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State |
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Level |
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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| School/District Structure/Operations--District Consolidation/Deconsolidation |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Libraries |
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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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| LA | Signed into law 12/2005 | P-12 | Allows certain Hurricane Katrina victims to take in-service distributions from their Deferred Retirement Option Plan accounts; provides for a tax return under specified circumstances.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=329901
Title: H.B. 63A
Source: www.legis.state.la.us, Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 12/2005 | P-12 | Waives the first two months' interest on delinquent contributions due for August and September 2005 to the State Employees' Retirement System, the School Employees' Retirement System, the Teachers' Retirement System or any statewide public retirement system; limits the applicability of this law to any system that suffered damage as a consequence of Hurricanes Katrina or Rita, or both.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=329895
Title: H.B. 17A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.legis.state.la.us
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| OH | to governor 12/2005 | P-12 | Requires the state board to adopt standards that require the curricula of teacher preparation programs to be aligned with the state academic content standards, the state board's minimum standards for schools, and the value-added progress dimension developed by the Department of Education and to extend the deadline for the Department and the Educator Standards Board to propose a career ladder program for teachers.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_107_PS
Title: H.B. 107
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| TX | Issued 11/2005 | P-12 | Requires the Commissioner of Education to establish a performance-based pay grant program for educators. The program is to use federal funds and other funds made available for this purpose and is to award grants to campuses of no less than $100,000 for rewarding educators for improving student performance. At least 75% of any grant awarded must be dedicated to compensation for classroom teachers. Grants are to be awarded based on growth in campus-level student performance according to criteria established by the Commissioner. School districts must apply to the Texas Education Agency to receive awards under this program. The state department must set aside from funds made available for this purpose no less than $10,000,000 for grants to be awarded based on incremental growth in student performance at campuses with high numbers of economically disadvantaged students.
http://www.governor.state.tx.us/divisions/press/exorders/rp51
Title: Executive Order RP51
Source: http://www.governor.state.tx.us
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| LA | Emergency Rule Adoption 10/2005 | P-12 | Applies provisions of the United States Hurricane Katrina Tax Relief Act to the Deferred Retirement Option Plan accounts of retirees who have sustained an economic loss due to Hurricane Katrina. Allows retired teachers living in an area devastated by Hurricane Katrina to withdraw additional funds from their accounts up to $100,000 or the total of their account if less than $100,000, by December 31, 2006. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0510/0510EMR.pdf
Title: LAC 58:III.510
Source: www.doa.state.la.us
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| WV | Signed into law 10/2005 | P-12 | A BILL to amend and reenact 18A-4-2 and 18A-4-8a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, all relating to salaries for teachers and school service personnel; adopting state minimum salary schedules for teachers; providing for incremental salary increases for teachers; and providing minimum pay grade scales for school service personnel. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2005_SESSIONS/4x/BILLS/sb4008%20enr.htm
Title: S.B. 4008
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2005 | P-12 | Makes numerous changes to teacher retirement provisions. Broadens the authority of the Teachers' Retirement Board to fix compensation for certain positions. Specifies the procedure by which a member may terminate a retirement allowance upon written request.
Provides that a member who retires or separates from service prior to the end of the school year is in violation of certain provisions and the member's service credit for that period of the contract must be computed in accordance with other provisions.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0201-0250/ab_224_bill_20050922_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 224
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| DE | Rule Adoption 08/2005 | P-12 | Amends regulations concerning credit for experience for educators and for secretarial staff. Clarifies who is an eligible employee by adding a definition of an 'Eligible Employee' and reflects the addition of the definition. http://www.state.de.us/research/AdminCode/title14/700/727.shtml#TopOfPage
Title: 14 DAC 727
Source: StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Authorizes Evergreen Charter School to elect to participate in the teachers' and state employees' retirement system. http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/HTML/H485v3.html
Title: H.B. 485
Source: StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Charter schools participation in the teachers' and state employees' retirement system and the North Carolina teachers' and state employees' major medical plan.
