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| Accountability--Rewards |
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| Accountability--School Improvement |
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| Assessment--Accommodations |
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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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| ME | Issued 12/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Establishes the Governor's Council on Jobs, Innovation, and the Economy to:
1. Develop a recommended action plan for moving the state forward on the innovation-focused and cluster development activities that will define the state's investment strategies.
2. Propose structures, entities and activities that support the realization of these investments.
Directs the council to collaborate with the Commissioner of the Department of Economic and Community Development, the Commissioner of the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, the Director of the State Planning Office, the State Budget Officer, the legislature, Maine's university and community college systems and other stakeholders to fulfill these duties.
http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/index.php?topic=Gov_Executive_Orders&id=28091&v=Article
Title: EXECUTIVE ORDER 23 FY 06/07
Source: www.maine.gov
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2006 | Postsec. | Codifies the workforce development system to deliver workforce development programs and services tailored to local needs; provides for works areas; provides for local workforce development boards; provides for education advisory groups and pilot projects; requires reporting; provides for consolidated access to employment and retention programs in one-stop service centers. Public Act 491
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/billenrolled/Senate/pdf/2006-SNB-1288.pdf
Title: S.B. 1288
Source: Michigan Legislature
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Requires the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development to establish, in partnership with specified entities, a logistics worker training initiative for the purpose of making workers in the state more skilled in the competitive global manufacturing value chain. The
initiative shall be conducted in partnership with the following:(1) The manufacturing sector.(2) The Community College Chancellor's Office.
(3) The Office of the President of the California State University System.(4) The Employment Development Department.(5) Manufacturing trade associations.(6) International trade logistic professionals.(7) The Gateway Cities Partnership.(8) Labor unions that are the recognized or certified bargaining representatives of employees in the manufacturing, transportation, and goods movement sectors. (9) The California Employment Training Panel.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2551-2600/ab_2595_bill_20060824_enrolled.pdf
Title: A.B. 2595
Source: California Legislature
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2006 | Community College
Postsec. | Delays the repeal date of the Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program. Adds to the program a provision requiring the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to contract for an independent performance evaluation of the program.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1551-1600/sb_1552_bill_20060831_enrolled.pdf
Title: S.B. 1552
Source: California Legislature
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| NY | Vetoed 09/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Provides an additional one year waiver from citizenship and immigration status requirements for applicants for a pharmacist's license.
Title: S.B. 7405
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Adopted 09/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Establish the Employer Workforce Training Account and adopts rules to implement the administration of the account.
http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/rules/1006_Bulletin/1006_ch589_bulletin.html
Title: OAR 589-020-0225
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 08/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Creates the Graduate Nurse Scholarship Program for Faculty Production to provide scholarship loans to students in master's and doctoral degree programs in nursing fields that would permit them to become nursing faculty at a state community college or university.
http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/HTML/S1741v8.html
Title: S.B. 1741
Source: http://www.ncleg.net
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| NE | Rule Adoption 08/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Establishes procedures for authorizing private postsecondary career schools to operate, be accredited and grant degrees.
Nebraska 1264
Title: Title 92 NAC Chapters 41 and 42
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WY | Emergency Rule Adoption 08/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Amends rules concerning pre-obligation of workforce development training fund grants; indicates that the Department of Workforce Services may obligate grants when used to attract new businesses to Wyoming as part of an economic development initiative, or when an existing Wyoming business entity is planning an expansion of its workforce. http://soswy.state.wy.us/RULES/6309.pdf
Title: Chapter 3
Source: http://soswy.state.wy.us/Rule_Search_Main.asp
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| HI | Vetoed 07/2006 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Establishes the Ingenuity Corporation Charter to create benefits for inventors nationally, labor unions nationally, and public education to promote the teaching of innovation and its application for the common good, to create and maintain businesses operating at International Labor Organization work standards and United Nations environmental standards, providing innovation education, employment opportunities, and economic development. Mandates that the 9-member board of directors include a member appointed by the Hawaii State Teachers' Association and a member appointed by the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/hb3261_cd1_.htm
Title: H.B. 3261
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Establishes the Nurse Educator Assistance Act to attract capable and promising students to the nursing educator profession, increase employment and retention of individuals who are working towards or who have received a master's or doctoral degree in nursing, and provide opportunities for persons making mid-career decisions to enter the nurse educator profession. Establishes the Nurse Educator Loan Repayment Program to provide up to $5,000 a year for up to 4 years to assist individuals in paying back student loans.
