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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)--Drugs/Alcohol |
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| Attendance--Statutory Ages (Upper and Lower) |
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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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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Charter Districts |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Closings |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Cyber Charters |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Research |
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| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
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| Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
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| Civic Education |
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| Civic Education--Character Education |
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| Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance |
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| Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Arts Education |
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| Curriculum--Core Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Drivers Education |
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| Curriculum--Environmental Education |
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| Curriculum--Family Living Education |
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| Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
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| Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
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| Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education |
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| Curriculum--Home Economics |
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| Curriculum--International Education |
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| Curriculum--Language Arts |
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| Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling |
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| Curriculum--Mathematics |
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| Curriculum--Physical Education |
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| Curriculum--Science |
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| Curriculum--Sex Education |
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| Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
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| Demographics--Condition of Children/Adults |
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| Desegregation |
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| CA | Signed into law 11/2009 | Postsec. | Requires the successor agency to the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education to transmit school performance data from schools under its jurisdiction to the Postsecondary Education Commission (but only if A.B. 48 of the 2009–10 regular session is enacted and becomes effective on or before January 1, 2010, and A.B. 48 creates a successor agency to the former Bureau for Private
Postsecondary and Vocational Education). Provides, relative to federal Stimulus Act workforce development program funds, that a local workforce investment board may work directly with institutions of higher education and other state- or federally-approved training providers, including private postsecondary institutions participating in certain federal student financial aid programs, to quickly design education and training to fill the needs of job seekers and employers. Provides that, for purposes of the California Workforce Investment Act and any laws governing workforce development programs provided for under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, that entrance into a registered apprenticeship program is to be considered placement into a job. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0551-0600/sb_599_bill_20091102_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 599
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2009 | P-12 | Requires, for the 2009-10 fiscal year, recalculation by the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the prior year average daily attendance for each regional occupational center or program pursuant to a prescribed statute to apply a percentage reduction equal to the percentage applied for center or program growth in the Budget Act of 2008. Bill: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0651-0700/ab_673_bill_20090827_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0651-0700/ab_673_vt_20091012.html
Title: A.B. 673
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2009 | Postsec.
Community College | Authorizes the state workforce investment board to accept any revenues, moneys, grants, goods or services from federal and state entities and other sources, to be used for purposes relating to the administration and implementation of the Green Collar Jobs Council's strategic initiative to train and develop a skilled green economy workforce. Requires revenues to be deposited into the Green Collar Jobs Account. Requires the revenue to be expended for administration and the purpose of implementing the initiative and awarding grants. Requires the Green Collar Jobs Council to consult with appropriate state and local agencies to identify opportunities to coordinate the award of grant and green workforce training funds received by the state under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or any other funding sources. Bill: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1351-1400/ab_1394_bill_20090911_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1351-1400/ab_1394_vt_20091012.html
Title: A.B. 1394
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2009 | Postsec.
Community College | Requires the state workforce investment board to establish a Renewable Energy Workforce Readiness Initiative to ensure green collar career placement and advancement opportunities within the renewable energy generation, manufacturing, construction, installation, maintenance and operation sectors and provide guidance to local workforce investment boards on assessment, training and placement programs that reflect local economies. Requires the state workforce investment board, in developing the initiative, to assist the local workforce investment boards in collecting and analyzing specified labor market data, in order to assess accurate local or regional industry cluster workforce development and training needs. Requires the state workforce investment board to submit to the legislature, by January 1, 2012, a report on the implementation of the initiative. Relates to initiative funding sources. Revises local board investment plan requirements. Bill: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_3_bill_20090916_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_3_vt_20091011.html
Title: A.B. 3
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2009 | Postsec.
