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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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| 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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| NJ | Signed into law 12/2006 | P-12 | Requires boards of education to offer elementary school students instruction in gang violence prevention.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bills/BillView.asp
Title: A.B. 1650; S.B. 1749
Source: New Jersey Legislature
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| NY | Adopted 12/2006 | P-12 | Establishes standards for behavioral interventions, including aprohibition on the use of aversive behavioral interventions; to provide for achild- specific exception to the prohibition on the use of aversiveinterventions; and to establish standards for programs using aversive behavioralinterventions. NEW YORK 18424
Title: Title 8 NYCRR sections 19.5, 200.1, 200.4, 200.7 and 200.22
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OH | Signed into law 12/2006 | P-12 | Requires the state board of education to develop a model policy to prohibit harassment, intimidation, or bullying in order to assist school districts in developing their own policies under section 3313.666 of the Revised Code. The board is required to issue the model policy within six months after the effective date of this section. Sec. 3313.666 defines "harassment, intimidation, or bullying" as any intentional written, verbal, or physical act that a student has exhibited toward another particular student more than once and the behavior both:
(1) Causes mental or physical harm to the other student;
(2) Is sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive that it creates an intimidating, threatening, or abusive educational environment for the other student.
(B) The board of education of each city, local, exempted village, and joint vocational school district shall establish a policy prohibiting harassment, intimidation, or bullying. The policy shall be developed in consultation with parents, school employees, school volunteers, students, and community members. The policy shall include the following:
(1) A statement prohibiting harassment, intimidation, or bullying of any student on school property or at school-sponsored events;
(2) A definition of harassment, intimidation, or bullying that shall include the definition in division (A) of this section;
(3) A procedure for reporting prohibited incidents;
(4) A requirement that school personnel report prohibited incidents of which they are aware to the school principal or other administrator designated by the principal;
(5) A requirement that parents or guardians of any student involved in a prohibited incident be notified and, to the extent permitted by section 3319.321 of the Revised Code and the "Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974," 88 Stat. 571, 20 U.S.C. 1232q, as amended, have access to any written reports pertaining to the prohibited incident;
(6) A procedure for documenting any prohibited incident that is reported;
(7) A procedure for responding to and investigating any reported incident;
(8) A strategy for protecting a victim from additional harassment, intimidation, or bullying, and from retaliation following a report;
(9) A disciplinary procedure for any student guilty of harassment, intimidation, or bullying, which shall not infringe on any student's rights under the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States;
(10) A requirement that the district administration semiannually provide the president of the district board a written summary of all reported incidents and post the summary on its web site, if the district has a web site, to the extent permitted by section 3319.321 of the Revised Code and the "Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974," 88 Stat. 571, 20 U.S.C. 1232q, as amended.
(C) Each board's policy shall appear in any student handbooks, and in any of the publications that set forth the comprehensive rules, procedures, and standards of conduct for schools and students in the district. Information regarding the policy shall be incorporated into employee training materials.
(D) A school district employee, student, or volunteer shall be individually immune from liability in a civil action for damages arising from reporting an incident in accordance with a policy adopted pursuant to this section if that person reports an incident of harassment, intimidation, or bullying promptly in good faith and in compliance with the procedures as specified in the policy.
(E) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, nothing in this section prohibits a victim from seeking redress under any other provision of the Revised Code or common law that may apply.
(F) This section does not create a new cause of action or a substantive legal right for any person.
Sec. 3313.667. (A) Any school district may form bullying prevention task forces, programs, and other initiatives involving volunteers, parents, law enforcement, and community members.
(B) To the extent that state or federal funds are appropriated for these purposes, each school district shall:
(1) Provide training, workshops, or courses on the district's harassment, intimidation, or bullying policy adopted pursuant to section 3313.666 of the Revised Code to school employees and volunteers who have direct contact with students. Time spent by school employees in the training, workshops, or courses shall apply towards any state- or district-mandated continuing education requirements.