Establishes the Nurse Educator Scholarship Program to provide scholarship assistance until July 1, 2010 to eligible students for nursing-related graduate study. Award must cover tuition and fees and include a stipend of up to $10,000 to cover such costs of attendance as living expenses. Allows students to receive scholarships for up to 8 semesters. Requires scholarship recipients to sign a pledge that, within 1 year of completing schooling, they will begin working as an educator in an approved program of professional nursing education or an approved program of practical nursing education in Illinois for a period of not less than 5 years. Provides that if a scholarship recipient fails to fulfill the work agreement, the individual must repay the scholarship amount received, prorated according to the fraction of the work agreement not completed, plus 5% interest.
Establishes a competitive grant program for postsecondary institutions that award degrees in nursing. Allows the grants to be awarded on the basis of performance criteria including degree production, student retention, and passage rates on professional licensure examinations. Establishes a nurse educator fellowship program to supplement nursing faculty salaries at postsecondary institutions that award degrees in nursing. Allows fellowships to be awarded on a competitive basis.
Extends Illinois National Guard grant program to provide same benefits to members of the Illinois Naval Militia.
Establishes forensic science grant program to encourage graduate students to enter the field of forensic science and continue their careers as forensic scientists with the department of state police in one of the specialty areas of forensic sciences considered a shortage specialty area. Provides grants of up to $30,000 to cover expenses related to the forensic science program in which a graduate student is enrolled. Requires recipients to sign a pledge to seek employment as a forensic scientist with the department of state police and, if such employment is obtained, to continue as an employee of the department of state police for a minimum of 4 years. Requires recipients who do not fulfill the work agreement to repay the grant award, prorated for the fraction of the obligation not completed, plus 5% interest.
Clarifies in existing nursing scholarship program that a student's merit, as shown through his or her grade point average, class rank, and other academic and
extracurricular activities, must be a factor in prioritizing scholarships in a year in which applicants exceed the number of scholarships to be awarded.
(Repealed on January 1, 2008): Establishes the Illinois Center for Nursing and the Center for Nursing Advisory Board. Directs the center to address issues of supply and demand in the nursing profession, including issues of recruitment, retention, and utilization of nurse manpower resources. Establishes the following specific goals for the center:
(1) To develop a strategic plan for nursing manpower in Illinois by selecting priorities that must be addressed.
(2) To convene various groups of representatives of nurses, other health care providers, businesses and industries, consumers, legislators, and educators to:
(A) review and comment on data analysis prepared for the center;
(B) recommend systemic changes, including strategies for implementation of recommended changes; and
(C) evaluate and report the results of the board's efforts to the general assembly and others.
(3) To enhance and promote recognition, reward, and renewal activities for nurses in Illinois by:
(A) proposing and creating reward, recognition, and renewal activities for nursing; and
(B) promoting media and positive image-building efforts for nursing.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/94/SB/PDF/09400SB0931lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 931
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Authorizes the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to establish and maintain a pilot program to provide for and test the use of lifelong learning accounts for workers in the state's healthcare sector for education expenses. Provides that participation in the pilot program by healthcare employers is voluntary. Provides that the pilot may serve up to 500 healthcare workers, and that, if the department elects to adopt the program, must:
(1) encourage the participation, in the program, of lower-income and lower-skilled healthcare workers;
(2) implement the program in diverse geographic and economic areas and include healthcare workers in urban, suburban, and rural areas of the state;
(3) include, in the program, healthcare employers of different sizes that choose to participate;
(4) provide matching grants in an amount, not to exceed $500 annually for each grant, equal to 50% of the annual aggregate contribution made by an employer and
employee to the employee's lifelong learning account;
(5) make technical assistance available to companies and educational and career advising available to individual participants. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/94/SB/PDF/09400SB2931lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 2931
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| OH | Issued 07/2006 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Creates the workforce education and training advisory council, defines duties and membership.
http://governor.ohio.gov/releases/2006-17T%20Workforce%20Educ%20final.pdf
Title: Executive Order 2006-17T
Source: http://governor.ohio.gov/
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| OR | Adopted 07/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Establishes rules allowing institutions to establish venture development funds to enable commercialization of research and development for job creation, proof-of-concept funding and to provide students with opportunities to apply research to commercial activities. Defines eligibility for tax credits and grants.