Community College | Declares legislative intent that other intensive services, such as out-of-area job search assistance, literacy activities related to workforce readiness, relocation assistance, internships and work experience programs
also be provided at the comprehensive one-stop career centers in each local workforce investment area to individuals who have met specified requirements, based on an assessment or individual employment plan. Prescribes eligibility criteria for recipients of financial assistance in the form of needs-related payments, and requires the one-stop career centers, given sufficient resources, to take various actions with respect to the coordination and delivery of supportive services to individuals who are enrolled in job training programs. Also requires local workforce investment boards to develop a policy on supportive services. Bill: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0401-0450/sb_410_bill_20090915_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0401-0450/sb_410_vt_20091012.html
Title: S.B. 410
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| NY | Vetoed 09/2009 | Postsec. | Requires entities applying for, and enterprises receiving certain state economic development grants and funds, to state their commitment to first consider New York based companies as primary suppliers of products or services necessary to accomplish the funded project goals; includes entities occupying university-related economic development facilities developed, constructed or operated pursuant to existing law. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A00250&sh=t
Title: A.B. 250
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | Postsec. | Creates the Alternate Fuels Commission to investigate and recommend strategies for promoting the use of alternate fuels and vehicles that use alternate and biodiesel fuels. Requires the commission to also identify mechanisms that promote research into alternative fuels, and promote effective communication and coordination of efforts between the state and local governments, private industry and institutes of higher education. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB4245lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 4245
Source: http://www.ilga.gov/http://www.ilga.gov/
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12
Postsec. | Creates the 21st Century Workforce Development Fund Act. Creates the 21st Century Workforce Development Fund. Provides the Fund is intended to support integrated, innovative and emergency workforce development strategies that promote local economic development and a continuum of workforce and education strategies, including workforce development activities to prepare individuals for occupations in "green" industries and occupations. Directs the department of commerce and economic opportunity to make competitive grants to support workforce development strategies based on outlined priorities. Lists allowable types of expenditures of grant funds. Specifies that eligible grant applicants include (1) private, public and nonprofit entities that provide education, training and workforce development services to low-income individuals; (2) educational institutions; (3) labor and business associations. Sets forth priorities for grantmaking. Creates the 21st Century Workforce Development Fund Advisory Committee to review and recommend for approval or denial all grant requests from the Fund. Establishes advisory committee membership. Amends the State Finance Act. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB0852lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 852
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| ND | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Creates a state youth council; sets membership and duties. Requires the North Dakota youth council to develop a list of issues and concerns pertinent to residents of this state who have not yet reached the age of twenty-five. The list may include education, health care, employment opportunities, and quality of life issues such as recreation and entertainment. The council, on its own and in conjunction with any guests it elects to invite, is to explore its issues and concerns, review current situations, and develop recommendations for consideration by local, regional, and state-level policymakers. The council is required to provide a report and any recommendations to the legislative council before September 1, 2010.
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/61-2009/bill-text/JBNH0400.pdf
Title: H.B. 1463
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov
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| NY | Vetoed 08/2009 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Defines "training providers" as community colleges, agricultural and technical colleges, institutions of higher education, local education agencies, community-based organizations or strategic alliances to provide training services in cooperation with another training provider. Defines "eligible applicant" as either (1) a strategic alliance or consortia of such alliances acting in consultation with one or more private industry councils, or (2) a private industry council or consortia of such councils or a workforce investment board or consortia of such boards acting on behalf of one or more strategic alliances. Establishes a strategic training alliance program in the department of economic development to identify and address employer demands for skilled workers within a region of the state. Directs the department, in coordination with the State University of New York, City University of New York, state education department and other partners to provide assistance to support training activities by eligible applicants. Requires the department to annually give notice to eligible applicants as to the availability of funds for training, solicit, review and approve strategic training alliance plans. Requires the department to ensure that at least 25% of monies available are expended to assist individuals who are unemployed, economically disadvantaged or otherwise eligible to participate in Federal Job Training Partnership Act or Federal Workforce Investment Act programs. Directs applicants, in preparation of their plans, to consult with specified stakeholders, including local education agencies, community colleges, agricultural and technical colleges, and other institutions of higher education in the training area (region). Specifies elements each application must address. Specifies that assistance provided may be for (1) Classroom training, curriculum development and training materials; (2) Costs associated with gaining access to training through telecommunications, computer nad information technologies in the state; (3) Costs documented by an employer for any in-house training. Requires each grant recipient to report annually on program participation and outcomes. Requires the workforce development commissioner to share collective report results with the governor and specified legislative leaders.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A02849&sh=t
Title: A.B. 2849
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12
Postsec. | Establishes the joint legislative Joining Our Businesses and Schools (JOBS) Study Commission to study issues related to economic development through instructional program frameworks that aid in the transition to postsecondary education and future careers, including technical and vocational needs of each economic development region, employment and workforce preparation needs of the State as a whole, and the shortage of highly skilled employees such as technicians, teachers, and allied health practitioners.
