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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."

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State Status/Date Level Summary
- Accountability
GAAdopted 10/2008P-12Increased 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.k...

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MASigned into law 08/2008P-12School 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 accounta...

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NYAdopted 07/2008P-12Expenses 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 e...

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NJSigned into law 06/2008P-12Commissioner of Education Authority
A.B. 2965
Establishes Commissioner of Education as the rule- making authority under several school district accountability statutes relating to early ...

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OKAdopted 06/2008P-12Co-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 t...

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SCSigned into law 06/2008P-12Amends Multiple Accountability Provisions
H.B. 4662
Revises the Education Accountability Act. Adds poverty, limited English proficiency status, disability status, or other groups required by f...

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GASigned into law 04/2008P-12Flexibility 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 educati...

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MSSigned into law 04/2008P-12Low-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...

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MSSigned into law 04/2008P-12Removal 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 consecuti...

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MSSigned into law 03/2008P-12Task 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 imp...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Charter 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 Boar...

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- Accountability--Measures/Indicators
FLAdopted 11/2008P-12School 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 Improveme...

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LAAdopted 10/2008P-12Alternative 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 ...

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AKRule Adoption 07/2008P-12GOVERNMENT OF SCHOOLS
4 AAC 06.825(b)(2), (c), .830(c), .885, 33.520(3)(4), .540(a)(2),(5), (6)
Deals with government of schools and special programs. Allows more flexibility in determining the graduation rate for purposes of Adequate Y...

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SCSigned into law 06/2008P-12Amends Multiple Accountability Provisions
H.B. 4662
Revises the Education Accountability Act. Adds poverty, limited English proficiency status, disability status, or other groups required by f...

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GASigned into law 04/2008P-12Flexibility 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 educati...

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- Accountability--Reporting Results
NYAdopted 06/2008P-12Contracts 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,...

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SCSigned into law 06/2008P-12Amends Multiple Accountability Provisions
H.B. 4662
Revises the Education Accountability Act. Adds poverty, limited English proficiency status, disability status, or other groups required by f...

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TNSigned into law 05/2008P-12Reporting 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 com...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-12Publishing 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 we...

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WASigned into law 03/2008P-12Strategies 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 aca...

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NYAdopted 01/2008P-12Contracts 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 Reg...

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- Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions
LASigned into law 07/2008P-12Student 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 ...

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LASigned into law 07/2008P-12Academic 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...

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LASigned into law 07/2008P-12Assistance 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 ...

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LASigned into law 06/2008P-12Academically 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 implemen...

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NYAdopted 06/2008P-12Contracts 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,...

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TNSigned into law 06/2008P-12Processes 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/PC...

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COVetoed 05/2008P-12No 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 student...

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AZSigned into law 04/2008P-12Accountability
H.B. 2711
Relates to intervention in mismanaged school districts.
A. Provides the Department of Education shall investigate a school district for syst...

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AZVetoed 04/2008P-12fiscal accountability
H.B. 2560
Concerns school districts compliance; relates to withholding monies; provides if the Department of Education, the Auditor General or the Att...

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AZSigned into law 04/2008P-12Fiscal 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...

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MSSigned into law 04/2008P-12Low-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...

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MSSigned into law 04/2008P-12Removal 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 consecuti...

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MSSigned into law 03/2008P-12Task 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 imp...

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NYAdopted 01/2008P-12Contracts 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 Reg...

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- Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive
LASigned into law 07/2008P-12Student 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 ...

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KSSigned into law 04/2008P-12School 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...

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WVSigned into law 04/2008P-12No 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 scho...

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- Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Play
OKAdopted 06/2008P-12Co-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 t...

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- Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers
LASigned into law 07/2008P-12Academic 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...

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AZSigned into law 04/2008P-12Accountability
H.B. 2711
Relates to intervention in mismanaged school districts.
A. Provides the Department of Education shall investigate a school district for syst...

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- Accountability--School Improvement
FLAdopted 11/2008P-12School 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 Improveme...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12Accountability sanctions
A.B. 2438
Requires the determination regarding growth targets for the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program (IIUSP) be averaged for f...

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AKAdopted 08/2008P-12SCHOOL 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 ...

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LASigned into law 07/2008P-12Assistance 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 ...

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SCSigned into law 06/2008P-12Teacher 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 le...

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MEIssued 05/2008P-12P-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 fou...

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MOSigned into law 05/2008P-12School Improvement
H.B. 2191
Allows school districts to participate in the A+ schools program irrespective of their accreditation status; provides that vocational school...

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- Adult Basic Education
UTAdopted 11/2008P-12Adult Education Programs
R277-733
Updates and align state and federal laws and regulations pertaining to adult education programs. Adds provisions regarding the qualification...

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CASigned into law 09/2008P-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 approv...

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CTSigned into law 06/2008Postsec.
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 commiss...

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VTSigned into law 06/2008P-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; re...

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MNVetoed 05/2008P-12Omnibus prek-12 Education Finance Bill
H.B. 6
Relates to school district development screening aide, teacher and administrator licensure, district teacher compensation aide, district deb...

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MDSigned into law 04/2008P-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...

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MDSigned into law 04/2008P-12Information 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 requi...

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INSigned into law 03/2008Postsec.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 ...

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UTAdopted 01/2008P-12Adult Education Programs
R277-733
Defines "adult basic education," "adult education," "GED," "measurable outcomes." Establishes clearer fiscal standards and practices for adu...

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- Assessment
GAAdopted 12/2008P-12State Assessments
GAC 160-3-1-.07
Eliminates reference to Georgia Kindergarten Assessment Program - Revised (GKAP-R). Provides all kindergarten students must be assessed usin...

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MISigned into law 12/2008P-12High 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 n...

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COAdopted 10/2008P-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,...

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UTSigned into law 10/2008P-12Assessment 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 Asses...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12Assessments
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,...

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CASigned into law 09/2008P-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 c...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12electronic learning assessment
S.B. 1767
Amends existing law which requires the Learning Resource Network to establish review criteria for electronic learning assessment resources a...

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CASigned into law 07/2008P-12Data 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 asse...

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CAVetoed 07/2008P-12Charter 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...

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FLSigned into law 06/2008P-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 ...

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OKVetoed 06/2008P-12End-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 p...

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OKSigned into law 06/2008P-12Support 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 alloc...

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SCSigned into law 06/2008P-12Amends Multiple Accountability Provisions
H.B. 4662
Revises the Education Accountability Act. Adds poverty, limited English proficiency status, disability status, or other groups required by f...

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COVetoed 05/2008P-12No 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 student...

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GASigned into law 05/2008P-12Norm-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 sy...

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IASigned into law 05/2008P-12Student 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 c...

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MNVetoed 05/2008P-12Omnibus 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 par...

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NESigned into law 04/2008P-12Statewide Assessments
L.B. 1157
From the fiscal note: Changes the current assessment system to provide for statewide assessments in reading and mathematics to be administer...

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LAAdopted 03/2008P-12Online 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 thro...

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LAAdopted 03/2008P-12Revisions to State Assessment Policies
Bulletin 118
Amends several rules relating to the statewide assessment standards and practices for testing, including: testing security, administrative e...

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NJSigned into law 03/2008Postsec.
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 tes...

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WASigned into law 03/2008P-12Washington 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 t...

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AKAdopted 02/2008P-12Work-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 ...

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LAadopted 01/2008P-12Statewide 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 g...

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- Assessment--Accommodations
LAAdopted 10/2008P-12Alternative 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 ...

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CASigned into law 09/2008P-12Alternate assessments
A.B. 2040
Relates to a high school exit examination in English language arts and mathematics. Creates a panel to make recommendations regarding altern...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12exit 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 ...

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IDAdopted 08/2008P-12LEP Assessment
IDAPA 08.02.03
Amends rules relating to thoroughness. Requires that first year limited English proficient students are required to take the standard achiev...

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- Assessment--Computer Based
UTSigned into law 10/2008P-12Assessment 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 Asses...

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OKSigned into law 06/2008P-12Support 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 alloc...

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LAAdopted 03/2008P-12Online 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 thro...

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- Assessment--End-of-Course
IASigned into law 05/2008P-12Core 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 grad...

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- Assessment--Formative/Interim
SCSigned into law 06/2008P-12Amends Multiple Accountability Provisions
H.B. 4662
Revises the Education Accountability Act. Adds poverty, limited English proficiency status, disability status, or other groups required by f...

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IASigned into law 05/2008P-12Core 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 grad...

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- Assessment--High Stakes/Competency
AZSigned into law 08/2008P-12Assessment 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 a...

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- At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)
UTAdopted 11/2008P-12Highly 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...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12Data 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 Examina...

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TXAdopted 08/2008P-12Dropout 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 th...

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LASigned into law 07/2008P-12High 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, i...

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LASigned into law 07/2008P-12Integrated 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 s...

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NYSigned into law 07/2008P-12Identification 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 district...

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DESigned into law 06/2008P-12Eligibility 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 advantag...

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OKAdopted 06/2008P-12Annual 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 Gr...

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COSigned into law 05/2008P-12Education 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, othe...

