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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)--Drugs/Alcohol |
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| Attendance--Statutory Ages (Upper and Lower) |
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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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| CA | Vetoed 10/2005 | P-12 | Social sciences curriculum. This bill would encourage a school district to provide instruction in social sciences that accurately reflects the role of affected populations of the continent of Asia, the subcontinent of South Asia, and the Pacific Islands in the many historical events leading up to and during World War II.
Title: S.B. 684
Source: StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 10/2005 | P-12 | Establishes and creates the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and
other programs on slavery and African-American history. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A06362&sh=t
Title: H.B. 6362
Source:
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| OK | Adopted 10/2005 | P-12 | Replaces the term multicultural education with the term racial and ethnic education. Establishes new school board policy for the rule change. OKLAHOMA 13851
Title: OAC 210:20-19-2 thru -4
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Consideration of governor's veto pending 09/2005 | P-12 | Allows social studies instruction in grades 7-12 to include instruction the role of Filipinos in World War II and
that war, and encourages this instruction to include specific components.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_15_bill_20050823_enrolled.pdf
Title: A.B. 15
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2005 | P-12 | Rewrites Section 51220.6 of the Education Code, relating to driver education. Specifies that a private school is not required to offer driver's education. Provides that the satisfactory completion of an Internet-based, correspondence, or other distance-learning course offered by a private
high school meets driver's ed instructional requirements. Establishes certain requirements for such Internet or CD driver's ed courses.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0801-0850/ab_846_bill_20050922_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 846
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2005 | P-12 | Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt statewide academically rigorous content standards in core curriculum
areas, and requires the board to review and modify existing curriculum frameworks where appropriate to bring them into alignment
with these content standards. This bill would, as a component of that review, require the State Board of Education to integrate instruction on intergroup relations and tolerance into existing curriculum frameworks where appropriate, with certain requirements.
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Title: H.B. 723
Source: StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Provides that in addition to the unit of instruction studying the events of the Holocaust, the curriculum of every public elementary school and high school shall include a unit of instruction studying other acts of genocide across the globe, including, but not limited to, the Armenian Genocide, the Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, and more recent atrocities in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sudan. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=312&GAID=8&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=14536&SessionID=50&GA=94
Title: H.B. 312
Source: http://www.ilga.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Adds that the total amount from driver education fees and reimbursement from the state for driver education must not exceed the total cost of the driver education program in any year and must be deposited into the school district's driver education fund as a separate line item budget entry. Requires all moneys deposited into the school district's driver education fund to be used solely for the funding of a high school driver education program approved by the state board of education that uses state board-certified instructors.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0426
Title: S.B. 69
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Creates the College and Career Success for All Students Act. Requires a teacher of an Advanced Placement course to obtain appropriate training, subject to appropriation. Requires the State Board of Education to establish training guidelines that require teachers of Advanced Placement courses to obtain recognized Advanced Placement training endorsed by the College Board, subject to appropriation. Provides that Advanced Placement and pre-Advanced Placement training to teachers in Illinois high schools must meet certain requirements. Requires the state board to encourage school districts to offer rigorous courses in grades 6 through 11 that prepare students for the demands of Advanced Placement course work. Requires the state board to encourage school districts to make it a goal that all 10th graders take the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholars Qualifying Test so that test results will provide each high school with a database of student assessment data to identify students who are prepared or who need additional work to be prepared to enroll and be successful in Advanced Placement courses. Also requires the state board to:
(1) Seek federal funding through the Advanced Placement Incentive Program and the Math-Science Partnership Program to support Advanced Placement and Pre-Advanced Placement professional development;
(2) Focus state and federal funding with the intent to carry out activities that target school districts serving high concentrations of low-income students;
(3) Subject to appropriation, develop a communications plan that includes disseminating to parents materials that emphasize the importance of Advanced Placement or other advanced courses to a student's ability to gain access to and to succeed in postsecondary education and materials that emphasize the
importance of the PSAT/NMSQT.