(2) Develop a process for educating students about the policy.
(C) This section does not create a new cause of action or a substantive legal right for any person.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_276
Title: H.B. 276 -- Sections on Harassment
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 12/2006 | P-12 | From fiscal notes: Sub. H.B. 422 of the 126th General Assembly required that the Attorney General post a copy of the blueprint for each school building on the Ohio Law Enforcement Gateway. The bill, instead, requires that the Attorney General post a floor plan for each school building. According to the Office of the Attorney General, additional equipment would most likely be needed to accommodate the large size of building blueprints in order to transform the blueprints into electronic documents suitable for posting on the Gateway. The Office estimates the potential one-time cost of this equipment to be in the range of approximately $100,000 to $300,000. The changes made by the bill will eliminate this potential cost.
http://www.lbo.state.oh.us/fiscal/fiscalnotes/126ga/HB0079CC.htm
Title: H.B. 79 -- Floor Plan Section
Source: http://www.lbo.state.oh.us
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| OR | Adopted 11/2006 | P-12 | Requires public schools to develop policies and procedures on the useof physical restraint and seclusion in schools. Requires schools to developbehavior support plans with specific content requirements and with parentparticipation.
Title: OAR 581-021-0061, -0061
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2006 | P-12 | Requires the State Department of Education to develop a model antidiscrimination and antiharassment policy that prohibits such conduct based on specified characteristics, including, but not limited to, actual or perceived gender identity and sexual orientation, for school districts to adopt. Requires the department to post the model policy on its Internet Web site for school districts to download. Requires the district to publicize the policy and to take actions relating to awareness and prevention.
Title: A.B. 606
Source: California Legislature
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2006 | P-12 | Amends existing law that requires the Attorney General to conduct a biennial survey of drug and alcohol use among pupils enrolled in grades 7, 9, and 11 to provide the survey shall also assess pupils' experiences with harassment and bullying. Requires the Attorney General to prepare and distribute a separate report focusing on bias- related discrimination and harassment incidents.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2510_bill_20060915_enrolled.pdf
Title: A.B. 2510
Source: California Legislature
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| IL | Adopted 08/2006 | P-12 | Establishes rules regarding the School Safety Drill Act. Mandates the conduct of school evacuation drills, bus evacuation drills, and severe weather and shelter-in place drills in public and nonpublic schools and also strongly encourages the conduct of law enforcement drills. Establishes requirements for the minimum number of drills of each type. Calls for the involvement of fire departments in school evacuation drills. Pages 176-183 of 215: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/register/register_volume30_issue35.pdf
Title: 29 IAC 1510.10, .20, .30
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 08/2006 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Requires state supported schools, colleges, and universities and the owner, or owner's representative, of all school dormitories to have a fire drill each month and ensure unrestricted emergency egress during school hours and when the school is open to the public; requires a record of the drills to be kept; specifies the minimum number of fire, tornado safety and emergency drills a school must have per school year; requires K-12 schools to conduct some of the drills during lunch and recess periods, or at other times when a significant number of the students are gathered but not in the classroom. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/publicact/pdf/2006-PA-0337.pdf
Title: S.B. 1108
Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov
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| NJ | Signed into law 08/2006 | P-12 | Requires the Attorney General to prepare a pamphlet to educate children about pedophile crimes and how to reduce their chances of becoming victims of such crimes. The pamphlet would be developed in consultation with the New Jersey School Boards Association, the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault, the New Jersey Education Association, and the Division on Women. The bill specifies that the pamphlet would be distributed to all elementary and secondary schools throughout the State, which would be required to distribute them to students. The pamphlets would be designed by the Attorney General. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2004/Bills/AL05/347_.PDF
Title: S.B. 2595
Source: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2006 | P-12 | Prohibits the possession, knowingly or unknowingly, of rifles, shotguns and firearms on a school bus without the written authorization of the educational institution.