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KYSigned into law 04/2008P-12Status 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 publi...

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MESigned into law 04/2008P-12Student 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 mea...

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MESigned into law 04/2008P-12Alternative 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...

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MSSigned into law 04/2008P-12Low-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...

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WASigned into law 04/2008P-12High 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 Washingto...

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IDSigned into law 03/2008P-12At-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 t...

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WASigned into law 03/2008P-12Community 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 off...

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- At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education
NHAdopted 11/2008P-12Alternative 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 stude...

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DESigned into law 07/2008P-12Placement 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 distri...

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MESigned into law 04/2008P-12Alternative 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...

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MISigned into law 01/2008P-12Alternative 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...

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- At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol
NYSigned into law 09/2008Postsec.
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 ...

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LAIssued 08/2008P-12Council 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...

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NHSigned into law 06/2008P-12Health Curriculum
S.B. 359
Updates the health education curriculum requirements to include instruction on the effects of alcohol and other drugs, child abuse, human im...

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OKSigned into law 05/2008P-12Drug/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 ...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Substance 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 rece...

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UTSigned into law 02/2008P-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 ...

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- Attendance
ILSigned into law 12/2008P-12Truancy
S.B. 2743
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that if a code violation involves a municipal ordinance regulating truants, the hearing date mu...

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WYAdopted 10/2008P-12School Foundation Program
Chapter 8
These emergency rules amend the existing rules related to the school foundation program.  The emergency rules provide additional definitions...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12Attendance
S.B. 1735
Requires a school district to accept any documents and representations from the parent or guardian of a pupil that reasonably provide eviden...

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LASigned into law 07/2008P-12Habitual 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 th...

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AZSigned into law 06/2008P-12Attendance
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 pa...

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DESigned into law 06/2008P-12Compact 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/...

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LASigned into law 06/2008P-12Absences 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...

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NHSigned into law 06/2008P-12Committee 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 f...

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MISigned into law 05/2008P-12Student 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 excus...

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COSigned into law 04/2008P-12Student 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 sch...

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KYSigned into law 04/2008P-12Status 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 publi...

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MDSigned into law 04/2008P-12Response 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 interventio...

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VTSigned into law 04/2008P-12Absences 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 ...

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INSigned into law 03/2008P-12Attendance Enforcement
H.B. 1234
Allows certain law enforcement officers to inspect student attendance records and to enforce the attendance laws and requires an affidavit a...

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MSSigned into law 03/2008P-12Reporting 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 misse...

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- Attendance--Truancy
ILSigned into law 12/2008P-12Truancy
S.B. 2743
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that if a code violation involves a municipal ordinance regulating truants, the hearing date mu...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12truancy
S.B. 29
Requires a public school, school district, and county office of education that issues a device that uses radio frequency identification for ...

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LASigned into law 07/2008P-12Habitual 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 th...

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NHSigned into law 06/2008P-12Committee 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 f...

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COSigned into law 04/2008P-12Student 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 sch...

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KYSigned into law 04/2008P-12Status 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 publi...

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MDSigned into law 04/2008P-12Response 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 interventio...

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MSSigned into law 03/2008P-12Reporting 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 misse...

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WASigned into law 03/2008P-12Truancy 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 ...

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- Background Checks
IDAdopted 08/2008P-12UNIFORMITY
IDAPA 08.02.02
Amends rules relating to uniformity. Includes definitions and addresses the process of obtaining a criminal history check for applicants for...

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ILSigned into law 08/2008P-12Child 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 inv...

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DEAdopted 07/2008P-12Criminal 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.delaw...

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DEAdopted 07/2008P-12Criminal Background Checks
14 DAC 745
Proposes rule addressing criminal background check for public school related employment.
http://regulations.delaware.gov/AdminCode/title14/7...

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LASigned into law 07/2008P-12Background 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...

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OHSigned into law 06/2008P-12Employee Misconduct
H.B. 428
Requires the state board or state superintendent to automatically revoke or deny an educator license, without an administrative hearing, for...

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TNSigned into law 06/2008P-12Background 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 o...

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TNSigned into law 06/2008P-12Criminal 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 t...

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AZSigned into law 05/2008P-12fingerprinting
H.B. 2694
Relates to fingerprinting of contracted school employees; provides that fingerprints submitted shall be used to conduct a State and National...

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AZSigned into law 05/2008P-12Background 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 arrest...

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COSigned into law 05/2008P-12Background 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 prospecti...

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COSigned into law 05/2008P-12Background 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; dir...

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MNSigned into law 05/2008P-12Background 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 gu...

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MNSigned into law 05/2008P-12Background 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 emplo...

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OKSigned into law 05/2008P-12Ability 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 ...

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AZSigned into law 04/2008P-12Fingerprints
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 wh...

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IDSigned into law 04/2008P-12Background checks
S.B. 1515
Makes an additional appropriation to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for criminal history checks; makes an additional appropriation...

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KSSigned into law 04/2008P-12School 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...

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MDSigned into law 04/2008P-12Background 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...

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IDSigned into law 03/2008P-12Background checks
H.B. 566
Amends existing law relating to criminal history checks for school district employees or applicants for certificates; requires additional in...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-12Employee 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...

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- Bilingual/ESL
LAAdopted 12/2008P-12Guidelines for English Proficiency
LAC 28:LXXXIII.4001
Establishes reasonable guidelines for Limited English Proficient (LEP) students to achieve English proficiency. Allows districts to focus li...

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UTAdopted 11/2008P-12English 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 Langua...

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ILSigned into law 08/2008P-12Assorted 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 ...

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ORApproved by voters 08/2008P-12English 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 s...

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OKSigned into law 06/2008P-12Support 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 alloc...

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AZSigned into law 04/2008P-12English 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 mann...

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WASigned into law 04/2008P-12High 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 Washingto...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12English 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 no...

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WAIssued 02/2008P-12New 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...

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- Business Involvement
KYIssued 12/2008P-12Commission 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. Pro...

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UTSigned into law 02/2008P-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 ...

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- Career/Technical Education
LAAdopted 11/2008P-12Career 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.lou...

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CASigned into law 09/2008P-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 care...

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ILVeto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 09/2008P-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 ...

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ILSigned into law 08/2008P-12Assorted 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 ...

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MOAdopted 08/2008Postsec.career educators
5 CSR 80-800.280
Amends rule to incorporate 2008 changes. Updates certification requirements for Library Media Specialist certificate in Compendium of Missou...

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SCSigned into law 08/2008P-12School-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...

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SDAdopted 08/2008P-12CAREER/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, eli...

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LASigned into law 07/2008Postsec.
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 ...

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RISigned into law 07/2008P-12Apprenticeship Classroom Training
H.B. 7931
Authorizes the board of regents for elementary and secondary education to authorize vocational schools to provide apprenticeship classroom t...

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AZSigned into law 06/2008P-12Career 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...

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CTSigned into law 06/2008P-12Career/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 pe...

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FLSigned into law 06/2008P-12High 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 certificat...

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LASigned into law 06/2008P-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...

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NHSigned into law 06/2008P-12Advanced Manufacturing Education Advisory Council
S.B. 459
Establishes an Advanced Manufacturing Education Advisory Council to advise the Department of Education in the implementation, evaluation, an...

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VTSigned into law 06/2008P-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; re...

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AZSigned into law 05/2008Postsec.
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 t...

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AZVetoed 05/2008P-12Curriculum
H.B. 2557
Provides that a school district shall not eliminate or reduce instruction in physical education, the arts, music, career and technical educa...

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IASigned into law 05/2008P-12Core 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 grad...

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MOAdopted 05/2008P-12CAREER 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...

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OKSigned into law 05/2008P-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 measu...

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OKSigned into law 05/2008P-12Career 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...

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TNSigned into law 05/2008P-12Work 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 p...

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COSigned into law 04/2008P-12Career/Technical Policies
H.B. 1079
Relates to technical education; replaces the term vocational education with the term career and technical education in certain statutes; req...

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COAdopted 04/2008P-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...

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MESigned into law 04/2008P-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 secon...

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SDAdopted 04/2008Postsec.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 ...

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IDSigned into law 03/2008P-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 ...

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IDSigned into law 03/2008P-12career/technical education
S.B. 1474
Appropriates a specified sum to the State Board for Professional Technical Education for the Division of Professional Technical Education; r...

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LAAdopted 03/2008P-12Career 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 offering...

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LAAdopted 03/2008P-12Entrepreneurship 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, ob...

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NHSigned into law 03/2008Postsec.
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...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-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 readi...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-12Expansion 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 e...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-12Industry 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...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-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 b...

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WASigned into law 03/2008P-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 technic...

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AKAdopted 02/2008P-12Work-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 ...

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SDSigned into law 02/2008P-12finance--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 ...

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VASigned into law 02/2008P-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.
h...

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- Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship
CAVetoed 09/2008P-12Apprenticeships
A.B. 2078
Authorizes school districts that maintain high schools to establish work-based learning programs, and to purchase liability insurance for pu...

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RISigned into law 07/2008P-12Apprenticeship Classroom Training
H.B. 7931
Authorizes the board of regents for elementary and secondary education to authorize vocational schools to provide apprenticeship classroom t...

