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State |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
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 | 21st Century Skills |
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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 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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| 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--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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| 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--Innovation Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers--Privately Funded |
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| Civic Education |
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| Civic Education--Character Education |
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| Civic Education--Civic Knowledge and Literacy |
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| Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance |
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| Class Size |
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| Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Arts Education |
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| Curriculum--Drivers 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--Language Arts |
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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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| Data-Driven Improvement |
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| Demographics--Enrollments |
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| Desegregation |
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| Economic/Workforce Development |
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| Equity |
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| Federal |
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| Finance |
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| Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
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| Finance--Aid to Private Schools |
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| Finance--Bonds |
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| Finance--District |
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| Finance--Facilities |
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| Finance--Federal |
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| Finance--Funding Formulas |
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| Finance--Local Foundations/Funds |
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| Finance--Lotteries |
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| Finance--Performance Funding |
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| Finance--Private Giving |
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| Finance--Resource Efficiency |
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| Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
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| Finance--Student Fees |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
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| Governance |
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| Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
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| Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
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| Governance--Mandates |
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| Governance--School Boards |
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| Governance--School Boards--Training |
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| Governance--Site-Based Management |
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| Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
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| Health |
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| Health--Child Abuse |
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| Health--Mental Health |
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| Health--Nutrition |
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| Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
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| Health--Suicide Prevention |
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| High School |
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| High School--Advanced Placement |
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| High School--College Readiness |
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| High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
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| High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
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| High School--Early Colleges/Middle Colleges |
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| High School--Exit Exams |
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| High School--GED (General Education Development) |
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| High School--Graduation Requirements |
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| High School--International Baccalaureate |
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| Instructional Approaches--Grading Practices |
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| Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
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| Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
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| Leadership |
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| Leadership--District Superintendent |
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| Leadership--District Superintendent--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation--Alternative |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Professional Development |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Tenure |
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| Middle School |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--African American |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian |
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| No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
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| No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
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| No Child Left Behind--Consequences for Schools |
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| No Child Left Behind--Report Cards |
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| No Child Left Behind--School Support |
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| No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
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| Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
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| Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
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| P-16 or P-20 |
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| P-3 |
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| P-3 Child Care |
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| P-3 Content Standards and Assessment |
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| P-3 Ensuring Quality |
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| P-3 Finance |
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| P-3 Governance |
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| P-3 Grades 1-3 |
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| P-3 Health and Mental Health |
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| P-3 Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Preschool |
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| P-3 Special Ed./Inclusion |
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| P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development |
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| Parent/Family |
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| Postsecondary |
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| Postsecondary Accountability |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Student Learning |
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| Postsecondary Affordability |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Textbooks |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Undocumented Immigrants |
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| Postsecondary Faculty |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Compensation |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Intellectual Property |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Tenure |
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| Postsecondary Finance |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Efficiency/Performance-Based Funding |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Facilities |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Revenue and Expenditures |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures--Administrative/Leadership Issues |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures--State Executives/State Agencies |
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| Postsecondary Institutions |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Four-Year Baccalaureate |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--HBCUs/Minority-Serving Institutions |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Private/Independent |
