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 | 21st Century Skills |
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| WV | Adopted 09/2007 | P-12 | Performance Based Accreditation System
Title 126, Series 13
Amends rules regarding standards, assessment, and accountability for student performance and progress. Incorporates 21st Century skills into the standards; revises the statewide assessment program; provides annual performance measures for the No Child Left Beh...
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| AK | Adopted 10/2007 | P-12 | Growth Model -- Accountability
4 AAC 06.805(b), .812, .845(c)
Implements a growth model as part of the state's accountability system under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. ...
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| LA | Adopted 10/2007 | P-12 | Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System
LAC 28:LXXXIII.603, 613, and 4313
Revises Bulletin 111 - The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System (LAC Part Number LXXXIII).
Revises section 603 to include all students in the state-level cohort regardless or entry or exit dates.
Revises section 613 to clarify that s...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2007 | P-12 | Accountability
A.B. 494
Requires the Department of Education to notify a school district that a review is scheduled to occur if the department intends to waive that review or extend the time before the next onsite review. Provides for a waiver or extension of the next review if the c...
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| IA | Signed into law 09/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Student Information Systems
H.F. 468
Directs the department of education to conduct a study on the student information systems currently in use in the state, the types of data collected, and the future needs for additional types of data at the K-12 and postsecondary levels and for use by the stat...
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| WV | Adopted 09/2007 | P-12 | Performance Based Accreditation System
Title 126, Series 13
Amends rules regarding standards, assessment, and accountability for student performance and progress. Incorporates 21st Century skills into the standards; revises the statewide assessment program; provides annual performance measures for the No Child Left Beh...
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| MA | Issued 08/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | The Readiness Project
Executive Order No. 489
Establishes the Readiness Project to develop a plan to implement fundamental and systemic reforms to public education in the Commonwealth over the next ten years. The project will have three chairs appointed by the Governor.
The plan will include recommenda...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Accountability and Technology Infrastructure
S.B. 184
Revises provisions governing the annual reports of accountability and the plans to improve. Eliminate the requirement for the establishment of technical assistance partnerships. Revises provisions governing the school support teams and the recommendation of co...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Independent Office of Educational Accountability
H.F. 2245 [Educational Accountability]
Amends duties of the Independent Office of Educational Accountability as it relates to the commissioner of education's reporting requirements.
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H2245.2.html&session=ls85...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | School Performance Report Cards
H.F. 2245 [School Performance Report Cards]
Requires the Independent Office of Educational Accountability to convene and faciliate an advisory group of curriculum and measurement experts to consider and recommend how to structure school performance data and school to fully, fairly and accurately report ...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | School improvement plans
H.B. 1517
Relates to an act to expand monitoring by the Department of Education of school district implementation of school improvement plans as required by 2006 Act 57 studying the state's system of public education. New provisions detail that the comprehensive school...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Evaluation of state education system
H.B. 2663
Enacts the continuing adequacy evaluation act of 2007 to continually evaluation the state education system by strengthening and preserving the integrity of the Continuing Adequacy Evaluation Act of 2004 by defining its provisions to ensure that future assessme...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | SDE staffing for accountability
S.B. 274 (Accountability--Evaluating Performance)
Section 68 changes the position of director of the Division of Public School Accountability of the Department of Education to assistant commissioner and provides for the reassignment of staff needed for the division to fulfill its monitoring and reporting obli...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Arkansas Evaluation Center
S.B. 951
Creates the Arkansas evaluation center to: Attract students to existing courses and provide new online and distance learning courses; stimulate university faculty to conduct evaluation and research; provide academic training that consists of a variety of modal...
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| TN | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Accountability System Review
S.B. 457
Adds a new section. Directs the office of education accountability to periodically study the overall school accountability system and report to the General Assembly as to its operations and effectiveness, including any suggestions for improvement. Such report ...
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| NJ | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | School District Fiscal Accountability
A.B. 5; S.B 4
Amends school district accountability measures; provides that if a school district is spending state education funds for purposes not in compliance with state law, the district receives an adverse, disclaimer or qualified opinion by its independent auditor; pr...
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| NJ | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | School District Fiscal Accountability
A.B. 5
Amends school district accountability measures; provides that if a school district is spending state education funds for purposes not in compliance with state law, the district receives an adverse, disclaimer or qualified opinion by its independent auditor; pr...
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| CO | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Growth Model for Student Performance
H.B. 1048
Requires the convening of a technical advisory panel to assist in the development of a longitudinal growth model to measure the academic growth of students; requires the panel to develop a new method to identify schools that demonstrate the highest rate of aca...
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| NJ | Signed into law 01/2007 | P-12 | State Accountability System
A.B. 3676
Revises various provisions of The New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum public school district monitoring system, related reporting, and oversight requirements.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/A4000/3676_R1.PDF...
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| Accountability--Accreditation |
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| TX | Adopted 12/2007 | P-12 | Accountability
19 TAC Chapter 97
Adopts new 19 TAC Chapter 97, Planning and Accountability, Subchapter EE, Accreditation Status, Standards, and Sanctions. The new subchapter defines the accreditation statuses of Accredited, Accredited-Warned, Accredited-Probation, and Not Accredited-Revoked a...
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| UT | Adopted 08/2007 | P-12 | Accreditation of Secondary Schools
R277-413
Deletes previous Northwest Association of Accredited Schools and State Board of Education accreditation standards and provides newly revised standards.
http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/bull_pdf/2007/b20070701.pdf (p.12)...
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Expands Use of State Institute Fund
S.B. 68
Adds support activities related to school accreditation and teacher training and retention to the list of purposes for use of the State Institute Fund by the Department of Education.
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2007/bills/SB68enr.pdf...
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| Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
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| LA | Adopted 12/2007 | P-12 | School, District and State Accountability System
LAC 28:LXXXIII.301, 517, 613, 707, 709, 903, 1301, 1601-1609, 1901,2101, 2301, 2401, 2501-2505, 2701- 2721, 3301-3303, 3503, 3507, 3701, and 3905.
Amends rules concerning Bulletin 111 - The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System. Sets the target graduation rate for schools at 65%. Separates the current School Improvement set of labels and remedies into two separate sets: (1) the "Aca...
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| LA | Adopted 10/2007 | P-12 | Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System
LAC 28:LXXXIII.603, 613, and 4313
Revises Bulletin 111 - The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System (LAC Part Number LXXXIII).
Revises section 603 to include all students in the state-level cohort regardless or entry or exit dates.
Revises section 613 to clarify that s...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2007 | P-12 | Accountability
A.B. 400
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to incorporate various indicators into the Academic Performance Index, including high school graduation rates, rates by which pupils are offered and complete a course of study at an achievement level that fulfi...
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| LA | Adopted 08/2007 | P-12 | School, District and State Accountability System
LAC 28:LXXXIII.4302 and 4313
Revises the use of Alternative Assessment results in accountability as suggested by the Department of Education's Technical Advisory Committee. Revises district accountability to better align with the high school redesign efforts initiated by the governor. Ame...
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| LA | Adopted 04/2007 | P-12 | District Accountability
LAC 28:LXXXIII.4301, 4302, 4310, 4311, 4313, 4315, 4503, and 4517
Replaces District Responsibility Index with District Responsibility Indicators to provide a more specific picture of how districts are to be held accountable. (Details of the District Accountability Release required clarification because of the 2005 hurricanes...
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | High Quality Educational Programs
S.B. 657
From Fiscal Note: The purpose of this bill is to revise the standards, assessment and accountability system to accommodate the higher order thinking and learning skills consistent with the state's 21st Century Initiative. School and district improvement plans ...
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| CO | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Growth Model for Student Performance
H.B. 1048
Requires the convening of a technical advisory panel to assist in the development of a longitudinal growth model to measure the academic growth of students; requires the panel to develop a new method to identify schools that demonstrate the highest rate of aca...
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| Accountability--Reporting Results |
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| NY | Emergency Rule Extension 11/2007 | P-12 | Contracts for Excellence
Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12
Readopts, by emergency action effective November 25, 2007, the emergency rule adopted at the September 10, 2007 Regents meeting that added a new section 100.13 and amended 170.12 of the Commissioner's Regulations.
http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2007...
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Accountability, Report Cards
A.B. 1061
Relates to the Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act. Deletes items from the list of school conditions for which assessments are required to be included in the school accountability report card (SARC), including the quality of instruction ...
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| NY | Adopted 07/2007 | P-12 | Contracts for Excellence
Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12
Establishes allowable programs and activities, criteria for public reporting by school districts of their total foundation aid expenditures, and other requirements for purposes of preparation of contracts for excellence by certain specified school districts. P...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Oregon Report Card
H.B. 2263C, Section 9
The purpose of the Oregon Report Card is to monitor trends among school districts and OregonĒs progress toward achieving the goals stated in this chapter and the Department of Education key performance measures established by the Oregon Progress Board. The Ore...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Accountability and Technology Infrastructure
S.B. 184
Revises provisions governing the annual reports of accountability and the plans to improve. Eliminate the requirement for the establishment of technical assistance partnerships. Revises provisions governing the school support teams and the recommendation of co...
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Accountability
S.B. 1522
Relates to accountability and standard measurements of acceptable academic progress. Adds provisions for calculating academic gains on the AIMS test for students in grades K-12 according to statutory classification statewide, for each school district and each...
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | State Report Card Requirements and Procedures
H.B. 1345
Concerns modifications to school accountability reports. Spells out various proceedures and requirements related to state and No Child Left Behind school, district and state accountability report cards.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2007a/csl.nsf/fsbil...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Reporting
S.B. 274 (Accountability Provisions)
Section 1: Provides for the accountability information formerly reported by the Department of Education will now be reported on each district's website. Act No. 1573.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2007/public/SB274.pdf...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Report Cards
S.B. 274
Relates to information that school districts must publish on their websites; relates to education assessment programs and the confidentiality of state-mandated tests and assessments; establishes methods for reprimanding violations of these confidentiality prov...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Accountability
H.B. 2039
Requires the Department of Education to provide a single achievement profile to schools that offer instruction in grades K-12 or a combination of the grades and requires the State Board of Education to define the size of an extremely small school that must rec...
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Student Progress Reports
S.B. 2107 - Part A, Section 2
Provides that by July 1, 2008, a student progress report must be prepared for all students. States that the progress report must provide parents with information on their child's performance on state assessments over multiple years of testing, and must also ex...
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Contract for Excellence
S.B. 2107 - Part A, Section 12
Requires every district with at least one school currently identified as requiring academic progress or in need of improvement or in corrective action or restructuring status to prepare a contract for excellence if the district receives an increase in total fo...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | School Reporting Amendments
H.B. 215
Specifies how average class size shall be calculated for the purpose of reporting class size by grade and subject on annual school performance reports; specifies that a pupil-teacher ratio shall be calculated by dividing the total number of students in a grade...
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| NJ | Signed into law 01/2007 | P-12 | State Accountability System
A.B. 3676
Revises various provisions of The New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum public school district monitoring system, related reporting, and oversight requirements.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/A4000/3676_R1.PDF...
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| Accountability--Rewards |
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| LA | Adopted 12/2007 | P-12 | School, District and State Accountability System
LAC 28:LXXXIII.301, 517, 613, 707, 709, 903, 1301, 1601-1609, 1901,2101, 2301, 2401, 2501-2505, 2701- 2721, 3301-3303, 3503, 3507, 3701, and 3905.
Amends rules concerning Bulletin 111 - The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System. Sets the target graduation rate for schools at 65%. Separates the current School Improvement set of labels and remedies into two separate sets: (1) the "Aca...
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| LA | Adopted 07/2007 | P-12 | Rewards Eligibility and Corrective Actions
LAC 28:LXXXIII.1301, 4313, 4903, and 4905
Amends the following Sections of Bulletin 111:
• §1301 Reward Eligibility: Changes one requirement for exemplary academic growth to 2.0 points improvement in a subgroup assessment index rather than growth in a subgroup performance score
• §4313 Corrective Acti...
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| TX | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Modifies Use of Rewards
H.B. 2399
House Bill 2399 amends the Education Code to allow a school campus to use the 25 percent of its student achievement program award that is not allocated for classroom teacher incentive payments on a teacher retention demonstration project that uses innovative, ...
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Academic Achievement Award Program
H.B. 1593
Relates to the Academic Achievement Award (AAA) program: expanding the program to the top four schools in each category; adding an award for schools that achieve a certain Academic Performance Index (API) score; directing the state board to make certain determ...
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| AK | Adopted 04/2007 | P-12 | PUBLIC SCHOOL PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE
4 AAC 33.520
Amends rules to the Department of Education and Early Development.Amends the participation rate in the Public School Performance IncentiveProgram.
Law allows for certificated and noncertificated staff to receive incentive payments on top of their base salary....
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
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| LA | Adopted 12/2007 | P-12 | School, District and State Accountability System
LAC 28:LXXXIII.301, 517, 613, 707, 709, 903, 1301, 1601-1609, 1901,2101, 2301, 2401, 2501-2505, 2701- 2721, 3301-3303, 3503, 3507, 3701, and 3905.
Amends rules concerning Bulletin 111 - The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System. Sets the target graduation rate for schools at 65%. Separates the current School Improvement set of labels and remedies into two separate sets: (1) the "Aca...
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| TX | Adopted 12/2007 | P-12 | Accountability
19 TAC Chapter 97
Adopts new 19 TAC Chapter 97, Planning and Accountability, Subchapter EE, Accreditation Status, Standards, and Sanctions. The new subchapter defines the accreditation statuses of Accredited, Accredited-Warned, Accredited-Probation, and Not Accredited-Revoked a...
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| LA | Adopted 11/2007 | P-12 | Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System
LAC 28:CXI.2007, Bulletin 118
In accordance with R.S. 49:950 et seq., the Administrative Procedure Act, the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education has amended Bulletin 111—The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System (LAC Part Number LXXXIII). The changes in §301 ex...
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| NY | Emergency Rule Extension 11/2007 | P-12 | Contracts for Excellence
Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12
Readopts, by emergency action effective November 25, 2007, the emergency rule adopted at the September 10, 2007 Regents meeting that added a new section 100.13 and amended 170.12 of the Commissioner's Regulations.
http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2007...
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| LA | Adopted 10/2007 | P-12 | Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System
LAC 28:LXXXIII.603, 613, and 4313
Revises Bulletin 111 - The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System (LAC Part Number LXXXIII).
Revises section 603 to include all students in the state-level cohort regardless or entry or exit dates.
Revises section 613 to clarify that s...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2007 | P-12 | Accountability
A.B. 438
Relates to the Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999 which establishes the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program to provide funding to schools that perform below the 50th percentile on certain achievement tests. Establishes guidelines for ...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2007 | P-12 | Reinstating authority
A.B. 45
Requires the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistant Team, until all operational areas have been returned to the governing board of the Oakland Unified School District, to prepare and submit a progress report on the district's assessment and recovery plan. Requ...
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| CA | To governor 07/2007 | P-12 | Special education
A.B. 485
Relates to special education. Prohibits a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency whose certification has been revoked, and certain other administrators and entities involved with the school or agency, from being eligible to apply for recertification for 2 ye...
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| LA | Adopted 07/2007 | P-12 | Rewards Eligibility and Corrective Actions
LAC 28:LXXXIII.1301, 4313, 4903, and 4905
Amends the following Sections of Bulletin 111:
• §1301 Reward Eligibility: Changes one requirement for exemplary academic growth to 2.0 points improvement in a subgroup assessment index rather than growth in a subgroup performance score
• §4313 Corrective Acti...
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| NY | Adopted 07/2007 | P-12 | Contracts for Excellence
Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12
Establishes allowable programs and activities, criteria for public reporting by school districts of their total foundation aid expenditures, and other requirements for purposes of preparation of contracts for excellence by certain specified school districts. P...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | School Improvement Plans
H.B. 2263C -- Improvement Plan Components
Requires state superintendent to assign school ratings. Requires schools rated as in need of improvement to file school improvement plan. Such plans must include:
(a) A rigorous curriculum aligned with state standards;
(b) High-quality instructional programs;...
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| PA | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Distressed School Districts
H.B. 842, Sec. 5 (Section 113 (c) of the Act)
These provisions set parameters for how staff of a "distressed" district in which pupils have been reassigned to another district are to be hired. For example, employees go into a pool and are to be offered employment by bordering districts whenever there is a...
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | No Pass No Drive Amended to Include One Year Suspension/Expulsion
H.B. 2260
Adds making a threat, including a false report, to use a bomb, dynamite, any other deadly explosive or destructive device including chemical weapons on school property or at a school sponsored event as a zero tolerance event. Also adds new language as a new se...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Exemptions for No-Pass No-Play Law
S.B. 1517
Standardizes the exemptions for students enrolled in certain advanced courses from the requirement that a student be suspended from participation in extracurricular activities for receiving an unsatisfactory grade.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/bi...
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| AK | Adopted 04/2007 | P-12 | PUBLIC SCHOOL PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE
4 AAC 33.520
Amends rules to the Department of Education and Early Development.Amends the participation rate in the Public School Performance IncentiveProgram.
Law allows for certificated and noncertificated staff to receive incentive payments on top of their base salary....
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| AR | Adopted 04/2007 | P-12 | Comprehensive Testing, Assessment and Accountability
005.19.06-002, ADE 247
Adopts rules to develop a single comprehensive testing, assessment and accountability program which utilizes the most current and effective testing, evaluation and assessment research information designed to achieve the following: 1) clear academic standards t...
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Standards and Accountability
S.B. 2107 - Part A, Section 1
Adds new sections 211 (see separate record), 211-a, 211-b and 211-c to the education code.
Section 211-a: Directs the regents, by the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year, to establish an interim, modified accountability system for schools and districts th...
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Contract for Excellence
S.B. 2107 - Part A, Section 12
Requires every district with at least one school currently identified as requiring academic progress or in need of improvement or in corrective action or restructuring status to prepare a contract for excellence if the district receives an increase in total fo...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | charter school, accountability
H.B. 1504
Provides a major revision of the Public Charter School Law. Amends Public Charter School Law to allow for obtaining conversion public charter school status, open-enrollment public charter school status, or limited public charter school status. Defines the th...
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Sanctions Applicable to Schools/Districts Under Conservatorship
S.B. 2960
Revises and clarifies sanctions applicable to schools and districts which are under conservatorship due to a declaration of an emergency or designation as a priority school. Clarifies that the state board my abolish and assume control of a school or district. ...
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Sanctions for Cheating
H.B. 1033
Establishes process for following up on allegations of certified personnel and teachers for compromising the integrity of a state-required academic achievement test. Allows the suspension or revocation of the certificate of any certified staff person who knowi...
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| NJ | Signed into law 01/2007 | P-12 | State Accountability System
A.B. 3676
Revises various provisions of The New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum public school district monitoring system, related reporting, and oversight requirements.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/A4000/3676_R1.PDF...
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive |
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | No Pass No Drive
S.B. 129
From supplemental note on S.B. 129:
Changes notification requirements regarding students expelled or suspended from school for committing a school safety violation. Requires a school's chief administrative officer to notify the appropriate law enforcement age...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | No Pass No Drive
H.B. 32
Deletes the requirement that a local school district operate an alternative education program prior to the revocation of a student's operator's license, intermediate license, or instruction permit; requires that the application of any minor under the age of 18...
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Play |
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Exemptions for No-Pass No-Play Law
S.B. 1517
Standardizes the exemptions for students enrolled in certain advanced courses from the requirement that a student be suspended from participation in extracurricular activities for receiving an unsatisfactory grade.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/bi...
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers |
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| PA | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Distressed School Districts
H.B. 842, Sec. 5 (Section 113 (c) of the Act)
These provisions set parameters for how staff of a "distressed" district in which pupils have been reassigned to another district are to be hired. For example, employees go into a pool and are to be offered employment by bordering districts whenever there is a...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Recovery School District Procurement of Services and Property
S.B. 154
Grants the Recovery School District the same authority to procure services and property afforded to a city, parish, or other local public school system. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=449273...
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| Accountability--School Improvement |
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2007 | P-12 | Accountability
A.B. 438
Relates to the Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999 which establishes the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program to provide funding to schools that perform below the 50th percentile on certain achievement tests. Establishes guidelines for ...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | School Improvement Plans
H.B. 2263C -- Improvement Plan Components
Requires state superintendent to assign school ratings. Requires schools rated as in need of improvement to file school improvement plan. Such plans must include:
(a) A rigorous curriculum aligned with state standards;
(b) High-quality instructional programs;...
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| SC | Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 06/2007 | P-12 | Parent Orientation
H.B. 3254
Adds a new section (59-18-1600) to provide that a school that has received an unsatisfactory absolute academic performance rating on its most recent report card to offer an orientation class for parents to focus on certain issues (the value of education, disci...
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | School Improvement Plans
H.B. 472
During the first year a system or school is on probation, the commissioner of education shall: (A) Have the authority to approve a school system's allocation of financial resources to a system or school on probation; (B) Have the authority to appoint a local c...
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Math Coaches Pilot, Other Instructional Assistance
H.B. 2237 (Technical Assistance, Professional Development Provisions)
A portion of this large bill establishes grants of up to $2.5 million per year to provide technical assistance and professional development activities for teachers and administrators. In addition, the bill requires the commissioner, from appropriated funds, to...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | School improvement plans
H.B. 1517
Relates to an act to expand monitoring by the Department of Education of school district implementation of school improvement plans as required by 2006 Act 57 studying the state's system of public education. New provisions detail that the comprehensive school...
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| MD | Became law without governor's signature 04/2007 | P-12 | School District Master Plans
S.B. 907
Requires county boards of education to submit comprehensive master plans to the State Department of Education on or before October 1, 2008, and every 5 years thereafter; clarifies that comprehensive master plans extend for a 5-year period.
http://mlis.state.md...
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Standards and Accountability
S.B. 2107 - Part A, Section 1
Adds new sections 211 (see separate record), 211-a, 211-b and 211-c to the education code.
Section 211-a: Directs the regents, by the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year, to establish an interim, modified accountability system for schools and districts th...
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Contract for Excellence
S.B. 2107 - Part A, Section 12
Requires every district with at least one school currently identified as requiring academic progress or in need of improvement or in corrective action or restructuring status to prepare a contract for excellence if the district receives an increase in total fo...
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| WV | Adopted 04/2007 | P-12 | Regional Education Service Agencies
Title 126, Series 72
Amends rules regarding the establishment and operation of regional education service agencies. Clarifies the role of the State Superintendent ofSchools, establishes additional requirements for personnel and fiscal policies,replaces the Plan of Services with a ...
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| TX | Adopted 02/2007 | P-12 | Early Identification of Schools
19 TAC Chapter 97 (97-1002)
House Bill 1, 79th Texas Legislature, Third Called Session, 2006, amended the TEC, Chapter 39, by adding §39.1322 requiring the commissioner of education to select and assign a technical assistance team (TAT) to a campus rated Academically Acceptable in the st...
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Adult Literacy
A.B. 1030
Authorizes the Library Literacy and English Acquisition Services Program to be used for services targeted to young adults 16 years of age and over who are not enrolled in school to improve their literacy skills by providing adult basic literacy tutoring and re...
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| IL | Signed into law 10/2007 | Community College | We Want to Learn English Initiative
S.B. 1446
Authorizes the community college board to establish and administer a We Want to Learn English Initiative to provide resources for immigrants and refugees to learn English. Provides that the board may include in its budget proposal $ 15,000,000 in funding for t...
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Alternate Means to Earn Credit Hours
S.B. 118
Requires state department to develop alternate methods whereby adult students at adult high schools may satisfy any requirement that such students have a minimum number of contact hours to earn credit for a course. Such alternative methods may include learning...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Continuing or Professional Education Definition
S.B. 1279, H.B. 2154
Defines continuing or professional education to mean those classes, courses, and programs designed specifically for individuals who have completed a degree in a professional field, that (i) are intended to fulfill the continuing education requirements for lice...
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| ID | Adopted 12/2007 | P-12 | alternative assessment
IDAPA 08.02.03
Proposes to align the Alternative Assessment Extended Content Standards with the Idaho Content Standards; Sets appropriate cut scores; Implements the Alternative Assessment Extended Achievement Standards. IDAHO 7472...
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| OH | Signed into law 11/2007 | P-12 | Test Administration Timing
H.B. 190 - Multiple Components
One section of this bill revises the scheduling of the spring administration of the elementary achievement tests from no earlier than the week containing May 1, as under current law, to no earlier than the week containing April 24. Provides for the elementary ...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2007 | P-12 | language arts assessment
A.B. 252
Authorizes the Department of Education to make a primary language assessment available to public schools for assessing pupils enrolled in dual language immersion programs that include the primary language of the assessments at their own expense. Requires distr...
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| GA | Adopted 09/2007 | P-12 | Student Assessment Programs
GAC 160-3-1-.07
Adds language regarding the Assessing Comprehension and Communication in English State to State for English Language Learners (ACCESS for ELLs), an English language proficiency test administered annually to all English language learners (ELLs) to determine stu...
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| WV | Adopted 09/2007 | P-12 | Performance Based Accreditation System
Title 126, Series 13
Amends rules regarding standards, assessment, and accountability for student performance and progress. Incorporates 21st Century skills into the standards; revises the statewide assessment program; provides annual performance measures for the No Child Left Beh...
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| MA | Issued 08/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | The Readiness Project
Executive Order No. 489
Establishes the Readiness Project to develop a plan to implement fundamental and systemic reforms to public education in the Commonwealth over the next ten years. The project will have three chairs appointed by the Governor.
The plan will include recommenda...
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| DE | Passed 06/2007 | P-12 | Task Force
H.C.R. 32
This Resolution requires a transition to a statewide student assessment system that is economical, focused, requires less testing time, measures each child's academic growth, and returns faster and more useful results to teachers, parents and students. It crea...
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| LA | Adopted 06/2007 | P-12 | Integrated LEAP and Accommodations for Special Populations
LAC 28:CXI.1709-1729, 3306, and 3307
Provides information regarding addition of achievement level descriptors for iLEAP, which causes a reformatting of a chapter. Adds language regarding iLEAP accommodations for special populations (page 21 of 168). Pages 2- of 168: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/o...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Adminstering International Assessments
H.B. 3259
Establishes a program for school districts to administer international assessment tests to students in the district and specifies a funding source for the program. This program allows
the commissioner of education to compare the performance of Texas students t...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | End-of-course Assessments
S.B. 1031
From bill analysis: This bill would phase out TAKS and replace it with end of course exams in the four core subject areas in grades 9-12. The end of course exams would count as 15% of the student's overall grade in a class. The bill would maintain accountabili...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | GRAD Assessments
H.F. 2245 [Statewide Testing and Reporting System]
Amends laws concerning state's assessment system. Transitions from to MCA IIs to GRAD assessment program at the high school level.
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H2245.2.html&session=ls85...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | State Assessment System
H.F. 2245 [High School Assessment]
Amends state's high school assessment system. Phases out MCA II's and phases in Graduation Required Assessment for Diploma (GRAD) exam. Establishes achievement levels necessary for passge of exam. (Sections 10 + 36)
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbi...
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| NE | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Statewide Assessment and Reporting System
L.A. 653
Requires the state board to implement a statewide assessment and reporting reporting system; grade level standards and assessments; and the tracking of individual student achievement. Requires a statewide assessment of reading beginning in 2009-10 and a statew...
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | District-Wide Assessments
S.B. 110
Limits the district-wide tests, examinations and assessments that the board of trustees of a school district may administer between July 1, 2007, and January 1, 2009. Authorizes the board of trustees of each school district to require, beginning on January 1, ...
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | End-of-Course Tests
H.B. 2237 (End of Course Assessment Provisions)
Requires development and implementation of college-prep courses and end-of-course assessments (mathematics, science, social studies, and English language arts) in school districts beginning with the 2014-2015 school year, with implementation of the requirement...
