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 | Accountability |
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| Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
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| Accountability--Reporting Results |
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| Accountability--Rewards |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Play |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers |
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| Accountability--School Improvement |
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| Adult Basic Education |
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| Assessment |
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| Assessment--Accommodations |
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| Assessment--College Entrance Exams |
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| Assessment--Computer Based |
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| Assessment--End-of-Course |
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| Assessment--Formative/Interim |
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| Assessment--NAEP (NAEP Results and NAEP Organization) |
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| Assessment--Performance Based/Portfolio |
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| Assessment--Value Added |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
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| Attendance |
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| Attendance--Compulsory |
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| Attendance--Statutory Ages (Upper and Lower) |
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| Attendance--Truancy |
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| Background Checks |
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| Bilingual/ESL |
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| Business Involvement |
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| Career/Technical Education |
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| Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship |
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| Cheating |
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 | Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
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| OH | Signed into law 12/2009 | P-12 | Authorizes specified community schools (charter schools) to operate as conversion schools. Authorizes the governing authority of specified community schools to enter into a contract with a different sponsor that is either a local board, governing board of an educational service center, or sponsoring authority designated by the board of trustees of a state university (or the board of trustees itself), provided the school was rated in need of continuous improvement or better for the 2008-09 school year and the sponsor approves the change in sponsorship.
Specifies that the department may not consider a community school's performance ratings during its first two years of operation when determining whether the school meets certain criteria for accountability sanctions. Directs the department to reevaluate each community school that the department directed to close at the conclusion of the 2009-10 school year to determine if the school still meets the sanctions criteria when the school's performance ratings for its first two years of operation are not considered and, if the school no longer meets those criteria, prohibits the department from requiring the school to close at the conclusion of that school year. Pages 22-25 of 29: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_290_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 218 - Charter Schools
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| UT | Adopted 12/2009 | P-12 | Repeals language detailing the State Charter School Board's accountability review process. Requires that all charter schools be accredited by the Northwest Association of Accredited Schools (NAAS). Clarifies that a parent school and all satellites must be considered a single local education agency (LEA) for purposes of public school funding and reporting. Requires that charter schools be in compliance with their charter agreement, as maintained by the state office of education (with the presumption that the agreement maintained by the USOE is the official and complete agreement). http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/bulletin/2009/20091001/32979.htm
Title: R277-470
Source: www.rules.utah.gov
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| WI | Signed into law 11/2009 | P-12 | Extends the duty to consider the principles and standards for quality charter schools established by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers when they establish or contract for the establishment of a charter school. http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/SB-373.pdf
Title: S.B. 373
Source: Legislative Council Act Memo
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| WY | Adopted 11/2009 | P-12 | Establishes new rules relating to charter schools.
http://legisweb.state.wy.us/ARULES/ER09-21.htm
Title: Chapter 32
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2009 | P-12 | From Legislative Counsel's Digest:
Amends existing law which requires that, prior to receiving funding, title to property used for a charter school facilities project shall be held by the school district in which the facility is to be physically located, in trust, for the benefit of the state public school system. Authorizes a local governmental entity or a charter school to hold title to charter school project facilities. Requires applicants, prior to the release of funds for site acquisition or new construction final apportionments, to provide documentary evidence that the school district in which the facility is to be physically located, a local governmental entity, or the charter school holds title to the project facilities, subject to specified conditions. Authorizes a charter school to request a school district to transfer title to project facilities to an entity authorized by the bill if the district entered into an agreement, prior to January 1, 2010, to hold title to the project facilities. Authorizes a school district that receives such a request to transfer the title to the entity designated in the request pursuant to terms
and conditions mutually agreed upon by the district and the charter school. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0551-0600/sb_592_bill_20091011_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 592
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| NV | Rule Adoption 10/2009 | P-12 | Establishes provisions governing finances and budgets of charter schools and university schools for profoundly gifted pupils.
www.leg.state.nv.us/NAC/CHAPTERS.HTMl
Title: NAC 386, 387
Source: www.leg.state.nv.us/l
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Requires charter schools to run criminal history records checks and checks of the Statewide Child Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database of applicants for employment. Increases from 14 to 30 days the time period for the state board to approve charter proposals.