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| Postsecondary Online Instruction |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Access |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Affirmative Action |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Enrollments (Statistics) |
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| Postsecondary Students |
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| Postsecondary Students--Adults |
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| Postsecondary Students--Disabled |
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| Postsecondary Students--Foster Youth |
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| Postsecondary Students--Graduate/Professional |
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| Postsecondary Students--International |
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| Postsecondary Students--Low-Income |
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| Postsecondary Students--Military |
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| Postsecondary Students--Minority |
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| Postsecondary Success |
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| Postsecondary Success--Completion |
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| Postsecondary Success--Completion--Completion Rates (Statistics) |
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| Postsecondary Success--Developmental/Remediation |
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| Postsecondary Success--Retention/Persistence |
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| Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
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| Private Schools |
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| Privatization |
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| Promising Practices |
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| Promotion/Retention |
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| Public Involvement |
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| Reading/Literacy |
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| Reading/Literacy--Adult Literacy |
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| Religion |
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| Rural |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Day/Class Length |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Summer School |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Week |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Year |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Year Round |
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| School Climate/Culture |
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| School Safety |
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| School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
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| School Safety--Code of Conduct |
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| School Safety--Corporal Punishment |
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| School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
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| School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension |
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| School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
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| School Safety--Special Education |
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| School Safety--Uniforms/Dress Codes |
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| School/District Structure/Operations |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--District Consolidation/Deconsolidation |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--District Size |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Libraries |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--School Size |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Shared Services |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Staffing Ratios |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
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| Service-Learning |
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| Special Education |
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| Special Education--Federal Law/Regulations |
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| Special Education--Finance |
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| Special Education--Placement |
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| Special Education--Transition |
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| Special Populations--Corrections Education |
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| Special Populations--Foster Care |
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| Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
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| Special Populations--Homeless Education |
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| Special Populations--Immigrant Education |
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| Special Populations--Migrant Education |
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| Special Populations--Military |
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| Standards |
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| Standards--Common Core State Standards |
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| State Longitudinal Data Systems |
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| State Policymaking |
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| State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
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| STEM |
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| Student Achievement |
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| Student Supports |
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| Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
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| Student Supports--Mentoring/Tutoring |
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| Student Supports--Remediation |
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| Student Surveys |
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| Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
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| Students--Employment |
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| Students--Incentives |
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| Students--Records/Rights |
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| Teaching Quality |
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 | Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
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| WA | Signed into law 12/2011 | P-12 | Directs the professional educator standards board to revise standards for the elementary education endorsement and middle level and secondary mathematics and science teacher endorsements as well as other subject area endorsements with STEM-related components, and establishes deadlines by which standards related to math and science must be revised. Requires that the revised standards integrate STEM knowledge and skill and be aligned with Common Core math standards, the 2009 revision of state mathematics student learning standards and performance expectations, the biology end-of-course assessment, and the 2012 student science learning standards, and next generation standards and related student performance expectations. Also requires that the endorsement standards include the concepts and instructional practices of the interdisciplinary connections with engineering and technology. Directs the professional educator standards board to revise assessments required for certification of prospective teachers and teachers adding subject area endorsements, so that these assessments measure the aforementioned revised standards. Requires the professional educator standards board, in implementing evidence-based assessment of teaching effectiveness, to require candidates for the residency certificate to demonstrate effective subject specific instructional methods that address the revised standards. Directs the professional educator standards board to revise certificate renewal rules for teachers at the elementary and secondary levels in STEM-related subjects by September 1, 2014. Specifies the revised rules must include the requirement that continuing education or professional growth plans for these teachers include a specific focus on the integration of science, mathematics, technology, and engineering instruction. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2011-12/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202011/2160.SL.pdf
Title: H.B. 2160
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/
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| WI | Signed into law 11/2011 | P-12 | Relates to revocation for immoral conduct of a license issued by the Department of Public Instruction. Clarifies that "Immoral conduct" includes the intentional use of an educational agency's equipment to download, view, solicit, seek, display, or distribute pornographic material. (Renumbers 115.31 (1) (c) and creates 115.31 (1) (c) 2. and 115.31 (2m) of the statutes.)