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| TX | Vetoed 05/2007 | P-12 | Substitute Assessments for Military Dependents
S.B. 960
Extends the provision allowing students transferring into Texas schools to use their SAT or ACT scores to "test out" of the math and language arts portions of the TAKS exit exams to military dependents in their junior or senior year and requires the Texas Educ...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | assessments and teacher license
S.B. 274 (Technical corrections)
Act makes corrections in code including modifying references to state-mandated tests or benchmark exams to references to "augmented, criterion-referenced or norm-referenced assessments" and changing the term "certified" to "licensed", repealing and amending ou...
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| AR | Adopted 04/2007 | P-12 | Comprehensive Testing, Assessment and Accountability
005.19.06-002, ADE 247
Adopts rules to develop a single comprehensive testing, assessment and accountability program which utilizes the most current and effective testing, evaluation and assessment research information designed to achieve the following: 1) clear academic standards t...
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| MS | Adopted 04/2007 | P-12 | Assessment of Special Populations
State Board of Education Policy 7601
Proposes approval of the Administrative Procedures Act process.Revises the policy for Statewide Assessment System Assessment of SpecialPopulations.
http://board.mde.k12.ms.us/May_2007/May_18_2007_Friday.htm...
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| NH | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Civics and Economics Assessments
H.B. 167
Adds civics and economics to the required areas of assessment in the statewide improvement and assessment program. Specifies that the assessment will be conducted in grades 3rd-8th and one grade in high school.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2007/...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Reporting of Student Performance on Standards-Based Tests
S.B. 1004
Requires the public education department to provide districts with their respective students' scores on all required standards-based academic performance tests prior to the commencement of the school year.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/S...
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2007 | P-12 | State Payment for Mandatory Assessments
S.B. 501
Requires the public education department to pay the costs of mandatory assessments.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/SB0501.pdf...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2007 | Postsec. | Rising Junior Exam
S.B. 203
Relates to an act to repeal the requirement that college juniors take the Rising Junior Exam.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2007/public/SB203.pdf...
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| LA | Adopted 03/2007 | P-12 | Statewide Assessments
LAC 28:CXI.305 and Chapter 19
Approves for advertisement revisions to Bulletin 118- Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices. Consolidates statewide test information. Provides easy access to that information. Incorporates guidelines for newly adopted statewide assessments. Adds new lan...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | State Assessment System (U-PASS)
H.B. 155
Modifies U-PASS (Utah Performance Assessment System for Students) by: expanding the basic skill courses tested to include intermediate algebra; eliminating criterion-referenced testing in grade 1; eliminating norm-referenced testing in grade 11; and adding a r...
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | High Quality Educational Programs
S.B. 657
From Fiscal Note: The purpose of this bill is to revise the standards, assessment and accountability system to accommodate the higher order thinking and learning skills consistent with the state's 21st Century Initiative. School and district improvement plans ...
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| AK | Adopted 02/2007 | P-12 | TEST SECURITY
4 AAC 06.765, 34.055
Amends rules to the Department of Education and Early Development.Provides test security guidelines for the English Language assessment. Adds newsubsection that sets out guidelines for breach of test security. Clarifies theplan of service for Limited English p...
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Writing Assessments
H.B. 1035
Revises the required grade levels for assessment of writing skills by every public school district. Changes from grades 5 and 9 to "at least two grade levels."
http://www.legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2007/bills/HB1035enr.pdf...
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| NJ | Active 01/2007 | P-12 | End-of-Course Biology Assessment
Department Policy
States that beginning in spring 2008, New Jersey will begin administering an end-of-course assessment in biology. Per memo: "This direction will entail not merely a redesign of science testing specifications, but recommendations to the state board for establis...
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| AK | Adopted 10/2007 | P-12 | ALTERNATE PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT
4 AAC 04.160, .775
Amends rules dealing with alternate performance standards for students with significant cognitive disabilities to include proficiency levels for the alternate assessment based on evaluating students' ability and performance on academic tasks. ALASKA 3551
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| AK | Adopted 10/2007 | P-12 | ASSESSMENT PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
4 AAC 06.775
Adopts by reference, the 2007 edition of the Participation Guidelines for Alaska Students, setting forth the requirements in assessments for students with disabilities. ALASKA 3556
http://touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats/AAC/Title04.htm...
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| AK | Adopted 09/2007 | P-12 | ASSESSMENT PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
4 AAC 06.775
Adopts by reference, the 2007 edition of the Participation Guidelines for Alaska Students, setting forth the requirements in assessments for students with disabilities. ALASKA 3556
http://touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats/AAC/Title04.htm...
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| GA | Adopted 09/2007 | P-12 | Student Assessment Programs
GAC 160-3-1-.07
Adds language regarding the Assessing Comprehension and Communication in English State to State for English Language Learners (ACCESS for ELLs), an English language proficiency test administered annually to all English language learners (ELLs) to determine stu...
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| IL | Adopted 09/2007 | P-12 | Testing, Professional Development and Background Checks at Special Education Facilities
23 IAC 401.10 thru .260 (non seq.)
Amends policies regarding the assessment of special education students at nonpublic, public out-of-state, public residential or private special education facilities. Transfers authority for the oversight of such assessment from the state board of education to ...
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| LA | Adopted 08/2007 | P-12 | School, District and State Accountability System
LAC 28:LXXXIII.4302 and 4313
Revises the use of Alternative Assessment results in accountability as suggested by the Department of Education's Technical Advisory Committee. Revises district accountability to better align with the high school redesign efforts initiated by the governor. Ame...
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| LA | Adopted 06/2007 | P-12 | Integrated LEAP and Accommodations for Special Populations
LAC 28:CXI.1709-1729, 3306, and 3307
Provides information regarding addition of achievement level descriptors for iLEAP, which causes a reformatting of a chapter. Adds language regarding iLEAP accommodations for special populations (page 21 of 168). Pages 2- of 168: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/o...
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| LA | Adopted 03/2007 | P-12 | Participation in Alternate Assessments
LAC 28:XCVII.905
Clarifies guidelines for the participation in alternate assessments for students with disabilities who cannot participate in regular assessments. Page 13 of 118: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0703/0703rul.pdf...
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| LA | Adopted 03/2007 | P-12 | Statewide Assessments
LAC 28:CXI.305 and Chapter 19
Approves for advertisement revisions to Bulletin 118- Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices. Consolidates statewide test information. Provides easy access to that information. Incorporates guidelines for newly adopted statewide assessments. Adds new lan...
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| LA | Adopted 02/2007 | P-12 | Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices
LAC 28:CXI.Chapters 1, 3, 5, 18, 23, 27, 33, and 35
Makes various changes to state assessment system. Creates end-of-course tests, to be phased in over a period of six years starting in fall 2007, in the following:
1. Algebra I;
2. Geometry;
3. English I;
4. English II;
5. Biology;
6. American History;
7. Civi...
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| LA | Adopted 02/2007 | P-12 | State Assessment System
LAC 28:CXI.Chapter 17 and 20
Adds new language in Chapter 17 regarding statewide assessments. Updates Integrated Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (iLEAP) (Chapter 17) and Louisiana Alternate Assessment, Level 2 (LAA 2) (Chapter 20) to provide educators with finalized information a...
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| UT | Adopted 09/2007 | P-12 | Online Testing
R277-402
Defines "Formative assessment" as an activity, such as questioning, observation, interview and assessment, engaged in by teachers and students during instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning to improve students' achievement of...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | High School Graduation Exam Options
S.B. 6023
A conditional delay of the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) as a graduation requirement in mathematics is created for the graduating classes of 2008 through 2012, to graduate without a Certificate of Academic Achievement (CAA) or Certificate of...
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| LA | Adopted 02/2007 | P-12 | Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices
LAC 28:CXI.Chapters 1, 3, 5, 18, 23, 27, 33, and 35
Makes various changes to state assessment system. Creates end-of-course tests, to be phased in over a period of six years starting in fall 2007, in the following:
1. Algebra I;
2. Geometry;
3. English I;
4. English II;
5. Biology;
6. American History;
7. Civi...
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| UT | Adopted 09/2007 | P-12 | Online Testing
R277-402
Defines "Formative assessment" as an activity, such as questioning, observation, interview and assessment, engaged in by teachers and students during instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning to improve students' achievement of...
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| SC | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Students At-Risk of Being Poorly Prepared
H.B. 3628
Approves regulations of the Board of Education. This regulation addresses the requirement of the Education and Economic Development Act of 2005 that a separate regulation be written for at-risk students. The regulation defines at-risk students and outlines spe...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Intensive Math and Science Intervention Pilot
H.B. 2504
Requires the commissioner to establish an intensive mathematics and algebra intervention pilot program for students not performing at grade level in mathematics in grades 4 through 8 on campuses with populations of students identified as at-risk that exceed th...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Budget
H.B. 1001
From Center for Evaluation & Education Policy: Appropriates money for state agencies and makes other distributions. Specifies a school funding formula. Requires a study of the efficiency and effectiveness of charter schools. Changes references from vocational ...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Early Childhood Literacy Programs
H.F. 2245 [Early Childhood]
Establishes a research-based early childhood literacy program premised on actively involved parents, ongoing professional staff development, and high quality early literacy program standards. Intended to increase the literacy skills of children participating i...
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| IN | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Advanced Placement and Pre-AP
H.B. 1300
Provides that for a teacher to be eligible for a stipend to cover expenses related to a summer training institute, the training must:
(1) Provide AP and pre-AP with the necessary content knowledge and instructional skills to prepare students for success in AP...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | High School Graduation Exam Options
S.B. 6023
A conditional delay of the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) as a graduation requirement in mathematics is created for the graduating classes of 2008 through 2012, to graduate without a Certificate of Academic Achievement (CAA) or Certificate of...
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | High Quality Educational Programs
S.B. 657
From Fiscal Note: The purpose of this bill is to revise the standards, assessment and accountability system to accommodate the higher order thinking and learning skills consistent with the state's 21st Century Initiative. School and district improvement plans ...
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| CA | Proposed Rule COMMENT DEADLINE: 05/07/2007 Rule Adoption 12/2007 | P-12 | HIGH SCHOOL EXIT EXAMINATION
Title 5 CCR Sec(s) 1200, 1202, 1204, 1204.5, 1205, 1207, 1207.1,1207.2, 1207.5, 1209, 1210, 1211, 1211.5, 1215, 1215.5, 1216, 1217, 1218, 1219,1225
Introduces a fee for local educational agencies (LEA) that order excessive test materials, requires LEAs to submit unlisted accommodations and modifications to Department of Education (CDE) for review and approval, requires charter schools to annually designat...
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2007 | P-12 | Exit exams
S.B. 123
Requires a school district or state special school to grant a diploma to a pupil with a disability who is scheduled to graduate in a specified year, that has not passed the high school exit examination, has not received a exam waiver, and meets specified crite...
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2007 | P-12 | Assessments, Exit Exams
A.B. 144
Requires the Department of Education to provide the mathematics portion of the high school exit examination to the Franklin-McKinley School District for administration to pupils enrolled in grade 8 on the dated designated for the administration of that portion...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | State Assessment System
H.F. 2245 [High School Assessment]
Amends state's high school assessment system. Phases out MCA II's and phases in Graduation Required Assessment for Diploma (GRAD) exam. Establishes achievement levels necessary for passge of exam. (Sections 10 + 36)
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbi...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Standards, Assessment, Professional Development & Code of Conduct Updates
S.B. 795
Provides for the phasing out of the eighth grade cumulative history test in the 2007-2008 school year, and the implementation of the United States History to 1877, United States History: 1877 to the Present, and Civics and Economics tests in the 2008-2009 scho...
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Achieving Classroom Excellence II Task Force
S.B. 921
Creates the Achieving Classroom Excellence II Task Force; states that the task force shall study the following issues:
1. Comparison of the Priority Academic Student Skills with other states' curricular standards, primarily states that score highest on the Na...
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| OH | Adopted 05/2007 | P-12 | Value-Added Progress
OAC 3301-58-01 thru -03
Regarding the implementation of the value-added progress dimension. Relates to levels of academic progress in reading and mathematics relative to a standard year of academic growth; confidentiality of student test scores and individual student reports; and inc...
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| CO | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Growth Model for Student Performance
H.B. 1048
Requires the convening of a technical advisory panel to assist in the development of a longitudinal growth model to measure the academic growth of students; requires the panel to develop a new method to identify schools that demonstrate the highest rate of aca...
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| LA | Adopted 11/2007 | P-12 | Jobs for America's Graduates Louisiana Program
LAC 67:III.5591
Establishes the Jobs for America's Graduates Louisiana Program to increase retention of at-risk students, capture out-of-school youth in need of education, provide an avenue for achieving academically, and assist students in earning recognized credentials that...
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| TX | Adopted 11/2007 | P-12 | Dropout Prevention Strategy Plan
19 TAC §89.1701
HB 2237, 80th Texas Legislature, 2007, added the TEC, §29.918, requiring districts with a high dropout rate to develop a dropout prevention strategy plan. This plan must detail the manner in which a district will use its resources, specifically the compensator...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Ensuring Success in School Task Force
H.B. 1330
Requires the state board of education to convene an Ensuring Success in School Task Force to develop policies and procedures for addressing the educational and related needs of youth who are parents, expectant parents, or victims of domestic or sexual violence...
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| LA | Adopted 08/2007 | P-12 | School, District and State Accountability System
LAC 28:LXXXIII.4302 and 4313
Revises the use of Alternative Assessment results in accountability as suggested by the Department of Education's Technical Advisory Committee. Revises district accountability to better align with the high school redesign efforts initiated by the governor. Ame...
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| NC | Issued 07/2007 | P-12 | Programs for At-Risk Children
Executive Order No. 120
Accelerates teacher and other personnel recruitment and the implementation of needed academic support programs for at-risk children in light of Judicial mandates, budget developments and impending school openings.
http://www.governor.state.nc.us/news/executive...
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Rhode Island High School Dropout Prevention Act of 2007
H.B. 5351
Creates the Rhode Island High School Dropout Prevention Act of 2007; provides that it shall be the responsibility of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to work in collaboration with school districts and the Department of Higher Education to i...
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| SC | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Students At-Risk of Being Poorly Prepared
H.B. 3628
Approves regulations of the Board of Education. This regulation addresses the requirement of the Education and Economic Development Act of 2005 that a separate regulation be written for at-risk students. The regulation defines at-risk students and outlines spe...
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| CA | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | After-school programs
A.B. 1685
Requires certain measures of the 21st Century High School After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens Program effectiveness related to reporting of positive behavioral changes or skill development consistent with program elements be based on reporting by scho...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Truancy and Assessment and Service Centers
S.B. 187
Gives permanent status to truancy and assessment and service centers (which were initially established through a pilot program). Deletes language directing the Families in Need of Services program to serve in a coordinating and facilitating capacity for the ce...
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | High School Completion for At Risk Students
H.B. 1296
Implements the recommendations of the Governor's Task Force to Engage State's Youth; ensures that students experiencing education disruption will have the same opportunities to earn an approved high school diploma; relates to disruptions of homelessness, unpla...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Dropout Reporting, Exit Exam Alternatives, Competency Based Credits
S.B. 312
Expands the annual reports of accountability information to include the rate of pupils who drop out of school in grades 6, 7 and 8. Requires the State Board to prescribe alternative criteria that a pupil may satisfy to receive a standard high school diploma if...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Withholding Funding When Goals Not Met
H.B. 1609
Codifies provisions concerning program performance goals, objectives, and measures and provides the commissioner of education authority to withhold funding from a Communities
In Schools (CIS) program that consistently fails to achieve performance criteria. (CI...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | High School Completion and Success Initiative
H.B. 2237
From bill analysis: Establishes the High School Completion and Success Initiative in order to improve secondary school instruction in Texas. The initiative provides support to schools and districts in implementing curriculum and instruction improvements that a...
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| WA | Adopted 06/2007 | P-12
Community College | Programs for At-Risk/Dropout Students
WAC 392-121-188
Amends rules pertaining to programs for at-risk and dropout students. Indicates that community and technical colleges currently provide programs to at- risk/dropout stndents under contract with local school districts. Creates a uniform methodology of reporting...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Funding for Students in Dual Enrollment and Early College High School Programs
S.B. 526 (omnibus) - IC 20-43-4-8
A student who participates in:
(1) a postsecondary enrollment program under IC 21-43-4 is considered a student enrolled in the school corporation where the student has legal settlement for the purposes of computing ADM;
(2) a high school fast t...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Area Learning Centers
H.F. 2245 [Area Learning Centers]
Amends rules concerning area learning centers designated by the state commissioner.
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H2245.2.html&session=ls85...
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Distance Education and Independent Study
S.B. 535
Authorizes school districts to operate an alternative program for all grade levels of pupils who are at risk of dropping out of school, subject to the approval of the state superintendent. Eliminates the restriction on the eligibility of a provider of the dist...
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Permitting Attendance of Students to Age 26
H.B. 1137
Permits students who are at least 21 years of age and under 26 years of age on the first day of September of any school year to be eligible for funding under the Foundation School Program for the purposes of completing the requirements for a high school diplom...
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Education Research Centers
H.B. 2237 (At-Risk Components)
One part of this large bill requires the commissioner of education to contract with one or more education research centers to study best practices for dropout prevention in this state and others, with a report due to the Legislature by December 1, 2008. New Se...
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Children's Trust of Washington
S.B. 5830
Within available funds, the Children's Trust of Washington must fund evidence-based and research-based home visitation programs for parents to improve parenting skills and improve outcomes for children. "Evidence-based program," "home visitation," and "researc...
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Programs for At-Risk Youth
H.B. 677
Appropriates funds to the board of crime control to sustain funding for existing prevention and after-school programs for at-risk youth.
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2007/billhtml/HB0677.htm...
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Quality Educator Payment
S.B. 335
Provides a quality educator payment to certified teachers employed by the Youth Challenge Program which assists at-risk youth in developing skills and abilities necessary to become productive citizens through focusing on the physical, emotional and educational...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Statewide Dropout Prevention, Intervention and Retrieval Program
H.B. 1573
Authorizes a statewide program for comprehensive dropout prevention, intervention, and retrieval; provides that, subject to the availability of funds appropriated for this purpose, the office of the superintendent of public instruction is required to create a ...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Standards, Assessment, Professional Development & Code of Conduct Updates
S.B. 795
Provides for the phasing out of the eighth grade cumulative history test in the 2007-2008 school year, and the implementation of the United States History to 1877, United States History: 1877 to the Present, and Civics and Economics tests in the 2008-2009 scho...
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2007 | P-12 | Alternative education finance
S.B. 219
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to revise the Academic Performance Index to include additional information by a specified deadline regarding specified data of pupils who were referred to an alternative education program and school and distric...
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Alternative Education Programs Committee
H.B. 1224
Establishes the Alternative Education Programs Committee. The committee shall review and make recommendations for the promotion of alternatives in education within existing school systems including how alternative education programs contribute toward helping s...
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Alternative Education and Regional Vocational Centers
S.B. 101
Permits at risk students to attend an alternative education program at a regional vocational education center. Authorizes the department of education to pay tuition and transportation costs for such attendance.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2007/...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Alternative Programs of Education
A.B. 2A
Creates pilot program for alternative programs of education for disruptive pupils established, appropriates funds and district eligibility requirements.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/23rdSpecial/Bills/AB/AB2_EN.pdf...
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Pilot: of Mandated Attendance for Suspended Students
H.B. 2138
Adds a new section: A pilot project of mandated attendance in an alternative school for students who have been suspended shall be established by the department for the school year 2007-2008 in any county having a metropolitan form of government and a populatio...
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Greater Accountability for Alternative Education
S.B. 2157
Requires greater accountability for alternative education; for example, requires academic indicators to include grade point averages or other student academic performance measures, performance on the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP), performan...
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| TN | Eligible for GOVERNOR'S desk. 05/2007 | P-12 | Alternative Schools
H.B. 1545, S.B. 1427
Requires the advisory council for alternative education, established by Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-6-3404, to study issues relating to establishing pilot alternative
school programs. Requires review any prior evaluations of such schools that have bee...
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Alternative School Pilot
H.B. 1545
Requires the advisory council for alternative education to study alternative school pilot sites and report to the governor, the state board of education, and the house and senate education committees.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/...
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Alternative Adolescent Residential or Outdoor Programs
H.B. 769
Requires registration and licensure of alternative adolescent residential or outdoor programs. Allows provisional licensing and requires background checks for certain employees and managers. Directs the department of labor and industry to adopt rules regarding...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | No Pass No Drive
H.B. 32
Deletes the requirement that a local school district operate an alternative education program prior to the revocation of a student's operator's license, intermediate license, or instruction permit; requires that the application of any minor under the age of 18...
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Alternative Education Authority
S.B. 2338
Directs the state board to promulgate guidelines for alternative school programs which provide broad authority to school boards of local school districts to establish alternative education programs to meet the specific needs of the school district.
http://bil...
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Extended Day & Summer School Programs, Distance Learning/Virtual University & Finance - Alternative Education Updates
H.B. 115
Requires the state superintendent of public instruction to review at-risk program strategies funded under the block grant model, specifically including alternative schools and imposes a moratorium on new alternative schools recognized under the model during th...
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Safety Education
H.B. 3327
Provides safety education in public schools includes instruction on the consequences of alcohol consumption and the operation of a motor vehicle. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HB/PDF/09500HB3327lv.pdf...
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| NJ | Adopted 07/2007 | P-12 | Programs to Support Student Services
NJAC 6A:16-1.3 and 4.1; NJAC 6A:16-4.4
Amends rules regarding programs to support student development. Relates to voluntary policies for the random testing of student alcohol or other drug use, which is limited to students participating in extracurricular activities. Establishes requirements for vo...
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | School Athletics Drug Testing Program
H.B. 461
Relates to high school athletics drug testing; requires the state High School Athletic Association to facilitate a drug testing program to randomly test certain students for anabolic steroid use; requires test findings to be maintained separately from the educ...
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Drug Testing for School Athletes
H.B. 463
Relates to public records of drug test findings in high school athletics; exempts from public records requirements findings of drug test administered to a student by a testing agency with which the state High School Athletics Association has contracted; exempt...
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Controlled Substances
S.B. 296
Classifies the unlawful delivery of marijuana or a schedule I, II, or III controlled substance to a person under 18 years of age by a person at least 18 years of age and at least three years older than the recipient as a category 8 crime; classifies unlawful m...
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2007 | Postsec. | Steroid Testing
S.B. 8
Requires random steroid testing of high school students participating in University Interscholastic League (UIL) -sponsored and UIL-sanctioned athletic competitions.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/SB00008F.pdf...
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Idaho Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program
S.B. 1237 (Section 6)
Provides that it is legislative intent that the Idaho Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program include the following:
(1) Districts will develop a policy and plan which will provide a guide for their substance abuse programs.
(2) Districts will have an advisory boar...
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| TN | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Reporting Suspicion of Drug Offenses
H.B. 1271, S.B. 1529
Requires school personnel to report reasonable suspicion of drug offenses committed by students to principal; permits school personnel to report drug offenses committed on school property to appropriate authorities, if the principal is unavailable.
http://www....
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Teen Early Intervention Mental Health and Substance Abuse Specialist Program
S.B. 1147
Defines "teens at risk" as public school students in grades 7-12 who have been identified as expressing or exhibiting indications of depression, suicidal inclination, emotional trauma, substance abuse or other behaviors or symptoms that indicate the existenc...
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| MN | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Eligibility for Extracurricular Activities Following Treatment
S.B. 1499
Ensures a student's ability to participate in league-sponsored activities after completing licensed treatment programs for alcohol or substance abuse, mental illness or emotional disturbance.
http://www.senate.leg.state.mn.us/bin/unoff_eng.php?session=ls85&ver...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Alcohol Enforcement Grants
S.B. 51
Expands the list of state agencies that can be awarded grants for alcohol enforcement by the Utah Substance Abuse and Anti-Violence Coordinating Council to include the State Office of Education. http://le.utah.gov/~2007/bills/sbillenr/sb0051.htm (scroll to en...
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Professional Assistance Program Extended to Teachers
H.B. 302
Extends the professional assistance program, which provides drug or alcohol abuse prevention, referral, treatment or rehabilitation, to any individual teaching in a public school with a certificate or permit issued by the state Professional Teaching Standards ...
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| LA | Adopted 11/2007 | P-12 | Compulsory Attendance, Exit Exams
LAC 28:CXV.1103, 2323, and 2324
Makes changes to Bulletin 741 - Louisiana Handbook for School Administrators:
1103: Allows students in danger of failing due to excessive absences to make up missed time in class sessions held outside the regular class time. The make-up sessions must be compl...
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| NH | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Raises Compulsory School Age
S.B. 18
Raises from 16 to 18 the age for compulsory school attendance and provides a procedure for a pupil who is at least 16 years of age to obtain an attendance waiver from school.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2007/SB0018.html...
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| NH | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Twins or Multiples Class Assignment
S.B. 78
Allows a parent or guardian of twins or other multiples to request a classroom placement for the children. Provides that a parent or guardian of twins or other multiples in elementary school may request that the twins or multiples be placed in the same classro...
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| NH | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Clarifies Exemptions to Compulsory School Attendance
H.B. 87
Inserts clarifications to the exceptions to the compulsory school attendance statute.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2007/HB0087.html...
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| TX | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Excused Absence for Court Appearance
H.B. 2455
House Bill 2455 amends the Education Code to require a school district to grant an excused absence for a student ordered to make a court appearance.
http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/HB02455F.pdf...
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Student Truancy Policy
H.B. 353
Strengthens the truancy laws by making it a Class E crime for parents who fail to take corrective measures for truant children from kindergarten to grade 6.
http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/externalsiteframe.asp?ID=280022908&LD=454&Type=1&SessionID=7...
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | School Admission Requirements
H.B. 150
Modifies school admission requirements. Moves cut-off date for enrollment to August 31 from October 16.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H150v0.html...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Dropout Reporting, Exit Exam Alternatives, Competency Based Credits
S.B. 312
Expands the annual reports of accountability information to include the rate of pupils who drop out of school in grades 6, 7 and 8. Requires the State Board to prescribe alternative criteria that a pupil may satisfy to receive a standard high school diploma if...
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Defines "Person in Parental Relationship"
S.B. 215
Defines "Person in parental relationship" as an adult who has physical custody of a child or resides in the same household as the child, interacts with the child daily, provides the
child with food, clothing, shelter and incidental necessaries and provides the...
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Pilot: of Mandated Attendance for Suspended Students
H.B. 2138
Adds a new section: A pilot project of mandated attendance in an alternative school for students who have been suspended shall be established by the department for the school year 2007-2008 in any county having a metropolitan form of government and a populatio...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Truancy Reporting
S.B. 1161
Increases the time frame required for a school district to report to certain authorities, from seven to 10 days, if a student has not attended school on 10 or more days without an excuse.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/SB01161F.pdf...
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| DE | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Enhanced Truancy Court Activities
S.B. 26
Provides for enhanced Truancy Court activities in the Justice of the Peace Court. Eliminates the need to transfer a case of contempt by a juvenile to the Family Court for adjudication when that contempt has arisen in relation to a refusal to obey an order of t...
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Compulsory Attendance Coordinator
S.B. 155; L
Concerns compulsory school attendance. This bill adds to the duties of the attendance coordinator serving as the liaison between the school and the local law enforcement agency in matters pertaining to student absenteeism.
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis...
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Pupil Truancy
A.B. 485
Require a report of pupils who drop out of school in grade 8 to be included in the reports of accountability prepared by the State Board of Education and the boards of trustees of school districts. Requires the board of trustees of a school district located in...
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Permitting Attendance of Students to Age 26
H.B. 1137
Permits students who are at least 21 years of age and under 26 years of age on the first day of September of any school year to be eligible for funding under the Foundation School Program for the purposes of completing the requirements for a high school diplom...
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| MT | To governor 04/2007 | P-12 | Services for Developmentally Disabled
H.B. 195
Relates to services for individuals who are developmentally distabled, clarifies that such individuals may return to high school after graduation if they are not 19 years of age.