Title: H.B. 182
Source: StateNet
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| HI | Became law without governor's signature 07/2005 | P-12 | Allows for the temporary establishment of an employee organization sponsored trust that would provide health benefits for state and county employees of a particular bargaining unit, as well as future retirees of that bargaining unit and existing retirees who wish to participate in such a trust. The trust would be established as a voluntary employees' beneficiary association (VEBA) trust. All employees throughout the state within any of the following categories shall constitute an appropriate bargaining unit:
(1) Teachers and other personnel of the department of education under the same pay schedule, including part-time employees working less than twenty hours a week who are equal to one-half of a full-time equivalent;
(2) Educational officers and other personnel of the department of education under the same pay schedule;
(3) Faculty of the University of Hawaii and the community college system;
(4) Personnel of the University of Hawaii and the community college system, other than faculty.
Repeals pilot program as of July 1, 2008.
Title: H.B. 1608
Source: StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Amends the School Employee Benefit Act. Includes in the definition of "school district" a vocational education district, a special education district, a program operated by an educational service region, and a joint agreement. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0227
Title: S.B. 479
Source: StateNet
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Section 1: Establishes need for improvement in teacher recruitment, compensation, support and peer mentoring.
Section 2: Creates a new section establishing the Hawaii teacher cadet program fund, originally a department initiative, as a separate fund of the Hawaii Alliance for Future Teachers, a nonprofit organization. Authorizes the alliance to expend funds to establish partnerships with organizations or private vendors to encourage high school students with teaching potential to consider teaching as a career. Establishes and sets responsibilities for the Hawaii teacher cadet program advisory board.
Section 3: Requires the University of Hawaii to review its admission policies for the college of education.
Section 4: Requires the University of Hawaii to review its college of education's admission standards and consider allowing
incoming freshman to declare education as their major and enable them to graduate within four years.
Section 5: Requires the University of Hawaii to increase the full time equivalent teacher education faculty positions by 5 additional full-time equivalent positions each year until fiscal year 2014-2015, to allow the number of participants who complete the program to increase by one hundred per cent over the year 2004 total.
Section 6: Establishes need to eliminate specified barriers to interest in and entry of the teaching profession.
Section 7-8: Mandates that the department establish policies, procedures, technology, and accountability measures to ensure that newly hired employees receive timely and accurate wages. Establishes an alternate option if the department is unable to pay the total wages due a newly hired employee. Requires the department to establish rules by December 31, 2005 to implement these changes.
Section 9: Requires the department to provide each newly hired teacher with the new teacher orientation handbook to serve as a reference guide and provide the new employees with information on:
(1) Professional development and incentive programs;
(2) License requirements; and
(3) Other useful information to assist new teachers with their familiarity of the department's organization and educational system.
Section 10: Requires the department to establish a standardized statewide teacher induction program for every newly hired teacher. Requires the program to ensure that the new teacher to mentor ratio does not exceed 15:1 and that all mentors are specially skilled and trained to work effectively with newly hired teachers as determined by the department.
Section 11: Establishes legislative intent to improve student achievement by adopting policies that promote teacher quality.
Section 12: Requires the state board to adopt policies to:
(1) Develop a plan for licensing more individuals with practical experience for teaching in vocational/technical programs;
(2) Develop a plan to accept teachers from any state as long as they have completed state-approved teacher education programs and pass relevant Hawaii teacher examinations or their equivalent;
(3) Clarify the requirements, on a state-by-state basis, for out-of-state licensed teachers to obtain a license in Hawaii;
(4) Develop a plan to facilitate licensing for those who intend to teach in Hawaii immersion programs, the island of Niihau, or any other extraordinory situation as defined by the superindent or the superintendent's designee; and
(5) Pursue full teacher license reciprocity with the mid-Atlantic states, California, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Oregon, and Washington.
Section 13: Requires the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to submit to the legislature a report of its progress and recommendations regarding its licensing standards and development of its policies before the 2006 regular session.
Section 14: Requires the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to review alternative licensing requirements to replace the PRAXIS examination requirement. Requires the review of alternative requirements to include to the consideration of requiring a minimum amount of years of teaching experience to replace the PRAXIS examination requirement.