Title: A.B. 9272
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CT | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Concerns bullying policies in schools requires school notices be provided to parents and guardians with minimal cost to local and regional school districts. Public Act No. 115
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2006/ACT/Pa/pdf/2006PA-00115-R00HB-05563-PA.pdf
Title: H.B. 5563
Source: Connecticut Legislature
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| DE | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Relates to school crossing zones; clarifies that the special 20 mph speed limit for schools applies throughout the area marked by 20 mph regulatory signs and not just in a crossing.
Title: H.B. 486
Source: Delaware Legislature
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Relates to weapons; revises definition of weapon; revises and clarifies provisions regarding prohibited exhibition and possession of weapons and firearms at school-sponsored events or on school property; clarifies provisions regarding prohibited trespass on school property with a firearm, knife, plastic knife, blunt-bladed table knife, common pocketknife or other weapon; provides a penalty.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1291er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1291&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 1291
Source: Florida Legislature
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Provides that the crime of assault on a school teacher includes making statements threatening physical harm to a school teacher and requires certain disciplinary actions to be taken when a public elementary or secondary school student is accused of violating the criminal statute or school disciplinary rules, or both, by committing an assault on a school employee. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=406257
Title: H.B. 1260
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Prohibits registered sex offenders from living within 1,500 feet of a school or day care center.
http://index.ls.state.ms.us/isysnative/UzpcRG9jdW1lbnRzXDIwMDZccGRmXHNiXDI1MDAtMjU5OVxzYjI1MjdzZy5wZGY=/sb2527sg.pdf#xml=http://10.240.72.35/isysquery/irl6501/4/hilite
Title: S.B. 2527
Source: http://www.ls.state.ms.us
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| NJ | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Upgrades simple assault against school teachers and school employees to aggravated assault, includes public or nonpublic elementary and secondary schools.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/A3000/2556_I1.HTM
Title: A.B. 2556
Source: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/
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| NY | Adopted 06/2006 | P-12 | Provides a ranking, standard for reporting, and more concise definition of reportable offenses as required by the uniform violent and school districts, BOCES, charter schools, and country vocational education andextension boards. Establishes the use of a school violence index as a comparative measure of the level of schoolviolence in a school.
Title: Title 8 NYCRR section 100.2(gg)
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SC | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Enacts the Safe Schools Act to prevent school harassment, intimidation, or bullying, to instruct local school districts to adopt a policy prohibiting harassment, intimidation, or bullying that includes certain things, and to develop a training process.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/prever/3573_20060530.doc
Title: H.B. 3573
Source: South Carolina Legislature
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Relates to school crossings; doubles the assessment for a person found to be responsible for a civil traffic violation in a school crossing during school hours.
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/47leg/2r/bills/hb2615h.pdf
Title: H.B. 2615
Source: Arizona Legislature
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| OH | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Abolishes the current Block Parent Program administered by the state board of education and replaces it with the McGruff House Program, administered by the Division of Criminal Justice Services. Creates the offense of "unauthorized use of a McGruff House symbol," to replace the offense of "unauthorized use of block parent symbol." Requires the destruction of all current Block Parent symbols not later than July 10, 2007.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_374_
Title: H.B. 374
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2006 | Postsec. | Requires students attending state-supported postsecondary institutions to take a course on hate crimes, sexual harassment, sexual battery, and date rape; requires state- supported postsecondary institutions to renew financial aid for an additional year to athletic scholarship recipients who become academically ineligible to participate in a particular sport.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB3112.pdf
Title: S.B. 3112; H.B. 3250
Source: Tennessee Legislature
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Concerns Education, Curriculum; requires local education agencies to implement sexual violence awareness and prevention education for high school students.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB0595.pdf
Title: S.B. 595; H.B. 0374
Source: Tennessee Legislature
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Requires schools to annually submit the names of organizations and individuals who have provided effective hazing, harassment, bullying, suicide, or substance abuse prevention training for staff or students, or both. Directs the commissioner to consult with the commission on human rights and other relevant organizations regarding organizations and individuals who may not yet have been invited into a school but who are qualified to provide the training. Requires the commissioner to compile the information and make it available to schools throughout the state either on the department's website or in another form in a format determined most appropriate. The intent of this listing is to offer schools a broad set of programs for prevention training which will be periodically updated based on feedback from schools. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2006/acts/ACT182.HTM
Title: H.B. 867 - Section 27
Source: www.leg.state.vt.us
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| AL | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Declares that a person who shoots or discharges a firearm into an occupied school bus or school building is guilty of a Class B felony and a person who shoots or discharges a firearm into an unoccupied school bus or school building is guilty of a Class C felony.