The Commission shall also study issues related to economic growth by the creation of measures and metrics which define the readiness of a community to deliver to all stakeholders the services that equip the workforce to be competitive in a STEM-intensive economy, including ensuring that students throughout the education pipeline gain the skills learned from science, technology, engineering, math, and other rigorous subjects. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1069v4.pdf
Title: S.B. 1069
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | Postsec. | Defines "entrepreneurial project" as an effort to develop or commercialize technology through research or technology transfer or investment by an institution of higher education or others. Defines "stock or other ownership" as equity or other ownership rights held or received in return for the grant of rights to intellectual property developed by an institution of higher education. Declares that it is the state's public policy for institutions of higher education to facilitate and assist with establishing and developing entrepreneurial projects or to cooperate with any governmental agency in doing so. Specifies the actions a higher education institution's board of trustees may take in furtherance of such public policy. Pages 1488-1489 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3345.35
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | Postsec. | Directs the department of development, board of regents, air quality development authority, department of agriculture and the Third Frontier Commission to collaborate on appropriation items and programs referred to in H.B. 1 as "Technology-based Economic Development Programs" and other technology-related appropriations and programs in these departments/agencies, to ensure implementation of a coherent science and technology strategy. Identifies appropriation items categorized as "technology-based economic development programs". Specifies that technology-based economic development programs must be managed and administered in accordance with the following objectives:
(1) To build on existing competitive research strengths
(2) To encourage new and emerging discoveries and commercialization of products and ideas that will benefit the Ohio economy
(3) To ensure improved collaboration among programs administered by the Third Frontier Commission (http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/184) and with other state programs intended to improve economic growth and job creation.
Requires each Technology-based Economic Development Programs to undergo annual review on its development of relationships within a combined state science and technology investment portfolio, and with respect to its overall contribution to the state's science and technology strategy, including the adoption of appropriately consistent criteria for:
(1) The scientific and technical merit and relationship to Ohio's research strengths of activities supported by the program
(2) The relevance of the program's activities to commercial activities in the private sector
(3) The private sector's involvement in a process to continually evaluate commercial opportunities to use the work supported by the program
(4) The ability of the program and program grant funding recipients to engage in activities that are collaborative, complementary and efficient in the use of state funds.
Requires each Technology-based Economic Development Program to report annually to the Third Frontier Commission on existing, planned or possible collaborations between programs and between recipients of grant funding related to technology, development, commercialization and the support of Ohio's economic development. Pages 3069-3070 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 701.30
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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| OR | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12
Community College | Directs the Department of Transportation to use a portion of federal funds to increase diversity in the highway construction workforce and to provide preapprenticeship programs, preemployment counseling, basic skills improvement classes, and other training programs. Chapter 822
http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/sb0800.dir/sb0894.en.pdf
Title: S.B. 894
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us/
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| KY | Signed into law 06/2009 | Postsec. | Establishes ""Metropolitan College" as a nonprofit consortium that includes educational institutions in the Commonwealth and the qualified taxpayer (businesses) as members. Provides the purpose of Metropolitan College is to provide postsecondary educational opportunities to employees of the qualified taxpayer as part of a combined work and postsecondary education program. Offers a qualified taxpayer a tax credit for tuition and other educational expenses incurred by a student participating in the Metropolitan College, on behalf of employees of the qualified corporation, for up to 2,800 employees each year. Pages 45-47 of 259: http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09SS/HB3/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 3A - Section 19
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Provides for comprehensive approach to improve graduation rates and ensure college and career readiness for high school students. Provides for the development of focused programs of study and related courses and curricula; development of individual graduation plans; student guidance and counseling; and identification of and assistance to students at risk for being underprepared for the next level of study. Provides for establishment of a high school graduation rate goal. Provides for consultation and collaboration with business and industry and the Louisiana Workforce Commission.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=666409
Title: S.B. 316
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/
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| MA | Signed into law 06/2009 | Postsec. | Section 42: Permits the personnel administrator of the commonwealth to establish a co-operative engineer program and to enter into agreements with colleges of recognized standing in the commonwealth, including colleges with summer programs, that have a curriculum leading to a bachelor of science in engineering on a co-operative basis, contemplating regularly rotating work activity in the field of engineering and an equal period of classroom training. Permits the administrator to employ candidates for a bachelor of science in engineering in any such college to serve in the department in the position of student engineer; provided, however, that the position of student engineer must be in a grade lower than that of junior civil engineer in the department. Prohibits the number of persons employed in the department as student engineers from exceeding 8. Upon completion of not less than 2 years of employment as student engineer, a person must be eligible to apply for the examination for highway engineer intern. No person may be employed as a student engineer for more than 6 years.
