilites master plan program, which requires every local board to approve a ten-year districtwide facilities master plan for submission to and approval by the division of public school academic facilities and transportation. Specifies the required content of every district's facilities master plan.
Requires the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation to identify a public school or school district as being in academic facilities distress if the division determines that the public school or school district has engaged in actions or inactions that result in any act or violation determined by the division to jeopardize any academic facility used by a public school or school district, or any other condition of an academic facility or facilities in a public school or school district that is determined by the division to have a detrimental impact on educational services provided by that public school or school district. Requires the division to provide the district with written notification of its being in academic facilities distress. Requires a public school or school district identified as being in facilities distress to develop a facilities improvement plan within 30 days from the date of receipt of the notice and promptly submit the facilities improvement plan to the division for review and approval, and revise the plan on a periodic basis.
Authorizes the division to:
--Provide on-site technical evaluation and assistance to any school district identified to be in facilities distress, and to make recommendations to the district superintendent regarding the care and maintenance of any academic facility in the district. Requires the district in facilities distress to accept such on-site technical evaluation and assistance.
--Require the superintendent to relinquish all administrative authority with respect to the school district and appoint an individual in place of the superintendent to administratively operate the school district under the supervision and approval of the Director of the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation.
--Suspend or remove all of the current board members and call for the election of a new school board for the district, in which case the school district must reimburse the county board of election commissioners for election costs as otherwise required by law;
--Require the school district to operate without a local board under the supervision of the local superintendent or an individual or panel appointed by the director of the division;
--Return the administration of the school district to the former board or place the administration of the school district in a newly elected school board;
--Require school district staff and employees to attend training in areas of concern for the public school or school district;
--Require a school district to cease immediately all expenditures related to activities not described as part of an adequate education in § 6-20-2302 and place money that would have been spent on the activities into an academic facilities escrow account to be released only upon approval by the division for use in conjunction with a local academic facilities project.
--Notify the public school or school district in writing that the deficiencies regarding academic facilities must be corrected within a
time period designated by the division;
--Petition the state board at any time for the consolidation, annexation, or reconstitution of a school district in facilities distress or take other appropriate action as specified in statute in order to secure and protect the best interest of the educational resources of the state or to provide for the best interests of students in the school district. Allows the state board to consolidate, annex, reconstitute any school district that fails to remove itself from the classification of a school district in facilities distress within two consecutive school years of receipt of notice of identification of facilities distress status by the division; and
--Take any other action allowed by law that is deemed necessary to assist a public school or school district in removing criteria of facilities distress.
Allows a district to appeal the state board's consolidation, annexation, or reconstitution decision to the Commission for Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation. Authorizes the commission to reverse the action of the state board if the commission finds that the school district could not remove itself from facilities distress due to external forces beyond the school district's control.
Allows any student attending a public school district classified as being in facilities distress to be automatically eligible to transfer to another geographically contiguous school district not in facilities distress during the time period that a district is classified as being in facilities distress. Requires transportation costs to be paid by the resident district and the nonresident district to count the student for average daily membership purposes.
Requires the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation to conduct random unannounced on-site inspections of all academic facilities that have been funded wholly or in part by moneys from the state to ensure compliance with the school district's facilities master plan and, if applicable, the school district's facilities improvement plan. Requires the division to report to the Commission for Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation within 30 days of completion of the on-site inspections.
Establishes a process for a school district to appeal any determination of the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation to the Commission for Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation.
Repeals Arkansas Code § 6-20-1402 on school districts' authority to borrow money for building or repairing school facilities and Arkansas Code § 6-11-130 on custodial and maintenance care for school facilities.