(4) Subject to appropriation, annually evaluate the impact of this Act on rates of student enrollment and success in Advanced Placement courses, on high school graduation rates, and on college enrollment rates.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0534
Title: S.B. 574
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| AL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Amends Section 16-6B-2 to specify that American Sign Language is a foreign language for purposes of satisfying certain curriculum requirements; and to apply such provision to hearing-impaired students for the 2005-2006 school year and to all students beginning with the 2006-2007 school year.
http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2005fs/bills/sb94.htm
Title: S.B. 94
Source: http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | A physical education course of study must include a developmentally planned and sequential curriculum that fosters the development of movement skills, enhances health-related fitness, increases students' knowledge, offers direct opportunities to learn how to work cooperatively in a group setting, and encourages healthy habits and attitudes for a healthy lifestyle. A physical education course of study is to provide students with an opportunity for an appropriate amount of daily physical activity. A physical education course of study must be part of the regular school curriculum and not extra-curricular in nature or organization. Provides for excusing students in grades 9-12 who must use that time for special education services.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0189
Title: H.B. 1540
Source: http://www.ilga.gov/legislation
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Creates the Amistad Commission. Contains provisions concerning the membership and duties of the Commission. These duties include:
(i) providing assistance and advice to schools within the state with respect to the implementation of education, awareness programs, textbooks, and educational materials concerned with the African slave trade, slavery in America, the vestiges of slavery in this country, and the contributions of African-Americans to our society;
(ii) surveying and cataloging the extent and breadth of education concerning these topics;
(iii) acting as a liaison to textbook publishers and others in forming a curriculum on these subjects;
(iv) coordinating events and programs on slavery and related issues; and
(iv) developing with the cooperation of the State Board of Education, curriculum guidelines for the teaching of information on slavery topics and issues.
Authorizes the commission to call upon any department, office, division, or agency of the state, or of any county, municipality, or school district of the State, to supply such data, program reports, and other information, personnel, and assistance as it deems necessary to discharge its responsibilities under this Act. Requires the state board to assist the commission in a variety of ways, including by: (i) marketing and distributing information and materials on slavery topics to schools, and (ii) conducting at least one teacher workshop annually on slavery issues. Requires the Commission to make biannual reports on its activities to the Governor and the General Assembly. Effective immediately. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0285
Title: H.B. 383
Source: StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Requires instructions regarding the correct use of an automated external defibrillator be included as a part of the health education curriculum in all senior high schools when cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction is being provided. In addition to the requirement that all teachers of health education be certified to teach health, persons instructing pupils in the correct use of automated external defibrillators must possess valid certification by a nationally recognized organization or the state emergency medical services council.
Title: H.B. 236
Source: http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Standardizes the calculation of graduation rates and dropout rates that are required to be reported by school districts for accreditation. Standardizes and requires the reporting of continuing education rates and mobility rates by school districts for accreditation. Requires one accreditation indicator to be the percentage of students enrolled in an Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate diploma program, or institution of higher education through a dual enrollment program. Requires districts to report achievement of accreditation indicators disaggregated for student year, race, low family income, students with disabilities, and English language learners. Requires districts and the state charter school institute to annually report the status of students who have not graduated in 4 years and remain enrolled in the district or an institute charter school. Permits the state board of education to audit accreditation data.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/DFD64504612C4BC587256F5800587C38?Open&file=091_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 91
Source: www.leg.state.co.us
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Establishes the statewide physical education recognition program to recognize and reward public schools and physical education teachers meeting established criteria. Creates the statewide physical education recognition board to establish objective criteria for a tiered rating to a physical education program or teach, solicit and review applications for recognition, rate physical education programs, and recommend annual monetary awards to the highest rated school programs and an outstanding physical education teacher in an elementary school, middle school and high school. Provides that if the fund does not receive at least $50,000 by June 1, 2006, repeals the act effective July 1, 2006. If the act is not repealed earlier, repeals the act effective July 1, 2010.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/2EC8168D1E92E69187256F5E0067F7AB?Open&file=1237_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1237
Source: www.leg.state.co.us
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| DE | SIGNED 06/2005 | P-12 | In order to support state-wide academic standards and to ensure that students in Delaware public school do not suffer in the event they should change schools for whatever reason, it is essential that the Department of Education establish uniform, state-wide curricula for students enrolled in the many public schools of Delaware. This Act requires the department of education to establish uniform, state-wide curricula for all public schools. As with other regulations governing classes, instruction and courses of study, these rules and regulations shall be proposed by the Secretary of Education subject to the approval of the State Board of Education. http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/LIS143.nsf/vwLegislation/
Title: H.B. 47
Source: http://www.legis.state.de.us
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Requires the inclusion of the topic of adoption awareness in middle or high school courses that include material related to family life, including Family Life and Consumer Science Education courses. Defines adoption awareness.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=317551
Title: H.B. 777
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Beginning in the 2006-2007 school year and thereafter, requires all public elementary and secondary schools to:
(1) Encourage and motivate children of all physical abilities to participate in physical activity for the purpose of allowing all children to reach their full potential as individuals.