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/acts/84
Title: S.B. 49
Source: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2011 | P-12 | Authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to convene a workgroup to develop program standards for the issuance of a recognition of study for linked learning competence. Identifies requisite members of the workgroup. Proposes content that a successful candidate for the linked learning teacher credential may be required to demonstrate. Encourages the California State University and other teacher preparation institutions to establish goals for increasing the number of teachers prepared through linked learning programs. Encourages Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment programs to provide appropriate support, mentoring and assistance to beginning teachers teaching in linked learning programs, including candidates who are in externships. Provides a teacher with a linked learning credential is not authorized to teach subject matter content or English learners unless he/she holds an appropriate authorization or is employed on the basis of a local assignment option. Provides a linked learning credential must not be considered a type of authorization, must not be used as a condition of employment, must not replace a subject matter competence requirement, and must not be used in making employment decisions. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_1301-1350/ab_1304_bill_20110906_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 1304
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2011 | P-12 | From bill summary: Removes reference to a "professional clear teaching credential" in provisions regarding credentialing of out-of-state prepared applicants, and instead simply refers to a "clear teaching credential." Requires that an out-of-state prepared applicant in both special education and general education, who has earned a clear California education specialist credential, be granted a clear multiple subject or clear single subject teaching credential without first holding a preliminary multiple subject or single subject teaching credential, unless the commission on teacher credentialing determines that the applicant does not meet other specified requirements. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0901-0950/sb_941_bill_20110926_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 941 - Out-of-State-Prepared Credential Applicants
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2011 | P-12 | From bill summary: Requires the commission on teacher credentialing to issue an authorization for an additional subject or for a new teaching credential type to the holder of a valid multiple subject or single subject teaching credential, or eligible applicant, who has earned certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards in the additional single subject content area or the new multiple subject
or single subject teaching credential type. Notwithstanding these provisions, authorizes the commission to require the applicant to pass a commission-approved subject matter examination before the issuance of the credential or authorization request when there is no direct equivalence between the national certification and the state subject or credential type. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0901-0950/sb_941_bill_20110926_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 941 - Awarding of Additional Subject Credential or New Teaching Credential Type
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2011 | P-12 | Effective June 30, 2012, repeals 105 ILCS 5/21-1a on teacher certification exams. Effective June 30, 2013, repeals statutory provisions on (1) teacher certification, qualifications and issuance of certificates; (2) subject endorsement on teacher certificates; (3) grades of certificates; (4) early childhood certificates; (5) required instruction for all teachers; (6) elementary, special and high school certificates; (7) alternative certification and alternative routes to teacher certification; (8) administrative certification and alternative routes to administrator certification; (9) teacher leader endorsements; (10) principal preparation programs; (11) substitute certificates and substitute teaching; (12) provisional certificates; (13) recognition of certification of teachers from out of state; (14) additional certificates for experienced employed teachers; (15) resident teacher certificates; (16) 105 ILCS 5/21-12 related to printing, seal, signature, credentials for teacher certificates; (17) annual registration fees for certificates; (18) school service personnel certificates; (19) the Illinois Teaching Excellence Program (however, this program is reauthorized in the new Article 21B).
Effective September 2013, repeals statutory provisions related to the Illinois Teacher Corps.
Creates new Article 21B, "Educator Licensure". As summarized in http://www.ift-aft.org/News/DailyNews/11-06-06/Changes_in_Educator_Licensing_Pass_in_SB_1799.aspx:
--Renames the State Teacher Certification Board as the State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board
--Changes the name of the certificate to the Illinois Professional Educator License. Qualified educators will be issued a professional educator license endorsed in each area and grade level for which they are eligible to seek employment in teaching, administration or school service. Each license will be valid for 5 years.
--Streamlines the 66 types of available certificates to 3 types of licenses: the Illinois Professional Educator License, the Professional Educator License with Stipulations and the Substitute Teaching License.. Each will be endorsed in specific content and grade areas. This change will make it easy for each license holder to track his/her qualifications as all endorsements will be on a single license rather than multiple certificates.
--All certificates renewing after July 2012 will be exchanged for Illinois licenses. Hard copy licenses will not be issued but the new credentials can be accessed and printed from the Educator Certification System online.
--The three license system (Initial, Standard, Master certificates) will be eliminated.
--Individuals holding National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) certification will get a National Board for Professional Teaching Standards designation on an existing Professional Educator License. Certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards does not automatically allow an individual to teach in the area for which he/she received NBPTS certification unless the individual also has the appropriate Illinois endorsement. The designation is issued for the same validity period (10 years) as the NBPTS certification. If an individual does not renew his/her NBPTS certification, the designation will be removed from the Professional Educator License.
--New fee structure effective January 2012 for applications for license (for in-state and out-of-state educators), additional endorsements/approvals, and registration per year.
--Effective September 2014, the general administrative endorsement will not be issued. Until July 2015, an individual may convert to a principal endorsement if he/she served at least 1 full year during the last 5 years in a position requiring a general administrative endorsement.
--Substitute teacher licenses are valid for 5 years and may be renewed if the individual has passed a test of basic skills. However, if an individual has had his/her Professional Educator License or Educator License with Stipulations suspended or revoked or has not met the renewal requirements for licensure, the individual is not eligible to obtain a Substitute Teaching License.