http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/rules/OARS_500/OAR_580/580_043.html
Title: OAR 580-043-0060 through OAR 580-043-0095
Source: http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/
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| PA | Adopted 07/2006 | P-12 | Establishes rules relating to academic standards and assessment. Adds academic standards for Career Education and Work. Specifies academic standards to be achieved by students enrolled at various grade levels in the public schools of this Commonwealth. PENNSYLVANIA 4072
http://www.pde.state.pa.us/stateboard_ed/lib/stateboard_ed/CHAPTER44-12-05_GED_.pdf
Title: 22 PA. Code Ch. 4
Source: Pennsylvania Regulations
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| VA | Issued 07/2006 | Postsec. | Assigns authority and describes responsibilities for carrying out the state's coordination of workforce development services by the Chief Workforce Development Officer. http://www.governor.virginia.gov/Initiatives/ExecutiveOrders/2006/EO_25.cfm
Title: E.O. 25
Source: http://www.governor.virginia.gov/index.cfm
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Encourages state residents to pursue postsecondary education by clarifying the financial eligibility guidelines, establishing a workforce development scholarship program at the community colleges based on need, establishing a state scholars program, and placing funds for all scholarship programs in a separate account in the student scholarship and assistance special fund. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb3120_cd1_.htm
Title: S.B. 3120
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Appropriates funds to provide the necessary start-up funding to operate an international business and technology incubator program and to enable state residents to acquire the bilingual language skills, technology, and marketing necessary to implement an incubator program in China, Japan, and Hawaii. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb2036_cd1_.htm
Title: S.B. 2036
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2006 | Community College | Requires the community college board to implement and administer a 3-year, mobile response workforce training pilot program at three community colleges to address the fact that businesses are struggling to recruit a qualified workforce because of the frequent emergence of new technologies in the workplace and subsequent skill set requirements. Requires the program to:
(1) Be a collaborative model that integrates mobile workforce training with job creation and economic development.
(2) Provide participating businesses with on-site training activities and resources across all functions, including without limitation recruiting, assessing and training potential employees, developing and producing training materials, providing training facilities, and delivering customized services, with the long-term objective of maintaining business and industry in the state and attracting new businesses and industries to the state.
Encourages the program to use the highly successful Alabama Industrial Development Training program as a model for guidance and direction. Authorizes the state board to administer the pilot program in conjunction with current programs and grants and in cooperation with other state agencies. Directs the board to establish the criteria for selecting the community colleges to participate in the mobile response workforce training pilot program, standards for implementing the program, and goals to be accomplished during the 3 years of the program.
Directs the board, on or before January 1, 2009, to file with the governor and the general assembly a report on the progress of the pilot program.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/94/HB/PDF/09400HB5429lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 5429
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2006 | Postsec. | Provides that the department of commerce and economic opportunity may conduct a study regarding the recruitment and training of masters-prepared nurses to serve as nursing school faculty. Provides for career track programs to officer advancement and rewards comparable to those in clinical managment. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/94/HB/PDF/09400HB4461lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 4461
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Increases the membership of the Small Business Entrepreneurship Commission to add nonvoting members chosen from state colleges and universities. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=399304
Title: H.B. 152
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Creates the Florida Ready to Work Certification Program to enhance the workplace skills of Florida's students to better prepare them for successful employment in specific occupations. The program may be conducted in public middle and high schools, community colleges, technical centers, one-stop career centers, vocational rehabilitation centers, and Department of Juvenile Justice educational facilities. The program may be made available to other entities that provide job training. Requires the state department to establish institutional readiness criteria for program implementation.
The Program must be composed of: (a) A comprehensive identification of workplace skills for each occupation identified for inclusion in the program by the Agency for Workforce Innovation and the Department of Education. (b) A preinstructional assessment that delineates the student's mastery level on the specific workplace skills identified for that occupation. (c) A targeted instructional program limited to those identified workplace skills in which the student is not proficient as measured by the preinstructional assessment. (d) A certificate and portfolio awarded to students upon successful completion of the instruction.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 35)
Source: Florida Legislature
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| LA | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Requires the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges to work with Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) to improve linkages and career and technical education pathways between high schools and community and technical colleges. Requires collaboration to include:
(a) Aligning existing career and technical education programs to more industry-driven programs.
(b) Expanding career and technical education programs and related opportunities for high school students.