Pages 46-53 of 63: http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB1977lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 1977 - Charter Schools
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| NH | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Requires that pupils attending an approved chartered public school be counted in the average daily membership in residence.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2009/HB0169.html
Title: H.B. 169
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/
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| AZ | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Concerns charter schools; relates to charter renewal period and a review of academic performance data. Chapter 117
http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/49leg/1r/summary/s.1386ed.doc.htm
Title: S.B. 1386
Source: http://www.azleg.gov/
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| AZ | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Requires municipalities and counties to allow a charter school to be established at a location in which schools operated by a school district are not prohibited by the zoning regulations of the county or municipality; permits a county or municipality to adopt zoning regulations that prohibit a charter school from operating in certain single family residences; provides that the construction and development of a charter school facility shall be subject to the building code of a municipality.
Chapter 98
http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/49leg/1r/summary/h.hb2099_07-01-09_astransmittedtogovenor.doc.htm
Title: H.B. 2099
Source: http://www.azleg.gov/
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| AZ | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Provides for the property tax classification of property leased to a not-for-profit charter school; exempts property that is owned by an educational, religious or charitable organization and leased to a not for profit educational organization from taxation; clarifies the property tax classification of certain property belonging to shopping centers. Chapter 87
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/1r/bills/hb2346s.pdf
Title: H.B. 2346
Source: http://www.azleg.gov
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| AZ | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Concerns the open meeting law and public meetings; relates to minutes; relates to posting on a website of notice; includes notice by the governing bodies of charter schools; relates to emergencies. Chapter 27
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/1r/bills/sb1303s.pdf
Title: S.B. 1303
Source: http://www.azleg.gov/
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| DC | Emergency Rule Re-Adoption 07/2009 | P-12 | Reflects the status of current law with a clear enunciation of charter school special education responsibilities. http://www.osse.dc.gov/seo/lib/seo/DCMR_Notice.pdf
Title: DCMR Title 5, Chapter 30, Section 3019
Source: www.osse.dc.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Increases statewide charter school cap and charter school cap for Chicago. Above and beyond caps, permits five Chicago charters (and specified numbers of campuses and enrollment seats within those five charters) to be devoted to serving returning high school dropouts. Requires charter schools to submit to the state board of education a copy of their audit and Form 990. Increases time frame for state board to approve a charter school proposal. Adds procedures for a charter school to respond to a proposed revocation of its charter. Beginning with the 2012-13 school year, requires at least 75% of instructional staff in established charter schools to hold teacher certification; for charter schools established after these provisions are enacted, requires 75% of instructional staff to be certified by the beginning of the 4th school year in which students are enrolled in the school. Provides charter schools statewide are exempt from caps on the number of employees who may be enrolled in alternative certification programs. Requires state board to report findings of charter school evaluation every two years rather than annually. Establishes an Independent Charter School Authorizer Task Force to study the need for an independent charter school authorizer in the state. Directs the task force to report its findings and recommendations to the governor and legislature by January 2010.