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- Choice of Schools--Charter Schools
UTAdopted 11/2008P-12Charter Schools
R277-470
Specifies that the state charter school board must create an accountability review process that includes specified components. Directs distr...

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CASigned into law 09/2008P-12Charter 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...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12Charter 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....

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CASigned into law 09/2008P-12transportation
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 fo...

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NVAdopted 09/2008P-12CHARTER SCHOOLS
NAC 386
Revises various provisions relating to charter schools for the Department. NEVADA 4427
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/NAC/CHAPTERS.HTMl...

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NVAdopted 09/2008P-12Charter School Authorizing
NAC 386
Establishes provisions relating to applications to form a charter school for sponsorship by the State Board of Education. ...

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NVAdopted 09/2008P-12Educational Management Organizations (EMOs)
NAC 386
Revises provisions governing educational management organizations relating to charter schools. ...

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OHSigned into law 08/2008P-12Appropriations
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 Departm...

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CAVetoed 07/2008P-12Charter 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...

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LASigned into law 07/2008P-12Charter 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...

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LASigned into law 07/2008P-12School 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 ...

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AZSigned into law 06/2008P-12Charters tax-exempt
H.B. 2330
Provides that property and buildings, including land, improvements, furniture, and equipment, that are owned by a nonprofit organization tha...

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DESigned into law 06/2008P-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 ...

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LASigned into law 06/2008P-12Charter 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...

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LASigned into law 06/2008P-12Maximum 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. htt...

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LASigned into law 06/2008P-12Charter 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 t...

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OKSigned into law 06/2008P-12Amends 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 sch...

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TNSigned into law 06/2008P-12Charter 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, identifi...

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TNSigned into law 06/2008P-12Charter School Sponsorship
S.B. 3283
Prohibits public charter school sponsorship by private elementary and secondary schools. Authorizes private higher education institutions to...

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AZSigned into law 05/2008P-12Special 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 fi...

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CTSigned into law 05/2008P-12Charter School Governance
S.B. 648
Concerns state charter school governance; reforms charter school governance and membership of the governing council; provides for transfer o...

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GASigned into law 05/2008P-12Georgia 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 depa...

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SCSigned into law 05/2008P-12Charter 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...

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AZSigned into law 04/2008P-12academic 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 lev...

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AZSigned into law 04/2008P-12Charter 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 ...

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COSigned into law 04/2008P-12State 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 aut...

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NMAdopted 04/2008P-12Charter 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,
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WISigned into law 04/2008P-12Virtual 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 publ...

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AZSigned into law 03/2008P-12Charter 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 ...

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CAAdopted 03/2008P-12FACILITIES 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 t...

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DESigned into law 03/2008P-12Same 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 amou...

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IDSigned into law 03/2008P-12Charter school
H.B. 502
Amends existing law relating to public charter schools to provide for relocation of public charter school facilities to another school distr...

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IDSigned into law 03/2008P-12charter 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 sc...

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LAAdopted 03/2008P-12Charter 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 c...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Charter 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...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Charter 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 number...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Charter 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 Boar...

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NMSigned into law 02/2008P-12State 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 s...

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VASigned into law 02/2008P-12Waivers 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 require...

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MISigned into law 01/2008P-12Charter School Policies
S.B. 730 (sec. 504)
Clarifies charter school policies related to location, facilities, admissions, grade configuration and enrollment.

http://www.legislature.m...

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- Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance
LASigned into law 07/2008P-12Charter 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...

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LASigned into law 06/2008P-12Charter 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 t...

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GASigned into law 05/2008P-12Charter 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 ...

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GASigned into law 05/2008P-12Charter 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 p...

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GASigned into law 05/2008P-12Georgia 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 depa...

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IDSigned into law 03/2008P-12Charter 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 ch...

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IDSigned into law 03/2008P-12charter 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 chart...

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LAAdopted 03/2008P-12Charter 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 c...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Charter 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 admi...

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- Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Research
UTAdopted 11/2008P-12Charter Schools
R277-470
Specifies that the state charter school board must create an accountability review process that includes specified components. Directs distr...

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GASigned into law 05/2008P-12Georgia 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 depa...

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LAAdopted 03/2008P-12Charter 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 c...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Charter 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 Boar...

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- Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment
UTAdopted 09/2008P-12Open Enrollment
R277-437
Rewrites rule addressing open enrollment for public school students. ...

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CASigned into law 07/2008P-12Open 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 enrollme...

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LASigned into law 07/2008P-12School 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 ...

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SCSigned into law 06/2008P-12Ability 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 oth...

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MNSigned into law 05/2008P-12Interstate 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 opti...

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IASigned into law 04/2008P-12Desegregation 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 "co...

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MDSigned into law 04/2008P-12Attendance 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 schoo...

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NESigned into law 04/2008P-12Learning 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 learn...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Open 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 enroll...

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- Choice of Schools--Innovation Schools
COSigned into law 05/2008P-12Innovation 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 ...

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- Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools
ILSigned into law 08/2008P-12Assorted 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 ...

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LASigned into law 07/2008P-12New 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...

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OKSigned into law 05/2008P-12State 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;...

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KSSigned into law 04/2008P-12Kansas 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 ...

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- Choice of Schools--Tax Credits
FLSigned into law 06/2008P-12Corporate 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 insuranc...

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GASigned into law 05/2008P-12Tax Credits
H.B. 1133
Authorizes the creation of "student scholarship organizations" that allocate funds for scholarships or grants allowing preschool and K-12 st...

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LASigned into law 03/2008P-12Income 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 elemen...

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- Choice of Schools--Vouchers
FLSigned into law 06/2008P-12
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Student w/ Disabilies Policies
H.B. 1313
Relates to charter schools, the Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program, postsecondary education, school attendance, and high sc...

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FLSigned into law 06/2008P-12Corporate 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 insuranc...

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LASigned into law 06/2008P-12Student 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 ...

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- Civic Education
CASigned into law 09/2008P-12civic 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 a...

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ILSigned into law 08/2008P-12
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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 ...

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RISigned into law 07/2008P-12Juniors 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...

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TNSigned into law 05/2008P-12Instruction 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. - ...

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MDSigned into law 04/2008P-12Student 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, S...

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OKSigned into law 04/2008P-12
H.B. 2229
Amends existing law which requires public school districts to include instruction concerning the Declaration of Independence and the United ...

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UTAdopted 03/2008P-12Standards 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 pre...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Registering 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/sbille...

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- Civic Education--Character Education
CASigned into law 09/2008P-12civic 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 a...

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ILSigned into law 08/2008P-12
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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 ...

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RISigned into law 07/2008P-12Juniors 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...

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TNSigned into law 05/2008P-12Instruction 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. - ...

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MDSigned into law 04/2008P-12Student 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, S...

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OKSigned into law 04/2008P-12
H.B. 2229
Amends existing law which requires public school districts to include instruction concerning the Declaration of Independence and the United ...

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UTAdopted 03/2008P-12Standards 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 pre...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Registering 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/sbille...

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- Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance
CASigned into law 09/2008P-12civic 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 a...

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WASigned into law 03/2008P-12History 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. Commer...

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- Class Size
CASigned into law 09/2008P-12Class Size
S.B. 1112
Extends the sunset date for the mitigation provisions in the Class Size Reduction Program, in which participating school districts are provi...

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DESigned into law 06/2008P-12Compliance 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 da...

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NYAdopted 06/2008P-12Contracts 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,...

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NYAdopted 01/2008P-12Contracts 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 Reg...

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- Curriculum
MISigned into law 12/2008P-12History 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 on...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12Financial literacy
A.B. 1502
Requires the State Board of Education and the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that information about ...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12Native American curriculum
A.B. 2034
Encourages the State Board of Education and the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that the history-soci...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12History curriculum
A.B. 2064
Requires the State Board of Education and the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that the history-social...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12Social 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 Ed...

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UTAdopted 09/2008P-12Instructional Materials Commission
R277-469
Amends rule addressing the operating procedures of the Instructional Materials Commission. Defines "curriculum alignment" as the assurance t...

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ILSigned into law 08/2008P-12Homeownership Education
S.B. 2387
Adds homeownership, including the basic process of obtaining a mortgage and the concepts of fixed and adjustable rate mortgages, subprime lo...

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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...

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CAVetoed 07/2008P-12Science
S.B. 908
Amends existing law that requires the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to recommend minimum standards of course ...

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LASigned into law 07/2008P-12
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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 o...

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LASigned into law 07/2008P-12Foreign 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 addi...

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NYSigned into law 07/2008P-12Drivers Education
S.B. 6985
Creates a temporary special advisory panel on driver education availability and curriculum enhancement to examine, assess and make recommend...

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PASigned into law 07/2008P-12Center 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 Environm...

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RISigned into law 07/2008P-12Standards-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 t...

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RISigned into law 07/2008P-12Standards-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 P...

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CTSigned into law 06/2008P-12High 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 graduat...

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NHSigned into law 06/2008P-12
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HIV Education
S.B. 395
Establishes a commission to review the state's statutes on human immunodeficiency virus education, prevention, and control.
http://www.genco...