(2) Improve physical activity and fitness in schools by encouraging innovative physical education programs that consist of physical exertion of a moderate to vigorous intensity level.
(3) Improve nutrition in children by making available during the day snacks with higher nutritional values.
(4) Increase the awareness of children about the importance of physical activity and improved nutrition and the effects of both on improving health.
(5) Encourage increased parental awareness of the positive impact on health and fitness of increasing the activity level of children and of improving nutrition.
(6) Encourage daily physical activity and the development of lifelong patterns of physical activity.
(7) Encourage the enjoyment of physical activity and the improvement of nutritional and eating habits.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=319230
Title: S.B. 146 (Sections K-
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| SC | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Adds Chapter 10, entitled Physical Education, School Health Services, and Nutritional Standards. Applies to elementary schools. Sets the amount of physical education instruction that each student in kindergarten through fifth grade must receive each week on a phased-in basis. Provides for physical education teacher to student ratio. Provides for a measure of effectiveness of the physical education program and for a physical education activity director. Provides for the appropriation of of funds for licensed nurses in elementary schools. Provides for a coordinated school health model and an assessment program for school health programs. Provides for the minimum amount of time elementary school students must have to eat lunch. Provides for the establishment of a district level and elementary level coordinated school health advisory council and sets its powers and dutires. Provides for a weekly nutrition component for the health curriculum. Implementation is contingent on funding. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/prever/3499_20050525.htm
Title: H.B. 3499
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Contingent on funding, requires state board to establish and implement a financial literacy pilot program to provide students in participating school districts with the knowledge and skills necessary as self-supporting adults to make critical decisions relating to personal financial matters. Requires the agency shall collaborate with the Office of Consumer Credit Commissioner and the State Securities Board to develop the curriculum and instructional materials for the program. The curriculum and instructional materials must include information about: (1) avoiding and eliminating credit card debt; (2) understanding the rights and responsibilities of renting or buying a home; (3) managing money to make the transition from renting a home to home ownership; (4) starting a small business; (5) being a prudent investor in the stock market and using other investment options; (6) beginning a savings program; (7) bankruptcy; (8) the types of bank accounts available to consumers
and the benefits of maintaining a bank account; (9) balancing a check book; and (10) the types of loans available to consumers and becoming a low-risk borrower.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlo/79R/billtext/SB00851F.HTM
Title: S.B. 851
Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Authorizes districts and charter schools to incorporate into the existing curricula instruction on the dangers of unsupervised interaction with strangers. Allows each district and charter school to develop its own course of study thereon.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1289
Title: S.B. 1289
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Creates the Joint Agricultural Education Study Committee for the purposes of promoting the importance and study of agriculture in the state. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/versions/hr50_HR_50_AP_6.htm
Title: H.R. 50
Source: http://www.legis.state.ga.us
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Creates the Georgia Driver's Education Commission. Authorizes the commission to recommend to the governor and the general assembly changes in state programs, statutes, policies, budgets and standards relating to the provision of driver education and training to maximize participation in driver's education and training and accident reduction.
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/sum/sb226.htm
Title: S.B. 226
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | All high school agricultural education programs that were twelve-month programs for the 1992-1993 fiscal year, or any fiscal year thereafter, are to be maintained as twelve-month programs by the local board of education, so long as a quality agricultural education program as determined by criteria established by the vocationaltechnical education division, agriculture education program, of the department of education is maintained. Public Chapter 143 http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB1563.pdf
Title: S.B. 1563/H.B. 2123
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Amends Sec. 28.0021. Requires instruction in personal financial literacy in one or more courses required for high school graduation. Requires districts and open-enrollment charter schools to incorporate instruction in personal financial literacy into any course meeting a requirement for an economics credit, using materials approved by the board. Requires districts and open-enrollment charter schools to comply beginning with the 2006-2007 school year. Requires the board to adopt essential knowledge and skills for a course not later than the 2008-2009 school year. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=79&SESS=R&CHAMBER=H&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=00492&VERSION=5&TYPE=B
Title: H.B. 492
Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| WV | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Adds a new article, designated §5-1E-1, §5-1E-2, §5-1E-3, §5-1E-4 and §5-1E-5; and amends and reenacts §18-2-6a and §18-2-7a, all relating to promoting healthy lifestyles; creating a Healthy Lifestyles Office in the Department of Education and the Arts; establishing the functions of the Office; creating a special revenue account; establishing a voluntary menu labeling program; requiring physical activity in the schools; and encouraging the use of health foods and beverages in the vending machines of schools.Requires the state department to establish the requirement that each child enrolled in the public schools of this state actively participates in physical education classes during the school year to the level of his or her ability as follows:
(1) Kindergarten to and including grade five. -- Not less than thirty minutes of physical education, including physical exercise and age appropriate physical activities, for not less than three days a week.