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2007/billhtml/HB0195.htm...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | High School Redesign
H.B. 584/S.B. 561
Provides for high school redesign. Directs the department of education to establish a readiness assessment system to measure the readiness of every New Mexico high school student for success in higher education or a career no later than the 2008-2009 school ye...
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| TX | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Requiring Attendance of Those Voluntarily Attending School
H.B. 566
H.B. 566 authorizes school districts to require persons who voluntarily enroll in school or voluntarily attend school after their 18th birthday to attend school until the end of the school year (to help districts reduce the number of dropouts). The bill also ...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Alternative Pathways to a Diploma
H.B. 1051
Finds that the state's commitment to providing a basic education for all public school students under the age of twenty-one should continue until a student earns a diploma.
Therefore the legislature intends to expand high school completion programs at communit...
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Minimum Compulsory Attendance Age
S.B. 16
Changes the minimum age for compulsory education from seven to six years, on or before August 1 of each year. Compulsory attendance ages therefore would be six through seventeen years.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics/Clics2007A/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/9396E573D25...
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Kindergarten Attendance
S.B. 33
Amends 13-28-2 to read: Any child who is five years old on the first day of September is eligible for enrollment in kindergarten during that school year. Any child who is six years old by September first is eligible for enrollment in first grade during that sc...
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Raises Compulsory Attendance Age to 18
S.B. 199
Increases the compulsory attendance age for school attendance from 16 to 18, unless the child has graduated or is excused per certain provisions.
http://www.legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2007/bills/SB199enr.pdf...
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| UT | Adopted 10/2007 | P-12 | Truancy Prevention
R277-607
Adopts rules in compliance with 2007 H.B. 207. Amends definition of "habitual truant." Requires local boards and charter school boards to develop a truancy policy that encourages regular, punctual attendance of students, and to review the policy annually. Requ...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Compulsory School Age
S.B. 543
Requires a person having custody or control of a child who is below the compulsory school age but enrolled in kindergarten in a public school to cause the child to attend the public school. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB0543lv.pdf...
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| NH | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Raises Compulsory School Age
S.B. 18
Raises from 16 to 18 the age for compulsory school attendance and provides a procedure for a pupil who is at least 16 years of age to obtain an attendance waiver from school.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2007/SB0018.html...
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| NH | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Clarifies Exemptions to Compulsory School Attendance
H.B. 87
Inserts clarifications to the exceptions to the compulsory school attendance statute.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2007/HB0087.html...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Dropout Reporting, Exit Exam Alternatives, Competency Based Credits
S.B. 312
Expands the annual reports of accountability information to include the rate of pupils who drop out of school in grades 6, 7 and 8. Requires the State Board to prescribe alternative criteria that a pupil may satisfy to receive a standard high school diploma if...
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Compulsory Attendance Coordinator
S.B. 155; L
Concerns compulsory school attendance. This bill adds to the duties of the attendance coordinator serving as the liaison between the school and the local law enforcement agency in matters pertaining to student absenteeism.
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | High School Redesign
H.B. 584/S.B. 561
Provides for high school redesign. Directs the department of education to establish a readiness assessment system to measure the readiness of every New Mexico high school student for success in higher education or a career no later than the 2008-2009 school ye...
| More... | |
| TX | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Requiring Attendance of Those Voluntarily Attending School
H.B. 566
H.B. 566 authorizes school districts to require persons who voluntarily enroll in school or voluntarily attend school after their 18th birthday to attend school until the end of the school year (to help districts reduce the number of dropouts). The bill also ...
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Minimum Compulsory Attendance Age
S.B. 16
Changes the minimum age for compulsory education from seven to six years, on or before August 1 of each year. Compulsory attendance ages therefore would be six through seventeen years.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics/Clics2007A/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/9396E573D25...
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Raises Compulsory Attendance Age to 18
S.B. 199
Increases the compulsory attendance age for school attendance from 16 to 18, unless the child has graduated or is excused per certain provisions.
http://www.legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2007/bills/SB199enr.pdf...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | School Truancy & Compulsory Education Updates
H.B. 207
Directs a local school board, local charter board, or school district to preapprove an extended absence of a school-age minor if it is determined that the absence will not adversely impact the school-age minor's education; describes compulsory education requir...
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| Attendance--Statutory Ages (Upper and Lower) |
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Compulsory School Age
S.B. 543
Requires a person having custody or control of a child who is below the compulsory school age but enrolled in kindergarten in a public school to cause the child to attend the public school. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB0543lv.pdf...
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Upper Statutory Age for a Student with Disabilities
H.B. 817
In the definition of children with disabilities, provides that an eligible student who requires continued public school educational experience to facilitate his or her successful transition and integration into adult life is eligible for special education serv...
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | School Admission Requirements
H.B. 150
Modifies school admission requirements. Moves cut-off date for enrollment to August 31 from October 16.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H150v0.html...
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Defines "Person in Parental Relationship"
S.B. 215
Defines "Person in parental relationship" as an adult who has physical custody of a child or resides in the same household as the child, interacts with the child daily, provides the
child with food, clothing, shelter and incidental necessaries and provides the...
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Permitting Attendance of Students to Age 26
H.B. 1137
Permits students who are at least 21 years of age and under 26 years of age on the first day of September of any school year to be eligible for funding under the Foundation School Program for the purposes of completing the requirements for a high school diplom...
| More... | |
| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Alternative Pathways to a Diploma
H.B. 1051
Finds that the state's commitment to providing a basic education for all public school students under the age of twenty-one should continue until a student earns a diploma.
Therefore the legislature intends to expand high school completion programs at communit...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | kindergarten entrance age
S.B. 217
Lowers the age of enrollment in kindergarten in public school from 5 by September 1 in 2009-2010, for the 2010-2011 school year
the cutoff age would be August 15; 2011-2012 and afterwards, 5 on or before August 1 of the year they are seeking initial enrollment...
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Kindergarten Attendance
S.B. 33
Amends 13-28-2 to read: Any child who is five years old on the first day of September is eligible for enrollment in kindergarten during that school year. Any child who is six years old by September first is eligible for enrollment in first grade during that sc...
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| Attendance--Truancy |
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| UT | Adopted 10/2007 | P-12 | Truancy Prevention
R277-607
Adopts rules in compliance with 2007 H.B. 207. Amends definition of "habitual truant." Requires local boards and charter school boards to develop a truancy policy that encourages regular, punctual attendance of students, and to review the policy annually. Requ...
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Funding state mandates
A.B. 1698
Requires the Commission on State Mandates to amend the parameters and guidelines regarding the notification of truancy mandate program and definition of a truant and the elements included in the initial truancy notifications to conform to existing law. Provide...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Truancy and Assessment and Service Centers
S.B. 187
Gives permanent status to truancy and assessment and service centers (which were initially established through a pilot program). Deletes language directing the Families in Need of Services program to serve in a coordinating and facilitating capacity for the ce...
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Student Truancy Policy
H.B. 353
Strengthens the truancy laws by making it a Class E crime for parents who fail to take corrective measures for truant children from kindergarten to grade 6.
http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/externalsiteframe.asp?ID=280022908&LD=454&Type=1&SessionID=7...
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| DE | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Enhanced Truancy Court Activities
S.B. 26
Provides for enhanced Truancy Court activities in the Justice of the Peace Court. Eliminates the need to transfer a case of contempt by a juvenile to the Family Court for adjudication when that contempt has arisen in relation to a refusal to obey an order of t...
| More... | |
| NV | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Pupil Truancy
A.B. 485
Require a report of pupils who drop out of school in grade 8 to be included in the reports of accountability prepared by the State Board of Education and the boards of trustees of school districts. Requires the board of trustees of a school district located in...
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Student Record Transfer
H.B. 145
Provides that for purposes of establishing a student's status as a truant, the student's attendance record is cumulative for an entire school year. Directs the state department of education to assure that the student information system facilitates the collecti...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | School Truancy & Compulsory Education Updates
H.B. 207
Directs a local school board, local charter board, or school district to preapprove an extended absence of a school-age minor if it is determined that the absence will not adversely impact the school-age minor's education; describes compulsory education requir...
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| Background Checks |
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| OH | Signed into law 11/2007 | P-12 | Background Checks
H.B. 190 - Multiple Components
• Requires school districts, educational service centers, community schools, STEM schools, and chartered nonpublic schools to request criminal records checks for all job applicants and employees, not merely those whose duties entail the care of children.
• Re...
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| IL | Signed into law 09/2007 | P-12 | Criminal Sexual Offense by an Employee
H.B. 3512
Amends the Privacy of Child Victims of Criminal Sexual Offenses Act. Provides that when a criminal sexual offense is committed or alleged to have been committed by a school district employee or any individual contractually employed by a school district, that c...
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| IL | Adopted 09/2007 | P-12 | Testing, Professional Development and Background Checks at Special Education Facilities
23 IAC 401.10 thru .260 (non seq.)
Amends policies regarding the assessment of special education students at nonpublic, public out-of-state, public residential or private special education facilities. Transfers authority for the oversight of such assessment from the state board of education to ...
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| AL | Adopted 08/2007 | P-12 | Teacher Education
AAC 290-3-3
Repeals and replaces rules to require background clearance for admission to the internship and to clarify field experience requirements for graduate programs. Adds an option for teachers of American Sign Language. Prepares individuals for certification in Spor...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Contract with a Third Party for Non-Instructional Services
H.B. 1347
Adds to provisions allowing a local board of education to contract with a third party for non-instructional services currently performed by any employee or bargaining unit member or to lay off such educational support personnel. Extends date of written notice ...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Background Checks of Private School Employees
S.B. 143
Provides that a nonpublic elementary or secondary school may not obtain Nonpublic School Recognition status unless the school requires all applicants for employment with the school, after July 1, 2007, to authorize a fingerprint-based criminal history records ...
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| NC | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Background Checks
H.B. 1659
Authorizes criminal history record checks of employees of and applicants for employment with the department of public instruction.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H1659v4.html...
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| NH | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Background Checks for Volunteers
H.B. 37
Requires a school administrative unit, school district or charter school to adopt a policy designating certain categories of volunteers as designated volunteers who may be required to undergo a background investigation and a criminal history records check. All...
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| NY | Adopted 07/2007 | P-12 | Fingerprinting and Criminal History Record Check
Title 8 NYCRR Sections 80-1.11, 87.1 through .10 nonseq.
Sets forth the requirements and procedures for the fingerprinting and criminal history record check of prospective school employees of nonpublic and private elementary schools. Pages 19-20 of 48: http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2007/aug15/pdfs/rules.p...
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| PA | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Section on Background Checks
H.B. 842, Sec. 111
Part of this large bill requires the state department of prescribe a method for applicants to submit a set of fingerprints to the FBI.
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=PDF&sessYr=2007&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNb...
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| TN | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Automatic Revocation of Teaching Certificate
S.B. 1730
Provides that the state board shall automatically revoke the license of a licensed teacher or administrator without the right to a hearing upon receiving verification of the identity of the teacher or administrator together with a certified copy of a criminal ...
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Background checks fo Teacher Training Candidates
H.B. 2076
Provides that all students wishing to enter teacher training programs are required to agree to the release of investigative records to the teacher training program administrator, supply a fingerprint sample and submit to a criminal history records check and si...
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| NJ | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Background Checks for School Volunteers
A.B. 515
Permits criminal history record check for unpaid volunteers in schools and requires applicant to be reimbursed for costs of check; permits the reimbursement of paid school personnel for such costs.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/A1000/515_R1.PDF...
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Criminal Cases Involving Teachers
A.B. 313
Requires the department of education to establish a procedure for the notification, tracking and monitoring of the status of criminal cases involving licensed teachers and other licensed educational personnel.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/74th/Bills/AB/AB313_EN....
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| OR | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Disclosure of Suspected Child Abuse
S.B. 380
Upon request from a law enforcement agency, the Department of Human Services or the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission, a school district is required to provide the records of investigations of suspected child abuse by a school employee or former schoo...
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Criminal Background Checks
S.B. 9
Requires a national criminal history background check for all certified public school employees. Current non-certified employees are required to submit to a statewide criminal review, while non-certified employees hired on or after January 1, 2008 will be requ...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Ethics
S.B. 274 (Teacher Certification)
Sections 23 and 24 of the act amend the provisions of Arkansas Code 6-17-410 and 6-17-414 concerning issuance of new teacher licenses, and employment of nonlicensed personnel who have criminal backgrunds. Act adds new criminal offenses to the list of offense...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Background Checks
S.B. 1045
Increases the types of offenses precluding receipt of fingerprint clearance card from the Board of Fingerprinting; includes crimes of sexual conduct involving minors, welfare fraud, identity related crimes, cruelty to animals, prostitution, negligent homicide,...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Charter schools, background checks
H.B. 2041
Relates to charter schools, fingerprinting and a civil penalty if a charter school fails to comply with fingerprinting requirements. New provision provides that penalties shall be assessed by reducing the amount of state aid that the charter school would other...
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Background Checks
S.F. 277 (Section 11)
Requires that a national background check be conducted of any teacher who holds a license other than an initial license issued by the board of educational examiners before a district enters into an initial contract with such a teacher. Also requires a review o...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | School Volunteer Background checks
S.B. 210
Requires background checks for certain volunteers, contractors and contractor employees. Requires reports of school employee misconduct. Provides that settlement agreement confidentiality provisions do not relieve responsibility for reporting.
http://legis.sta...
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| OR | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Criminal Records Checks
H.B. 2047
SECTION 1. ORS 326.603 is amended to read:(1) For the purposes of requesting a state or nationwide criminal records check, the Department of Education may require the fingerprints of: (a) A school district or private school contractor, whether part-time or ful...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Background Checks for Bureau of Indian Affairs Schools
S.B. 5382
Authorizes Washington State Patrol and Federal Bureau of Investigation record checks for Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs-funded school employees and applicants for employment using the same processes as used by school districts and Educational Service Distric...
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| LA | Adopted 03/2007 | P-12 | Sexual Misconduct Involving a Student
LAC 28:CXV.501
Requires any district, prior to hiring any employee, to request from the applicant's current or previous employer any documentation regarding any sexual misconduct engaged in by the applicant involving a student. Also requires the applicant's current or previo...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Modifies Charter School Provisions
H.B. 164
Modifies charter school application and authorization provisions; modifies certain requirements for charter schools, including those relating to charter school assets, school closures, and application, enrollment and withdrawal of a student from a charter scho...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Higher Education Criminal Background Checks
H.B. 196
Directs the state Board of Regents to adopt a policy requiring an applicant for a position in a higher education institution that involves
significant contact with a minor or a position that is security sensitive to submit to a criminal background check as a c...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Requires School Contractors Verify Employee Sex Offender Status
H.B. 1707, S.B. 1346
Provides that as a condition of awarding a contract for the provision of services that require the contractor or his employees to have direct contact with students on school property during regular school hours, the school board must require the contractor to ...
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| TX | Adopted 12/2007 | P-12 | Outline of Instruction for English Language Learners
19 TAC 2.74.A.74.4
Outlines the instruction school districts must provide to English language learners in order for them to have the full opportunity to learn English and to succeed academically. TEXAS 12499...
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Adult Literacy
A.B. 1030
Authorizes the Library Literacy and English Acquisition Services Program to be used for services targeted to young adults 16 years of age and over who are not enrolled in school to improve their literacy skills by providing adult basic literacy tutoring and re...
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2007 | P-12 | Bilingual endorsements
A.B. 280
Establishes the State Seal of Biliteracy to recognize high school graduates who have mastered languages in addition to English. Requires the seal be awarded by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Requires the State Department of Education to prepare and ...
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| IL | Signed into law 10/2007 | Community College | We Want to Learn English Initiative
S.B. 1446
Authorizes the community college board to establish and administer a We Want to Learn English Initiative to provide resources for immigrants and refugees to learn English. Provides that the board may include in its budget proposal $ 15,000,000 in funding for t...
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| GA | Adopted 09/2007 | P-12 | Student Assessment Programs
GAC 160-3-1-.07
Adds language regarding the Assessing Comprehension and Communication in English State to State for English Language Learners (ACCESS for ELLs), an English language proficiency test administered annually to all English language learners (ELLs) to determine stu...
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| TX | Adopted 09/2007 | P-12 | Adaptations for Special Populations
19 TAC Chapter 89
Revise the process of applying for a bilingual exception and/or an English as a second language (ESL) waiver. Other adopted amendments add language regarding the transfer of students out of a special language program in accordance with House Bill 1, 79th Texas...
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| TX | Adopted 07/2007 | P-12 | Dual Immersion Programs
89.1613
Defines and establishes procedures, quality assurance for dual immersion programs.
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tacupdates/july2007/ch089ff.pdf...
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| FL | Vetoed 06/2007 | P-12 | Requirements for English Language Learner Teachers
S.B. 2512
Relates to public school educator certification; relates to English for Speakers of Other Languages Educators; specifies inservice requirements for educators who provide English for Speakers of Other Languages instruction. Changes requirements for number of in...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | District Budget Reporting, Grant Fund for Licensed Education Personnel
A.B. 1A
Revises provisions governing the inclusion of certain information in the biennial budget request for the state distributive school account for submission to the department of administration based upon the annual budgets submitted by the school districts. Creat...
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| NY | Adopted 06/2007 | P-12 | Students with Limited English Proficiency
Title 8 NYCRR Part 154
Enacts emergency regulations to prescribe requirements for the development by school districts of comprehensive plans for students with limited English proficiency. Page 6-10 of 55: http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2007/jul18/pdfs/rules.pdf
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Dual Language Pilot Project
H.B. 2814
Creates a dual language education pilot project including not more than 30 campuses in 10 districts statewide. School districts participating in the pilot project would be required to
participate for at least three years, with the first year being a planning y...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Transportation for ELL Program
H.F. 2245 [High Needs ESL]
Authorizes district to provide transportation to allow a student who attends a high-need English language learner program and who resides within the transportation attendance area of the program to continue in the program until the student completes the highe...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Bilingual/Multilingual Certificates
H.F. 2245 [Multilingual/Bilingual]
Directs the Department of Education to develop and recommend to the legislature by February 15, 2008, the standards and process for awarding bilingual and multilingual certificates to those kindergarten through grade students who demonstrate and maintain a req...
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | English Immersion Pilot
S.B. 398
Establishes a pilot program to study English immersion and English language learner programs for pupils who are limited English proficient. The Department of Education will select the public schools to participate in the pilot program.
http://www.leg.state.nv....
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Additional Funds to Assist English Language Learners
S.B. 1237 (Section 9)
Directs the state department of education to distribute $750,000 on a one-time basis to schools in which the population of English language learners failed to meet adequate yearly progress (AYP) in math or reading, to improve the English language skills of Eng...
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Defines English Language Learner
S.B. 2200 (English language learner provisions)
Adds two new sections: Section 45 and 46. Defines English language learner means a student who:
1. Is at least five years of age but has not reached the age of twenty-two; 2. Is enrolled in a school district in the state; 3. Has a primary language other than E...
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Services for Limited English Proficient Students
S.B. 2107 - Part B, Section 10
Eliminates provision that districts receiving state funds for the education of limited English proficient students must develop a comprehensive plan for meeting the educational needs of such students. Replaces with provision that all districts receiving total ...
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Official State Language
S.B. 1172
Amends existing law to declare English to be the official state language. Provides that English is the sole language of government, subject to exceptions. Provides that specified actions must be in English, subject to exceptions.
Requires all state funds appr...
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| ID | Adopted 03/2007 | P-12 | Standards of Performance for Limited English Proficient Students
IDAPA 08.02.03
Incorporates the following by reference:
The Idaho Content Standards
The Idaho English Language Development Standards
The Limited English Proficiency Program Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives (AMAOs) and Accountability Procedures
The Idaho English Lan...
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| LA | Adopted 02/2007 | P-12 | School, District, and State Accountability System
LAC 28:LXXXIII.307, 409, 515, 703-707, 3905, 4001, and 4527
Makes changes to the state accountability system to take advantage of new and existing flexibility outlined in guidance for No Child Left Behind and to address situations, including changes necessitated in response to the hurricanes of 2005, which were not con...
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| LA | Adopted 02/2007 | P-12 | Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices
LAC 28:CXI.Chapters 1, 3, 5, 18, 23, 27, 33, and 35
Makes various changes to state assessment system. Creates end-of-course tests, to be phased in over a period of six years starting in fall 2007, in the following:
1. Algebra I;
2. Geometry;
3. English I;
4. English II;
5. Biology;
6. American History;
7. Civi...
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| ME | Issued 01/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Sub-Cabinet for Multicultural Affairs and the Multicultural Affairs Advisory Council
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 25 FY 06/07
Creates the Multicultural Affairs Sub-Cabinet to promote interdepartmental collaboration on multicultural policy development and program implementation. Provides that the commissioner of the state department of education, the president of the Maine Community C...
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Grants for Volunteers, Technology-Based Supplemental Instruction
H.B. 2237 (Supplemental Help Provisions)
Requires the commissioner to award grants to organizations that provide volunteers for programs to enhance college readiness, workforce readiness, dropout prevention, and personal
financial literacy. Also requires the commissioner of education to review and ap...
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2007 | P-12 | Teacher credentials
S.B. 52
Renames the designated subjects vocational education teaching credential the designated subjects preliminary career technical education teaching credential. Repeals authority for issuance and renewal of designated subjects teaching credentials for part-time se...
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| MO | Adopted 10/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Teacher certification,
5 CSR 80-800.270
Amends rule to incorporate changes in the Compendium for 2007. Deletes certification requirements for Postsecondary Career Educators as of June 2007.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c80-800.pdf
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| MO | Adopted 10/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Teacher certification
5 CSR 80-800.380
Amends rule to incorporate 2007 Compendium changes. Deletes certification requirements for Postsecondary Career Educators as of June 2007.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c80-800.pdf...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2007 | Postsec. | private postsecondary
S.B. 45
Extends the provisions of the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act of 1989. Provides for the extension of voluntary agreements with institutions regarding compliance with related state statutes. Authorizes accredited institutions to make s...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2007 | P-12 | Career education
A.B. 598
Authorizes a community college or apprentice training instructor to teach a career technical education course in a subject that is not a core academic subject on a high school campus. Authorizes a pupil to take an apprenticeship, job training, or community col...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2007 | P-12 | Career education facilities
S.B. 13
Requires the State Department of Education to include in the application for school districts for new construction funding certain questions relating to career technical education facilities, including whether the funding would be used for facilities related t...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2007 | P-12 | Career/Technical Education
A.B. 597
Makes the State Department of Education responsible for the creation of comprehensive, easy to access, user-friendly Web site pages with specified information about opportunities and programs available in the state on career technical education in elementary a...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2007 | P-12 | Career education
A.B. 666
Relates to existing law that establishes an incentive grant program for the purpose of improving, expanding, and establishing instructional programs in home economics careers and technology career technical education to improve the academic achievement and car...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | P-16
A.B. 428
Requires each school district offering any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, prior to class registration, for each school in the district, to provide parents or guardians with written notification relating to the courses offered by the school satisfying the requir...
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| VT | Adopted 09/2007 | P-12 | EDUCATOR LICENSING
16 VSA 164(5), -1691a, -1692, -1695, -1697, -1792(a), -1751, -59
Amends rules pertaining to Career and Technical (CTE) educator licensing. The goals of the changes to the CTE endorsements are to:
· break down the wall between "regular" education and career and technical education endorsements, in support of the broader goa...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Agricultural Science Teacher Training Continuum and Incentive Funding Grants
H.B. 1922
Subject to appropriation, requires the state board of education to develop a secondary-level agricultural science teacher training continuum and to provide incentive funding grants to the agriculture science teacher education programs at Illinois State Univers...
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| LA | Adopted 08/2007 | P-12 | CTE Course Offerings
LAC 28:CXV.Chapter 23
Updates career and technical education course offerings so that they are more aligned with national standards. Pages 6-8 of 79: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0708/0708RUL.pdf...
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| HI | Became law without governor's signature 07/2007 | P-12 | Project EAST
H.B. 1630
Relates to high school-level project EAST (environmental and spatial technology), which integrates cutting-edge technology, such as computer-assisted drafting, geographic information systems, global positioning systems, and computer graphic applications such a...
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| NH | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Admission of Students With Two Years High School
H.B. 822
Requires regional vocational schools to accept students who have completed 2 years of high school regardless of the number of credits earned; allows students to enroll in regional vocational schools when the department of education determines it would be in th...
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| PA | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12
Community College
Postsec. | Pennsylvania Technical College Program
H.B. 842 -- Article XIX-F
This section of H.B. 842 establishes the Pennsylvania Technical College Program as a competititve grant program (to the extent that funds appropriated can support) to prepare students in educationally underserved areas for high-demand occupations that requrie ...
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Workforce and Career Preparation
S.B. 1232
Creates the State Career and Professional Education Act to improve academic performance and to respond to workforce needs; requires a school district to develop strategic plans to address and meet local and regional workforce needs and to establish a career an...
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Career and Technical Education
H.B. 1225
Requires the Tennessee council for career and technical education to conduct a study to determine proper methods for integrating career and technical education courses and to report its findings and recommendations to the chair of the education committees for ...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Awareness of Career and Technology Education
H.B. 3485
From bill analysis: The purpose of this bill is to raise awareness about the value of career and technology education by including it in existing policies that impact student course-taking decisions. In this way, students, parents, and educators will consider ...
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| CT | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Technical High Schools Committee
S.B. 1283
Relates to the advisory committee on technical high schools; reconstitutes the state-wide technical high school advisory committee with members appointed by the State Board of Education; makes recommendations to the State Board of Education concerning the cons...
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Career/Technical Education and STEM
S.B. 885 (Section 1-10)
Directs the department of education to establish and administer a career and technical education program that meets the requirements of the federal Perkins Act of 2006. Provides the department's program may include:
(1) Pathway programs of study, includ...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Workforce Proficiency Panel
S.B. 345
Repeals provisions establishing the vocational technical proficiency panel (also called the workforce proficiency panel); repeals a provision that requires the panel to adopt standards for postsecondary certificates of achievement for technical education progr...
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Postsecondary Technical Education Authority
H.B. 2556
Establishes the postsecondary technical education authority. Provides that when making appointments of the representatives of Kansas business and industry and the general public, consideration must be given to individuals recognized for their knowledge or expe...
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| ND | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Career and Technical Education, Enrepreneurship Education
H.B. 1019
Increases funding for for the Department of Career & Technical Education by $4.9 million, 29 percent over from the previous biennium. The $4.9 million in this legislation is part of a total $8 million increase in workforce training funds coordinated between K-...
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Career and Technical Education Reporting
A.B. 131
Requires reports of accountability information for public schools to include certain information regarding pupils enrolled in career and technical education. Revises provisions governing the acquisition of joint facilities and projects by school districts for ...
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Reimbursement for Certification Exams
H.B. 2383
Entitles a student to reimbursement for the cost of a certification examination upon completion of a school district's career and technology program in which a student receives instruction for employment in a certain trade or occupation if the student passes t...
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Idaho Digital Learning Academy
S.B. 1237 (Sections 12-14)
Strikes existing provision that funding for the Idaho Digital Learning Academy be provided from an annual budget request to the legislature from the superintendent of public instruction. Creates new section providing that a portion of the annual legislative ap...
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Technical Diploma
H.B. 2039
Requires the state board to establish the requirements for a technical diploma. This diploma shall meet or exceed the requirements of a standard diploma and will include a concentration in career and technical education, as established in Board regulations. A ...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | Community College
Postsec. | Private Vocational Schools
S.B. 5402
It is clarified that private vocational schools must meet the minimum requirements to obtain and maintain an operating license. Private vocational schools must demonstrate their financial viability and responsibility to the Workforce Training and Education Coo...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12
Community College | Skill Centers
S.B. 5790
Creates a new chapter addressing skill centers. Beginning in the 2007- 08 school year, students attending skill centers will be funded for all classes at the skill center and the sending district up to 1.6 full time equivalent (FTE) students, or as determined ...
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Professional-Technical Regional Public Charter Schools
S.B. 1088
Allows for the creation of "professional-technical regional public charter schools." Provides that a professional-technical regional public charter school must meet the standards and qualifications established by the division of professional-technical educatio...