--The Paraprofessional educator endorsement will be on the Professional Educator License and renewable every 5 years. Renewal requirements have not yet been determined. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/97/PDF/097-0607.pdf
Title: S.B. 1799
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| CT | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | From Education Committee Summary - Allows teachers to continue to use, or in the case of student teaching to start using, teaching experience at a State Board of Education-approved private school to obtain Connecticut certificates. Requires teachers holding professional certificates who work in private schools to meet the same continuing education requirements as public school teachers. Allows certified teachers working in private schools approved by the education commissioner to be cooperating teachers. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/ACT/Pa/pdf/2011PA-00127-R00HB-06434-PA.pdf
Title: H.B. 6434
Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov
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| CT | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | State Education Resource Center - Clarifies the status of the State Education Resource Center as a nonstock corporation and nonprofit tax exempt organization within the Department of Education.
Health Assessment - Allows certain medical professionals from military bases who are not licensed by the state to conduct health assessments in schools.
Data Collection Requirements - Eliminates the requirement that regional educational service centers collect and analyze data on school efforts to reduce racial, ethnic and economic isolation. Eliminates the requirement that superintendents submit data on the reduction of racial, ethnic and economic isolation in the district to the regional educational service center and instead submit such data directly to the Commissioner of Education.
International Teachers - Requires that a teacher maintain a valid J-1 Visa issued by the United States Department of State as a condition of renewal of an international teacher permit.
Magnet Schools - Requires all interdistrict magnet schools to file annual financial audits with the education commissioner.
Charter Schools - Extends, from 75 to 90 days after it receives the application, the deadline for the State Board of Education to review and vote to approve or disapprove an application to establish a state charter school. Adds, as the most important factor in determining which newly approved charter schools are funded, the quality of the school's proposed program as measured against criteria required by the statutory charter school application process. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/ACT/Pa/pdf/2011PA-00179-R00SB-01039-PA.pdf
Title: S.B. 1039
Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov
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| CT | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Establishes a charter school educator permit and allows the education commissioner, starting in the 2011-12 school year, to waive state certification requirements and issue such a permit to a teacher or administrator who lacks certification and who is employed by a charter school, if the person meets the bill's qualifications. Limits the number of teachers and administrators who may hold permits in any year to no more than 30% of a charter school's teachers and administrators combined. Provides that a charter school educator permit allows a person to work in a charter school as a teacher or administrator and, if working as an administrator, to supervise and evaluate anyone providing instructional or pupil services in the school that employs the administrator. Makes anyone holding a charter school educator permit a member of the appropriate teachers' or administrators' unit for collective bargaining purposes. Requires any permit holder who becomes certified to participate in the Teachers' Retirement System (by law, only certified teachers and administrators may participate in the TRS). http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/ACT/Pa/pdf/2011PA-00234-R00SB-01160-PA.pdf
Title: S.B. 1160
Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov
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| CT | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Sec. 1 - Establishes a task force to address the academic achievement gaps in Connecticut by considering effective approaches to closing the achievement gaps in elementary, middle and high schools. Requires the task force to submit a master plan to the General Assembly by July 1, 2012. Provides that the task force must terminate on January 1, 2020.
Sec. 2 - Establishes an Interagency Council for Ending the Achievement Gap (the council) to assist the achievement gap task force, in the development of the master plan to eliminate the academic achievement gaps in Connecticut, implement the provisions of the master plan, and, if necessary, make recommendations for legislation relating to the master plan to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly. Directs the council to submit annual progress reports on the implementation of the master plan to the General Assembly.
Sec. 3 - Permits local or regional boards of education for schools designated as low-achieving under state law to increase the number of school sessions each year and the number of school hours each day in order to improve student performance and remove the school from the list of low-achieving schools.
Sec. 4 - Provides that the summer reading program required in priority school districts must be offered to children enrolled in kindergarten who are determined by their school to be substantially deficient in reading based on measures established by the State Board of Education. Directs each priority school district to require the schools under its jurisdiction to assess the reading level of students enrolled in kindergarten at the end of the school year and in grades 1-3 at the beginning, middles and end of the school year (assessment was previously only required in grades 1-3 at the middle and end of the school year). Required individual reading plans must be monitored by school literacy teams that will consist of, but not be limited to, teachers, school reading specialists, internal or external reading consultants, the school principal and the provider of the additional instruction. Adds kindergarten to the grade range for which priority school districts may require students found substantially deficient in reading to attend summer school.