(2) Grade six to and including grade eight. -- Not less than one full period of physical education, including physical exercise and age appropriate physical activities, each school day of one semester of the school year.
(3) Grade nine to and including grade twelve. -- Not less than one full course credit of physical education, including physical exercise and age appropriate physical activities which shall be required for graduation and the opportunity to enroll in an elective lifetime physical education course. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2005_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/HB2816%20enr.htm
Title: H.B. 2816
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Includes salaries or supplemental pay for staff for organized physical activity courses as provided under Act 660 of 2005 in the definitions of "Athletic expenditures" and "Interschool scholastic activity expenditures."
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2916.pdf
Title: H.B. 2916
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Amends in-service training requirements for teachers of Arkansas history . http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb187.pdf
Title: S.B. 187
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Allows a high school course offered under the international baccalaureate diploma program to be treated the same as an advanced placement course in terms of the state grading scale and weighted credit, teacher licensure requirements, district reporting of courses offered and test fee reimbursement. Renames The Arkansas Advanced Placement Incentive Program Act of 1995 the Arkansas Advanced Placement and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Incentive Program Act of 1995.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1054.pdf
Title: S.B. 1054
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Allows motor vehicles seized by law enforcement agencies to be donated to school districts for driver's education courses. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2828.pdf
Title: H.B. 2828
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Requires the Arkansas Science and Technology Authority to develop a knowledge-based technology curriculum for use in grades 7-12 beginning in the 2007-2008 school year. Requires the curriculum to include a collection of the substantive material used to teach a particular subject matter, lesson plans and recommendations for activities and other learning processes.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2964.pdf
Title: H.B. 2964
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Creates new section allowing school districts and charter schools to offer a one-semester course in firearm marksmanship and gun safety, to be designated as the Arizona Gun Safety Course. Specifies the areas of instruction that the course must include. Requires districts and charter schools offering this course to arrange for adequate use of shooting range time by students in the course at any established shooting range. Requires instructors to be certified by the Arizona Game and Fish Department.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1271
Title: S.B. 1271
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Establishes the mandatory physical education implementation task force. Sets forth task force's membership. Requires the task force to develop an implementation plan that will result in a uniform physical education program in grades K-8 and that takes the following into consideration: (1) Time constraints, including the length of the school day and school year; (2) Program content consistent with national standards; (3) Staffing requirements; (4) Facilities and resource requirements; (5) Fiscal considerations; (6) Exemptions from a mandatory program both at the individual student level and at the school level. Requires the implementation plan to include an appropriate timeline for
achieving full implementation by a date certain and the development proposal for draft legislation that the task force believes is necessary to successfully implement the proposed program. Requires the final report and implementation plan to be submitted to the governor and the legislature by December 15, 2005.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2111
Title: H.B. 2111
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Requires all public schools to incorporate instruction on skin cancer prevention into the existing curriculum in the common school grades if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provides a comprehensive program on skin cancer prevention free of charge to schools. The instruction must be provided in an age-appropriate manner and must include (1) the basic facts about skin cancer, including the negative impact of human exposure to ultraviolet radiation obtained through sunburns and tanning; and (2) a comprehensive set of strategies and behaviors to reduce the risk of contracting skin cancer.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1297
Title: S.B. 1297
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Requires the state board to develop nutrition guidelines for all foods and beverages made available to public school students during the school day. Requires the state board of education to consult with other state agencies, private foundations and other private entities in developing such guidelines, and to give particular attention to providing healthful foods and beverages, physical activities and wellness education with the goals of preventing and reducing childhood obesity. Requires local boards to consider these guidelines when establishing the district's wellness policy.