Title: S.B. 2087
Source:
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Provides for greater coordination of Nevada's economic development and workforce development goals; requires the Governor's Workforce Investment Board to establish industry sector councils to identify job training and education programs to best meet regional economic development goals; requires the Board to identify and seek federal funding to provide grants to fund those job training and education programs. Chapter 417
http://leg.state.nv.us/75th2009/Bills/SB/SB239_EN.pdf
Title: S.B. 239
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2009 | Community College | Provides that a community college seeking approval from the State Board of Education to offer a new career pathways certificate of completion program must give notice to the Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development of the intent to offer the program; requires a private institution that objects to implementation of the program to give notice of objection to the community college; creates procedures by which community colleges and private institutions may meet to discuss the program. Chapter 328
http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/hb3100.dir/hb3117.en.pdf
Title: H.B. 3117
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12
Community College
Postsec. | Creates the Career Readiness Certification Program in the Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development; provides that services of the program shall include an assessment process, targeted instruction, and issuance of a career readiness certificate; provides for grants to pilot projects that promote architecture, construction, and engineering experience for high school students; establishes the Youth Employment Enhancement Fund; requires the reestablishment of a summer work experience program. Chapter 836
http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/hb2300.dir/hb2398.en.pdf
Title: H.B. 2398
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us/
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2009 | Postsec.
Community College | Creates Wage Option Program; relates to the JOBS Plus Unemployment Wage Fund; repeals the JOBS Individual Education Account and transfers remaining available moneys to Student Assistance Commission; funds Wage Option Program by diverting portion of unemployment insurance taxes each calendar quarter to Wage Option Unemployment Wage Fund; limits eligibility for program; prohibits unemployment benefits denial for participation in distressed worker training; provides an emergency benefit period. Chapter 857
Title: H.B. 3483
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Instructs the State Workforce Investment Board to develop a plan for an initiative to promote the growth of green jobs; requires the plan to identify high demand green industries and promote certain workforce development activities; requires the board to define terms related to green jobs and the green economy; requires the Economic and Community Development Department to develop criteria for and make recommendations about promoting green industries, technology and innovation. Chapter 887
http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measures/hb3300.dir/hb3300.en.html
Title: H.B. 3300
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Labor and Workforce Development (LWFD), in conjunction with the Department of Education (DOE), to establish and administer a grant program known as the "We Want to Learn English Initiative" for the purpose of providing resources for immigrants and refugees to learn English.
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/SB1745.pdf Initiative
Title: S.B. 1745
Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Establishes the Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) grant program and fund to award grants to public junior colleges and public technical institutes, and to eligible nonprofit organizations to:
(1) Develop or support nonprofit organizations' programs that prepare low-income students for careers in high-demand occupations. Eligible programs must help students prepare for, apply to and enroll in a public junior college/technical institute, provide matching funds, and demonstrate that they have achieved or will achieve above average developmental course completion rates, persistence rates, and 3-year degree or certificate completion rates among participating students.
(2) Defray the start-up costs of new career and technical education programs in high-demand occupations
(3) Provide scholarships for students who demonstrate financial need and who are enrolled in training programs for high-demand occupations.
In awarding grants to public junior colleges and public technical institutes for the development of new career and technical education courses or programs, provides the comptroller may consider whether the course or program offers new or expanded dual credit career and technical educational opportunities in public high schools.
Directs the comptroller to conduct a study of the feasibility of basing part of all public postsecondary technical training program funding on the program's economic benefit to the state, and of estimating the additional tax revenue from employers generated by the ability of public junior colleges/technical institutes/state colleges to prepare students for employment fields for which there is employer demand. Requires the comptroller to report to the lieutenant governor and speaker of the house by January 2011 for legislative action based on the results of the study.