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NHSigned into law 06/2008P-12Health Curriculum
S.B. 359
Updates the health education curriculum requirements to include instruction on the effects of alcohol and other drugs, child abuse, human im...

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NHSigned into law 06/2008P-12Pre-Engineering Curriculum
H.B. 1282
Expands the Department of Education's pre- engineering technology curriculum in public schools program for students in specified grades inte...

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AZVetoed 05/2008P-12Curriculum
H.B. 2557
Provides that a school district shall not eliminate or reduce instruction in physical education, the arts, music, career and technical educa...

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IASigned into law 05/2008P-12Financial 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 planni...

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IASigned into law 05/2008P-12Core 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 grad...

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OKSigned into law 05/2008P-12Physical 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...

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KYSigned into law 04/2008P-12Instruction 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 sta...

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MDSigned into law 04/2008P-12Financial 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 s...

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OKSigned into law 04/2008P-12
H.B. 2229
Amends existing law which requires public school districts to include instruction concerning the Declaration of Independence and the United ...

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ORSigned into law 03/2008P-12Farm-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 partic...

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TNSigned into law 03/2008P-12Guidelines 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 ...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Instructional 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 m...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-12Physical 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 fi...

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WASigned into law 03/2008P-12Local 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 foo...

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WVSigned into law 03/2008P-12High 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...

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- Curriculum--Alignment
UTAdopted 09/2008P-12Instructional Materials Commission
R277-469
Amends rule addressing the operating procedures of the Instructional Materials Commission. Defines "curriculum alignment" as the assurance t...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Instructional 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 m...

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WASigned into law 03/2008P-12Online 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 proposal...

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- Curriculum--Arts Education
OKSigned into law 06/2008P-12Oklahoma 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 visu...

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AZVetoed 05/2008P-12Curriculum
H.B. 2557
Provides that a school district shall not eliminate or reduce instruction in physical education, the arts, music, career and technical educa...

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GASigned into law 05/2008P-12Georgia 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, a...

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TNSigned into law 05/2008P-12Art 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...

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TNSigned into law 05/2008P-12Art 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 thi...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Elementary 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 st...

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NMSigned into law 02/2008P-12State 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 s...

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- Curriculum--Drivers Education
NYSigned into law 07/2008P-12Drivers Education
S.B. 6985
Creates a temporary special advisory panel on driver education availability and curriculum enhancement to examine, assess and make recommend...

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- Curriculum--Environmental Education
PASigned into law 07/2008P-12Center 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 Environm...

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- Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed.
MISigned into law 12/2008P-12Financial 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.
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UTAdopted 12/2008P-12Financial and Economic Literacy
R277-704
Defines "financial and economic literacy student passport" as a collection of approved activities, assessments or achievements completed dur...

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ILSigned into law 08/2008P-12Homeownership Education
S.B. 2387
Adds homeownership, including the basic process of obtaining a mortgage and the concepts of fixed and adjustable rate mortgages, subprime lo...

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ILSigned into law 08/2008P-12
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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...

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LASigned into law 07/2008P-12
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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 o...

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COSigned into law 05/2008P-12Financial Literacy Standards
H.B. 1168
Directs the State Standards and Assessments Development and Implementation Council, the State Board of Education, and school districts to ad...

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IASigned into law 05/2008P-12Financial 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 planni...

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IASigned into law 05/2008P-12Student 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 c...

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MDSigned into law 04/2008P-12Financial 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 s...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Financial 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 complet...

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NMSigned into law 02/2008P-12
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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 asse...

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- Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language
LASigned into law 07/2008P-12Foreign 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 addi...

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CTSigned into law 06/2008P-12High 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 graduat...

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TNSigned into law 03/2008P-12Guidelines 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 ...

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- Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education
RISigned into law 07/2008P-12Standards-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 P...

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OKSigned into law 06/2008P-12School 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...

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WASigned into law 03/2008P-12Local 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 foo...

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- Curriculum--International Education
HIVetoed 04/2008P-12
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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 internatio...

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- Curriculum--Language Arts
CAVetoed 09/2008P-12curriculum 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 framewo...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12Curriculum 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 ad...

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MOApproved by voters 05/2008P-12
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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....

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- Curriculum--Mathematics
ILSigned into law 08/2008P-12Assorted 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 ...

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OKSigned into law 05/2008P-12State 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;...

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KSSigned into law 04/2008P-12Kansas 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 ...

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KYSigned into law 04/2008P-12
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STEM
S.B. 2
Defines "Advanced science and mathematics" as Advanced Placement (AP) biology, calculus, chemistry, computer science, environmental science,...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Teacher 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-t...

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WASigned into law 03/2008P-12Online 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 proposal...

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ORAdopted 01/2008P-12Instructional 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...

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- Curriculum--Multicultural
MISigned into law 12/2008P-12History 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 on...

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- Curriculum--Physical Education
RISigned into law 07/2008P-12Standards-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 t...

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RISigned into law 07/2008P-12Standards-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 P...

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CASigned into law 06/2008P-12PE 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...

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MNVetoed 05/2008P-12Omnibus 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 par...

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OKSigned into law 05/2008P-12Physical 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...

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MDSigned into law 04/2008P-12Physical 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...

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MDSigned into law 04/2008P-12Task 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 r...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-12Best 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, ...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-12Physical 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 fi...

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- Curriculum--Science
ILSigned into law 08/2008P-12Assorted 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 ...

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PASigned into law 07/2008P-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 a...

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LASigned into law 06/2008P-12Science 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 req...

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OKSigned into law 05/2008P-12State 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;...

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KSSigned into law 04/2008P-12Kansas 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 ...

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KYSigned into law 04/2008P-12
Postsec.
STEM
S.B. 2
Defines "Advanced science and mathematics" as Advanced Placement (AP) biology, calculus, chemistry, computer science, environmental science,...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Teacher 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-t...

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- Curriculum--Sex Education
WAAdopted 09/2008P-12SEX 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/...

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LAIssued 07/2008P-12Abstinence 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...

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NHSigned into law 06/2008P-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.genco...

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NHSigned into law 06/2008P-12Health Curriculum
S.B. 359
Updates the health education curriculum requirements to include instruction on the effects of alcohol and other drugs, child abuse, human im...

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- Curriculum--Social Studies/History
MISigned into law 12/2008P-12History 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 on...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12curriculum 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 framewo...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12History curriculum
A.B. 2064
Requires the State Board of Education and the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that the history-social...

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OKSigned into law 04/2008P-12
H.B. 2229
Amends existing law which requires public school districts to include instruction concerning the Declaration of Independence and the United ...

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- Demographics--Condition of Children/Adults
MASigned into law 07/2008P-12Commission 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 abu...

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TNSigned into law 06/2008P-12Requires 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...

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- Demographics--Enrollments
AZVetoed 05/2008P-12Enrollment
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...

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SDSigned into law 02/2008P-12Enrollment
S.B. 21
Revises certain provisions related to the local school district interstate enrollment options program.
http://www.ecs.org/html/offsite.asp?d...

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- Desegregation
ARSigned into law 04/2008P-12School Desegregation
H.B. 1003A
Amends provisions concerning school desegregation funding and litigation costs; extends the time period within which a school district must ...

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IASigned into law 04/2008P-12Desegregation 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 "co...

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NESigned into law 04/2008P-12Learning 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 learn...

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- Economic/Workforce Development
MISigned into law 12/2008Community 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 agree...

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COAdopted 10/2008P-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,...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-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...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-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...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12economic 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 ...

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CASigned into law 09/2008P-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 feasibil...

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CASigned into law 09/2008P-12Employability
A.B. 2125
Requires county juvenile justice plans for high-risk juveniles to assess job training services and strategies, and requires a demonstration ...

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CASigned into law 09/2008P-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 shal...

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ILVeto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 09/2008P-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 ...

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CASigned into law 08/2008P-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, Legi...

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ILSigned into law 08/2008P-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 ...

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MASigned into law 08/2008Postsec.
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...

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LASigned into law 07/2008Postsec.
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 ho...

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LASigned into law 07/2008Postsec.
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 dev...

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NYSigned into law 07/2008Postsec.Research Institutions
A.B. 10944
Amends provisions of law establishing a faculty development program to assist institutions of higher education with the retention and recrui...

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LASigned into law 06/2008P-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...

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RISigned into law 06/2008Community 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...

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VTSigned into law 06/2008P-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; re...

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CTSigned into law 05/2008P-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 an...

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GASigned into law 05/2008P-12Made 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 sho...

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HISigned into law 05/2008Postsec.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 ...

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VAIssued 05/2008Community 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...

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MDSigned into law 04/2008Postsec.
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 Stat...

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MESigned into law 04/2008P-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 secon...

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NESigned into law 04/2008Community CollegeJob 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...

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VASigned into law 04/2008Community CollegeWorkforce 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 sta...

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WISigned into law 04/2008P-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. T...

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IDSigned into law 03/2008P-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 ...

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LAAdopted 03/2008P-12Entrepreneurship 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, ob...