Section 15: Authorizes the conversion of Hawaii teacher standards board's nine temporary positions to nine permanent full-time equivalent positions.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/hb844_cd1_.htm
Title: H.B. 844
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| OR | Did Not Pass 06/2005 | P-12 | Establishes Oregon Educators Benefit Board. Requires Governor to appoint members of board for four-year terms. Authorizes board to contract for health and dental benefits plans and other benefits for employees of certain school districts, education service districts and community college districts. Requires board to adopt rules. Permits payroll officers to deduct from employee wages amounts for benefit plans. Creates Oregon Educators Benefit Account and Oregon Educators Revolving Fund. Appropriates to board amount not to exceed two percent of monthly employer and employee contributions for benefits to cover administrative expenses. Prohibits districts, on or after October 1, 2006, from providing or contracting for benefit plans other than benefit plans provided by board. Provides exceptions. Requires board, before October 1, 2006, to enter into contracts for health and dental benefit plans. Creates Task Force on Teacher Health Benefits. Requires task force to report to legislative interim committee no later than October 1, 2010. Appropriates contributed moneys to task force for purposes of carrying out duties of task force. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2005. http://www.leg.state.or.us/05reg/measpdf/sb0600.dir/sb0639.a.pdf
Title: S.B. 639
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Any principalteacher, teacher, director of schools or other school personnel employed on a systemwide basis who completes additional academic training after the beginning of a school year, but prior to January 1 of that school year, that would qualify such employee for a higher salary rating shall be eligible to have such employee's salary rating redetermined as of January 1 of the school year. Requires written notice. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/104/Chapter/PC0338.pdf
Title: S.B. 1284
Source: http://tennessee.gov
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Establishes the Arizona Performance Based Compensation System Task Force within the state board of education. By Februrary 2006 and annually thereafter, requires the superintendent of public instruction to submit specified school district data to the task force, which must conduct annual evaluation of one quarter of districts' performance based compensation systems based on the submitted data. Requires the annual evaluation to (1) Assess the relationship between components of individual district performance based compensation systems and the improvement in:
(a) Individual student progress and achievement;
(b) Achievement of school district and school site goals;
(c) Teacher professional development;
(d) Teacher job satisfaction;
(e) Parent rating of the quality of education at the school and district levels
and (2) Provide a report to the districts evaluated each year assessing the effectiveness of each district's performance based compensation system, including any recommendations for improvement. Requires the task force to annually submit its findings to the speaker of the house and president of the senate.
On or before June 30, 2010, requires the task force to (1) provide recommendations to the state board on the implementation, operation and monitoring of performance based compensation systems and career ladder programs in the state, and (2) develop written recommendations based on elements of districts' performance based compensation systems.
Requires all local boards in the state to adopt a performance based compensation system, and to vote on a performance based compensation system that includes the following elements:
(1) School district and school performance;
(2) Measures of academic progress toward the state board-adopted academic standards;
(3) Other measures of academic progress;
(4) Dropout or graduation rates;
(5) Attendance rates;
(6) Ratings of school quality by parents;
(7) Ratings of school quality by students;
(8) Imput of teachers and administrators;
(9) Approval of the performance based compensation system by an affirmative vote of at least 70% of the teachers eligible to participate in the performance based compensation system.
(10) An appeals process for teachers who have been denied performance based compensation.
(11) Regular evaluation for effectiveness.
