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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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 | School/District Structure/Operations--District Consolidation/Deconsolidation |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 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 | 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 | 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 | 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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| 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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 | School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
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 | School/District Structure/Operations--School Size |
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 | School/District Structure/Operations--Shared Services |
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 | School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
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 | Service-Learning |
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 | Special Education |
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 | Special Education--Federal Law/Regulations |
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 | Special Education--Finance |
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 | Special Education--Placement |
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 | Special Education--Transition |
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 | Special Populations--Corrections Education |
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 | Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
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 | Special Populations--Homeless Education |
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 | Standards |
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 | State Longitudinal Data Systems |
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 | State Policymaking |
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 | State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
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 | STEM |
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 | Student Achievement |
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 | Student Achievement--Closing the Achievement Gap |
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 | Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
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 | Student Supports--Mentoring/Tutoring |
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 | Student Supports--Remediation |
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 | Students |
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 | Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
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 | Students--Mobility |
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 | Students--Records/Rights |
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 | Teaching Quality |
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 | Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
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 | Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative |
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 | Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
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 | Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds. |
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 | Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education |
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 | Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--State Prof. Standards Bds. |
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 | Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Substitute Teachers |
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 | Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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 | Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
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 | Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
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 | Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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 | Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
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 | Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals |
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 | Teaching Quality--Preparation |
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 | Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
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 | Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
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 | Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
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 | Teaching Quality--Reduction in Force |
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 | Teaching Quality--Teacher Attitudes |
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 | Teaching Quality--Teacher Rights |
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 | Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
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 | Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
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 | Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining--Strikes |
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 | Technology |
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 | Technology--Computer Skills |
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 | Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
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 | Technology--Equitable Access |
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 | Technology--Funding Issues |
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 | Technology--Internet Safety |
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 | Textbooks and Open Source |
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