http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2006rs/bills/hb125.htm
Title: H.B. 125
Source: http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Concerns reports of assaults in schools; adds third degree assaults, vehicular assaults, and disorderly conduct involving fighting to the types of assaults and fights that school districts must include in their reports of criminal assaults to the department of education. Improves and strengthens school safety reporting to department of education and to the public. Session Law Chaptered. Chapter No. 117
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2006a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/5F35CD4EED5D661C872570D00077AB9E?Open&file=055_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 55
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Adds that a person who does not check in at the designated location as a visitor to a school during school operating hours is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Provides that law enforcement records created, received, or maintained by campus policemen (K-12 or postsecondary) relating to the investigation of criminal conduct and crimes and not subject to protection from disclosure by any other Georgia law must be made available within a reasonable time after request for public inspection and copying.
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/pdf/hb1302.pdf
Title: H.B. 1302
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Creates new sections related to school crossing guards. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2006/344.pdf
Title: S.B. 344
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Requires lockdown procedures to be established for school buildings; requires students, staff, and parents to be made aware of lockdown procedures; requires lockdown guidelines to be posted in schools; requires a lockdown emergency practice to be held once during each school year. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HB206/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 206
Source: http://www.lrc.ky.gov
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Relates to expelled or suspended students. Defines "behavior which constitutes a threat" (and as such, allows a board to place a student in a state-funded agency program) as including assault, battery or abuse of others; the threat of force; being under the influence of drugs or alcohol; the use, possession, sale, or transfer of drugs or alcohol; or the carrying, possessing, or transfer of weapons or dangerous instruments; and any other behavior which may endanger the health or safety of others. Authorizes a local board to adopt a policy providing that if a student is suspended or expelled for any reason, or faces charges that may lead to suspension or expulsion but withdraws prior to a hearing, from any public or private school in this or any other state, the receiving district may review the details of the charges, suspension, or expulsion and determine if the student will be admitted, and if so, what conditions may be imposed upon the admission.
Authorizes a local board to adopt a policy providing that if a student is suspended or expelled for any reason, or faces charges that may lead to suspension or expulsion but withdraws prior to a hearing, from any public or private school in this or any other state, the receiving district may review the details of the charges, suspension, or expulsion and determine if the student will be admitted, and if so, what conditions may be imposed upon the admission. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HB688/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 688
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Establishes a Task Force on School Safety; provides for the membership and staffing of the Task Force; authorizes the Task Force to establish subcommittees; provides that the members of the Task Force may not receive compensation but are entitled to a specified reimbursement.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/sb/sb0146t.pdf
Title: S.B. 146
Source: Maryland Legislature
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Alters the standard by which a county board of education and the Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore City shall require specified elementary schools to implement a positive behavioral interventions and support program or a specified alternative program.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb1495t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1495
Source: Maryland Legislature
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2006 | Postsec. | Adds campus safety and security to the state goals that public institutions of higher education participating in the Restructured Higher Education Financial and Administrative Operation Act must commit to the Governor and General Assembly to meet.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0775
Title: H.B. 346
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Requires a school board to expel from school for at least one year a student who possesses a firearm on school property or at a school-sponsored activity. Language changed from "brought a firearm" to "possessed a firearm."