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| LA | Adopted 03/2007 | P-12 | High School Coursetaking
LAC 28:CXV.2319
Adds Database Programming with PL/SQL, Java Programming, Database Design and Programming and Digital Media I/II to the computer/technology courses that may fulfill the 1 unit computer/technology requirement for an optional career area of concentration. Pages 8...
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| SD | Vetoed 03/2007 | Community College
Postsec. | State Board of Technical Institutes
S.B. 95
Establishes a State Board of Technical Institutes, to provide for its powers, duties, and responsibilities, and to provide for the transfer of authority over public postsecondary technical education from the Department of Education to the State Board of Techni...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Career & Technical Education Diploma
S.B. 1147, H.B. 2039
Directs the Board of Education to establish the requirements for a technical diploma, which must meet or exceed the requirements of a standard diploma and include a concentration in career and technical education. The bill is identical to HB 2039, which also p...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Standards, Assessment, Professional Development & Code of Conduct Updates
S.B. 795
Provides for the phasing out of the eighth grade cumulative history test in the 2007-2008 school year, and the implementation of the United States History to 1877, United States History: 1877 to the Present, and Civics and Economics tests in the 2008-2009 scho...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Career & Technical Education Project Contractor Licensing Requirements Exemption
H.B. 2757
Exempts from the contractor licensing requirements work undertaken by students as part of a career and technical education project as defined in § 22.1-228 established by any school board in accordance with Article 5 (§ 22.1-228 et seq.) of Chapter 13 of Title...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12
Community College | Advisory Council on Career and Technical Education Sunset Date Extension
H.B. 2040
Extends the sunset date for the Advisory Council on Career and Technical Education until July 1, 2012. The 17-member advisory council is charged with submitting recommendations for career and technical education that shall include policies and goals for caree...
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| OH | Adopted 02/2007 | P-12 | Diploma with Honors Criteria
OAC 3301-13-07, -16-01, -02
Revises criteria for awarding the diploma with honors for both the college preparatory and career-technical curriculum options, effective with the Class of 2011. Reduces criteria eligible students must meet to 7 out of 8 for both curriculum options (through Cl...
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Reporting Number of Career & Tech. Ed. Students
H.B. 1978, S.B. 1148
Requires local school boards to include in their annual report to the Board of Education the number of students who have met the requirements for a career and technical concentration or specialization and all requirements for high school graduation or an appro...
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| ID | Adopted 01/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Graduation Requirements and Advanced Opportunities
IDAPA 08.02.03
Increases total number of credits required for high school graduation to 46 credits (23 Carnegie units) starting with the 2013 graduating class. Increases math requirements to 3 units and science requirements to 3 units. Requires students to take the ACT, SAT,...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2007 | P-12 | Career education
A.B. 598
Authorizes a community college or apprentice training instructor to teach a career technical education course in a subject that is not a core academic subject on a high school campus. Authorizes a pupil to take an apprenticeship, job training, or community col...
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Workforce and Career Preparation
S.B. 1232
Creates the State Career and Professional Education Act to improve academic performance and to respond to workforce needs; requires a school district to develop strategic plans to address and meet local and regional workforce needs and to establish a career an...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Advisory Council on Parental Involvement
S.B. 143
Establishes an Advisory Council on Parental Involvement and prescribes the membership and duties of the council. State accountability law requires that support teams must be established for each public school that is designated as demonstrating need for improv...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Falsified assessment information
S.B. 274 (Cheating)
Section 11 concerns sanctions to be imposed for violation of security or confidentiality on a state-mandated assessment by school district personnel.
Section 23 concerns the revocation of certification for teachers violating the security or confidentiality on ...
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Sanctions for Cheating
H.B. 1033
Establishes process for following up on allegations of certified personnel and teachers for compromising the integrity of a state-required academic achievement test. Allows the suspension or revocation of the certificate of any certified staff person who knowi...
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2007 | P-12 | Charter school finance
S.B. 345
Authorizes the governing board of a charter school to use monthly installments and withholding options in making salary adjustments to the school's certificated employees. Grants the authority to issue work periods to minors, or to designate other individuals ...
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| NY | Adopted 10/2007 | P-12 | Delegation of Authority Regarding Charter Schools
Title 8 NYCRR Section 3.16
Amends regulations to delegate authority for conducting charter school hearings from the board of regents to the commissioner of education.
Adopted as proposed August 2007; page 7-9 of 48: http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2007/aug15/pdfs/rules.pdf...
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| NY | Adopted 10/2007 | P-12 | Procedures for Charter School Public Hearings
Title 8 NYCRR Section 119.4
Establishes procedures for the conduct of public hearings concerning charter schools. Page 9-11 of 38: http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2007/NOV14/pdfs/rules.pdf...
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| OH | Signed into law 10/2007 | P-12 | Amends Provisions Related to Community Schools (Charters)
H.B. 119 -- Community Schools Provisions (Charter Schools)
Permits establishment of a start-up community school after June 30, 2007 only if the school's governing authority contracts with an operator that manages other schools in the U.S. that perform at a level higher than academic watch. Permits an early college hig...
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| UT | Adopted 10/2007 | P-12 | Charter Schools
R277-477-3
Requires all charter schools to have a committee consisting of a majority of parents designated to make decisions regarding School LAND Trust Program funds. Requires all charter schools to have a current school plan for enhancing or improving academic excellen...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2007 | P-12 | Charter schools
A.B. 177
Relates to charter schools that serve at-risk pupils. Extends allowable term of operation until a specified date, subject to the approval of the county board of education for continued operation beyond that date. Extends the provisions of existing law that rel...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2007 | P-12 | Charter Schools
A.B. 1281
Relates to Charter School Act of 1992. Revises the description of the procedures relating to pupil suspension or expulsion. Requires a description of how the school intends to serve pupils with disabilities and the qualification and planned professional develo...
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| GA | Adopted 09/2007 | P-12 | Charter Schools
GAC 160-4-9-.04
Clarifies rules regarding charter schools, including applicable definitions, responsibilities, petition provisions and termination of the charter. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-4-9-.04.pdf...
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| UT | 09/2007 09/2007 | P-12 | Amends Charter School Caps, etc.
R277-470
Adds rules for identifying the maximum number of authorized charter school students statewide. Provides for new or expanding charter school notification of prospective students and parents. The amendments to the rule include: 1) procedures for identifying the ...
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| AZ | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Postsecondary grants
S.B. 1069
Relates to postsecondary education grants and their implementation; relates to early graduation scholarships, school districts and charter schools; requires development of application forms; relates to costs of books and fees. Chapter No. 280.
http://www.azle...
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Charter School Teacher Participation in State Retirement System
H.B. 1471
Allows an existing charter school to participate in the teachers' and state employees' retirement system and the state teachers' and state employees' comprehensive major medical plan.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H1471v0.html...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Charter School Administrators
S.B. 214
Requires any person employed as an administrator in a public charter school to be licensed or registered to administer by the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (prior to this law, required only charter school teachers to be registered).
http://www.leg...
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Funding for Special Education Students in Career/Technical Charters
H.B. 6128
Permits any career/technical charter public schools which enroll special education students from outside the school district with verifiable Individual Education Plans to receive from the sending district the average per pupil special education cost of the sen...
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Charter school finance
H.B. 2790
Relates to fingerprinting of applicants for a new or renewed teaching certificate in a school district or charter school; relates to calculating equalization assistance for charter schools; establishes the American Competitiveness Project Fund to provide techn...
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Charter Schools
S.B. 603
Clarifies the significant role of the board of education in policymaking for charter schools, including:
(A) Appointing members of the charter school review panel; and
(B) Serving as an appeals board for charter school applicants or charter...
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Approval of New Charter Schools
H.B. 2
Prohibits the state board of education from approving new charter schools between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2009, provided that a charter school application filed prior to July 1, 2007 which is scheduled to be acted upon by the state board of education on or b...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Empowerment Schools
S.B. 238
Authorizes the boards of trustees of school districts to establish a program of empowerment schools for the public schools of the school district. Authorizes public schools to develop empowerment plans. Prescribes the process for the approval of empowerment pl...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Charter School Sponsorship
A.B. 591
Authorizes a college or university within the Nevada System of Higher Education to sponsor charter schools. Sets forth the requirements for a charter school that has been in operation for at least 5 years to be exempt from an annual performance audit and under...
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Charter School Changes
H.B. 1589
Amends the Charter Schools Act: adding certain higher education institutions as additional sponsors for charter schools; specifying certain requirements for higher education institutions; limiting number of charter schools established each year; defining term;...
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| CA | Adopted 05/2007 | P-12 | Charter Schools
Title 5 CCR Sec(s) 11962, 11962.1
Establishes clear procedures to be implemented in the event of theclosure of a charter school. Requires that a petition for a charter schoolinclude a reasonably comprehensive description of the procedures to be used ifthe charter school closes. Requires the de...
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Charter School Facilities
H.B. 1178
Concerns the use of school district facilities by charter schools. Charter schools may purchase a building and grounds, at a district's descretion. If a charter school vacates the building, the district will have first right of refusal to reacquire and purchas...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Charter Systems Act
S.B. 39
Enacts the Charter Systems Act. Amends definitions of "charter," "charter petitioner," "local revenue," and "petition," and adding definitions of "charter system," "governing council," "school-level governance," and "system charter school." Provides procedures...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Charter School Student Records
H.F. 2245 [Charter School Records]
Requires that closed charter school must transfer the student's educational records within 10 business days of closure to the student's school district of residence where the records must be retained or transferred.
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldb...
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | State Board Sponsored Charter Schools
A.B. 334
Creates a school district for charter schools sponsored by the state board for federal law purposes. Revises provisions governing the closure of a charter school. Clarifes certain provisions governing the payments of money to a charter school for the enrollmen...
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Texas Public Finance Authority
H.B. 1400
Relates to the issuance by a corporation established by the Texas Public Finance Authority of revenue bonds for open-enrollment charter school facilities.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/HB01400F.pdf...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Character Education, Charter Schools
H.B. 2204
Concerns the Character Education Office; makes an appropriation; relates to public and charter schools. Changes administration of the program from the Northern Arizona University to the Department of Education and stipulates procedure for disbursement of the g...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Charter schools, background checks
H.B. 2041
Relates to charter schools, fingerprinting and a civil penalty if a charter school fails to comply with fingerprinting requirements. New provision provides that penalties shall be assessed by reducing the amount of state aid that the charter school would other...
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| DE | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | School District and Charter School Budget Reports
H.B. 21
Requires the Department of Education to develop a standardized format for the reporting of the local school district or charter school budget to the public.
http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/lis144.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+21/$file/0801440478.doc?open...
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Charter School Applications
H.B. 554
Reenacts procedures for public schools to apply for and be granted charter school statuts. Extends the repealer on charter school statutes to JULY 1, 2009.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2007/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0554SG.htm...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Charter School Enrollment Limits
H.B. 1245
Relates to charter school requirements, clarifies enrollment limits and declares an emergency.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/HB1245.pdf...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Charter School Facilities Fund
S.B. 634
Creates fund relating to charter school facilities funding. Provides procedures for meeting the needs of state-chartered and locally chartered charter schools for adequate facilities.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/SB0634.pdf...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | NCLB Consequences for Schools and Reporting Requirements
H.B. 34
Distinguishes a student's academic proficiency from the adequate yearly progress of public schools and school districts; conforms rankings of schools in need of improvement with federal requirements; provides a process for reopening failing schools as state-ch...
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2007 | P-12 | Charter School Enrollment Limits
S.B. 1147
Relates to charter school requirements, amends existing law to clarify enrollment limits.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/SB1147.pdf...
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2007 | P-12 | Public School Accountability & Assessment
S.B. 287
Distinguishes a student's academic proficiency from the AYP of schools and districts. Conforms rankings of schools in need of improvement with Federal requirements. Provides a process for reopening failing schools as state-chartered charter schools. Provides t...
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2007 | P-12 | Charter School Student Activities
H.B. 513
Adds the charter school student activities program unit into the program cost calculation.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/HB0513.pdf...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Charter School Hiring Practices
S.B. 189
Would make the hiring practices of charter schools align with current hiring practices of school districts by requiring all decisions to hire, fix salaries, assign, terminate or discharge employees of a charter school to be made by that school's head administr...
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Charter Schools
S.B. 2107 -- Part D-2
Provides that an application for a charter school cannot be approved unless the charter entity finds that in a school district where the total enrollment of resident students attending charter schools in the base year is greater than 5% of the total public sch...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | charter school, accountability
H.B. 1504
Provides a major revision of the Public Charter School Law. Amends Public Charter School Law to allow for obtaining conversion public charter school status, open-enrollment public charter school status, or limited public charter school status. Defines the th...
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Professional-Technical Regional Public Charter Schools
S.B. 1088
Allows for the creation of "professional-technical regional public charter schools." Provides that a professional-technical regional public charter school must meet the standards and qualifications established by the division of professional-technical educatio...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Modifies Charter School Provisions
H.B. 164
Modifies charter school application and authorization provisions; modifies certain requirements for charter schools, including those relating to charter school assets, school closures, and application, enrollment and withdrawal of a student from a charter scho...
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Charter School Applications & Renewal
H.B. 31
Restricts the frequency of charter school applications to allow only one application every 12 months from any person, group or organization that has previously filed a charter application and had it denied; limits renewal periods for charter schools to 5 years...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Charter Systems Act
S.B. 39
Enacts the Charter Systems Act. Amends definitions of "charter," "charter petitioner," "local revenue," and "petition," and adding definitions of "charter system," "governing council," "school-level governance," and "system charter school." Provides procedures...
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Closings |
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| GA | Adopted 09/2007 | P-12 | Charter Schools
GAC 160-4-9-.04
Clarifies rules regarding charter schools, including applicable definitions, responsibilities, petition provisions and termination of the charter. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-4-9-.04.pdf...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Modifies Charter School Provisions
H.B. 164
Modifies charter school application and authorization provisions; modifies certain requirements for charter schools, including those relating to charter school assets, school closures, and application, enrollment and withdrawal of a student from a charter scho...
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| UT | Adopted 10/2007 | P-12 | Charter Schools
R277-477-3
Requires all charter schools to have a committee consisting of a majority of parents designated to make decisions regarding School LAND Trust Program funds. Requires all charter schools to have a current school plan for enhancing or improving academic excellen...
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Charter Schools
S.B. 603
Clarifies the significant role of the board of education in policymaking for charter schools, including:
(A) Appointing members of the charter school review panel; and
(B) Serving as an appeals board for charter school applicants or charter...
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Charter School Facilities
H.B. 1178
Concerns the use of school district facilities by charter schools. Charter schools may purchase a building and grounds, at a district's descretion. If a charter school vacates the building, the district will have first right of refusal to reacquire and purchas...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Charter Systems Act
S.B. 39
Enacts the Charter Systems Act. Amends definitions of "charter," "charter petitioner," "local revenue," and "petition," and adding definitions of "charter system," "governing council," "school-level governance," and "system charter school." Provides procedures...
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| DE | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | School District and Charter School Budget Reports
H.B. 21
Requires the Department of Education to develop a standardized format for the reporting of the local school district or charter school budget to the public.
http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/lis144.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+21/$file/0801440478.doc?open...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Charter School Facilities Fund
S.B. 634
Creates fund relating to charter school facilities funding. Provides procedures for meeting the needs of state-chartered and locally chartered charter schools for adequate facilities.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/SB0634.pdf...
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2007 | P-12 | Charter School Student Activities
H.B. 513
Adds the charter school student activities program unit into the program cost calculation.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/HB0513.pdf...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Modifies Charter School Provisions
H.B. 164
Modifies charter school application and authorization provisions; modifies certain requirements for charter schools, including those relating to charter school assets, school closures, and application, enrollment and withdrawal of a student from a charter scho...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Charter School Facilities Financing Act
H.B. 318
Creates the State Charter School Financing Authority; defines the authority's powers and duties, including the power to issue obligations
under the Utah Industrial Facilities and Development Act; provides that obligations issued by the authority do not constit...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Public Charter School Fund
H.B. 2311
Establishes the Public Charter School Fund for the purposes of establishing or supporting public charter schools in Virginia that stimulate the development of alternative public education programs. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2311ER...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2007 | P-12 | Charter schools
S.B. 537
Amends the Charter Schools Act which authorizes a chartering agency to charge for up to 1% of a charter school's revenue for the actual costs of supervisorial oversight of the charter school. Requires the Research Bureau of the State Library to prepare and sub...
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Charter Schools
S.B. 603
Clarifies the significant role of the board of education in policymaking for charter schools, including:
(A) Appointing members of the charter school review panel; and
(B) Serving as an appeals board for charter school applicants or charter...
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| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
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| UT | Adopted 11/2007 | P-12 | Student Enrollment Options
R277-437
Provides for greater flexibility in allowing students to transfer from one school district to another or within the student's resident school district....
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| MA | Issued 08/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | The Readiness Project
Executive Order No. 489
Establishes the Readiness Project to develop a plan to implement fundamental and systemic reforms to public education in the Commonwealth over the next ten years. The project will have three chairs appointed by the Governor.
The plan will include recommenda...
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| AZ | Vetoed 06/2007 | P-12 | Choice, Desegregation
H.B. 2119
Relates to open enrollment for students in schools ordered to desegregate. ...
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| SC | Vetoed 06/2007 | P-12 | Pilot of Open Enrollment Program
H.B. 3124
Provides for a pilot "testing" of a public school open enrollment choice program in the public school system.
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3124.htm...
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Enrollment of Teachers' Children
S.B. 1585
Permits children of teachers who live outside of the state to attend a school within the district where the teacher is employed at no tuition charge.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0545.pdf...
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Scholarship Program for Children in Foster Care
S.B. 400
Establishes the Program of School Choice for Children in Foster Care for certain pupils who are in foster care, to be administered by the department of education. The legal guardian or custodian of a child who is in foster care may apply to participate in the ...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Choice
H.B. 2251
Amends certain provisions of the Public School Choice Act of 1989; provides that any student who accepts a school choice transfer may return to his or her resident district during the course of the school year; provides that if the transferred student returns ...
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | School District Tuition Amounts
H.B. 1281
Relates to school district tuition per student payments; relates to students sent to another district.Specifies that the tuition amount payable for the individual student is the
lesser of: (1) The full cost of education per student incurred by the admitting di...
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Interstate Enrollment Agreements
H.B. 1236
Allows the Department of Education to enter into enrollment agreements with the State of Iowa.
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2007/bills/HB1236enr.pdf...
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| IA | Adopted 02/2007 | P-12 | Student Assignments May Not Be Based Solely or Primarily on Race
IAC 281-17.2(282), 17.6(2), 281-17.14(282), 17.14(1) through 17.14(5)
These amendments are in response to the June 28, 2007, decision of the United States Supreme Court that student assignments may not be based solely or primarily on race. Thus, under the amended rules, eligible school districts will still be able to deny open e...
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Interstate Enrollment Options
H.B. 1038
Removed provision that required students who are not residents of South Dakota to reside in school districts that border South Dakota in order to participate in interstate enrollment options program between North and South Dakota.
http://www.legis.state.sd.us/...
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| TX | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Texas Governor's Schools
H.B. 1748
House Bill 1748 amends the Education Code to transfer all powers and duties relating to the Texas governor's schools program from the Texas Education Agency and the commissioner of education to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The bill also expa...
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | School of Science and Mathematics
S.B. 194
Relates to the School of Science and Mathematics; requires budgeting in certain categories and amounts; requires certain performance measures; provides for duties and compensation of employees; limits salary of the Director; provides budgetary limitations.
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Speciality Schools
S.B. 526 (omnibus) - Article 24.5
Authorizes the board of trustees of Ball State University, Indiana State University, Indiana University or Purdue University to establish a university-administered school in any county in Indiana in which the institution is situated. Allows a district board to...
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| Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | School Readiness Tax Credits
S.B. 361
Grants school readiness tax credits to individuals for child care expenses of children five and under, to child care providers, to child care directors and staff, and to businesses providing assistance for child care.
Provides the amount of the child care ex...
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| LA | Vetoed 07/2007 | P-12 | Tuition Tax Credit
S.B. 45
Grants a non-refundable credit against individual income tax for elementary and secondary education tuition in an approved parochial and private elementary and secondary schools.
Bill: http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=447637
Veto me...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act
S.B. 10
Enacts the Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act to provide scholarships for public school students with disabilities to attend eligible private schools. Establishes student eligibility requirements and requirements for private schools to participate in the sc...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Education Voucher Program Amendments
H.B. 174
Amends the Parent Choice in Education Program that awards scholarships to students to attend a private school; modifies the criteria for qualifying for a scholarship and the criteria for private schools to enroll scholarship students; modifies provisions relat...
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| UT | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Parent Choice in Education program
H.B. 148, H.B. 174
Establishes the state school voucher program, which provides scholarships for students to attend a private school; specifies criteria for qualifying for a scholarship; specifies criteria for private schools to enroll scholarship students; specifies the amount,...
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| IL | Signed into law 11/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Election Judges and Election Day
S.B. 662
Amends the Election Code. Allows high school juniors to serve as election judges. Allows an individual not entitled to vote in a precinct or county to serve as an election judge if the individual is a student at a community college or public or private Illinoi...
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| LA | Adopted 11/2007 | P-12 | Business Manager and Constitution Day
LAC 28:CXV.503, 2305
Amends sections of Bulletin 741 - Handbook for School Administrators.
503: Adds business manager to the list of certified personnel a district is required to hire. This addition was required by a new state statute.
2305: Requires schools to have an educatio...
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| MA | To governor 11/2007 | P-12 | Commonwealth Corps
S.B. 2301
Establishes the Commonwealth Corps; provides for volunteer community service; creates a pilot program for the Commonwealth Student Corps.
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/185/st02/st02301.htm...
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2007 | P-12 | Citizenship education
A.B. 466
Authorizes service by a pupil as a member of a precinct board for an election to be independent study. Exempts that pupil from the requirement that the pupil participate in the activity for 5 or more consecutive schooldays if, among other things, the pupil is ...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2007 | P-12 | Citizenship
A.B. 183
Requires each school district with at least one high school to report the voter registration efforts described in provisions of existing law and to publish those efforts prominently and annually on the Internet Web sites of its high schools and in parent newsl...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Civic Education Advancement
H.B. 2787
Provides that funding for civic education professional development for high school teachers must be provided by line item appropriation made to the state board of education. Provides for funding based on high school enrollment as reported on the state board of...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Student Voting
S.B. 951
Directs community colleges and state institutions of higher education to adopt plans to encourage students to register to vote and to vote in elections; requires that students receive information about activities related to voting that are prohibited by law an...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Task Force on Civics and Financial Education
H.B. 2584
Creates a Task Force on Civics and Financial Education to study and make recommendations about how to increase and improve civics and financial education in kindergarten through grade 12 public schools.
http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/hb2500.dir/hb258...
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| CT | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Democracy Education in Elementary Schools
H.B. 7017
Concerns democracy education in elementary schools; requires students in the fourth or fifth grade to take part in a program of participatory democracy.
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2007/ACT/Pa/pdf/2007PA-00138-R00HB-07017-PA.pdf...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Legislative Youth Advisory Council
S.B. 46
Establishes the Legislative Youth Advisory Council as an initiative under the administration of the state commission on civic education. Provides that the purpose of the council is to examine and facilitate communication between youth and the legislature on is...
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Excused Absences for Pages
H.B. 1464
Directs the board of education to adopt rules providing for excused absences from school for legislative and governor's pages.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H1464v0.html...
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Bullying Prevention and Character Education
S.B. 68 (Section 4)
Defines "bullying." Directs each local board, by January 2008, to adopt a policy prohibiting bullying on school property, in a school vehicle or at a school-
sponsored activity or event. Also directs each local board to adopt a plan to address bullying; requir...
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Nevada Youth Legislative Issues Forum
S.B. 247
Create the Nevada Youth Legislative Issues Forum, consisting of 21 members who are enrolled in grades 9-12. Sets forth the powers and duties of the Forum. The Forum must hold at least two public hearings each school year, review issues of importance to the you...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Character Education, Charter Schools
H.B. 2204
Concerns the Character Education Office; makes an appropriation; relates to public and charter schools. Changes administration of the program from the Northern Arizona University to the Department of Education and stipulates procedure for disbursement of the g...
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Display of Flags in Education and Other Institutions
H.B. 1050
Concerns the display of flags. Allows display of flags from countries other than the U.S. or the state of Colorado under particular circumstances, including for educational, cultural or historical purposes with the prior permission of the chief administrative ...
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Students as Precinct Election Board Members
H.F. 618
Allows a county commissioner of elections to appoint high school students in good standing to serve as precinct election board members. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=82&hbill=HF618...
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Commission on Civic Literacy
S.B. 492
Establishes a Commission on Civic Literacy; requires the Commission to elect specified officers from among its members; requires the State Department of Education to provide staff and specified other support to the Commission; prohibits a member of the Commiss...
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| NH | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Civics and Economics Assessments
H.B. 167
Adds civics and economics to the required areas of assessment in the statewide improvement and assessment program. Specifies that the assessment will be conducted in grades 3rd-8th and one grade in high school.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2007/...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Legislative Yourth Advisory Council
H.B. 1052
Adds a new section acknowledging the importance of the legislative youth advisory council. Amends prior legislative appointment process to allow students to apply to be considered for participation in the program by completing an online application form and su...
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Geography, Government Education
S.B. 1172
Amends several pieces of required instruction; changes from United States history, geography, and government to 1) geography; 2) government; and 3) North Dakota studies, with an emphasis on the geography, history, and agriculture of this state, in the fourth a...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Veterans Day Commemoration
H.B. 2601
Requires the Board of Education to make available to local school divisions information regarding the commemoration of Veterans Day in public schools. hhttp://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2601ER...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Commemoration of George Washington's Birthday
H.B. 2837
Requires the Department of Education to make information available to local school divisions regarding the commemoration of George Washington's birthday in the public schools. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2837ER...
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| WV | Adopted 03/2007 | P-12 | Dec. 7, 1941 Day of Remembrance
S.C.R. 51
Requests the Governor issue a proclamation on December 7th of each year declaring a State Day of Remembrance honoring all West Virginia patriots of World War II and encouraging all political subdivisions and state school districts to pay proper tribute in its ...
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| IL | Signed into law 11/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Election Judges and Election Day
S.B. 662
Amends the Election Code. Allows high school juniors to serve as election judges. Allows an individual not entitled to vote in a precinct or county to serve as an election judge if the individual is a student at a community college or public or private Illinoi...
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| LA | Adopted 11/2007 | P-12 | Business Manager and Constitution Day
LAC 28:CXV.503, 2305
Amends sections of Bulletin 741 - Handbook for School Administrators.
503: Adds business manager to the list of certified personnel a district is required to hire. This addition was required by a new state statute.
2305: Requires schools to have an educatio...
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| MA | To governor 11/2007 | P-12 | Commonwealth Corps
S.B. 2301
Establishes the Commonwealth Corps; provides for volunteer community service; creates a pilot program for the Commonwealth Student Corps.
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/185/st02/st02301.htm...
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2007 | P-12 | Citizenship education
A.B. 466
Authorizes service by a pupil as a member of a precinct board for an election to be independent study. Exempts that pupil from the requirement that the pupil participate in the activity for 5 or more consecutive schooldays if, among other things, the pupil is ...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2007 | P-12 | Citizenship
A.B. 183
Requires each school district with at least one high school to report the voter registration efforts described in provisions of existing law and to publish those efforts prominently and annually on the Internet Web sites of its high schools and in parent newsl...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Civic Education Advancement
H.B. 2787
Provides that funding for civic education professional development for high school teachers must be provided by line item appropriation made to the state board of education. Provides for funding based on high school enrollment as reported on the state board of...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Student Voting
S.B. 951
Directs community colleges and state institutions of higher education to adopt plans to encourage students to register to vote and to vote in elections; requires that students receive information about activities related to voting that are prohibited by law an...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Task Force on Civics and Financial Education
H.B. 2584
Creates a Task Force on Civics and Financial Education to study and make recommendations about how to increase and improve civics and financial education in kindergarten through grade 12 public schools.
http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/hb2500.dir/hb258...
