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From the ECS State Policy Database 2007 State Policies / Activities

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The following summary includes policies enacted in 2007. This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the topic of interest. To view all, press the button located at the top labeled "Expand All." Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date]. State Status/Date Level Summary 21st Century Skills Accountability Accountability--Accreditation Accountability--Measures/Indicators Accountability--Reporting Results Accountability--Rewards Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Play Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers Accountability--School Improvement Adult Basic Education Assessment Assessment--Accommodations Assessment--Computer Based Assessment--End-of-Course Assessment--Formative/Interim Assessment--High Stakes/Competency Assessment--NAEP (NAEP Results and NAEP Organization) Assessment--Value Added At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol Attendance Attendance--Compulsory Attendance--Statutory Ages (Upper and Lower) Attendance--Truancy Background Checks Bilingual/ESL Business Involvement Career/Technical Education Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship Cheating Choice of Schools--Charter Schools Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Charter Districts Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Closings Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Research Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools Choice of Schools--Tax Credits Choice of Schools--Vouchers Civic Education Civic Education--Character Education Class Size Counseling/Guidance Curriculum Curriculum--Arts Education Curriculum--Censorship Curriculum--Core Curriculum Curriculum--Drivers Education Curriculum--Environmental Education Curriculum--Excusal Curriculum--Family Living Education Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language Curriculum--Geography Education Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education Curriculum--Language Arts Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling Curriculum--Mathematics Curriculum--Physical Education Curriculum--Science Curriculum--Sex Education Curriculum--Social Studies/History Data-Driven Improvement Desegregation Economic/Workforce Development Education Research Equity Federal Finance Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost Finance--Aid to Private Schools Finance--Bonds Finance--District Finance--Equity Finance--Facilities Finance--Funding Formulas 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... More... 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... More... 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,... More... 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... More... 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... More... 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... More... 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... More... 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... More... 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... More... 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... More... 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,... More... 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... More... 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... More... 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... More... 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 ... More... 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... More... 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... More... 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... More... 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... More... 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... More... 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. http://www.... More... 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... More... 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. htt... More... 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... More... 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... More... 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