Full text of bill as enacted: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/SB593.pdf
Title: S.B. 593
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | 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
Title: H.B. 2732
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Ensures the continuation of efforts to close the achievement gaps in school districts subject to reorganization or reclassification. Requires a receiving or resulting school district in a school consolidation to obtain and retain all student and historical records and documents from the
affected school district, specifically including, but not limited to: (1) Student transcripts; (2) Graduation records; (3) Minutes and other legal documents of the local board of directors; (4) Maps or boundary documents; (5) Sports records, trophies, and awards; (6) Employee records; and (7) Financial records.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1028.pdf
Title: S.B. 1028
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Assists resulting school districts with debt relief resulting from a consolidation required by law. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB2734.pdf
Title: H.B. 2734
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Requires the house interim committee on education and the senate interim committee to jointly conduct a study of education service cooperatives relative to instructional improvements and support services to the department of education and local school districts. Requires the committees to complete the study and make their findings and recommendations by October 31, 2006. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2645.pdf
Title: H.B. 2645
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | 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 falsify any grade given to a student, whether the grade was given for an individual assignment or examination or at the conclusion of a regular grading period. Deletes references to voluntary surrender of license. Allows state board to determine an applicant for a noncertified position in a district ineligible for employment has pleaded guilty or nolo contendere for specified crimes; is required to pass an examination as a requirement of his or her position and the applicant's completed examination test score was declared invalid because of the applicant's improper conduct; has an expunged or pardoned conviction for any sexual or physical abuse offense committed against a child; knowingly submits or provides false or misleading information or knowingly fails to submit or provide information requested or required by law to the department of education, the state board of education, or the division of legislative audit; or knowingly falsifies or directs another to falsify any grade given to a student, whether the grade was given for an individual assignment or examination or at the conclusion of a regular grading period.
Amends definition of "fraudulent act" in Arkansas Code § 6-17-421.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1044.pdf
Title: S.B. 1044 (sections 1-10)
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | 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 in effect at the time the lease became effective. Permits a district to sublease a school building or facility whenever that building or facility is not being used for educational purposes. Requires rent from a sublease to be placed in the district's general fund; allows rent to be used for any operational or capital purpose. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1448.pdf
Title: H.B. 1448
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | 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 included in the consolidation list required by § 6-13-1602 may be closed by the state board or a local school board until after completion of an assessment of public school facilities by the Joint Committee on Educational Facilities. Repeals section 6-13-1604 related to administrative consolidation assistance funds and 6-13-1605 on non-impact of reorganization on charter schools.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1044.pdf
Title: S.B. 1044 (sections 21-27)
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Requires notification of affected school districts of all planning, development, or redevelopment activity within a municipality or county. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1006.pdf
Title: S.B. 1006
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | 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 Facilities Immediate Repair Program to provide school districts with state financial participation for eligible repair projects based on the school district's academic facilities wealth index.
Establishes the Academic Equipment Program to support the purchase of eligible academic equipment based on the school district's academic facilities wealth index.
Establishes the Transitional Academic Facilities Program to provide state financial participation based on a school district's academic facilities wealth index in the form of reimbursement to a school district for eligible new construction projects for which debt is incurred or funds are spent after January 1, 2005, and on or before June 30, 2006. Under the transitional academic facilities program, a school district may proceed with new construction of an academic facility through the expenditure of local resources prior to the school district's eligibility for state financial participation and may apply the expenditure of local resources after January 1, 2005, and on or before June 30, 2006, toward meeting the school district's share of financial participation in the cost of the new construction project when, and if, the school district becomes eligible for state financial participation.
Establishes the Academic Facilities Partnership Program to provide state financial participation based on a school district's academic facilities wealth index in the form of cash payments to a school district for eligible new construction projects.
Establishes the Academic Facilities Catastrophic Program to award state financial participation to a school district based on a school district's academic facilities wealth index for eligible catastrophic repair and new construction projects for the purpose of supplementing insurance or other public or private emergency assistance received by or payable to the school district.
Requires the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation to establish formulas, to be updated annually, for determining the basic project cost per student for various types of new construction projects, including new academic facilities; additions to existing academic facilities; and major improvements to academic facilities that bring the state of condition or efficiency of the academic facility to a state of condition or efficiency better than the facility's original condition of completeness or efficiency.
Establishes legislative intent that school districts explore collaboration with other districts in pooling equipment, facilities and transportation.