Defines "green jobs" as jobs in the field of renewable energy or energy efficiency. Establishes the Green Job Skills Development Fund and Training Program to support the implementation and expansion of green job skills training programs. Specifies that an eligible training program must be hosted by a regional partnership designed to implement training programs that lead trainees to economic self-sufficiency and career pathways. Requires regional partnerships to include at a minimum a postsecondary institution; chamber of commerce, local workforce agency, local employer, or other public or private participating entity; economic development authority; and community or faith-based nonprofit organization that works with one or more targeted populations.
Specifies criteria that eligible green job skills training programs must meet. Requires programs receiving grants to target specified groups of individuals for training, including low-income workers, unemployed youth and adults, individuals who did not complete high school, or other underserved sectors of the workforce in high poverty areas. Provides that a training program may use grant funds for support services, including basic skills, literacy, GED, English as a second language, and job readiness training, career guidance, and referral services. Establishes grant application procedures. Specifies training programs the comptroller must give preference to, and requires 20% of funds to be reserved for job skill training programs that serve the unemployed and those with incomes at or below 200% of the poverty level. Establishes grantee reporting requirements, and requires the comptroller to report biennially on submitted information to the governor, lieutenant governor and speaker of the house. Directs the comptroller to adopt standards for a green job skills training program awarded a grant.
H.B. 1935: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB01935F.pdf
H.B. 3 (pages 169-174): http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB00003F.pdf
Title: H.B. 1935 and H.B. 3, Section 64
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | Postsec.
Community College | Authorizes private higher education institutions to participate in specified engineering recruitment programs, including one-week summer programs for middle and high school students, and scholarship programs for engineering students. Directs the higher education coordinating board to conduct a study on the success of baccalaureate degree programs offered in applied science and applied technology at public junior colleges, and on the feasibility of expanding the offering of baccalaureate degrees by public junior colleges. Requires that the study consider specific factors, including the workforce needs served by the degree programs for various areas of the state. Requires the board to report the results of the study to legislative committees with primary jurisdiction over higher education by November 15, 2010. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB02425F.pdf
Title: H.B. 2425
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | Postsec. | Existing policy provides in-state tuition and fees to employees who took up residence in Texas as a result of employment by a business or organization established in the state as part of the program of state economic development and diversification. New provision specifies that a participating business or organization must have become established in the state no more than five years before the enrollment date for such employees to be eligible for in-state tuition. Directs the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, in consultation with the Texas Economic Development and Tourism Office, to establish procedures to determine which businesses are eligible for employees to receive in-state tuition. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/SB02244F.pdf
Title: S.B. 2244
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | Community College
Postsec. | Authorizes the Texas Workforce Commission to establish by rule additional job incentive programs to create incentives for public community and technical colleges, in partnership with employers, to provide workforce training to create and retain employment opportunities in the state. Authorizes the commission, through a program created through this provision, to commit money to a prospective employer contingent on the employer's establishment of a place of business
in the state. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB02169F.pdf
Title: H.B. 2169
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | Postsec. | Creates a select interim committee to study the feasibility of maintaining a searchable electronic database or other data collection regarding specialized technology research projects at Texas public universities or other facilities operated by a state agency, so as to facilitate coordination by universities and facilities on the projects and improve access to and awareness of the specialized research and technologies developed at those institutions and facilities. Requires the study to consider, among other issues, the information the data collection would include, such as (1) a list of projects involving (a) Energy research, including methods of creation, storage, distribution and conservation of energy; (b) Biomedical science research, including research that involves stem cells or human cloning; (c) Nanotechnology research, including nanomedicine; (d) Other specialized technology research; (2) other relevant information, inculding available technology and patents obtained, and public grants or contracts awarded. Also requires the study to examine the current state of public access to information about specialized technology research projects, and best methods of facilitating access to the information. Directs the committee to report its findings and recommendations to the governor, lieutenant governor and speaker of the house by December 2010. Requires the committee's recommendations to include specific legislation to address the need for and feasibility of establishing a
data collection as determined by the committee's findings. Provides the committee is abolished January 16, 2011. Pages 29-32 of 36: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB00051F.pdf
Title: H.B. 51 - Section 18
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | Postsec. | Directs the higher education coordinating board to study and make recommendations on the appropriate definitions and categories of research expenditures to be applied in determining an institution's eligibility for and distributions from the Research University Development Fund (created in this bill, starting page 17 of 36). By December 2010, directs the coordinating board to to report its study and deliver its recommendations to the governor, lieutenant governor, and specified legislative leaders. Page 32-33 of 36: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB00051F.pdf