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| CT | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Democracy Education in Elementary Schools
H.B. 7017
Concerns democracy education in elementary schools; requires students in the fourth or fifth grade to take part in a program of participatory democracy.
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2007/ACT/Pa/pdf/2007PA-00138-R00HB-07017-PA.pdf...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Legislative Youth Advisory Council
S.B. 46
Establishes the Legislative Youth Advisory Council as an initiative under the administration of the state commission on civic education. Provides that the purpose of the council is to examine and facilitate communication between youth and the legislature on is...
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Excused Absences for Pages
H.B. 1464
Directs the board of education to adopt rules providing for excused absences from school for legislative and governor's pages.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H1464v0.html...
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Bullying Prevention and Character Education
S.B. 68 (Section 4)
Defines "bullying." Directs each local board, by January 2008, to adopt a policy prohibiting bullying on school property, in a school vehicle or at a school-
sponsored activity or event. Also directs each local board to adopt a plan to address bullying; requir...
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Nevada Youth Legislative Issues Forum
S.B. 247
Create the Nevada Youth Legislative Issues Forum, consisting of 21 members who are enrolled in grades 9-12. Sets forth the powers and duties of the Forum. The Forum must hold at least two public hearings each school year, review issues of importance to the you...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Character Education, Charter Schools
H.B. 2204
Concerns the Character Education Office; makes an appropriation; relates to public and charter schools. Changes administration of the program from the Northern Arizona University to the Department of Education and stipulates procedure for disbursement of the g...
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Display of Flags in Education and Other Institutions
H.B. 1050
Concerns the display of flags. Allows display of flags from countries other than the U.S. or the state of Colorado under particular circumstances, including for educational, cultural or historical purposes with the prior permission of the chief administrative ...
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Students as Precinct Election Board Members
H.F. 618
Allows a county commissioner of elections to appoint high school students in good standing to serve as precinct election board members. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=82&hbill=HF618...
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Commission on Civic Literacy
S.B. 492
Establishes a Commission on Civic Literacy; requires the Commission to elect specified officers from among its members; requires the State Department of Education to provide staff and specified other support to the Commission; prohibits a member of the Commiss...
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| NH | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Civics and Economics Assessments
H.B. 167
Adds civics and economics to the required areas of assessment in the statewide improvement and assessment program. Specifies that the assessment will be conducted in grades 3rd-8th and one grade in high school.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2007/...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Legislative Yourth Advisory Council
H.B. 1052
Adds a new section acknowledging the importance of the legislative youth advisory council. Amends prior legislative appointment process to allow students to apply to be considered for participation in the program by completing an online application form and su...
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Geography, Government Education
S.B. 1172
Amends several pieces of required instruction; changes from United States history, geography, and government to 1) geography; 2) government; and 3) North Dakota studies, with an emphasis on the geography, history, and agriculture of this state, in the fourth a...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Veterans Day Commemoration
H.B. 2601
Requires the Board of Education to make available to local school divisions information regarding the commemoration of Veterans Day in public schools. hhttp://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2601ER...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Commemoration of George Washington's Birthday
H.B. 2837
Requires the Department of Education to make information available to local school divisions regarding the commemoration of George Washington's birthday in the public schools. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2837ER...
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| WV | Adopted 03/2007 | P-12 | Dec. 7, 1941 Day of Remembrance
S.C.R. 51
Requests the Governor issue a proclamation on December 7th of each year declaring a State Day of Remembrance honoring all West Virginia patriots of World War II and encouraging all political subdivisions and state school districts to pay proper tribute in its ...
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| NY | Emergency Rule Extension 11/2007 | P-12 | Contracts for Excellence
Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12
Readopts, by emergency action effective November 25, 2007, the emergency rule adopted at the September 10, 2007 Regents meeting that added a new section 100.13 and amended 170.12 of the Commissioner's Regulations.
http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2007...
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| GA | Adopted 08/2007 | P-12 | Class Size in Grades 9-12
GAC 160-5-1-.08, -.10
Establishes class size maximums for core courses in grades 9-12. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-5-1-.08.pdf...
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Reaching One's Potential for Excellence (ROPE) Scholars Pilot Program.
S.B. 1030
The purpose of the ROPE Scholars Pilot Program is to strengthen middle grades education in order to provide students with the opportunity to graduate from high school with the core academic skills needed for postsecondary education and high-skilled employment,...
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| NY | Adopted 07/2007 | P-12 | Contracts for Excellence
Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12
Establishes allowable programs and activities, criteria for public reporting by school districts of their total foundation aid expenditures, and other requirements for purposes of preparation of contracts for excellence by certain specified school districts. P...
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| WV | Adopted 07/2007 | P-12 | Quality Early Education System
Policy 2525
The most recent updates to Policy 2525: West Virginia's Universal Access to a Quality Early Education System support quality in the classroom and consistency among the programs across the state. They also strengthen personnel standards and continue to support ...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Multiples and Maximum Class Sizes
S.B. 123
Requires twins or other multiples to be placed in the same classroom if the parent requests. Also allows districts to establish maximum class sizes in grades 9-12 for mathematics, science, social studies, and language arts. Provides such maximum class sizes ma...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | School Reporting Amendments
H.B. 215
Specifies how average class size shall be calculated for the purpose of reporting class size by grade and subject on annual school performance reports; specifies that a pupil-teacher ratio shall be calculated by dividing the total number of students in a grade...
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| GA | Adopted 12/2007 | P-12 | Teacher Certification
GAC 505-2-.10, -.26, -.96, -.150, -.166, -.167, -.202,-.300, -.350, -.351, -.352, -.353, - .354, -.355; 505-3-.62, -.63
505-2-.10: Adds provisions and clarification for National Guard personnel to apply for JROTC instructor positions, which is now authorized by the Department of Defense. http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/docs/505/2/10.pdf
505-2-.26: Makes available an optional Comp...
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| MI | Enacted 11/2007 | P-12 | High School Reform
S.B. 403
Revises high school personal curriculum requirements for transfer pupils; relates to advanced placement, diplomas and merit standards requirements; includes nonpublic schools and out-of-state transfers; provides for the presence of counselors and a school psyc...
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| IA | Adopted 10/2007 | P-12 | School Nurse, School Guidance Counselor
IAC 281-12.2(256), 12.3(11), 12.4(12)
Requires that each school district have a school nurse and a qualified (i.e., licensed by the Board of Education Examiners) guidance counselor. Requires a definition of and standards for an articulated sequential kindergarten through grade 12 school counseling...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | P-16
A.B. 428
Requires each school district offering any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, prior to class registration, for each school in the district, to provide parents or guardians with written notification relating to the courses offered by the school satisfying the requir...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | P-16
S.B. 405
Expands the Fair Competition for College and Career Opportunity Program to include provisions for individualized review of the career goals of the pupil and academic and career-related opportunities available to the pupil and for explanation of the coursework ...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | School Psychology Internship Consortium
H.B. 1363
Provides that, subject to appropriations, the state board of education must provide grants to the School Psychology Internship Consortium for aid in providing training programs and facilitating interns to improve the educational and mental health services of c...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Definition of Professional Worker
S.B. 122
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Adds school counselor and school counselor intern to the list of professions included in the definition of a professional worker. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB0122lv.pdf...
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| LA | Adopted 08/2007 | P-12 | School Counselor Certification
LAC 28:CXXXI.659
Revises the requirements for add-on certification as a school counselor. Allows three years of successful experience as a school counselor to substitute for the required three-semester-hour supervised practicum in a school setting. The change will allow more c...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Access to Student Assistance Programs in Reach of Everyone (ASPIRE)
H.B. 2729
Authorizes the Oregon Student Assistance Commission to establish Access to Student Assistance Programs in Reach of Everyone (ASPIRE) to provide information about financial aid and education and training options beyond high school to students in Oregon secondar...
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | High School Completion for At Risk Students
H.B. 1296
Implements the recommendations of the Governor's Task Force to Engage State's Youth; ensures that students experiencing education disruption will have the same opportunities to earn an approved high school diploma; relates to disruptions of homelessness, unpla...
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| TX | Vetoed 06/2007 | Postsec. | Assessing Student Academic Advising Services
S.B. 1053
Requires the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, institutions of higher education, and relevant professionals to develop an instrument to assess student academic advising services.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/SB01053F.pdf...
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | High School Reform
A.B. 212
Provides for high school reform. Requires the board of trustees of each school district to adopt a policy for each public school of the school district in which ninth grade pupils are enrolled, to develop a 4-year academic plan for each of those pupils. Requir...
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Guidance and Counseling Programs
S.F. 277 (Section 4)
Beginning July 1, 2007, requires every school district to have a qualified guidance counselor licensed by the board of educational examiners and a school nurse. Directs each district to work toward the goal of having one qualified guidance counselor for every ...
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Waivers from Certain Staffing Requirements
S.F. 277 (Section 5 and 8)
Section 5: Strikes and rewrites section 256.11A. Authorizes the board of directors of a school district to file a request by August 1, 2007 for a waiver from the following requirements for the 2007-2008 school year:
a. Apply for a one-year extension of a waiv...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Counselor Licensure Eligibility
H.B. 1090
Allows counselors to apply for level three-b administrative licenses.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/HB1090.pdf...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | School Counselors
H.B. 1670
Declares that a school counselor is a professional educator who holds a valid school counselor certification as defined by the professional educator standards board. The purpose and role of the school counselor is to plan, organize, and deliver a comprehensive...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | high school counseling
H.B. 2245
Provides state high school students with comprehensive information concerning college scholarships and state-funded programs for developing technical job skills.
(Act No. 474)
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2007/public/HB2245.pdf...
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Teen Early Intervention Mental Health and Substance Abuse Specialist Program
S.B. 1147
Defines "teens at risk" as public school students in grades 7-12 who have been identified as expressing or exhibiting indications of depression, suicidal inclination, emotional trauma, substance abuse or other behaviors or symptoms that indicate the existenc...
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Hathaway Scholarship Program Revisions
H.B. 97
Revises the Hathaway scholarship program by increasing curriculum requirements necessary to qualify for scholarships; establishes specific curriculum requirements for various scholarship levels for students graduating in the 2007-2008 school year, 2009-2010 sc...
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| UT | Adopted 11/2007 | P-12 | Instructional Materials Commission Operating Procedures
R277-469
2007 H.B. 364 prohibits a school district from purchasing certain instructional materials unless the materials have been evaluated by an independent party for
alignment with the state core curriculum. Adopted rule requires that the mandated alignment evaluatio...
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2007 | P-12 | Curriculum
A.B. 150
Establishes the Financial Literacy Initiative for improving financial literacy by offering instructional materials for teachers and schools to provide high-quality financial literacy education for pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Authorize...
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| OK | Adopted 10/2007 | P-12 | Personal Financial Literacy Education
OAC 210:35-9-31
Amends rules to require public schools to provide personal financial literacy education in grades 7-12. Outlines 14 areas of instruction that the student must demonstrate satisfactory completion in order to obtain a Passport to Financial Literacy, which will b...
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| OR | Adopted 09/2007 | P-12 | Health and Physical Education
OAR 581-022-1210
Adds health and physical education to list of curriculum defined by state content standards. ...
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| OK | Adopted 08/2007 | P-12 | Physical Education
OAC 210:25-5-31
Amends rules to require that public elementary schools provide instruction in physical education for full-day kindergarten through grade 5 students for an average of sixty (60) minutes each week. ...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Task Force on Civics and Financial Education
H.B. 2584
Creates a Task Force on Civics and Financial Education to study and make recommendations about how to increase and improve civics and financial education in kindergarten through grade 12 public schools.
http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/hb2500.dir/hb258...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Physical Education
H.B. 3141
Requires the state department to collect data on: (1) The number of minutes of physical education that are provided to K-8 students each school week in each public school within the district; (2) The physical capacity of public schools to provide K-5 students ...
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Instruction in Lawful Abandonment of Newborn Baby
H.B. 485
Requires local boards of education to ensure that students in grades nine through twelve receive annual health instruction including information about the manner in which a parent may lawfully abandon a newborn baby with a responsible person.
http://www.ncga.s...
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | American Sign Language
H.B. 915
Encourages the public schools, the community college system and the University of North Carolina to offer American Sign Language for credit as a modern foreign language.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H915v0.html...
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Physical Education
H.B. 1601
Prohibits counting recess towards the physical education requirements; directs the state board to encourage school districts to provide physical activity options to students; requires school districts to provide a physical activity report to parents and guardi...
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Passport to Financial Literacy Act
H.B. 1476
Requires personal financial literacy education to be taught in public schools in the state; lists areas of instruction; directs school districts to provide personal financial literacy instruction; provides for integration of instruction into existing courses; ...
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| WV | Adopted 06/2007 | P-12 | Foreign Language Standards
Title 126, Series 44G
Amends rules regarding foreign language content standards and objectives for West Virginia schools. ...
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Science-based Sex Education
H.B. 1292
Concerns the adoption of science-based content standards for instruction regarding human sexuality. The standards are intended to help reduce the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy, and abortion among teenagers, and for teen pregnancy preven...
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Physical Education Requirement
H.B. 967
Relates to physical education; provides requirements for student participation in physical education; requires review and revision of the Sunshine State Standards for physical education; requires the Department of Education to develop and school districts to p...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | World Languages Pilot Program Grants
H.F. 2245 [World Languages]
Creates a pilot program to award five world languages grants to develop and implement sustainable, high-quality model world languages programs and to enhance existing world languages programs at various grade levels for students in kindergarten through grade 1...
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| ND | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Career and Technical Education, Enrepreneurship Education
H.B. 1019
Increases funding for for the Department of Career & Technical Education by $4.9 million, 29 percent over from the previous biennium. The $4.9 million in this legislation is part of a total $8 million increase in workforce training funds coordinated between K-...
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| TN | Eligible for GOVERNOR'S desk. 05/2007 | P-12 | Teaching Procedures re: "Safe Haven" Law
S.B. 293, H.B. 0234
This bill requires that the course of instruction in all public schools in grades 9 through 12 include instruction regarding the procedure for voluntarily surrendering an infant in Tennessee. This bill requires the state board of education to develop guideline...
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 |
H.B. 1944
Removes the provision in the junior and senior high school curriculum that permits a course on personal finance to satisfy the instruction requirement on the free enterprise system. Present law requires the state board of education to establish a program of in...
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| TX | Became law without governor's signature 05/2007 | P-12 | Parenting and Paternity Awareness Curriculum
H.B. 2176
To address an increase in births to unmarried parents in Texas from 1995 to 2002, the office of the Attorney General created the Parenting and Paternity Awareness (P.A.P.A.) program. The program involves engaging students in discussions regarding marriage, co...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Character and citizenship
S.B. 274 (Curriculum)
Section 52 repeals code concerning requirements for social studies, civics education, character and citizenship. (Act No. 1573)
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2007/public/SB274.pdf...
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Display of Flags in Education and Other Institutions
H.B. 1050
Concerns the display of flags. Allows display of flags from countries other than the U.S. or the state of Colorado under particular circumstances, including for educational, cultural or historical purposes with the prior permission of the chief administrative ...
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| IN | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Holocaust Education
H.B. 1059
Directs each district to include a study of the Holocaust in each high school U.S. history course. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/PDF/HE/HE1059.1.pdf...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Physical Education in Grades K-6
H.B. 208/S.B. 156
Provides for physical education in grades kindergarten through six in elementary schools. Adds physical education program units and charter school student activities program units into the program cost calculation and makes an appropriation. (Slight variation ...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Uniform Curricula Aligned to State Standards
H.B. 911
Directs each school district to align its curricula to meet the state standards for each grade level and subject area so that students who transfer between public schools
within the school district receive the same educational opportunity within the same grade...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Financial Literacy Skills and Knowledge
H.B. 1980
Provides that, to the extent funds are appropriated or are available for this purpose, the superintendent of public instruction and other members of the partnership created in RCW 28A.300.455 shall make available to school districts the list of identified fina...
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Geography, Government Education
S.B. 1172
Amends several pieces of required instruction; changes from United States history, geography, and government to 1) geography; 2) government; and 3) North Dakota studies, with an emphasis on the geography, history, and agriculture of this state, in the fourth a...
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | North Dakota Studies
H.B. 1172
From the fiscal note: This bill as amended requires that North Dakota Studies be taught in grades 4 and 8. It also requires that North Dakota's high schools must offer a semester course in North Dakota studies at least once every two years. Most schools will n...
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Concept-Based Fitness Class
S.B. 2354
Amends graduation requirement of one-half unit of physical education during each school year to include the following: Once every
four years the unit must be a concept-based fitness class that includes instruction in the assessment, improvement, and maintenanc...
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Dating Violence & Abusive Relationship Instruction
H.B. 1916
Requires the state Board of Education to incorporate instruction on dating violence and the characteristics of abusive relationships into its curriculum guidelines for family life education. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB1916ER...
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| Curriculum--Arts Education |
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| TN | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | No Tax on School Art Supplies During Annual Sales Tax Holiday
S.B. 616
Includes school art supplies with a sales price of $100 or less per item as items exempt from sales tax during the annual sales tax holiday. The "sales tax holiday" exempts from tax imposed the following items of tangible personal property, if sold between 12:...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Visual and Performing Arts
S.B. 299
Requires the state board of elementary and secondary education to develop, adopt, and provide for the implementation of a visual arts curriculum and a performing arts curriculum in public schools. Directs the board, during the 2007-2008 school year, to develop...
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Support of VSA arts of Nevada
A.B. 76
Provides for a portion of the money in the Account for License Plates for the Support of the Education of Children in the Arts to be distributed to VSA arts of Nevada
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/74th/Bills/AB/AB76_EN.pdf...
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| ME | Signed into law 03/2007 | Postsec. | Doctoral Degree in Visual Arts
H.B. 361
Authorizes the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts to confer the degree of Doctor of Visual Arts upon students in accordance with the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 10704. On December 13, 2006 the State Board of Education voted unani...
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| Curriculum--Censorship |
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | College Campus Press Act
S.B. 729
Creates the College Campus Press Act. Provides that all campus media produced primarily by students at a state-sponsored institution of higher learning is a public forum for expression by the student journalists and editors at the particular institution, and t...
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| Curriculum--Core Curriculum |
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Independent Evaluation of Textbook Alignment with Core Curriculum
H.B. 364
Prohibits a school district from purchasing certain instructional materials unless the materials have been evaluated by an independent party for alignment with the core curriculum; requires that the alignment evaluation be made available on a web site at no ch...
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| Curriculum--Drivers Education |
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Distracted Driving as a Major Traffic Safety Issue
S.B. 1557
Requires a driver education course to include classroom instruction on distracted driving as a major traffic safety issue. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB1557lv.pdf...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Drivers Education
S.B. 172
Eliminates provision allowing driver education courses to allow, in lieu of 5 clock hours of practice driving in a dual control car, the equivalent of practice driving in a dual control car as determined by the state board.
Eliminates provision allowing distr...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Drivers Education Surcharge/Fee
H.B. 2216
Allows the state Board of Education to authorize a local school board's request to assess a surcharge for driver education programs in order to further recover program costs that exceed state funds distributed through basic aid to school divisions offering suc...
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| Curriculum--Environmental Education |
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Outdoor Education and Recreation Program
H.B. 1677
Declares an intent to establish an outdoor education and recreation program to provide a large number of underserved students with quality opportunities to directly experience the
natural world. It is the intent of the program to improve students' overall acad...
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Wyoming Conservation Corps
S.B. 85
Establishes the Wyoming Conservation Corps at the University of Wyoming to begin in the summer of 2007, and be patterned after similar conservation corps programs in Utah, Montana and Colorado where students have performed service on conservation projects in t...
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| Curriculum--Excusal |
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | Postsec. | Foreign Student Course Exemptions
S.B. 1051
Exempts foreign students enrolled in joint degree programs with Texas universities from the statutorily required 12 semester credit hours of Government/Political Science and Texas and American History, instead requiring such students to take a four-hour Americ...
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| Curriculum--Family Living Education |
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| TN | Eligible for GOVERNOR'S desk. 05/2007 | P-12 | Teaching Procedures re: "Safe Haven" Law
S.B. 293, H.B. 0234
This bill requires that the course of instruction in all public schools in grades 9 through 12 include instruction regarding the procedure for voluntarily surrendering an infant in Tennessee. This bill requires the state board of education to develop guideline...
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| TX | Became law without governor's signature 05/2007 | P-12 | Parenting and Paternity Awareness Curriculum
H.B. 2176
To address an increase in births to unmarried parents in Texas from 1995 to 2002, the office of the Attorney General created the Parenting and Paternity Awareness (P.A.P.A.) program. The program involves engaging students in discussions regarding marriage, co...
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Human Growth and Development Curriculum
H.F. 611
Defines "age-appropriate" and "research-based." Directs the department of education to develop age-appropriate and research-based materials for districts about the dangers of sexual exploitation by means of the Internet, including specific strategies to help s...
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Dating Violence & Abusive Relationship Instruction
H.B. 1916
Requires the state Board of Education to incorporate instruction on dating violence and the characteristics of abusive relationships into its curriculum guidelines for family life education. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB1916ER...
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| Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
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| OK | Adopted 10/2007 | P-12 | Personal Financial Literacy Education
OAC 210:35-9-31
Amends rules to require public schools to provide personal financial literacy education in grades 7-12. Outlines 14 areas of instruction that the student must demonstrate satisfactory completion in order to obtain a Passport to Financial Literacy, which will b...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Task Force on Civics and Financial Education
H.B. 2584
Creates a Task Force on Civics and Financial Education to study and make recommendations about how to increase and improve civics and financial education in kindergarten through grade 12 public schools.
http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/hb2500.dir/hb258...
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| RI | Passed 07/2007 | P-12 | Personal Financial Education Pilot
H.B. 6235
Creates a special legislative commission whose purpose it would be to study the status and future of youth personal financial education in the state's middle and high schools....
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Passport to Financial Literacy Act
H.B. 1476
Requires personal financial literacy education to be taught in public schools in the state; lists areas of instruction; directs school districts to provide personal financial literacy instruction; provides for integration of instruction into existing courses; ...
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| ND | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Career and Technical Education, Enrepreneurship Education
H.B. 1019
Increases funding for for the Department of Career & Technical Education by $4.9 million, 29 percent over from the previous biennium. The $4.9 million in this legislation is part of a total $8 million increase in workforce training funds coordinated between K-...
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 |
H.B. 1944
Removes the provision in the junior and senior high school curriculum that permits a course on personal finance to satisfy the instruction requirement on the free enterprise system. Present law requires the state board of education to establish a program of in...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Financial Literacy as an Elective
H.B. 1205
Requires that financial literacy be offered as a high school elective.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/HB1205.pdf...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Financial Literacy Skills and Knowledge
H.B. 1980
Provides that, to the extent funds are appropriated or are available for this purpose, the superintendent of public instruction and other members of the partnership created in RCW 28A.300.455 shall make available to school districts the list of identified fina...
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| ID | Adopted 03/2007 | P-12 | Financial Education
H.C.R. 10
Recognizes the importance of basic financial education and business-oriented educational programs for all citizens. Urges the state board of education to begin:
(1) Exploring ways to include in the public school curricula a financial literacy program that i...
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2007 | Postsec. | Economic Education & Financial Literacy Programs
H.B. 2513
Expands economic education and financial literacy programs at public institutions of higher education to include subjects in savings and investments, predatory lending practices and interest rates, consumer fraud, and identity theft and protection. http://leg1...
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| Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
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| CA | To governor 09/2007 | P-12 | Foreign Language
A.B. 280
Establishes the State Seal of Biliteracy to recognize high school graduates who have mastered languages in addition to English. Requires the seal be awarded by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Requires the State Department of Education to prepare and ...
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| LA | Adopted 08/2007 | P-12 | Duration of Foreign Language Specialist Certificate PK-8
LAC 28:CXXXI.311
Allows the Foreign Language Specialist Certificate PK-8 to be valid for six years due to changes in the visa requirements. Page 10 of 79: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0708/0708RUL.pdf...
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | American Sign Language
H.B. 915
Encourages the public schools, the community college system and the University of North Carolina to offer American Sign Language for credit as a modern foreign language.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H915v0.html...
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| WV | Adopted 06/2007 | P-12 | Foreign Language Standards
Title 126, Series 44G
Amends rules regarding foreign language content standards and objectives for West Virginia schools. ...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | American Sign Language
S.B. 170
Provides that any student, not just a deaf student, may fulfill the foreign language requirements for a college preparatory curriculum seal of endorsement on a high school diploma by demonstrating proficiency in American Sign Language.
http://www.legis.state.g...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | World Languages Pilot Program Grants
H.F. 2245 [World Languages]
Creates a pilot program to award five world languages grants to develop and implement sustainable, high-quality model world languages programs and to enhance existing world languages programs at various grade levels for students in kindergarten through grade 1...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Bilingual/Multilingual Certificates
H.F. 2245 [Multilingual/Bilingual]
Directs the Department of Education to develop and recommend to the legislature by February 15, 2008, the standards and process for awarding bilingual and multilingual certificates to those kindergarten through grade students who demonstrate and maintain a req...
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Official State Language
S.B. 1172
Amends existing law to declare English to be the official state language. Provides that English is the sole language of government, subject to exceptions. Provides that specified actions must be in English, subject to exceptions.
Requires all state funds appr...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Critical Languages Program
S.B. 80
Establishes the Critical Languages Program, which includes languages described in the federal National Security Language Initiative, including Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Farsi, Hindi, and Korean; requires the State Board of Education, in consultation with the U...
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Foreign Language Teacher Loan Repayment Program
H.B. 182
Amends the teacher shortage loan repayment program to include students pursuing degrees to become foreign language teachers; transfers administrative authority for the program from the Wyoming Higher Education Assistance Authority to the Wyoming Community Coll...
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| Curriculum--Geography Education |
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Geography, Government Education
S.B. 1172
Amends several pieces of required instruction; changes from United States history, geography, and government to 1) geography; 2) government; and 3) North Dakota studies, with an emphasis on the geography, history, and agriculture of this state, in the fourth a...
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| Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education |
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Health and Physical Education Coordinator
S.B. 362
Directs the state department of education to hire a health and physical education coordinator not later than the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year to develop, implement, monitor compliance with, and provide technical assistance as needed on health and phy...
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Human Growth and Development Curriculum
H.F. 611
Defines "age-appropriate" and "research-based." Directs the department of education to develop age-appropriate and research-based materials for districts about the dangers of sexual exploitation by means of the Internet, including specific strategies to help s...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Parental Notification/Consent Clinical Health Care Class
H.B. 371
Requires specific parental notification and consent before public education students who are minors may participate in the clinical experience segment of health care occupation programs at a high school or other institution to which the student has been referr...
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| Curriculum--Language Arts |
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2007 | P-12 | language arts assessment
A.B. 252
Authorizes the Department of Education to make a primary language assessment available to public schools for assessing pupils enrolled in dual language immersion programs that include the primary language of the assessments at their own expense. Requires distr...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Library Services to Blind and Physically Handicapped
H.F. 2245 [Services to Blind and Physically Handicapped]
Directs the Department of Education to provide specialized services to the blind and physically handicapped through the Minnesota Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped under a cooperative plan with the National Library Services for the Blind and Ph...
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | K-3 Literacy and Numeracy Screening
H.B. 1058
Relates to dyslexia screening and remediation pilot programs. Requires state department of education to select a literacy and numeracy screening instrument to be used by districts for K-3 students. Requires all districts to use selected instrument. Districts m...
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| Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling |
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Writing Assessments
H.B. 1035
Revises the required grade levels for assessment of writing skills by every public school district. Changes from grades 5 and 9 to "at least two grade levels."
http://www.legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2007/bills/HB1035enr.pdf...