(c) Creating articulated courses and programs between high schools and community and technical colleges.
Title: H.B. 1023
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Relates to higher education. Creates a commission to develop the next generation initiative to encourage Vermonters to live and work in Vermont. Proposes the commission consider a broad range of ideas to meet this goal, including:
(1) Strategies to ensure that postsecondary education is accessible and affordable for all Vermonters through grants, loans, and scholarships, and that funds flow directly to students and their families.
(2) Options such as loan forgiveness, tax incentives, loan repayments, and leveraging federal resources.
(3) The integration, where appropriate, of Vermont's secondary and postsecondary workforce training programs with Vermont's postsecondary institutions.
(4) The use of strategic investments in Vermont's postsecondary education system to:
(A) increase the postsecondary aspiration, continuation, retention, and completion rates of Vermonters;
(B) stimulate specific economic sectors which are particularly appropriate for or unique to Vermont; and
(C) serve critical marketplace needs.
Requires the plan to include a funding level for implementation, identify a funding source, and include a system for overseeing use of the funds. Makes an appropriation for college scholarships.
Establishes a next generation initiative fund in the office of the state treasurer. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2006/acts/ACT204.HTM
Title: S.B. 312
Source: www.leg.state.vt.us
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Creates the workforce development council as the successor to and the continuation of the governor's human resources investment council.
Directs the workforce development council to:
(1) Advise the governor on the establishment of an integrated network of workforce education and training for Vermont.
(2) Coordinate planning and services for an integrated network of workforce education and training and oversee its implementation.
(3) Establish and oversee workforce investment boards.
(4) Establish goals for and coordinate the state's workforce education and training policies.
(5) Speak for the workforce needs of employers.
(6) Receive annual reports from the department of labor on the workforce education and training revenues and expenditures of agencies and institutions which are members of the council.
(7) Annually review and comment on workforce education and training revenues and expenditures of member agencies and institutions.
(8) Negotiate memoranda of understanding between the council and agencies and institutions involved in Vermont's integrated network of workforce education and training in order to ensure that each is working to achieve annual objectives developed by the council.
(9) Carry out the duties assigned to the state workforce investment board, as required for a single-service delivery state.
(10) Annually, on or before January 15, report to the general assembly on activities carried out during the previous year in order to accomplish its mandate.
Amends language relative to the department of labor advisory council. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2006/acts/ACT212.HTM
Title: H.B. 109
Source: www.leg.state.vt.us
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2006 | Postsec. | Consolidates specified workforce shortage and economic development student scholarship and grant programs in the Maryland Higher Education Commission into the new Workforce Shortage Student Assistance Grant program; requires the Commission and the Office of Student Financial Assistance in the Commission to administer the program.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb0988e.pdf
Title: H.B. 988; S.B. 552
Source: Maryland Legislature
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2006 | Postsec. | Establishes the New College Institute, or New College. Directs that New College shall:
1. Seek to diversify the region's economy by engaging the resources of other institutions of higher education, public and private bodies, and organizations of the region and state.
2. Serve as a catalyst for economic and community transformation by leveraging and brokering resources that support economic diversity.
3. Facilitate development of the technology and trained workforce necessary for new economic enterprises to flourish, using the resources available from collaborating educational institutions.
4. Expand educational opportunities in the region by providing access to degree-granting programs, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs, through partnerships with private and public institutions of higher education, the public schools, and public and private sectors.
5. Encourage and coordinate the development and delivery of degree programs and other credit and noncredit courses with a focus on statewide and regional critical shortage areas as well as the needs of industry. This shall include needed adult education and workforce training.
6. Serve as a resource and referral center by maintaining and disseminating information on existing educational programs, research, and university outreach and technology resources.
Establishes the New College Board of Directors and the powers and duties of the board. Requires the board to direct the development and focus of New College's curriculum. Requires New College to enroll students by the fall semester of 2007 or as soon as practicable. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0808
Title: S.B. 40
Source: leg1.state.va.us
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| WV | Signed into law 04/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Provides legislative findings and intent related to the West Virginia University Institute of Technology. Provides legislative intent to encourage collaboration between West Virginia University Institute of Technology, West Virginia University, Marshall University and appropriate private entities. Provides legislative intent that the West Virginia University Board of Governors develop a plan and take appropriate steps to address faculty average salary levels. Requires the plan to include recommendations for addressing the capital improvement needs at West Virginia University Institute of Technology.
