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State |
Status/Date |
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--Legal Issues |
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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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| Business Involvement |
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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--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--Alignment |
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| Curriculum--Arts Education |
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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--Geography Education |
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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--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling |
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| Curriculum--Mathematics |
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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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| Data-Driven Improvement |
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| Demographics--Condition of Children/Adults |
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| Demographics--Enrollments |
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| Economic/Workforce Development |
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| Education Research |
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| Equity |
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| Federal |
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| Finance |
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| Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
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| Finance--Bonds |
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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--Lotteries |
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| Finance--Performance Funding |
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| Finance--Private Giving |
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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--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--Mental Health |
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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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| Health--Teen Pregnancy |
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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 |
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| Instructional Approaches--Constructivism |
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| Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
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| Instructional Approaches--Problem Based Learning |
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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--Recruitment and Retention |
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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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| Minority/Diversity Issues--Hispanic |
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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--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--Special Populations |
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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 Finance |
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| P-3 Governance |
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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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| Parent/Family--Research |
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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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| LA | Issued 11/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Provides an allocation from the 2006 ceiling to be used to finance student loans which, if the student meets certain timely payment requirements, will have interest rates below the interest rates established by the U.S. Department of Education. http://gov.louisiana.gov/assets/docs/46exe2006-BondAlloc-LPFA-StudentLoans.pdf
Title: E.O. 46
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WY | Approved by voters 11/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Proposes an amendment (amendment C) to the Constitution to authorize the creation of permanent funds for two purposes: First, higher education scholarships, which include the current Hathaway scholarship program; and second, improving the quality of higher education. The principal in the funds, regardless of the source of the funds, cannot be expended. The earnings must be used for the purposes specified and the legislature is authorized to regulate how the earnings are used. Earnings from funds in the current Hathaway student scholarship account are intended to be used for college scholarships. The amendment would also allow the funds to be invested as the legislature authorizes, including in stocks. http://soswy.state.wy.us/election/2006/const-c.htm
Title: V. 3
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Approved by voters 09/2006 | Postsec. | Proposes an amendment to the constitution to authorize the investment in stocks of up to 35% of the state-funded permanently endowed funds of a public or private college or university. http://www.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcms4&rqsdta=093006
Title: Amendment 10
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2006 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Recodifies provisions of the executive budget act and the capital improvement planning act into a state budget act that revises and clarifies the procedures for preparing, enacting and administering the state buget. Requires all state agencies and non-state entities expending any state funds to expend them in accordance this policy.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/HTML/H914v4.html
Title: H.B. 914
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/
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| NJ | Adopted 07/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Establishes procedures for higher education institutions to apply for State matching funds under the Higher Education Incentive Funding Act, and delineates how and when the matching funds will be distributed to such institutions.
Title: NJAC 17:26
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | On 11/07/2006 Ballot. 06/2006 | Community College
Postsec. | (PROPOSITION HCR 2056-2006) Amends the State Constitution; relates to local property tax levies and community college districts; provides a limitation on annual increases in local ad valorem tax levies; relates to the 2006 Taxpayer Protection Act; provides that the limitation shall be computed from the actual tax levy of the county, city, town or community college district in 2005.
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/47leg/2r/bills/hcr2056h.pdf
Title: V. 2 (Prop. 2056)
Source: AZ Secretary of State
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Authorizes investment in stocks of portion of endowed funds of a public college or university. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=406241
Title: H.B. 830
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Vetoed 05/2006 | Postsec. | Concerns the creation of a task force to study the state's system of higher education financing; requires each state institution of higher education to have a program cost assessment completed by a national education finance organization to collect verifiable data regarding the actual cost to educate a student at the state institution; requires each state institution to submit the data collected from the completed cost analysis to the task force.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2006A/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/BDECF023167A230487257102005D1E57?Open&file=209_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 209
Source: Colorado Legislature
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Creates the Georgia Higher Education Facilities Authority as a body corporate and politic, an instrumentality of the state, and a public corporation. Gives the authority power to purchase, lease, hold and dispose of property; appoint an executive director; make and execute contracts, leases, rental agreements, and other instruments to exercise the powers of the authority, including construction contracts; construct, erect, acquire, own, repair, remodel, maintain, add to, extend, improve, equip, operate, and manage projects; to make loans; acquire, accept, or retain equitable interests, security interests, or other interests in any property; and to accept loans and to borrow money. Creates sections relating to revenue bonds.
Creates the Georgia Higher Education Facilities Authority Committee as a joint committee of the General Assembly. Requires the committee to periodically inquire into and review the operations of the Georgia Higher Education Facilities Authority, and review and evaluate the success with which the authority is accomplishing its duties and functions.
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/pdf/sb562.pdf
Title: S.B. 562
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2006 | Postsec. | Establishes a pilot project by the state board of regents for the acquisition of supplies, materials, equipment, goods, property, articles, products or services. Directs the board to select two state educational institutions to participate in the project. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2006/52.pdf
Conference committee report: http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2006/CCRB52.pdf
Title: S.B. 52
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2006 | Community College
Postsec. | Alters the Senator John A. Cade Funding Formula for community colleges to allow colleges that are no longer eligible for funding under the size factor component to receive a specified percentage of funding for a specified number of fiscal years.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb0533t.pdf
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/sb/sb0357t.pdf
Title: H.B. 533; SB 357
Source: Maryland Legislature
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| MD | Vetoed 04/2006 | Postsec. | Amends the Maryland Charter for Higher Education to require specified funding policies to allocate State resources comparably and equitably to similarly classified institutions of higher education; requires the Maryland Higher Education Commission to ensure that parity exists between duplicate academic programs at specified institutions of higher education and that those academic programs receive equitable and comparable funding.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/sb/sb0998e.pdf
Title: S.B. 998; H.B. 1634
Source: Maryland Legislature
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| MS | Signed into law 02/2006 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Authorizes school districts, universities and community colleges to borrow funds from federal government to cover loss of revenue as result of Hurricane Katrina.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2006/pdf/SB/2700-2799/SB2701SG.pdf
Title: S.B. 2701
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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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--Foster Youth |
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| Postsecondary Students--Military |
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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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| Promising Practices |
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| Promotion/Retention |
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| Reading/Literacy |
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| Religion |
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| Religion--Scientific Creationism (Evolution) |
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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--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
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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--Inclusion (Mainstreaming) |
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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--Foster Care |
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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--Ballot Questions |
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| State Policymaking--Politics |
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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 Achievement--State Trends |
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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--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--Assignment |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds. |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--State Prof. Standards Bds. |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Substitute Teachers |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
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| Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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| Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
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| Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals |
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| Teaching Quality--Preparation |
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| Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Rights |
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| Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
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| Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
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| Technology |
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| Technology--Computer Skills |
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| Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
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| Technology--Equitable Access |
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| Technology--Funding Issues |
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| Technology--Internet Safety |
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| Technology--Teacher/Faculty Training |
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| Textbooks and Open Source |
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