Defines "contract school" as a Chicago attendance center run by a for- or not-for-profit private entity on contract to provide instructional and other services to a majority of the students enrolled in the attendance center. Defines "contract turnaround school" as an experimental Chicago contract school created to implement alternative governance in an attendance center subject to restructuring or similar intervention under NCLB that has not made adequate yearly progress (AYP) for 5 consecutive years. Provides that a Chicago school placed on probation that fails to make adequate progress in correcting deficiencies after one year may be converted to a contract turnaround school. Specifies the Chicago school board may operate no more than 30 contract schools, plus up to 5 contract turnaround schools. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB0612lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 612
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Requires that a charter school comply with all provisions of the Educational Labor Relations Act. Provides that "educational employer" under the Educational Labor Relations Act includes the governing body of a charter school, a contract school or contract turnaround school or a subcontractor of instructional services of a school district, combination of school districts, charter school, or contract school or contract turnaround school. Specifies that "educational employer" under the Educational Labor Relations Act does not include an approved nonpublic special education facility that contracts with a school district or combination of school
districts to provide special education services. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB1984lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 1984
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Relates to charter schools; removes the cap on the number of charter schools that can be created; provides relative to the fee that a school chartering authority may charge a charter school for certain administrative overhead costs; provides relative to fee amounts; requires chartering authorities to provide certain budget and use information relative to administrative fees to charter schools.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=667635
Title: H.B. 519
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us
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| MO | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is to commission a study comparing performance of charter school students with an equivalent group of district students representing an equivalent demographic and geographic population that will be conducted by the Joint Comittee on Education. Study will examine charter schools' impact on the constituents of the district by using a contractor through a proposal process. Study must include an analysis of the administrative and instructional practices of each charter school and include findings on best practices that lend themselves to replication or incorporation in other schools. Student performance assessment must include, but may not be limited to: MAP test performance; student re-enrollment rates; educator, parent and student satisfaction data; graduation rates and performance of students enrolled in the same public school for three or more consecutive years.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/bills/sb291.htm
Title: S.B. 291--Charter Schools
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov
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| NH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Separates the open enrollment provisions from the chartered public school statute and establishes a new chapter on open enrollment schools.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2009/HB0688.html
Title: H.B. 688
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Clarifies language to specify that charter schools must adminster state assessments provided for in section 3313.612. Provides that a high school or an elementary school may consist of less than one or
more than one organizational unit, as defined in sections 3306.02 and 3306.04.
Pages 1019-1020 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.16
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Partially from DOE summary of H.B. 1: Eliminates the two-year wait before the department of education begins issuing annual report cards for a community school. Provides that the ratings a community school receives for its first two full school years will not be considered toward automatic closure of the school or any other matter that is based on report card ratings. Clarifies that the department of education's authority to oversee and monitor community school sponsors applies to all sponsors, regardless of whether or not they must initially be approved by the department for sponsorship. Requires the department's annual report on community schools to include the performance of community school sponsors. Provides that a contract may be signed with an existing community school operator only if at least one school has a rating higher than "academic watch". Permits the conversion of a building operated by a joint vocational school district board of education into a community school, in the same manner as a building operated by a city, local, or exempted village school district board of education or an education service center governing board may be converted under current law. Permits a community school, beginning in the 2009-2010 school year, to operate from its current facility, rather than relocating to another school district, if the school meets the following criteria: (1) it has been located in its current facility for at least three years, (2) it is sponsored by a school district adjacent to the district in which the school is located, (3) it emphasizes serving gifted students, and (4) it has been rated continuous improvement or higher for the previous three years.
Pages 1221-1232 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Link to DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3314.012, 3314.015, 3314.016 and 3314.02
Source:
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Provides that any early college high school operated by a big eight school district in partnership with a private university may operate as a new start-up community school (charter school) beginning in the 2007-08 school year if all of the following conditions are met:
(1) The governing authority and school sponsor enter into a contract in accordance with Section 3314.03 and both parties sign the contract by July 2007.
(2) The school's governing authority enters into a contract with the private university under which the university will be the school's operator.
(3) The school provides the same educational program the school provided while part of the big eight school district.
Pages 2833-2834 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.50.90
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Specifies that no community school (charter school) that began operation after May 1, 2005 may be operated from a home.