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| Curriculum--Mathematics |
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| NY | Adopted 08/2007 | P-12 | Summer Academies and Teacher Professional Development for Middle Grades Math and Science
Title 8 NYCRR Section 100.14 and 100.15
Establishes criteria for the award of grants for the Excelsior Scholars program for grade 7 math and science students. Establishes criteria for the award of grants for summer institutes for mathematics and science teachers in grades 5-8. Effective November 15,...
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Reaching One's Potential for Excellence (ROPE) Scholars Pilot Program.
S.B. 1030
The purpose of the ROPE Scholars Pilot Program is to strengthen middle grades education in order to provide students with the opportunity to graduate from high school with the core academic skills needed for postsecondary education and high-skilled employment,...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | District Budget Reporting, Grant Fund for Licensed Education Personnel
A.B. 1A
Revises provisions governing the inclusion of certain information in the biennial budget request for the state distributive school account for submission to the department of administration based upon the annual budgets submitted by the school districts. Creat...
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Middle School Mathematics Laboratories
S.B. 179
Relates to middle school mathematics laboratories; deletes specific number of schools to be identified by state board for certain program; specifies number of schools selected each year to be determined based on funds available and certain number of computers ...
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | School of Science and Mathematics
S.B. 194
Relates to the School of Science and Mathematics; requires budgeting in certain categories and amounts; requires certain performance measures; provides for duties and compensation of employees; limits salary of the Director; provides budgetary limitations.
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Intensive Math and Science Intervention Pilot
H.B. 2504
Requires the commissioner to establish an intensive mathematics and algebra intervention pilot program for students not performing at grade level in mathematics in grades 4 through 8 on campuses with populations of students identified as at-risk that exceed th...
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | After-school Science and Math Programs
H.B. 1243
Establishes the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ("STEM") after-school education pilot grant program ("grant program") in the office of economic development. Allows a provider that coordinates STEM after-school education programs to apply for ...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Teacher Center Duties
H.F. 2245 [Mathematics and Science Teachers]
Amends duties of teacher centers, requires teacher centers to provide a professional development program to train interested and highly qualified elementary, middle and secondary teachers to assist other teachers in with mathematics and science curriculum, sta...
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Summer Program for Potential Engineering Students
H.B. 2978
Requires the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to design and administer a one-week summer program to take place on campuses that offer engineering degree programs
and establish and administer a degree scholarship program for students who graduate with ...
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Math Coaches Pilot, Other Instructional Assistance
H.B. 2237 (Technical Assistance, Professional Development Provisions)
A portion of this large bill establishes grants of up to $2.5 million per year to provide technical assistance and professional development activities for teachers and administrators. In addition, the bill requires the commissioner, from appropriated funds, to...
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Early Math Education Program
S.B. 1237 (Section 8)
Directs the superintendent of public instruction to develop an early math education program, similar in approach to the K-3 literacy assessment and intervention and K-8 teacher preparation and inservice programs already in place in the state. Provides the prog...
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Excelsior Scholars and Summer Institutes for Grades 5-8 Math and Science Teachers
S.B. 2107 - Part B, Section 39
Adds section 3641-A to the education code. Directs the commissioner to establish an Excelsior Scholars program for grade 7 math and science students. Directs the commissioner to award competitive grants, within the amounts appropriated for this purpose, to pub...
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Science and Mathematics Tuition Reimbursement Program
S.B. 2107 - Part B, Section 36
Creates science and mathematics tuition reimbursement program. Provides that of the amount appropriated for grants to schools for the 2007-2008 school year and thereafter, $5 million must be made available for a science and mathematics tuition reimbursement pr...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | GET Ready for Math and Science Scholarship Program
H.B. 1779
Establishes the GET ready for math and science scholarship program. The purpose of the program is to provide scholarships to students who achieve level four on the mathematics or science portions of the tenth grade Washington assessment of student learning or ...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Math and Science
H.B. 1906
Declares that the activities in this act revise and strengthen the state learning standards that implement the essential academic learning requirements, and improve alignment of school district curriculum to the standards. Directs the state board of education ...
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | K-3 Literacy and Numeracy Screening
H.B. 1058
Relates to dyslexia screening and remediation pilot programs. Requires state department of education to select a literacy and numeracy screening instrument to be used by districts for K-3 students. Requires all districts to use selected instrument. Districts m...
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Mathematics & Science Education Act
H.B. 220/S.B. 552
Creates the Mathematics and Science Bureau within the department of education and a 12 member advisory council to advise the bureau. Defines membership and duties of the advisory council. Creates "mathematics and science proficiency fund," to consist of of app...
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| OH | Signed into law 10/2007 | P-12 | PE Standards
H.B. 119 - Physical Education Standards
Requires the state board to adopt standards for physical education in grades K-12 developed by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education or to adopt its own physical education standards in those grades. Requires the department of education to h...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2007 | P-12 | physical education
S.B. 601
Requires the Department of Education to ensure that data collected through Categorical Program Monitoring indicates the extent to which each school in a school district or county office of education performs specified duties regarding provision of physical edu...
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| OR | Adopted 09/2007 | P-12 | Health and Physical Education
OAR 581-022-1210
Adds health and physical education to list of curriculum defined by state content standards. ...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Waiver/Modification of Physical Education Mandate
H.B. 1839
Provides that a state-board approved waiver from or modification to a physical education mandate may remain in effect for a period not to exceed 2 school years and may be renewed no more than 2 times upon application by the eligible applicant. http://www.ilga....
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| OK | Adopted 08/2007 | P-12 | Physical Education
OAC 210:25-5-31
Amends rules to require that public elementary schools provide instruction in physical education for full-day kindergarten through grade 5 students for an average of sixty (60) minutes each week. ...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Physical Education
H.B. 3141
Requires the state department to collect data on: (1) The number of minutes of physical education that are provided to K-8 students each school week in each public school within the district; (2) The physical capacity of public schools to provide K-5 students ...
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Health and Physical Education Coordinator
S.B. 362
Directs the state department of education to hire a health and physical education coordinator not later than the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year to develop, implement, monitor compliance with, and provide technical assistance as needed on health and phy...
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Physical Education Requirements
H.B. 1011
Requires a minimum of 150 minutes per week for kindergarten to grade 5 and 225 minutes per week for grades 6 to 8 of physical education taught by a teacher certified in physical education. The program content and student assessment must comply with nationally ...
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Physical Education
H.B. 1601
Prohibits counting recess towards the physical education requirements; directs the state board to encourage school districts to provide physical activity options to students; requires school districts to provide a physical activity report to parents and guardi...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Physical Education Requirements and Exemptions
S.B. 530 and 19 TAC Chapter 103, Subchapter AA, §103.1001
From bill analysis: Provides that a school district shall require a student enrolled in kindergarten or a grade level below grade six to participate in moderate or vigorous daily physical activity for at least 30 minutes throughout the school year as part of t...
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Physical Education Requirement
H.B. 967
Relates to physical education; provides requirements for student participation in physical education; requires review and revision of the Sunshine State Standards for physical education; requires the Department of Education to develop and school districts to p...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Physical Education in Grades K-6
H.B. 208/S.B. 156
Provides for physical education in grades kindergarten through six in elementary schools. Adds physical education program units and charter school student activities program units into the program cost calculation and makes an appropriation. (Slight variation ...
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Concept-Based Fitness Class
S.B. 2354
Amends graduation requirement of one-half unit of physical education during each school year to include the following: Once every
four years the unit must be a concept-based fitness class that includes instruction in the assessment, improvement, and maintenanc...
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| IL | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Special Education Students and Physical Education
S.B. 2762
Provides that an individualized education program team may determine that a pupil must utilize time set aside for physical education to receive special education support and services. Requires the agreement by the parent or guardian or the determination by the...
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2007 | P-12 | Outdoor Science
S.B. 95
Establishes eligibility criteria for a residential outdoor science program. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to apportion to each school district or county office of education that operates a residential program, an amount per eligible partici...
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| NY | Adopted 08/2007 | P-12 | Summer Academies and Teacher Professional Development for Middle Grades Math and Science
Title 8 NYCRR Section 100.14 and 100.15
Establishes criteria for the award of grants for the Excelsior Scholars program for grade 7 math and science students. Establishes criteria for the award of grants for summer institutes for mathematics and science teachers in grades 5-8. Effective November 15,...
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Reaching One's Potential for Excellence (ROPE) Scholars Pilot Program.
S.B. 1030
The purpose of the ROPE Scholars Pilot Program is to strengthen middle grades education in order to provide students with the opportunity to graduate from high school with the core academic skills needed for postsecondary education and high-skilled employment,...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | District Budget Reporting, Grant Fund for Licensed Education Personnel
A.B. 1A
Revises provisions governing the inclusion of certain information in the biennial budget request for the state distributive school account for submission to the department of administration based upon the annual budgets submitted by the school districts. Creat...
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | School of Science and Mathematics
S.B. 194
Relates to the School of Science and Mathematics; requires budgeting in certain categories and amounts; requires certain performance measures; provides for duties and compensation of employees; limits salary of the Director; provides budgetary limitations.
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Nature Science Curriuclum
H.B. 1700
H.B. 1700 implements nature science curriculum on a statewide level. The Texas Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Center of Texas Tech University, and South Llano River State Park will develop the curriculum jointly. The bill requires that the curricul...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Intensive Math and Science Intervention Pilot
H.B. 2504
Requires the commissioner to establish an intensive mathematics and algebra intervention pilot program for students not performing at grade level in mathematics in grades 4 through 8 on campuses with populations of students identified as at-risk that exceed th...
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | After-school Science and Math Programs
H.B. 1243
Establishes the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ("STEM") after-school education pilot grant program ("grant program") in the office of economic development. Allows a provider that coordinates STEM after-school education programs to apply for ...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Teacher Center Duties
H.F. 2245 [Mathematics and Science Teachers]
Amends duties of teacher centers, requires teacher centers to provide a professional development program to train interested and highly qualified elementary, middle and secondary teachers to assist other teachers in with mathematics and science curriculum, sta...
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Science Lab Grant Program
H.B. 2237 (Science Lab Provisions)
One section of this bill creates a science laboratory grant program. Requires the commissioner to establish a competitive grant program to provide funds to school districts for the purpose of constructing or renovating high school science laboratories. The am...
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Excelsior Scholars and Summer Institutes for Grades 5-8 Math and Science Teachers
S.B. 2107 - Part B, Section 39
Adds section 3641-A to the education code. Directs the commissioner to establish an Excelsior Scholars program for grade 7 math and science students. Directs the commissioner to award competitive grants, within the amounts appropriated for this purpose, to pub...
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Science and Mathematics Tuition Reimbursement Program
S.B. 2107 - Part B, Section 36
Creates science and mathematics tuition reimbursement program. Provides that of the amount appropriated for grants to schools for the 2007-2008 school year and thereafter, $5 million must be made available for a science and mathematics tuition reimbursement pr...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | GET Ready for Math and Science Scholarship Program
H.B. 1779
Establishes the GET ready for math and science scholarship program. The purpose of the program is to provide scholarships to students who achieve level four on the mathematics or science portions of the tenth grade Washington assessment of student learning or ...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Outdoor Education and Recreation Program
H.B. 1677
Declares an intent to establish an outdoor education and recreation program to provide a large number of underserved students with quality opportunities to directly experience the
natural world. It is the intent of the program to improve students' overall acad...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Math and Science
H.B. 1906
Declares that the activities in this act revise and strengthen the state learning standards that implement the essential academic learning requirements, and improve alignment of school district curriculum to the standards. Directs the state board of education ...
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Mathematics & Science Education Act
H.B. 220/S.B. 552
Creates the Mathematics and Science Bureau within the department of education and a 12 member advisory council to advise the bureau. Defines membership and duties of the advisory council. Creates "mathematics and science proficiency fund," to consist of of app...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Governor's Science & Technology Education Program
S.B. 217
Expands the informal science and technology education program within the Governor's Office of Economic Development to include the direct sponsorship of science fairs and science olympiads, and the participation of teachers in the science and technology camp pr...
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| VA | Passed 03/2007 | Postsec. | Science/Technology Education in Graduate Programs
H.J. 611
This joint resolution of the legislature establishes a joint subcommittee to study science and technology education in business, law, and policy graduate programs in state institutions of higher education. http://198.246.135.1/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HJ611...
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2007 | P-12 | Sex education
A.B. 629
Enacts the Sexual Health Education Accountability Act. Requires any program conducted by an outside agency at a publicly funded school, that provides education to prevent adolescent or unintended pregnancy or to prevent sexually transmitted infections and that...
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| LA | Enrolled 06/2007 | P-12 | Evaluation of the Louisiana Governor's Program on Abstinence
H.C.R. 200
Requests the department of health and hospitals to provide for an evaluation of the Louisiana Governor's Program on Abstinence by an external, independent entity. Provides that the evaluation must include information on curriculum content, the extent of partic...
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Instruction in Lawful Abandonment of Newborn Baby
H.B. 485
Requires local boards of education to ensure that students in grades nine through twelve receive annual health instruction including information about the manner in which a parent may lawfully abandon a newborn baby with a responsible person.
http://www.ncga.s...
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Science-based Sex Education
H.B. 1292
Concerns the adoption of science-based content standards for instruction regarding human sexuality. The standards are intended to help reduce the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy, and abortion among teenagers, and for teen pregnancy preven...
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| TN | Eligible for GOVERNOR'S desk. 05/2007 | P-12 | Teaching Procedures re: "Safe Haven" Law
S.B. 293, H.B. 0234
This bill requires that the course of instruction in all public schools in grades 9 through 12 include instruction regarding the procedure for voluntarily surrendering an infant in Tennessee. This bill requires the state board of education to develop guideline...
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Human Growth and Development Curriculum
H.F. 611
Defines "age-appropriate" and "research-based." Directs the department of education to develop age-appropriate and research-based materials for districts about the dangers of sexual exploitation by means of the Internet, including specific strategies to help s...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Sexual Health Education
S.B. 5297
By September 1, 2008, every public school that offers sexual health education must assure that it is medically and scientifically accurate; age appropriate; appropriate for students regardless of gender, race, disability status, or sexual orientation; and incl...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2007 | P-12 | Social science
A.B. 72
Encourages instruction in social science for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to include instruction on World War II and the role of Filipinos in that war.
http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_0051-0100/ab_72_bill_20070907_enrolled.pdf
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| NY | Vetoed 08/2007 | P-12 | Veterans Speaking about Military Experiences
A.B. 6574
Directs the director of the division of veterans affairs to develop a program providing for veteran educational speakers in classrooms of public and private elementary and secondary schools; requires distribution of informational pamphlet to districts describi...
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| IN | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Holocaust Education
H.B. 1059
Directs each district to include a study of the Holocaust in each high school U.S. history course. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/PDF/HE/HE1059.1.pdf...
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Geography, Government Education
S.B. 1172
Amends several pieces of required instruction; changes from United States history, geography, and government to 1) geography; 2) government; and 3) North Dakota studies, with an emphasis on the geography, history, and agriculture of this state, in the fourth a...
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| Data-Driven Improvement |
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Student Progress Reports
S.B. 2107 - Part A, Section 2
Provides that by July 1, 2008, a student progress report must be prepared for all students. States that the progress report must provide parents with information on their child's performance on state assessments over multiple years of testing, and must also ex...
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| AZ | Vetoed 06/2007 | P-12 | Choice, Desegregation
H.B. 2119
Relates to open enrollment for students in schools ordered to desegregate. ...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Multiracial Diversity
H.F. 2245 [Multiracial Diversity]
Authorizes a school district to apply to the commissioner for a waiver from the requirement to maintain racial balance within a district school if the racial imbalance in that school results from: (1) The enrollment of protected multiracial students and the pr...
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| NE | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Division of a Learning Community into Separate Education Centers
L.B. 641
Pertains to Class V school districts. (Omaha Public Schools is only class V district as of bill passage.) Provides for the division of a learning community into separate education centers and establishes procedures. Replaces the requirement for Class V school ...
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Full-Day Kindergarten Planning Grants and Desegregation Grant
S.B. 2107 - Part B, Section 38
Authorizes the commissioner to award grants to districts that operated half-day kindergarten programs in the 2006-2007 school year, and that will continue to operate such half-day programs in the 2007-2008 school year, to plan for conversion to full-day kinder...
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| IA | Adopted 02/2007 | P-12 | Student Assignments May Not Be Based Solely or Primarily on Race
IAC 281-17.2(282), 17.6(2), 281-17.14(282), 17.14(1) through 17.14(5)
These amendments are in response to the June 28, 2007, decision of the United States Supreme Court that student assignments may not be based solely or primarily on race. Thus, under the amended rules, eligible school districts will still be able to deny open e...
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| ME | Issued 11/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Governor's Council on Competitiveness and the Economy
Executive Order 08 FY 08/09
(Executive Order 08 FY 08/09) Creates the Governor's Council on Competitiveness and the Economy; concerns a public/private partnership for nonpartisan perspectives on issues related to business and economic growth; concerns investments in research, development...
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| WI | Signed into law 10/2007 | Postsec. | Joint Committee on Information Policy and Technology
S.B. 40
Directs the joint committee on information policy and technology to review any University of Wisconsin System, institution or college campus information technology project identified in a report submitted to the
committee by the board of regents to determine w...
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2007 | Postsec. | Workforce development
A.B. 365
Expresses findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to the relationship between postsecondary education and workforce development. Adds to the Donahoe Higher Education Act a provision requiring that the Postsecondary Education Commission convene a ...
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| MO | Signed into law 09/2007 | Community College | Economic Development
H.B. 1A
Relates to economic development and incentive programs; relates to ticket resales, tax increment financing, distressed areas assemblage tax credit, charitable organization tax credit eligibility, beef tax credits, equity investment tax credits, film production...
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| HI | Vetoed 07/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Ingenuity Charter
H.B. 1670
Establishes the Ingenuity Charter to facilitate the development of intellectual property, uphold high labor and environmental standards, support the teaching of innovation and its application for the common good and promote Hawaii's role as a center of innovat...
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| ME | Signed into law 07/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Incentives for Graduates to Work and Live in State
I. 2; LD 948; LR 124
Provides a tax credit to reimburse educational loan payments for any resident who earns an associate or bachelor's degree and lives, works and pays taxes in the State after earning the degree; provides that residents who earn associate degree or bachelor's deg...
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Creates a Research Foundation
H.B. 5455
Establishes a research foundation, as a nonprofit corporation, at the University of Rhode Island to administer the development of scientific research, technology, the commercialization of intellectual property and such other work as necessary to develop, promo...
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| AL | Signed into law 06/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Workforce Training
H.J.R. 153
Creates a task force to study and recommend strategies to assist existing industries in the State; provides that the task force will review programs and strategies that will help retrain workers, coordinate retraining and expansion activities with local chambe...
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | In-state Tuition for Economic Development Incentives
H.B. 1256
Concerns in-state tuition for persons who move to Colorado as the result of an economic development incentive.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2007a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/98ABFF8BFE1278B587257251007B296B?open&file=1256_enr.pdf...
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2007 | Postsec. | Office of Aerospace Development
S.B. 907
Eliminates references to the Office of Space Industry. Creates the Office of Aerospace Development to coordinate space activities and identify and promote opportunities for expanding and diversifying aerospace-related industries in the state, which may include...
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| ME | Died 06/2007 | P-12 | Financial Literacy Training for Teachers
H.B. 1089
Requires the Treasurer of State to organize a seminar in November 2007 for training in teaching financial literacy to students from kindergarten to grade 12, paid for from available funds in the Unclaimed Property Fund. Also directs the Department of Education...
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Alternative Education Programs Committee
H.B. 1224
Establishes the Alternative Education Programs Committee. The committee shall review and make recommendations for the promotion of alternatives in education within existing school systems including how alternative education programs contribute toward helping s...
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Financial Aid for College Students Who Remain in State
L.D. 1856; LR 2619
Provides a tax credit to reimburse educational loan payments for any resident who earns an associate degree or a bachelor's degree and lives, works and pays taxes in the State; provides that residents who earn associate degree or bachelor's degree from an accr...
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | World Competitiveness
H.B. 499
Renames the industrial research center at the University of New Hampshire as the Innovative Research Center. Redefines its purpose to foster cooperative industry and university research partnerships to increase the pace of innovation technology developments th...
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| OH | Issued 06/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Governor's Workforce Policy Advisory Board
Executive Order No. 14
Establishes the Governor's Workforce Policy Advisory Board to advise the Governor with respect to business, workforce, training, education and other issues that influence the development, implementation and continuous improvement of a demand-driven workforce d...
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2007 | Postsec. | Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology
S.B. 196
Relates to the Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology; requires budgeting in certain categories and amounts; requires certain performance measures; provides for duties and compensation of employees; limits salary of the Executive Director; provid...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | Postsec. | Commission on Higher Education and Global Competitiveness
H.C.R. 159
Requests that the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of representatives create a select commission on higher education and global competitiveness to draft a Texas Compact that reflects a long-term vision and step-by-step plan to at...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Employers for Education Excellence Award
S.B. 1433
Requires the State Board of Education (board) to create the Employers for Education Excellence Award, to encourage businesses to implement policies that allow their employees to attend parent-teacher conferences, volunteer at schools, and participate in mentor...
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| VT | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Internship Grant Programs
H.B. 433
Bridges the state's workforce development gap by supporting workforce development and secondary and postsecondary internships with employers by enhancing existing grant programs and establishing new grant and loan programs; provides that the grant programs are...
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | High School to Business Career Enhancement Act
H.B. 1161
Relates to the High School to Business Career Enhancement Act and high school work experience; requires each district school board to adopt policies and procedures for the High School to Business Career Enhancement Program through which student internships sha...
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| MO | Signed into law 05/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Higher Education Finance
S.B. 389 [Postsecondary Finance]
Increases the amount of the Bright Flight scholarships from $2,000 to $3,000 beginning with fiscal year 2011. Beginning with fiscal year 2011, students with test scores between the top five percent and the top three percent qualify for a scholarship of $1,000....
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Student Loans
S.B. 357
Revises provisions relating to student loans administered by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education for students enrolled in certain workforce educational programs. Revises the interest rate and delinquency charge that may be charged to student...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Economic/Workforce Development
H.B. 1562
Improves the college remediation rate and ensures a general suitable, and efficient system of college and workforce readiness for all students; supports voluntary statewide act assessment for all 11th grade students called the Voluntary Universal ACT Assessmen...
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Generation Iowa Commission
H.F. 617
Establishes the generation Iowa commission within the department of economic development for purposes of advising and assisting in the retention and attraction of the young adult population in the state in both urban and rural areas. Provides that the 15-membe...
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Rural Physicians Scholarship Program
H.B. 1465
Establishes the Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholarship Program to identify and recruit university and college students from rural areas of the state for medical or osteopathic school matriculation. Participating students will be provided with financial assis...
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Educational Loans for Physicians
S.B. 553
Expands the repayment of educational loans to include physicians practicing in medically underserved areas or for underserved populations. Increases the amount of educational debt that may be paid by the board of regents. Increases the fee that may be assessed...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | High School Redesign
H.B. 584/S.B. 561
Provides for high school redesign. Directs the department of education to establish a readiness assessment system to measure the readiness of every New Mexico high school student for success in higher education or a career no later than the 2008-2009 school ye...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | University Research Park Act
S.B. 773
Clarifies the scope of the existing University Research Park Act. Expands permitted acvitities to those that may not fit under the strict definition of technology or research, as long as they support university teaching, research or service missions. Also, lan...
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Broaden University Research and Development
H.B. 900
Broadens the scope of university research and economic development. Forges links between New Mexico's educational institutions, business and industrial communities and government through the development of research parks on university property. Engages in othe...
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | High Needs Nursing Programs at Independent Institutions and Empire Innovation Programs
S.B. 2107, Parts E-4, E-5, E-6
Adds new section 6401-A to the education code. Authorizes the commissioner to grant state aid for high needs nursing programs to any independent institution of higher education in the state that meets specified requirements. Provides that in order to qualify f...
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| UT | Signed into law 04/2007 | Postsec. | Commercialization of State College/University Developed Technologies
H.B. 125
Modifies the recognized purposes of the Centers of Excellence Act to include facilitating the transition of research generated technologies from the state's colleges and universities into industry to grow and expand the state's economy; provides that, in addit...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Meeting the Demand for Higher and Differently Skilled Workers
H.B. 1096
Finds that: (1) The economic trends of globalization and technological change are increasing the demand for higher and differently skilled workers than in the past; (2) Increasing Washington's economic competitiveness requires increasing the supply of skilled ...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Education of Students in High Demand Fields
S.B. 5731
Establishes a committee on the education of students in high demand fields. The committee consists of: (1) two members of the House of Representatives; (2) two members of the Senate; (3) one person representing the Higher Education Coordinating Board; (4) one ...
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| WI | Issued 04/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Governor's Business Council
Executive Order No. 193
Relates to the creation of the Governor's Business Council to collaborate on regional and statewide development priorities to support economic and workforce development.
http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/journal_media_detail.asp?locid=19&prid=2615...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2007 | Postsec. | Economic Development
H.B. 2413
Authorizes the Science and Technology Authority to support an alliance of research universities, chancellors and presidents, and representatives of the private business sector for the purposes of creating jobs, increasing research, and encouraging economic dev...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Economic Development and Postsecondary Education Centers
H.B. 468
Relates to economic development; declares an emergency; establishes the criteria for eligible companies that locate a project adjacent to a postsecondary education center to alternatively satisfy wage requirements; requires 90% of employees to receive base hou...
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Secondary School Redesign
S.B. 2345
Directs state board to develop and pilot a program to redesign secondary schools in the state to function not only as curriculum and educational entities but also as workforce development centers. Contingent upon appropriations, the board will pilot a minimum ...
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Social Worker Scholarship
H.B. 475
Establishes a scholarship program to enable family protection workers employed by the department of human services to obtain the college education necessary to become licensed social workers.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2007/html/HB/0400-0499/HB...
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| MT | Signed into law 03/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Workforce Training in High Poverty Areas
H.B. 286
Revises allocation or workforce training and other economic development oppotunity funds to high poverty areas.
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2007/billhtml/HB0286.htm...
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Workforce Investment Council Annual Report Update
S.B. 489
Amends the West Virginia Workforce Investment Act to require the Workforce Investment Council to include in its annual report to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Workforce Investment for Economic Development and the Legislative Oversight Commission on E...
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | West Virginia Works Separate State College Program
S.B. 518
Establishes the West Virginia Works Separate State College Program & Fund to provide funding for works program participants who are enrolled in postsecondary courses leading to a two- or four-year degree; allows program participants to be exempt from the requi...
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| TX | Adopted 12/2007 | P-12 | Education Research Centers
19 TAC Chapter 95
This item adopts new 19 TAC Chapter 95, Commissioner's Rules Concerning Education Research Centers, §95.1001, Operation of Education Research Centers. The adopted new section implements the Texas Education Code (TEC), §1.005, Education Research Centers; Sharin...
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2007 | Postsec. | Innovative Higher Education Research Fund
S.B. 182
Concerns State matching funds for competitive Federally sponsored research projects at Colorado public universities; creates the Higher Education Competitive Research Authority and the Innovative Higher Education Research Fund.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics...
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| IA | Adopted 11/2007 | P-12 | Accreditation Standards Related to Discrimination and Prekindergarten
IAC 281, 12.1(1), 281-12.2(256), 12.3(6), 12.3(13), 12.8(1)
Reflects that education programs are not to discriminate on the basis of the added characteristics of sexual orientation and gender identity. Clarifies that a preschool program must meet accreditation standards on the same basis as any prekindergarten program ...
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| LA | Adopted 08/2007 | P-12 | Complaints Related to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
LAC 28:CXV.349
Establishes procedures for the department of education to handle complaints on issues related to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Pages 5-6 of 79: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0708/0708RUL.pdf...
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | State Board Sponsored Charter Schools
A.B. 334
Creates a school district for charter schools sponsored by the state board for federal law purposes. Revises provisions governing the closure of a charter school. Clarifes certain provisions governing the payments of money to a charter school for the enrollmen...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2007 | Community College
Postsec. | community college
A.B. 668
Enacts the Community College Student Federal and State Financial Aid Opportunity Act. Expresses various findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to the use of the Pell Grant program by students of Community Colleges. Requires the Community College...