Requires the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation to develop a program to provide emergency loans to eligible high-growth school districts for assistance with excess debt service requirements.
Allows a school district to appeal any determination of the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation under the Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Funding Act to the Commission on Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation.
Effective July 1, 2005, Arkansas Code Title 6, Chapter 20, Subchapter 24 is repealed.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2508.pdf
Title: H.B. 2508
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | States that the department of education is the sole and official issuer of local education agency numbers to educational entities in the state. Requires these numbers to be issued, activated, deactivated, or changed according to the department's annual schedule.
States that an educational entity is not to be recognized as a public school district or entitled to the rights and privileges of a school district solely because the educational entity has been assigned a local educational number.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1044.pdf
Title: S.B. 1044 (section 20)
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Increases 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
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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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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | 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 anticipated future needs to donate the property to a non-profit organization if donation thereof would serve a beneficial educational service for the students of the district. Adds providing community programs, social enrichment programs, or after-school programs for students who are from the district or to educate pupils from within the donating school district even if other persons in the community or students from outside the district might also benefit to the purposes that such donated property may fill.
States that if the school district donates real property to an entity, the district has right of first refusal to reacquire the real property if the entity decides to sell or otherwise dispose of the real property. States that the school district is not required to compensate the entity for any improvements to real property reacquired in this manner.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2936.pdf
Title: H.B. 2936
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | 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 district must be paid a retention bonus of $2,000 for the 2004-2005 school year as well as at the beginning of each of the next 2 subsequent years if the teacher continues to work in a high-priority district. Clarifies that a teacher not newly signed to work in a high-priority district who voluntarily leaves the district before the end of the 3-year period must pay back the bonus amount on a pro rata basis. Adds that a teacher not newly signed to work in a high-priority district is involuntarily reassigned to a position that is not eligible for bonus pay as part of the program or is dismissed involuntarily by a school district, the teacher is not required to repay the applicable bonus pay. Adds that if a teacher qualified to receive bonus pay as part of this program leaves the district due to a serious medical emergency, the teacher is not obligated to repay the bonus if the teacher provides a written statement from a licensed physician stating that the teacher is unable to work and must terminate his or her employment.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1044.pdf
Title: S.B. 1044 (section 31)
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | 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
Title: S.B. 1223
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | 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 sponsored practice sessions, games or other interscholastic athletic activities, including the provision of water.
Also repeals provision granting a school district and its employees immunity from liability for any good faith actions taken in regard to the state requirement to report to local law enforcement agencies any suspected crime against a person or property that is a serious offense as defined in section 13-604 or that involves a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument or serious physical injury and any conduct that poses a threat of death or serious physical injury to employees, students or anyone on the property of the school.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2368
Title: H.B. 2368
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Requires the school facilities board to provide school districts with information every two years on improving and maintaining the environmental quality in school buildings. Requires an environmental site assessment before approval of construction or renovation of a school building. Requries school facilities board to not approve a school building project if specified conditions are found in the assessment or building plans. Requires a school district that installed or renovated its HVAC system on or after the effective date of this act to ensure that the system meets specified requirements, and that an HVAC system installed or renovated before the effective date of this act to ensure that the HVAC system is maintained and operated in accordance with the prevailing maintenance and standards at the time of its installation or renovation.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1009
Title: S.B. 1009
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | 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 the consequences of good faith adoption and implementation of policies and procedures related to administration of medication to students.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1122
Title: S.B. 1122
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Establishes the 13-member School District Redistricting Commission to design a proposal to unify school districts in Arizona based on certain criteria. Requires the commission to submit a preliminary report on the proposed school district unification plan to the governing boards of the affected school districts by April 30, 2007. Requires the commission to consider the recommendations of the governing boards of the affected school districts and then design and submit to the governor on or before December 31, 2007 a proposed school district unification plan that includes (1) basing the unification plan on relevant academic and scientific research regarding school size, school district size, fiscal implications and legal issues; (2) considerations of geographic boundaries and travel time of pupils; (3) developing a plan for unorganized territories; (4) providing regional or statewide services for administration, instructional and noninstructional support services to rural or isolated schools and districts; (5) ensuring a smooth and efficient transition from the current number of school districts in this state to the number of school districts proposed in the school district unification plan, including specific considerations; (6) district naming conventions; (7) the review of existing statewide or regional educational service agencies and the establishment where necessary of new statewide or regional educational service agencies to provide for the noninstructional support of school districts in the state; (8) The restructuring of the state's school districts such that all districts serve students in at least all grades K-12, unless the commission determines otherwise; (9) Ensuring that the unification plan preserves local control while at the same time maximizing an efficient and cost-effective delivery of educational services; (10) Providing specific mechanisms for the payment of legal liabilities, contractual obligations, capital debt and overrides previously accumulated by school districts before the implementation of the unification plan; and (11) Identifying costs attributable to a unification plan subject to the approval of the joint legislative budget committee.