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MSSigned into law 03/2008Postsec.
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...

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NHIssued 03/2008P-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 ta...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008Postsec.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 ...

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VASigned into law 03/2008Community CollegeWorkforce 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 econ...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-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 b...

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WASigned into law 03/2008Postsec.
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 electronic...

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WASigned into law 03/2008P-12Workforce 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 pri...

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AZIssued 01/2008P-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...

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- Education Research
CASigned into law 09/2008Community CollegeEducation 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 c...

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IASigned into law 04/2008P-12State 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 pro...

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- Equity
NEApproved by voters 09/2008P-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 p...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-12Access 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 f...

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- Federal
DESigned into law 06/2008P-12Eligibility 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 advantag...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Gubernatorial 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 feder...

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- Finance
CAVetoed 09/2008Community CollegeCommunity 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 sess...

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CASigned into law 09/2008P-12Finance
A.B. 2246
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to compute an amount of funding for each pupil concurrently enrolled in regular secondary ...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12remediation 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 ...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12after 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 ...

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CASigned into law 09/2008P-12Finance
S.B. 1197
Requires that a regional occupational center or program established and maintained by school districts or joint powers agencies pursuant to ...

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ILSigned into law 08/2008Postsec.
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...

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CAVetoed 07/2008Community 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...

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CASigned into law 07/2008P-12Finance
A.B. 2197
Relates to notification of Superintendent of Public Instruction when the county board of education approves proceeding with the issuance of ...

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AZSigned into law 06/2008P-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 cont...

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AZSigned into law 06/2008P-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 addition...

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DETo Governor 06/2008P-12Ad 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...

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FLSigned into law 06/2008P-12Education Program Funding
H.B. 5083
Deletes salary supplements for National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) certification from definition of compensation unde...

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NHSigned into law 06/2008P-12Cost 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 opportunit...

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OKSigned into law 06/2008P-12Oklahoma 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 visu...

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RISigned into law 06/2008P-12Financial 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 s...

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MNVetoed 05/2008P-12Omnibus prek-12 Education Finance Bill
H.B. 6
Relates to school district development screening aide, teacher and administrator licensure, district teacher compensation aide, district deb...

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DESigned into law 04/2008P-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 o...

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IDSigned into law 04/2008P-12Finance
H.B. 532
Provides state funding from the Public Education Stabilization Fund to temporarily mitigate the impact on certain school districts for loss ...

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MSSigned into law 04/2008P-12Low-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...

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WISigned into law 04/2008P-12State 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, psychologist...

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INSigned into law 03/2008P-12Congressional 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...

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MSSigned into law 03/2008P-12Bonded 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 s...

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WVSigned into law 03/2008P-12Student 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 st...

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WYSigned into law 03/2008P-12School Finance Amendments
S.B. 70
Bill establishes school district financial assistance for specified purposes outside of and in addition to the education resource block gran...

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SDSigned into law 02/2008P-12finance--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 ...

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SDSigned into law 02/2008P-12Finance
H.B. 1087
Revises the General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2008 regarding appropriations to the Department of Executive Management, the Departme...

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NJSigned into law 01/2008P-12Funding 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; ...

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- Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost
DETo Governor 06/2008P-12Ad 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...

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NHSigned into law 06/2008P-12Cost 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 opportunit...

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NJSigned into law 01/2008P-12Funding 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; ...

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- Finance--Aid to Private Schools
KYSigned into law 04/2008P-12Transportation 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 ...

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- Finance--Bonds
LASigned into law 07/2008P-12Public 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 improve...

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IDSigned into law 04/2008P-12Finance
H.B. 673
Makes an appropriation for the Division of Facilities portion of the Public Schools budget; provides for the transfer and appropriation of m...

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IDSigned into law 03/2008P-12Finance
H.B. 457
Amends existing law to clarify that the Bond Levy Equalization Support Program for school districts; applies to actual projects that were pr...

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MSSigned into law 03/2008P-12Bonded 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 s...

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SDSigned into law 03/2008Community CollegeFinance
H.B. 1218
Increases the maximum allowable outstanding amount of bonds issued by the Health and Educational Facility Authority on behalf of four techni...

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- Finance--District
ILSigned into law 10/2008P-12Lowest 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 b...

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RISigned into law 07/2008P-12Audits
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 ...

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RISigned into law 07/2008P-12Accounting 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...

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LASigned into law 06/2008P-12Treasurer 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 sc...

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TNSigned into law 06/2008P-12Study 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 increa...

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AZSigned into law 05/2008P-12school district finance
S.B. 1443
Concerns the School District Redistricting Commission; relates to rules and procedures regarding an election to approve or reject the unific...

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IDSigned into law 03/2008P-12Finance
S.B. 1428
Establishes a penalty for local school districts being non-responsive to audit inquiries from the Department of Education on results of thei...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-12Publishing 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 w...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-12Publishing 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 we...

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SDSigned into law 02/2008P-12Finance
S.B. 22
Revises provisions related to the payment of additional funds to consolidated school districts for average daily membership; declares an eme...

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SDSigned into law 02/2008P-12finance--district
H.B. 1143
Repeals requirements related to school district employee retirement benefits.
http://legis.state.sd.us/index.aspx...

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SDSigned into law 02/2008P-12Finance--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 ...

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- Finance--Equity
SDSigned into law 02/2008P-12Finance 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:...

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- Finance--Facilities
GAApproved by voters 11/2008P-12Funding Facilities
V. 3
(BALLOT MEASURE SR 996) Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to authorize community redevelopment and authorize counties, municipalitie...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12Finance
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. I...

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CASigned into law 09/2008P-12Facilities
S.B. 1556
Authorizes the State Allocation Board to permit an elementary school district, with a certain number of elementary schools, that is located ...

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UTAdopted 09/2008P-12State School Building Program
R277-451
Repeals rule relating to the State School Building Program....

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LASigned into law 07/2008P-12Public 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 improve...

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LAVetoed 07/2008P-12Statewide Educational Facilities Authority
S.B. 632
Creates the Statewide Educational Facilities Authority in the department of education to provide funding, coordination, assistance and overs...

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NHSigned into law 07/2008P-12Facilities 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 sc...

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NHSigned into law 07/2008P-12Kindergarten 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 ele...

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TNSigned into law 06/2008P-12Energy 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 requ...

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KYSigned into law 04/2008P-12Capital 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 cap...

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NMSigned into law 03/2008P-12Public 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; autho...

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WISigned into law 03/2008P-12Renewable 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 fac...

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- Finance--Federal
MSSigned into law 04/2008P-12Temporary 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 Depart...

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- Finance--Funding Formulas
UTAdopted 11/2008P-12Highly 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...

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UTAdopted 11/2008P-12School 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.ru...

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UTAdopted 11/2008P-12English 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 Langua...

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WYAdopted 10/2008P-12School Foundation Program
Chapter 8
These emergency rules amend the existing rules related to the school foundation program.  The emergency rules provide additional definitions...

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CASigned into law 09/2008P-12Year-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 ye...

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CASigned into law 09/2008P-12Class Size
S.B. 1112
Extends the sunset date for the mitigation provisions in the Class Size Reduction Program, in which participating school districts are provi...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12finance
S.B. 146
Relates to school finance. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to compute the average monthly enrollment of each elementary, h...

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ILGovernor's line-item veto overridden by both houses 09/2008P-12Funding 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 appropr...

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NYVetoed 09/2008P-12Fuel 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 distr...

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ILSigned into law 08/2008P-12Assorted 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 ...

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AKSigned into law 07/2008P-12PreK 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 pu...

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PASigned into law 07/2008P-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 a...

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AZSigned into law 06/2008P-12Career 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...

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AZSigned into law 06/2008P-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 addition...

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COSigned into law 05/2008P-12Revisions 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...

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KSSigned into law 05/2008P-12School 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 proporti...

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KSSigned into law 05/2008P-12Virtual School
S.B. 669
Establishes the virtual school act. Authorizes districts to operate virtual schools. Provides for requirements for virtual schools. Requires...

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OKSigned into law 05/2008P-12Extends 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 repl...

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AZVetoed 04/2008P-12Finance-Technology
H.B. 2220
Concerns property tax valuation for purposes of the State Equalization Assistance property tax for a joint technological education district ...

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IDSigned into law 04/2008P-12Finance Formula
H.B. 607
Amends existing law relating to public school funding; revises the basis for calculating pupil tuition equivalency allowances; deletes an al...

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NESigned into law 04/2008P-12Changes 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....

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AKSigned into law 03/2008P-12Funding formula
H.B. 273
Relates to school funding, the base student allocation, district cost factors and the adjustments for intensive services and average daily m...

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ORSigned into law 03/2008P-12Talented 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 ...

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SCSigned into law 03/2008P-12Supplemental 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 s...

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WVSigned into law 03/2008P-12Student 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 st...

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IASigned into law 02/2008P-12Percent 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 computa...

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SDSigned into law 02/2008P-12Finance--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 ...

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SDSigned into law 02/2008P-12Finance formula
S.B. 187
Revises the General Education State Aid Formula for purposes of increasing teachers' salaries; revises provisions related to payments of add...