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| WV | Signed into law 09/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Higher Education Policy Commission
S.B. 2005B
Relates to higher education generally; authorizes conveyance of property, the Higher Education Policy Commission, election of officers, meetings, salary increases, community colleges and technical college education.
http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/...
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| CA | To governor 08/2007 | P-12 | Appropriation
S.B. 80
Provides funding for education under the State Budget Act for the 2007-2008 fiscal year.
http://www.senate.ca.gov/...
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| MA | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Regional School Budget Process
H.B. 586
Relates to streamlining the regional school budget process, capital outlay expenses and a city or town's apportioned share for expenditures....
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Fiscal Efficiencies
H.B. 749
Implements fiscal efficiencies within the university system and state government as recommended by the University of North Carolina President's Advisory Committee on Efficiency and Effectiveness (PACE).
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTM...
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| NJ | Adopted 07/2007 | P-12 | SCHOOL FACILITIES PROJECTS
NJAC 19:32-1 thru -4
Amends rules establishing a grant program to fund the State share of the final eligible costs of school facilities projects undertaken by school districts whose district aid percentage is less than 55% and which elect not to have the Corporation construct the ...
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Charter school finance
H.B. 2790
Relates to fingerprinting of applicants for a new or renewed teaching certificate in a school district or charter school; relates to calculating equalization assistance for charter schools; establishes the American Competitiveness Project Fund to provide techn...
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Resolution of Disputes
H.B. 1519
Modifies the law pertaining to the resolution of disputes between the state board of education and the board of county commissioners regarding school funding.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H1519v0.html...
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Adequate Education
H.B. 927
Sets forth the substantive educational content of an adequate education, requires the establishment of criteria to identify schools with greater educational challenges for the provision of additional education aid and establishes a joint legislative oversight ...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | District Budget Reporting, Grant Fund for Licensed Education Personnel
A.B. 1A
Revises provisions governing the inclusion of certain information in the biennial budget request for the state distributive school account for submission to the department of administration based upon the annual budgets submitted by the school districts. Creat...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Basic Support Guarantee
A.B. 563
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to recalculate the basic support guarantee for Fiscal Year 2008-09 based upon a salary increase of 4.375 percent rather than 4 percent if the projected revenues from the local school support tax exceed a certai...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Review of School Districts Based on Financial Management Principles
A.B. 244
Revises provisions governing the review of school districts based upon financial management principles. Revises provisions governing the preliminary report of the review and requires the consultant to submit the preliminary report to the superintendent of the ...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Financial Administration
A.B. 615
If a municipality proposes to issue or incur general obligation bonds, the proposal must be submitted to the electors at an election. Provides that such a question may authorize the transfer of any excess revenue generated to the fund for capital projects of t...
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | School Funding Formula Task Force
S.B. 925
Creates to continue until December 31, 2007, the School Funding Formula Task Force. The task force is to review the statutorily created formula for funding the public schools of this state and make recommendations regarding the following: 1. Modernization of...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | School Finance- Guaranteed Yield
H.B. 828
Relates to the guaranteed yield of school district enrichment taxes to fund the maintenance and operations of public schools.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/HB00828F.pdf...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | School Finance Reform Task Force
H.F. 2245 [School Finance]
Establishes the school finance reform task force. Task force goals include: (1) creating a standard and index to ensure that the formula remains adequate over time; (2) simplifying the remaining school formulas; (3) analyzing categorical funding formulas, incl...
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| MT | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Kindergarten Average Number Belonging Funding
S.B. 2A (Kindergarten)
Provides full-time Average Number Belonging funding for school districts that enroll students in full-time kindergarten. Provides start-up funding for districts transitioning from half-day to full-day programs. A kindergarten program must meet the state minimu...
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| NE | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Elections to Exceed Property Tax Limit
L.B. 289
Changes procedure relating to elections to exceed the property tax levy limit. Specifies that the method of voting at the meeting will protect the secrecy of the ballot.
http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Slip/LB289.pdf...
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| NE | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | School Breakfast Funding
L.A. 73
Relates to school breakfast funding. Changes the basis for the state reimbursement of the school breakfast program from the current year to the second preceding year. The current reimbursement amount of $.05 per school breakfast served is retained. Current law...
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| NE | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Educational Service Units and Early Childhood Education Grants
L.B. 603
Relates to educational service units and school funding, incuding distance education. Changes provisions relating to: election of board members for educational service units; distance education, unit boundaries and board membership; and the Early Childhood Edu...
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Investment of Permanent Common School Fund
H.B. 2396
The legislature declares its intent to clarify the law authorizing investment of the Permanent Common School Fund in equities when the investment is in the best interest of the state and the Permanent Common School Fund. The legislative findings and declaratio...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Finance, tuition/fees
H.B. 2079
Relates to the income tax review schedule; deletes certain sections for review; provides for 2012 review of sections regarding charitable organizations, school tuition organizations, public school fees and contributions and donation of school sites. (Chapter N...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2007 | Community College
Postsec. | Community College Finance
H.B. 2193
Concerns provisional community college districts and aid; provides for continuation. (Chapter No. 13)
Removes wording eliminating the districts as of July 1, 2009
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Charter schools, background checks
H.B. 2041
Relates to charter schools, fingerprinting and a civil penalty if a charter school fails to comply with fingerprinting requirements. New provision provides that penalties shall be assessed by reducing the amount of state aid that the charter school would other...
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Elections Regarding School Funding
S.B. 225
Authorizes that in years when the legislature meets in regular session or in a special session that affects school funding, the trustees may order the election on a date other than the regular school election day in order for the electors to consider a proposi...
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| MT | Issued 04/2007 | P-12 | Interim Study of Taxation and School Funding
S.J.R. 31
Requests that the legislative council designate an appropriate interim or statutory committee, or direct sufficient staff resources to: (1) (a) examine future demographics of property taxpayers, school age children, retirees and other factors relating to the v...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Home School Student Activities Program Unit
S.B. 1098
Establishes a home school student activities program unit.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/SB1098.pdf...
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2007 | P-12 | Public School Cash Balance Credits
S.B. 159
Relates to school finance, makes cash balance credits proportional to the size of the excess cash balance.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/SB0159.pdf...
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Allowable Limit on Cash Balances
H.B. 59
Raises the allowable limit on cash balances a school district may keep. Changes the basis for calculating excess cash balances by referring to the "unrestricted, unreserved cash balance and emergency reserve" rather than the "allowable limit".
http://legis.sta...
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| AL | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Finance
S.J.R. 3A
Reallocates to the State Executive Commission on Community Services Grants an appropriation from the Education Trust Fund to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Community Services Grants....
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| AL | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Tornado Damage Repair
H.B. 141
Makes a supplemental appropriation from the Education Trust Fund in the State Treasury to the State Department of Education, for Enterprise High School to cover
repairs to facilities damaged in tornado. (Act 2007-133)
http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas...
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Public School Permanent Endowment Fund
S.B. 1098
Amends existing law to require that property from an estate with no heirs or other claimants be paid to the Public School Permanent Endowment Fund; provides for distribution of funds received as unclaimed dividends and interest paid by Idaho corporations to th...
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Public School Finance
S.B. 541
Relates to public school finances; requires local share to be calculated assuming properties are being assessed at sixty percent of market value; increases the limit on revenue generated by the regular school board levy; amends "growth county" definition and c...
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| WY | Vetoed 03/2007 | P-12 | Federal Mineral Royalties Deposits
H.B. 278
Requires federal mineral royalties above $200 million to be deposited to the common school account within the permanent land fund after the required deposit into another account has been made. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2007/Enroll/HB0278.pdf ...
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Selection of Joint School Fiscal Agent
H.B. 2371
Authorizes the participating school boards of a joint school, including academic year Governor's Schools operated by two or more school divisions, to select the fiscal agent for the joint school from among the treasurers of the participating localities; requir...
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Extended Day & Summer School Programs, Distance Learning/Virtual University & Finance - Alternative Education Updates
H.B. 115
Requires the state superintendent of public instruction to review at-risk program strategies funded under the block grant model, specifically including alternative schools and imposes a moratorium on new alternative schools recognized under the model during th...
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| NE | Signed into law 01/2007 | P-12 | Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act
L.B. 21
Relates to the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act. Changes provisions relating to cost growth factor.
http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Final/LB21.pdf...
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Adequate Education
H.B. 927
Sets forth the substantive educational content of an adequate education, requires the establishment of criteria to identify schools with greater educational challenges for the provision of additional education aid and establishes a joint legislative oversight ...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | School Finance Reform Task Force
H.F. 2245 [School Finance]
Establishes the school finance reform task force. Task force goals include: (1) creating a standard and index to ensure that the formula remains adequate over time; (2) simplifying the remaining school formulas; (3) analyzing categorical funding formulas, incl...
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| Finance--Aid to Private Schools |
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| NY | Adopted 09/2007 | P-12 | Loan of Instructional Computer Hardware
Title 8 NYCRR Sections 21.3 and 100.12
Provides for the loan of instructional computer hardware from public schools to nonpublic schools.
Pages 7-10 of 34: http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2007/sep12/pdfs/Rules.pdf...
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Instructional Computer Hardware and Technology Equipment Apportionment
S.B. 2107 - Part B, Section 7-a and 7-b
Section 7-a: Adds new section 753 to education code, on instructional computer hardware and technology equipment apportionment. Authorizes a district to be eligible for an apportionment for approved expenses for:
(1) The purchase or lease of micro and/or mini...
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| TX | Unofficially approved by Voters. 11/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Bonds to Finance Student Loans
V. 2
(PROPOSITION 2; SJR 57 2007)Proposes a constitutional amendment to provide for the issuance of a specified amount of general obligation bonds to finance educational loans to students and for authority to enter into bond enhancement agreements with respect to g...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Increased Bonding Authority
S.B. 455
Increases revenue bonding authority of the Nevada System of Higher Education.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/74th/Bills/SB/SB455_EN.pdf...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Financial Administration
A.B. 615
If a municipality proposes to issue or incur general obligation bonds, the proposal must be submitted to the electors at an election. Provides that such a question may authorize the transfer of any excess revenue generated to the fund for capital projects of t...
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Texas Public Finance Authority
H.B. 1400
Relates to the issuance by a corporation established by the Texas Public Finance Authority of revenue bonds for open-enrollment charter school facilities.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/HB01400F.pdf...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Funding
S.B. 274 (Finance)
Section 32 of the act repeals code concerning eligibility for isolated schools funding; Section 30 properly replaces the isolated schools language into another section of code; Section 33 amends the requirements for qualification to receive supplemental millag...
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | General Obligation Bonds
H.B. 672
Raises the maximum amount of debt a school district can incur through the issuance of general obligation bonds and certain other long term obligations from 45% of district taxable
valuation to 50% (100% for a K-12 district). Increases the amount of debt a dist...
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| DE | Adopted 11/2007 | P-12 | Standardized Financial Reporting
14 DAC 735
Requires all school districts and charter schools to post the summary of their financial documentation on their respective website.
http://regulations.delaware.gov/register/november2007/proposed/11%20DE%20Reg%20602%2011-01-07.htm...
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| IA | Signed into law 09/2007 | P-12 | On-Site Fiscal Review
H.F. 317
Relates to an on-site fiscal review to be conducted under phase II of the accreditation process upon recommendation by the school budget review committee; provides that if a school district exceeds its authorized budget or carries a negative unspent balance fo...
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| MI | Signed into law 09/2007 | P-12 | School District Shared Services
H.B. 4592
Relates to a study by a school district concerning opportunities for sharing services with other providers of similar services, such as an intermediate school district, other school districts, units of local government and other programs to achieve cost saving...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Renewable Energy Source Grants
H.B. 285
Subject to appropriation, authorizes the department of commerce and economic opportunity to establish and operate a renewable energy grant program to assist school districts in the installation, acquisition, construction, and improvement of renewable energy so...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Funding for Affordable Multifamily Housing Units
S.B. 220
Provides schools districts with funding for each affordable multifamily housing unit located in their district. The additional funding equates to $1,123 for a two bedroom unit and $562 for each additional bedroom that the unit has. This payment is designed to ...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12
Community College | Wind Generation Turbine Farms
S.B. 843
Allows school districts and community college districts to own and operate wind generation turbine farms that directly or indirectly reduce energy or other operating costs. Provides that the school district or the community college district may ask for the ass...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | District Fiscal Audits
S.B. 800
Requires an accountant who performs a school district audit to make determinations regarding a district's accounting systems and compliance with legal financial requirements; requires a school board to determine measures needed to correct any deficiencies disc...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | School Improvement Fund Grants
S.B. 318
Changes student achievement activities for which a school district or program may use a School Improvement Fund grant; includes education service districts as recipients of School Improvement Fund grants and establishes a formula for the amount of grants; requ...
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | District overexpenditures and receivership
H.B. 2612
Requires school districts that overexpended their budgets in FY 2004-05 and 2005-06 plus any overexpendture in FY 2006-07 to correct these overexpenditures over a five year period under certain conditions, plus accred interest paid to a rate as determined by t...
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | School Support Organization Financial Accountability Act
S.B. 2054
States that the general assembly recognizes the importance of school support organizations in providing financial support to help carry out academic, arts, athletic, and social programs to further educational opportunities for the children of Tennessee. The ge...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Allocation of Expenditures to Student Instruction
S.B. 526 (omnibus) - Article 42.5
Creates new article in the education code, "Allocation of Expenditures to Student Instruction."
Chapter 1. Purposes and General Provisions
Chapter 2. Authority to Allocate Expenditures to Student Instruction and Learning
Authorizes school corporations to tak...
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | School Finance
S.B. 68 (Section 1-3)
Amends the method for determining the nonproficient pupil weighting of each district. Amends procedures for a district to adopt a local option budget. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2008/68.pdf...
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Impact Fees for Independent Districts
S.B. 883
Relates to the imposition of impact fees on the property of a school district; establishes that a school district is not required to pay impact fees unless the board of trustees of the district consents to the payment of the fees by entering a contract with th...
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Finance, property tax
H.B. 2078
Relates to the property tax oversight commission providing oversight of the budgeting and taxation process of counties, municipalities, school districts and community college districts; provides for sunset continuation. (Chapter No. 41)
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| DE | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | School District and Charter School Budget Reports
H.B. 21
Requires the Department of Education to develop a standardized format for the reporting of the local school district or charter school budget to the public.
http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/lis144.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+21/$file/0801440478.doc?open...
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Waivers from Certain Staffing Requirements
S.F. 277 (Section 5 and 8)
Section 5: Strikes and rewrites section 256.11A. Authorizes the board of directors of a school district to file a request by August 1, 2007 for a waiver from the following requirements for the 2007-2008 school year:
a. Apply for a one-year extension of a waiv...
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Hardship Bus Runs
S.B. 1236 (Section 10)
Clarifies uniquely difficult geographic circumstances under which a district may be reimbursed by the state board for transportation costs above the standard threshold. Session Law Chapter 352
http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1236.html...
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | School Budget Law Revision
H.B. 363
Revises school budget laws. Would allow districts to increase their budgets beyond the capped amount without approval from the voters. Would still require voters to approve of any tax
increases.
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2007/billhtml/HB0363.htm...
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| NJ | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | School District Fiscal Accountability
A.B. 5; S.B 4
Amends school district accountability measures; provides that if a school district is spending state education funds for purposes not in compliance with state law, the district receives an adverse, disclaimer or qualified opinion by its independent auditor; pr...
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| NJ | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | School District Fiscal Accountability
A.B. 5
Amends school district accountability measures; provides that if a school district is spending state education funds for purposes not in compliance with state law, the district receives an adverse, disclaimer or qualified opinion by its independent auditor; pr...
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| UT | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Equalization Task Force
H.B. 1003
Creates a 16-member Equalization Task Force. The task force is to review and make recommendations on the following issues:
(a) methods to provide equalization of capital funding on a statewide or countywide basis; and (b) other issues related to equalization o...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Equalized Wealth
H.B. 3226
Relates to the equalization of property wealth in certain school districts; provides that, if a school district's wealth per student exceeds the equalized wealth level for the first time in the 2006-2007 or a later school year, the commissioner may consider th...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Funding
S.B. 274 (Finance)
Section 32 of the act repeals code concerning eligibility for isolated schools funding; Section 30 properly replaces the isolated schools language into another section of code; Section 33 amends the requirements for qualification to receive supplemental millag...
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | State Education Funding
S.B. 1236 (Section 8)
Increases state education funding to school districts, partially in order to create greater funding equity between school districts in the state. The appropriation provides $20.13 million in new line item funding for classroom supplies, textbooks and remedial ...
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| TX | Adopted 02/2007 | P-12 | Need for Lower Property Taxes
S.C.R. 20
Based on the premise that the legislature finds that the existing need for lower school district property taxes constitutes an emergency for the people of Texas. Based on legislative actions taken following the Texas Supreme Court decision in Neeley v. West Or...
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| ME | Approved by voters 11/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Higher Education Institution Capital Improvements
V. 3 Ballot Initiative
(QUESTION 3; P.L. 39-2007) Authorizes issuance of bonds for interior and exterior building renovations, improvements and additions at all campuses of the Community College System, the Maritime Academy and the University of Maine System, to replenish the School...
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2007 | P-12 | Finance--Facilities
A.B. 1450
Requires the State Allocation Board to provide a grant for 50% of the replacement cost of an existing building to be demolished if a school district proposes to demolish the existing building and replace it with a multistory building serving the same grade gro...
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2007 | P-12 | Facilities finance, surplus property
S.B. 789
Authorizes the Chino Valley Unified School District to transfer specified surplus property owned by the school district to the City of Chino Hills, in the County of San Bernardino, upon payment to the district by the city and the execution of an agreement betw...
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| IL | Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 10/2007 | P-12 | School Facility Occupation Tax
S.B. 835
Creates the "school facility occupation tax". This tax for up to 1% of the cost of business transactionsmust be voted on in a county wide referendum, and all revenue must be used to support the construction or maintenance of school facilities. Bill: http://ww...
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| AL | Signed into law 09/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Education Facilities Excellence Act of 2007
H.B. 21
Act 2007-415, HB21, is the Education Facilities Excellence Act of 2007. Authorizes the Alabama Public School and College Authority to sell and issue bonds for capital improvements for the support of public education in an amount of $1,070,585,022. The bulk of ...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2007 | Postsec. | Teacher quality
S.B. 280
Deletes the staff development requirement for certificate for instruction delivered in English to limited-English-proficient pupils. Requires the holder of a preliminary multiple subject teaching credential, preliminary single subject teaching credential, or p...
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| CA | To governor 09/2007 | P-12 | Facilities finance
A.B. 1014
Relates to the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act, that provides a school district's eligibility for new construction funding is determined by making calculations related to certain factors. Authorizes the State Allocation Board to supplement a funding proj...
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| MA | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Regional School Budget Process
H.B. 586
Relates to streamlining the regional school budget process, capital outlay expenses and a city or town's apportioned share for expenditures....
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| NJ | Adopted 07/2007 | P-12 | SCHOOL FACILITIES PROJECTS
NJAC 19:32-1 thru -4
Amends rules establishing a grant program to fund the State share of the final eligible costs of school facilities projects undertaken by school districts whose district aid percentage is less than 55% and which elect not to have the Corporation construct the ...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Construction Taxes
S.B. 1036
Restricts local government power to impose construction excise taxes; authorizes school districts to impose construction taxes; dedicates revenues from such taxes to school construction; authorizes a school district to pledge construction taxes to the payment ...
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Lease Payments for Schools Account
S.B. 1820
Authorizes the department of education to enter into financing agreements with the agreement of the director and with the approval of the attorney general. Creates a separate account within the state education facilities improvement special fund to be called t...
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| NJ | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Creates New Jersey Schools Development Authority
A.B. 4336; S.B. 2796
Establishes the New Jersey Schools Development Authority and revises the school construction program established under the Educational Facilities Construction and Financing Act.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/A4500/4336_R2.PDF...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Financial Administration
A.B. 615
If a municipality proposes to issue or incur general obligation bonds, the proposal must be submitted to the electors at an election. Provides that such a question may authorize the transfer of any excess revenue generated to the fund for capital projects of t...
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Public School Facilities Equity Act
S.B. 41
Concerns the creation of the Public School Facilities Equity Act to address the capital construction needs of public schools in the State. Creates the Public School Facilities Act; establishes an advisory committee within the Department of Education for public...
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | State Aid Provisions
S.B. 2200 (finance provisions)
Adds a new section that sets school district size weighting factors -- weighted student units. Another new section establishes minimum and maximum allowable increases for base rate funding. Also revises student unit funding levels for high schools and elementa...
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Finance Board Capital Expendigure Threshold
S.B. 264
Relates to higher education. Provides a threshold amount for capital expenditures. Requires state board of finance approval.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/SB0264.pdf...
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | School Bond Guarantee Program
S.B. 1053
From legislative analysis: Raises the cap for the School Bond Guarantee Program when school districts in Idaho access the state's AAA guarantee for voter approved school district bonds. The current cap is three times the amount of the $200 million dollar cash...
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Leasing Land for Private Construction
H.B. 1208
Authorizes the board of trustees of state institutions of higher learning to authorize universities to lease land at the univeersity for the construction of facilities by private financing for a term of 31 years. Contains requirements for building code complia...
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Construction Project Approval
H.B. 1248
Schools considering construction projects are required to get approval from the state superintendent. If the superintendent denies the request, the district may appeal to the state board. New provisions establish the requirements that the state board must cons...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | School Building Energy Efficiency Loan Fund
H.B. 351
Creates a revolving loan fund for use by school districts to improve energy efficiency in school district buildings. http://le.utah.gov/~2007/bills/hbillenr/hb0351.htm...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Literary Fund Stipulations
H.B. 2350
Provides that a school board's application to the Board of Education for a loan from the Literary Fund must be signed by the chairman of the governing body and the chairman of the school board; provides that such loans are considered general obligation debts o...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Public-Private Partnership Advisory Commission Creation
S.B. 756
Establishes the Public-Private Partnership Advisory Commission to review and advise responsible public entities that are agencies or institutions of the state on detailed proposals for qualifying projects under the Public-Private Education Facilities and Infra...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Freedom of Information Act Exemptions for Schools Facilities Projects
S.B. 1002
Allows memoranda, staff evaluations, or other records prepared by the responsible public entity, its staff, outside advisors, or consultants exclusively for the evaluation and negotiation of proposals filed under the Public-Private Education Facilities and Inf...
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Public School Finance
S.B. 541
Relates to public school finances; requires local share to be calculated assuming properties are being assessed at sixty percent of market value; increases the limit on revenue generated by the regular school board levy; amends "growth county" definition and c...
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Facilities Funds Surplus
S.B. 16
Allows unexpended amounts from major building and facility repair and replacement payments to be earmarked for use in subsequent school
years, provided the unexpended amount during any school year does not exceed 10% of the amount of payments distributed to th...
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Facility Repair & Maintenance Bonds
H.B. 38
Allows district school boards to propose bonds for the purpose of facility repair and maintenance; requires bonding propositions for facility or facility feature enhancements to include a reserve or sinking fund for maintenance. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/20...
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Facilities Payment Expansion
S.B. 14
Expands major building and facility repair and replacement payments for school districts to include buildings or facilities that would otherwise be treated as a closed building or determined to be surplus if the building or facility is being used for the provi...
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| MD | Enacted 11/2007 | P-12 | School Funding Formula and Revenues
H.B. 1A
Relates to funding for public and private elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education and community colleges; relates to property assessments, agreements between county governments and electric generation facilities for payments in lieu of taxes, the Ag...
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| MI | Enacted 11/2007 | P-12 | School Funding and Cost Estimates
H.B. 4359
Provides appropriations for School Aid; provides for public schools and school districts; relates to cost estimates.
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/publicact/pdf/2007-PA-0137.pdf
Conference Committee Summary
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/doc...
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| OH | Signed into law 10/2007 | P-12 | Amends Funding Provisions
H.B. 119 -- School Funding
Prescribes the per pupil base cost formula amount; increases by 3% each year the hourly rate that is used to calculate the based funding supplement for academic intervention; eliminates the cost-of-doing-business factor from the formula. Addresses state share,...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Calculation of a School Day
H.B. 1910
Provides that for state aid purposes, if during a school day, a district has provided at least one clock hour of instruction but must dismiss students from one or more school buildings due to a condition beyond the district's control, then the partial day of a...
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| NJ | Adopted 08/2007 | P-12 | Financing Urban Districts - Revised Requirements
NJAC 6A:10-1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.6, 2.7, and NJAC 6A:10-2.10
Proposes to amend rules concerning Financing Foundational and Demonstrably Needed Programs and Services in Abbott School Districts. Suspends the requirements that the school districts prepare and submit to the Department a school district report on instruction...
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| PA | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Increases in Targeted Funding
H.B. 842 -- Fiscal Assistance
Section 24 (Section 2502.13) increases aid to small schools; aid to low income districts; and at-risk funding. Also establishes aid for districts with high tax rates and low property values; additional funds for districts with high student growth; and establis...
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Enrollment Count for Military Children
H.B. 1232
Concerns aid for school districts in which pupils who are the dependents of military personnel enroll after October 1.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2007a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/A8FCDA3FB23E52418725725D00593121?open&file=1232_enr.pdf...
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Funding Formula Changes for Specific Districts
H.B. 368
Adjusts the school funding formula to require the unorganized territories to pay their full and fair share of educating students from the unorganized territories in kindergarten to grade 12; relates to tuition and percentages of the state average per public sc...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Basic Support Guarantee
A.B. 563
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to recalculate the basic support guarantee for Fiscal Year 2008-09 based upon a salary increase of 4.375 percent rather than 4 percent if the projected revenues from the local school support tax exceed a certai...
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Funding
H.B. 2293
Increases the states funding level to schools. The state will now provide 75%, instead of 65%, of the cost of instructional positions to schools. This change in the law will produce an increase in state funding to schools of $285 million for the 2007/08 fisc...
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| VT | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Misc. Provisions
S.B. 93
Amends provisions regarding joint contract school districts, genders and dates of birth of pupils, base contract amounts, K-12 tuition agreement terms, transportation assistance for technical education, salaries, school budgets, property tax revenue and rates,...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Funding for Students in Dual Enrollment and Early College High School Programs
S.B. 526 (omnibus) - IC 20-43-4-8
A student who participates in:
(1) a postsecondary enrollment program under IC 21-43-4 is considered a student enrolled in the school corporation where the student has legal settlement for the purposes of computing ADM;
(2) a high school fast t...
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | School Finance
S.B. 68 (Section 1-3)
Amends the method for determining the nonproficient pupil weighting of each district. Amends procedures for a district to adopt a local option budget. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2008/68.pdf...
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Finance
H.B. 1726
Act to assist school districts with the transition between levels of categorical funding for the national school lunch students by providing a method of transitional funding during a three-year period. The Department of Education is to establish rules to impl...
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | State Education Funding
S.B. 1236 (Section 8)
Increases state education funding to school districts, partially in order to create greater funding equity between school districts in the state. The appropriation provides $20.13 million in new line item funding for classroom supplies, textbooks and remedial ...
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Additional Student Count
H.B. 2159
Allows for an additional student count in February to determine if a school district has experienced an increased student enrollment due to an influx of children whose parents are employed by the military. Provides that a district that demonstrates a student p...
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | State Aid Provisions
S.B. 2200 (finance provisions)
Adds a new section that sets school district size weighting factors -- weighted student units. Another new section establishes minimum and maximum allowable increases for base rate funding. Also revises student unit funding levels for high schools and elementa...