Sets forth procedures for all districts affected by the proposed school district unification plan submitted by the commission to call an election of all qualified voters within the boundaries of the proposed unified school district to be held at the next general election to adopt the boundaries as proposed by the commission. Provides that if any of the affected districts fail to approve the proposed unification plan, the plan is void. Permits the commission to revise the original unification plan and resubmit the plan to the qualified electors of each affected school district. States that if a majority of the qualified electors in any one of the affected school districts fails to approve the unification plan, the school district will not become part of a unified school district.
Makes changes to language related to increasing the revenue control limit and the district support level for certain transitional costs for the first year following consolidation.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/47leg/1r/bills/sb1068h%2Epdf
Title: S.B. 1068
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | By July 1, 2006, requires the department to develop minimum nutrition standards that at least meet federal guidelines for food and beverages sold or served at elementary and middle/junior high schools during the school day. Requires all elementary and middle/junior high schools to participate in the national school lunch program unless in a school district with fewer than 100 students, in which the district may opt not to participate. Requires food sold or served at elementary and middle/junior high schools or at school events during the school day to meet the departmental nutrition standards, including food sold as a la carte items in the food service program and food and beverages sold in vending machines, snack bars and meal-period kiosks and at school stores. Bars food of minimal nutritional value as defined in federal law from being sold or served during the school day at any elementary or middle/junior high school.
Beginning on July 15, 2006, requires new and renewal contracts for food and/or beverages to expressly prohibit the sale of sugared, carbonated beverages and all other foods of minimal nutritional value on elementary and middle/junior high campuses. Allows the department to approve a carbonated drink that meets or exceeds the department's minimum nutrition standards.
Authorizes parents, students and community members to review food and beverage contracts to ensure that food and drinks sold on elementary and middle/junior high campuses are nutritious, help students learn and model fit living for life.
Allows districts serving students in grades 9-12 to adopt nutrition standards for high schools.
Specifies that this bill does not prohibit a district from developing nutrition standards more stringent than the department's standards, prohibit or limit the sale of food or beverages through student, teacher, or educational groups' fundraising activities when items are intended for sale off school grounds, or prohibit or limit the sale of food or beverage items to adults in a faculty lounge or under other circumstances where the sale or distribution is limited to teachers, administrators or other adults.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2544
Title: H.B. 2544
Source:
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Community College | Sets forth parameters for contracts by local districts, board of trustees of a community college or the governing body of a technical college.
http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2006/48.pdf
Fiscal note: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=35050
Supplemental note: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=37380
Title: S.B. 48 (section 1-9)
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| ME | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education to adopt major substantive rules to establish standards and practices to follow when proposing to close a school in the unorganized territory.
Title: H.P. 427
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | School districts; authorize to joint venture with private developers to maximize returns on school assets.