Requires a performance based compensation system to include teacher professional development programs aligned with the elements of the performance based compensation system. Permits a local board to modify the aforementioned 11 elements and consider additional elements when adopting a performance based compensation system. Until December 31, 2009, requires each district to develop an assessment plan for its performance based compensation system and annually submit the plan to the department of education, along with a copy of the district-adopted performance based compensation system.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1074
Title: S.B. 1074
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Requires the compensation plan for substitute teachers' pay to be commensurate with their educational training and academic qualifications.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb1250_.htm
Title: S.B. 1250
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Budget bill funds public schools at $2.15 billion. Provided an increase of more than $145 million per year to boost teacher pay and benefits, as well as helping schools struggling with growing operational expenses. The increased appropriation includes $57.7 million to fund teacher pay increases, $32.8 million to provide full state funding for educators' health insurance, $9.9 million for support employees' health insurance and an extra $21.6 million that will go through the state's funding formula for school districts. Provides an average pay raise of $1,000 per year to teachers. It also includes funding for the state to cover 100 percent of the cost of teacher health insurance.Among other reforms, the bill includes $800,000 for the Student Tracking and Reporting pilot program, which will encourage schools to use technology to reduce paperwork on teachers and administrators.The budget bill also provides $500,000 for academic achievement awards to schools that demonstrate the highest scores and the greatest improvement in the state's Academic Performance Index. Also includes more money for education fundamentals: Another $3 million has been earmarked for third-grade reading remediation programs and $4 million has been provided for math programs. The $2.15 billion school budget is the largest in state history. Previously, the most money appropriated to public schools was $2.04 billion in the 2002 legislative session.http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2005-06HB/hb1020_enr.rtf
Title: H.B. 1020 (budget provisions)
Source: http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/house/news7622.html
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Allows districts to allocate and expend any state funds received for extended contracts consistent with the needs of the specific programs served through extended contracts. Such allocation and expenditures may include payments to teachers working extended contracts that allow local flexibility regarding the number of hours worked to receive pay supplements.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0218.pdf
Title: H.B. 675
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Provides that certified teachers for the National Guard Youth Challenge Program and the C Step Program receive substantially equal teacher salaries and benefits. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2743.pdf
Title: H.B. 2743
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Renames the Teacher and Administrator Enhancement and Retraining Grant Program the Teacher Opportunity Program. Eliminates requirement that program applicant be a citizen of the United States or permanent resident alien. Establishes the Dual Certification Incentive Program to encourage classroom teachers currently employed in the state to return to college to obtain certification in one or more additional subject areas. Specifies conditions for a teacher to be eligible to receive program funding. Allows each district to fund up to four scholarships for teachers with at least three years of experience as a licensed classroom teacher in a public school in the state. States that any classroom teacher awarded a scholarship under the Dual Certification Incentive Program may be allowed administrative leave with pay as provided under the district's certified personnel policies as is necessary for the classroom teacher to attend college classes, travel to or from the college, and take state-mandated tests as may be necessary to obtain the additional certification. Sets forth circumstances under which a teacher having participated in the program must repay the amount of the scholarships received under the Dual Certification Incentive Program. Authorizes the state board of education to suspend the Arkansas classroom teacher's license of any individual who fails, when required to do so, to repay moneys contributed for participation in the Dual Certification Incentive Program.
States that upon earning dual certification under the Dual Certification Incentive Program, the dually certified classroom teacher must be paid a bonus of $3,000 each school year that the teacher: (A) Is employed full-time as a classroom teacher in an Arkansas public school district; and (B) Is teaching no fewer than two class periods in each of the different subject matter areas for which he or she received certification. Specifies circumstances under which an individual must lose eligibility for the annual incentive bonus.
States that the first priority for the award of funds under the Teacher Opportunity Program is the award of scholarships under the Dual Certification Incentive Program, and that any funds remaining after all awards are made under the Dual Certification Incentive Program may be made for specified other needs. Requires the department of higher education to determine priorities, based on the needs of the state, for awarding grants in the event there are more applicants than funds available.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1982.pdf
Title: H.B. 1982
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Recognizes and credits a teacher for all of his or her years of teaching experience with a valid Arkansas teaching license, regardless of whether this service was in a public school, accredited private school in Arkansas or Arkansas institution of higher education accredited by a nationally recognized higher education institution accrediting association.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1803.pdf
Title: H.B. 1803
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Updates various provisions of the Arkansas code related to public school finance. One provision changes policy from allowing to requiring any increase in Educational Excellence Trust Fund funds allocated for teacher salaries to be used by school districts to provide salary increases for current certified personnel positions and for no other purpose.
ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/bills/2005/public/SB338.pdf
Title: S.B. 338
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Clarifies the classroom teacher salary requirement in the educational excellence trust fund. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1179.pdf
Title: S.B. 1179
Source: StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Provided that employees of a school district or charter school district who regularly work 20 hours or more per week are entitled to
one day of sick leave, proportionate to the hours worked per day, for each month of service in which they work a majority of that month. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1173.html#engr
Title: S.B. 1173
Source: Legislative Sine Die Report
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Relates to returning to employment after retirement under the public employees retirement system defined contribution retirement plan.
http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/59-2005/bill-text/FAJD0400.pdf
Title: H.B. 1266
Source: StateNet
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2005 | P-12 | Relates to educational retirees returning to work.
http://legis.state.nm.us/lcs/_session.asp?chamber=S&type=++&number=216&year=05
Title: S.B. 216
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Revises the determination of the annual conversion of unused vacation or personal leave to sick leave for licensed or unlicensed school employees; recognizes leave accumulated under a previous policy.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2005/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2247SG.htm
Title: S.B. 2247
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Clarifies the authority of the State Board of Education to expend federal funds for training expenses and salary incentives for licensed teachers.