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0703
Title: H.B. 1516
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Relates to assault and battery; adds school bus drivers and a bus driver aide to the protected class of persons. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0829
Title: H.B. 70
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Adds teacher aides, school bus drivers, and school bus aides to the list of school personnel provided a limited exception to charges of simple assault or assault and battery while acting in the course and scope of their official capacity when using: (i) incidental, minor or
reasonable physical contact or other actions designed to maintain order and control; (ii) reasonable and necessary force to quell a disturbance or remove a student from the scene of a disturbance that threatens physical injury to persons or damage to property; (iii) reasonable
and necessary force to prevent a student from inflicting physical harm on himself; (iv) reasonable and necessary force for self-defense or the defense of others; or (v) reasonable and necessary force to obtain possession of weapons or other dangerous objects or controlled
substances or associated paraphernalia that are upon the person of the student or within his control.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0709
Title: S.B. 26
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Makes it illegal to brandish a machete in a threatening matter with intent to intimidate. Provides that a person who violates this section is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor or, if the violation occurs upon any public, private, or religious elementary, middle, or high school, including buildings and grounds or upon public property within 1,000 feet of such school property, the person is guilty of a Class 6 felony. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0844
Title: H.B. 588
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WI | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Expands penalities for sexual assault on a child from instructional staff position to staff person or a person who works or volunteers with children.
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/acts/05Act274.pdf
Title: S.B. 349
Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Adds to existing law to provide that a person who willfully threatens to commit a violent act on school grounds by use of a firearm or other deadly or dangerous weapon is guilty of a misdemeanor; and to define terms. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/H0630.html
Title: H.B. 630
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Makes possessing a knife on school property or on a school bus a Class B misdemeanor; makes the offense a Class A misdemeanor if the offender has a previous unrelated conviction and a Class D felony if the offense results in bodily injury or serious bodily injury to another person; adds battery against, and the harassment of, a school employee to the list of offenses that must be reported to a local law enforcement agency; provides a definition of battery; provides for victims of harassment. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/HE/HE1093.1.html
Title: H.B. 1093
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Adopted 03/2006 | P-12 | Permits seniors who wish to retest for diploma endorsements to test during the fall retest. Provides guidelines and rules about administrative error that may occur during statewide assessment. Provides guidelines and rulesregarding cell phones and other electronic devices usage during the administration of statewide assessments. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0603/0603RUL.pdf (beginning page 5 of 57)
Title: LAC 28:CXI.312, 316 and 1351
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Strongly urges education in the public education system to utilize Prevention Dimensions, the state's Safe and Drug Free School curriculum to education students regarding substance abuse; strongly urges the citizens of the state to increase their awareness of the destructive effects of tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs on youth; recognizes local youth councils and other youth groups for helping keep their peers from getting caught up in the trap of tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use.
http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2006/bills/hbillenr/hcr003.pdf
Title: H.C.R. 3
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Encourages concerned parents, individuals, and organizations to review and assist in the adoption of policies prohibiting bullying, harassment, and intimidation in public schools; requests the establishment of a definition for bullying and a system for reporting and responding to school- related bullying incidents and that identifies and assists victims of bullying and assists faculty and students in seeking safer schools and a more positive learning environment.