http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/searchBillNumber.do
Title: S.B. 154
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, the state board of Education must require, as a condition of accreditation, that school districts provide to all students physical education programs which may include athletics. The state board must also require that public elementary schools provide instruction, for students in full-day kindergarten and grades one through five, in physical education or exercise programs for a minimum of an average of sixty (60) minutes each week. Requires the state board to disseminate information to each school district on the benefits of physical education programs and strongly encourage districts to provide physical education instruction to students in grades six through twelve. Instruction in physical education is required to be aligned with the Priority Academic Student Skills as adopted by the State Board of Education. Encourages local boards to require students to complete two units or sets of competencies of physical and health education for graduation. http://www.sos.state.ok.us/documents/Legislation/50th/2005/1R/SB/312.pdf
Title: S.B. 312
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Requires the state board of education to establish a physical activity program for public school students in the fifth grade, which each school district may elect to implement. The program is to incorporate the fitness challenges adopted by the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. It is also required to incorporate a "Walk Across Oklahoma" activity plan for school districts. The plan is to establish routes that challenge students to complete virtual walks across the state and at the same time learn facts, geography, and history about various locations in the state. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2005-06HB/hb1647_enr.rtf
Title: H.B. 1647
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us
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| SC | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Enacts the Financial Literacy Instruction Act; provides a curriculum for local school boards to teach financial literacy; provides for a fund to receive public and private contributions for financial literacy instruction. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3020.htm
Title: H.B. 3020
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net
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| WA | To governor 04/2005 | P-12 | Encourages that Washington's tribal history be taught in the common schools. Also adds a new section that requires, beginning in 2006, and at least once annually through 2010, the Washington state school directors' association is encouraged to convene regional meetings and invite the tribal councils from the region for the purpose of establishing government-to-government relationships and dialogue between tribal councils and school district boards of directors. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2005-06/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202005/1495-S.SL.pdf
Title: H.B. 1495
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Encourages each school district board of directors to adopt a family preservation education program curriculum and offer a family preservation unit in high school. The board of directors may adopt the model curriculum developed by the superintendent of public instruction or the board may develop its own curriculum with input from the community. Requires the state department of education to develop a family preservation education program model curriculum. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2005-06/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1252-S.PL.pdf
Title: H.B. 1252
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov/
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| WV | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Adds new section: §18-2-7c, to read as follows:(a) The Legislature finds and declares that persons with an understanding of personal finance are better prepared to manage their money and that providing a personal finance program in secondary schools in West Virginia will prepare students to handle their finances. (b) To provide students a basic understanding of personal finance, the State Board shall develop a program of instruction on personal finance which may be integrated into the curriculum of an appropriate existing course or courses for students in secondary schools. Prescribing personal finance instruction in secondary schools by the State Board of Education. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2005_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/hb2837%20enr.htm
Title: H.B. 2837
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Defines "organized physical activity course." Beginning in the 2005-2006 school year, allows a student in grades 9-12 successfully completing an organized physical activity course meeting certain specifications to earn .5 unit of physical education credit towards high school graduation. Specifies that a student is limited to only the .5 unit of physical education credit for graduation for the organized physical activity course, and that the student is not allowed any other credit toward graduation for that same course. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb2.pdf
Title: S.B. 2
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Allows grant funds for fish and wildlife conservation education to be distributed to conservation districts in addition to school districts. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/SB394.pdf
Title: S.B. 394
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Requires colleges and universities to:
(a) Utilize institution-wide resources to work with elementary and secondary educators and other entities to align curriculum content to ensure that students who achieve proficiency on standards established at the prekindergarten through secondary levels will require no remediation to successfully enter a postsecondary education program;
(b) Provide quality undergraduate teacher preparation programs to ensure that those preparing to teach reading or mathematics at all grade levels have the necessary content knowledge, assessment and diagnostic skills, and teaching methodologies;
(c) Deliver appropriate continuing education for teachers in reading and mathematics through institutes, graduate level courses, and other professional development activities that support a statewide agenda for improving student achievement in reading and mathematics;
(d) Conduct or assist with research on best practices in assessment, intervention strategies, teaching methodologies, costs and effectiveness of instructional models, and other factors as appropriate to reading and mathematics;
(e) Provide staff to consult and provide technical assistance to teachers, staff, and administrators at elementary, middle, and secondary school sites;
(f) Assume active roles in the statewide initiatives referenced in Sections 2 and 5 of this Act; and
(g) Develop written procedures for measuring the effectiveness of activities outlined in paragraphs (a) to (e) of this subsection.