Directs West Virginia University Institute of Technology to consolidate with West Virginia University to become a fully integrated division of West Virginia University.
Establishes "West Virginia Consortium for Undergraduate Research and Engineering" or "West Virginia CURE" as a 13-member collaborative planning group to:
(1) Increase West Virginia's capacity for high quality engineering instruction and research;
(2) Increase access throughout the state to high quality instruction and research opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math;
(3) Stimulate economic development throughout West Virginia by increasing the number of professional engineers available to business and industry.
Directs the West Virginia CURE to develop a collaborative engineering strategic plan to address these three needs, using the complementary strengths of West Virginia University Institute of Technology, Marshall University and West Virginia University. Specifies that the strategic plan may address faculty, libraries and technology resources, research collaboration, and coordination with K-12 education, but may not contain a recommenation that would result in the abolition of an existing program.
Requires the consortium to present an interim report to the Governor and the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability by December 1, 2006 and a final report containing the Collaborative Engineering Strategic Plan, with recommendations for implementation, by July 1, 2007.
http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2006_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/HB4690%20Enr.htm
Title: H.B. 4690
Source: www.legis.state.wv.us
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| WV | Signed into law 04/2006 | Postsec. | Continues the Workforce Development Initiative Program under the supervision of the council. Deletes provision directing the program to serve as a visible point of contact and referral for services to meet the workforce development needs of the service area. Modifies language relating to the the workforce development initiative grant program.
http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2006_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/HB4690%20Enr.htm
Title: H.B. 4690 - Workforce Development Initiative Program
Source: www.legis.state.wv.us
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| AR | Rule Adoption 03/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Proposes rules for distributing scholarship assistance to public libraries in order to address the education needs of public library staff.
http://www.sos.arkansas.gov/ar_rules/rule_proposed/121.00.05-001P.pdf
Title: AAC 121.00.05
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2006 | Postsec. | Recommends that the governor consider the allocation of economic development funds for Centers of Excellence to be matched by industry and federal grants on at least a two-for-one basis for colleges and universities in the state that offer any doctoral degrees; requires the Governor's Office of Economic Development to develop a process to determine whether to require the return of economic development Centers of Excellence grant moneys from a higher education institution if the technology that is developed from grant proceeds is licensed to a licensee that does not maintain a manufacturing or service location in the state from which the technology is exploited or transfers the manufacturing or service location out of state within a five-year period after the issuance of the license.
http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2006/bills/sbillenr/sb0112.pdf
Title: S.B. 112
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us/
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2006 | Postsec.
Community College | Provides a source of funding for customized work force training. Finds that the provision of customized training is critical to attracting and retaining businesses, and that the growth of many businesses is limited by an unmet need for customized training. Finds that work force training not only helps business, it also improves the quality of life for workers and communities. Because of the statewide public benefit to be
gained from instituting a customized training program, the legislature intends to create a new program to fund work force training in a manner that reduces the up-front costs of training to new and expanding firms. Creates the Washington customized employment training program to provide training assistance to employers locating or expanding in the state. Finds that accountability and effectiveness are important aspects of setting tax policy. In order to make policy choices regarding the best use of limited state resources the legislature needs information on how a tax incentive is used. Requires each person claiming a tax credit under this act to report information to the department by filing a complete
annual survey. The survey is due by March 31st of the year following any calendar year in which a tax credit under this act is taken. The department may extend the due date for timely filing of annual surveys. The survey shall include the amount of tax credit taken. Directs the department to study the tax credit authorized in this act. The department shall submit a report to the finance committee of the house of representatives and the ways and means committee of the senate by December 1, 2011. The report shall measure the effect of the credit on job creation, job retention, company growth, the movement of firms or the consolidation of firms' operations into the state, and such other factors as the department selects.
http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2005-06/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202006/6326-S2.SL.pdf
Title: S.B. 6326
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov
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| NJ | Signed into law 02/2006 | P-12
Postsec. | Reforms State's workforce investment system, establishes the Center forOccupational Employment Information to provide information supporting career guidance and academic counseling programs, to make information and planning resources relating education to careers available to workforce investment system clients, and equipping teachers, administrators, and counselors to assist clients.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2004/Bills/AL05/354_.PDF
Title: S.B. 2826
Source: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us
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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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| 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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