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SDSigned into law 02/2008P-12Finance
H.B. 1120
Revises property tax levies for the general fund of a school district; provides maximum tax levies for agricultural property, an owner-occup...

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ILSigned into law 01/2008P-12Special 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...

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- Finance--Local Foundations/Funds
INSigned into law 03/2008P-12Congressional 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...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Financial 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. Require...

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WVSigned into law 03/2008Postsec.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 mill...

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- Finance--Lotteries
MDApproved by voters 11/2008P-12Lottery 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...

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CAOn June 8 10/2008P-12Finance
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 pur...

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CASigned into law 09/2008P-12Lottery 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 peop...

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ORRejected by voters 08/2008P-12Lottery 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 publi...

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TNSigned into law 06/2008P-12Lottery 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 scho...

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AROn 11/04/2008 Ballot. 04/2008Postsec.
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...

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- Finance--Resource Efficiency
FLRemoved from Ballot 04/2008P-1265% 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, r...

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- Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
NVSigned into law 12/2008P-12Finance
A.B. 2A
Revises provisions governing state financial administration; authorizes the State Treasurer to establish a line of credit on behalf of the s...

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ALApproved by voters 11/2008P-12Reestablishing 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 st...

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UTApproved by voters 11/2008P-12State 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...

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ALSigned into law 06/2008P-12Education Trust Fund
H.B. 63A
Allows for 75%, up from 20%, of unexpended education funds to be appropriated to the Education Trust Fund....

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NYAdopted 06/2008P-12Contracts 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,...

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TNSigned into law 06/2008P-12Study 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 increa...

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TNSigned into law 06/2008P-12Requires 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...

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IASigned into law 05/2008P-12Appropriations
H.F. 2679
Selected provisions:
• Creates the Senior Year Plus Program to increase access of high school students to college credit and
advanced placem...

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IASigned into law 05/2008P-12Appropriations: 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
• Requir...

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DESigned into law 04/2008P-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 o...

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WYSigned into law 03/2008P-12School Finance Amendments
S.B. 70
Bill establishes school district financial assistance for specified purposes outside of and in addition to the education resource block gran...

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IASigned into law 02/2008P-12Percent 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 computa...

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NYAdopted 01/2008P-12Contracts 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 Reg...

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- Finance--Student Fees
UTAdopted 12/2008P-12Student 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 sch...

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UTAdopted 10/2008P-12Charter, 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. Estab...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-12Textbook 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 textbo...

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- Finance--Taxes/Revenues
CORejected by voters 09/2008P-12Funding 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; requ...

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ILSigned into law 08/2008P-12Assorted 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 ...

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AZSigned into law 06/2008P-12Charters tax-exempt
H.B. 2330
Provides that property and buildings, including land, improvements, furniture, and equipment, that are owned by a nonprofit organization tha...

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ALSigned into law 05/2008P-12Taxes
S.B. 556
Amends policies relating to the creation of a tax increment district....

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IASigned into law 05/2008P-12Revenue 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 sale...

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FLRejected by voters 04/2008Community 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 ...

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FLRemoved from Ballot 04/2008P-12Property 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 harmles...

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IDSigned into law 03/2008P-12Finance
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...

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IDSigned into law 03/2008P-12Virtual 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 purpose...

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TNSigned into law 03/2008P-12Sales 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...

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SDSigned into law 02/2008P-12Finance
H.B. 1120
Revises property tax levies for the general fund of a school district; provides maximum tax levies for agricultural property, an owner-occup...

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- Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues
ILSigned into law 08/2008P-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 ...

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ILSigned into law 08/2008Postsec.
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...

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LABecame law without governor's signature 06/2008Postsec.
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 de...

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- Governance
FLAdopted 11/2008Postsec.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...

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LAApproved by voters 11/2008P-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...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12Charter 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....

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COSigned into law 05/2008P-12Youth 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...

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MDChapter No. 559 05/2008P-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 a...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-12State 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 childre...

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WASigned into law 03/2008P-12Powers 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 car...

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MAAdopted 01/2008P-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. Cre...

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- Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule
GASigned into law 04/2008P-12Flexibility 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 educati...

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- Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest
NYSigned into law 10/2008P-12Lawyers 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 i...

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ILSigned into law 08/2008P-12Job-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 o...

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ILVeto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 08/2008Community 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 res...

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HIVeto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 07/2008Postsec.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 compensa...

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NYSigned into law 07/2008P-12License 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 fe...

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LASigned into law 06/2008Postsec.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 ...

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ALSigned into law 05/2008P-12Competitive 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 compet...

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AZVetoed 05/2008P-12Ethics
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 nonc...

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GASigned into law 05/2008P-12Board 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://w...

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GASigned into law 05/2008P-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 provid...

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TNSigned into law 05/2008P-12Boards 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 ...

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LASigned into law 03/2008P-12Ethics Education
H.B. 33A
Establishes qualification and education requirements for persons designated by state agencies to provide ethics education and information to...

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LASigned into law 03/2008P-12Ethnics 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 employme...

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SDSigned into law 02/2008P-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...

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- Governance--School Boards
NJSigned into law 10/2008P-12School 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....

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NYSigned into law 10/2008P-12Lawyers 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 i...

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OKAdopted 07/2008P-12New 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 follow...

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LASigned into law 06/2008P-12School 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...

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GASigned into law 05/2008P-12Board 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://w...

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KSSigned into law 05/2008P-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...

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TNSigned into law 05/2008P-12Extension 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 day...

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TNSigned into law 05/2008P-12Boards 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 ...

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MNSigned into law 04/2008P-12Conflict 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...

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MSSigned into law 04/2008P-12Scheduling 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 oc...

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MISigned into law 03/2008P-12School 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 ...

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MSSigned into law 03/2008P-12Additional 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 s...

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NJSigned into law 03/2008P-12Public 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://w...

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- Governance--School Boards--Training
LASigned into law 06/2008P-12School 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...

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AZSigned into law 04/2008P-12Fiscal 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...

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- Governance--Site-Based Management
ILSigned into law 12/2008P-12School 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, t...

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UTAdopted 12/2008P-12School Community Councils
R277-491
Proposes rule to provide direction to school districts and schools in establishing and maintaining school community councils. http://www.rul...

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KYSigned into law 04/2008P-12Appointment 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 loca...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12School 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 sc...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Election 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 counci...

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- Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
ILSigned into law 08/2008P-12Commission 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 b...

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OHSigned into law 08/2008P-12Appropriations
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 Departm...

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LAVetoed 07/2008P-12Statewide Educational Facilities Authority
S.B. 632
Creates the Statewide Educational Facilities Authority in the department of education to provide funding, coordination, assistance and overs...

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NYSigned into law 07/2008P-12Drivers Education
S.B. 6985
Creates a temporary special advisory panel on driver education availability and curriculum enhancement to examine, assess and make recommend...

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KYSigned into law 06/2008P-12Teacher 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 est...

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LASigned into law 06/2008P-12Department 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-...

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NJSigned into law 06/2008P-12Appeals 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 la...

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NJSigned into law 06/2008P-12Commissioner of Education Authority
A.B. 2965
Establishes Commissioner of Education as the rule- making authority under several school district accountability statutes relating to early ...

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ALVetoed 05/2008P-12Posting 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 s...

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DESigned into law 05/2008P-12State 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/vwLegisla...

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GASigned into law 05/2008P-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 provid...

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NYAdopted 05/2008P-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....

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OKSigned into law 05/2008P-12Oklahoma 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://w...

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LAAdopted 03/2008P-12Board 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/...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-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 includin...

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WASigned into law 03/2008P-12Powers 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 car...

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WVSigned into law 03/2008P-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 include...

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MAAdopted 01/2008P-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. Cre...

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- Health
KYIssued 12/2008P-12Commission 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. Pro...

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ILVeto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 09/2008P-12Prevalent 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 condition...

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ILSigned into law 08/2008P-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 ...

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WAAdopted 08/2008P-12SEX 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/...

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CASigned by Governor 07/2008P-12Environmental impact
A.B. 2720
Makes technical changes to the California Environmental Quality Act that prohibits an environmental impact report for any project involving ...

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ILSigned into law 07/2008P-12Health 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...

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LAIssued 07/2008P-12Abstinence 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...

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RISigned into law 07/2008P-12Standards-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 t...

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DESigned into law 06/2008P-12Eligibility 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 advantag...

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DESigned into law 06/2008P-12Interscholastic 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 appoint...

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FLSigned into law 06/2008P-12School 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 t...

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ILSigned into law 06/2008P-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 E...

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LABecame law without governor's signature 06/2008P-12Information 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....

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LASigned into law 06/2008P-12Immunization Compliance Reports
H.B. 184
Requires the chief administrators of all public and private elementary and secondary schools, kindergartens, colleges, universities, proprie...

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LASigned into law 06/2008P-12Vaccinations
H.B. 178
Effective with the 2009-2010 school year, requires students to provide evidence of vaccination against meningococcal disease as a condition ...

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LASigned into law 06/2008P-12Immunization 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 im...