Page 2833 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.50.80
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Section 3306.29: Establishes the Ohio school funding advisory council. Directs the council, by December 1, 2010 and every other year thereafter, to provide recommendations to the state board, the general assembly and the public for revisions to the adequacy components of the evidence-based school funding model . Requires that the recommendations be based on current, high quality research, information provided by school districts, and best practices in operational efficiencies. Requires that the December 2010 recommendations include analysis of the funding model's adequacy in financing for special education, gifted education services, career-technical education, arts education, services for limited English proficient students, and early college high schools.
Also requires the 2010 report to include:
(1) Recommendations for a student-centered evidence-based model that uses a per-pupil level of funding to follow a student to the school that best meets the student's individual learning needs
(2) A study of the extent to which current funding for joint vocational school districts and compact and comprehensive career-technical schools is responsive to state, regional and local business and industry needs, and recommendations for revisions to career-technical education programming and funding
(3) A study of the extent to which the current educational service center system supports school districts in academic achievement, teacher quality, shared educational services, and the purchasing of educational services and commodities, and recommendations for a new regional service delivery system, the educational service system governance structure, and accountability metrics for educational service centers
(4) A study of existing teacher compensation and retirement benefits structures, and recommendations for changes to the systems of teacher compensation and retirement benefits to improve the connections between teacher compensation, teaching excellence and higher levels of student learning
(5) A consideration of whether community schools (charter schools) and STEM schools should be subject to the expenditure and reporting standards and accountability requirements that apply to school districts
(6) An analysis of the effects of open enrollment on students and districts, and recommendations for ensuring that open enrollment policies and financing are equitable for students and districts.
Authorizes the council's analyses and recommendations for 2010 or subsequent biennia to address (but not be limited to):
(1) Strategies and incentives to promote cost-saving measures and efficiencies
(2) Options for adding learning time to the learning year, such as moving educator professional development to summer, adding learning time for children with greater educational needs, accounting for learning time by hours instead of days, and appropriate compensation to districts and staff for providing additional learning time
(3) The adequacy of the model's accounting for and financing of operational costs, including district-level administration and administrative and transportation challenges experienced by low-density and low-wealth school districts, and the effect of those costs on student achievement
(4) The accuacy of the calculation of each component of the funding model, and the model as a whole, in light of current educational needs and practices, and best practices
(5) Options to encourage districts and schools already attaining "excellent" ratings under the state accountability system to go beyond state standards and aspire to higher international norms.
Section 3306.291: Establishes a subcommittee of the Ohio school funding advisory council to study and make recommendations to foster collaboration between school districts and community schools. Directs the subcommittee to recommend fiscal strategies, including changes to the evidence-based funding model, that will provide incentives and compensation for districts and community schools to enter into collaborative agreements resulting in creative and innovative academic programming, and academic and fiscal efficiency. Directs the subcommittee to report its findings and recommendations to the general assembly by September 2010, and periodically thereafter at the direction of the state superintendent.
Section 3306.292: Permits the Ohio school funding advisory council to establish additional subcommittees. Leaves the membership and duties of the additional subcommittees to the discretion of the advisory council. Provides that up to one-half of the members of each additional subcommittee may be individuals who are not members of the council.
Pages 1103-1106 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.29, 3306.291 and 3306.292
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Relates to retirement; redefines certain terms termination; relates to reemployment of retirees; clarifyies when a State Community College System Optional Retirement Program participant is considered a retiree; providing for receipt of credit for past or prior service by charter school and charter technical career center employees; authorizing developmental research schools and charter schools to reemploy certain retired members under specified conditions; deletes provision that prevented persons retired from the public school system from renewing membership in the Florida Retirement System or Teachers' Retirement System upon reemployment by the school system. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0479er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0479&Session=2009
Title: H.B. 479
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Damaged Textbooks:
- Deletes a provision that requires a public school principal to collect a percentage of a textbook's purchase price from a student who has lost, destroyed, or damaged a textbook.
Service-learning Programs:
- Encourages school districts to initiate, adopt, expand, and institutionalize service-learning programs, activities, and policies in grades K-12.