Title: H.B. 51 - Section 19
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| VT | Signed into law 06/2009 | Community College | Establishes the following four principal, interrelated goals for future economic development in Vermont:
(1) Vermont's businesses, educators, nongovernmental organizations, and government form a collaborative partnership that results in a highly skilled multigenerational workforce to support and enhance business vitality and individual prosperity. (2) Vermont invests in its digital, physical, and human infrastructure as the foundation for all economic development. (3) Vermont state government takes advantage of its small scale to create nimble, efficient, and effective policies and regulations that support business growth and the economic prosperity of all Vermonters. (4) Vermont leverages its brand and scale to encourage a diverse economy that reflects and capitalizes on our rural character, entrepreneurial people, and reputation for environmental quality. Requires career-technical education reports. Relates to economic development to include workforce education and training, commercial and industrial property taxation, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, small business loans, film industry promotions, tax increment financing districts, investment tax credits, new business capital, the technology loan program, unemployment compensation, farm to plate program, municipal bonds, hydroelectric and stormwater projects, communications facilities, clean energy development, and land use permitting. Act No. 54
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2010/Acts/ACT054.pdf
Title: H.B. 313
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Relates to workforce development; requires that local workforce councils include a representative from a local adult basic education program; provides for collaborative local projects to plan and coordinate employment, training, and education programs and services administered by the Departments of Education, Employment and Economic Development, and Human Services and the State Colleges and Universities.
https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=S1569.2.html&session=ls86
Title: S.B. 1569
Source: https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us
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| ND | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Requires the department to develop a program leading to a certificate in career development facilitation. The department shall award the certificate to any individual who:
a. Holds a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution of higher education;
b. Has at least a five-year employment history; and
c. Successfully completes the department's programmatic requirements.
2. An individual holding a certificate awarded under this section is a career advisor.
Allows the department to provisionally approve an individual to serve as a career advisor if the individual:
a. Holds a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution of higher education;
b. Has at least a five-year employment history; and
c. Provides the department with a plan for completing the department's programmatic
requirements within a two-year period.
2. Provisional approval under subsection 1 is valid for a period of two years and may not be
extended by the department.
Provision added (section 23) requires districts to administer to students (once during grades 7 or 8 and once in grade 9 or 10) a recommended career interest inventory.
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/61-2009/bill-text/JARF1000.pdf
Title: H.B. 1400 - Career Development Section
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov
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| ND | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Beginning July 1, 2010, each school district shall ensure that its curriculum for either
economics or problems of democracy includes the exposure of students to concepts of
personal finance, including:
a. Checkbook mechanics, including writing checks, balancing, and statement
reconciliation;
b. Saving for larger purchases;
c. Credit, including credit card usage, interest, and fees;
d. Earning power, including jobs for teenagers;
e. Taxation and paycheck withholdings;
f. College costs;
g. Making and living within a budget; and
h. Mortgages, retirement savings, and investments.
Upon written request, the state superintendent may allow a school district annually to select courses other than economics or problems of democracy for purposes of
exposing students to the concepts of personal finance, as listed in this section, provided the school district can demonstrate that the number of students exposed to the concepts in
the other selected courses would meet or exceed the number of students exposed under the requirements of subsection 1. The requirements may be provided by the regular classroom teacher of the course in which the concepts of personal finance are incorporated.
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/61-2009/bill-text/JARF1000.pdf
Title: H.B. 1400 - Sec. 25, Personal Finance
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2009 | Postsec. | Requires the Texas Workforce Commission and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to enter into a memorandum of understanding for the coordination and administration of the Texas Career Opportunity Grant Program, which reduces the financial barriers to postsecondary career education and training for economically disadvantaged Texans. Authorizes functions assigned to the commission in grant program statute to be assigned to the coordinating board pursuant to the memorandum of understanding. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03519F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3519
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2009 | Postsec. | Creates a global Asia institute within the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies to promote the understanding of Asia and its interactions with the state and the world. Chapter 466
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202009/5177-S.SL.pdf
Title: S.B. 5177
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12
Postsec. | Alters the job skills program which provides grants to public and private secondary or postsecondary institutions and career schools or colleges for the development or expansion of job skills training; provides that the program shall give priority to applications from firms in strategic industry clusters proposing training in transferable skills that are interchangeable among different jobs, employers, or workplaces, coordination with other programs or initiatives, and industry-based credentialing. Chapter 554
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202009/5554.SL.pdf
Title: S.B. 5554
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2009 | Postsec.