Declares an emergency.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93.htm
Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93/FN.doc
Title: H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraph 7)
Source: lrc.ky.gov
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Defines terms, including "mathematics coach," "mathematics diagnostic assessment," "mathematics intervention program," "mathematics leader," "mathematics mentor," and "numeracy." Establishes the Committee for Mathematics Achievement to develop a multi-faceted strategic plan to improve student achievement in mathematics at all levels of schooling, prekindergarten through postsecondary and adult. Specifies that at a minimum, the plan must address:
(a) Challenging curriculum that is aligned prekindergarten through postsecondary, including consensus among high school teachers and postsecondary education faculty about expectations, curriculum, and assessment;
(b) Attitudes and beliefs of teachers about mathematics;
(c) Teachers' knowledge of mathematics;
(d) Diagnostic assessment, intervention services, and instructional strategies;
(e) Shortages of teachers of mathematics, including incentives to attract strong candidates to mathematics teaching;
(f) Statewide institutes that prepare cadres of mathematics leaders in local school districts, which may include highly skilled retired mathematics teachers, to serve as coaches and mentors in districts and schools;
(g) Cohesive continuing education options for experienced mathematics classroom teachers;
(h) Closing the student achievement gap among various student subpopulations;
(i) Curriculum expectations and assessments of students among the various school levels, prekindergarten, primary, elementary, middle, and high school;
(j) Content standards for adult education centers providing mathematics curricula;
(k) Introductory postsecondary education mathematics courses that are appropriate to the wide array of academic programs and majors;
(l) Research to analyze further the issues of transition from high school or GED programs to postsecondary education mathematics; and
(m) The early mathematics testing program under KRS 158.803.
Other factors may be included in the strategic plan as deemed appropriate by the committee to improve mathematics achievement of Kentucky students.
Requires the committee to (a) Design a statewide professional development program that includes summer mathematics institutes at colleges and universities, follow-up, and school-based support services, beginning no later than June 1, 2006, to prepare teams of teachers as coaches and mentors of mathematics at all school levels to improve student achievement. Specifies areas the design must address. (b) Require schools and districts approved to have participants in the mathematics leader institutes to provide specified assurances to support institute participants and students who need modified instructional and intervention services in math.
Establishes committee membership, terms, chairmanship, attachmetn to Kentucky Department of Education, and responsibilities. Specifies that the committee must:
(a) Present a draft strategic plan addressing the requirements in subsection (1) of this section and other issues that arose during the work of the committee to the Education Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee no later than August 2005;
(b) Present the strategic plan for improving mathematics achievement to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by July 15, 2006, which shall include any recommendations that require legislative action; and
(c) Provide a final written report of committee activities to the Interim Joint Committee on Education and the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2006.
Also specifies that the committee will have ongoing responsibility for providing advice and guidance to policymakers in the development of statewide policies and in the identification and allocation of resources to improve mathematics achievement. In carrying out this responsibility, the committee must periodically review the strategic plan and make modifications as deemed appropriate and report those to the Interim Joint Committee on Education.
Mandates that the committee collaborate with the Center for Mathematics to ensure that there is ongoing identification of research-based intervention programs for K-12 students who have fallen behind in mathematics, rigorous mathematics curricula that prepare students for the next level of schooling, research-based professional development models that prepare teachers in mathematics and pedagogy, and strategies for closing the gap between high school or GED and postsecondary mathematics preparation.
Declares an emergency.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93.htm
Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93/FN.doc
Title: H.B. 93 (Section 2)
Source: lrc.ky.gov
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, requires each school to limit access to no more than one day each week to retail fast foods in the cafeteria, whether sold by contract, commercial vendor, or otherwise.
Requires every district to appoint a food service director who is responsible for the management and oversight of the food service program in the district; allows two or more contiguous districts to form a "school food service area," in which a school food service director must be jointly selected by the participating superintendents to oversee the school food service area. Each school food service director must be certified as a "school food service and nutrition specialist" or certified by a Level 2 certificate issued by the American School Food Service Association within three years after this bill goes into effect. Requires school cafeteria managers to annually receive at least two hours of continuing education in applied nutrition and healthy meal planning and preparation.