Sec. 5 - Permits the Commissioner of Education to identify schools to participate in a pilot study for the purposes of promoting best practices in early literacy and closing the academic achievement gaps.
Sec. 6 - Provides that the required statement of educational goals (which identify specific expectations for students in terms of skills, knowledge and competence) prepared by the board of education be annually established.
Sec. 7 - Requires, on and after July 1, 2011, any person applying for a certification in the endorsement area of elementary education to achieve a satisfactory evaluation on the appropriate State Board of Education approved mathematics assessment in order to be eligible for such elementary education endorsement.
Sec. 8 - Requires, not later than July 1, 2012, the Department of Education to approve and make available model curricula and frameworks in reading and mathematics for grades prekindergarten to grade four, inclusive, for use by boards of education for school districts or individual schools identified by the department as having academic achievement gaps.
Sec. 9 - Requires the Connecticut School Reform Resource Center (the Center) to provide a program of professional development activities for teachers to educate such students that includes research-based child development and reading instruction tools and practices. Requires the Center to develop strategies for assisting such students who are in danger of failing and develop culturally-relevant methods for educating students whose primary language is not English. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/ACT/PA/2011PA-00085-R00SB-00929-PA.htm
Title: S.B. 929
Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov
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| CT | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Sec. 3 - Allows the Commissioner of Education, upon request from a board of education for a district that has a school with grades K-8, to permit a certified teacher employed by such board in such school who holds an endorsement in elementary education and who is otherwise qualified to teach a specialized course (i.e., course in a subject area that requires specialized knowledge and skills, such as computer and information technology) to teach such specialized course in grades K-8.
Sec. 14 - Changes the month that a teacher must be notified that such teacher's contract will not be renewed for the following year from April to May. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/ACT/Pa/pdf/2011PA-00136-R00HB-06499-PA.pdf
Title: H.B. 6499 - Sec. 3, 14
Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov
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| IN | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Establishes an annual staff performance evaluation that categorizes teachers as highly effective, effective, improvement necessary, or ineffective. Allows school corporations to meet requirements for evaluation plans by using any of the following models: A plan using master teachers or contracting with an outside vendor for master teachers; the System for Teacher and Student Achievement (TAP); or the Peer Assistance and Review Teacher Evaluation System (PAR). Specifies components that plans must include, such as annual evaluations for all certificated employees; objective measures of student achievement and growth to significantly inform the evaluation; rigorous measures of effectiveness, including observations and other performance indicators, and an annual designation of highly effective, effective, improvement necessary or ineffective; an explanation of the recommendations for improvement and the time in which improvement is expected; and a provision that a teacher who negatively affects student achievement and growth cannot receive a rating of highly effective or effective. Specifies that a teacher rated ineffective or improvement necessary may not receive a raise or increment for the following year. Provides that a student may not be instructed two years in a row by two different teachers who have been rated as ineffective in the year preceding the student's placement in that class if avoidable. Changes the process concerning how teacher contracts are canceled (affects tenure). For any teachers hired after 7/2012, teachers with a rating of ineffective are considered probationary. Probationary status for teachers hired after 7/2012 is for one year, plus a new contract. Teachers hired after 7/2012 may be dismissed for incompetence, and incompetence is defined as an "ineffective" rating on 2 consecutive evaluations or 2 consecutive "improvement necessary" ratings or "ineffective" or "improvement necessary" ratings in 3 out of 5 years. Requires notice of cancellation of a teacher's contract not earlier than May 1 and not later than July 1. Eliminates the Advisory Board of the Division of Professional Standards of the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE). Repeals references to the advisory board and the existing staff performance evaluation provisions, and makes corresponding changes to related sections. Requires the IDOE to revoke the license of a licensed school employee if the employee is convicted in another state or under federal statutes of an offense that is comparable to the felonies for which the employee's license would be revoked if committed in Indiana.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/FISCAL/SB0001.007.pdf
Full text: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0001.1.html
Title: S.B. 1--Teachers
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/