Community College | Renames the department of workforce education as the department of career education; renames the state board of workforce education and career opportunities as the state board of career education.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Bills/HB1884.pdf
Title: H.B. 1884
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2009 | Postsec.
Community College | Amends the Academic Challenge Scholarship Program and the Scholarship Lottery Act; revises eligibility requirements for nursing school scholarship applicants; makes technical corrections various provisions concerning scholarships and gambling; revises general scholarship eligibility requirements; revises provisions concerning Lottery Commission contracts; establishes penalties for certain violations by a retailer, including failure to remit lottery proceeds.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Acts/Act1405.pdf
Title: H.B. 2243
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Authorizes students assigned to alternative schools to attend workforce training programs; requires each school district having an alternative school program to submit an annual report to the state department of education describing the results of its annual alternative school program review and evaluation.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2009/pdf/SB/2500-2599/SB2575SG.pdf
Title: S.B. 2575
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2009 | Community College | Relates to incumbent workforce training for the purpose of meeting the training needs of incumbent workers in businesses employing 20 or fewer workers in the state at any one location but not more than 50 workers statewide; and (2) assisting local businesses in preserving existing jobs for Montana residents.
Section. Requires the following criteria to be used in determining whether to award an incumbent worker training program grant:
(a) prospects for enhancing the incumbent worker's productivity, efficiency, or wages;
(b) prospects for reducing incumbent worker turnover;
(c) ability to provide matching funds;
(d) a demonstrated need by the employer for upgrading skills of incumbent workers through training as a way to improve the employer's ability to remain competitive in the industry or in the economy;
(e) a direct relationship between the training and an added benefit to the incumbent worker's occupation or craft; and
(f) a demonstration that the training is not normally provided or required by the employer and, as far asmay be determined, by the employer's competitors.
Limits grant awards to (a) $2,000 or less annually for each full-time job for which an incumbent worker is being trained; or (b) $1,000 or less for each permanent part-time job for which an incumbent worker is being trained.
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2009/billpdf/SB0388.pdf
Title: S.B. 388
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Changes innovation partnership zone provisions; directs the department of community, trade, and economic development to design and implement an innovation partnership zone program through which the state will encourage and support research institutions, workforce training organizations, and globally competitive companies to work cooperatively in close geographic proximity to create commercially viable products and jobs. Chapter 72
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202009/1128-S.SL.pdf
Title: H.B. 1128
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Provides for coordination of workforce and economic development; requires the employment security department to analyze labor market and economic data, including the use of input-output models, for the purpose of identifying industry clusters and strategic industry clusters that meet the criteria identified by the working group convened by the economic development commission and the workforce training and education coordinating board. Chapter 151
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202009/1323.SL.pdf
Title: H.B. 1323
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Changes the timeline for the state comprehensive plan for workforce training and education; provides that the plan shall be submitted to the Governor and the appropriate legislative policy committees; requires a periodic update of the plan. Chapter 92
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202009/1394.SL.pdf
Title: H.B. 1394
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| WA | Partial Veto 04/2009 | P-12
Community College
Postsec. | Revises the elements of the individual responsibility plan developed for WorkFirst recipients to include education, training, and other opportunities available to the recipient to support employment goals and advance in the workplace.