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Funding Formulas
S.B. 2103 and S.B. 2107 -- Funding Components
Senate Bill 2107, and its companion bill SB 2103, made several major changes to the state's educational funding formula - these changes included the following:
--The creation of a new Foundation Aid program which takes the place of 30 different categorical ai...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | K-12 Finance Formula Work Group
S.B. 5627
Declares that this act is intended to make provision for some significant steps towards a new basic education funding system and establishes a technical work group to address the
details and next steps beyond the 2007-2009 biennium that will be necessary to i...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Finance
H.B. 1632
Amends the public school funding act of 2003; ensures that every public school district in the state receives the full amount of foundation funding; relates to daily membership of students.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2007/public/HB1632.pdf...
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Enhanced Educational Funding
H.B. 1633
Provides enhanced educational funding by supplementing the amount of per student foundation funding distributed to school districts for the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 school years. Changes funding to meet a mandated funding increase set by the courts.
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Funding Formula and Consolidation Incentives
S.B. 157
Revises the state aid to education formula and sets funding amounts to reimburse districts that choose to consolidate.
http://www.legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2007/bills/SB157CNF.pdf...
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Funding for Small School Districts
S.B. 32
Revises provisions relating to the distribution of state aid funds to sparse school districts.Defines sparse school districts as having an adjusted average daily membership of less than 100 or greater than 275. Amends formula for calculating sparsity aid.
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Public School Finance
S.B. 541
Relates to public school finances; requires local share to be calculated assuming properties are being assessed at sixty percent of market value; increases the limit on revenue generated by the regular school board levy; amends "growth county" definition and c...
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| NE | Signed into law 01/2007 | P-12 | Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act
L.B. 21
Relates to the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act. Changes provisions relating to cost growth factor.
http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Final/LB21.pdf...
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| UT | Passed 02/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | School & Institutional Trust Lands Administration Resource Development
H.C.R. 4
This concurrent resolution of the legislature encourages the development of natural resources on lands administered by the School and
Institutional Trust Lands Administration as a critical source to build the permanent State School Fund to provide greater futu...
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| Finance--Lotteries |
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| MD | Enacted 11/2007 | P-12 | Video Lottery Funding for Education
H.B. 4A
Adds a new article to the State Constitution to authorize video lottery terminal gaming in the State for the primary purpose of providing funds for public education; limits the number of video lottery terminals; limits the number of licenses that the State may...
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| Finance--Private Giving |
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| TN | Signed into law 04/2007 | Postsec. | Confidentiality for Donors
S.B. 2080
Makes confidential certain information relating to donors of gifts to public institutions of higher education or to certain related foundations.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/HB1961.pdf...
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | School District Consolidation
H.B. 685; LD 216
Allows a school administrative unit that is a municipality or school administrative district to combine with another school administrative district to create a larger school administrative district.
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/billpdfs/LD091001...
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | School District Consolidation
H.B. 685
Allows a school administrative unit that is a municipality or school administrative district to combine with another school administrative district to create a larger school administrative district; permits public schools in the Lower Kennebec River area to ac...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Allocation of Expenditures to Student Instruction
S.B. 526 (omnibus) - Article 42.5
Creates new article in the education code, "Allocation of Expenditures to Student Instruction."
Chapter 1. Purposes and General Provisions
Chapter 2. Authority to Allocate Expenditures to Student Instruction and Learning
Authorizes school corporations to tak...
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| ME | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | School District Reorganization
H.B. 35
(Resolve) Provides for legislative review of portions of Chapter 28: Closing a School in the Unorganized Territory, a major substantive rule of the Department of Education....
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| Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
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| NY | Emergency Rule Extension 11/2007 | P-12 | Contracts for Excellence
Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12
Readopts, by emergency action effective November 25, 2007, the emergency rule adopted at the September 10, 2007 Regents meeting that added a new section 100.13 and amended 170.12 of the Commissioner's Regulations.
http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2007...
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| NY | Adopted 07/2007 | P-12 | Contracts for Excellence
Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12
Establishes allowable programs and activities, criteria for public reporting by school districts of their total foundation aid expenditures, and other requirements for purposes of preparation of contracts for excellence by certain specified school districts. P...
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| TX | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Accounting Modifications
H.B. 2365
From fiscal note: The bill would allow the state and political subdivisions of the state to follow state statutory modified accrual standards of accounting as described in the bill, if other accounting bases conflict with state law. The state or its political ...
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| TX | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | School Land Board's Authority
H.B. 3699
House Bill 3699 amends the Natural Resources Code and the Education Code to broaden the School Land Board's (SLB) authority to manage and control land, mineral and royalty interests, real estate investments, and other interests that are dedicated to the perman...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Basic Support Guarantee
A.B. 563
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to recalculate the basic support guarantee for Fiscal Year 2008-09 based upon a salary increase of 4.375 percent rather than 4 percent if the projected revenues from the local school support tax exceed a certai...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Inclusion of Foreign Exchange Students for Receiving State Funds
H.B. 160
Allows a school district or charter school to include, with certain exceptions, foreign exchange students in the district's or school's membership and attendance count for the purpose of apportionment of state monies. http://le.utah.gov/~2007/bills/hbillenr/hb...
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| Finance--Student Fees |
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| OH | Signed into law 11/2007 | P-12 | All-Day Kindergarten
H.B. 190 -- Multiple Components
Permits school districts that are not eligible for state payments for all-day kindergarten to charge tuition on a sliding scale for all-day kindergarten classes. Requires the Department of Education to issue an annual report on tuition charged by school distri...
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Financial Hardship Waivers
H.B. 833
Specifies eligibility for students to receieve financial hardship waivers for supplemental instructional materials and supplies, excluding textbooks. Would waive requirement that qualified students be responsible for certain state-authorized fees that district...
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
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| MD | Enacted 11/2007 | P-12 | School Funding Formula and Revenues
H.B. 1A
Relates to funding for public and private elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education and community colleges; relates to property assessments, agreements between county governments and electric generation facilities for payments in lieu of taxes, the Ag...
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| MD | Enacted 11/2007 | P-12 | Video Lottery Funding for Education
H.B. 4A
Adds a new article to the State Constitution to authorize video lottery terminal gaming in the State for the primary purpose of providing funds for public education; limits the number of video lottery terminals; limits the number of licenses that the State may...
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| IL | Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 10/2007 | P-12 | School Facility Occupation Tax
S.B. 835
Creates the "school facility occupation tax". This tax for up to 1% of the cost of business transactionsmust be voted on in a county wide referendum, and all revenue must be used to support the construction or maintenance of school facilities. Bill: http://ww...
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| NJ | Rejected by voters 09/2007 | P-12 | Property Tax Relief
V. 5 Public Question 1
Property tax. Dedicated annual revenue of an amount equal to a tax rate of 1% under the state sales tax for property tax reform
FAILED 47-53
http://www.nj.gov/oag/elections/2007results/public-question-1-tax-reform-2007.pdf...
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| HI | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | School Impact Fees
H.B. 19
Creates new section regarding school impact fees. Requires new residential developments to contribute toward the construction of new or expansion of existing public school facilities. Provides for the designation of school impact districts. Directs the departm...
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Construction Taxes
S.B. 1036
Restricts local government power to impose construction excise taxes; authorizes school districts to impose construction taxes; dedicates revenues from such taxes to school construction; authorizes a school district to pledge construction taxes to the payment ...
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| VT | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Misc. Provisions
S.B. 93
Amends provisions regarding joint contract school districts, genders and dates of birth of pupils, base contract amounts, K-12 tuition agreement terms, transportation assistance for technical education, salaries, school budgets, property tax revenue and rates,...
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| VT | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Controlling Costs While Maintaining Quality
H.B. 526
Provides for a slight rollback in property tax assessments for this year and would place a cap on property evaluations in the future. In addition, requires studies that look at: high-spending school districts, special education cost and the feasibility of ado...
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| NE | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Elections to Exceed Property Tax Limit
L.B. 289
Changes procedure relating to elections to exceed the property tax levy limit. Specifies that the method of voting at the meeting will protect the secrecy of the ballot.
http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Slip/LB289.pdf...
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Statewide Education Property Tax Rate Adjustment
H.B. 88
Reduces the statewide education property tax rates from the statutory rates of $ 1.10 homestead and $ 1.59 nonresidential to new rates, for fiscal year 2008 only, of $ 0.90 homestead and $ 1.39 nonresidential; and to reduce the household income base percentage...
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | High Tax Aid
S.B. 2107 - Part B, Section 16-a
Creates new section 3602 in the education code. Establishes $99.99 million two-tier High Tax Aid providing funding to eligible districts statewide. Provides districts eligible for Tier 1 Aid are those in counties where the countywide tax levy from residential ...
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| UT | Sent to Governor 03/2007 | P-12 | New School District Property Tax Amendments
H.B. 58
Prohibits certain new school districts from levying a property tax prior to the year in which the district assumes responsibility for student instruction; allows the existing district to impose a property tax on the new district during the period it provides i...
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Public School Finance
S.B. 541
Relates to public school finances; requires local share to be calculated assuming properties are being assessed at sixty percent of market value; increases the limit on revenue generated by the regular school board levy; amends "growth county" definition and c...
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| WY | Vetoed 03/2007 | P-12 | Federal Mineral Royalties Deposits
H.B. 278
Requires federal mineral royalties above $200 million to be deposited to the common school account within the permanent land fund after the required deposit into another account has been made. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2007/Enroll/HB0278.pdf ...
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| TX | Adopted 02/2007 | P-12 | Need for Lower Property Taxes
S.C.R. 20
Based on the premise that the legislature finds that the existing need for lower school district property taxes constitutes an emergency for the people of Texas. Based on legislative actions taken following the Texas Supreme Court decision in Neeley v. West Or...
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Agriculture in the Classroom Fund
H.B. 1024
Creates the Agriculture in the Classroom Fund in the State treasury. Provides for the issuance of Agriculture in the Classroom license plates. Provides that in addition to the appropriate registration fees, an applicant for the special plate must be charged a ...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Scholarship Funds from License Plates
S.B. 169
Specifies that scholarship awards from moneys deposited into the state college and university trust fund are to support Illinois residents. Directs the state treasurer to create separate accounts within the university grant fund for each university or college ...
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | School Support Organization Financial Accountability Act
S.B. 2054
States that the general assembly recognizes the importance of school support organizations in providing financial support to help carry out academic, arts, athletic, and social programs to further educational opportunities for the children of Tennessee. The ge...
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Fee-Based Catering Services
S.B. 2344
Allows institutions of higher education and school districts to provide (for fee) catered meal services off-site as long as those functions meet certain parameters (i.e., are related to school or institution activities).
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/60-200...
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Public School Permanent Endowment Fund
S.B. 1098
Amends existing law to require that property from an estate with no heirs or other claimants be paid to the Public School Permanent Endowment Fund; provides for distribution of funds received as unclaimed dividends and interest paid by Idaho corporations to th...
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| TX | Adopted 11/2007 | Community College | New Baccalaureate Programs at Community College Level
19 TAC 1.5.B.5.21 -.23
Requires selected community colleges to follow the preliminary authority requirements before proposing new baccalaureate degree programs. TEXAS 12151...
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2007 | P-12 | Governance
S.B. 132
Makes various clarifying and technical changes to the Education Code which assigns various duties to state and local educational agencies and governs the operation of public schools, community colleges, and universities in the state. Deletes obsolete provision...
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| TX | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Texas Governor's Schools
H.B. 1748
House Bill 1748 amends the Education Code to transfer all powers and duties relating to the Texas governor's schools program from the Texas Education Agency and the commissioner of education to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The bill also expa...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | Postsec. | Certficate of Recognition for Donations
S.B. 469
Requires the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) to produce a certificate of recognition to any person who contributes $10,000 or an equivalent in gifts, within one year's time, to any institution of higher education for any purpose, program, or ...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Recodification of Higher Education Code
S.B. 526 (omnibus) - Recodification of Higher Education Code
Recodifies the law governing higher education. Changes references in provisions that cross reference to the law being recodified. Makes related changes. Repeals obsolete provisions. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the code revision commiss...
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Student Member on State Board of Education
H.B. 133
Expands the membership of the State Board of Education to include one student member.
http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/externalsiteframe.asp?ID=280022477&LD=151&Type=1&SessionID=7...
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| MO | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Committee on Education
S.B. 389 [Committee on Education]
Modifies the responsibilities of the legislative committee on education. Requires the committee to meet at least twice a year. Charges committee with monitoring, studying and analyzing the higher education system in the state, as well as monitoring the establi...
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | District board member elections
H.B. 2154
The date of elections for Educational Service Districts with one or more members whose
terms expire the following January is changed from each even-numbered year to each odd-numbered
year.
http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%2020...
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| TN | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Accountability System Review
S.B. 457
Adds a new section. Directs the office of education accountability to periodically study the overall school accountability system and report to the General Assembly as to its operations and effectiveness, including any suggestions for improvement. Such report ...
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| TX | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | District Employee Communications with School Board
S.B. 135
Protects this important communication by prohibiting employment policies that restrict the ability of a school district employee to communicate directly with a member of the school board on matters relating to the operation of the school district, exception th...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | Postsec. | Coordinating Board Revisions
H.B. 1883
Revises the higher education coordinating board. Effective July 22, 2007, the Executive Director of the HECB is appointed by the Governor from a list of three names submitted by the HECB. The HECB's statewide strategic master plan for higher education and inst...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | Postsec. | Investment of Scholarship Endowment Funds
S.B. 5039
Management of the investments of funds for all scholarship endowment programs administered by HECB is vested in the State Investment Board. The State Investment Board must invest the funds using reasonable care and prudence. The State Investment Board may comm...
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| WV | Adopted 04/2007 | P-12 | Regional Education Service Agencies
Title 126, Series 72
Amends rules regarding the establishment and operation of regional education service agencies. Clarifies the role of the State Superintendent ofSchools, establishes additional requirements for personnel and fiscal policies,replaces the Plan of Services with a ...
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Creates Seven Education Service Agencies
H.B. 1171
Part of this bill requires the secretary of the Department of Education shall establish seven education service agencies to provide services and leadership to school districts on a regional basis.Education service agencies are authorized to: (1) Act primarily ...
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| OK | Issued 02/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Establishes a Cabinet System, Including Secretary of Education
Executive Order 2007-07
Creates a Cabinet system. The Secretary of Education is responsible for a number of executive entities, including state board of education, the superintendent of public instruction, state regents for higher education, etc. http://www.sos.state.ok.us/documents/...
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| TX | Adopted 01/2007 | Postsec. | Supervision of Educational Research Centers
19 TAC 1.1.A.1.17
Authorizes the Commissioner to provide direct supervision of the educational research centers created by Texas Education Code.
http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/GeneralPubs/Agenda/Ag2007_01/VII/VIIA1.pdf...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Waiver/Modification of Physical Education Mandate
H.B. 1839
Provides that a state-board approved waiver from or modification to a physical education mandate may remain in effect for a period not to exceed 2 school years and may be renewed no more than 2 times upon application by the eligible applicant. http://www.ilga....
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Waivers from Certain Staffing Requirements
S.F. 277 (Section 5 and 8)
Section 5: Strikes and rewrites section 256.11A. Authorizes the board of directors of a school district to file a request by August 1, 2007 for a waiver from the following requirements for the 2007-2008 school year:
a. Apply for a one-year extension of a waiv...
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| Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
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| LA | Adopted 11/2007 | P-12 | Business Manager and Constitution Day
LAC 28:CXV.503, 2305
Amends sections of Bulletin 741 - Handbook for School Administrators.
503: Adds business manager to the list of certified personnel a district is required to hire. This addition was required by a new state statute.
2305: Requires schools to have an educatio...
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| IL | Vetoed 08/2007 | Community College
Postsec. | State Officials and Employees Ethics Act
H.B. 3504
Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Classifies community college districts as units of local government that must adopt resolutions regulating the political activities and the solicitation and acceptance of gifts by officials and employees. ht...
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| HI | Vetoed 07/2007 | Postsec. | Administrative Positions in the University of Hawaii System
S.B. 46
Provides that for administrative positions in the University of Hawaii system filled by excluded employees, proposed compensation or change in compensation must be disclosed in open meeting for purposes of public comment. Bill: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/se...
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Code of Governmental Ethics
H.B. 493
Provides that the state board of ethics must, on a regular basis, offer training on its computerized data management system, as well as educational materials detailing the procedures necessary to file such reports electronically. Directs the board to design an...
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | New York City Community School District
S.B. 1666
Amends the Education Law in relation to the effect of certain regulations and by-laws on community council members, community superintendents, and all other officers and employees in schools and programs under the jurisdiction of the community district educati...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | Postsec. | Scholarship Prohibitions for Relatives of Board Members
S.B. 1325
Prohibits relatives of public college and university board members from receiving certain scholarships from the institution or system whose board the member serves, with exceptions.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/SB01325F.pdf...
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Contract Between Postsecondary Institution and a Business
S.B. 130
Relates to employee interest in contracts between a public postsecondary education institution and a business; permits a governing board of a public postsecondary institution to adopt regulations establishing the conditions under which and the procedures where...
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | School Contracts & Services Conflict-of-Interest Prohibition
H.B. 3094
Prohibits county and district school officers, secretaries of boards of education, school supervisors or superintendents, and teachers from having a pecuniary interest in certain contracts and services, or in the furnishing of any supplies in the contract, or ...
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| Governance--Mandates |
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| RI | Passed 07/2007 | P-12 | Study of the Impact of Mandates
S.B. 361
(Joint Resolution)Would create an eleven (11) member special legislative commission whose purpose it would be to make a comprehensive study of the impact of mandates on Rhode Island's school districts, and who would report back to the general assembly no later...
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| Governance--School Boards |
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| NM | On November 2008 Ballot 12/2007 | P-12 | Increase Size of Certain School Boards
S.J.R. 6
Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to increase the size of school boards in school districts with a specified population; provides for conduct of election by mail-in ballot or as otherwise provided by law; provides each school districts shall be divided...
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2007 | P-12 | school board member
S.B. 909
Relates to existing law that establishes the amount of compensation for the services of a member of the city board of education or governing board of a school district who attends all meetings based on the average daily attendance of the district for the prior...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Community Organization Use of School Facilities During Non-School Hours
S.B. 538
Encourages school boards to allow community organizations to use school facilities during non-school hours. Provides that if a school board allows a community organization to use school facilities during non-school hours, the board must adopt a formal policy g...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Mandated Child Abuse Reporters
S.B. 1428
Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Adds members of a school board, the Chicago Board of Education, or the governing body of a private school as mandated reporters. Provides penalties for knowingly transmitting a false report. http://www.ilga....
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Removal of Local Board Members by State Board
H.B. 349
Repeals the law allowing the state board to remove local school board members.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H349v0.html...
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | New York City Community School District
S.B. 1666
Amends the Education Law in relation to the effect of certain regulations and by-laws on community council members, community superintendents, and all other officers and employees in schools and programs under the jurisdiction of the community district educati...
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Training for School Committee Members
H.B. 5286
Adds labor and labor relations, negotiating collective bargaining agreements, and employee contract analysis to the professional development program for Rhode Island school committees. offered by Rhode Island College and the Rhode Island Association of School ...
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| DE | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | School Board Elections
S.B. 44
Clarifies that vacancies on the School Boards shall be filled in accordance with the procedures for filling a vacancy; provides that the last notice of election for a school board election appear no later than 5 days before the day of the election so that the ...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | School Governing Boards and Administrators Evaluating Teachers
S.B. 328
Revises provisions governing the salaries of the members of the boards of trustees of school districts based on the population of the county in which the school district is located. Authorizes a member of the board of trustees to donate all or a part of his sa...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Roles of and Relationship Between Boards and Superintendents
H.B. 2563
Clarifies the precise roles and relationship between boards and superintendents. Provides the major responsibilities of a board in a way that parallels the major responsibilities of a superintendent.
http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/HB0256...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | Postsec. | Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
S.B. 1007
Authorizes a student to serve as a student representative on Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB), but without voting power. The bill also authorizes students to serve on student-issue advisory committees of THECB.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/t...
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| NE | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Educational Service Units and Early Childhood Education Grants
L.B. 603
Relates to educational service units and school funding, incuding distance education. Changes provisions relating to: election of board members for educational service units; distance education, unit boundaries and board membership; and the Early Childhood Edu...
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Televised School Boad Meetings
A.B. 267
Authorizes the board of trustees of a school district in a county whose population is 50,000 or more to cause each meeting of the board to be broadcast on a television station created to provide community access to cable television by using the facilities of t...
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| TX | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Terms, School Boards
S.B. 670
From the bill analysis: The bill amends the Education Code to authorize the board of trustees of school districts to change the length of the terms of its trustees to either three or four years. The bill requires that trustees must specify the manner in which ...
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Health Insurance Credits Retired Teachers & School Board Employees
H.B. 2370, S.B. 1218
Increases the monthly health insurance credit for retired teachers from $2.50 to $4.00 for each full year of the retired member's creditable service; eliminates an overall cap to the credit, and adds retired full-time, salaried employees of local school boards...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | School Board Member Reimbursements and Deductions
H.B. 50
Increases the maximum amount of annual expenses for which local school board members can be reimbursed for meetings from $2,000 to $3,000 per calendar year. Clarifies that an elected member of a local school board is eligible for the health care coverage avail...
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Rural School Boards
H.B. 1305
Relates to membership on rural school boards; for districts that have undergone reorganization, the reorganization plan may provide for school board membership
requirements that are different from those specified for other rural boards.
http://www.legis.nd.go...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Local School Board Public Hearing Requirements
S.B. 133
Requires a school board to hold a public hearing prior to closing a school or changing the boundaries of a school, and establishes notice requirements for the public hearing. http://le.utah.gov/~2007/bills/sbillenr/sb0133.htm...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | School Board Members Compensation Schedule
H.B. 234
Authorizes local school boards to adopt board compensation schedules for the compensation and expenses of their members beginning on July 1, 2007. http://le.utah.gov/~2007/bills/hbillenr/hb0234.htm...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | School Board Vote Tie-breaker
H.B. 1810
Authorizes any popularly elected school board to appoint a qualified voter who is a resident of the county, city, or town to cast the deciding vote in case of a tie vote of the school board. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB1810ER...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | School Board Official Severance Benefits Announcement
H.B. 1862
Requires that any severance benefits provided to any departing official appointed by a local school board shall be publically announced by that school board prior to such departure. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB1862ER...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | School Board Employee Housing Assistance
H.B. 2446, S.B. 1387
In order to ensure its competitiveness as an employer, allows counties with the county executive form of government to provide for the use of funds, other than state funds, to provide grants, loans, and other assistance for county and school board employees, a...
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | School Board Personnel Mileage Reimbursement
S.B. 100
Requires local school boards to reimburse school personnel for mileage costs when they are required to use a personal motor vehicle in the course of their employment at a minimum rate that is at least the same for state employees who are reimbursed for mileage...
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Education Code Amendments
H.B. 2189
Amends Education Code in the following ways:
1) Prescribes authorities of county school boards.
2) Expands purposes for which schools may expend funds.
3) Establishes certain vehicle and driver safety requirements for transporting students to a school-sponso...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Empowerment Schools
S.B. 238
Authorizes the boards of trustees of school districts to establish a program of empowerment schools for the public schools of the school district. Authorizes public schools to develop empowerment plans. Prescribes the process for the approval of empowerment pl...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Charter Systems Act
S.B. 39
Enacts the Charter Systems Act. Amends definitions of "charter," "charter petitioner," "local revenue," and "petition," and adding definitions of "charter system," "governing council," "school-level governance," and "system charter school." Provides procedures...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Membership of School Councils
S.B. 72 (Section 1)
Specifies that parents of students enrolled in the school must comprise a majority of school council members. Replaces prior requirement that two businesspersons serve on the council with requirement that at least two of the members who are parents of students...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | School Administrative Managers
S.B. 72 (Section 2)
Authorizes local districts to hire school administrative managers in lieu of or in addition to assistant principals. Provides that such school administrative managers are not required to be certificated by the professional standards commission but must meet lo...
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Teacher Quality Committee
S.F. 277 (Section 17)
Strikes Section 284.4, subsection 1, paragraph c, which made a district eligible for student achievement and teaching quality monies if the district's submitted written statement included willingness to provide the equivalent of an additional contract day to p...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Whistleblower Act
H.B. 742
Amends the Whistleblower Act. Provides that an "employer" as defined in the act includes:
(1) A political subdivision of the state
(2) A unit of local government
(3) A school district, combination of school districts, or governing body of a joint agreement of ...
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Removal of Local Board Members by State Board
H.B. 349
Repeals the law allowing the state board to remove local school board members.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H349v0.html...
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| CT | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | State Board of Education Chairperson Qualifications
S.B. 1354
Concerns the Chairperson of the State Board of Education and appointment of the Commissioner of Education; requires the Chairperson of the State Board of Education to hold a degree in education; provides that the appointment of the Commissioner of Education go...
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | School Health Aides
S.B. 98
Repeals the transfer from the department of health to the department of education those public health nurses who supervise the school health aides. Transfers administration of the K-12 school health services program and the teenage health program from the depa...
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Workforce Proficiency Panel
S.B. 345
Repeals provisions establishing the vocational technical proficiency panel (also called the workforce proficiency panel); repeals a provision that requires the panel to adopt standards for postsecondary certificates of achievement for technical education progr...
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Student Member on State Board of Education
H.B. 133
Expands the membership of the State Board of Education to include one student member.
http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/externalsiteframe.asp?ID=280022477&LD=151&Type=1&SessionID=7...
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | State Board of Education Membership
S.B. 240
Changes the composition of the State Board of Education by requiring that membership of the board be broadly representative of the geographic regions of the State and of municipalities of varying sizes.
http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/externalsitefr...
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | State Board Member Term Changes
H.B. 951
Alters the terms of state board members from nine years to five years.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0316.pdf...
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Board of Educational Examiners
H.F. 615
Extends the membership of the board of educational examiners to include the director of the department of education, or the director's designee. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&ga=82&hbill=HF6...
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| IN | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Division of Professional Standards and Emergency Communication Disorder Permit
S.B. 451
Eliminates reference to professional standards board. Establishes the divisions of professional standards within the department of education. Allows the department of education to issue an emergency communication disorder permit to an individual to serve the n...
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Qualifications, State Superintendent
H.B. 1169
Deletes the requirement that the state superintendent of public instruction hold a professional teaching license.
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/60-2007/bill-text/HAEI0200.pdf...
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| TX | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | District Employee Communications with School Board
S.B. 135
Protects this important communication by prohibiting employment policies that restrict the ability of a school district employee to communicate directly with a member of the school board on matters relating to the operation of the school district, exception th...
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| UT | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Compensation
S.B. 228
Among other provisions, provides budget increases and decreases for the compensation of state employees not including school district personnel; Provides for a 3.5% cost of living allowance for state and higher education employees, not including judges and sch...
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Qualifications of State Education Commissioner
S.B. 20
Clarifies, changes and specifies the qualifications, tenure and performance review criteria for the state Commissioner of Education.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics/Clics2007A/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/C916FE7400E3D3FE87257251007B726E?Open&file=020_enr.pdf...
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| LA | Adopted 12/2007 | P-12 | School Health Forms
LAC 28:CXV.1145
Amends sections of Bulletin 741-Louisiana Handbook for School Administrators concerning school health forms. Establishes standardized health forms to eliminate the duplication of information submitted to schools and school nurses on health information and scre...
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| MA | Signed into law 12/2007 | P-12 | Hygenic Procedures Pertaining to Instruments
H.B. 413
Establishes a task force within the department of education to examine specified hygienic procedures pertaining to band instruments to prevent the spread of contagious diseases such as tuberculosis.
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/185/ht00pdf/ht00413.pdf...
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| MA | Signed into law 12/2007 | P-12 |
H.B. 413
Establishes a task force within the department of education to examine hygienic procedures pertaining to school band instruments to prevent the spread of contagious diseases such as tuberculosis.
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/185/ht00pdf/ht00413.pdf...
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2007 | P-12 | student health
S.B. 533
Relates to vaccinations. Adds pneumococcus to the list of childhood diseases for which the Legislature intends the eventual achievement of total immunization. Adds pneumococcus to the list of childhood disease a pupil must be immunized prior to admission to an...
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