- Provides that, upon request, the state department of education will assist districts in securing financial assistance for service-learning programs.
- Directs the department of education to develop and adopt elective service-learning courses for inclusion in middle and high school course code directories.
- Provides that the hours that high school students devote to course based service-learning activities may be counted toward meeting community service requirements for high school graduation.
Charter Schools:
- Provides that for charter schools that meet the definition of an alternative school pursuant to State Board of Education rule, the decision to receive a school grade is the decision of the charter school governing board.
Regional Professional Development Academies:
- Amends statute governing regional professional development academies.
- Provides that contracts between district school boards and each regional professional development academy must include certain requirements.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb1248er.html&Directory=session/2009/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 1248
Source: http://www.flsenate.govt
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Makes clarifying amendments to charter school administration. Clarifies that the charter school review panel is subject to the requirements of the sunshine law. Authorizes the board of education to remove a charter school review panel member for cause. Requires the charter school review panel to approve the charter schools budget, and to survey all charter school facilities prior to determining recommendations to allocate non-per-pupil facilities funds to charter schools with facilities needs. Specifies the duties of the executive director of the charter school administrative office with regard to the preparation of the budget. Changes the requirements for per-pupil funding. Requires the charter school review panel to evaluate a charter school on its fourth anniversary and every five years after. Requires the charter school review panel to establish criteria and an approval process for the development and submission of a capital improvement projects budget for charter school facilities. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2009/Bills/SB496_CD1_.HTM
Title: S.B. 496
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Relates to the review of proposed charters, conversion of local school facilities, and enrollment of students; allows a charter school to be supported by or affiliated with a religious organization.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=663033
Title: S.B. 146
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Revises provisions related to two types of charter schools (primarily those converted from preexisting schools), including approval and student attendance policies.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=663066
Title: H.B. 187
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Provides for the establishment of virtual public charter schools; specifies requirements for such schools relating to budgeting, performance, contracting, teacher employment, maintenance of records, and enrollment; requires that a proposal for any public charter school include a description of the financial management systems for the school; requires demonstration of the ability to have a sound financial system in place at the time the school begins operating; establishes the Online Learning Task Force. Chapter 691
http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/sb0700.dir/sb0767.en.pdf
Title: S.B. 767
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us/
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | From fiscal note: Authorizes the state board of education to be a charter school governing body. Removes cap on the number of charter schools, enrollment eligibility restrictions, and requirements; opens enrollment to all students eligible to attend a regular public school. Increases, from five to 10, the number of years a charter school may be chartered. Requires the local education agency (LEA) to give the charter school all applicable funding including federal Title I, federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and BEP capital outlay funds excluding debt service. Revises the report that a charter school must give during a renewal application. Link to bill summary: http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/billinfo/BillSummaryArchive.aspx?BillNumber=SB2133&ga=106
To bill text: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/SB2133.pdf
Title: S.B. 2133
Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12
Community College
Postsec. | Allows public junior colleges (two-year institutions) to be granted charters to operate open-enrollment charter schools, including on the junior college campus. Specifies criteria junior college must meet to be granted a charter, including that the charter's educational program must be designed to meet specific goals described in the charter, such as dropout recovery, and the attainment of the program's goals must be measured using specific, objective standards set forth in the charter, including assessment methods and a time frame. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB01423F.pdf
Title: H.B. 1423
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Amends calculation for providing charter school funding. Pages 3-4 of 108: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03646F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3646 - Section 5
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Sections 6 and 9: Beginning with the 2009-10 school year, requires each school district and each charter holder that operated an open-enrollment charter school as of January 1, 2009, to increase the monthly salary of each classroom teacher and specified non-instructional staff by a specified amount.
Section 7: Specifies that districts are entitled to state aid in the amount necessary to fund salary increases required by Section 19.009(d-2).