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LASigned into law 06/2008Postsec.
Community College
Student Immunization Reports
H.B. 187
Requires all public and nonpublic postsecondary education institutions to electronically transmit immunization compliance reports to the dep...

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NHSigned into law 06/2008P-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; prov...

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NHSigned into law 06/2008P-12Health Curriculum
S.B. 359
Updates the health education curriculum requirements to include instruction on the effects of alcohol and other drugs, child abuse, human im...

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OKSigned into law 06/2008P-12School 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...

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RISigned into law 06/2008P-12Safe 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; provid...

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RISigned into law 06/2008P-12Posting 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 ...

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SCSigned into law 06/2008P-12Debrillators 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 def...

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VTSigned into law 06/2008P-12Self-Medication
H.B. 748
Permits students with life-threatening food allergies or other life-threatening chronic illnesses to possess and self-administer life-saving...

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COSigned into law 05/2008Postsec.
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 scre...

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GASigned into law 05/2008P-12Defibrillators in Schools
H.B. 1031
Requires each public high school with an interscholastic athletics program to have at least one functioning automated external defibrillator...

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MDSigned into law 05/2008P-12Youth 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 Yout...

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OKSigned into law 05/2008P-12Physical 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...

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OKSigned into law 05/2008P-12Quality Afterschool Opportunities Act
S.B. 1612
Creates the Quality Afterschool Opportunities Act to Reduce Childhood Obesity and Improve Academic Performance; directs the State Department...

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OKSigned into law 05/2008P-12Self-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 asth...

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AZSigned into law 04/2008P-12Diabetic 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 ...

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COSigned into law 04/2008P-12School 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...

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IASigned into law 04/2008P-12Eye 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 examinat...

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KYSigned into law 04/2008P-12Dental 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 certi...

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KYSigned into law 04/2008P-12Health 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 hea...

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MDSigned into law 04/2008P-12Task 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 r...

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NESigned into law 04/2008P-12Funding 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.n...

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NYSigned into law 04/2008P-12Administration 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.n...

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NYSigned into law 04/2008P-12Choking 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...

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OKSigned into law 04/2008P-12Defibrillators
S.B. 923
Mandates that automated external defibrillators be made available in schools if funding is available; authorizes such defibrillators availab...

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TNSigned into law 04/2008P-12Defibrillators 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 resou...

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WASigned into law 04/2008P-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...

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IASigned into law 03/2008P-12Dental 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...

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TNSigned into law 03/2008P-12Hearing 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 e...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Epinephrine 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, st...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-12Physical 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 fi...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-12Administration 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 prescript...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-12Mental 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...

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WVSigned into law 03/2008P-12High 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...

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AKAdopted 02/2008P-12IMMUNIZATIONS 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...

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NJSigned into law 01/2008P-12School 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...

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- Health--Child Abuse
CASigned into law 09/2008P-12Child care
A.B. 2759
Recasts provisions of existing law as the State Preschool Program. Deletes campus child care and development programs and child abuse protec...

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ILSigned into law 08/2008P-12Child 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 inv...

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MASigned into law 07/2008P-12Commission 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 abu...

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OKSigned into law 05/2008P-12Ability 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 ...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Child 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...

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UTAdopted 01/2008P-12Educator Standards
R277-515
Provides definitions, standards for educators as role models, standards for educators to maintain a safe learning environment, standards for...

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CTSigned into law 06/2008Postsec.
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 De...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-12Mental 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...

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- Health--Nutrition
CAVetoed 09/2008P-12Water
A.B. 2704
Expresses findings of the legislature related to childhood obesity and the significance of free tap water at schools. Prohibits the governin...

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CAAdopted 08/2008P-12Child 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 ...

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CASigned into law 07/2008P-12Teacher certification
A.B. 2057
Relates to annexation of specified territory by a school district or county board of education, waiver requests from specified education ent...

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COSigned into law 05/2008P-12Child 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 reduce...

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MDSigned into law 05/2008P-12School 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 ...

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COSigned into law 04/2008P-12School 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 certai...

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ORSigned into law 03/2008P-12Farm-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 partic...

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UTAdopted 03/2008P-12Food 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 incom...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-12Best 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, ...

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WASigned into law 03/2008P-12Local 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 foo...

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- Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses
CASigned into law 09/2008P-12Student 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 se...

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KYSigned into law 04/2008P-12Health 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 hea...

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NESigned into law 04/2008P-12Funding 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.n...

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NJSigned into law 01/2008P-12School 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...

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- Health--Suicide Prevention
CASigned into law 07/2008P-12Suicide 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 ...

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LASigned into law 06/2008P-12Suicide Prevention Training
H.B. 719
Requires in-service training for teachers, school counselors, principals, and other school administrators in suicide prevention; provides th...

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WISigned into law 04/2008P-12Suicide 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 ...

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- Health--Teen Pregnancy
UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Substance 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 rece...

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MISigned into law 12/2008P-12High 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 n...

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LAAdopted 10/2008P-12Pre-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/2...

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FLAdopted 09/2008P-12GED 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 Depart...

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MASigned into law 08/2008P-12Dropout Prevention
S.B. 2766
Improves dropout prevention and reporting of graduation rates; requires providing public school districts with a standardized format for the...

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OKAdopted 07/2008P-12
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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 firs...

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CTSigned into law 06/2008P-12High 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 graduat...

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LASigned into law 06/2008P-12High 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/streamdocumen...

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NJSigned into law 06/2008P-12State-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 Stat...

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SCSigned into law 06/2008P-12Enrollment 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 r...

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IASigned into law 05/2008P-12Appropriations
H.F. 2679
Selected provisions:
• Creates the Senior Year Plus Program to increase access of high school students to college credit and
advanced placem...

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NJSigned into law 05/2008P-12
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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 wit...

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AZSigned into law 04/2008P-12
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Scholarship program
H.B. 2736
Relates to the Early Graduation Scholarship Program.
A. Requires each school district or charter school providing instruction in grades ni...

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MDSigned into law 04/2008P-12Information 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 requi...

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MSSigned into law 04/2008P-12High 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 ...

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AZSigned into law 03/2008P-12Charter 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 ...

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WASigned into law 03/2008P-12High 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 veteran...

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- High School--Advanced Placement
LAAdopted 10/2008P-12Course 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 ...

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LASigned into law 07/2008P-12High 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, i...

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IASigned into law 05/2008P-12Appropriations
H.F. 2679
Selected provisions:
• Creates the Senior Year Plus Program to increase access of high school students to college credit and
advanced placem...

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KSSigned into law 05/2008P-12Virtual School
S.B. 669
Establishes the virtual school act. Authorizes districts to operate virtual schools. Provides for requirements for virtual schools. Requires...

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KYSigned into law 04/2008P-12
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STEM
S.B. 2
Defines "Advanced science and mathematics" as Advanced Placement (AP) biology, calculus, chemistry, computer science, environmental science,...

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- High School--College Readiness
COAdopted 10/2008P-12
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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,...

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UTSigned into law 10/2008P-12Assessment 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 Asses...

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CASigned into law 09/2008P-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 c...

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ILSigned into law 07/2008P-12
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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, t...

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IASigned into law 05/2008P-12Student 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 c...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Utah 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...

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NMSigned into law 02/2008P-12
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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 asse...

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- High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates
MASigned into law 08/2008P-12Dropout Prevention
S.B. 2766
Improves dropout prevention and reporting of graduation rates; requires providing public school districts with a standardized format for the...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-12Documentation 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 classifi...

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- High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment
UTAdopted 12/2008P-12Student 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 sch...

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ALAdopted 08/2008P-12Early 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....

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PASigned into law 07/2008P-12
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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 a...

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LASigned into law 06/2008P-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 establishe...

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LASigned into law 06/2008P-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 co...

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TNSigned into law 06/2008P-12
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Financial Assistance
H.B. 653
Makes changes to eligibility requirements for HOPE scholarships; enacts the "Helping Heroes Act of 2008" to provide scholarships for veteran...

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GASigned into law 05/2008P-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 i...

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IASigned into law 05/2008P-12Appropriations
H.F. 2679
Selected provisions:
• Creates the Senior Year Plus Program to increase access of high school students to college credit and
advanced placem...

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NMAdopted 04/2008P-12Dual 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...

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INSigned into law 03/2008P-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 insti...

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KSSigned into law 03/2008P-12Broadens 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...

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WASigned into law 03/2008P-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 sch...

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NMSigned into law 02/2008P-12
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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 summe...

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- High School--Exit Exams
UTSigned into law 10/2008P-12Assessment 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 Asses...

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ALAdopted 05/2008P-12Alabama 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 gradu...

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ALAdopted 05/2008P-12Graduation 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 ...

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WASigned into law 03/2008P-12Washington 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 t...

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NMSigned into law 02/2008P-12
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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 asse...

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LAadopted 01/2008P-12Statewide 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 g...

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PAAdopted 01/2008P-12Graduation Competency Assessments
Chapter 4 Revisions
New state board regulations change high school graduation requirements to ensure the academic preparedness of high school seniors. These reg...

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- High School--GED (General Education Development)
LAAdopted 10/2008P-12Pre-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/2...