Defines "competitive food," "school day" and school-day-approved beverage." Defines "school-day-approved beverage" as water, 100% fruit juice, lowfat milk, and any beverage that contains no more than 10 grams of sugar per serving. Requires the state board to specify the minimum nutritional standards for all foods and beverages sold outside the National School Breakfast and National School Lunch programs in vending machines, school stores, canteens, and a la carte cafeteria sales. Requires minimum nutritional standards to be based on the most recent edition of the United States Department of Agriculture's Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Requires the state board rule to address serving size, sugar, and fat content of the foods and beverages. Permits school districts to impose more stringent standards than the state board standards. Requires all schools to follow the state board minimum standards unless the school has obtained a waiver from the state board. Requires any waiver approved by the state board to be reviewed on an annual basis.
Bars schools from selling competitive foods or beverages from the time of the arrival of the first student at the school building until 30 minutes after the last lunch period. Allows only school-day-approved beverages to be sold in elementary schools during the school day in vending machines, school stores, canteens, or fundraisers that sell beverages by students, teachers, or groups on school grounds.
Establishes fines and other sanctions for any public school that violates the school food nutrition requirements in section 4 of this bill.
Requires each school food service director to annually assess school nutrition in the district and issue a written report to parents, the local school board, and school-based decision making councils. The report must include:
(a) An evaluation of compliance with the National School Breakfast and National School Lunch programs;
(b) An evaluation of the availability of contracted fast foods or foods sold through commercial vendors;
(c) A review of access to foods and beverages sold outside the National School Breakfast and National School Lunch programs, including vending machines, school stores, canteens, and a la carte cafeteria sales;
(d) A list of foods and beverages that are available to students, including the nutritional value of those foods and beverages; and
(e) Recommendations for improving the school nutrition environment.
Requires the state board to develop an assessment tool that each school district may use to evaluate its physical activity environment. Requires the evaluation to be completed annually and released to the public at the same time as the school food service director's annual nutrition report. Requires every local board to discuss the findings of the nutrition report and physical activity report, seek public comments during a public meeting of the board, and annually hold an advertised public forum to present a plan to improve school nutrition and physical activities in the school district.
Requires each school council of an elementary school to develop and implement a wellness policy that includes moderate to vigorous physical activity each day and encourages healthy choices among students. The policy may permit physical activity to be considered part of the instructional day, up to 30 minutes per day, or 150 minutes per week. Each school council must adopt an assessment tool or utilize an existing assessment program to annually determine each child's level of physical activity. Requires the department to make available a list of available resources to carry out the provisions of this subsection, and to report annually to the Legislative Research Commission on how the schools are providing physical activity under these requirements, and on the types of physical activity being provided. The policy developed by the school council must comply with provisions required by federal law, state law, or local board policy.
Bill summary, history and text: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/SB172.htm
Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/SB172/FN.doc
Title: S.B. 172
Source: lrc.ky.gov
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Clarifies that physical education is to include activities such as, but not limited to, cardiovascular, muscle
building, or stretching exercises, as appropriate. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0350+pdf
Title: S.B. 1130
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Creates the Entrepreneurship Education Program, consisting of grants administered by the state board to public secondary schools to support innovative educational programs designed to assist students in the development of their entrepreneurial, academic, and life skills. The programs are requried to, among other things, (i) incorporate experiential learning; (ii) include partnerships with business and higher education; and (iii) assist students in practicing and mastering business concepts, such as negotiation, pricing, and the development and implementation of plans for individual student businesses. This act will expire on July 1, 2007, if no gifts, donations, bequests, or other funds effectuating its purposes are received by that date. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0033
Title: S.B. 969
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| WI | Issued 03/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Creates the governor's council on financial literacy. The council's mission is to measurably improve the financial literacy of Wisconsin citizens. In addition to other tasks, the council will serve as a sounding board for the governor's office and the office of financial literacy and is to provide a semi-annual report on its progress, beginning on December 31, 2005.
http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/journal_media_detail.asp?prid=1026
Title: Executive Order # 92
Source: http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/
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| GA | Adopted 01/2005 | P-12 | Establishes rules regarding instruction in United States and Georgia history and government. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-4-2-.07.pdf
Title: GAC 160-4-2-.07
Source: StateNet
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