Section 8: Beginning with the 2009-10 school year, requires the Windham School District (district established by the state board of corrections) to increase the monthly salary of each classroom teacher and specified non-instructional staff by a specified amount.
Pages 4-8 of 108: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03646F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3646 - Sections 6-9
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Adopted 06/2009 | P-12 | Modifies the definition of "former charter holder" by including those charter schools that have been ordered closed by any applicable section of the Texas Education Code. http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tacupdates/june2009/ch100aa.pdf
Title: 19 TAC 2.100.100.1011
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WI | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Provides that if a school board enters into an agreement with an American Indian tribe to establish a charter school, the board must, upon request, distribute to the parent or guardian of each student in the school a school and school district performance report that includes the information reported for traditional public schools, regardless of the location of the charter school. Requires such a school board to administer the state assessments to students in grades 4, 7, and 10 to students in the charter school. Requires such a charter school to be located either within the school district or within the boundaries of the tribe's or band's reservation. Requires the school board to determine whether the charter school is an instrumentality of the school district, regardless of the location of the charter school.
Page 468, 470, 471 of 692: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act28.pdf
Title: A.B. 75
Source: www.legis.state.wi.us
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| WI | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Provides that when the city of Milwaukee, the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the Milwaukee area technical college district board or the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside is establishing or contracting for the establishment of a charter school, the entity must consider the principles and standards for quality charter schools established by the National Association of Charter School
Authorizers. Page 471 of 692: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act28.pdf
Title: A.B. 75
Source: www.legis.state.wi.us
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| ID | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Amends and repeals existing law relating to education; revises provisions relating to severance payments; revises provisions relating to the determination of allowances; revises provisions relating to certain incentives; revises provisions relating to employing retired teachers and administrators; declares that school districts and public charter schools will receive reduced funding; encourages the districts and public charter schools to accommodate such reductions.
Chapter 285
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/H0262.htm
Title: H.B. 262
Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/H0262.htm
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Amends multiple provisions dealing with charter schools, including: Purposes; Authorizer; Conversion of existing schools; Contracting time line; State and local requirements; Admission requirements; Employment and other operating matters; Annual public reports; Leased space; Affiliated nonprofit building corporation; Causes for nonrenewal or termination of charter school contract.
https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0002.5.html&session=ls86
Title: H.F. 2
Source: https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Revises provisions relating to the enrollment of certain pupils in charter schools; authorizes a charter school to enroll a child who is in a particular category of at-risk pupils if the child meets the eligibility for enrollment prescribed by the charter school for that particular category; requires a charter school to include in its application to form a charter school a statement of whether the charter school will enroll pupils who are in a particular category of at-risk pupils. Chapter 75
http://leg.state.nv.us/75th2009/Bills/SB/SB391_EN.pdf
Title: S.B. 391
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Authorizes a charter school which is dedicated to providing certain services to pupils who are at risk to enroll a child who was enrolled in a prekindergarten or other early childhood educational program at the charter school and to enroll a child whose parent is employed full-time by the charter school before enrolling other eligible children. Chapter 162
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/75th2009/Bills/AB/AB393_en.pdf
Title: A.B. 393
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
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| OK | Vetoed 05/2009 | P-12 | Authorizes sponsorship of charter schools by a federally recognized Indian tribe. Also adds authorization for a statewide organization that represents and whose members are public school teachers to contract with a sponsor to establish a charter school.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10bills/SB/SB586_ENR.RTF
Title: S.B. 586
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| OR | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Abolishes Public Charter School Development Fund; transfers remaining moneys in fund to Department of Education Account to be used for public charter schools; declares emergency, effective July 1, 2009. Chapter 95
http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/hb2100.dir/hb2111.en.pdf
Title: H.B. 2111