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| MN | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Directs the board of teaching to grant initial teaching licenses based on professional competencies aligned with the board's licensing system and students' learning needs. Directs the board to include the licenses in its differentiated licensing system. (Article 2, Sec 10)
http://wdoc.house.leg.state.mn.us/leg/LS87/1/HF0026.0.pdf
Title: H.F. 26
Source: http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us
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| MN | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Directs the board of teaching and the education commissioner to convene and facilitate an advisory task force to develop recommendations for a statewide tiered licensure system premised on: research-based professional competencies; ongoing teacher professional growth; an assessment system for evaluating teachers' performance aligned with value-added measures of student outcomes; an expectation that teachers progress through various stages of teaching practice; and a periodic evaluation of the licensing structure. (Article 2, Sec 48)
http://wdoc.house.leg.state.mn.us/leg/LS87/1/HF0026.0.pdf
Title: H.F. 26
Source: http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Directs preparation of plan to encourage national board certification for teachers and administrators. Requires creation of comprehensive leadership development system for administrators. Renames Professional Organizations Certification Fund as National Board Certification Fund and sets purpose of fund to promote national certification of teachers and administrators. Directs preparation of guidelines for uniform set of model core teaching standards for teaching preparation. Requires adoption of standards on or before March 1, 2012, and use of standards by school districts in 2012-2013 school year. Establishes reporting and implementation timeline. Declares emergency. Effective July 6, 2011
http://www.leg.state.or.us/11reg/measpdf/hb3400.dir/hb3474.en.pdf
Title: H.B. 3474
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Amends background checks to require school employee applicants or child care operators to apply to the Rhode Island bureau of criminal identification for a criminal background check. Requires and any expense associated with providing the criminal record check shall be paid by the applicant and/or requesting agency.
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law11/law11240.htm
Title: H.B. 5455
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us
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| CT | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Allows the state Commissioner of Education to waive the requirement that teachers in charter schools hold certification when the charter school can demonstrate the effectiveness for any uncertified teacher. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/ACT/Pa/pdf/2011PA-00060-R00SB-01104-PA.pdf
Title: S.B. 1104
Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov
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| CT | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | To revise the requirements for early childhood educators and direct the Commissioner of Education to use unexpended funds for providing professional development to school readiness staff. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/ACT/Pa/pdf/2011PA-00054-R00SB-00927-PA.pdf
Title: S.B. 927
Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Allows teacher and educational officer Hawaii Teacher Standards Board (HTSB) members to continue to serve out up to three consecutive three-year terms even if they retire during a term. Adds certain powers and duties to HTSB, including (1) developing criteria for a full career and technical education license, limited to career and technical education teaching assignments, allowing qualified individuals with at least an associate's degree, pedagogy coursework, industry experience, and content expertise to teach and (2) establishing policies and procedures for approving alternative pathways to teaching. Adds timely payment of fees to the requirements for license renewal. Extends the term of the renewable advanced license from five to ten years. Allows for forfeiture of a teacher's license for failure to timely renew, pay all fees, or comply with any other requirements provided by law or administrative rule. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2011/Bills/SB806_CD1_.HTM
Title: S.B. 806
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Budget Technical Corrections Legislation:
Section 7.31 - Repeals the statutory provisions of the Teacher Academy, created to establish a statewide network of high quality, integrated, comprehensive, collaborative, and substantial professional development for teachers, provided through summer programs.
Section 7.32. Repeals the statutory provisions of the Professional Teaching Standards Commission, created to establish high standards for North Carolina teachers and the teaching profession.
Section 14. Reinstates personal education plans, and restores school improvement plans.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H22v4.pdf
Title: H.B. 22
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| NC | Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 06/2011 | P-12 | Prohibits state board from requiring more than 5 semester hours or 7 1/2 units of renewal credits to renew a North Carolina Standard Professional 2 professional educator's license.