Title: H.B. 1302
Source: StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | AN ACT REVISING THE LAWS ON SCHOOL DISTRICT CONSOLIDATION AND ANNEXATION; ESTABLISHING A SINGLE PROCEDURE FOR THE ANNEXATION AND CONSOLIDATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS; PROVIDING FOR AN INTERIM BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOLLOWING PASSAGE OF A CONSOLIDATION ELECTION; CLARIFYING THAT DISTRICTS MAY CONSOLIDATE OR ANNEX ACROSS COUNTY LINES; REQUIRING A RESOLUTION OR PETITION FOR CONSOLIDATION OR ANNEXATION TO STATE WHETHER OR NOT THE CONSOLIDATION OR ANNEXATION WILL OCCUR WITH ASSUMPTION OF BONDED INDEBTEDNESS; REQUIRING A CONSOLIDATION ELECTION TO BE HELD NO LATER THAN DECEMBER 31 PRECEDING THE SCHOOL FISCAL YEAR IN WHICH THE CONSOLIDATION IS TO BECOME EFFECTIVE; CLARIFYING THAT A CONSOLIDATION OR ANNEXATION IS EFFECTIVE JULY 1 FOLLOWING AN ELECTION; CLARIFYING THAT CONSOLIDATION OR ANNEXATION MUST OCCUR WITH CONTIGUOUS DISTRICTS; CLARIFYING THE PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINING APPROVAL OF A CONSOLIDATION OR ANNEXATION WITH THE ASSUMPTION OF BONDED INDEBTEDNESS; ALLOWING AN ABANDONED DISTRICT TO ATTACH TO A CONTIGUOUS DISTRICT IN AN ADJACENT COUNTY; ALLOWING FOR THE CONSOLIDATION AND ANNEXATION OF K-12 DISTRICTS; ALLOWING DISTRICTS TO CONSOLIDATE ACROSS COUNTY LINES WITH THE ASSUMPTION OF BONDED INDEBTEDNESS; ELIMINATING THE SPECIAL PROCEDURES FOR THE CONSOLIDATION, ABANDONMENT, AND DISSOLUTION OF JOINT DISTRICTS; ELIMINATING THE SEPARATE PROCEDURES FOR THE ANNEXATION AND CONSOLIDATION OF ELEMENTARY AND HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTS; AMENDING SECTIONS 20-3-205, 20-3-302, 20-3-312, 20-6-209, 20- 6-307, 20-6-704, AND 20-9-311, MCA; REPEALING SECTIONS 20-6-203, 20-6-204, 20- 6-205, 20-6-206, 20-6-207, 20-6-208, 20-6-210, 20-6-211, 20-6-315, 20-6-316, 20-6-317, 20-6-318, 20-6-319, AND 20-6-321, MCA; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
http://laws.leg.state.mt.us/pls/laws05/LAW0203W$BSRV.ActionQuery?P_BLTP_BILL_TYP_CD=HB&P_BILL_NO=681&P_BILL_DFT_NO=&Z_ACTION=Find&P_SBJ_DESCR=&P_SBJT_SBJ_CD=&P_LST_NM1=&P_ENTY_ID_SEQ=
Title: MT H.B. 681
Source: StateNet
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| NM | Pocket Veto by GOVERNOR. 04/2005 | P-12 | Relates to School District additions to other Districts.
http://legis.state.nm.us/lcs/_session.asp?chamber=S&type=++&number=308&year=05
Title: S.B. 308
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | 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 requirements for district superintendents, educational service cooperative directors, open-enrollment charter school directors and district/open-enrollment charter school staff whose job responsibilities include preparing the budget or overall accounting responsibility. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1568.pdf
Title: H.B. 1568
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Clarifies audit requirements for schools, municipalities and counties. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1185.pdf
Title: H.B. 1185
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Provides for monitoring of the academic progress of specified subgroups of students from schools that were consolidated or annexed under act 60 of the second extraordinary session of the eighty-fourth general assembly. Also requires the receiving or resulting school district to obtain and retain all student records from the affected school district for the five years immediately preceding the annexation or consolidation. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB1888.pdf
Title: H.B. 1888
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | 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/HB1357.pdf
Title: H.B. 1357
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Amends the personnel policy law for classified school employees to make it more consistent with the personnel policy law for certified school employees. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB2000.pdf
Title: H.B. 2000
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | 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. Permits a school election to be held on a date other than that fixed by law only if it pertains to the tax rate or debt issues and other requirements are met. Repeals Arkansas Code § 6-14-105 on special elections. Clarifies other administrative matters pertaining to school district elections.
ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/bills/2005/public/HB2468.pdf
Title: H.B. 2468
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Permits any county that contains all or part of six or more districts to create an executive council and a school district coordinator. Establishes membership of executive council and duties and powers of school district coordinator. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/SB490.pdf
Title: S.B. 490
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | 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
Title: H.B. 2700
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | 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 School Academic Facilities and Transportation are to: ... "(5) Develop and implement an ongoing uniform process for collecting, inventorying, and updating information on the state of condition of all public school academic facilities in the state; (6) Develop a facility cost index that provides a methodology for comparing the cost of repairing the condition of a public school academic facility to the cost of replacing the public school academic facility with a facility containing the same amount of square footage; (7) Conduct unannounced random on-site inspections of public school academic facilities; (8) Develop minimum standards for accessibility to public school academic facilities and programs for individuals with disabilities; (9) Develop guidelines for competitive bidding, competitive negotiation, and other methods of procurement for public school academic facilities projects; (10) Develop incentive programs to reward school districts for innovative, effective, and efficient use of local and state resources with regard to public school academic facilities;" and "(13) Report by October 1 of each year to the Governor, the House Committee on Education, the Senate Committee on Education, and the Academic Facilities Oversight Committee on the state of condition of education facilities statewide" addressing specified features of school facilities; "(14) Report by October 1 of each even-numbered year to the Governor, the House Committee on Education, the Senate Committee on Education, and the Academic Facilities Oversight Committee on the state academic facilities master plan; and (15) Maintain a public access website dedicated to public school academic facilities."
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/SB590.pdf
Title: S.B. 590
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Clarifies a school employee's right to have a witness or representative present in a disciplinary or grievance matter. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB2482.pdf
Title: H.B. 2482
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | 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 services. Authorizes any school district to use public-public partnerships as a project delivery method for the building, altering, repairing, improving, maintaining, or demolishing of any structure, or any improvement to real property owned by the school district.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/SB858.pdf
Title: S.B. 858
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Requires a comprehensive financial review of school districts prior to consolidation, annexation, or otherwise reorganization. Requires any district involved in consolidation or annexation to have an audit begun within 30 days of the closing of the district's books. Provides that the department of education must have authority to oversee all fiscal and accounting related matters of all districts on the consolidation list and must require those districts to have accurate records necessary to close all books within 60 days after the end of the fiscal year.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB2560.pdf
Title: H.B. 2560
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AZ | Vetoed 03/2005 | P-12 | 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
Title: S.B. 1394
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| KS | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | 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, or homeland defense activities. Establishes a second date for enrollment count on February 20 for the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 school years. Adds that if the number of pupils enrolled in a district in those school years on February 20 has increased from the number of pupils enrolled in the district on September 20 of the same school year by at least 25 pupils or by a number equal to 1% or more of the district's enrollment, the enrollment of the district for the school year will be that from the February 20 count.
Bill text: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=37742
Supplemental note: http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2006/SN2059.pdf
Fiscal note: http://www.kslegislature.org/fiscalnotes/2006/2059.pdf
Title: H.B. 2059
Source: StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | 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 service director who is responsible for the management and oversight of the food service program in the district; allows two or more contiguous districts to form a "school food service area," in which a school food service director must be jointly selected by the participating superintendents to oversee the school food service area. Each school food service director must be certified as a "school food service and nutrition specialist" or certified by a Level 2 certificate issued by the American School Food Service Association within three years after this bill goes into effect. Requires school cafeteria managers to annually receive at least two hours of continuing education in applied nutrition and healthy meal planning and preparation.