The State Board of Education shall have authority to expend any available federal funds, or any other funds expressly designated, to pay training, educational expenses, salary incentives and salary supplements to licensed teachers employed in local school districts or schools administered by the State Board of Education. Such incentive payments shall not be considered part of a school district's local supplement as defined in Section 37-151-5(o), nor shall the incentives be considered part of the local supplement paid to an individual teacher for the purposes of Section 37-19-7(1). MAEP funds or any other state funds shall not be used to provide such incentives unless specifically authorized by law.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2005/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2272SG.htm
Title: S.B. 2272
Source: StateNet
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | The board of a school district may provide a stipend to a student teacher assigned to a school in the district.
http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/59-2005/bill-text/FAMQ0200.pdf
Title: H.B. 1232
Source: StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Relates to retirement; authorizes certain contributions related to school plans.
Title: L.B. 329
Source: StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
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Community College | Relates to unused sick leave at retirement; provides that after a specified date, new sick leave hours may not be accumulated for future use under the current Sick Leave Retirement Option Program; provides for a five-year phase out of the guaranteed continuing medical and life insurance benefits for retiring employees and the 480 hour reduction of unused sick leave; creates a new sick leave program for sick leave hours accumulated on or after January 1, 2006. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2005/bills/hbillenr/hb0213.pdf
Title: H.B. 213
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Requires local school boards to adopt policies providing for the donation of leave and leave without pay for school board employees with debilitating or life threatening illness or injury, without regard to the employee's length of service with the school board. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0486
Title: H.B. 2912
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Proposes an amendment to the Constitution designated the Pension Bond Amendment; permits the issuance and sale of additional state general obligation bonds to help provide for the fiscal soundness of the State Teachers Retirement System, the Judges' Retirement System, and the Public Safety Death, Disability and Retirement System.
Title: S.B. 261
Source: StateNet
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Appropriates $100,000 to fund the Wyoming teacher policy institute in collaboration with the University of Wyoming during school
year 2005-2006. For school year 2005-2006, appropriates $182,000.00 to supplement amounts available under W.S.21-22-106(a)(iii) to districts for reimbursements to teachers for actual costs of national certification fees. Appropriates $400,000.00 to the department of education to initiate and pilot teacher advancement programs providing incentives and support for teachers during the 2005-2006 school year.This
appropriation may be expended for piloting a professional development program other than the teacher advancement program if the program substantially provides components similar to but not inclusive of those identified. Expands funding for the teacher of the year program. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2005/enroll/SF0046.pdf
Title: S.F. 46
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us
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| MT | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | Increases the state contibution to the Employee Group Benefits Program; repeals statutory Teachers' and Blue-Collar Pay Schedules; appropriates funds to implement pay and benefit revisions, for personal services contingencies and for a labor-management training initiative.
Title: H.B. 447
Source: StateNet
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| OH | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | Designates the fourth week of September as Parent's Week; revises provisions governing child support collection. Qualifies teachers employed by chartered nonpublic schools for annual stipends for holding valid certificates issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Allows students who otherwise must pass the ninth grade proficiency tests for a high school diploma to substitute passage of the Ohio Graduation Test in a particular subject for passage of the ninth grade test in the same subject to satisfy that testing requirement.
http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses125/04-hb493-revised-125.pdf
http://lsc.state.oh.us/analyses/analysis125.nsf/6407a071d8587c3c85256da200703bb6/
Title: H.B. 493
Source: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us
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| DE | Rule Adoption 01/2005 | P-12 | Amends regulation relating to knowledge, skills and responsibility based supplements for educators. Clarifies the effective date of salary supplements paid to educators who complete professional development clusters.
Title: 14 DAC 1501, 1.0 - 12.0
Source: StateNet
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