http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2006/bills/sbillenr/scr001.pdf
Title: S.C.R. 1
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Enhances current procedures for notation in school records of missing children and local law-enforcement cooperation with the schools by mandating that, (i) within 24 hours of the missing child report, local law enforcement must notify the principal of the school where the missing child is or was most recently enrolled of the report so that the school can mark the student's record; and (ii) upon notification that the marked child's record has been requested, the Superintendent of State Police must immediately initiate an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the request. Additionally, the bill defines the term "mark" as an electronic or other indicator that is readily apparent on the student's record.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0295
Title: H.B. 1482
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Amends the requirement that principals or their designees receive notification from local law enforcement authorities when students in their school commit certain crimes to require that such notification be given, whether the student is released to the custody of his parent or, if 18 years of age or more, is released on bond.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0146
Title: H.B. 1279
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Requires a parent, guardian, or other person having control or charge of a child of school age to provide to a public school information concerning certain criminal convictions or delinquency adjudications. When the registration results from foster care placement, the information shall be furnished by the relevant social services agency. Amends a prior provision that required a sworn statement or affirmation indicating whether the student has been expelled from school attendance at a private school or in a public school division of the Commonwealth or in another state for an offense in violation of school board policies relating to weapons, alcohol or drugs, or for the willful infliction of injury to another person. Amendment requires that such a document be maintained as a part of the student's scholastic record.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0183, http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0053
Title: S.B. 656, H.B. 95
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Relates to sex offender and kidnapping offender notification and information sharing in schools; Requires the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene a work group to develop a model policy for schools to follow when they receive notification; requires the designation of appropriate school personnel to receive the information.
http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2005-06/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202006/6580-S.SL.pdf
Title: S.B. 6580
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Declares an intent to give public and private entities that provide services to children the tools necessary to prevent convicted child sex offenders from contacting children when those children are within the legal boundaries of the covered public and private entities. Provides that an owner, employee, or agent of a covered entity may order a sex offender from the legal premises of a covered entity as provided under this act.
http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2005-06/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202006/6775-S.SL.pdf
Title: S.B. 6775
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov/
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| NM | Signed into law 02/2006 | P-12 | Relates to controlled substances; revises the criminal offense of trafficking controlled substances to include the distribution and sale of methamphetamine, its salts and isomers; expands the definition of a drug-free zone to include private and parochial schools and private property within 1,000 feet of a school.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/06%20Regular/FinalVersions/house/HB0179.pdf
Title: H.B. 179
Source: http://legis.state.nm.us
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2006 | P-12 | Creates community safety zones; prohibits residing or loitering in community safety zones which lies within five hundred feet from grounds of any school, public park, public playground or public pool by sex offenders.
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2006/bills/SB149enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 149
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2006 | P-12 | Requires each school to implement a "medical emergency response plan" as part of their school crisis and emergency management plan. The Department of Education (DOE) must provide assistance in the development of the plan by referring to the scientific statements prepared by the American Heart Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and other various national emergency response organizations, regarding the components of an emergency medical response plan. The department must also prepare a model plan. From the fiscal note: The bill specifically references information from the American Heart Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics which would have schools do a lot more in the specific areas of cardiac arrest and early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training activities. This will require more training for school staff. This legislation also requires the department's model plan to address the equipment required for emergency response. If the state's model plan sets out the equipment required for medical response based on the positions of the American Heart Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and other various national emergency response organizations this may require local school divisions to purchase such equipment for implementation of the emergency medical response plans, if such equipment is not already in place.
If no additional state funding is provided to cover any expenses associated with this bill, the costs to localities and DOE will have to be absorbed within current resources.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0043
Title: S.B. 75
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2006 | P-12 | Requires a parent, guardian, or other person having control or charge of a child of school age to provide to a public school, upon registration of a student, information concerning certain criminal convictions or delinquency adjudications; provides that the registration results from foster care placement, the information shall be furnished by the local social services agency or licensed child placing agency that made the foster care placement.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0053
Title: H.B. 95
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Directs the governing boards of educational institutions to establish programs, in cooperation with the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and the Office of the Attorney General, to promote the awareness and prevention of sexual crimes committed upon students.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0121
Title: H.B. 910
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| MD | Adopted 01/2006 | P-12 | Proposes to amend rules requiring each county board of education and the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to require an elementary school that has a suspension rate that exceeds 18% of the elementary school'senrollment to implement a positive behavioral interventions and support programor an alternative behavioral modification program in collaboration with the Maryland State Department of Education. MARYLAND 10415
http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/subtitle_chapters/13A_Chapters.htm
Title: COMAR 13A.08.06.02
Source: COMAR Web Page
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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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