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| UT | Adopted 05/2009 | P-12 | Amends rule on administration and funding of International Baccalaureate (IB) programs. Adds eligibility of charter schools to operate IB programs and receive state IB program funds. Amends funding language to designate that 50% of the total IB program funds must be distributed equally among all authorized IB programs in the state, and the remaining 50% must be distributed to IB high schools schools where students scored a grade of 4 or higher on IB exams. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/bulletin/2009/20090315/32419.htm
Title: R277-710
Source: www.rules.utah.gov
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Allows a school food authority to establish, maintain, equip, and operate a food-service facility; requires a board of education of a school district either to allow a district charter school of the school district to transfer the maintenance, supervision, and operation of the district charter school's food-service facility from the school district to a school food authority or to agree to provide food services to the district charter school according to terms that the district charter school requests.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2009a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/BB267B13A49BB6F087257553007ECA26?open&file=230_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 230
Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Relates to public charter schools; amends existing law that provides for a notice and a public hearing in the case of a petition for a public virtual charter school; provides for comments; provides for review of certain petitions and public hearings. Chapter 200
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/S1121.pdf
Title: S.B. 1121
Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Relates to public schools; provides that certain school districts shall be considered rural school districts; provides that certain public charter schools shall be considered rural public charter schools. Chapter 239
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/S1165.pdf
Title: S.B. 1165
Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.govf
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Amends existing law relating to public charter schools; provides for notice relating to a petition for a non-virtual public charter school, for public comments, and for notice to the public charter school commission; provides for a hearing and for notice to the board of the local school district. Chapter 160
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/H0212.pdf
Title: H.B. 212
Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Amends existing law relating to charter school admissions to provide charter schools with the option of awarding an enhanced enrollment opportunity to the children of the charter school's employees and children who previously attended the public charter school within the previous three school years, but who withdrew as a result of the relocation of a parent or guardian due to an academic sabbatical, employer or military transfer or reassignment. Chapter 41
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/H0079Bookmark.htm
Title: H.B. 79
Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Requires mandatory training for charter school governing body members; provides for development of a mandatory training course for all governing body members that explains department rules, policies and procedures, statutory powers and duties of governing boards, legal concepts pertaining to public schools, finance and budget and other matters deemed relevant.
http://nmlegis.gov/Sessions/09%20Regular/final/SB0148.pdf
Title: S.B. 148
Source: http://nmlegis.gov/
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Relates to public schools; limits the period in which charter school applications may be submitted in a year.
http://nmlegis.gov/Sessions/09%20Regular/final/SB0027.pdf
Title: S.B. 27
Source: http://nmlegis.gov/
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| OH | Adopted 03/2009 | P-12 | Authorizes the governing board of any educational service center or the administrative authority of any chartered nonpublic school to submit an application for exemption from state policies in order to implement a proposed innovative education pilot program. Adds that an application requesting exemptions in order to provide professional development for educators may be granted for research-based high quality professional development activities as defined by standards for professional development adopted by the state board of education. Clarifies language on timeline and procedures for approval of applications. Adds that applications to continue approved programs are not considered complete until an annual evaluation report is completed and submitted to the department. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/46/3301-46-01_PH_FF_A_RU_20090313_1156.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-46-01
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Allows a charter school that made an election of nonparticipation in the state retirement systems for its employees to make a one-time, irrevocable retraction of the election of nonparticipation. http://le.utah.gov/~2009/bills/hbillenr/hb0096.pdf
Title: H.B. 96
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NV | Adopted 02/2009 | P-12 | Revises various provisions governing charter schools including applications, reporting of data, preparation of budgets, and definitions.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/NAC/CHAPTERS
Title: NAC 386
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2009 | P-12 | Allows certain amendments to the charter school statutes to sunset as provided in Chapter 530 of the Acts of Assembly of 2004 and retains others. Specifically, changes made in 2004 that require the charter school applicant to include information regarding disclosures of any ownership or financial interest in the public charter school by the charter applicant and the governing body, administrators, and other personnel of the public charter school.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1844ER
Title: H.B. 1844
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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