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202009/2071-S.SL.pdf
Title: H.B. 2071
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12
Community College | Relates to workforce and economic development; amends provisions relating to the WorkFirst program, the Opportunity Grant program, vocational rehabilitation, and the training benefits program; clarifies and makes consistent various terms related to high demand. Chapter 353
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1395.PL.pdf
Title: H.B. 1395
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Enacts the evergreen jobs act; establishes an evergreen jobs authority to ensure that the state's workforce is prepared for the new green economy, ensure that the state attracts investment and job creation in the green economy, make Washington a net exporter of green energy technology and components, and ensure that Washington is a national and world leader in the green economy. Chapter 536
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2227-S2.PL.pdf
Title: H.B. 2227
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| WA | Signed into law with partial veto 04/2009 | P-12
Community College | Creates an employment and training trust fund to provide state funding for employment and training services in high-demand occupations; provides that education and training of individuals in the aerospace, energy efficiency, forest product, and health care industries shall be given priority. Chapter 566
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5809-S2.PL.pdf
Title: S.B. 5809
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12
Community College | Relates to the customized employment training program, which provides training assistance to employers locating or expanding in the state; allows participants to delay required payments to the employment training finance account; repeals a requirement that an employer ensure that a specified number of employees are hired through the training program; requires an employer to make good faith efforts to hire from trainees in the program; specifies the preference for allowances under the program. Chapter 296
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5616-S.PL.pdf
Title: S.B. 5616
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Renames the Education Cabinet the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet; amends various statutes to conform; confirms Executive Order 2008-530. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/SB78/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 78
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OH | Adopted 02/2009 | Postsec. | Establishes the Co-op/internship program. Defines "Cooperative education program" as a partnership between students, institutions of higher education and employers that formally integrates students' academic study with work experience in cooperating employer organizations and that meets specified criteria. Defines an "internship" as a partnership between students, institutions of higher education and employers that formally integrates students' academic study with work or community service experience and meets specified criteria.
Provides that the purpose of the program is to promote and encourage cooperative education programs and internship programs at Ohio institutions of higher education, so as to encourage Ohio students to stay in the state and to attract back to Ohio students who left to attend out-of-state institutions of higher education, to participate in high quality academic programs that use cooperative education programs or significant internship programs. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3333/0/1/3333-1-63_PH_FF_N_RU_20090205_1342.pdf
Title: OAC 3333-1-63
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us
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| WI | Signed into law 02/2009 | P-12
Postsec. | Provides a total of $2,630,000 in grant moneys to certain organizations in the building trades to provide job training and retraining programs, including training in green building and the installation of alternative energy systems. The following organizations receive funds under this bill: 1) the Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership/Building Industry Group Skilled Trades Employment Program; 2) Painters and Allied Trades, District Council 7; 3) Wisconsin State Council of Carpenters; 4) Wisconsin Pipe Trades Association, Local 75; 5) Wisconsin
Laborers' District Council; 6) Wisconsin Operating Engineers; and 7) International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. As a condition of receiving the grant moneys, each organization must enter into a contract with Commerce that specifies permissible uses of the grant moneys and requires the organization to comply with reporting and accountability measures. directs the Wisconsin Technical College System Board to award to technical college district boards at least $1,000,000 annually in training program grants for training in advanced manufacturing skills, with priority given to welding. Relates to enterprise zone tax credits, health and higher education project funding, green building job training, mortgage lender licensure, foreclosure consultants, foreclosure education and assistance, hospital assessment Medicaid funding, Wisconsin Works child care, state building repair funding, federal stimulus funding, local energy equipment funding, business franchise tax credits, out-of- state sales tax collection, digital goods sales taxes, subprime loan refinancing, and transportation funding.
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act2.pdf
Title: S.B. 62
Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us
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| MO | Issued 01/2009 | Community College | (Executive Order 2009-01) Creates and establishes the Automotive Jobs Task Force; identifies state economic polices and legislative enactments that help or hinder the development of high tech automobile production facilities within the state; evaluates the effectiveness of job training programs, both inside and outside state government, in preparing workers for the future of the automotive industry.
http://governor.mo.gov/orders/2009/09-01.htm
Title: E.O. 3
Source: http://governor.mo.gov
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds. |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--State Prof. Standards Bds. |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Substitute Teachers |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
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| Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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| Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
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| Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals |
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| Teaching Quality--Preparation |
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| Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--High-Needs Subjects |
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| Teaching Quality--Reduction in Force |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Attitudes |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Rights |
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| Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
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| Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
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| Teaching Quality--Working Conditions |
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| Technology |
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| Technology--Computer Skills |
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| Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
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| Technology--Equitable Access |
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| Technology--Funding Issues |
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| Technology--Teacher/Faculty Training |
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| Textbooks and Open Source |
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| Urban |
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| Urban--Governance |
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