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From the ECS State Policy Database 2008 State Policies / Activities

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The following summary includes policies enacted in 2008. 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 Accountability GA Adopted 10/2008 P-12 Increased Local Flexibility and Accountability GAC 160-5-1-.33 Allows school districts to enter into contracts with the state to allow for increased local flexibility and accountability. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-5-1-.33.pdf... More... MA Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 School District Accountability H.B. 4967 Relates to school district accountability; provides the the makeup of the membership of the advisory council on school and district accountability to develop and administer a post-audit survey to audited districts and an annual survey to any schools and distri... More... NY Adopted 07/2008 P-12 Expenses to Be Paid Distinguished Educators and Technical Assistance Teams Title 8 NYCRR Section 100.15 Adds new rules to establish criteria for determining the reasonable and necessary expenses to be paid by school districts to distinguished educators, and members of school quality review teams and joint intervention teams. Adopted as proposed in April 2, 2008 ... More... NJ Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Commissioner of Education Authority A.B. 2965 Establishes Commissioner of Education as the rule- making authority under several school district accountability statutes relating to early termination agreements and revocation of certificates; requires public hearings on proposed regulations. http://www.njle... More... OK Adopted 06/2008 P-12 Co-Curricular and Extracurricular Programs OAC 210:35-17-2 Amends rules to require all state accredited schools to follow Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association (OSSAA) guidelines related to student eligibility to participate in extracurricular activities, activity absences, number of games allowed, and leng... More... SC Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Amends Multiple Accountability Provisions H.B. 4662 Revises the Education Accountability Act. Adds poverty, limited English proficiency status, disability status, or other groups required by federal statutes or regulations to the requirement for disaggregation of achievement data. Changes terminology from "impr... More... GA Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Flexibility in Exchange for Increased Accountability H.B. 1209 Relates to elementary and secondary education; provides that a local school system may enter into a contract with the state board of education for increased flexibility in exchange for increased accountability; relates to waivers to improve student performance... More... MS Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Low-Performing Schools S.B. 2666 Relates to low performing schools and school districts. Changes the designation of priority schools to schools at risk. Modifies and expands the definition of an at risk school. Commits the Legislature to the appropriation of adequate funds for the support of ... More... MS Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Removal of Superintendents in Underperforming Districts S.B. 2149 Provides that the appointed or elected superintendent of education in an underperforming school district for a specified number of consecutive school years shall be removed from office by the school board at the end of the school year. Provides for the appoint... More... MS Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Task Force on Underperforming Schools and Districts S.B. 2405 Creates a task force to study and report on the status of underperforming schools and districts in the state, effectiveness measures for improvement of those schools and school districts and enhancement of accountability and sanctions imposed on those schools ... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Charter Schools and Charter School Accountability H.B. 160 Modifies provisions relating to charter schools. Modifies the appointment procedures for the staff director of the State Charter School Board. Modifies provisions relating to the purposes and status of charter schools. Requires the state board of education, in... More... Accountability--Measures/Indicators FL Adopted 11/2008 P-12 School Improvement and Accountability FAC 6A-1.09981 Ensures consistency among all schools designated School Performance Grade of D by requiring that they utilize the Bureau of School Improvement educational improvement plans database. https://www.flrules.org/gateway/readFile.asp?sid=0&tid=6430147&type=1&File=6... More... LA Adopted 10/2008 P-12 Alternative Assessment Results LAC 28:LXXXIII.3905 Amends rules relating to the school, district and state accountability system. Relates to the inclusion of alternate assessment results for students with disabilities in accountability system. http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v83/28v83.doc... More... AK Adopted 07/2008 P-12 Accountability 4 AAC 06.825(b)(2), (c), .830(c), .885, 33.520(3)(4), .540(a)(2),(5), (6) Allows more flexibility in determining the graduation rate for purposes of Adequate Yearly Progress. Repeals the interim 2% flexibility. Relates to school and district accountability, academic indicators, subgroups and the performance incentive program. http:... More... SC Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Amends Multiple Accountability Provisions H.B. 4662 Revises the Education Accountability Act. Adds poverty, limited English proficiency status, disability status, or other groups required by federal statutes or regulations to the requirement for disaggregation of achievement data. Changes terminology from "impr... More... GA Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Flexibility in Exchange for Increased Accountability H.B. 1209 Relates to elementary and secondary education; provides that a local school system may enter into a contract with the state board of education for increased flexibility in exchange for increased accountability; relates to waivers to improve student performance... More... Accountability--Reporting Results NY Adopted 06/2008 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... More... SC Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Amends Multiple Accountability Provisions H.B. 4662 Revises the Education Accountability Act. Adds poverty, limited English proficiency status, disability status, or other groups required by federal statutes or regulations to the requirement for disaggregation of achievement data. Changes terminology from "impr... More... TN Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Reporting of Disciplinary Actions H.B. 3321 Requires the commissioner of education to report on a semi-annual basis to the select oversight committee on education and the education committees of each house of the general assembly regarding disciplinary actions in Tennessee schools. - Amends TCA Title 37... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Publishing of Approved Budgets S.B. 376 Requires local school divisions to publish their annual budget on the local school division website. If there is no local school division website, the budget must be available in hard copy.  This bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2009. http://leg... More... WA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Strategies for Success for Students with Disabilities and Reporting Requirements on the WASL H.B. 3212 The Center for the Improvement of Student Learning (CISL) and the education ombudsman are directed to identify strategies to improve the academic success rates of students with disabilities. The CISL is also directed to provide best practices and information o... More... NY Adopted 01/2008 P-12 Contracts for Excellence Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12 The board of regents has readopted, by emergency action effective January 22, 2008, the emergency rule adopted at the September 10, 2007 Regents meeting, and readopted at the October 23, 2007 Regents meeting, that added a new section 100.13 and amended section... More... Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Student Attendance and Driver's License S.B. 275 Authorizes the denial or suspension of a driver's license or learner's permit of a minor who is not enrolled in or has not completed school or an adult education program or who is habitually absent or tardy; authorizes school boards, the Recovery School Distri... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Academic Crisis Schools H.B. 909 The recovery district shall retain jurisdiction over any school transferred to it for academic crisis purposes for a period of not less than five school years not including the school year in which the transfer occurred if the transfer occurred during a school... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Assistance to Low-performing Schools S.B. 582 Requires the state Department of Education to develop a program that provides for early identification of low performing chools that are at risk of being labeled "academically unacceptable" and provides targeted interventions that are designed to address ident... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Academically Unacceptable School Plans H.B. 463 Relates to schools that have been labeled academically unacceptable or failed schools for which a school board has not presented or implemented an acceptable reconstitution plan; provides a retention period for schools transferred to a Recovery School District... More... NY Adopted 06/2008 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... More... TN Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Processes for Schools in Improvement H.B. 4148 Outlines procedures to be followed re: schools identified as in improvement. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC1006.pdf... More... CO Vetoed 05/2008 P-12 No Penalties for Students Missing State Assessment H.B. 1186 Excepts from the calculation of a school's academic performance ratings and from determining accreditation, the assessment scores of students absent on the days assessments are administered under the student assessment program and students' scores that are inv... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Accountability H.B. 2711 Relates to intervention in mismanaged school districts. A. Provides the Department of Education shall investigate a school district for systemic educational mismanagement if: 1) fifty percent or more of the schools in the district are designated underperformin... More... AZ Vetoed 04/2008 P-12 fiscal accountability H.B. 2560 Concerns school districts compliance; relates to withholding monies; provides if the Department of Education, the Auditor General or the Attorney General determines that a school district is substantially and deliberately not in compliance and if the district ... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Fiscal Accountability H.B. 2469 An emergency measure which delays and extends the payback period for over-expenditures for Saddle Mountain Unified School District and Union Elementary School District and provides incentives for the unification or consolidation of these districts with neighbo... More... MS Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Low-Performing Schools S.B. 2666 Relates to low performing schools and school districts. Changes the designation of priority schools to schools at risk. Modifies and expands the definition of an at risk school. Commits the Legislature to the appropriation of adequate funds for the support of ... More... MS Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Removal of Superintendents in Underperforming Districts S.B. 2149 Provides that the appointed or elected superintendent of education in an underperforming school district for a specified number of consecutive school years shall be removed from office by the school board at the end of the school year. Provides for the appoint... More... MS Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Task Force on Underperforming Schools and Districts S.B. 2405 Creates a task force to study and report on the status of underperforming schools and districts in the state, effectiveness measures for improvement of those schools and school districts and enhancement of accountability and sanctions imposed on those schools ... More... NY Adopted 01/2008 P-12 Contracts for Excellence Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12 The board of regents has readopted, by emergency action effective January 22, 2008, the emergency rule adopted at the September 10, 2007 Regents meeting, and readopted at the October 23, 2007 Regents meeting, that added a new section 100.13 and amended section... More... Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Student Attendance and Driver's License S.B. 275 Authorizes the denial or suspension of a driver's license or learner's permit of a minor who is not enrolled in or has not completed school or an adult education program or who is habitually absent or tardy; authorizes school boards, the Recovery School Distri... More... KS Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 School Safety Violations and Teaching License Issuance/Renewal to Offenders S.B. 470 Repeals definition of "school safety violation." Rewrites provision relating to a student found in possession of a weapon or illegal drug at school or on school property, or who has engaged in an act or behavior at school or on school property that resulted in... More... WV Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 No Pass No Drive Academic Requirements H.B. 4023 Provides that student driving privileges may be withheld or revoked for those who are not making satisfactory academic progress in high school. Satisfactory academic progress is defined as "the attaining and maintaining of grades sufficient to allow for gradua... More... Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Play OK Adopted 06/2008 P-12 Co-Curricular and Extracurricular Programs OAC 210:35-17-2 Amends rules to require all state accredited schools to follow Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association (OSSAA) guidelines related to student eligibility to participate in extracurricular activities, activity absences, number of games allowed, and leng... More... Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Academic Crisis Schools H.B. 909 The recovery district shall retain jurisdiction over any school transferred to it for academic crisis purposes for a period of not less than five school years not including the school year in which the transfer occurred if the transfer occurred during a school... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Accountability H.B. 2711 Relates to intervention in mismanaged school districts. A. Provides the Department of Education shall investigate a school district for systemic educational mismanagement if: 1) fifty percent or more of the schools in the district are designated underperformin... More... Accountability--School Improvement FL Adopted 11/2008 P-12 School Improvement and Accountability FAC 6A-1.09981 Ensures consistency among all schools designated School Performance Grade of D by requiring that they utilize the Bureau of School Improvement educational improvement plans database. https://www.flrules.org/gateway/readFile.asp?sid=0&tid=6430147&type=1&File=6... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Accountability sanctions A.B. 2438 Requires the determination regarding growth targets for the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program (IIUSP) be averaged for funding. Requires a school that fails to meet or exceed certain growth targets but shows significant growth in a certain ... More... AK Adopted 08/2008 P-12 SCHOOL AND DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT 4 AAC 06.850, .872 Adds sections that clarify and expand the department's role in the school and district improvement process. New code requires a district to submit a district improvement plan to the department for approval not later than 90 days after designation as needing im... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Assistance to Low-performing Schools S.B. 582 Requires the state Department of Education to develop a program that provides for early identification of low performing chools that are at risk of being labeled "academically unacceptable" and provides targeted interventions that are designed to address ident... More... SC Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Teacher and Principal Specialists H.B. 4662 -- Amends Multiple Provisions For schools or districts designated as "at risk" (changed from "unsatisfactory), teacher specialists may be assigned to work across grade levels and subject areas. Such teachers will receive their salary and a supplement equal to 50% of the current southeaster... More... ME Issued 05/2008 P-12 P-16 Task Force Exec. Order 12 FY 08/09 The Pre-K through Adult Advisory Council is charged as follows: a. Furthers the goal of increasing the percentage of Maine's adults with four-year college degrees to 30% of adults; b. Furthers the goal of raising Maine's high school-to-college rate from 55% t... More... MO Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 School Improvement H.B. 2191 Allows school districts to participate in the A+ schools program irrespective of their accreditation status; provides that vocational schools may participate in the program if they are accredited by the Higher Learning Commission; provides that private school ... More... Adult Basic Education UT Adopted 11/2008 P-12 Adult Education Programs R277-733 Updates and align state and federal laws and regulations pertaining to adult education programs. Adds provisions regarding the qualifications of adult education teachers. Deletes references to adult education diplomas. Specifies that adult education must provi... More... CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Community College Adult ed accountability A.B. 1163 Authorizes school districts to claim and expend a percentage of their adult block entitlement for various adult education programs if approved by the Superintendent. Requires a district to maintain specified accountability mechanisms for those programs, includ... More... CT Signed into law 06/2008 Postsec. Community College Adult Literacy Board and Services S.B. 465 Establishes an adult literacy board as a standing committee of the state Employment and Training Commission to review and advise the commission on workforce investment and adult literacy services. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2008/ACT/Pa/pdf/2008PA-00163-R00SB-00465-... More... VT Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Community College Access to Technical Education H.B. 885 Relates to economic and workforce development. Section 11 of this bill (The Adult technical education; workforce education and training; report) requires the commissioner of education to: (1)  Outline and review the current method or methods by which tuition ... More... MN Vetoed 05/2008 P-12 Omnibus prek-12 Education Finance Bill H.B. 6 Relates to school district development screening aide, teacher and administrator licensure, district teacher compensation aide, district debt service equalization aid, non-resident student enrollment, an advisory council on early childhood education and care, ... More... MD Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Postsec. Adult and Family Literacy Programs S.B. 773 Requires the State Department of Education each year by August 1 to compile a list by county of adult education and family literacy services offered to the public; requires the Department to distribute the list to specified local school officials and to post t... More... MD Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Information on GED and Obtaining High School Diploma H.B. 953; S.B. 264 Requires representatives of local boards of education to provide information concerning alternative education programs and GED program requirements and testing locations to each individual who no longer attends a public high school in the county and has not ob... More... IN Signed into law 03/2008 Postsec. Interim Study Committee on Adult Education H.B. 1193 Creates the interim committee to study issues that relate to adult education, including funding for programs.The committee is to operate by the rules established by the legislative council. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2008/PDF/HE/HE1193.1.pdf... More... UT Adopted 01/2008 P-12 Adult Education Programs R277-733 Defines "adult basic education," "adult education," "GED," "measurable outcomes." Establishes clearer fiscal standards and practices for adult education programs. Adds a new section focusing adult education funds on student outcomes and student mastery. http:/... More... Assessment GA Adopted 12/2008 P-12 State Assessments GAC 160-3-1-.07 Eliminates reference to Georgia Kindergarten Assessment Program - Revised (GKAP-R). Provides all kindergarten students must be assessed using the Georgia Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (GKIDS). Eliminates provisions that all students at grades 3, ... More... MI Signed into law 12/2008 P-12 High School Merit Exam H.B. 6412 Revises the administration and requirements of the state merit examination; provides that pupils in grade 12 may take the exam if they did not complete it in grade 11; provides for a writing component of the test; allows use of the test as an indicator of work... More... CO Adopted 10/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Workforce Readiness Assessments 1 CCR 301-77 Addresses the administration of the Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness Assessments Pilot Program. Beginning in the 2008-09 academic year, directs the department to implement a pilot program for the purpose of evaluating standards and collecting data regardi... More... UT Signed into law 10/2008 P-12 Assessment System S.B. 2002A Allows the State Board of Education to exempt a school district or charter school from testing requirements under the Utah Performance Assessment System for Students (U-PASS) if the school district or charter school pilots an assessment system that incorporate... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Assessments S.B. 1111 Requires the State Board of Education to minimize the amount of testing time and duplication required to complete the state standards tests, but without the reduction of testing rigor or standards. Requires the board to revise testing requirements so that pupi... More... CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Community College Early Assessment Program S.B. 946 Expresses legislative intent that the Early Assessment Program (EAP) be expanded to include state community colleges. Authorizes community college districts to use the State Standards Test (CST) and augmented CST to provide diagnostic advice to prospective com... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 electronic learning assessment S.B. 1767 Amends existing law which requires the Learning Resource Network to establish review criteria for electronic learning assessment resources and requires the review to include a descriptive model. Requires the model to include the extent to which the product is ... More... CA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Data Analysis A.B. 2391 Allows a teacher to fulfill requirement to receive follow up training and instruction in areas that include data analysis, alignment of assessment and instruction, implication of data analysis and effect on increasing pupil achievement, impact on pupil success... More... CA Vetoed 07/2008 P-12 Charter School Assessments A.B. 2305 Requires a charter school or group of charter schools that directly administer pupil assessments to submit a notice of direct administration to the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Allows a charter school to terminate administering those assessments by su... More... FL Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Community College Omnibus Bill S.B. 1908 Requires the State Board of Education to replace the Sunshine State Standards with the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards; relates to tests by private schools for the Corporate Income Tax Credit Scholarship Program, graduation designations, assessments (... More... OK Vetoed 06/2008 P-12 End-of-Course Assessments H.B. 2633 Sets the testing window dates for the administration of each end-of-instruction criterion-referenced test required to be taken by students prior to graduation shall be between twenty-five (25) days prior to the last full day of the end of the course and the la... More... OK Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Support for Summer Reading, Survey on District Online Testing Capacity S.B. 1769 Relates to schools; provides a school district which has a certain amount of students participating in a summer reading program may be allocated a base amount of moneys for the program which shall be in addition to the per-student reimbursement amount provided... More... SC Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Amends Multiple Accountability Provisions H.B. 4662 Revises the Education Accountability Act. Adds poverty, limited English proficiency status, disability status, or other groups required by federal statutes or regulations to the requirement for disaggregation of achievement data. Changes terminology from "impr... More... CO Vetoed 05/2008 P-12 No Penalties for Students Missing State Assessment H.B. 1186 Excepts from the calculation of a school's academic performance ratings and from determining accreditation, the assessment scores of students absent on the days assessments are administered under the student assessment program and students' scores that are inv... More... GA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Norm-Referenced Assessments H.B. 637 Relates to the assessment of effectiveness of educational programs under the Quality Basic Education Act. Provides that each local school system may elect to administer, with state funding, nationally norm-referenced instruments in reading, mathematics, scienc... More... IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Student Readiness for College or Work S.F. 2216 - Generally Concerns state and local measures for preparing a student for a career or for postsecondary education, including a mandated statewide core curriculum for school districts and accredited nonpublic schools and a state designated career information and decision m... More... MN Vetoed 05/2008 P-12 Omnibus Education Policy Bill S.B. 3001 Authorized a parent or guardian of a student to designate an individual to participate in a school conference involving the child of the parent or guardian. Authorized the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota Office of Higher Education may each ... More... NE Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Statewide Assessments L.B. 1157 From the fiscal note: Changes the current assessment system to provide for statewide assessments in reading and mathematics to be administered in seven grades, rather than three. The bill also establishes an additional statewide science assessment. The science... More... LA Adopted 03/2008 P-12 Online Assessment Data Systems and End-of-Course Tests LAC 28:CXI.305 and 1801 Incorporates guidelines for usage of the statewide online assessment data systems and updates the names of content areas to be assessed through end-of-course tests. Pages 431-432: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0803/0803.doc... More... LA Adopted 03/2008 P-12 Revisions to State Assessment Policies Bulletin 118 Amends several rules relating to the statewide assessment standards and practices for testing, including: testing security, administrative errors, coordinators, end-of-course exams and field testing. See full text below. http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28... More... NJ Signed into law 03/2008 Postsec. Community College Alternative Testing Arrangements S.B. 1023 Pertains to institutions of higher education. Requires alternative testing arrangements be provided to certain students unable to attend tests at their regular administration due to religious observance. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2008/Bills/S1500/1023_I1.PD... More... WA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Washington Assessment of Student Learning Modifications and End-of-course Exams H.B. 3166 Beginning with the 2009 administration of the Washington assessment of student learning (WASL), the superintendent is directed to redesign the assessment in math, reading and science in all grades except high school by reducing the number of questions (short a... More... AK Adopted 02/2008 P-12 Work-Ready/College-Ready Transitional Skills Assessment 4 AAC 06.715, .717 Establishes a program curriculum and benchmark assessments to ensure that students in Alaska have the basic or transitional skills required for a successful transition into college and/or the workplace. ALASKA 3558... More... LA adopted 01/2008 P-12 Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices LAC 28:CXI.303, 305, 312, 315, 701, 1351, and 1355 Amends chapters of Bulletin 118 - Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices relating to test security, assessment program overview, and graduation exit examination. Makes changes to several Sections of Chapter 3, language is removed from §305 that reference... More... Assessment--Accommodations LA Adopted 10/2008 P-12 Alternative Assessment Results LAC 28:LXXXIII.3905 Amends rules relating to the school, district and state accountability system. Relates to the inclusion of alternate assessment results for students with disabilities in accountability system. http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v83/28v83.doc... More... CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Alternate assessments A.B. 2040 Relates to a high school exit examination in English language arts and mathematics. Creates a panel to make recommendations regarding alternative means for eligible pupils with disabilities to demonstrate that they have achieved the same level of academic achi... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 exit exams S.B. 1446 Reenacts provisions of former law which required a school district or state special school to grant a high school diploma to a pupil with a disability who was scheduled to graduate from high school, did not pass high school exit examination, did not receive a ... More... ID Adopted 08/2008 P-12 LEP Assessment IDAPA 08.02.03 Amends rules relating to thoroughness. Requires that first year limited English proficient students are required to take the standard achievement test for math and science. http://www2.state.id.us/adm/adminrules/rules/idapa08/08index.htm... More... Assessment--Computer Based UT Signed into law 10/2008 P-12 Assessment System S.B. 2002A Allows the State Board of Education to exempt a school district or charter school from testing requirements under the Utah Performance Assessment System for Students (U-PASS) if the school district or charter school pilots an assessment system that incorporate... More... OK Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Support for Summer Reading, Survey on District Online Testing Capacity S.B. 1769 Relates to schools; provides a school district which has a certain amount of students participating in a summer reading program may be allocated a base amount of moneys for the program which shall be in addition to the per-student reimbursement amount provided... More... LA Adopted 03/2008 P-12 Online Assessment Data Systems and End-of-Course Tests LAC 28:CXI.305 and 1801 Incorporates guidelines for usage of the statewide online assessment data systems and updates the names of content areas to be assessed through end-of-course tests. Pages 431-432: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0803/0803.doc... More... Assessment--End-of-Course IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Core Curriculum S.F. 2216 - Core Curriculum Amends previous language to remove "voluntary model" from the establishment of core curriculum for grades 9-12, beginning with students graduating in the 2010-2011 class. Prohibits the state board from requiring specific textbooks. Requires core curriculum tec... More... Assessment--Formative/Interim SC Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Amends Multiple Accountability Provisions H.B. 4662 Revises the Education Accountability Act. Adds poverty, limited English proficiency status, disability status, or other groups required by federal statutes or regulations to the requirement for disaggregation of achievement data. Changes terminology from "impr... More... IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Core Curriculum S.F. 2216 - Core Curriculum Amends previous language to remove "voluntary model" from the establishment of core curriculum for grades 9-12, beginning with students graduating in the 2010-2011 class. Prohibits the state board from requiring specific textbooks. Requires core curriculum tec... More... Assessment--High Stakes/Competency AZ Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Assessment Task Force H.B. 2211 Creates a seven-member Task Force on the Arizona Assessment of Achievements Test with members drawn from diverse urban and rural areas who are to be appointed by the State Board of Education. Requires the Task Force to (a) examine the experiences and outcomes... More... At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) UT Adopted 11/2008 P-12 Highly Impacted Schools R277-464 Statute directs the state board to determine highly impacted schools based on the following criteria: (i) high student mobility rates within each school; (ii) the number and percentage of students at each school who apply for free school lunch; (iii) the numbe... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Data collection A.B. 1885 Specifies that eligible pupils who are enrolled in intensive instruction and services to help those pupils pass the High School Exit Examination shall not be counted as dropouts for purposes of specified data collection requirements. Requires the Superintenden... More... TX Adopted 08/2008 P-12 Dropout Recovery Pilot Program 19 TAC 2.102.EE.102.1056 The adopted new rule establishes procedures for a grant program for dropout recovery that meets the requirements of the Strategic Plan of the High School Completion and Success Initiative Council authorized in the Texas Education Code, §39.361(c). http://www.... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 High School Dropout Prevention Act of 2008 H.B. 1091 Provides that before a student between the ages of 17 and 18 may drop out, the student and student's parent must attend an exit interview, in which the student and parent provide written acknowledgement that withdrawal from school will likely reduce the studen... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Integrated Services for At Risk Students S.B. 701 Provides for integrated case management through the use of No Wrong Door; relates to disadvantaged children and their families; relates to student achievement, truancy intervention, drop out prevention, family safety and stability, foster care and adoption, pr... More... NY Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Identification of Free/Reduced Lunch Students A.B. 8699 Directs the commissioner of education to establish a program to identify methodologies and practices utilized by schools and school districts within the state and nationally to identify students receiving a free or reduced price meal and to simplify student ac... More... DE Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Eligibility for Free or Reduced Health Insurance H.B. 286 Requires local school districts, vocational or technical school districts, and the Department of Health and Social Services to take advantage of the right afforded by Title 7, Part 245 of the Code of Federal Regulations for school districts and state agencies ... More... OK Adopted 06/2008 P-12 Annual Student Dropout Reports OAC 210:35-25-3 Requires annual student dropout reports to local school boards: (a)    The principal or a representative of each site serving students in Grades 7-12 shall review and discuss with the local school board, the certified annual site dropout report submitted by th... More... CO Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Education Programs for Students Placed in Facilities H.B. 1204 Provides for the oversight of educational programs for children placed within day treatment centers, residential child care facilities, other out of home placement facilities, and hospitals, either as the result of a court order or other public entity action o... More... KY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Status Offenders H.B. 384 Defines "nonoffender" as a child alleged to be dependent, neglected, or abused and who has not been otherwise charged with a status or public offense. Specifies that "status offenses" by a minor include beyond the control of the school or parents, habitual tru... More... ME Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Student Survey of Risk Factors S.B. 804 (Resolve)Requires the state, in its biannual survey of students, to use a survey of students in grades 6 to 12 that reliably and validly measures those risk and protective factors shown by research to predict adolescent health and behavior problems, including ... More... ME Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Alternative Education Programs H.B. 1661A Defines alternative education program as a program in which the primary purpose is to provide at-risk students with curricula and assessment; defines alternative learning as an educational option that a public school or publicly supported program offers at-ris... More... MS Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Low-Performing Schools S.B. 2666 Relates to low performing schools and school districts. Changes the designation of priority schools to schools at risk. Modifies and expands the definition of an at risk school. Commits the Legislature to the appropriation of adequate funds for the support of ... More... WA Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 High School Graduation Requirements and Learning Assistance for English Language Learners S.B. 6673 Existing student learning plans (required for 8-12th grade students) must also include information on the student's results on the Washington assessment of student learning (WASL), if the student's score on the Washington language proficiency test II (for stud... More... ID Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 At-risk H.B. 575 Makes a technical correction to the Teen Early Intervention Pilot program; revises the definition of teens at risk in order to accommodate the range of grades and ages present in middle schools as well as alternative schools. Chapter 219 http://www3.idaho.gov... More... WA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Community Learning Center Program S.B. 6369 Bill expands the purposes of the community learning center program to include professional development and programmatic support from the office of the superintendent of public instruction (OSPI) to the community learning center programs. http://apps.leg.wa.gov... More... At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education NH Adopted 11/2008 P-12 Alternative Education Programs Ed 1300 Requires the department to deliver a program of prevention and recovery of dropouts that increased the dropout age to 18 and permits a student to complete secondary education requirements through approved alternative programs. NEW HAMPSHIRE 6887... More... DE Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Placement in Alternative Education H.B. 326 Establishes a presumption that students 16 years of age and younger who are expelled or suspended pending expulsion by a local school district or charter school are appropriate for placement in an alternative education program. http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/li... More... ME Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Alternative Education Programs H.B. 1661A Defines alternative education program as a program in which the primary purpose is to provide at-risk students with curricula and assessment; defines alternative learning as an educational option that a public school or publicly supported program offers at-ris... More... MI Signed into law 01/2008 P-12 Alternative Education Academies S.B. 703 (sec. 1311g) Specifies policies, requirements and procedures for "strict discipline academies" for students who have been expelled, suspended or referred by courts, human services or juvenile agencies. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/publicact/pdf/2008-PA... More... At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol NY Signed into law 09/2008 Postsec. Community College Campus Security Officers S.B. 6949 Expands the powers granted to appointed campus security officers; provides that such officers may issue appearance tickets and a navigation summons or complaint; provides that such officers may seize an alcoholic beverage in the possession of an individual und... More... LA Issued 08/2008 P-12 Council on Safe and Drug-Free Schools Executive Order 64 Reestablishes the Governor's Advisory Council on Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities within the Executive Department, Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools. http://www.gov.state.la.us/assets/docs/OfficialDocuments/08222008EO62SafeDrugFreeSchoolsCommunit... More... NH Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Health Curriculum S.B. 359 Updates the health education curriculum requirements to include instruction on the effects of alcohol and other drugs, child abuse, human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, and sexually transmitted diseases on the human system; requ... More... OK Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Drug/Alcohol Education for Prenatal Mothers H.B. 2705 Requires all prenatal classes to include in their education curriculum the risks of drug or alcohol use during pregnancy, risks of underage drinking, information on screening, assessment, intervention and referral for treatment of substance dependency. http://... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Substance Abuse Services to Pregnant Minors H.B. 316 Amends the Human Services Code to requires a local substance abuse authority to ensure that all substance abuse treatment programs that receive public funds provide priority for admission to a pregnant minor. Requires a local substance abuse authority to provi... More... UT Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Dangers of Meth H.C.R. 1 Urges junior high, high school and postsecondary institutions to distribue age appropriate materials on the dangers of meth, and that these materials be made available to the business community, city and county governments, and religious communities. Urges sta... More... Attendance IL Signed into law 12/2008 P-12 Truancy S.B. 2743 Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that if a code violation involves a municipal ordinance regulating truants, the hearing date must be 7 to 40 days after the violation is reported. Increases minimum child age for which certain truancy provisions app... More... WY Adopted 10/2008 P-12 School Foundation Program Chapter 8 These emergency rules amend the existing rules related to the school foundation program.  The emergency rules provide additional definitions for terms used throughout the rules.  The emergency rules add a new section 8 which provides a process for a school dis... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Attendance S.B. 1735 Requires a school district to accept any documents and representations from the parent or guardian of a pupil that reasonably provide evidence that the pupil meets the residency requirements. Provides examples of the types of documents or representations that ... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Habitual Truancy and Habitual Tardiness H.B. 1133 Revises provisions related to habitual truancy and habitual tardiness. Requires a student's parent to enforce the student's attendance at the school to which the student is assigned. Requires a school principal or designee to provide a parent with written noti... More... AZ Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Attendance H.B. 2368 Relates to notification of the parents of a student who is enrolled in an elementary school of an unexcused absence; relates to notifying parents of such students of their responsibility to any absence of the pupil and to notify the school in advance or at the... More... DE Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Compact on Education for Children of Military Families H.B. 297 Provides an interstate compact to ensure standards for educational records for children of military families. http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis144.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+297/$file/legis.html?open... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Absences for Children of Active-Duty Parents H.B. 200 Provides that a child whose parent is a member of the U.S. Armed Forces or the National Guard and such parent has been called to duty for or is on leave from overseas deployment shall be granted up to five excused absences from school per school year for the c... More... NH Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Committee to Study Truancy Laws H.B. 1161 Establishes a committee to study the truancy laws; provides for membership and compensation, duties, chairperson and quorum, and report of findings and any recommendations for proposed legislation to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President o... More... MI Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Student Absences when Parents Are Deployed S.B. 747 Establishes that a student's absence because a parent, legal guardian or sibling is being deployed or returning from active duty is an excused absence. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/publicact/pdf/2008-PA-0141.pdf... More... CO Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Student Truancy and Attendance Reporting H.B. 1336 Requires the State Board of Education to adopt guidelines for the standardized calculation of unexcused absences of students; requires a school district to report annually to the department concerning the number of students who are habitually truant; requires ... More... KY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Status Offenders H.B. 384 Defines "nonoffender" as a child alleged to be dependent, neglected, or abused and who has not been otherwise charged with a status or public offense. Specifies that "status offenses" by a minor include beyond the control of the school or parents, habitual tru... More... MD Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Response to High Truancy Rates H.B. 285; S.B.96 Requires a county board of education to require elementary schools with certain truancy rates to implement a positive behavioral interventions and support program or certain behavior modification programs in collaboration with the State Department of Education... More... VT Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Absences for Attending Town Meetings S.B. 45 Prohibits employers and schools from penalizing employees and students who are absent in order to attend town meeting; provides an employee shall have the right to take unpaid leave from employment for the purpose of attending a town meeting provided the emplo... More... IN Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Attendance Enforcement H.B. 1234 Allows certain law enforcement officers to inspect student attendance records and to enforce the attendance laws and requires an affidavit against a parent to enforce the compulsory school attendance law be filed in a court with jurisdiction in the county in w... More... MS Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Reporting of Absences Due to Detainment H.B. 348 Relates to youth detained in juvenile detention centers; requires Youth Detention Staff to notify School Districts if a detained child misses one or more days from school due to such child's detainment. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2008/pdf/HB/03... More... Attendance--Truancy IL Signed into law 12/2008 P-12 Truancy S.B. 2743 Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that if a code violation involves a municipal ordinance regulating truants, the hearing date must be 7 to 40 days after the violation is reported. Increases minimum child age for which certain truancy provisions app... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 truancy S.B. 29 Requires a public school, school district, and county office of education that issues a device that uses radio frequency identification for the purpose of recording attendance or establishing or tracking the location of a pupil to notify and obtain written con... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Habitual Truancy and Habitual Tardiness H.B. 1133 Revises provisions related to habitual truancy and habitual tardiness. Requires a student's parent to enforce the student's attendance at the school to which the student is assigned. Requires a school principal or designee to provide a parent with written noti... More... NH Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Committee to Study Truancy Laws H.B. 1161 Establishes a committee to study the truancy laws; provides for membership and compensation, duties, chairperson and quorum, and report of findings and any recommendations for proposed legislation to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President o... More... CO Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Student Truancy and Attendance Reporting H.B. 1336 Requires the State Board of Education to adopt guidelines for the standardized calculation of unexcused absences of students; requires a school district to report annually to the department concerning the number of students who are habitually truant; requires ... More... KY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Status Offenders H.B. 384 Defines "nonoffender" as a child alleged to be dependent, neglected, or abused and who has not been otherwise charged with a status or public offense. Specifies that "status offenses" by a minor include beyond the control of the school or parents, habitual tru... More... MD Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Response to High Truancy Rates H.B. 285; S.B.96 Requires a county board of education to require elementary schools with certain truancy rates to implement a positive behavioral interventions and support program or certain behavior modification programs in collaboration with the State Department of Education... More... MS Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Reporting of Absences Due to Detainment H.B. 348 Relates to youth detained in juvenile detention centers; requires Youth Detention Staff to notify School Districts if a detained child misses one or more days from school due to such child's detainment. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2008/pdf/HB/03... More... WA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Truancy Fines S.B. 6398 Courts must remit fifty percent of the fines collected in truancy court judgements against parents (who allow their children to skip school unexcused) to the child's school district. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202... More... Background Checks ID Adopted 08/2008 P-12 UNIFORMITY IDAPA 08.02.02 Amends rules relating to uniformity. Includes definitions and addresses the process of obtaining a criminal history check for applicants for certification, school district employees, substitute teachers, student teachers and individuals who have unsupervised o... More... IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Child Abuse Reporting H.B. 4252 Provides that if a school district employee has made a report of suspected child abuse to the department of children and family services involving the conduct of a current or former district employee, and another school district requests information on the job... More... DE Adopted 07/2008 P-12 Criminal Background Checks for Student Teaching 14 DAC 746 Proposes rule requiring student teachers to have criminal background checks prior to placement in a school setting. http://regulations.delaware.gov/AdminCode/title14/700/746.pdf... More... DE Adopted 07/2008 P-12 Criminal Background Checks 14 DAC 745 Proposes rule addressing criminal background check for public school related employment. http://regulations.delaware.gov/AdminCode/title14/700/745.pdf ... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Background Checks H.B. 1007 Provides that background checks must indicate whether a person has been arrested for a criminal offense. Eliminates provision that record of all criminal convictions provided to a local school board must be limited to convictions during a maximum of 10 years p... More... OH Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Employee Misconduct H.B. 428 Requires the state board or state superintendent to automatically revoke or deny an educator license, without an administrative hearing, for anyone convicted of, if found guilty of or has plead guilt to certain offenses. Requires prosecutors to notify the stat... More... TN Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Background Checks S.B. 2807 Clarifies that any person, corporation, or other entity who enters or renews a contract, or contracts with any person or entity who enters or renews a contract, with a school, local board of education, or child care program is responsible for obtaining crimina... More... TN Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Criminal History Checks for Teacher Preparation Program Candidates S.B. 3285 Requires all students wishing to enter approved teacher training programs shall be required to: (1) Supply a fingerprint sample and submit to a criminal history records check to be conducted by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) and the Federal Burea... More... AZ Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 fingerprinting H.B. 2694 Relates to fingerprinting of contracted school employees; provides that fingerprints submitted shall be used to conduct a State and National criminal records check and the Department of Public Safety may exchange this fingerprint data with the Federal Bureau o... More... AZ Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Background Checks H.B. 2042 Provides that a person who is employed by a school district or charter school or who is an applicant for employment at either, who is arrested for or charged with various crimes including sexual assault of a child or adult or certain violent crimes against chi... More... CO Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Background Checks and Investigations for School Employees S.B. 208 Concerns criminal background investigations of school employees; adds to the list of entities able to conduct inquiries concerning prospective employees, the governing board of a charter school or institute charter school; relates to whether a person's educato... More... CO Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Background Checks for School Employees H.B. 1344 Requires the Department of Education to respond to a background query concerning a prospective employee within a certain amount of time; directs a school district to report to the department after a dismissal or resignation as a result of an allegation of unla... More... MN Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Background Checks for Coaches S.B. 2369 Requires all K-12 athletic coaches undergo criminal history background checks. Requires the school hiring authority to notify parents and guardians about the school hiring authority's policy regarding a criminal background check on employees and other individu... More... MN Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Background Checks on Prospective Employees S.B. 2597 Requires school boards to seek information from prospective employees and the Board of Teaching about disciplinary actions against the employees; provides a school hiring authority may hire or allow an individual to provide a service to a school pending comple... More... OK Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Ability to Search for Criminal Conduct S.B. 1601 Finds that licensed child care facilities and other organizations serving children, together with all parents and guardians, should be able to easily search for criminal conduct of potential employees, workers, volunteers, and babysitters, and readily identify... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Fingerprints H.B. 2566 Provides that any person who participates in a teacher preparation program that is approved by the State Board of Education or any person who is contracted by this state, by a school district or by a charter school to provide tutoring services shall obtain a f... More... ID Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Background checks S.B. 1515 Makes an additional appropriation to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for criminal history checks; makes an additional appropriation to the State Police for the Support Services Program for criminal history checks. Chapter 373... More... KS Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 School Safety Violations and Teaching License Issuance/Renewal to Offenders S.B. 470 Repeals definition of "school safety violation." Rewrites provision relating to a student found in possession of a weapon or illegal drug at school or on school property, or who has engaged in an act or behavior at school or on school property that resulted in... More... MD Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Background Checks and Hiring Restrictions H.B. 652 Prohibits a county board of education from knowingly hiring or retaining any individual who has been convicted of specified crimes including violent crimes and child abuse. http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/hb/hb0652t.pdf... More... ID Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Background checks H.B. 566 Amends existing law relating to criminal history checks for school district employees or applicants for certificates; requires additional individuals as specified to undergo a criminal history check; clarifies provisions of a criminal history check; provides a... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Employee Backgrounds H.B. 1242 Prohibits the employment of an applicant for employment requiring direct contact with students if such applicant is the subject of a founded case of physical or sexual abuse of a child. Additionally, requires the dismissal of a teacher who while employed by a ... More... Bilingual/ESL LA Adopted 12/2008 P-12 Guidelines for English Proficiency LAC 28:LXXXIII.4001 Establishes reasonable guidelines for Limited English Proficient (LEP) students to achieve English proficiency. Allows districts to focus limited resources on those students in greatest in greatest need of services. http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v83/28v8... More... UT Adopted 11/2008 P-12 English Language Learner Family Literacy Centers R277-715 Provides a formula to allocate funds appropriated by the 2008 Legislature for school districts and charter schools to provide English Language Learner Family Literacy Centers. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/code/r277/r277-715.htm... More... IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Assorted Amendments to the School Code S.B. 2482 Repeals the Professional Development Block Grant. Amends requirements related to annual census for special education, such that census must include students age 3 to 21 (rather than birth to 21) receiving special education services. Eliminates requirement that... More... OR Approved by voters 08/2008 P-12 English Immersion Instruction Ballot Measure 58 Provides that English immersion be required in public schools; provides that public school students, who are not proficient in English and students for whom English is a second language, shall be immersed in English, not sidelined for an extended period of tim... More... OK Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Support for Summer Reading, Survey on District Online Testing Capacity S.B. 1769 Relates to schools; provides a school district which has a certain amount of students participating in a summer reading program may be allocated a base amount of moneys for the program which shall be in addition to the per-student reimbursement amount provided... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 English immersion program S.B. 1096 Appropriates money for deposit in the State Structured English Immersion Fund to fund English language learner instruction, in the same manner as state aid, pursuant to the research based models of structured English immersion programs adopted by the English l... More... WA Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 High School Graduation Requirements and Learning Assistance for English Language Learners S.B. 6673 Existing student learning plans (required for 8-12th grade students) must also include information on the student's results on the Washington assessment of student learning (WASL), if the student's score on the Washington language proficiency test II (for stud... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 English Language Learner Family Literacy Centers S.B. 2 - Section 24 Establishes the English Language Learner Family Literacy Centers to: (1) Increase parent involvement (2) Communicate with parents who are not proficient in English concerning required and optional activities at the school, in the parents' preferred language to... More... WA Issued 02/2008 P-12 New Americans Policy Council Executive Order No. 08-01 Orders the Washingtons New Americans Policy Council established; makes recommendations to the Governor on strategies to help legal permanent residents become naturalized; the acquisition of English language skills integral to the process of becoming citizens; ... More... Business Involvement KY Issued 12/2008 P-12 Commission on Philanthropy E.O. 2008-1273 Establishes the state Commission on Philanthropy to explore new opportunities for creative solutions to the state's systemic challenges. Provides for an initial focus on early childhood education and child health.... More... UT Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Dangers of Meth H.C.R. 1 Urges junior high, high school and postsecondary institutions to distribue age appropriate materials on the dangers of meth, and that these materials be made available to the business community, city and county governments, and religious communities. Urges sta... More... Career/Technical Education LA Adopted 11/2008 P-12 Career and Tech. Course Offerings and Standards LAC 28:CXV.2373 Relates to agricultural education. Updates career and technical course offerings to be more aligned with national standards. http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v115/28v115.doc... More... CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Postsec. Course articulation A.B. 876 Requests the California State University, and the University of California to take specified actions with respect to the recognition of career technical education coursework in connection with the admissions criteria of the respective universities. Chapter 650... More... IL Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 09/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Study of Current and Projected Shortages in Critical Occupations and Skill Sets S.B. 2632 Subject to appropriation, requires the department of commerce and economic opportunity to conduct a study to identify current and projected shortages in critical occupations and specific skill sets within businesses and industries, and to devise strategies to ... More... IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Assorted Amendments to the School Code S.B. 2482 Repeals the Professional Development Block Grant. Amends requirements related to annual census for special education, such that census must include students age 3 to 21 (rather than birth to 21) receiving special education services. Eliminates requirement that... More... MO Adopted 08/2008 Postsec. career educators 5 CSR 80-800.280 Amends rule to incorporate 2008 changes. Updates certification requirements for Library Media Specialist certificate in Compendium of Missouri Certification Requirements. Updates certification requirements for Postsecondary Career Educators as of January 2008.... More... SC Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 School-to-Work H.B. 4934 (Joint Resolution) Approves regulations of the Board of Education; relates to the School to Work Transition Act. http://www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/house2.html... More... SD Adopted 08/2008 P-12 CAREER/TECHNICAL EDUCATION, EARLY INTERVENTION RULES 24:10:42:24; 24:43:13:01; 24:43:13:02 Amends Career/Technical Education rules to improve the accountability system. Amends Early Intervention Program rules for clarification, eligibility changes and rate changes. Amends Accreditation and School Improvement rules regarding certification of non- cer... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 Postsec. Community College TOPS-Tech Award H.B. 1278 Amends provisions of law related to the Tuition Opportunity Program for Students Tech Award (TOPS-Tech Award). Effective with the 2009-2010 award year and thereafter, expands eligibility to include any school registered by the state board of cosmetology and an... More... RI Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Apprenticeship Classroom Training H.B. 7931 Authorizes the board of regents for elementary and secondary education to authorize vocational schools to provide apprenticeship classroom training to students subject to the approval of the Rhode Island department of labor and training state apprenticeship co... More... AZ Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Career and Technical Finance H.B. 2234 Prohibits a joint technological education district (JTED) from spending Class B bond proceeds to construct or renovate a facility located on the campus of a school in a school district that participates in the JTED unless the facility is only used to provide c... More... CT Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Career/Tech -- Agriculture Science and Technology H.B. 5869 Concerns agriculture science and technology education; increases state support of regional agriculture science programs by increasing the per pupil operating grant and the transportation grant; redesignates vocational agriculture programs as agriculture scienc... More... FL Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 High School Programs - Career/Tech & Virtual Schools S.B. 1906 Relates to alternative high school courses and programs. Establishes a pilot project for awarding high school credit for industry certification programs. Requires school districts to indicate interest in the pilot project. Provides for specified courses to be ... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Postsec. Workforce Training Rapid Response Fund H.B. 1018 Establishes the Workforce Training Rapid Response Fund. Authorizes the board of supervisors of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System to use such funds for various purposes, including for education directed at refining or developing literacy or o... More... NH Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Advanced Manufacturing Education Advisory Council S.B. 459 Establishes an Advanced Manufacturing Education Advisory Council to advise the Department of Education in the implementation, evaluation, and expansion of the advanced manufacturing curriculum, to assist the department in pursuing public and private funds in o... More... VT Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Community College Access to Technical Education H.B. 885 Relates to economic and workforce development. Section 11 of this bill (The Adult technical education; workforce education and training; report) requires the commissioner of education to: (1)  Outline and review the current method or methods by which tuition ... More... AZ Signed into law 05/2008 Postsec. Community College private vocational programs S.B. 1431 Exempts a school that solely provides an instructional program for certified nursing assistants that is licensed by the Nursing Board from the requirement that a private vocational program license be held in order to operate a private vocational program. Chapt... More... AZ Vetoed 05/2008 P-12 Curriculum H.B. 2557 Provides that a school district shall not eliminate or reduce instruction in physical education, the arts, music, career and technical education, or vocational education unless the reduction or elimination is necessary for budgetary reasons, unless the governi... More... IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Core Curriculum S.F. 2216 - Core Curriculum Amends previous language to remove "voluntary model" from the establishment of core curriculum for grades 9-12, beginning with students graduating in the 2010-2011 class. Prohibits the state board from requiring specific textbooks. Requires core curriculum tec... More... MO Adopted 05/2008 P-12 CAREER EDUCATION 5 CSR 60-120.010 Incorporates the current state plan for career education. http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c60-120.pdf... More... OK Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Community College Postsec. Board of Private Vocational Schools S.B. 1211 Relates to the Board of Private Vocational Schools; 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. h... More... OK Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Career and Technology Education H.B. 2290 Relates to the State Board of Career and Technology Education; makes an appropriation; authorizes the expenditure of certain funds; provides for the budgeting of funds in certain categories and amounts; requires performance measures for budget categories; prov... More... TN Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Work Experience and Career Employment Programs H.B. 2891 Permits the creation of work experience and career employment programs that provide study and employment in career and technical education programs for students 14 years of age or older; provided, that such programs comply with state and federal law on employm... More... CO Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Career/Technical Policies H.B. 1079 Relates to technical education; replaces the term vocational education with the term career and technical education in certain statutes; requires career and technical education funds to be distributed based on actual expenditures by participating school distri... More... CO Adopted 04/2008 P-12 Community College Revisions to Colorado's Vocational Act 8 CCR 1504-2 Clarifies rules regarding the Colorado Vocational Act of 1970, including changing the phrase "Vocational Education" to "Career and Technical Education", revising the process of distributing monies to the districts so they're based on actual costs and actual st... More... ME Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College High School and Postsecondary Integration H.B. 1549 (Resolve)Directs the Department of Education to recommend to the Board of Education an innovative model of consolidated and integrated secondary and postsecondary education; concerns facilities for a regional high school, a fully integrated career and technica... More... SD Adopted 04/2008 Postsec. Career and Technical Education 24:10:45:01, :02, :06 thru :10, inclusive, :16, :17 Amends rules to assure that current practices for training instructional staff at the post-secondary technical institutes are up-to-date by changing from "vocational" to "career and technical," and to change the number of credits required in the first two year... More... ID Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Postsec. Economic/Workforce Development S.B. 1256 Provides an exception from the merit system for employees of the Idaho Career Information System; establishes the Career Information System within the Department of Labor to help citizens understand the link between educational preparation and work, explore ed... More... ID Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 career/technical education S.B. 1474 Appropriates a specified sum to the State Board for Professional Technical Education for the Division of Professional Technical Education; reappropriates unexpended and unencumbered fund balances. Chapter 245 http://www3.idaho.gov/oasis/S1474.html... More... LA Adopted 03/2008 P-12 Career and Technical Education Courses LAC 28:CXV.2377 Amends rules relating to the Entrepreneurship Content Standards Curriculum Framework. Updates and lists career and technical course offerings. See page 58 http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v115/28v115.doc... More... LA Adopted 03/2008 P-12 Entrepreneurship Content Standards & Career/Tech LAC 28:CXLIII.Chapters 1-5 Amends rules relating to the Entrepreneurship Content Standards Curriculum Framework. Discusses specific skills, traits, characteristics, objectives and benchmarks of the standards, and relation to other subjects. Relates to Career & Tech programs. http://doa.... More... NH Signed into law 03/2008 Postsec. Community College Postsecondary Career Schools S.B. 173 Amends the procedures for regulation of private postsecondary career schools. http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2008/SB0173.html... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Community College Career Readiness Certification Program H.B. 1526 From fiscal impact statement: HB 1526 creates the Virginia Career Readiness Certification Program to certify the workplace and college readiness skills of Virginians, in order to better prepare them for continued education and workforce training, successful em... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Expansion of Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program S.B. 169 Expands the Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program to include those teacher candidates pursuing an endorsement in career and technical education. This bill is a recommendation from the Joint Subcommittee to Study Science, Math, and Technology Education in ... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Industry Certification S.B. 326 Requires the Board of Education to develop a plan for increasing the number of students receiving industry certification and state licensure as part of their career and technical education; requires the plan to include an annual goal for school divisions. http... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Career Readiness Certificate Program S.B. 756 Creates the Virginia Career Readiness Certificate Program to certify the workplace and college readiness skills of Virginians, in order to better prepare them for continued education and workforce training, successful employment, and career advancement. The Vi... More... WA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Career and Technical Education Act S.B. 6377 The bill requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction (OSPI) to develop a re-approval schedule for all career and technical education (CTE) programs and must establish performance measures and targets for CTE programs in specified areas. Dis... More... AK Adopted 02/2008 P-12 Work-Ready/College-Ready Transitional Skills Assessment 4 AAC 06.715, .717 Establishes a program curriculum and benchmark assessments to ensure that students in Alaska have the basic or transitional skills required for a successful transition into college and/or the workplace. ALASKA 3558... More... SD Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 finance--career and technical education S.B. 155 Provides state aid to education to certain school districts for students who currently attend a high school primarily focused on career and technical education that is operated by an eligible school district and who, immediately prior to attending the high sch... More... VA Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Career and Technical Teacher Recruitment H.B. 506 Relates to the Teaching Scholarship Loan Program to increase the number of candidates pursuing careers in career and technical education. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB506ER... More... Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Apprenticeships A.B. 2078 Authorizes school districts that maintain high schools to establish work-based learning programs, and to purchase liability insurance for pupils enrolled in programs of study involving work experience, which may include work-based learning off school grounds. ... More... RI Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Apprenticeship Classroom Training H.B. 7931 Authorizes the board of regents for elementary and secondary education to authorize vocational schools to provide apprenticeship classroom training to students subject to the approval of the Rhode Island department of labor and training state apprenticeship co... More... Choice of Schools--Charter Schools UT Adopted 11/2008 P-12 Charter Schools R277-470 Specifies that the state charter school board must create an accountability review process that includes specified components. Directs district charter school authorizers to make charter school visits and submit written reports to charter schools after the vis... More... CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Charter school facilities A.B. 2033 Relates to the Charter Schools Facilities Program under the Leroy F. Green School Facilities Act of 1998 that provides funding to qualifying entities for the purpose of establishing school facilities for charter school pupils, and regulations that provide for ... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Charter school governance A.B. 2115 Requires charter schools to adopt and comply with a conflict-of-interest policy to include specified requirements set forth in existing law. Sets the eligibility qualifications to be elected or appointed to a charter school governing board. Prohibits a school ... More... CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 transportation A.B. 830 Provides a school or a school district would not be liable for transportation services provided by an operator of a charter-party carrier for which neither has contracted, arranged, or provided. Requires the review and, if necessary, revision of training and o... More... NV Adopted 09/2008 P-12 CHARTER SCHOOLS NAC 386 Revises various provisions relating to charter schools for the Department. NEVADA 4427 http://www.leg.state.nv.us/NAC/CHAPTERS.HTMl... More... NV Adopted 09/2008 P-12 Charter School Authorizing NAC 386 Establishes provisions relating to applications to form a charter school for sponsorship by the State Board of Education. ... More... NV Adopted 09/2008 P-12 Educational Management Organizations (EMOs) NAC 386 Revises provisions governing educational management organizations relating to charter schools. ... More... OH Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Appropriations H.B. 496 (Am. Sub. H.B. 562) Permits chartered nonpublic schools to purchase goods and services through group purchasing contracts negotiated and arranged by the Department of Administrative Services. Permits an educational service center (ESC) to authorize the conversion of a building un... More... CA Vetoed 07/2008 P-12 Charter School Assessments A.B. 2305 Requires a charter school or group of charter schools that directly administer pupil assessments to submit a notice of direct administration to the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Allows a charter school to terminate administering those assessments by su... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Charter Schools H.B. 1105 Provides that Type 2 charter schools approved by the state board after July 1, 2008 must receive a per pupil amount each year as provided in the Minimum Foundation Program approved formula. Repeals certain provisions relating to funding of Type 1, 2 and 3 char... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 School Choice Options S.B. 447 Allows the parent or legal guardian of a student assigned to attend a school in a Recovery School District the option to enroll their child in any school operated by the original school system if a sufficient capacity at the appropriate grade level exists; rel... More... AZ Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Charters tax-exempt H.B. 2330 Provides that property and buildings, including land, improvements, furniture, and equipment, that are owned by a nonprofit organization that operates as a charter school are exempt from taxation. Chapter 252 http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legt... More... DE Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Postsec. Charter School Moratorium S.J.R. 11 Would impose a one-year moratorium on new charter school applications during the 2008-09 school year. During this time period, applications for a single gender charter school for girls may be submitted; however only one such school may be granted charter appro... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Charter School Renewal Period H.B. 349 Changes the charter school renewal period. Replaces existing 10-year renewal period with renewal period ranging from three to 10 years. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=498131... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Maximum Number of Charter Schools H.B. 321 Increases the limitation on the number of charter school proposals that can be entered into by all chartering authorities from 42 to 70. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=494906... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Charter School Transporation S.B. 475 Requires charter schools receiving transportation services from a local school board to reimburse the board for the cost of providing such transportation. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503464... More... OK Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Amends Charter Schools Act S.B. 2100 Relates to the State Charter Schools Act; allows charter schools to provide prekindergarten programs to four-year-olds; allows a charter school previously sponsored by the Board of Education of a school district which continues operation in such district to re... More... TN Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Charter School Admissions and Task Force S.B. 3401 Ceates a task force to study and evaluate statutory inconsistencies and technical issues, fiscal issues, administrative compliance, identification and communication of charter schools' best practices, facility needs, transportation, food services, communicatio... More... TN Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Charter School Sponsorship S.B. 3283 Prohibits public charter school sponsorship by private elementary and secondary schools. Authorizes private higher education institutions to sponsor public charter schools. Current law prohibits all private schools from sponsoring a public charter school. http... More... AZ Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Special populations, charter H.B. 2747 Provides that if a school district transports or contracts to transport pupils to the state schools for the deaf and the blind during any fiscal year, the school district may transport or contract with a charter school to transport sensory impaired pupils duri... More... CT Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Charter School Governance S.B. 648 Concerns state charter school governance; reforms charter school governance and membership of the governing council; provides for transfer of student records from the charter school the student previously attended. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2008/ACT/Pa/pdf/2008PA-... More... GA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Georgia Charter Schools Commission H.B. 881 Establishes the Georgia Charter Schools Commission as a state-level charter school authorizing entity working in collaboration with the department of education. Provides for membership of commission. Provides that the commission must, among other duties: (1) ... More... SC Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Charter School Approvals, Renewals, etc. H.B. 4980 Relates to the approval, renewal, revocation, and termination of charters for charter schools; increases the charter period from five to ten years; transfers certain authority pertaining to approval, renewal, revocation, and termination of charters from the St... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Academic Contests H.B. 2167 Provides that charter schools may be recipients of money from the Academic Contests Fund for the purpose of sending pupils who are state level winners of academic contests and their chaperones to the national levels of these contests so that the pupils may rep... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Charter school renewal S.B. 1215 Relates to the period of time in which the sponsor of a charter school's approved plan must notify the school of its ability to apply for a renewal; provides that a charter school that elects to apply for renewal must do so within a specified time prior to the... More... CO Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 State Charter School Institutes H.B. 1159 Concerns State Charter School Institutes; relates to open meetings and records laws; relates to school district charter school exclusive authority; provides procedures by which a charter school may request revocation of such exclusive authority; relates to spe... More... NM Adopted 04/2008 P-12 Charter School Applications and Appeals NMAC 6.80.4 Relates to charter school application and appeal requirements. Established the initial application and renewal process for charter schools, whether locally or state chartered, the appeal process of charter schools to the secretary of education and the secretar... More... WI Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Virtual Charter Schools S.B. 396 The bill requires that anyone who teaches in a public school or charter school must hold a teaching license issued by the department of public instruction (DPI). Teachers in virtual charter schools (defined as a charter school offering an online learning progr... More... AZ Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Charter school, high schools H.B. 2563 Allows a charter school or school district to determine whether credits earned by a pupil formerly enrolled in a separate charter school or school district will be assigned as elective or core credits and to provide that pupil with a list that indicates which ... More... CA Adopted 03/2008 P-12 FACILITIES FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS Title 5 CCR Clarifies and expands existing provisions with regards to facilities and the operation and maintenance of charter schools. Adds content to the section pertaining to procedures and timeliness for dispute resolution.... More... DE Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Same Sex Charter Schools H.B. 285 Allows a charter school to restrict student admissions by gender in the case of a same-gender school; provides that within a reasonable amount of time after commencement of operations of any same-gender charter school in the state, there shall be approved and ... More... ID Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Charter school H.B. 502 Amends existing law relating to public charter schools to provide for relocation of public charter school facilities to another school district if the approved primary attendance area of the public charter school is located within more than one school district... More... ID Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 charter schools S.B. 1403 Amends existing law relating to public charter schools to require submission of documentation of due diligence upon referral of a charter school petition to the public charter school commission by a local board of trustees. Chapter 157 http://www3.idaho.gov/oa... More... LA Adopted 03/2008 P-12 Charter School Policies LAC 28:CXXXIX.Chapters 1 thru 35 (Bulletin 126) Amends rules relating to charter schools. Provides for the authorizing responsibilities of the Board, the application process, performance contracting, evaluation of schools, extensions, renewals and revocations, amendments, governance, funding, fiscal respons... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Charter School Enrollment Cap S.B. 2 - Section 1 Amends language establishing caps on the number of students who may be served by charter schools in the state. Provides that, beginning with the 2009-2010 school year, the State Charter School Board and local school boards may authorize a combined maximum stud... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Charter School Reporting Requirements H.B. 472 Requires a charter school to report to school districts, by the last business day in April, May, June, July and August, the aggregate numbers of new students, sorted by their resident school and grade level, who have accepted enrollment in the charter school. ... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Charter Schools and Charter School Accountability H.B. 160 Modifies provisions relating to charter schools. Modifies the appointment procedures for the staff director of the State Charter School Board. Modifies provisions relating to the purposes and status of charter schools. Requires the state board of education, in... More... NM Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 State Charter School for the Arts S.B. 34 Relates to public schools; enacts the New Mexico school for the arts act; allows for the creation of a state-chartered charter school as a statewide residential high school for the arts; exempts the school from certain provisions of the charter schools act; al... More... VA Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Waivers from New Regulations H.B. 771 Provides that any joint, or regional charter school in operation prior to July 1, 2008, may request a waiver from any new regulation requirements; provides that any joint or regional school, such as academic year Governor's Schools, may set the school calendar... More... MI Signed into law 01/2008 P-12 Charter School Policies S.B. 730 (sec. 504) Clarifies charter school policies related to location, facilities, admissions, grade configuration and enrollment. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/publicact/pdf/2008-PA-0001.pdf... More... Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Charter Schools H.B. 1105 Provides that Type 2 charter schools approved by the state board after July 1, 2008 must receive a per pupil amount each year as provided in the Minimum Foundation Program approved formula. Repeals certain provisions relating to funding of Type 1, 2 and 3 char... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Charter School Transporation S.B. 475 Requires charter schools receiving transportation services from a local school board to reimburse the board for the cost of providing such transportation. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503464... More... GA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Charter School Capital Finance Act H.B. 831 Establishes the Charter School Capital Finance Act. Directs the state board of education to establish a grant program for qualified charter school contributions, i.e., funds donated by a taxpayer to a qualified charter school organization (501(c)3) for the pur... More... GA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Charter School Finance H.B. 1065 Relates to the sales tax for educational purposes to authorize local charter schools and state chartered special schools as capital outlay projects for purposes of such tax. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/pdf/hb1065.pdf... More... GA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Georgia Charter Schools Commission H.B. 881 Establishes the Georgia Charter Schools Commission as a state-level charter school authorizing entity working in collaboration with the department of education. Provides for membership of commission. Provides that the commission must, among other duties: (1) ... More... ID Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Charter school S.B. 1405 Amends existing law to provide for the transfer or conveyance of any real or personal property owned by the school district to any public charter school. Chapter 191 http://www3.idaho.gov/oasis/S1405.html... More... ID Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 charter school H.B. 397 Amends existing law to revise the grounds when written notice is required of defect from an authorized chartering entity to the public charter school; clarifies the conditions under which a charter school is to be issued a notice of defect based on fiscal mana... More... LA Adopted 03/2008 P-12 Charter School Policies LAC 28:CXXXIX.Chapters 1 thru 35 (Bulletin 126) Amends rules relating to charter schools. Provides for the authorizing responsibilities of the Board, the application process, performance contracting, evaluation of schools, extensions, renewals and revocations, amendments, governance, funding, fiscal respons... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Charter Schools and Cost-Effective Methods of Performing Administrative Functions S.B. 2 - Section 14 Encourages charter schools to identify and use cost-effective methods of performing administrative functions, including contracting for administrative services with the State Charter School Board as provided in Section 53A-1a-501.6. Page 22 of 43: http://le.ut... More... Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Research UT Adopted 11/2008 P-12 Charter Schools R277-470 Specifies that the state charter school board must create an accountability review process that includes specified components. Directs district charter school authorizers to make charter school visits and submit written reports to charter schools after the vis... More... GA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Georgia Charter Schools Commission H.B. 881 Establishes the Georgia Charter Schools Commission as a state-level charter school authorizing entity working in collaboration with the department of education. Provides for membership of commission. Provides that the commission must, among other duties: (1) ... More... LA Adopted 03/2008 P-12 Charter School Policies LAC 28:CXXXIX.Chapters 1 thru 35 (Bulletin 126) Amends rules relating to charter schools. Provides for the authorizing responsibilities of the Board, the application process, performance contracting, evaluation of schools, extensions, renewals and revocations, amendments, governance, funding, fiscal respons... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Charter Schools and Charter School Accountability H.B. 160 Modifies provisions relating to charter schools. Modifies the appointment procedures for the staff director of the State Charter School Board. Modifies provisions relating to the purposes and status of charter schools. Requires the state board of education, in... More... Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment UT Adopted 09/2008 P-12 Open Enrollment R277-437 Rewrites rule addressing open enrollment for public school students. ... More... CA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Open enrollment S.B. 1207 Requires the governing board of a school district to calculate the capacity of the schools in the district for purposes of the open enrollment policy in a nonarbitrary manner using pupil enrollment and available space. Makes various technical and conforming ch... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 School Choice Options S.B. 447 Allows the parent or legal guardian of a student assigned to attend a school in a Recovery School District the option to enroll their child in any school operated by the original school system if a sufficient capacity at the appropriate grade level exists; rel... More... SC Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Ability to Transfer Without Penalty H.B. 4758 Provides that any high school student who is the victim of physical abuse, harassment, or stalking by a classmate during school hours or otherwise resulting in a restraining order being granted against the classmate by a court of competent jurisdiction, may tr... More... MN Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Interstate Enrollment Options H.B. 1812 Authorizes the commissioner to enter into an agreement with the designated authority from an adjoining state to establish an enrollment options program between Minnesota and the adjoining state. Provides provisions by which any such agreement must meet. [Sec. ... More... IA Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Desegregation and Diversity Plans H.F. 2164 Relates to voluntary diversity or court-ordered school desegregation plans under the state's open enrollment law. Deletes provision that "court-ordered desegregation, minority and nonminority pupil ratios shall be maintained according to the desegregation plan... More... MD Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Attendance Outside Assigned School Boundaries S.B. 77 Requires a superintendent of schools of a county to allow a child to attend a public school in a school attendance area other than the school in the school attendance area where the child is domiciled with the child's parent or legal guardian if the child live... More... NE Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Learning Communities, Telecommunication Services L.B. 1154 From the fiscal note: LB 1154 pertains to learning communities. Section 8 changes the requirements for transportation of students in a learning community. Free transportation is to be provided to a student contributing to the socioeconomic diversity of enrollm... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Open Enrollment H.B. 349 Modifies provisions allowing students to attend public schools other than their school of residence. Provides for an early and a late enrollment period and establishes different open enrollment thresholds for the early and late enrollment periods. Provides tha... More... Choice of Schools--Innovation Schools CO Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Innovation Schools Act of 2008 S.B. 130 Enacts the Innovation Schools Act of 2008; authorizes school district boards of education to implement policy innovations in public schools through the development of an innovation plan designed to meet the educational needs of a diverse and constantly changin... More... Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Assorted Amendments to the School Code S.B. 2482 Repeals the Professional Development Block Grant. Amends requirements related to annual census for special education, such that census must include students age 3 to 21 (rather than birth to 21) receiving special education services. Eliminates requirement that... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts/Riverfront H.B. 1069 Requires the board of the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts/Riverfront (NOCCA) to develop a plan to enter into cooperative agreements to provide educational services to students in a specified parish, in which school systems specifically request the boa... More... OK Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 State School of Science and Mathematics H.B. 2310 Relates to the State School of Science and Mathematics; requires budgeting in certain categories and amounts; requires performance measures; limits the salary of the Director; provides budgetary limitations; provides that students who are enrolled in a consoli... More... KS Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science S.B. 404 Provides that the Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science (KAMS) may admit nonresident students. Requires KAMS students to pay those fees regularly charged high school students. Provides that tuition and fees charged to nonresident students may exceed the am... More... Choice of Schools--Tax Credits FL Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Corporate Income Tax Credit Scholarships H.B. 653 Expands the Corporate Income Tax Credit Scholarship Program by increasing the amount of credits and allowing the use of credits for insurance premium taxes; provides that siblings of certain students or students in foster care are eligible for participation in... More... GA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Tax Credits H.B. 1133 Authorizes the creation of "student scholarship organizations" that allocate funds for scholarships or grants allowing preschool and K-12 students to attend accredited private schools. Establishes requirements for student scholarship organizations. Provides fo... More... LA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Income Tax Deductions S.B. 5B Grants an individual income tax deduction for tuition and fees paid to enroll a child in a parochial or private school, or any public elementary or secondary school affiliated with a public college or university, for 50% of the tuition and fees paid or $5,000... More... Choice of Schools--Vouchers FL Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Student w/ Disabilies Policies H.B. 1313 Relates to charter schools, the Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program, postsecondary education, school attendance, and high school graduation requirements; revises the terminology used to identify students with intellectual, emotional, or behavio... More... FL Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Corporate Income Tax Credit Scholarships H.B. 653 Expands the Corporate Income Tax Credit Scholarship Program by increasing the amount of credits and allowing the use of credits for insurance premium taxes; provides that siblings of certain students or students in foster care are eligible for participation in... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program H.B. 1347 Creates the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program. Defines "covered district" as one that is found academically in crisis pursuant to R.S. 17:10.6, has had schools transfered to the jurisdiction of the Recovery School District, and is located... More... Civic Education CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 civic education S.B. 1274 Requires that, when pupils are instructed with regard to the words of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America as part of patriotic exercises, the school provide a combination of the giving of the pledge and the instruction describe... More... IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Commission on Children and Youth H.B. 4456 Creates the Commission on Children and Youth Act. Provides for membership, appointments, goals, recommendations, and reports. Provides that the Early Learning Council must have primary responsibility for development of a five-year strategic plan for children a... More... RI Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Juniors and Seniors as Election Officials H.B. 7833 Allows high school juniors and seniors to be appointed as election officials. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law08/law08231.htm... More... TN Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Instruction on Nonviolence H.B. 2790 Urges all public schools to provide instruction on nonviolence as means to conflict resolution as part of character education curriculum. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/HB2790.pdf... More... MD Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Student Voting Rights H.B. 1258 Declares the intent of the General Assembly that teachers of Baltimore City public high school students inform students about the federal, State, and Baltimore City election processes and the importance of exercising the right to vote and registering to vote. ... More... OK Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 H.B. 2229 Amends existing law which requires public school districts to include instruction concerning the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution during Celebrate Freedom Week; requires the instruction to be grade appropriate; requires inclusion ... More... UT Adopted 03/2008 P-12 Standards for School District Discipline Plans R277-609 Provides that all charter schools (and schools if district does not have districtwide plan) must develop a school-wide written model for prevention and intervention for student behavior management and discipline procedures for students who habitually disrupt s... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Registering High School Seniors to Vote S.B. 125 Modifies the Election Code by amending certain provisions for registering high school seniors to vote. http://le.utah.gov/~2008/bills/sbillenr/sb0125.pdf... More... Civic Education--Character Education CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 civic education S.B. 1274 Requires that, when pupils are instructed with regard to the words of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America as part of patriotic exercises, the school provide a combination of the giving of the pledge and the instruction describe... More... IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Commission on Children and Youth H.B. 4456 Creates the Commission on Children and Youth Act. Provides for membership, appointments, goals, recommendations, and reports. Provides that the Early Learning Council must have primary responsibility for development of a five-year strategic plan for children a... More... RI Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Juniors and Seniors as Election Officials H.B. 7833 Allows high school juniors and seniors to be appointed as election officials. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law08/law08231.htm... More... TN Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Instruction on Nonviolence H.B. 2790 Urges all public schools to provide instruction on nonviolence as means to conflict resolution as part of character education curriculum. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/HB2790.pdf... More... MD Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Student Voting Rights H.B. 1258 Declares the intent of the General Assembly that teachers of Baltimore City public high school students inform students about the federal, State, and Baltimore City election processes and the importance of exercising the right to vote and registering to vote. ... More... OK Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 H.B. 2229 Amends existing law which requires public school districts to include instruction concerning the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution during Celebrate Freedom Week; requires the instruction to be grade appropriate; requires inclusion ... More... UT Adopted 03/2008 P-12 Standards for School District Discipline Plans R277-609 Provides that all charter schools (and schools if district does not have districtwide plan) must develop a school-wide written model for prevention and intervention for student behavior management and discipline procedures for students who habitually disrupt s... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Registering High School Seniors to Vote S.B. 125 Modifies the Election Code by amending certain provisions for registering high school seniors to vote. http://le.utah.gov/~2008/bills/sbillenr/sb0125.pdf... More... Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 civic education S.B. 1274 Requires that, when pupils are instructed with regard to the words of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America as part of patriotic exercises, the school provide a combination of the giving of the pledge and the instruction describe... More... WA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 History and Government Required Content H.B. 2781 Beginning with the 2009-2010 school year, disrticts must ensure that history and government courses include the following content: 1. Commerce in Washington and Washington's place in the global economy; 2. The Washington State Constitution and Washington polit... More... Class Size CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Class Size S.B. 1112 Extends the sunset date for the mitigation provisions in the Class Size Reduction Program, in which participating school districts are provided funding for each class in which the class size is reduced to a ration of 20 or fewer pupils per certified teacher in... More... DE Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Compliance with Class-Size Ratios H.B. 393 Codifies the recommendation of the Class Size and Unit Allocation Task Force that the Department of Education annually collect and report data regarding compliance with the student-instructor ratio by local school districts and charter schools. http://legis.de... More... NY Adopted 06/2008 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... More... NY Adopted 01/2008 P-12 Contracts for Excellence Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12 The board of regents has readopted, by emergency action effective January 22, 2008, the emergency rule adopted at the September 10, 2007 Regents meeting, and readopted at the October 23, 2007 Regents meeting, that added a new section 100.13 and amended section... More... Counseling/Guidance CO Adopted 08/2008 P-12 School Counselor Corps Grant Program 1 CCR 301-74 Establishes rules regarding the School Counselor Corps Grant Program, including application procedures, review criteria and reporting requirements. Establishes rules for HB 1370 that provides moneys to school districts, boards of cooperative services, and ch... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 High School Dropout Prevention Act of 2008 H.B. 1091 Provides that before a student between the ages of 17 and 18 may drop out, the student and student's parent must attend an exit interview, in which the student and parent provide written acknowledgement that withdrawal from school will likely reduce the studen... More... WV Adopted 06/2008 P-12 Changes to Policy 2510 Title 126, Series 42 From the introduction to the adopted rules: "Revisions were needed in Policy 2510 to allow local school districts greater flexibility in the implementation of the rigorous academic standards and high quality programs that characterize West Virginia's 21st cen... More... CO Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 School Counselor Corps Grant Program H.B. 1370 Makes legislative findings concerning the importance of school counseling services for students in middle, junior high, and high schools; creates the School Counselor Corps Grant Program to provide moneys to school districts, boards of cooperative services, an... More... IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Student Readiness for College or Work S.F. 2216 - Generally Concerns state and local measures for preparing a student for a career or for postsecondary education, including a mandated statewide core curriculum for school districts and accredited nonpublic schools and a state designated career information and decision m... More... MD Adopted 04/2008 P-12 Career Development Guidance COMAR 13A.04.10.01, .02 Provides the Maryland Career Development Framework standards to guide the implementation of a systematic instructional program in career development and decision making for all students. http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/13a/13a.04.10.01.htm... More... NM Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College College and Workplace Readiness Assessment S.B. 460 Relates to public schools; changes the statewide college and workplace readiness assessments; allows the eleventh grade standards-based assessments to serve as the assessment required for graduation; provides that financial literacy shall be offered as an elec... More... Curriculum MI Signed into law 12/2008 P-12 History of Africa in Curriculum H.B. 4902 Encourages a school district that teaches world history in middle school or high school to focus instruction regarding Africa on at least one of certain kingdoms of Africa. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/publicact/pdf/2008-PA-0312.pdf... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Financial literacy A.B. 1502 Requires the State Board of Education and the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that information about financial literacy is included in appropriate subject area frameworks. Encourages school districts to include, during in... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Native American curriculum A.B. 2034 Encourages the State Board of Education and the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that the history-social science framework, evaluation criteria, and instructional materials include information about American Indians and en... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 History curriculum A.B. 2064 Requires the State Board of Education and the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that the history-social science framework adopted includes instruction on the Vietnam War, including the Secret War in Laos, the role of Southe... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Social science curriculum A.B. 1863 Encourages schools to include the role and contribution of Italian Americans in social science instruction. Encourages the State Board of Education to include the role and contribution of Italian Americans in the curriculum frameworks in the social sciences at... More... UT Adopted 09/2008 P-12 Instructional Materials Commission R277-469 Amends rule addressing the operating procedures of the Instructional Materials Commission. Defines "curriculum alignment" as the assurance that the material taught in a course or grade level matches the standards, objectives and assessments set by the state or... More... IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Homeownership Education S.B. 2387 Adds homeownership, including the basic process of obtaining a mortgage and the concepts of fixed and adjustable rate mortgages, subprime loans, and predatory lending, as part of the financial literacy component of consumer education for public school pupils. ... More... IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College State Treasurer Financial Education and Savings Not-For-Profit Corporation S.B. 2098 Authorizes the state treasurer to create the State Treasurer Financial Education and Savings Not-For-Profit Corporation to promote financial literacy and savings among the residents of the state and to issue grants and scholarships for educational purposes. Se... More... CA Vetoed 07/2008 P-12 Science S.B. 908 Amends existing law that requires the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to recommend minimum standards of course of study of schools in the state and requires the State Board of Education and the State Department of Education to revi... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Financial Literacy and Education Commission S.B. 405 Creates and provides for the Financial Literacy and Education Commission; provides for membership, powers and duties; relates to education on saving and managing spending, credit and debt, especially credit card debt. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/stre... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Foreign Language Opportunities S.B. 549 Requires, by a specified time, that all children attending public schools shall have the opportunity to study the critical languages in addition to the traditional languages currently offered. Not later than the beginning of the 2013-2014 school year, every st... More... NY Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Drivers Education S.B. 6985 Creates a temporary special advisory panel on driver education availability and curriculum enhancement to examine, assess and make recommendations to improve drivers education instruction and make such instruction more available. Directs the panel to consider,... More... PA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Center for Environmental Education S.B. 356 Amends the Environmental Education Act. Provides for the establishment of the Center for Environmental Education and the Center for Environmental Education Board. Relates to k-12 environmental curriculum standards, adult environmental education, and higher edu... More... RI Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Standards-Based PE and Health Curricula H.B. 7280 Requires that the physical education and health curricula in schools be based on standards set by the state Health Education Framework and the state Physical Education Framework commencing September 1, 2012. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/billtext08/housetext08/... More... RI Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Standards-Based PE and Health Curriculum S.B. 2621 Requires that the physical education and health curriculums in schools be based on standards set by the Health Education Framework and the Physical Education Framework. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law08/law08463.htm... More... CT Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 High School Foreign Language Credit H.B. 5820 Concerns high school credit for private world language courses; provides that students may earn up to two credits toward high school graduation for completion of a world language courses offered by a nonprofit provider and the student passes a test prescribed ... More... NH Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College HIV Education S.B. 395 Establishes a commission to review the state's statutes on human immunodeficiency virus education, prevention, and control. http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2008/SB0395.html... More... NH Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Health Curriculum S.B. 359 Updates the health education curriculum requirements to include instruction on the effects of alcohol and other drugs, child abuse, human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, and sexually transmitted diseases on the human system; requ... More... NH Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Pre-Engineering Curriculum H.B. 1282 Expands the Department of Education's pre- engineering technology curriculum in public schools program for students in specified grades interested in engineering careers; removes digital electronics and computer integrated manufacturing from the course require... More... AZ Vetoed 05/2008 P-12 Curriculum H.B. 2557 Provides that a school district shall not eliminate or reduce instruction in physical education, the arts, music, career and technical education, or vocational education unless the reduction or elimination is necessary for budgetary reasons, unless the governi... More... IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Financial Literacy S.F. 2216 - Financial Literacy Segment Part of this bill makes financial literacy part of the core curriculum and defines it as: Not limited to financial responsibility and planning skills; money management skills, including setting financial goals, creating spending plans, and using financial inst... More... IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Core Curriculum S.F. 2216 - Core Curriculum Amends previous language to remove "voluntary model" from the establishment of core curriculum for grades 9-12, beginning with students graduating in the 2010-2011 class. Prohibits the state board from requiring specific textbooks. Requires core curriculum tec... More... OK Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Physical Activity S.B. 1186 Beginning with the 2008-2009 school year, the Board must require, as a condition of accreditation, that public elementary schools provide to students in full-day kindergarten and grades one through five, in addition to other requirements set forth, an average ... More... KY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Instruction on the Holocaust and Genocide H.J.R. 6 Establishes the Ernie Marx Resolution. Directs the department of education to review Holocaust and genocide curricula developed by other states and review the state core content at the elementary, middle, and high school levels to determine places where the st... More... MD Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Financial Literacy H.B. 1242; S.B. 533 Creates a Task Force to Study How to Improve Financial Literacy in the State; requires the task force to study the current ability of high school students to understand basic financial concepts, evaluate the current provision of financial literacy education in... More... OK Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 H.B. 2229 Amends existing law which requires public school districts to include instruction concerning the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution during Celebrate Freedom Week; requires the instruction to be grade appropriate; requires inclusion ... More... OR Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Farm-to-School and School Garden Program H.B. 3601A Requires the Department of Education to establish Oregon Farm-to-School and School Garden Program and to assist school districts that participate in the United States Department of Agriculture's National School Lunch Program or School Breakfast Program in util... More... TN Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Guidelines for Foreign Language Fluency S.B. 2980 Directs the State Board of Education to develop guidelines for Develop guidelines for the use of LEAs to foster foreign language fluency as part of holistic education for all students in grades kindergarten through twelve (K-12). Current law requires two years... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Instructional Materials Alignment with Core Curriculum S.B. 2 - Section 11 Directs the state board of education to adopt rules that establish: (1) The qualifications of the independent parties who may evaluate and map the alignment of the primary instructional materials before a district may purchase such primary instructional materi... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Physical Fitness H.B. 242 Requires local school boards to incorporate into their local wellness policy as a goal a minimum of an average of 150 minutes of physical fitness for all students. Such program may include any combination of (i) physical education classes, (ii) extracurricular... More... WA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Local Farms-Healthy Kids Act S.B. 6483 The bill creates the farm-to-school program within the department of agriculture to facilitate increased procurement of Washington grown food by schools. The department of agriculture, along with the department of health, the office of the superintendent of pu... More... WV Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 High School Health Ed. Curriculum H.B. 4124 Adds education concerning CPR and first aid to the health education curriculum to students in grades six to 12. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2008_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/HB4124%20ENR%20SUB.htm... More... Curriculum--Alignment UT Adopted 09/2008 P-12 Instructional Materials Commission R277-469 Amends rule addressing the operating procedures of the Instructional Materials Commission. Defines "curriculum alignment" as the assurance that the material taught in a course or grade level matches the standards, objectives and assessments set by the state or... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Instructional Materials Alignment with Core Curriculum S.B. 2 - Section 11 Directs the state board of education to adopt rules that establish: (1) The qualifications of the independent parties who may evaluate and map the alignment of the primary instructional materials before a district may purchase such primary instructional materi... More... WA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Online Mathematics Curriculum H.B. 2598 Requires the office of the superintentdent of public instruction (OSPI) and the state board to work together to issue a request for proposals to adapt the existing mathematics curriculum to align it with the state's math standards and to make the curriculum av... More... Curriculum--Arts Education OK Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Oklahoma Arts Council Grants H.B. 2699 Bill expands eligibility for Oklahoma Arts Council incentive grants to organizations, as well as school districts, for establishment of visual arts programs in schools. The bill also expands the sources of funds with which the council may match state appropria... More... AZ Vetoed 05/2008 P-12 Curriculum H.B. 2557 Provides that a school district shall not eliminate or reduce instruction in physical education, the arts, music, career and technical education, or vocational education unless the reduction or elimination is necessary for budgetary reasons, unless the governi... More... GA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Georgia Arts Alliance H.B. 291 Creates the Georgia Arts Alliance to receive and distribute funds for the support of the arts, including the Georgia Council for the Arts, and for teaching and physical infrastructure needed to provide arts and arts in education, for the improvement of educati... More... TN Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Art Supplies H.B. 3322 Requires that art supplies purchased by any school or school district for use by students in K-6 must be certified non-toxic by the Arts and Creative Materials Institute and must bear the Approved Product (AP) or Certified Product (CP) seal certifying that the... More... TN Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Art and Music S.B. 2920 Requires each Local Education Agency to include art and music education in all K-12 public schools (to help each student foster creative thinking, spatial learning, discipline, craftsmanship and the intrinsic rewards of hard work.) Directs the state board of e... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Elementary Arts Learning Program S.B. 2 - Section 25 Establishes the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Elementary Arts Learning Program to enhance the social, emotional, academic and arts learning of students in grades K-6 by integrating arts teaching and learning into core subject areas. Directs the state board of educ... More... NM Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 State Charter School for the Arts S.B. 34 Relates to public schools; enacts the New Mexico school for the arts act; allows for the creation of a state-chartered charter school as a statewide residential high school for the arts; exempts the school from certain provisions of the charter schools act; al... More... Curriculum--Drivers Education NY Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Drivers Education S.B. 6985 Creates a temporary special advisory panel on driver education availability and curriculum enhancement to examine, assess and make recommendations to improve drivers education instruction and make such instruction more available. Directs the panel to consider,... More... Curriculum--Environmental Education PA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Center for Environmental Education S.B. 356 Amends the Environmental Education Act. Provides for the establishment of the Center for Environmental Education and the Center for Environmental Education Board. Relates to k-12 environmental curriculum standards, adult environmental education, and higher edu... More... Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. MI Signed into law 12/2008 P-12 Financial Literacy as Math Course S.B. 834 Provides that a financial literacy course is a permissible mathematics course under the state merit standard for high school graduation. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/publicact/pdf/2008-PA-0316.pdf... More... UT Adopted 12/2008 P-12 Financial and Economic Literacy R277-704 Defines "financial and economic literacy student passport" as a collection of approved activities, assessments or achievements completed during a given time period that indicate advancement in financial and economic understanding. Defines "financial and econom... More... IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Homeownership Education S.B. 2387 Adds homeownership, including the basic process of obtaining a mortgage and the concepts of fixed and adjustable rate mortgages, subprime loans, and predatory lending, as part of the financial literacy component of consumer education for public school pupils. ... More... IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College State Treasurer Financial Education and Savings Not-For-Profit Corporation S.B. 2098 Authorizes the state treasurer to create the State Treasurer Financial Education and Savings Not-For-Profit Corporation to promote financial literacy and savings among the residents of the state and to issue grants and scholarships for educational purposes. Se... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Financial Literacy and Education Commission S.B. 405 Creates and provides for the Financial Literacy and Education Commission; provides for membership, powers and duties; relates to education on saving and managing spending, credit and debt, especially credit card debt. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/stre... More... CO Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Financial Literacy Standards H.B. 1168 Directs the State Standards and Assessments Development and Implementation Council, the State Board of Education, and school districts to add financial literacy standards to the mathematics content standards and to recommend and adopt statewide assessments tha... More... IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Financial Literacy S.F. 2216 - Financial Literacy Segment Part of this bill makes financial literacy part of the core curriculum and defines it as: Not limited to financial responsibility and planning skills; money management skills, including setting financial goals, creating spending plans, and using financial inst... More... IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Student Readiness for College or Work S.F. 2216 - Generally Concerns state and local measures for preparing a student for a career or for postsecondary education, including a mandated statewide core curriculum for school districts and accredited nonpublic schools and a state designated career information and decision m... More... MD Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Financial Literacy H.B. 1242; S.B. 533 Creates a Task Force to Study How to Improve Financial Literacy in the State; requires the task force to study the current ability of high school students to understand basic financial concepts, evaluate the current provision of financial literacy education in... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Financial Literacy S.B. 2 - Section 10 Defines "financial and economic literacy passport" as a document that tracks mastery of financial and economic literacy concepts and completion of financial and economic activities in a number of specified areas. Directs the state board of education, in cooper... More... NM Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College College and Workplace Readiness Assessment S.B. 460 Relates to public schools; changes the statewide college and workplace readiness assessments; allows the eleventh grade standards-based assessments to serve as the assessment required for graduation; provides that financial literacy shall be offered as an elec... More... Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Foreign Language Opportunities S.B. 549 Requires, by a specified time, that all children attending public schools shall have the opportunity to study the critical languages in addition to the traditional languages currently offered. Not later than the beginning of the 2013-2014 school year, every st... More... CT Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 High School Foreign Language Credit H.B. 5820 Concerns high school credit for private world language courses; provides that students may earn up to two credits toward high school graduation for completion of a world language courses offered by a nonprofit provider and the student passes a test prescribed ... More... TN Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Guidelines for Foreign Language Fluency S.B. 2980 Directs the State Board of Education to develop guidelines for Develop guidelines for the use of LEAs to foster foreign language fluency as part of holistic education for all students in grades kindergarten through twelve (K-12). Current law requires two years... More... Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education RI Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Standards-Based PE and Health Curriculum S.B. 2621 Requires that the physical education and health curriculums in schools be based on standards set by the Health Education Framework and the Physical Education Framework. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law08/law08463.htm... More... OK Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 School Health Coordinators Pilot Program H.B. 3395 Directs the State Department of Education to contract with a statewide school health program to establish a School Health Coordinators Pilot Program in which a maximum of six school health educators would assist school districts and Health and Fit School Advis... More... WA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Local Farms-Healthy Kids Act S.B. 6483 The bill creates the farm-to-school program within the department of agriculture to facilitate increased procurement of Washington grown food by schools. The department of agriculture, along with the department of health, the office of the superintendent of pu... More... Curriculum--International Education HI Vetoed 04/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Global Youth Center H.B. 2045 Establishes a Global Youth Center at the University of Hawaii. Provides that the purpose of the center is to generate and link an international framework in which youth from around the world may become actively engaged in the attainment of world peace, environ... More... Curriculum--Language Arts CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 curriculum standards S.B. 1097 Relates to the State Board of Education and school curriculum content standards. Requires that prior to the adoption of a curriculum framework, a content standards review panel must be appointed for reading/language arts and history/social sciences. Requires t... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Curriculum frameworks S.B. 1607 Requires the State Board of Education to include a chapter in its regulations concerning the development of curriculum frameworks and the adoption of instructional materials that provides for language and content instruction focusing particularly on those desi... More... MO Approved by voters 05/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Official Language V. 1 (CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 1;HJR 7 - 2007) Proposes an amendment to the Constitution relating to English as the Official State Language.... More... Curriculum--Mathematics IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Assorted Amendments to the School Code S.B. 2482 Repeals the Professional Development Block Grant. Amends requirements related to annual census for special education, such that census must include students age 3 to 21 (rather than birth to 21) receiving special education services. Eliminates requirement that... More... OK Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 State School of Science and Mathematics H.B. 2310 Relates to the State School of Science and Mathematics; requires budgeting in certain categories and amounts; requires performance measures; limits the salary of the Director; provides budgetary limitations; provides that students who are enrolled in a consoli... More... KS Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science S.B. 404 Provides that the Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science (KAMS) may admit nonresident students. Requires KAMS students to pay those fees regularly charged high school students. Provides that tuition and fees charged to nonresident students may exceed the am... More... KY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Postsec. STEM S.B. 2 Defines "Advanced science and mathematics" as Advanced Placement (AP) biology, calculus, chemistry, computer science, environmental science, and physics, and International Baccalaureate (IB) biology, chemistry, computer science, environmental systems, mathemat... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Teacher Salary Supplement Program S.B. 2 - Sections 19 and 20 Defines "qualifying educational background." Beginning in fiscal year 2008-2009, provides an annual salary supplement of $4,100 for a full-time teacher and a partial salary supplement for a part-time teacher who teaches one or more courses of a secondary schoo... More... WA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Online Mathematics Curriculum H.B. 2598 Requires the office of the superintentdent of public instruction (OSPI) and the state board to work together to issue a request for proposals to adapt the existing mathematics curriculum to align it with the state's math standards and to make the curriculum av... More... OR Adopted 01/2008 P-12 Instructional Materials Selection Criteria OAR 581-011-0140 Specifies that the State Board of Education adopts by reference the Criteria for the Adoption of Instructional Materials for Mathematics for which publishing companies will submit instructional materials. OREGON 29087... More... Curriculum--Multicultural MI Signed into law 12/2008 P-12 History of Africa in Curriculum H.B. 4902 Encourages a school district that teaches world history in middle school or high school to focus instruction regarding Africa on at least one of certain kingdoms of Africa. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/publicact/pdf/2008-PA-0312.pdf... More... Curriculum--Physical Education RI Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Standards-Based PE and Health Curricula H.B. 7280 Requires that the physical education and health curricula in schools be based on standards set by the state Health Education Framework and the state Physical Education Framework commencing September 1, 2012. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/billtext08/housetext08/... More... RI Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Standards-Based PE and Health Curriculum S.B. 2621 Requires that the physical education and health curriculums in schools be based on standards set by the Health Education Framework and the Physical Education Framework. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law08/law08463.htm... More... CA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 PE exemptions S.B. 602 Clarifies that a pupil may be granted exemption from courses in physical education if the pupil has met at least 5 of the 6 standards of the physical performance test. Chapter 32 http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm... More... MN Vetoed 05/2008 P-12 Omnibus Education Policy Bill S.B. 3001 Authorized a parent or guardian of a student to designate an individual to participate in a school conference involving the child of the parent or guardian. Authorized the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota Office of Higher Education may each ... More... OK Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Physical Activity S.B. 1186 Beginning with the 2008-2009 school year, the Board must require, as a condition of accreditation, that public elementary schools provide to students in full-day kindergarten and grades one through five, in addition to other requirements set forth, an average ... More... MD Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Physical Ed. for Students with Disabilities H.B. 1411; S.B. 849 Requires county boards of education to ensure that students with disabilities have certain opportunities in specified physical education and certain athletic programs; provides for certain exceptions to these requirements; requires county school systems to pro... More... MD Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Task Force on Student Physical Fitness S.B. 955 Establishes a Task Force on Student Physical Fitness in State Public Schools; provides that the task force shall study the advisability of requiring all public schools to provide a minimum amount of physical activity or education to students, the effects on ch... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Best Practices: Nutrition and Physical Education H.B. 246 Requires the Board of Education to develop a database of local school divisions' best practices regarding nutrition and physical education, including results of wellness-related fitness assessments. Requires that the database be accessible to all local school ... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Physical Fitness H.B. 242 Requires local school boards to incorporate into their local wellness policy as a goal a minimum of an average of 150 minutes of physical fitness for all students. Such program may include any combination of (i) physical education classes, (ii) extracurricular... More... Curriculum--Science IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Assorted Amendments to the School Code S.B. 2482 Repeals the Professional Development Block Grant. Amends requirements related to annual census for special education, such that census must include students age 3 to 21 (rather than birth to 21) receiving special education services. Eliminates requirement that... More... PA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Postsec. Budget Bill - H.B. 1067 Sets the school finance distribution formula based primarily on what it will take for students to meet the state's academic standards. The amount is based largely on the findings of the 2007 Costing-Out Study. Provides for a transferring pupil's disciplinary r... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Science Education and Instruction S.B. 733 Creates the Science Education Act; relates to curriculum and instruction in public elementary and secondary schools; provides that, upon request of a city, parish, or school board, the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education shall allow and assist te... More... OK Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 State School of Science and Mathematics H.B. 2310 Relates to the State School of Science and Mathematics; requires budgeting in certain categories and amounts; requires performance measures; limits the salary of the Director; provides budgetary limitations; provides that students who are enrolled in a consoli... More... KS Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science S.B. 404 Provides that the Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science (KAMS) may admit nonresident students. Requires KAMS students to pay those fees regularly charged high school students. Provides that tuition and fees charged to nonresident students may exceed the am... More... KY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Postsec. STEM S.B. 2 Defines "Advanced science and mathematics" as Advanced Placement (AP) biology, calculus, chemistry, computer science, environmental science, and physics, and International Baccalaureate (IB) biology, chemistry, computer science, environmental systems, mathemat... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Teacher Salary Supplement Program S.B. 2 - Sections 19 and 20 Defines "qualifying educational background." Beginning in fiscal year 2008-2009, provides an annual salary supplement of $4,100 for a full-time teacher and a partial salary supplement for a part-time teacher who teaches one or more courses of a secondary schoo... More... Curriculum--Sex Education WA Adopted 09/2008 P-12 SEX EDUCATION WAC 392-410-140 Amends rules relating to sex education. Provides definition and requirements for providing sex education. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/wac/... More... LA Issued 07/2008 P-12 Abstinence Education Executive Order 22 (Executive Order No. BJ 08-21) Directs the Department of Health and Hospitals and the Governor's Program on Abstinence to promote abstinence education with parents or legal guardians and to develop an aggressive campaign targeting adolescents ages 13-19 and pa... More... NH Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College HIV Education S.B. 395 Establishes a commission to review the state's statutes on human immunodeficiency virus education, prevention, and control. http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2008/SB0395.html... More... NH Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Health Curriculum S.B. 359 Updates the health education curriculum requirements to include instruction on the effects of alcohol and other drugs, child abuse, human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, and sexually transmitted diseases on the human system; requ... More... Curriculum--Social Studies/History MI Signed into law 12/2008 P-12 History of Africa in Curriculum H.B. 4902 Encourages a school district that teaches world history in middle school or high school to focus instruction regarding Africa on at least one of certain kingdoms of Africa. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/publicact/pdf/2008-PA-0312.pdf... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 curriculum standards S.B. 1097 Relates to the State Board of Education and school curriculum content standards. Requires that prior to the adoption of a curriculum framework, a content standards review panel must be appointed for reading/language arts and history/social sciences. Requires t... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 History curriculum A.B. 2064 Requires the State Board of Education and the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that the history-social science framework adopted includes instruction on the Vietnam War, including the Secret War in Laos, the role of Southe... More... OK Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 H.B. 2229 Amends existing law which requires public school districts to include instruction concerning the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution during Celebrate Freedom Week; requires the instruction to be grade appropriate; requires inclusion ... More... Demographics--Condition of Children/Adults MA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Commission on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren H.B. 4905 Provides for protection of children in the care of the Commonwealth to include a commission on grandparents raising grandchildren, child abuse prevention boards, municipal police training, a child welfare task force, tuition waivers for adopted children, child... More... TN Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Requires Resource Mapping S.B. 4012 Concerns Commission on Children and Youth; requires the commission to design and oversee a resource mapping of all federal and state funding sources and streams that support the health, safety, permanence, growth, development, and education of children in the ... More... Demographics--Enrollments AZ Vetoed 05/2008 P-12 Enrollment H.B. 2039 Provides that a school district or charter school shall place multiple birth siblings who are enrolled in the same school and who are in the same grade level in the same classroom if they meet the eligibility requirements of the class or in separate classrooms... More... SD Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Enrollment S.B. 21 Revises certain provisions related to the local school district interstate enrollment options program. http://www.ecs.org/html/offsite.asp?document=http://legis.state.sd.us/index.aspx... More... Desegregation AR Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 School Desegregation H.B. 1003A Amends provisions concerning school desegregation funding and litigation costs; extends the time period within which a school district must be declared unitary or at least partially unitary to be eligible for reimbursement. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproo... More... IA Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Desegregation and Diversity Plans H.F. 2164 Relates to voluntary diversity or court-ordered school desegregation plans under the state's open enrollment law. Deletes provision that "court-ordered desegregation, minority and nonminority pupil ratios shall be maintained according to the desegregation plan... More... NE Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Learning Communities, Telecommunication Services L.B. 1154 From the fiscal note: LB 1154 pertains to learning communities. Section 8 changes the requirements for transportation of students in a learning community. Free transportation is to be provided to a student contributing to the socioeconomic diversity of enrollm... More... Economic/Workforce Development MI Signed into law 12/2008 Community College Postsec. Community Colleges Act for New Training Programs S.B. 1342 Amends the Community College Act; authorizes community college districts to operate new jobs training programs, to enter into training agreements with employers, and to issue bonds to finance the training programs; defines new jobs training program as a projec... More... CO Adopted 10/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Workforce Readiness Assessments 1 CCR 301-77 Addresses the administration of the Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness Assessments Pilot Program. Beginning in the 2008-09 academic year, directs the department to implement a pilot program for the purpose of evaluating standards and collecting data regardi... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Postsec. Economic Development A.B. 1916 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE ECONOMY: Recommend concurrence in SENATE amendments., Requires the State Economic Strategy Panel to prepare and submit a preliminary version of the Economic Development Strategic Plan to the Governor and Legislature and to prepare ... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Community College Workforce development A.B. 1230 Establishes the existing Career Resource Network that provides career development information and resources to people in the state to enable them to attain their career goals, as a program in the State Department of Education. Establishes a state agency partne... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 economic development A.B. 2622 Amends existing law that requires the Employment Training Panel to establish a three year plan that includes the identification of specific industries, production and quality control techniques, and regions of the state where employment training funds would mo... More... CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Community College Career development A.B. 2648 Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop, in conjunction with certain organizations, a report that explores the feasibility of expanding and establishing career multiple pathway programs in the state. Authorizes the Superintendent to use ex... More... CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Employability A.B. 2125 Requires county juvenile justice plans for high-risk juveniles to assess job training services and strategies, and requires a demonstration of the effectiveness at reducing delinquency through job training and employment to qualify for funding allocation. Chap... More... CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Postsec. Economic development A.B. 3018 Enacts the Green Collar Jobs Act of 2008. Requires the State Workforce Investment Board to establish the Green Collar Jobs Council that shall develop a comprehensive array of programs, strategies, and resources to address the workforce needs that accompany the... More... IL Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 09/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Study of Current and Projected Shortages in Critical Occupations and Skill Sets S.B. 2632 Subject to appropriation, requires the department of commerce and economic opportunity to conduct a study to identify current and projected shortages in critical occupations and specific skill sets within businesses and industries, and to devise strategies to ... More... CA Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Postsec. Employability training S.B. 302 Requires the Employment Development Department, in addition to its existing duties and obligations, to report annually to the Governor, Legislature, and the Workforce Investment Board regarding the training expenditures made by local workforce investment board... More... IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Commission on Children and Youth H.B. 4456 Creates the Commission on Children and Youth Act. Provides for membership, appointments, goals, recommendations, and reports. Provides that the Early Learning Council must have primary responsibility for development of a five-year strategic plan for children a... More... MA Signed into law 08/2008 Postsec. Community College Green Jobs in the Commonwealth H.B. 5018 Provides for the creation of the Clean Energy Technology Center and related Alternative and Clean Energy Investment Trust Fund; provides the types of clean energy investments of the fund to include clean energy related projects that stimulate workforce develop... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 Postsec. Community College Grants for Grads Program H.B. 1156 Establishes the Grants for Grads Program and the Grants for Grads Fund for assistance to college graduates in the purchase of their first home. Provides that eligible graduates must be Louisiana residents who have received an associate, baccalaureate, master's... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 Postsec. Community College Workforce Development H.B. 1104 Terminates the Department of Labor and transfers its duties to the State Workforce Commission. Provides for the integration of workforce development programs, for block grants to workforce development areas, and for an automated Internet-based job-matching sys... More... NY Signed into law 07/2008 Postsec. Research Institutions A.B. 10944 Amends provisions of law establishing a faculty development program to assist institutions of higher education with the retention and recruitment of research faculty to expand eligibility for the program to research institutions; for reconstruction and improve... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Postsec. Workforce Training Rapid Response Fund H.B. 1018 Establishes the Workforce Training Rapid Response Fund. Authorizes the board of supervisors of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System to use such funds for various purposes, including for education directed at refining or developing literacy or o... More... RI Signed into law 06/2008 Community College Postsec. Community College of Rhode Island Twenty-first Century Work Force Commission H.B. 7889 Establishes the Community College of Rhode Island Twenty-first Century Work Force Commission. Sets the commission's mission as: The proposal of specific actions to strengthen the community college of Rhode Island's position as a key institution in Rhode Island... More... VT Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Community College Access to Technical Education H.B. 885 Relates to economic and workforce development. Section 11 of this bill (The Adult technical education; workforce education and training; report) requires the commissioner of education to: (1)  Outline and review the current method or methods by which tuition ... More... CT Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Youth Policy Council H.B. 5133 Continues the function of the Youth Futures Committee by establishing the Youth Policy Council to assist youth between the ages of twelve and twenty-one in entering the state's workforce; relates to improved school attendance, improved percentages of youth gra... More... GA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Made in Georgia Program S.B. 359 Relates to Department of Economic Development. Creates a Made in Georgia program promoting goods and products manufactured in Georgia by showcasing and promoting goods and products manufactured in the state, informing Georgians of the diverse manufacturing sec... More... HI Signed into law 05/2008 Postsec. Revolving Fund to Finance New Commercial Enterprises H.B. 2245 Authorizes the University of Hawaii to transfer all funds at its disposal, with the exception of general funds and tuition and special fund moneys, into the revolving fund to finance the establishment of new commercial enterprises. http://www.capitol.hawaii.go... More... VA Issued 05/2008 Community College Postsec. Workforce Development Officer Executive Order 61 (Executive Order 2008-61) Relates to the Chief Workforce Development Officer Coordination of Workforce Development and Accountability, Cross- Cabinet Collaboration and the Role of the Virginia Community College System. http://www.governor.virginia.gov/Initiat... More... MD Signed into law 04/2008 Postsec. Community College Public Service Career Assistance H.B. 1287 Establishes the Parren J. Mitchell Public Service Scholarship in the Workforce Shortage Student Assistance grants program; requires the State Higher Education Commission to select and offer grants to certain students who plan to pursue a career in public servi... More... ME Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College High School and Postsecondary Integration H.B. 1549 (Resolve)Directs the Department of Education to recommend to the Board of Education an innovative model of consolidated and integrated secondary and postsecondary education; concerns facilities for a regional high school, a fully integrated career and technica... More... NE Signed into law 04/2008 Community College Job Training Targeted to Rural Areas or Small Employers L.B. 956 Makes revisions to statutes governing the Job Training Cash Fund in the Department of Economic Development. The Department would be required to: Establish a subaccount within the fund to provide job training grants targeted to small and rural employers. The am... More... VA Signed into law 04/2008 Community College Workforce Development Coordination H.B. 731 Adds the Chancellor of the Community College System to the Board of the Authority to help better coordinate workforce development in the state. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0787... More... WI Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Postsec. Agricultural Education and Workforce Development Council A.B. 83 Bill creates in the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection the agricultural education and workforce development council. The council is directed to increase the hiring and retention of well-qualified employees in industries related to agricul... More... ID Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Postsec. Economic/Workforce Development S.B. 1256 Provides an exception from the merit system for employees of the Idaho Career Information System; establishes the Career Information System within the Department of Labor to help citizens understand the link between educational preparation and work, explore ed... More... LA Adopted 03/2008 P-12 Entrepreneurship Content Standards & Career/Tech LAC 28:CXLIII.Chapters 1-5 Amends rules relating to the Entrepreneurship Content Standards Curriculum Framework. Discusses specific skills, traits, characteristics, objectives and benchmarks of the standards, and relation to other subjects. Relates to Career & Tech programs. http://doa.... More... MS Signed into law 03/2008 Postsec. Community College Skills Training for Employees S.B. 2534 Extends repealer on the tax credit for certain employers sponsoring skills training for employees. Provides an income tax credit for certain employers sponsoring skills training for employees. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2008/pdf/SB/2500-2599/SB... More... NH Issued 03/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Task Force for Retention and Recruitment of a Young Workforce Executive Order 2008-3 Establishes the Task Force for Retention and Recruitment of a Young Workforce for New Hampshire. Establishes membership and duties of the task force. http://www.nh.gov/governor/orders/documents/executive_order_2008-3.pdf... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 Postsec. Contact Information for Staff Associated with Animal Research S.B. 113 Provides that the name, addresses, and phone numbers of individuals who perform, or provide supplies or services for, medical or scientific research at an institution within the state system of higher education that is conducted using animals be classified as ... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 Community College Workforce Development to Coordinate with Community College H.B. 1312 Provides that the strategic plan for workforce development shall be developed in coordination with the development of the comprehensive economic development policy required from the Governor during the first year of his administration. The bill also enhances t... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Career Readiness Certificate Program S.B. 756 Creates the Virginia Career Readiness Certificate Program to certify the workplace and college readiness skills of Virginians, in order to better prepare them for continued education and workforce training, successful employment, and career advancement. The Vi... More... WA Signed into law 03/2008 Postsec. Community College Work-based Educational Programs with Distance Learning Components S.B. 6295 The workforce training and education coordinating board (WTECB) is directed to convene a working group to take actions related to electronically distributed learning. These actions include identifying and evaluating current workplace-based educational program... More... WA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board S.B. 6261 The workforce training and education coordinating board (WTECB), in cooperation with operating agencies of the state training system and private career schools and colleges, is directed to conduct research into workforce development programs designed to reduce... More... AZ Issued 01/2008 P-12 Community College workforce development E.O. 6 (Executive Order 2008-03) Relates to development of a 21st Century Health Care Workforce Plan; concerns review of relevant data on status of workforce; concerns assessment of the State's needs; concerns creating benchmarks for short and long-term goals; concer... More... Education Research CA Signed into law 09/2008 Community College Education resource centers A.B. 2261 Authorizes the Board of Governors of the State Community Colleges to establish a pilot program to provide faculty and staff from community college districts with the information, methods, and instructional materials to establish open education resource centers... More... IA Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 State Research and Development PreK-12 School S.F. 2307 Establishes committees to formulate plans to expand for a state research and development prekindergarten through grade twelve school and providing an effective date. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&frame... More... Equity NE Approved by voters 09/2008 P-12 Postsec. Ballot Initiative: Prohibits Discrimination V. 3; (Initiative Measure No. 424) (INITIATIVE MEASURE NO. 424) Proposes an amendment to the State Constitution; prohibits the State from discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in pub... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Access to Public Places for Persons With Disabilities H.B. 214 Adds public entities, including schools, to the list of public places in which persons with disabilities are entitled to the same full and free rights as other persons. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB214ER... More... Federal DE Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Eligibility for Free or Reduced Health Insurance H.B. 286 Requires local school districts, vocational or technical school districts, and the Department of Health and Social Services to take advantage of the right afforded by Title 7, Part 245 of the Code of Federal Regulations for school districts and state agencies ... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Gubernatorial and Legislative Approval for Certain Federal Education Agreements S.B. 162 Defines a "federal education agreement" as a legally binding document or representation that requires a school official to implement a federal program. Requires gubernatorial approval for federal education agreements that may cost education entities (including... More... Finance CA Vetoed 09/2008 Community College Community College finance A.B. 1821 Provides for the integration of reports by the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges that relate to pupils enrolled in summer session courses and full-time equivalent students. Requests the University of California and requires the California State U... More... CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Finance A.B. 2246 Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to compute an amount of funding for each pupil concurrently enrolled in regular secondary school classes and classes operating pursuant to a joint powers agreement that became effective prior to a certain date.... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 remediation finance A.B. 359 Amends existing law that requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to apportion to each school district a per pupil amount of funds for providing intensive instruction and services to pupils who have not met the high school exit examination requirement... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 after school programs S.B. 1674 Relates to the After School Education and Safety Program Act. Authorizes the administrators of a before- or after-school program to operate during weekends. Provides that costs associated with providing after school activities on weekends would be paid from a ... More... CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Finance S.B. 1197 Requires that a regional occupational center or program established and maintained by school districts or joint powers agencies pursuant to a joint powers agreement receive, in annual operating funds, an amount per unit of average daily attendance equal to the... More... IL Signed into law 08/2008 Postsec. Community College Police Association License Plates H.B. 5607 Provides for the issuance of Police Association License Plates. Provides that certain amounts of the license plate issuance and renewal fees must be deposited into the police association fund. Creates the police association fund; provides that all funds in the... More... CA Vetoed 07/2008 Community College Postsec. Finance Performance Audit A.B. 125 Authorizes the performance audit of a school or community college district to ensure that bond funds have been expended only on the specific projects authorized, to include reviews of the compliance of the district with its bond ballot language and certain cos... More... CA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Finance A.B. 2197 Relates to notification of Superintendent of Public Instruction when the county board of education approves proceeding with the issuance of certificates of participation or revenue bonds or to entering into an agreement for financing pursuant the School Financ... More... AZ Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Postsec. Finance H.B. 2211 Relates to financing of postsecondary education and public and charter schools, calculating actual utility costs and the actual revenue control limit for a school district, teacher performance pay and career ladders, creation of the University Capital Improvem... More... AZ Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Postsec. Basic State Aid H.B. 2211 Increases base level (per-pupil funding) for all public schools by two percent from $3,226.88 to $3,291.42 for FY2008-09; increased additional assistance formula amount for cherter schools in FY2008-09 by two percent to $1,474.16 for K-8 grades and $1,718.10 f... More... DE To Governor 06/2008 P-12 Ad Valorem Taxation H.J.R. 22 Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Secretary of Finance, the Secretary of Education and the Controller General to provide the Governor and the General Assembly with recommendations for a fair and equitable reassessment of all real... More... FL Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Education Program Funding H.B. 5083 Deletes salary supplements for National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) certification from definition of compensation under the Retirement System; excludes charter school Merit Award Program funds from administrative fees; revises funding for... More... NH Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Cost of an Adequate Education S.B. 539 Relates to the cost of an adequate education and provision of fiscal capacity disparity aid; determines the per pupil cost of the opportunity for an adequate education which includes differentiated aid distributed to schools based on number of pupils receiving... More... OK Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Oklahoma Arts Council Grants H.B. 2699 Bill expands eligibility for Oklahoma Arts Council incentive grants to organizations, as well as school districts, for establishment of visual arts programs in schools. The bill also expands the sources of funds with which the council may match state appropria... More... RI Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Financial literacy H.B. 8332 (Joint Resolution) Requests the Department of Education to create a task force on youth financial literacy in order to develop a statewide strategy, action plan, and marketing plan for increasing middle and high school students' knowledge of personal financial... More... MN Vetoed 05/2008 P-12 Omnibus prek-12 Education Finance Bill H.B. 6 Relates to school district development screening aide, teacher and administrator licensure, district teacher compensation aide, district debt service equalization aid, non-resident student enrollment, an advisory council on early childhood education and care, ... More... DE Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Community College State Budget In Response to State's Financial Situation H.J.R. 14 Directs the General Assembly and the Governor to comprehensively address the current the state's financial situation. Provides for the use of a strategy to include but not be limited to base budget cuts revenue enhancements and program re-engineering. Limits r... More... ID Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Finance H.B. 532 Provides state funding from the Public Education Stabilization Fund to temporarily mitigate the impact on certain school districts for loss of Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Depreciation Act federal funds; provides that if the Superintendent of Public... More... MS Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Low-Performing Schools S.B. 2666 Relates to low performing schools and school districts. Changes the designation of priority schools to schools at risk. Modifies and expands the definition of an at risk school. Commits the Legislature to the appropriation of adequate funds for the support of ... More... WI Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 State Reimbursement for Special Educational Services by Certain Employees A.B. 906 Directs the department of public instruction to determine the average percentage of work time of school nurses, social workers, psychologists and counselors that is spent providing services to students with disabilities. The department must issue rules establi... More... IN Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Congressional Township School Funds H.B. 1244 Allows for the transfer of congressional township school funds held by counties to the treasurer of state. The transfers may take place over a number of years. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2008/PDF/HE/HE1244.1.pdf... More... MS Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Bonded Indebtedness S.B. 2995 Provides that the bonded indebtedness limit for school districts in which the total number of students enrolled at any one time during the school has increased a certain average shall have a certain assessed value of the taxable property in the district. http:... More... WV Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Student Density Funding Formula H.B. 4588 Makes major changes to the funding formula by eliminating adjusted enrollment and other waiver provisions and focuses new calculations on student density factors. For more detail see fiscal note:http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Fiscalnotes/FN(2)/fnsubmit_recordvie... More... WY Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 School Finance Amendments S.B. 70 Bill establishes school district financial assistance for specified purposes outside of and in addition to the education resource block grant school finance funding model; modifies the career vocational education grant program; establishes a statewide career t... More... SD Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 finance--career and technical education S.B. 155 Provides state aid to education to certain school districts for students who currently attend a high school primarily focused on career and technical education that is operated by an eligible school district and who, immediately prior to attending the high sch... More... SD Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Finance H.B. 1087 Revises the General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2008 regarding appropriations to the Department of Executive Management, the Department of Game, Fish and Parks, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Education, the Board of Regents, the Dep... More... NJ Signed into law 01/2008 P-12 Funding Reform Act of 2008 A.B. 500 Enacts the School Funding Reform Act of 2008 to creates a fair, equitable and predictable funding formula based on student characteristics; relates to the base per pupil amounts used to determine a district's base cost, the calculation of a district's adequacy... More... Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost DE To Governor 06/2008 P-12 Ad Valorem Taxation H.J.R. 22 Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Secretary of Finance, the Secretary of Education and the Controller General to provide the Governor and the General Assembly with recommendations for a fair and equitable reassessment of all real... More... NH Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Cost of an Adequate Education S.B. 539 Relates to the cost of an adequate education and provision of fiscal capacity disparity aid; determines the per pupil cost of the opportunity for an adequate education which includes differentiated aid distributed to schools based on number of pupils receiving... More... NJ Signed into law 01/2008 P-12 Funding Reform Act of 2008 A.B. 500 Enacts the School Funding Reform Act of 2008 to creates a fair, equitable and predictable funding formula based on student characteristics; relates to the base per pupil amounts used to determine a district's base cost, the calculation of a district's adequacy... More... Finance--Aid to Private Schools KY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Transportation of Nonpublic School Students H.B. 655 By September 30 of each year, requires the secretary of the transportation cabinet to report to the general assembly's interim committee on appropriations and revenue the following information for those fiscal court applications received by the transportation ... More... Finance--Bonds LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Public Benefit Corporations H.B. 1054 Authorizes city, parish, and other local public school boards to create public benefit corporations and enter into contracts for the improvement and management of school property. Authorizes any public benefit corporation so created to issue negotiable revenue... More... ID Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Finance H.B. 673 Makes an appropriation for the Division of Facilities portion of the Public Schools budget; provides for the transfer and appropriation of moneys to the Bond Levy Equalization Fund; limits funds distributed to the General Fund from cigarette and tobacco produc... More... ID Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Finance H.B. 457 Amends existing law to clarify that the Bond Levy Equalization Support Program for school districts; applies to actual projects that were previously eligible. Chapter No. 70 http://www3.idaho.gov/oasis/H0457.html... More... MS Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Bonded Indebtedness S.B. 2995 Provides that the bonded indebtedness limit for school districts in which the total number of students enrolled at any one time during the school has increased a certain average shall have a certain assessed value of the taxable property in the district. http:... More... SD Signed into law 03/2008 Community College Finance H.B. 1218 Increases the maximum allowable outstanding amount of bonds issued by the Health and Educational Facility Authority on behalf of four technical institutes. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2008/Bills/HB1218ENR.pdf... More... Finance--District IL Signed into law 10/2008 P-12 Lowest Responsible Bidder S.B. 2293 Revises laws requiring contracts involving an expenditure in excess of a specified amount or lower to be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. Relates to repair, maintenance, remodeling, renovation, or construction of a single project. Removes an exception... More... RI Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Audits H.B. 7283 Provides that in the event of an audit of a school department, the auditor general will select the auditor if the audit is not performed by the office of the auditor general. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/billtext08/housetext08/h7283aaa.pdf... More... RI Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Accounting System Same for Regional Collaboratives S.B. 2128 Provides that the accounts of regional education collaboratives be subject to the same system of accounting as other school districts in the state; expands certain financial reporting requirements of these collaboratives. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaw... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Treasurer of School Funds H.B. 305 Removes exception for Orleans Parish relative to requirements that a local public school superintendent serve as the treasurer of certain school funds and perform specified duties. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=495037... More... TN Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Study of Local Funding Policies S.J.R. 1180 Directs the Basic Education Program (BEP) Review Committee to study funding policies implemented by local governments in light of the increased state funding by BEP 2.0 and report to the General Assembly by November 1, 2008, as part of its annual report.... More... AZ Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 school district finance S.B. 1443 Concerns the School District Redistricting Commission; relates to rules and procedures regarding an election to approve or reject the unification of a school district; provides a method for calculating financing and budget limitations for a unified district wh... More... ID Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Finance S.B. 1428 Establishes a penalty for local school districts being non-responsive to audit inquiries from the Department of Education on results of their required annual outside audit. This bill gives the Department the ability to withhold funds from non-responsive school... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Publishing School Budgets H.B. 140 Requires local governing bodies and local school boards to annually publish their approved budgets online. If there is no local government website or local school board website, then budgets must be available in hard copy to citizens for inspection. http://leg... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Publishing of Approved Budgets S.B. 376 Requires local school divisions to publish their annual budget on the local school division website. If there is no local school division website, the budget must be available in hard copy.  This bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2009. http://leg... More... SD Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Finance S.B. 22 Revises provisions related to the payment of additional funds to consolidated school districts for average daily membership; declares an emergency. http://legis.state.sd.us/index.aspx... More... SD Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 finance--district H.B. 1143 Repeals requirements related to school district employee retirement benefits. http://legis.state.sd.us/index.aspx... More... SD Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Finance--district, H.B. 1288 Allows any school district that qualifies for both the declining enrollment allowance and the growing enrollment payment in the same fiscal year to only benefit from the one that provides the most additional funding to the district; relates to average daily me... More... Finance--Equity SD Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Finance equity H.B. 1047 Appropriates money from the general fund to the Department of Education for the purpose of making payments to sparse school districts. http://legis.state.sd.us... More... Finance--Facilities GA Approved by voters 11/2008 P-12 Funding Facilities V. 3 (BALLOT MEASURE SR 996) Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to authorize community redevelopment and authorize counties, municipalities, local boards of education to use tax funds for redevelopment purposes and programs, including the payment of debt ser... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Finance A.B. 100 Repeals a provision of the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 which sets specific per- unhoused-pupil grant eligibility levels. Increases, by a certain percentage, the per-unhoused-pupil grants, including grants for individuals with exceptional need... More... CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Facilities S.B. 1556 Authorizes the State Allocation Board to permit an elementary school district, with a certain number of elementary schools, that is located within a high school district with more than a certain number of high schools, has a specified average daily attendance,... More... UT Adopted 09/2008 P-12 State School Building Program R277-451 Repeals rule relating to the State School Building Program.... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Public Benefit Corporations H.B. 1054 Authorizes city, parish, and other local public school boards to create public benefit corporations and enter into contracts for the improvement and management of school property. Authorizes any public benefit corporation so created to issue negotiable revenue... More... LA Vetoed 07/2008 P-12 Statewide Educational Facilities Authority S.B. 632 Creates the Statewide Educational Facilities Authority in the department of education to provide funding, coordination, assistance and oversight for the repair, renovation and construction of public school facilities. Directs the authority to conduct a statewi... More... NH Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Facilities Finance H.B. 1446 Makes changes to the process for proration of funds for school building aid grants; transfers authority over questions on the location of school buildings from the county commissioners to the State Board of Education; requires the school building authority to ... More... NH Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Kindergarten Construction Aid Program S.B. 530 Extends the kindergarten construction aid program until all school districts operate a kindergarten program; allows a school district to elect a construction grant to be applied to the costs of a kindergarten facility; provides classroom transition grants to e... More... TN Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Energy Efficient Schools Initiative of 2008 S.B. 4039 Enacts the "Energy Efficient Schools Initiative [EESI] of 2008." Creates an 11 member Energy Efficient Schools Council and sets out the requirements for selection of members, term of members, expenses eligible for reimbursement, purpose of the council, electio... More... KY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Capital Outlay Funds H.B. 514 Relates to use of local district capital outlay funds. Authorizes a district to submit a request to the commissioner of education to use capital outlay funds for maintenance expenditures or for the purchase of property insurance in fiscal year 2008-2009 and fi... More... NM Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Public School Capital Outlay Act S.B. 146 Relates to public school facilities; amends the Public School Capital Outlay Act; creates the Public School Facility Opportunity Fund; authorizes grants from the Fund to certain school districts for certain purposes; provides supplemental funding for projects ... More... WI Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Renewable Resource Facility A.B. 625 Authorizes a school board to construct or acquire, own, operate, and maintain a renewable resource facility. The energy generated by the facility may be used for school district facilities or th board may sell the energy generated by the facility at wholesale,... More... Finance--Federal MS Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families S.B. 2652 Clarifies method of providing Temporary Assistance for Needy Families payments; provides if a school district fails to provide to the Department of Human Services information about the school attendance of any child who is eligible for TANF benefits after a wr... More... Finance--Funding Formulas UT Adopted 11/2008 P-12 Highly Impacted Schools R277-464 Statute directs the state board to determine highly impacted schools based on the following criteria: (i) high student mobility rates within each school; (ii) the number and percentage of students at each school who apply for free school lunch; (iii) the numbe... More... UT Adopted 11/2008 P-12 School Land Trust Program R277-477 Provides more specific language for schools/school districts to follow when administering the School LAND Trust Program funds. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/code/r277/r277-477.htm... More... UT Adopted 11/2008 P-12 English Language Learner Family Literacy Centers R277-715 Provides a formula to allocate funds appropriated by the 2008 Legislature for school districts and charter schools to provide English Language Learner Family Literacy Centers. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/code/r277/r277-715.htm... More... WY Adopted 10/2008 P-12 School Foundation Program Chapter 8 These emergency rules amend the existing rules related to the school foundation program.  The emergency rules provide additional definitions for terms used throughout the rules.  The emergency rules add a new section 8 which provides a process for a school dis... More... CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Year-Round School Grant Program S.B. 658 Provides for the phase out of the Year-Round School Grant Program by reducing the grant amounts each fiscal year until a specified fiscal year. Prohibits the approval of new grants. Requires the funds for the grant program be augmented in the annual Budget Act... More... CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Class Size S.B. 1112 Extends the sunset date for the mitigation provisions in the Class Size Reduction Program, in which participating school districts are provided funding for each class in which the class size is reduced to a ration of 20 or fewer pupils per certified teacher in... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 finance S.B. 146 Relates to school finance. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to compute the average monthly enrollment of each elementary, high school and unified school district for the 2007-08 school year and the 2008-09 school year using the active enrollme... More... IL Governor's line-item veto overridden by both houses 09/2008 P-12 Funding for School Libraries H.B. 4527 Amends the Library System Act. Increases the amount of grants from the state to public and school libraries. Provides that if moneys appropriated are not sufficient then the grants must be reduced, but they may not be reduced below certain levels. http://www.i... More... NY Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Fuel Costs S.B. 7025 Excludes increased fuel costs over the prior school year from the calculation of total spending increases for the purposes of a school district contingency budget when such increased costs meet certain criteria including the result obtained when a certain perc... More... IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Assorted Amendments to the School Code S.B. 2482 Repeals the Professional Development Block Grant. Amends requirements related to annual census for special education, such that census must include students age 3 to 21 (rather than birth to 21) receiving special education services. Eliminates requirement that... More... AK Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 PreK Finance H.B. 332 Relates to elementary and pre-elementary schools; relates to counting pre-elementary students in a school's average daily membership in a public school for federal funding purposes. Chapter 117 http://www.legis.state.ak.us/PDF/25/Bills/HB0332A.PDF... More... PA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Postsec. Budget Bill - H.B. 1067 Sets the school finance distribution formula based primarily on what it will take for students to meet the state's academic standards. The amount is based largely on the findings of the 2007 Costing-Out Study. Provides for a transferring pupil's disciplinary r... More... AZ Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Career and Technical Finance H.B. 2234 Prohibits a joint technological education district (JTED) from spending Class B bond proceeds to construct or renovate a facility located on the campus of a school in a school district that participates in the JTED unless the facility is only used to provide c... More... AZ Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Postsec. Basic State Aid H.B. 2211 Increases base level (per-pupil funding) for all public schools by two percent from $3,226.88 to $3,291.42 for FY2008-09; increased additional assistance formula amount for cherter schools in FY2008-09 by two percent to $1,474.16 for K-8 grades and $1,718.10 f... More... CO Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Revisions to School Finance Act H.B. 1388 Relates to school funding, funded pupil count, on- line pupil enrollment, preschool, supplemental and full day kindergarten, charter schools, special education, child nutrition programs, at risk pupils, education within a day treatment center, residential chil... More... KS Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 School Finance S.B. 531 Provides that a student enrolled in a district and attending both a non-virtual school and a virtual school must be counted as that proportion of one pupil (to the nearest one-tenth) that the student's attendance at the non-virtual school bears to full-time at... More... KS Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Virtual School S.B. 669 Establishes the virtual school act. Authorizes districts to operate virtual schools. Provides for requirements for virtual schools. Requires districts to provide adequate training to teachers who teach in virtual schools. Requires districts to annually submit ... More... OK Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Extends Funding Formula Task Force Work S.B. 1881 Relates to the School Funding Formula Task Force; extends the task force to November 30, 2008; continues service of members; authorizes replacement of members by appointing authorities; modifies deadline for submission of report. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok... More... AZ Vetoed 04/2008 P-12 Finance-Technology H.B. 2220 Concerns property tax valuation for purposes of the State Equalization Assistance property tax for a joint technological education district governing board; deletes certain references to the computation of State and county aid for equalization assistance for e... More... ID Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Finance Formula H.B. 607 Amends existing law relating to public school funding; revises the basis for calculating pupil tuition equivalency allowances; deletes an allowable cost on which the transportation support program is based, to increase the state's share of reimbursable transpo... More... NE Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Changes to Funding Formula L.B. 988 From the fiscal note: Basic Funding: The bill changes the computation of the needs component of the state aid formula beginning in 2008-09. Instead of using cost groups as the primary basis to calculate need, the bill establishes comparison groups for each sc... More... AK Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Funding formula H.B. 273 Relates to school funding, the base student allocation, district cost factors and the adjustments for intensive services and average daily membership calculations; provides for special needs funding and the loss of enrollment due to a boundary change. Chapter... More... OR Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Talented and Gifted Support S.B. 1066A Allows the Department of Education to expend moneys from the School Fund for support of talented and gifted education; allows department to contract for creation and administration of regional talented and gifted centers; removes limit on percentage of amount ... More... SC Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Supplemental Funding for Districts Negatively Affected S.B. 1075 Supplements the school districts negatively affected by the lack of revision of the 2007 final index of taxpaying ability; provides that a school district positively affected by the lack of revision of the 2007 final index of taxpaying ability shall direct the... More... WV Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Student Density Funding Formula H.B. 4588 Makes major changes to the funding formula by eliminating adjusted enrollment and other waiver provisions and focuses new calculations on student density factors. For more detail see fiscal note:http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Fiscalnotes/FN(2)/fnsubmit_recordvie... More... IA Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Percent of Growth for Foundation Program H.F. 2140 Provides for the establishment of the state percent of growth (4%) for purposes of the State School Foundation Program; provides for computation of state aid. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=82&menu=t... More... SD Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Finance--district, H.B. 1288 Allows any school district that qualifies for both the declining enrollment allowance and the growing enrollment payment in the same fiscal year to only benefit from the one that provides the most additional funding to the district; relates to average daily me... More... SD Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Finance formula S.B. 187 Revises the General Education State Aid Formula for purposes of increasing teachers' salaries; revises provisions related to payments of additional funds to consolidating school districts. http://legis.state.sd.us... More... SD Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Finance H.B. 1120 Revises property tax levies for the general fund of a school district; provides maximum tax levies for agricultural property, an owner-occupied single- family dwelling, nonagricultural acreage property, and all other property within the district. Slightly red... More... IL Signed into law 01/2008 P-12 Special Education Funding H.B. 4148 Guarantees that school districts will receive at least as much special education funding in the 2007-08 school year and each year thereafter as they did in the 2006-07 school year. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HB/PDF/09500HB4148lv.pdf... More... Finance--Local Foundations/Funds IN Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Congressional Township School Funds H.B. 1244 Allows for the transfer of congressional township school funds held by counties to the treasurer of state. The transfers may take place over a number of years. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2008/PDF/HE/HE1244.1.pdf... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Financial Accountability of School District Foundations H.B. 112 Modifies provisions of the State System of Public Education relating to the financial accountability of school district foundations. Requires school district foundations to report certain financial information to schools. Prohibits a school district foundation... More... WV Signed into law 03/2008 Postsec. Higher Education Energy and Water Savings Revolving Loan Fund H.B. 4434 Creates the Higher Education Energy and Water Savings Revolving Loan Fund proposed by the Governor. Through an initial investment of $7 million, it is anticipated that the higher education institutions will propose, and if approved for a loan, initiate project... More... Finance--Lotteries MD Approved by voters 11/2008 P-12 Lottery Funds for Education Question 2 Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to authorize video lottery terminal gaming in the State for the primary purpose of providing funds for public education; limits the number of licenses that the State may issue to operate video lottery terminals; limits... More... CA On June 8 10/2008 P-12 Finance V. 24; (NEW BILL) 2010 Ballot., (PROPOSITION TBA; SCA 12, CHAPTER 143, 2008) Proposes an amendment to the State constitution to provide that an additional purpose of the State Lottery is to provide funds for other public purposes. Authorizes the Legislature to obtain moneys for... More... CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Lottery funds A.B. 1654 Amends the State Lottery Act of 1984. Provides that the purpose of the act is preservation of the rights, liberties, and welfare of the people by providing additional moneys to benefit education without imposing additional or increased taxes. Relates to distri... More... OR Rejected by voters 08/2008 P-12 Lottery Funds to Early Childhood Ballot Measure 62 Proposes and amendment to the Constitution to provide a percentage of the net proceeds from the State Lottery shall be deposited in a public safety fund to be distributed to counties to fund early childhood programs for children who are at risk, the criminal ... More... TN Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Lottery for Education After School Programs (LEAP) Grant Fund S.B. 2809 Creates a "lottery for education after school programs (LEAP) grant fund." This bill specifies that in any year that the lottery-funded scholarship program is funded and excess funds from net lottery proceeds are available in the after school account (instead ... More... AR On 11/04/2008 Ballot. 04/2008 Postsec. Community College Lottery Funds for College Scholarships Amendment 3 Proposes an amendment to the State Constitution; authorizes the General Assembly to establish, operate, and regulate State lotteries to fund scholarships and grants for state citizens enrolled in certified two- year and four-year colleges and universities. htt... More... Finance--Resource Efficiency FL Removed from Ballot 04/2008 P-12 65% Solution -- Money to Classrooms Amend. 9 (BALLOT MEASURE 9.) Requires at least sixty-five percent of school funding received by school districts be spent on classroom instruction, rather than administration. Allows for differences in administrative expenditures by district. Provides the constitutiona... More... Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures NV Signed into law 12/2008 P-12 Finance A.B. 2A Revises provisions governing state financial administration; authorizes the State Treasurer to establish a line of credit on behalf of the state with the Local Government Pooled Investment Fund not to exceed a specified amount and to sell notes to the Fund to ... More... AL Approved by voters 11/2008 P-12 Reestablishing the Education Trust Fund Rain Day Account V. 1 (AMENDMENT 1; ACT 2008-508) Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to reestablish the Education Trust Fund Rain Day Account within the state trust fund; establishes the General Fund Rainy Day Account within the state trust fund. http://www.lrs.state.al.us/p... More... UT Approved by voters 11/2008 P-12 State Subscription to Stocks or Bonds V. 5 (CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT E; HJR 12 - 2008 GENERAL SESSION) Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to authorize the state to subscribe to stock or bonds using funds in the permanent State School Fund and funds derived from federal land grants designated in ... More... AL Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Education Trust Fund H.B. 63A Allows for 75%, up from 20%, of unexpended education funds to be appropriated to the Education Trust Fund.... More... NY Adopted 06/2008 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... More... TN Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Study of Local Funding Policies S.J.R. 1180 Directs the Basic Education Program (BEP) Review Committee to study funding policies implemented by local governments in light of the increased state funding by BEP 2.0 and report to the General Assembly by November 1, 2008, as part of its annual report.... More... TN Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Requires Resource Mapping S.B. 4012 Concerns Commission on Children and Youth; requires the commission to design and oversee a resource mapping of all federal and state funding sources and streams that support the health, safety, permanence, growth, development, and education of children in the ... More... IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Appropriations H.F. 2679 Selected provisions: • Creates the Senior Year Plus Program to increase access of high school students to college credit and advanced placement coursework. (Page 40, Line 23 through Page 64, Line 10) • Requires postsecondary institutions providing Senior Year ... More... IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Appropriations: Teacher Quality-Related Section H.B. 2679 Governor and General Assembly by January 15, 2009. (Page 10, Line 20) DIVISION IV – STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND TEACHER QUALITY PROGRAM • Requires disposition of Teacher Quality Funding to be negotiated as part of a whole-grade sharing agreement (Page 66, Line 33)... More... DE Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Community College State Budget In Response to State's Financial Situation H.J.R. 14 Directs the General Assembly and the Governor to comprehensively address the current the state's financial situation. Provides for the use of a strategy to include but not be limited to base budget cuts revenue enhancements and program re-engineering. Limits r... More... WY Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 School Finance Amendments S.B. 70 Bill establishes school district financial assistance for specified purposes outside of and in addition to the education resource block grant school finance funding model; modifies the career vocational education grant program; establishes a statewide career t... More... IA Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Percent of Growth for Foundation Program H.F. 2140 Provides for the establishment of the state percent of growth (4%) for purposes of the State School Foundation Program; provides for computation of state aid. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=82&menu=t... More... NY Adopted 01/2008 P-12 Contracts for Excellence Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12 The board of regents has readopted, by emergency action effective January 22, 2008, the emergency rule adopted at the September 10, 2007 Regents meeting, and readopted at the October 23, 2007 Regents meeting, that added a new section 100.13 and amended section... More... Finance--Student Fees UT Adopted 12/2008 P-12 Student Participation in Extracurricular or Co-curricular School Activities R277-438 Provides consistent statewide procedures and criteria for homeschool, online school and private school students' participation in public school activities, including dual enrollment. Provides that student participation fees for charter school and online school... More... UT Adopted 10/2008 P-12 Charter, Online Student Participation in Extracurricular Activities R277-494 Adds rule requiring local school boards to allow charter school and online student participation in extracurricular school activities. Establishes fee schedule for student's school of enrollment to pay to participate in specific extracurricular activities. htt... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Textbook Purchases H.B. 137, S.B. 356 Permits local school boards to enter into contracts with publishers for the purchase of textbooks. The bill expands the definition of textbook to include print, electronic, online, and other manipulative-based programs. The bill reorganizes the textbook purcha... More... Finance--Taxes/Revenues CO Rejected by voters 09/2008 P-12 Funding for Pre-K to 12 Education Amendment 59 Proposes an amendment to the Constitution concerning the manner in which the state funds public education from preschool to 12th grade; requires that any revenue that the state would otherwise be required to refund pursuant to the constitutional limit on state... More... IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Assorted Amendments to the School Code S.B. 2482 Repeals the Professional Development Block Grant. Amends requirements related to annual census for special education, such that census must include students age 3 to 21 (rather than birth to 21) receiving special education services. Eliminates requirement that... More... AZ Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Charters tax-exempt H.B. 2330 Provides that property and buildings, including land, improvements, furniture, and equipment, that are owned by a nonprofit organization that operates as a charter school are exempt from taxation. Chapter 252 http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legt... More... AL Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Taxes S.B. 556 Amends policies relating to the creation of a tax increment district.... More... IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Revenue for School Infrastructure H.F. 2663 Repeals the local option sales and services tax for school infrastructure purposes by using the revenues from the increase in the state sales and use taxes for replacing lost school district revenues resulting from the repeal, providing property tax relief, pr... More... FL Rejected by voters 04/2008 Community College Postsec. Local Tax for Community Colleges Amend. 8 Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to require that the Legislature authorize counties to levy a local option sales tax to supplement community college funding. Requires voter approval to levy the tax. Provides that approved taxes will sunset after 5 yea... More... FL Removed from Ballot 04/2008 P-12 Property Taxes for Schools Amend. V. 5 2008 Ballot., (BALLOT MEASURE NO. 5) Replaces state required school property taxes with state revenues generating an equivalent hold harmless amount for schools through one or more of the following options, the repealing sales tax exemptions not specifically e... More... ID Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Finance H.B. 418 Amends existing law relating to cooperative service agencies to provide that approval of a facility levy requires a sixty-six and two-thirds percent affirmative vote of all votes cast in the districts combined as though the electors voting in such election wer... More... ID Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Virtual schools H.B. 567 Amends existing law to provide that the Idaho Digital Learning Academy is an educational institution for sales and use tax exemption purposes. Chapter 172 http://www3.idaho.gov/oasis/H0567.html... More... TN Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Sales Tax Holiday S.B. 2730 Alters the dates of the 2008 school sales tax holiday for sales tax on certain clothing, school supplies, school art supplies, and computers (between 12:01 a.m. on Friday, April 25, 2008, and 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, April 27, 2008.) http://www.legislature.state.... More... SD Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Finance H.B. 1120 Revises property tax levies for the general fund of a school district; provides maximum tax levies for agricultural property, an owner-occupied single- family dwelling, nonagricultural acreage property, and all other property within the district. Slightly red... More... Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Wind Generation Turbine Farms H.B. 4646 Provides that a county, municipality, school district, community college district or other unit of local government may either individually or jointly own and operate a wind generation turbine farm that reduces energy or other operating costs. Provides that su... More... IL Signed into law 08/2008 Postsec. Community College Police Association License Plates H.B. 5607 Provides for the issuance of Police Association License Plates. Provides that certain amounts of the license plate issuance and renewal fees must be deposited into the police association fund. Creates the police association fund; provides that all funds in the... More... LA Became law without governor's signature 06/2008 Postsec. Community College Special College and University License Plates H.B. 1240 Relates to special college and university license plates. Amends present law which requires a royalty fee for the use of an institution's design on a special license plate to be paid to such institution. Provides that the royalty fee is an annual fee. http://w... More... Governance FL Adopted 11/2008 Postsec. Board of Regents Replaced by Board of Governors FAC 6A-10.006 Amends rule so that Board of Regents is replaced by the Board of Governors. Members are appointed by Governor subject to Senate confirmation. ... More... LA Approved by voters 11/2008 P-12 Postsec. Limit to State Education Board and Board of Regents Membership Amendment 1 To provide for term limits for members of the State Board of Elementaryand Secondary Education, the Board of Regents, and other state boards. A person who has served for more than two and one-half terms in three consecutive terms shall not be appointed or elec... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Charter school governance A.B. 2115 Requires charter schools to adopt and comply with a conflict-of-interest policy to include specified requirements set forth in existing law. Sets the eligibility qualifications to be elected or appointed to a charter school governing board. Prohibits a school ... More... CO Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Youth Advisory Council H.B. 1157 Establishes a Youth Advisory Council to formally advise and make recommendations to elected officials on issues affecting youth in the State; establishes eligibility for membership, terms of office, and the process for appointment to the council; outlines the ... More... MD Chapter No. 559 05/2008 P-12 Postsec. Youth Advisory Council S.B. 1 Establishes the Youth Advisory Council; provides for the appointment, selection, membership, terms, and duties of the Council; establishes an executive board; provides for the selection of the executive board; provides for the appointment of the cochairs of th... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 State Board Supervision H.B. 241 Requires the Board of Education to supervise the provision of education and training to school aged children who are patients at the children's hospital associated with the Commonwealth University Health System Authority. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp50... More... WA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Powers of Exec. Dir. of State Board H.B. 3097 Allows the state board of education to delegate to the executive director, by resolution, such duties as deemed necessary to efficiently carry on the business of the board including, but not limited to, the authority to employ necessary personnel and the autho... More... MA Adopted 01/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Reorganizing Certain Education Agencies Executive Order /H.B. 4488 Submits from the governor to the legislature a reorganization plan number 1 of 2008. Relates to reorganizing certain education agencies. Creates an executive office of education, headed by a cabinet secretary. Provides for the executive office to contain three... More... Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule GA Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Flexibility in Exchange for Increased Accountability H.B. 1209 Relates to elementary and secondary education; provides that a local school system may enter into a contract with the state board of education for increased flexibility in exchange for increased accountability; relates to waivers to improve student performance... More... Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest NY Signed into law 10/2008 P-12 Lawyers and Compensation, Health Insurance and Other Benefits S.B. 8699 Creates new part III (sections 2050 through 2054) of article 41 of the education code. Provides that a lawyer may not simultaneously be an independent contractor and an employee of a district or board of cooperative educational services (BOCES). Provides that ... More... IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Job-Related Felony H.B. 4700 Provides that the State's Attorney must notify the board of trustees for the retirement system or pension fund if an employee is convicted of a job-related felony relating to or arising in connection with the employment for which the employee is covered under ... More... IL Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 08/2008 Community College Postsec. Community College Districts H.B. 4189 Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Classifies community college districts as units of local government that must adopt resolutions regulating political activities, solicitation and acceptance of gifts by their officials and employees. http://... More... HI Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 07/2008 Postsec. Postsecondary Governance Transparency S.B. 2263 Requires the board of regents of the University of Hawaii to disclose, in open meetings for the purpose of public comment, proposed compensation or changes in compensation for executive and managerial positions. Requires all documents regarding expenditures an... More... NY Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 License Revocation for Conviction for Defrauding the Government S.B. 8554 Requires the commissioner of education to revoke and annul the certificates of school administrators or supervisors for the conviction of felony defrauding of the government. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S08554&sh=t... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 Postsec. Alumni Association Financial Statements H.B. 1184 Provides that any alumni association, alumni foundation, or other private, nonprofit alumni organization that supports a public institution of higher education and that raises $75,000 or less in a fiscal year is not required to have an audit. Requires such an ... More... AL Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Competitive Bidding on Contracts H.B. 442 Relates to competitive bidding on contracts of certain state and local agencies. Increases the minimum amount of contracts subject to competitive bid. Includes city and county boards of education in the list of awarding authorities that may establish local pre... More... AZ Vetoed 05/2008 P-12 Ethics S.B. 1341 Provides that the State Board of Education will recommend to each School District or Charter School a code of conduct for certified and noncertified employees of school districts and charter schools that shall include descriptions of unprofessional and immoral... More... GA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Board Members Selling School Supplies H.B. 602 Provides an exception to provision prohibiting a school board member from selling school supplies or equipment to the county board. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/pdf/hb602.pdf... More... GA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Transparency in Government Act S.B. 300 Provides for audits and the examination of books and records. Provides for the creation and maintenance of a searchable Web site that provides public access to certain state expenditure information. Relates to the Department of Audits and Accounts and the Depa... More... TN Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Boards Establish Their Own Ethical Standards S.B. 3024 Considers all county, municipal and special school districts in the state to be separate governmental entities. Allows the school boards of each county, municipal, and special school district to establish ethical standards used to govern their respective schoo... More... LA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Ethics Education H.B. 33A Establishes qualification and education requirements for persons designated by state agencies to provide ethics education and information to their agencies; provides relative to identifying the designees for an agency and who is required to designate such pers... More... LA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Ethnics Education H.B. 6A Requires each public servant to receive a certain amount of ethics education and training during each year of his term of office or employment. Requires each registered lobbyist to receive a certain amount of training on the lobbying laws under which he is reg... More... SD Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Ethics H.B. 1138 Prohibits the use of a false academic degree or a degree that is not completed to obtain employment, a promotion, admission to postsecondary education or in connection with any business, trade or occupation. http://legis.state.sd.us/index.aspx... More... Governance--School Boards NJ Signed into law 10/2008 P-12 School Superintendent Reappointments A.B. 1113 Eliminates one-year notice that a school district is required to give superintendent of schools if the district determines not to reappoint. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2008/Bills/A1500/1113_R1.PDF... More... NY Signed into law 10/2008 P-12 Lawyers and Compensation, Health Insurance and Other Benefits S.B. 8699 Creates new part III (sections 2050 through 2054) of article 41 of the education code. Provides that a lawyer may not simultaneously be an independent contractor and an employee of a district or board of cooperative educational services (BOCES). Provides that ... More... OK Adopted 07/2008 P-12 New School Board Member Training OAC 210:20-23-3 Amends rules regarding training requirements for new school board members to include: Each new school board member shall complete the following requirements within 15 months of election: (1)    Two hours on school finance and reporting including public school ... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 School Board Member Training H.B. 1256 Concerns training and instruction for public school board members. Makes board member training requirement four hours annually (formerly was six hours total). Provides that for board members in a school district with one or more schools identified as an academ... More... GA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Board Members Selling School Supplies H.B. 602 Provides an exception to provision prohibiting a school board member from selling school supplies or equipment to the county board. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/pdf/hb602.pdf... More... KS Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Community College Postsec. Primaries for Board Elections H.B. 2307 Regulates primary elections regarding school district and community college board members. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2008/2307.pdf... More... TN Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Extension of Contracts for School Leaders S.B. 2155 No school board may extend the contract of a director of schools without giving notice of intent to do so at least fifteen (15) calendar days prior to the scheduled meeting at which action will be taken, giving notice as required, and including such proposed a... More... TN Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Boards Establish Their Own Ethical Standards S.B. 3024 Considers all county, municipal and special school districts in the state to be separate governmental entities. Allows the school boards of each county, municipal, and special school district to establish ethical standards used to govern their respective schoo... More... MN Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Conflict of Interest Exceptions S.B. 2653 Establishes a conflict of interest exception for certain school contracts for professional and other services. https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=S2653.2.html&session=ls85... More... MS Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Scheduling of Runoff Elections H.B. 239 Provides that if an election for school board trustees occurs on a Tuesday, during a general election, any runoff for such election shall occur three weeks after the election. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2008/pdf/HB/0200-0299/HB0239SG.pdf... More... MI Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 School Board Members as Coaches and Supervisors H.B. 4220 Allows school board members to be appointed to or serve as a volunteer coach or supervisor of a student extracurricular activity if certain conditions are met. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/publicact/pdf/2008-PA-0022.pdf... More... MS Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Additional Training of School Board Members in Certain Districts S.B. 2416 Relates to local school board members; increases the annual training requirements for local school board members in districts with failing schools or in districts where serious financial conditions exist; requires annual certification of such training. http://... More... NJ Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Public Comment at Boards of Education Meetings A.B. 690 Amends the Open Public Meetings Act. Requires boards of education to set aside a portion of every board meeting for public comment. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2008/Bills/A1000/690_I1.PDF... More... Governance--School Boards--Training LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 School Board Member Training H.B. 1256 Concerns training and instruction for public school board members. Makes board member training requirement four hours annually (formerly was six hours total). Provides that for board members in a school district with one or more schools identified as an academ... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Fiscal Accountability H.B. 2469 An emergency measure which delays and extends the payback period for over-expenditures for Saddle Mountain Unified School District and Union Elementary School District and provides incentives for the unification or consolidation of these districts with neighbo... More... Governance--Site-Based Management IL Signed into law 12/2008 P-12 School Council Members, Law Enforcement Drills S.B. 2688 Amends Chicago School District Article of School Code. Provides if the child of a parent school council member dies during term in office, the member may continue to serve for the balance of term. Amends School Safety Drill Act. Requires schools to conduct a l... More... UT Adopted 12/2008 P-12 School Community Councils R277-491 Proposes rule to provide direction to school districts and schools in establishing and maintaining school community councils. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/code/r277/r277-491.htm... More... KY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Appointment of Principal Vacancies S.B. 86 Existing law requires the school council to fill principal vacancies by selecting the new principal from individuals recommended by the local superintendent. New provision requires the superintendent to provide additional applicants upon request when qualified... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 School Community Council Communications Requirements H.B. 189 Requires a school community council to provide the following information to each household that has a student attending the school: (1) A school community council meeting schedule for the year (2) A mid-year action and activity report (3) A summary of the annu... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Election of Members of School Community Councils H.B. 127 Modifies the Strategic Planning Act for Educational Excellence by amending provisions for the election of members of school community councils. http://le.utah.gov/~2008/bills/hbillenr/hb0127.pdf... More... Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Commission on the Elimination of Poverty H.B. 4369 Creates the Commission on the Elimination of Poverty to develop a poverty elimination strategic plan to reduce extreme poverty in Illinois by 50% or more by 2015. In developing the overall strategic plan, and in working toward the goal of reducing extreme pove... More... OH Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Appropriations H.B. 496 (Am. Sub. H.B. 562) Permits chartered nonpublic schools to purchase goods and services through group purchasing contracts negotiated and arranged by the Department of Administrative Services. Permits an educational service center (ESC) to authorize the conversion of a building un... More... LA Vetoed 07/2008 P-12 Statewide Educational Facilities Authority S.B. 632 Creates the Statewide Educational Facilities Authority in the department of education to provide funding, coordination, assistance and oversight for the repair, renovation and construction of public school facilities. Directs the authority to conduct a statewi... More... NY Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Drivers Education S.B. 6985 Creates a temporary special advisory panel on driver education availability and curriculum enhancement to examine, assess and make recommendations to improve drivers education instruction and make such instruction more available. Directs the panel to consider,... More... KY Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Teacher Retirement System Trustees and Teacher Sick Leave H.B. 1A Establishes new retirement requirements and benefit multipliers for Kentucky Employees' Retirement System retirement plans. Requires the establishment of a formal education program for members of the board of trustees of the Teachers' Retirement System of the ... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Department of Education H.B. 576 Re-creates the department of education; changes the termination date unless the department is again re-created; provides for the general re-creation of the department of education and its statutory entities in accordance with the sunset law; supersedes provisi... More... NJ Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Appeals Arising From Disputes Under State Laws A.B. 45 Eliminates role of the Board of Education in the appeal of Commissioner of Education decisions in disputes arising under the State school laws; provides that an appeal of a commissioner's decision would go directly to the Appellate Division of the Superior Cou... More... NJ Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Commissioner of Education Authority A.B. 2965 Establishes Commissioner of Education as the rule- making authority under several school district accountability statutes relating to early termination agreements and revocation of certificates; requires public hearings on proposed regulations. http://www.njle... More... AL Vetoed 05/2008 P-12 Posting Notices of Vacant Positions H.B. 222 Requires the posting of notices of vacancies in the offices of State Superintendent of Education, county superintendent of education, city superintendent of education, Chancellor of Postsecondary Education, and the chief executive officer of any two-year schoo... More... DE Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 State Board Oversight of School Buses H.B. 231 Removes State Board of Education oversight over the design and operation of school buses. http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis144.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+231/$file/legis.html?open... More... GA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Transparency in Government Act S.B. 300 Provides for audits and the examination of books and records. Provides for the creation and maintenance of a searchable Web site that provides public access to certain state expenditure information. Relates to the Department of Audits and Accounts and the Depa... More... NY Adopted 05/2008 P-12 Postsec. Reorganization of Board of Regents Committees Title 8 NYCRR Sections 3.2 and 4-1.5 Amends rules to reflect a recent reorganization of the committee structure of the Board of Regents. Pages 12-14 of 31: http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2008/may14/pdfs/rules.pdf... More... OK Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA) H.B. 2205 Recreates the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA) and modifies the termination date from July 1, 2008 to July 1, 2012. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2007-08bills/HB/hb2205_enr.rtf... More... LA Adopted 03/2008 P-12 Board of Elementary and Secondary Education LAC 28:I.Chapters 1-13 Makes various revisions to the code of conduct for the board of elementary and secondary education. Pages 409-427: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0803/0803.doc... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College State Agency and Higher Education Compensation H.B. 4 From the bill synopsis: --Provides budget increases and decreases for the compensation of state and higher education employees not including school district personnel --Provides for a 3% cost of living allowance for state and higher education employees not in... More... WA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Powers of Exec. Dir. of State Board H.B. 3097 Allows the state board of education to delegate to the executive director, by resolution, such duties as deemed necessary to efficiently carry on the business of the board including, but not limited to, the authority to employ necessary personnel and the autho... More... WV Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Vision 2020: Education Blueprint S.B. 595 Establishes Vision 2020: An Education Blueprint for Two Thousand Twenty; requires the State Board of Education to create a plan that includes goals, objectives, strategies, indicators and benchmarks and specifies certain public education goals and objectives t... More... MA Adopted 01/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Reorganizing Certain Education Agencies Executive Order /H.B. 4488 Submits from the governor to the legislature a reorganization plan number 1 of 2008. Relates to reorganizing certain education agencies. Creates an executive office of education, headed by a cabinet secretary. Provides for the executive office to contain three... More... Health KY Issued 12/2008 P-12 Commission on Philanthropy E.O. 2008-1273 Establishes the state Commission on Philanthropy to explore new opportunities for creative solutions to the state's systemic challenges. Provides for an initial focus on early childhood education and child health.... More... IL Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 09/2008 P-12 Prevalent Student Chronic Health Conditions S.B. 2685 Beginning with the 2009-2010 school year, requires teachers' institutes to include instruction on prevalent student chronic health conditions. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB2685lv.pdf Governor's amendatory veto message (adding section on foo... More... IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Commission on Children and Youth H.B. 4456 Creates the Commission on Children and Youth Act. Provides for membership, appointments, goals, recommendations, and reports. Provides that the Early Learning Council must have primary responsibility for development of a five-year strategic plan for children a... More... WA Adopted 08/2008 P-12 SEX EDUCATION WAC 392-410-140 Amends rules relating to sex education. Provides definition and requirements for providing sex education. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/wac/... More... CA Signed by Governor 07/2008 P-12 Environmental impact A.B. 2720 Makes technical changes to the California Environmental Quality Act that prohibits an environmental impact report for any project involving the purchase of a schoolsite or the construction of a new elementary or secondary school by a school district unless spe... More... IL Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Health Exams for Students Entering Grade 6 H.B. 5717 Provides that any child who received a health examination within one year prior to entering the fifth grade for a certain school year is not required to receive an additional health examination in order to comply with the provisions of a certain act that requi... More... LA Issued 07/2008 P-12 Abstinence Education Executive Order 22 (Executive Order No. BJ 08-21) Directs the Department of Health and Hospitals and the Governor's Program on Abstinence to promote abstinence education with parents or legal guardians and to develop an aggressive campaign targeting adolescents ages 13-19 and pa... More... RI Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Standards-Based PE and Health Curricula H.B. 7280 Requires that the physical education and health curricula in schools be based on standards set by the state Health Education Framework and the state Physical Education Framework commencing September 1, 2012. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/billtext08/housetext08/... More... DE Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Eligibility for Free or Reduced Health Insurance H.B. 286 Requires local school districts, vocational or technical school districts, and the Department of Health and Social Services to take advantage of the right afforded by Title 7, Part 245 of the Code of Federal Regulations for school districts and state agencies ... More... DE Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Interscholastic Athletic Association Board of Directors H.B. 416 Enables the Governor to assure terms of the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association (DIAA) Board of Directors are staggered by appointing members to terms as needed; adds a licensed medical physician to the Board as a voting member and a 3rd school board... More... FL Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 School Breakfast Programs H.B. 623 Requires expansion of the school district breakfast programs to middle and high schools; sets prices for school meals and for provision of the universal free school breakfast; authorizes the Department of Education to develop incentive program to encourage stu... More... IL Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Heartsaver AED Fund H.B. 1058 Makes nonpublic schools eligible for matching grants from the department of public health's Heartsaver AED Fund to help purchase Automated External Defibrillators. Provides that any school, college or university applying for the grant cannot receive more than ... More... LA Became law without governor's signature 06/2008 P-12 Information on Human Papillomavirus H.B. 359 Requires school boards to provide information on human papillomavirus and immunization against it to the parents of students in grades 6-12. Requires such information to describe the link between HPV and cervical cancer, how HPV is spread and where a person ma... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Immunization Compliance Reports H.B. 184 Requires the chief administrators of all public and private elementary and secondary schools, kindergartens, colleges, universities, proprietary schools, vocational schools and licensed day care centers to electronically transmit immunization compliance report... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Vaccinations H.B. 178 Effective with the 2009-2010 school year, requires students to provide evidence of vaccination against meningococcal disease as a condition of entry into 6th grade at a public or nonpublic school or home study program. Authorizes waivers for religious or other... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Immunization against Vaccine-Preventable Diseases H.B. 581 Effective with the 2009-2010 school year, requires each person entering the sixth grade in any school in the state to present evidence of immunity to or immunization against vaccine-preventable diseases. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 Postsec. Community College Student Immunization Reports H.B. 187 Requires all public and nonpublic postsecondary education institutions to electronically transmit immunization compliance reports to the department of health and hospitals, office of public health, when the institution operates an existing student-specific ele... More... NH Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Postsec. School Indoor Air Quality H.B. 1171 Establishes a commission to study air quality issues in public school buildings; provides for membership and compensation and a report; provides duties include the study of air quality issues in public school buildings and feasibility of implementing air quali... More... NH Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Health Curriculum S.B. 359 Updates the health education curriculum requirements to include instruction on the effects of alcohol and other drugs, child abuse, human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, and sexually transmitted diseases on the human system; requ... More... OK Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 School Health Coordinators Pilot Program H.B. 3395 Directs the State Department of Education to contract with a statewide school health program to establish a School Health Coordinators Pilot Program in which a maximum of six school health educators would assist school districts and Health and Fit School Advis... More... RI Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Safe Environments for Students with Food Allergies H.B. 7463 Directs public schools to develop a policy to provide a safe environment for students with peanut, tree nut, or other food allergies; provides for an individual health care plan and an emergency health care plan to be signed by nurses, parents and health care ... More... RI Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Posting of Student Allergy to Peanut S.B. 2130 Requires boards to require schools to post a notice in a conspicuous place advising if there is a student in the school that has an allergy to peanuts and prohibit the sale of peanuts and peanut based products in the cafeteria if it is known that an enrolled s... More... SC Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Debrillators in High Schools H.B. 3723 Requires each school district to develop and implement an external defibrillator program for each high school which requires that such a defibrillator is provided on the grounds of each high school, that district employees and volunteers reasonably expected to... More... VT Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Self-Medication H.B. 748 Permits students with life-threatening food allergies or other life-threatening chronic illnesses to possess and self-administer life-saving medications on school grounds, at school-sponsored activities, and during school-related programs occurring before or a... More... CO Signed into law 05/2008 Postsec. Community College TB Screening for Higher Education Students S.B. 44 Concerns tuberculosis screening for higher education students; allows each college and university in the state to create a tuberculosis screening process which may include a questionnaire, and education policy, a clinical review process and follow-up testing p... More... GA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Defibrillators in Schools H.B. 1031 Requires each public high school with an interscholastic athletics program to have at least one functioning automated external defibrillator on site for use during emergencies. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/pdf/hb1031.pdf... More... MD Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System S.B. 473 Requires the State Department of Education to require local school systems to utilize passive parental consent before administering the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System survey designed to identify and document certain behaviors and conditions including ... More... OK Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Physical Activity S.B. 1186 Beginning with the 2008-2009 school year, the Board must require, as a condition of accreditation, that public elementary schools provide to students in full-day kindergarten and grades one through five, in addition to other requirements set forth, an average ... More... OK Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Quality Afterschool Opportunities Act S.B. 1612 Creates the Quality Afterschool Opportunities Act to Reduce Childhood Obesity and Improve Academic Performance; directs the State Department of Health to establish certain grant program; directs the Department to develop application process, set eligibility re... More... OK Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Self-Administration of Medication H.B. 2239 Requires local boards to adopt a policy that permits the self administration of inhaled asthma medication by a student for treatment of asthma and self administration of anaphylaxis medication; requires a parent or guardian of such student to provide the schoo... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Diabetic students S.B. 1229 Relates to policies and procedures adopted by a school district or charter school for diabetes management and administration of glucagon to diabetic pupils in school classrooms, on school grounds, and at school sponsored activities; relates to designation by a... More... CO Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 School District Wellness Policies H.B. 1224 Encourages school districts to expand their local wellness policies to adopt goals for emphasizing healthy choices and lifestyles, including physical education (PE), nutrition, and mental health counseling; expands the Comprehensive Health Education Act to inc... More... IA Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Eye Examinations S.F. 2251 Relates to student eye care; requires certification of the performance of an eye examination, and submission of the results of such examination, when a child is enrolled in kindergarten; provides that school districts may encourage a student to receive an eye ... More... KY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Dental Screenings H.B. 186 Beginning with the 2010-2011 school year, requires a screening by a dentist, physician or registered nurse and a student dental health certificate for elementary or secondary enrollment. Requires a child to be referred to a licensed dentist if a dental screeni... More... KY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Health Services in a Family Resource or Youth Services Center H.B. 640 As funding becomes available, authorizes a supplemental grant program to fund the employment of a licensed physician or nurse to provide health services, including supplemental classroom instructional services related to health, in a family resource or youth s... More... MD Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Task Force on Student Physical Fitness S.B. 955 Establishes a Task Force on Student Physical Fitness in State Public Schools; provides that the task force shall study the advisability of requiring all public schools to provide a minimum amount of physical activity or education to students, the effects on ch... More... NE Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Funding for School-Based Health Clinics L.B. 469 Allows funding from the Health Care Cash Fund to be used for school-based health clinics (formerly prohibited). http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Slip/LB469.pdf... More... NY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Administration of Nebulizers S.B. 6641 Requires a school nurse or physician to administer nebulizers in accordance with a student's patient specific order. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S06641&sh=t... More... NY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Choking Risk in Children A.B. 9471 Requires the department of health to establish criteria for determining which foods and food products may pose a significant choking risk in children. Requires the department to produce and distribute educational materials on food choking risks, precautions, a... More... OK Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Defibrillators S.B. 923 Mandates that automated external defibrillators be made available in schools if funding is available; authorizes such defibrillators available at high school athletic practices and competitions; provides immunity from liability to school districts; provides fo... More... TN Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Defibrillators in Schools H.B. 2775 Encourages LEAs to place automatic external defibrillators in schools; placement of such devices shall be within LEA's existing fiscal resources; classifies misuse or abuse of AED on school property by a student as misconduct that will subject student to disci... More... WA Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Postsec. Student Health Insurance Outreach Pilot Project S.B. 5100 Requires the superintendent of public instruction to solicit six pilot districts to implement a project to inquire whther students attending their schools have health insurance. Districts selected must include urban and rural areas, and eastern and western Was... More... IA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Dental and Lead Screenings S.B. 2111 Requires local boards to annually submit evidence by June 30 that students attending schools in their jurisdictions (public or private) have met dental screening requirements. Requires local boards and private school directors to submit -- within 60 days of th... More... TN Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Hearing Exams S.B. 2583 Present law allows a local education agency (LEA) to use revenues from gifts, grants, and state and local appropriations to provide an eye examinations for any child with a need for such examination but whose parent or guardian is unable to afford it. Under th... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Epinephrine Auto-Injector H.B. 101 Provides that a school, school board, or school official may not prohibit or dissuade a teacher or other school employee from possessing, storing, administering, or receiving training to administer an epinephrine auto-injector; requires schools to make an emer... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Physical Fitness H.B. 242 Requires local school boards to incorporate into their local wellness policy as a goal a minimum of an average of 150 minutes of physical fitness for all students. Such program may include any combination of (i) physical education classes, (ii) extracurricular... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Administration of Prescription Medication S.B. 271 Relates to administration of prescription drugs; allows a person employed in a school for students with disabilities to administer prescription medication to a student if the person has satisfactorily completed a training program and has obtained written autho... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Mental Health Awareness S.B. 640 Adds mental health education and awareness to the list of topics that shall be covered in family life education curricula. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0417... More... WV Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 High School Health Ed. Curriculum H.B. 4124 Adds education concerning CPR and first aid to the health education curriculum to students in grades six to 12. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2008_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/HB4124%20ENR%20SUB.htm... More... AK Adopted 02/2008 P-12 IMMUNIZATIONS REQUIRED 4 AAC 06.055 Adds one new immunization and expands the age-range for another immunization required for entry into a state public school. Updates the name of the exception reporting agency. Adds a new section that allows up to 30 days of provisional enrollment for homeless ... More... NJ Signed into law 01/2008 P-12 School Nurses S.B. 2905 Clarifies that in nonpublic schools the school nurse would be required to recruit and train volunteer designees to administer epinephrine to students when the nurse is not physically present. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/PL07/229_.PDF... More... Health--Child Abuse CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Child care A.B. 2759 Recasts provisions of existing law as the State Preschool Program. Deletes campus child care and development programs and child abuse protection and prevention services from the definition of child care and development programs. Establishes minimum hours per d... More... IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Child Abuse Reporting H.B. 4252 Provides that if a school district employee has made a report of suspected child abuse to the department of children and family services involving the conduct of a current or former district employee, and another school district requests information on the job... More... MA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Commission on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren H.B. 4905 Provides for protection of children in the care of the Commonwealth to include a commission on grandparents raising grandchildren, child abuse prevention boards, municipal police training, a child welfare task force, tuition waivers for adopted children, child... More... OK Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Ability to Search for Criminal Conduct S.B. 1601 Finds that licensed child care facilities and other organizations serving children, together with all parents and guardians, should be able to easily search for criminal conduct of potential employees, workers, volunteers, and babysitters, and readily identify... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Child Abuse and Neglect H.B. 374 Amends provisions of the Human Services Code relating to prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect. Provides that a local board of education may grant to the superintendent the authority to approve a child abuse or neglect prevention or treatment ser... More... UT Adopted 01/2008 P-12 Educator Standards R277-515 Provides definitions, standards for educators as role models, standards for educators to maintain a safe learning environment, standards for professional educator, responsibility for compliance with school district policies and standards for professional educa... More... Health--Mental Health CT Signed into law 06/2008 Postsec. Community College Awareness/Intervention Related to College Students w/ Mental Illness S.B. 467 Requires each constituent unit of the state system of higher education and each independent college or university to submit a plan to the Department of Higher Education to identify procedures specifically designed to heighten awareness by all faculty and staff... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Mental Health Awareness S.B. 640 Adds mental health education and awareness to the list of topics that shall be covered in family life education curricula. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0417... More... Health--Nutrition CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Water A.B. 2704 Expresses findings of the legislature related to childhood obesity and the significance of free tap water at schools. Prohibits the governing board of a school district from entering into or renewing a contract that restricts the availability of free tap water... More... CA Adopted 08/2008 P-12 Child Nutrition Programs Title 5 CCR Division 1, Chapter 15, Subchapter 1, Article 6, Sec(s)15575, 15576, 15577, 15578 Amends rules pertaining to child nutrition programs. Provides essential guidance to entities selling foods and beverages on school campuses so that they can comply with applicable requirements. Defines food and beverage terms and clarifies compliant food items... More... CA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Teacher certification A.B. 2057 Relates to annexation of specified territory by a school district or county board of education, waiver requests from specified education entities governing the preparation or licensing of educators, the career technical education teaching credential, the evalu... More... CO Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Child Nutrition School Lunch Protection Program S.B. 123 Creates the child nutrition school lunch protection program and child nutrition school lunch protection program fund to eliminate the reduced price paid by children who are eligible for reduced-cost lunches under the federal National School Lunch Act. http://w... More... MD Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 School to Farm Program S.B. 158 Establishes the Jane Lawton Farm-to-School Program in the Department of Agriculture to promote the sale of farm products grown in the state to schools, to solicit farmers to sell their products to schools, to develop and regularly update a database of farmers ... More... CO Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 School Nutrition Guidelines S.B. 129 Requires each School District Board and the State Charter School Institute to adopt and implement a policy that prohibits the sale of certain beverages to students from any source without first establishing a memorandum of understanding setting forth nutrition... More... OR Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Farm-to-School and School Garden Program H.B. 3601A Requires the Department of Education to establish Oregon Farm-to-School and School Garden Program and to assist school districts that participate in the United States Department of Agriculture's National School Lunch Program or School Breakfast Program in util... More... UT Adopted 03/2008 P-12 Food in Schools and School Vending Machines R277-719 Provides definitions. Requires schools to have a policy about school vending machines that includes acceptable uses of vending machine income and acceptable accounting procedures for vending machine receipts. Requires school districts and charter schools to ha... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Best Practices: Nutrition and Physical Education H.B. 246 Requires the Board of Education to develop a database of local school divisions' best practices regarding nutrition and physical education, including results of wellness-related fitness assessments. Requires that the database be accessible to all local school ... More... WA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Local Farms-Healthy Kids Act S.B. 6483 The bill creates the farm-to-school program within the department of agriculture to facilitate increased procurement of Washington grown food by schools. The department of agriculture, along with the department of health, the office of the superintendent of pu... More... Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Student health S.B. 564 Specifies that a school health center may conduct routine physical health, mental health, or oral health assessments, and provide for any services not offered onsite or through a referral process. Requires the State Department of Public Health to establish a g... More... KY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Health Services in a Family Resource or Youth Services Center H.B. 640 As funding becomes available, authorizes a supplemental grant program to fund the employment of a licensed physician or nurse to provide health services, including supplemental classroom instructional services related to health, in a family resource or youth s... More... NE Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Funding for School-Based Health Clinics L.B. 469 Allows funding from the Health Care Cash Fund to be used for school-based health clinics (formerly prohibited). http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Slip/LB469.pdf... More... NJ Signed into law 01/2008 P-12 School Nurses S.B. 2905 Clarifies that in nonpublic schools the school nurse would be required to recruit and train volunteer designees to administer epinephrine to students when the nurse is not physically present. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/PL07/229_.PDF... More... Health--Suicide Prevention CA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Suicide prevention S.B. 1378 Authorizes a school district that receives a professional development block grant to offer to each of its teachers staff development in the prevention of youth suicide. Chapter 143 http://www.senate.ca.gov/... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Suicide Prevention Training H.B. 719 Requires in-service training for teachers, school counselors, principals, and other school administrators in suicide prevention; provides that the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education shall adopt guidelines and rules for such training. http://www.... More... WI Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Suicide Prevention for Public and Private School Professional Staff S.B. 493 Bill directs the local school boards and governing bodies of private schools to inform their professional staffs of the resources available from the department of public instruction. The department must provide annually a model notice, describing the suicide p... More... Health--Teen Pregnancy UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Substance Abuse Services to Pregnant Minors H.B. 316 Amends the Human Services Code to requires a local substance abuse authority to ensure that all substance abuse treatment programs that receive public funds provide priority for admission to a pregnant minor. Requires a local substance abuse authority to provi... More... High School MI Signed into law 12/2008 P-12 High School Merit Exam H.B. 6412 Revises the administration and requirements of the state merit examination; provides that pupils in grade 12 may take the exam if they did not complete it in grade 11; provides for a writing component of the test; allows use of the test as an indicator of work... More... LA Adopted 10/2008 P-12 Pre-GED/Skills Option Program LAC 28:CXV.2907 Amends rules relating to the PreGED and Skills Option Programs and spells out requirements for districts. http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v115/28v115.doc... More... FL Adopted 09/2008 P-12 GED Testing Fees FAC 6A-6.021 Amends rule to review the General Educational Development (GED) testing fees to recommend an increase in the testing fees so that the Department of Education, as well as local testing centers, can operate with a minimal deficit due to increasing operating cost... More... MA Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Dropout Prevention S.B. 2766 Improves dropout prevention and reporting of graduation rates; requires providing public school districts with a standardized format for the accurate reporting of graduation and dropout data to facilitate the implementation of a longitudinal data collection sy... More... OK Adopted 07/2008 P-12 Postsec. Annual Student College Remediation Reports OAC 210:35-25-4 Proposes rules to require that a high school representative annually provide for review and discussion a report for each site regarding first-year college performance and remediation of local high school graduates. OKLAHOMA 15303... More... CT Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 High School Foreign Language Credit H.B. 5820 Concerns high school credit for private world language courses; provides that students may earn up to two credits toward high school graduation for completion of a world language courses offered by a nonprofit provider and the student passes a test prescribed ... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 High School Redesign Commission H.B. 721 Adds a member of the Nonpublic School Commission to the High School Redesign Commission. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=497679... More... NJ Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 State-Issues High School Diplomas S.B. 1910 Provides Department of Education statutory authority to provide persons 16 years of age or older who are no longer enrolled in school a State-issued school diploma to document the attainment of academic skills and knowledge equivalent to a high school educatio... More... SC Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Enrollment of Military Families' Kids H.B. 4320 Provides that a student whose parent or legal guardian has been called to active duty more than a specified number of miles outside of his residence is eligible to attend the public schools of that school district; authorizes nonresident military personnel to ... More... IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Appropriations H.F. 2679 Selected provisions: • Creates the Senior Year Plus Program to increase access of high school students to college credit and advanced placement coursework. (Page 40, Line 23 through Page 64, Line 10) • Requires postsecondary institutions providing Senior Year ... More... NJ Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Postsec. Alicia's Law S.B. 442 Enacts Alicia's Law, permits a student whose high school special education program requires instruction beyond four years to participate with his or her class in that classes graduation ceremony and to receive a certificate of attendance. http://www.njleg.stat... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Postsec. Scholarship program H.B. 2736 Relates to the Early Graduation Scholarship Program. A. Requires each school district or charter school providing instruction in grades nine through twelve to participate in and promote to students an early graduation scholarship program. B. The commissio... More... MD Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Information on GED and Obtaining High School Diploma H.B. 953; S.B. 264 Requires representatives of local boards of education to provide information concerning alternative education programs and GED program requirements and testing locations to each individual who no longer attends a public high school in the county and has not ob... More... MS Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 High School Redesign H.B. 975 Relates to high school Redesign Pilot Program. Authorizes the State Board of Education to phase in additional sites in the pilot program to redesign State high schools. Provides the Board will develop and pilot a program to redesign secondary schools in the St... More... AZ Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Charter school, high schools H.B. 2563 Allows a charter school or school district to determine whether credits earned by a pupil formerly enrolled in a separate charter school or school district will be assigned as elective or core credits and to provide that pupil with a list that indicates which ... More... WA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 High School Diplomas for Veterans H.B. 1283 Adds that school districts may issue high school diplomas to veterans of military service in Vietnam and deletes the requirement for veterans of WWII and Korea that required them to have been scheduled to graduate between 1940 and 1955 to be issued a high scho... More... High School--Advanced Placement LA Adopted 10/2008 P-12 Course Credits for Middle Schoolers and for Military Service LAC 28:CXV.2321, .2325 Amends rules to allow students who are repeating the eighth grade because they have scored Unsatisfactory on the Mathematics and/or English Language Arts components of LEAP to earn Carnegie credit in elective courses. Adds a list of Advanced Placement courses ... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 High School Dropout Prevention Act of 2008 H.B. 1091 Provides that before a student between the ages of 17 and 18 may drop out, the student and student's parent must attend an exit interview, in which the student and parent provide written acknowledgement that withdrawal from school will likely reduce the studen... More... IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Appropriations H.F. 2679 Selected provisions: • Creates the Senior Year Plus Program to increase access of high school students to college credit and advanced placement coursework. (Page 40, Line 23 through Page 64, Line 10) • Requires postsecondary institutions providing Senior Year ... More... KS Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Virtual School S.B. 669 Establishes the virtual school act. Authorizes districts to operate virtual schools. Provides for requirements for virtual schools. Requires districts to provide adequate training to teachers who teach in virtual schools. Requires districts to annually submit ... More... KY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Postsec. STEM S.B. 2 Defines "Advanced science and mathematics" as Advanced Placement (AP) biology, calculus, chemistry, computer science, environmental science, and physics, and International Baccalaureate (IB) biology, chemistry, computer science, environmental systems, mathemat... More... High School--College Readiness CO Adopted 10/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Workforce Readiness Assessments 1 CCR 301-77 Addresses the administration of the Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness Assessments Pilot Program. Beginning in the 2008-09 academic year, directs the department to implement a pilot program for the purpose of evaluating standards and collecting data regardi... More... UT Signed into law 10/2008 P-12 Assessment System S.B. 2002A Allows the State Board of Education to exempt a school district or charter school from testing requirements under the Utah Performance Assessment System for Students (U-PASS) if the school district or charter school pilots an assessment system that incorporate... More... CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Community College Early Assessment Program S.B. 946 Expresses legislative intent that the Early Assessment Program (EAP) be expanded to include state community colleges. Authorizes community college districts to use the State Standards Test (CST) and augmented CST to provide diagnostic advice to prospective com... More... IL Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Postsec. State Scholars H.B. 4567 Requires the student assistance commission to conduct a study detailing in 2008 and 2009 the number of students designated State Scholars, the number of State Scholars who applied to state universities, and the number of State Scholars who were denied admittan... More... IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Student Readiness for College or Work S.F. 2216 - Generally Concerns state and local measures for preparing a student for a career or for postsecondary education, including a mandated statewide core curriculum for school districts and accredited nonpublic schools and a state designated career information and decision m... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Utah Science Technology and Research Initiative Centers Program S.B. 2 - Section 22 Establishes the Utah Science Technology and Research Initiative (USTAR) Centers Program to provide a financial incentive for charter schools and school districts to adopt programs that result in a more efficient use of human resources and capital facilities. ... More... NM Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College College and Workplace Readiness Assessment S.B. 460 Relates to public schools; changes the statewide college and workplace readiness assessments; allows the eleventh grade standards-based assessments to serve as the assessment required for graduation; provides that financial literacy shall be offered as an elec... More... High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates MA Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Dropout Prevention S.B. 2766 Improves dropout prevention and reporting of graduation rates; requires providing public school districts with a standardized format for the accurate reporting of graduation and dropout data to facilitate the implementation of a longitudinal data collection sy... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Documentation of Enrollment or Other Status H.B. 259 Requires a local school division to obtain written or electronic documentation, to the extent practicable, before making any status classification in an information management system. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0422... More... High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment UT Adopted 12/2008 P-12 Student Participation in Extracurricular or Co-curricular School Activities R277-438 Provides consistent statewide procedures and criteria for homeschool, online school and private school students' participation in public school activities, including dual enrollment. Provides that student participation fees for charter school and online school... More... AL Adopted 08/2008 P-12 Early College Enrollment Program (ECEP) 290-3-1-.02 Amends rules to remove the pilot status of the Early College Enrollment Program for juniors and seniors effective the 2008-2009 school year. Provides that program guidelines are found in the Career and Technical Education Methods of Administration Manual. ... More... PA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Postsec. Budget Bill - H.B. 1067 Sets the school finance distribution formula based primarily on what it will take for students to meet the state's academic standards. The amount is based largely on the findings of the 2007 Costing-Out Study. Provides for a transferring pupil's disciplinary r... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Dual Enrollment S.B. 482 Provides that any student enrolled in a Louisiana high school, at least 15 years old, in grade 11 or 12, and meets other criteria established by the board of regents is eligible to participate in a dual enrollment program. Expands eligibility in dual enrollmen... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Course Articulation for Dual Enrollment and Among Postsecondary Institutions S.B. 537 Provides for the adoption and implementation of a comprehensive system of articulation of Carnegie units earned in a secondary school and college credit hours earned in a postsecondary institution. Requires postsecondary education management boards to provide ... More... TN Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Postsec. Financial Assistance H.B. 653 Makes changes to eligibility requirements for HOPE scholarships; enacts the "Helping Heroes Act of 2008" to provide scholarships for veterans; enacts the "Tennessee Rural Health Act of 2008" to provide scholarships to students in health care fields who agree t... More... GA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College HOPE Scholarship Eligibility S.B. 492 Revises provision relating to the determination of resident status of students for tuition or fees. Adds public or private schools located in another state and accredited by the Florida Council of Independent Schools as "eligible high schools" as regards HOPE ... More... IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Appropriations H.F. 2679 Selected provisions: • Creates the Senior Year Plus Program to increase access of high school students to college credit and advanced placement coursework. (Page 40, Line 23 through Page 64, Line 10) • Requires postsecondary institutions providing Senior Year ... More... NM Adopted 04/2008 P-12 Dual Credit Policy NMAC 6.30.7 Allows high school students to enroll in college-level courses offered by a public post-secondary institution that may be academic or career technical but not remedial or developmental. Outlines agreements and requirements. http://www.nmcpr.state.nm.us/nmac/pa... More... IN Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Postsec. Concurrent Enrollment Partnership and Virtual School Committee H.B. 1246 The bill established the concurrent enrollment partnership to coordinate dual credit programs among high schools and state educational institutions. The commission on higher education is directed to provide support for the partnership. Also creates the interim... More... KS Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Broadens Eligibility for Concurrent Enrollment S.B. 421 Expands ''Concurrent enrollment pupil'' definition from 11th and 12th to include 10th. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2008/421.pdf... More... WA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Postsec. Dual Enrollment Online Programs H.B. 3129 The office of the superintendent of public instruction (OSPI) is directed to compile information about online learning programs for high school students to earn college credit and place the information on its website. Directs high schools to ensure that teache... More... NM Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Dual Credit Program S.B. 31 Relates to education; includes state-supported schools in the dual credit program; provides for dual credit courses to be taken in the summer term; provides eligibility factors for students to qualify; requires the adoption of rules to implement the program to... More... High School--Exit Exams UT Signed into law 10/2008 P-12 Assessment System S.B. 2002A Allows the State Board of Education to exempt a school district or charter school from testing requirements under the Utah Performance Assessment System for Students (U-PASS) if the school district or charter school pilots an assessment system that incorporate... More... AL Adopted 05/2008 P-12 Alabama High School Graduation Exam 290-4-2-.02 Deletes reference to the Alternate Adult High School Diploma option for students who do not pass specified sections of the high school graduation exam.... More... AL Adopted 05/2008 P-12 Graduation Requirements and Other Changes 290-3-1-.02 Increases the minimum number of teaching days in the school year from 175 to 180 (in compliance with 2003 S.B. 4). Permits secondary school students (in both summer school and regular school year) to demonstrate mastery of Alabama course of study content stand... More... WA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Washington Assessment of Student Learning Modifications and End-of-course Exams H.B. 3166 Beginning with the 2009 administration of the Washington assessment of student learning (WASL), the superintendent is directed to redesign the assessment in math, reading and science in all grades except high school by reducing the number of questions (short a... More... NM Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College College and Workplace Readiness Assessment S.B. 460 Relates to public schools; changes the statewide college and workplace readiness assessments; allows the eleventh grade standards-based assessments to serve as the assessment required for graduation; provides that financial literacy shall be offered as an elec... More... LA adopted 01/2008 P-12 Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices LAC 28:CXI.303, 305, 312, 315, 701, 1351, and 1355 Amends chapters of Bulletin 118 - Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices relating to test security, assessment program overview, and graduation exit examination. Makes changes to several Sections of Chapter 3, language is removed from §305 that reference... More... PA Adopted 01/2008 P-12 Graduation Competency Assessments Chapter 4 Revisions New state board regulations change high school graduation requirements to ensure the academic preparedness of high school seniors. These regulations institute a series of optional, end-of-course high school exams in the core academic areas of math, science, En... More... High School--GED (General Education Development) LA Adopted 10/2008 P-12 Pre-GED/Skills Option Program LAC 28:CXV.2907 Amends rules relating to the PreGED and Skills Option Programs and spells out requirements for districts. http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v115/28v115.doc... More... FL Adopted 09/2008 P-12 GED Testing Fees FAC 6A-6.021 Amends rule to review the General Educational Development (GED) testing fees to recommend an increase in the testing fees so that the Department of Education, as well as local testing centers, can operate with a minimal deficit due to increasing operating cost... More... MD Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Information on GED and Obtaining High School Diploma H.B. 953; S.B. 264 Requires representatives of local boards of education to provide information concerning alternative education programs and GED program requirements and testing locations to each individual who no longer attends a public high school in the county and has not ob... More... WV Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 State Subsidized GED Testing Fee for Eligible Students H.B. 4477 Directs the state board of education to develop and administer a program to provide the GED exam fee for eligible students.... More... LA Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 GED Testing Program LAC 67:III.5595 The Department of Social Services, Office of Family Support establishes the GED Testing Program as a new TANF Initiative. Pursuant to Act 18 of the 2007 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature, the agency is adopting the GED Testing Program to support and... More... UT Adopted 01/2008 P-12 Adult Education Programs R277-733 Defines "adult basic education," "adult education," "GED," "measurable outcomes." Establishes clearer fiscal standards and practices for adult education programs. Adds a new section focusing adult education funds on student outcomes and student mastery. http:/... More... High School--Graduation Requirements MI Signed into law 12/2008 P-12 Financial Literacy as Math Course S.B. 834 Provides that a financial literacy course is a permissible mathematics course under the state merit standard for high school graduation. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/publicact/pdf/2008-PA-0316.pdf... More... LA Adopted 10/2008 P-12 High School Graduation Requirements LAC 28:LXXIX.2109, .2313, .2323, .2329, .2331 Amends rules relating to high school graduation requirements. Aligns the graduation requirements with the new requirements approved for public school students and will align the nonpublic school requirements with the entrance requirements for colleges and univ... More... LA Adopted 10/2008 P-12 Course Credits for Middle Schoolers and for Military Service LAC 28:CXV.2321, .2325 Amends rules to allow students who are repeating the eighth grade because they have scored Unsatisfactory on the Mathematics and/or English Language Arts components of LEAP to earn Carnegie credit in elective courses. Adds a list of Advanced Placement courses ... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Graduation requirements A.B. 2138 Amends existing law that prescribes the course of a study a pupil is required to complete while in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, to receive a diploma of graduation, including additional coursework required by a school district board. Requires a district to exempt... More... CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 exit exams S.B. 1446 Reenacts provisions of former law which required a school district or state special school to grant a high school diploma to a pupil with a disability who was scheduled to graduate from high school, did not pass high school exit examination, did not receive a ... More... LA Adopted 08/2008 P-12 High School Graducation Requirements for Math LAC 28:CXV.2319, 2353 Amend rules relating to the high school graduation requirements for mathematics. For incoming freshmen in 2008-2009 and beyond, the 24 units required for graduation shall include 16 required units and 8 elective units for the Louisiana Core Curriculum, or 21 r... More... WA Adopted 08/2008 P-12 Math Credits Required for High School Graduation WAC 180-51-060, 061, 066 Raises the required number of math credits for high school graduation to three. http://www.sbe.wa.gov/documents/OTS-1641.pdf ... More... WV Adopted 06/2008 P-12 Changes to Policy 2510 Title 126, Series 42 From the introduction to the adopted rules: "Revisions were needed in Policy 2510 to allow local school districts greater flexibility in the implementation of the rigorous academic standards and high quality programs that characterize West Virginia's 21st cen... More... AL Adopted 05/2008 P-12 Graduation Requirements and Other Changes 290-3-1-.02 Increases the minimum number of teaching days in the school year from 175 to 180 (in compliance with 2003 S.B. 4). Permits secondary school students (in both summer school and regular school year) to demonstrate mastery of Alabama course of study content stand... More... IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Core Curriculum S.F. 2216 - Core Curriculum Amends previous language to remove "voluntary model" from the establishment of core curriculum for grades 9-12, beginning with students graduating in the 2010-2011 class. Prohibits the state board from requiring specific textbooks. Requires core curriculum tec... More... NE Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Certificate of Attendance L.B. 1153 At the request of 1 a parent or guardian, a school district is to issue a certificate of attendance to a student who receives special education services, who has reached seventeen years of age, and who has not completed his or her individualized education plan... More... ME To governor 03/2008 P-12 School Curriculum and Graduation Requirements H.B. 1548 Amends standards for student assessment, basic school approval, the elementary, middle and secondary courses of study, the comprehensive program of study for the high school diploma, and the Department of Education diploma in order to more fully implement the ... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Regents' Scholarship Program S.B. 180 Establishes the Regents' Scholarship Program to award merit scholarships to students who complete a rigorous core course of study in high school. Provides that the scholarship includes a $1,000 base scholarship. Provides for a supplemental scholarship award, o... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Honorary High School Diplomas H.B. 118 Provides for honorary high school diplomas for certain veterans. Allows a board of education of a school district to award an honorary high school diploma to a veteran who left high school before graduating to serve in the U.S. armed forces and who served duri... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Financial Literacy S.B. 2 - Section 10 Defines "financial and economic literacy passport" as a document that tracks mastery of financial and economic literacy concepts and completion of financial and economic activities in a number of specified areas. Directs the state board of education, in cooper... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Advanced Technical Diploma/Advanced Studies Diploma H.B. 97 A technical diploma is required to meet or exceed the requirements of a standard diploma and must include a concentration in career and technical education, as established in Board regulations. This bill requires that a student who meets the requirement for th... More... NM Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College College and Workplace Readiness Assessment S.B. 460 Relates to public schools; changes the statewide college and workplace readiness assessments; allows the eleventh grade standards-based assessments to serve as the assessment required for graduation; provides that financial literacy shall be offered as an elec... More... AZ Adopted 01/2008 P-12 High School Graduation Requirements AAC R7-2-302.01, R7-2-302.02, R7-2-302.03 Relates to the minimum course of study and competency requirements for the graduation of pupils from high school. Adds two credits to minimum number of required credits; adds .5 credit in economics; increases mathematics requirement from 2 to 3 credits; decrea... More... Instructional Approaches--Grading Practices NM Adopted 05/2008 P-12 Final Course Grade Changes for Students NMAC 6.30.10 The purpose of this rule is to establish minimal requirements for those school districts and charter schools that seek to permit changes to a student's final course grades, and to require that school districts and charter schools adopt written policies for an... More... Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling NH Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Homeschooling Notification S.B. 337 Requires a parent to notify the Commissioner of Education, resident district superintendent, or principal of a nonpublic school when commencing or continuing a home education program; revises the membership of the Home Education Advisory Council; establishes a... More... NY Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Student with Disabilities in Homeschool Program A.B. 11463 Provides that solely for purposes of providing services to special education students and the computation of state aid, a student with disabilities in a homeschool program must be considered a nonpublic school student eligible to receive services as such, prov... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 UPSTART Program S.B. 2 - Sections 3-9 Establishes UPSTART, a pilot project that uses a home-based educational technology program to develop the school readiness skills of children age 4-5 who have not entered kindergarten. Provides that UPSTART is created to evaluate the effectiveness of giving pr... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Home Instruction H.B. 767 Eliminates (i) the requirement that correspondence courses must be approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction in order to qualify as a suitable program for home instruction and (ii) the provision allowing parents to provide programs that are judged b... More... VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Evidence of Progress Options: Homeschooling H.B. 1183 Provides for two additional options for parents to provide evidence of progress of the child receiving home instruction including: (i) an evaluation letter from a person licensed to teach in any state, or a person with a master's degree or higher in the field ... More... Instructional Approaches--Single-Sex Education DE Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Same Sex Charter Schools H.B. 285 Allows a charter school to restrict student admissions by gender in the case of a same-gender school; provides that within a reasonable amount of time after commencement of operations of any same-gender charter school in the state, there shall be approved and ... More... Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Commission on Children and Youth H.B. 4456 Creates the Commission on Children and Youth Act. Provides for membership, appointments, goals, recommendations, and reports. Provides that the Early Learning Council must have primary responsibility for development of a five-year strategic plan for children a... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Integrated Services for At Risk Students S.B. 701 Provides for integrated case management through the use of No Wrong Door; relates to disadvantaged children and their families; relates to student achievement, truancy intervention, drop out prevention, family safety and stability, foster care and adoption, pr... More... KY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Family Resource and Youth Services Centers S.B. 192 Provides that family resource and youth services centers must provide services to enhance a student's ability to succeed in school. Provides that the most economically disadvantaged students and families must receive priority status for receiving services. Pro... More... International Baccalaureate UT Adopted 09/2008 P-12 International Baccalaureate Programs R277-710 Creates R277-710 regarding International Baccalaureate (IB) programs. Specifies the procedures and standards schools and districts must follow to qualify for state funds for the IB Program. Provides that funds are available to support the Diploma Program, Midd... More... KY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Postsec. STEM S.B. 2 Defines "Advanced science and mathematics" as Advanced Placement (AP) biology, calculus, chemistry, computer science, environmental science, and physics, and International Baccalaureate (IB) biology, chemistry, computer science, environmental systems, mathemat... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Funds to Support International Baccalaureate S.B. 2 - Section 15 Makes International Baccalaureate programs eligible for the accelerated learning programs funds for which Advanced Placement programs are already eligible. Page 23 of 43: http://le.utah.gov/~2008/bills/sbillenr/sb0002.pdf... More... Leadership IA Adopted 10/2008 P-12 Standards for Professional Administrators IAC 282-14.114(272), 14.114(1), 14.114(2) Adds requirements for a professional administrative license (five year). In addition to meeting requirements for the initial license, an administrator must successfully meet each standard. (1) Shared vision. An educational leader promotes the success of all st... More... KY Adopted 10/2008 P-12 Professional Certificate for Instructional Leadership 16 KAR 3:050 Amends school principal certification requirements. Deletes pre-existing prerequisites. States that new prerequisites include: (1) a master's degree (2) at least 3 years of documented teaching experience (3) a written statement of the candidate's knowledge and... More... NJ Signed into law 10/2008 P-12 School Superintendent Reappointments A.B. 1113 Eliminates one-year notice that a school district is required to give superintendent of schools if the district determines not to reappoint. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2008/Bills/A1500/1113_R1.PDF... More... AK Adopted 08/2008 P-12 TEACHER CERTIFICATION TYPE B & TYPE F CERTIFICATES 4 AAC 12.345, .346, .350 Allows special service providers who hold a Type C certificate to be eligible for a Type F certificate with an endorsement as a special education administrator. Allows all holders of Type C special service certificates to be eligible for a Type B administrator... More... MA Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Principal Contracts S.B. 273 Relates to defining school principal's contracts; provides for school principals entering into individual employment contracts with their employing districts; provides that subsequent contracts shall be treated as a school principal entering into his second co... More... NY Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 S.B. 8497 Requires that each certified school administrator or supervisor assigned on or after September 2, 2009 to be a special education administrator be provided with enhanced training in the needs of autistic children. Requires individuals serving as special educati... More... SD Adopted 08/2008 P-12 CAREER/TECHNICAL EDUCATION, EARLY INTERVENTION RULES 24:10:42:24; 24:43:13:01; 24:43:13:02 Amends Career/Technical Education rules to improve the accountability system. Amends Early Intervention Program rules for clarification, eligibility changes and rate changes. Amends Accreditation and School Improvement rules regarding certification of non- cer... More... NY Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 License Revocation for Conviction for Defrauding the Government S.B. 8554 Requires the commissioner of education to revoke and annul the certificates of school administrators or supervisors for the conviction of felony defrauding of the government. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S08554&sh=t... More... WA Adopted 07/2008 P-12 CERTIFICATION STANDARDS WAC 181-79A-211, -250 Amends rules relating to standards for teacher, administrator, and educational staff associate certification. WASHINGTON 28062 http://apps.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=181-79A-211... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Duties of a Superintendent H.B. 306 Makes provisions relative to certain duties of a local public school superintendent, including but not limited to serving as school board secretary, applicable to Orleans Parish by removing certain exceptions, prohibitions and alternative requirements. http://... More... CO Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 School Leadership Academy H.B. 1386 Creates the school leadership academy program within the Department of Education to provide comprehensive leadership and professional training to qualified persons for leadership positions in public schools. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2008a/csl.nsf/... More... TN Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Extension of Contracts for School Leaders S.B. 2155 No school board may extend the contract of a director of schools without giving notice of intent to do so at least fifteen (15) calendar days prior to the scheduled meeting at which action will be taken, giving notice as required, and including such proposed a... More... MS Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Removal of Superintendents in Underperforming Districts S.B. 2149 Provides that the appointed or elected superintendent of education in an underperforming school district for a specified number of consecutive school years shall be removed from office by the school board at the end of the school year. Provides for the appoint... More... CO Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Special Employment for Military Spouses H.B. 1162 Allows department of education to issue a military spouse interim authorization that allows to employ a person who is certified or licenced, or eligible for certificatiuon, as a teacher, special services provider, principal or administrator in another state an... More... MS Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Additional Training of School Board Members in Certain Districts S.B. 2416 Relates to local school board members; increases the annual training requirements for local school board members in districts with failing schools or in districts where serious financial conditions exist; requires annual certification of such training. http://... More... TN Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Notice S.B. 3284 Requires local school boards to give the director of schools 10 days notice prior to a meeting about a director's termination, suspension, or contract extension. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB3284.pdf... More... IA Adopted 02/2008 P-12 GENERAL ACCREDITATION STANDARDS IAC 281-12.7(256,284,284A), 12.7(1), 12.7(2), 72.9(1), 281-Chapter83, 281-83.1(284,284A), 281- 83.2(284,248A), 281-83.3(284), 83.3(1) through,83.3(4), 281-83.4(284), Implements changes made to the Student Achievement and Teacher Quality program and the Beginning Administration Mentoring and Induction program. Adds standards and criteria by which AEA staff who meet the definition of teacher should be evaluated. Adds a new d... More... OH Adopted 02/2008 P-12 PERFORMANCE-BASED LICENSURE FOR ADMINISTRATORS OAC 3301-24-09 Rescinded old rules and adopted new rules regarding requirements for performance- based licensure for administrators. A beginning principal must be able to demonstrate success in each of the five areas described in this rule: 1) continuous improvement; 2) inst... More... OR Adopted 01/2008 P-12 Teacher/Administrator Mentoring OAR 581-020-0085, -0090 Establishes requirements for teacher and administrator mentoring programs. OREGON 29089... More... Leadership--District Superintendent LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Duties of a Superintendent H.B. 306 Makes provisions relative to certain duties of a local public school superintendent, including but not limited to serving as school board secretary, applicable to Orleans Parish by removing certain exceptions, prohibitions and alternative requirements. http://... More... AL Vetoed 05/2008 P-12 Posting Notices of Vacant Positions H.B. 222 Requires the posting of notices of vacancies in the offices of State Superintendent of Education, county superintendent of education, city superintendent of education, Chancellor of Postsecondary Education, and the chief executive officer of any two-year schoo... More... Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure KY Adopted 10/2008 P-12 Professional Certificate for Instructional Leadership 16 KAR 3:050 Amends school principal certification requirements. Deletes pre-existing prerequisites. States that new prerequisites include: (1) a master's degree (2) at least 3 years of documented teaching experience (3) a written statement of the candidate's knowledge and... More... MO Adopted 10/2008 P-12 ADMINISTRATOR ASSESSMENT CENTER 5 CSR 80-631.010 Amends rules regarding the guidelines for the administrator assessment center that requires all candidates applying for an initial school administrator certificate. http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c80-631.pdf... More... NY Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 License Revocation for Conviction for Defrauding the Government S.B. 8554 Requires the commissioner of education to revoke and annul the certificates of school administrators or supervisors for the conviction of felony defrauding of the government. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S08554&sh=t... More... CO Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Special Employment for Military Spouses H.B. 1162 Allows department of education to issue a military spouse interim authorization that allows to employ a person who is certified or licenced, or eligible for certificatiuon, as a teacher, special services provider, principal or administrator in another state an... More... IL Adopted 02/2008 P-12 Master Principal Designation 23 IAC 25.10 thru .770 (non seq.) Establishes the requirements for the new "master principal" designation, the last new initiative that was created by the "SAELP legislation' in 2006. Page 289-310 of 329: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/register/register_volume32_issue10.pd... More... OH Adopted 02/2008 P-12 PERFORMANCE-BASED LICENSURE FOR ADMINISTRATORS OAC 3301-24-09 Rescinded old rules and adopted new rules regarding requirements for performance- based licensure for administrators. A beginning principal must be able to demonstrate success in each of the five areas described in this rule: 1) continuous improvement; 2) inst... More... Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Compensation and Diversified Pay MA Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Principal Contracts S.B. 273 Relates to defining school principal's contracts; provides for school principals entering into individual employment contracts with their employing districts; provides that subsequent contracts shall be treated as a school principal entering into his second co... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Administrator salaries S.B. 1081 Requires that schools selected by the state board of education to participate in the technology assisted project-based instruction program, an internet-based alternative to learning in traditional brick-and- mortar schools, include in the annual report require... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Educator Salary Adjustments S.B. 2 - Section 18 Eliminates school administrators from eligibility for educator salary adjustments to attract and retain highly skilled and dedicated educators. Pages 26-28 of 43: http://le.utah.gov/~2008/bills/sbillenr/sb0002.pdf... More... Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness IA Adopted 02/2008 P-12 GENERAL ACCREDITATION STANDARDS IAC 281-12.7(256,284,284A), 12.7(1), 12.7(2), 72.9(1), 281-Chapter83, 281-83.1(284,284A), 281- 83.2(284,248A), 281-83.3(284), 83.3(1) through,83.3(4), 281-83.4(284), Implements changes made to the Student Achievement and Teacher Quality program and the Beginning Administration Mentoring and Induction program. Adds standards and criteria by which AEA staff who meet the definition of teacher should be evaluated. Adds a new d... More... IL Adopted 02/2008 P-12 Master Principal Designation 23 IAC 25.10 thru .770 (non seq.) Establishes the requirements for the new "master principal" designation, the last new initiative that was created by the "SAELP legislation' in 2006. Page 289-310 of 329: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/register/register_volume32_issue10.pd... More... OH Adopted 02/2008 P-12 PERFORMANCE-BASED LICENSURE FOR ADMINISTRATORS OAC 3301-24-09 Rescinded old rules and adopted new rules regarding requirements for performance- based licensure for administrators. A beginning principal must be able to demonstrate success in each of the five areas described in this rule: 1) continuous improvement; 2) inst... More... Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation NY Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 S.B. 8497 Requires that each certified school administrator or supervisor assigned on or after September 2, 2009 to be a special education administrator be provided with enhanced training in the needs of autistic children. Requires individuals serving as special educati... More... CO Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 School Leadership Academy H.B. 1386 Creates the school leadership academy program within the Department of Education to provide comprehensive leadership and professional training to qualified persons for leadership positions in public schools. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2008a/csl.nsf/... More... MS Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Additional Training of School Board Members in Certain Districts S.B. 2416 Relates to local school board members; increases the annual training requirements for local school board members in districts with failing schools or in districts where serious financial conditions exist; requires annual certification of such training. http://... More... Mentoring/Tutoring MO Adopted 08/2008 P-12 MENTORING 5 CSR 80-850.045 Proposes rules regarding the mentoring program. Establishes standards for successful mentoring programs. http://dese.mo.gov/schoollaw/rulesregs/80850045.htm... More... FL Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Supplemental Services Evaluation and Fees S.B. 1414 Provides restrictions on charges by specified school districts for facility rental fees paid by state- approved supplemental educational services providers; requires the Department of Education to annually evaluate and grade supplemental education services pro... More... Middle School MA Signed into law 12/2008 P-12 Commission on Middle Education H.B. 4800 Revives and continues the special commission on middle education in the Commonwealth. http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/185/ht04pdf/ht04800.pdf... More... CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Community College Early commitment to college program S.B. 890 Establishes the Early Commitment to College Program. Requires schools designated and not designated as a College Opportunity Zone to provide pupils in grades 6 to 9, inclusive, the opportunity to sign a pledge declaring a commitment to finish high school and p... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 High School Dropout Prevention Act of 2008 H.B. 1091 Provides that before a student between the ages of 17 and 18 may drop out, the student and student's parent must attend an exit interview, in which the student and parent provide written acknowledgement that withdrawal from school will likely reduce the studen... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Teacher Salary Supplement Program S.B. 2 - Sections 19 and 20 Defines "qualifying educational background." Beginning in fiscal year 2008-2009, provides an annual salary supplement of $4,100 for a full-time teacher and a partial salary supplement for a part-time teacher who teaches one or more courses of a secondary schoo... More... Minority/Diversity Issues OR Adopted 06/2008 P-12 Prohibits Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Color OAR 581-021-0045, -0046, -024-0205, -0245, -045-001, -049-0020 Prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and color in schools, programs, services and activities. OREGON 29387... More... MN Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Teachers of Diverse Backgrounds Financial Aid Pilot Program H.B. 1812 Provides for the establishment of a teachers of diverse backgrounds financial aid pilot program, to be implemented by Winona State University in partnership with the Rochester school district and St. Cloud State University in partnership with the Robbinsdale ... More... Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian MN Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Postsecondary Education S.B. 2942 Various provisions related to higher education. Allows educational data sharing between the department of education and the office of higher education as authorized by the code of federal regulations for the purpose of analyzing and improving school district i... More... SD Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 American Indian H.B. 1050 Revises certain provisions regarding Indian education; provides for teacher studies. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2008/Bills/HB1050ENR.pdf... More... No Child Left Behind VA Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Potential Withdrawal from NCLB H.B. 1425, S.B. 490 Requires the Board of Education to make a recommendation to the General Assembly on whether Virginia should withdraw from the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, unless reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act provides the necessary r... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Gubernatorial and Legislative Approval for Certain Federal Education Agreements S.B. 162 Defines a "federal education agreement" as a legally binding document or representation that requires a school official to implement a federal program. Requires gubernatorial approval for federal education agreements that may cost education entities (including... More... No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress LA Adopted 10/2008 P-12 Alternative Assessment Results LAC 28:LXXXIII.3905 Amends rules relating to the school, district and state accountability system. Relates to the inclusion of alternate assessment results for students with disabilities in accountability system. http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v83/28v83.doc... More... OH Passed 05/2008 P-12 Approves State Board Changes to Accountability S.C.R. 18 Approves the Department of Education's proposed changes (change in minimum subgroup size to 30 and to implement a growth model) to the state academic accountability system for public schools. http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/res.cfm?ID=127_SCR_18 http://www.... More... OR Adopted 01/2008 P-12 AYP Appeals Processes OAR 581-022-1065 Directs the Superintendent of Public Instruction to appoint a committee to hear substantive appeals from schools relating adequate yearly progress (AYP) determinations. ... More... No Child Left Behind--Assessment SC Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Amends Multiple Accountability Provisions H.B. 4662 Revises the Education Accountability Act. Adds poverty, limited English proficiency status, disability status, or other groups required by federal statutes or regulations to the requirement for disaggregation of achievement data. Changes terminology from "impr... More... NE Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Statewide Assessments L.B. 1157 From the fiscal note: Changes the current assessment system to provide for statewide assessments in reading and mathematics to be administered in seven grades, rather than three. The bill also establishes an additional statewide science assessment. The science... More... No Child Left Behind--Choice/Transfer NY Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Extension of NCLB Provisions S.B. 7672 Extends the sunset date to June 30, 2009 on provisions related to supplemental educational services, attendance at a safe public school and the suspension of pupils who bring a firearm to or possess a firearm at school; relates to implementation of the No Chil... More... No Child Left Behind--Consequences for Schools NY Adopted 06/2008 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... More... TN Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Processes for Schools in Improvement H.B. 4148 Outlines procedures to be followed re: schools identified as in improvement. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC1006.pdf... More... NY Adopted 01/2008 P-12 Contracts for Excellence Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12 The board of regents has readopted, by emergency action effective January 22, 2008, the emergency rule adopted at the September 10, 2007 Regents meeting, and readopted at the October 23, 2007 Regents meeting, that added a new section 100.13 and amended section... More... No Child Left Behind--Finance NY Adopted 06/2008 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... More...