Defines "competitive food," "school day" and school-day-approved beverage." Defines "school-day-approved beverage" as water, 100% fruit juice, lowfat milk, and any beverage that contains no more than 10 grams of sugar per serving. Requires the state board to specify the minimum nutritional standards for all foods and beverages sold outside the National School Breakfast and National School Lunch programs in vending machines, school stores, canteens, and a la carte cafeteria sales. Requires minimum nutritional standards to be based on the most recent edition of the United States Department of Agriculture's Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Requires the state board rule to address serving size, sugar, and fat content of the foods and beverages. Permits school districts to impose more stringent standards than the state board standards. Requires all schools to follow the state board minimum standards unless the school has obtained a waiver from the state board. Requires any waiver approved by the state board to be reviewed on an annual basis.
Bars schools from selling competitive foods or beverages from the time of the arrival of the first student at the school building until 30 minutes after the last lunch period. Allows only school-day-approved beverages to be sold in elementary schools during the school day in vending machines, school stores, canteens, or fundraisers that sell beverages by students, teachers, or groups on school grounds.
Establishes fines and other sanctions for any public school that violates the school food nutrition requirements in section 4 of this bill.
Requires each school food service director to annually assess school nutrition in the district and issue a written report to parents, the local school board, and school-based decision making councils. The report must include:
(a) An evaluation of compliance with the National School Breakfast and National School Lunch programs;
(b) An evaluation of the availability of contracted fast foods or foods sold through commercial vendors;
(c) A review of access to foods and beverages sold outside the National School Breakfast and National School Lunch programs, including vending machines, school stores, canteens, and a la carte cafeteria sales;
(d) A list of foods and beverages that are available to students, including the nutritional value of those foods and beverages; and
(e) Recommendations for improving the school nutrition environment.
Requires the state board to develop an assessment tool that each school district may use to evaluate its physical activity environment. Requires the evaluation to be completed annually and released to the public at the same time as the school food service director's annual nutrition report. Requires every local board to discuss the findings of the nutrition report and physical activity report, seek public comments during a public meeting of the board, and annually hold an advertised public forum to present a plan to improve school nutrition and physical activities in the school district.
Requires each school council of an elementary school to develop and implement a wellness policy that includes moderate to vigorous physical activity each day and encourages healthy choices among students. The policy may permit physical activity to be considered part of the instructional day, up to 30 minutes per day, or 150 minutes per week. Each school council must adopt an assessment tool or utilize an existing assessment program to annually determine each child's level of physical activity. Requires the department to make available a list of available resources to carry out the provisions of this subsection, and to report annually to the Legislative Research Commission on how the schools are providing physical activity under these requirements, and on the types of physical activity being provided. The policy developed by the school council must comply with provisions required by federal law, state law, or local board policy.
Bill summary, history and text: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/SB172.htm
Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/SB172/FN.doc
Title: S.B. 172
Source: lrc.ky.gov
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | School district accounts; superintendent may pay claims to be ratified by local school board.
The local school board shall be authorized and empowered to promulgate rules and regulations that specify the types of claims and sets limits of the dollar amount for payment of claims by the superintendent of schools to be ratified by the board at the next regularly scheduled meeting after payment has been made;
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2005/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0758SG.htm
Title: H.B. 758
Source: StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Clarifies governance for certain school districts.
http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/2005/billhtml/HB0397.htm
Title: H.B. 397
Source: StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | 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
Title: S.B. 359
Source: StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | 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 reorganization involving one or more Class I school districts.
Title: L.B. 198
Source: StateNet
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2005 | Postsec. | 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
Title: H.B. 693
Source: StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Provides certain options to school boards in reorganization. Boards may decide by resolution to reorganize or may accept or decide based on petitions. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2005/bills/SB66enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 66
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | 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
Title: H.B. 1266
Source: StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | Relates to the Childhood Hunger Relief Act. Provides that every public school must have a free breakfast program. Strongly encourages all districts with at least 50% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch to sponsor a summer food service program by summer 2006. Requires school boards and welfare centers to keep accurate accounts of all moneys expended for free school breakfast programs, free lunch programs and summer food service programs. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/93/hb/09300hb0756lv.htm
Title: H.B. 756
Source: StateNet
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