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FLAdopted 09/2008P-12GED 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 Depart...

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MDSigned into law 04/2008P-12Information 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 requi...

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WVSigned into law 03/2008P-12State 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....

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LASigned into law 02/2008P-12GED 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...

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UTAdopted 01/2008P-12Adult Education Programs
R277-733
Defines "adult basic education," "adult education," "GED," "measurable outcomes." Establishes clearer fiscal standards and practices for adu...

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- High School--Graduation Requirements
MISigned into law 12/2008P-12Financial 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.
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LAAdopted 10/2008P-12High 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 publ...

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LAAdopted 10/2008P-12Course 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 ...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12Graduation 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 d...

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CAVetoed 09/2008P-12exit 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 ...

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LAAdopted 08/2008P-12High 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...

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WAAdopted 08/2008P-12Math 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 ...

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WVAdopted 06/2008P-12Changes 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 th...

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ALAdopted 05/2008P-12Graduation 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 ...

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IASigned into law 05/2008P-12Core 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 grad...

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NESigned into law 04/2008P-12Certificate 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 educat...

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METo governor 03/2008P-12School 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 pro...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-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 sc...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Honorary 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 ...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Financial 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 complet...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-12Advanced 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 tech...

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NMSigned into law 02/2008P-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 asse...

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AZAdopted 01/2008P-12High 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 minimu...

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- High School--International Baccalaureate
UTAdopted 09/2008P-12International Baccalaureate Programs
R277-710
Creates R277-710 regarding International Baccalaureate (IB) programs. Specifies the procedures and standards schools and districts must foll...

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KYSigned into law 04/2008P-12
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STEM
S.B. 2
Defines "Advanced science and mathematics" as Advanced Placement (AP) biology, calculus, chemistry, computer science, environmental science,...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Funds 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 al...

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- Instructional Approaches--Grading Practices
NMAdopted 05/2008P-12Final 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...

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- Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling
NHSigned into law 07/2008P-12Homeschooling Nitification
S.B. 337
Requires a parent to notify the Commissioner of Education, resident district superintendent, or principal of a nonpublic school when commenc...

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NYSigned into law 07/2008P-12Student 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 disab...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12UPSTART 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 childre...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-12Home Instruction
H.B. 767
Eliminates (i) the requirement that correspondence courses must be approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction in order to qualify ...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-12Evidence 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 ev...

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- Instructional Approaches--Single-Sex Education
DESigned into law 03/2008P-12Same 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 amou...

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- Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools
ILSigned into law 08/2008P-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 ...

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LASigned into law 07/2008P-12Integrated 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 s...

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KYSigned into law 04/2008P-12Family 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...

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- Leadership
IAAdopted 10/2008P-12Standards 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 adm...

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KYAdopted 10/2008P-12Professional 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'...

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NJSigned into law 10/2008P-12School 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....

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AKAdopted 08/2008P-12TEACHER 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 educ...

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MASigned into law 08/2008P-12Principal Contracts
S.B. 273
Relates to defining school principal's contracts; provides for school principals entering into individual employment contracts with their em...

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NYSigned into law 08/2008P-12
S.B. 8497
Requires that each certified school administrator or supervisor assigned on or after September 2, 2009 to be a special education administrat...

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SDAdopted 08/2008P-12CAREER/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, eli...

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NYSigned into law 07/2008P-12License 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 fe...

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WAAdopted 07/2008P-12CERTIFICATION STANDARDS
WAC 181-79A-211, -250
Amends rules relating to standards for teacher, administrator, and educational staff associate certification. WASHINGTON 28062
http://apps.l...

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LASigned into law 06/2008P-12Duties 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 se...

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COSigned into law 05/2008P-12School Leadership Academy
H.B. 1386
Creates the school leadership academy program within the Department of Education to provide comprehensive leadership and professional traini...

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TNSigned into law 05/2008P-12Extension 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 day...

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MSSigned into law 04/2008P-12Removal 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 consecuti...

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COSigned into law 03/2008P-12Special 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,...

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MSSigned into law 03/2008P-12Additional 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 s...

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TNSigned into law 03/2008P-12Notice
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, o...

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IAAdopted 02/2008P-12GENERAL 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 prog...

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OHAdopted 02/2008P-12PERFORMANCE-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 ...

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ORAdopted 01/2008P-12Teacher/Administrator Mentoring
OAR 581-020-0085, -0090
Establishes requirements for teacher and administrator mentoring programs. OREGON 29089...

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- Leadership--District Superintendent
LASigned into law 06/2008P-12Duties 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 se...

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ALVetoed 05/2008P-12Posting 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 s...

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- Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure
KYAdopted 10/2008P-12Professional 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'...

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MOAdopted 10/2008P-12ADMINISTRATOR 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 ad...

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NYSigned into law 07/2008P-12License 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 fe...

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COSigned into law 03/2008P-12Special 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,...

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ILAdopted 02/2008P-12Master 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'...

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OHAdopted 02/2008P-12PERFORMANCE-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 ...

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- Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Compensation and Diversified Pay
MASigned into law 08/2008P-12Principal Contracts
S.B. 273
Relates to defining school principal's contracts; provides for school principals entering into individual employment contracts with their em...

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AZSigned into law 04/2008P-12Administrator salaries
S.B. 1081
Requires that schools selected by the state board of education to participate in the technology assisted project-based instruction program, ...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Educator Salary Adjustments
S.B. 2 - Section 18
Eliminates school administrators from eligibility for educator salary adjustments to attract and retain highly skilled and dedicated educato...

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- Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness
IAAdopted 02/2008P-12GENERAL 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 prog...

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ILAdopted 02/2008P-12Master 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'...

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OHAdopted 02/2008P-12PERFORMANCE-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 ...

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- Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation
NYSigned into law 08/2008P-12
S.B. 8497
Requires that each certified school administrator or supervisor assigned on or after September 2, 2009 to be a special education administrat...

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COSigned into law 05/2008P-12School Leadership Academy
H.B. 1386
Creates the school leadership academy program within the Department of Education to provide comprehensive leadership and professional traini...

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MSSigned into law 03/2008P-12Additional 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 s...

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- Middle School
MASigned into law 12/2008P-12Commission 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/ht04...

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CASigned into law 09/2008P-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...

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LASigned into law 07/2008P-12High 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, i...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Teacher 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-t...

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- Minority/Diversity Issues
ORAdopted 06/2008P-12Prohibits 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...

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MNSigned into law 05/2008P-12Teachers 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 Universit...

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- Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian
MNSigned into law 05/2008P-12
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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...

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SDSigned into law 02/2008P-12American Indian
H.B. 1050
Revises certain provisions regarding Indian education; provides for teacher studies.
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2008/Bills/HB1050ENR....

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- No Child Left Behind
VASigned into law 04/2008P-12Potential 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 Chi...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Gubernatorial 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 feder...

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- No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress
LAAdopted 10/2008P-12Alternative 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 ...

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OHPassed 05/2008P-12Approves 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...

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ORAdopted 01/2008P-12AYP 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 pr...

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- No Child Left Behind--Assessment
SCSigned into law 06/2008P-12Amends Multiple Accountability Provisions
H.B. 4662
Revises the Education Accountability Act. Adds poverty, limited English proficiency status, disability status, or other groups required by f...

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NESigned into law 04/2008P-12Statewide Assessments
L.B. 1157
From the fiscal note: Changes the current assessment system to provide for statewide assessments in reading and mathematics to be administer...

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- No Child Left Behind--Choice/Transfer
NYSigned into law 06/2008P-12Extension 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 ...

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- No Child Left Behind--Consequences for Schools
NYAdopted 06/2008P-12Contracts 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,...

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TNSigned into law 06/2008P-12Processes 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/PC...

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NYAdopted 01/2008P-12Contracts 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 Reg...

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- No Child Left Behind--Finance
NYAdopted 06/2008P-12Contracts 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,...

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NYAdopted 01/2008P-12Contracts 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 Reg...

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- No Child Left Behind--School Support
NYAdopted 07/2008P-12Expenses 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 e...

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SCSigned into law 06/2008P-12Amends Multiple Accountability Provisions
H.B. 4662
Revises the Education Accountability Act. Adds poverty, limited English proficiency status, disability status, or other groups required by f...

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SCSigned into law 06/2008P-12Teacher 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 le...

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TNSigned into law 06/2008P-12Processes 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/PC...

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- No Child Left Behind--Special Populations
AKAdopted 08/2008P-12Performance standards for disabled students
4 AAC 04.160, .210(k)(2), .790(7)
Repeals the alternate performance standards to comply with federal guidelines for students with significant cognitive disabilities....

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MOAdopted 07/2008P-12PROGRAMS AUTHORIZED UNDER EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
5 CSR 50-270.010
Proposes rules regarding standards to administer a program of grants to local public school districts for the provision of early childhood s...

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- No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services
GAAdopted 10/2008P-12Supplemental Education Services in Title I Schools
GAC 160-4-5-.03
Amends rule related to supplemental educational services (SES) in Title I schools. Adds provision regarding "supplemental educational servic...

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