Page 52 of 342: http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H200v9.pdf
Title: H.B. 200 - Renewal of Professional Educator's License
Source: www.ncleg.net
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Requires the board of trustees of each school district and the governing body of each charter school to adopt a policy requiring the licensed employees of the school district or charter school to report information concerning arrests for or convictions of certain crimes; requiring the Commission on Professional Standards in Education to include in the fee for the renewal of licensure of teachers and other educational personnel the amount required for processing the fingerprints of the applicant for renewal by the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History and the Federal Bureau of Investigation; requiring the Central Repository to investigate the criminal background of each applicant for renewal of a license submitted to the Superintendent of Public Instruction; revising other provisions governing the renewal of licensure of teachers and other educational personnel.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/76th2011/Bills/AB/AB393_EN.pdf
Title: A.B. 393
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | relating to educational personnel; removing the requirement that the Superintendent of Public Instruction notify a licensee by mail of the date of expiration of his or her license; requiring the Department of Education to maintain a directory of licensees on the Internet website maintained by the Department; requiring the Department to provide on a monthly basis an electronic file with a list of each licensed employee whose license will expire to the board of trustees of the school district that employs the person; requiring the board of trustees of the school district to notify each licensee of the date of expiration of his or her license.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/76th2011/Bills/AB/AB39_EN.pdf
Title: A.B. 39
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Requires the Commission on Professional Standards in Education to adopt regulations prescribing the qualifications for licensing teachers and administrators pursuant to an alternative route to licensure; requiring the State Board of Education to evaluate the providers of education and training approved by the Commission to offer an alternative route to licensure.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/76th2011/Bills/SB/SB315_EN.pdf
Title: S.B. 315
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Requires the State Board of Education to evaluate certain providers of education and training which are offered to qualify a person to be a teacher or administrator or to perform other educational functions; requires the Commission on Professional Standards in Education to adopt regulations prescribing the qualifications for licensing teachers and administrators pursuant to an alternative route to licensure.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/76th2011/Bills/AB/AB230_EN.pdf
Title: A.B. 230
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Establishes certification requirements for teaching foreign language, music, religion, computer technology or fine arts in nontax-supported or nonchartered, nontax-supported schools. Page 2 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Certain Teacher Certification Requirements in Private Schools
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Prohibits the state board from adopting additional requirements for the resident educator license beyond those established in statute. Page 385 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Resident Educator License Requirements
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | By July 2012, directs the state superintendent to develop a list of states that the superintendent considers to have standards for teacher licensure that are inadequate to ensure that persons licensed as teachers in other states are qualified for a professional educator license issued in Ohio. Following development of the list, directs the superintendent to establish a panel of experts to evaluate the adequacy of the teacher licensure standards of each state on the list. Directs the panel, by April 2013, to recommend to the state board that the list be approved without changes, or that specified states be removed from the list prior to approval. By July 2013, directs the state board to approve a final list of states with teacher licensure standards that are inadequate to ensure that a person is qualified for a professional educator license. Provides that, with the following exception, until the state board approves a final list of states with inadequate teacher licensure standards, the state board must issue a one-year provisional educator license to any applicant licensed in another state who meets specified other criteria. Provides that upon expiration of the provisional license, a professional educator license must be issued if the person satisfies either of specified conditions. Exception: also provides that from July 2012 to when the state board approves a final list of states with inadequate teacher licensure standards, the state board must issue a professional educator license to any applicant who meets specified criteria and who was licensed in a state that is not on the list developed by the state superintendent. Provides that beginning on the date on which the state board approves a final list of states with inadequate teacher licensure standards, the state board must issue a professional educator license to any applicant licensed out of state who meets specified criteria, and who was most recently licensed to teach by a state that is not on that list. Pages 386-388 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Teaching Certification Reciprocity with Other States
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Requires that the rules adopted by the board of education regarding standards and requirements for educator licenses include requirements for the issuance and renewal of professional career-technical teaching licenses, including requirements relating to life experience, professional certification, and practical ability. Provides nothing in statute requires, and prohibits the state board of education from requiring, an applicant for the issuance or renewal of a professional career-technical teaching license who meets the requirements relating to life experience, professional certification, and practical ability to complete a degree applicable to the career field, classroom teaching or an area of licensure. Page 388 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Licensure Requirements for CTE Teachers
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Provides that an applicant for employment by a school district, the governing board of an educational service center or a chartered nonpublic school who is applying to be an instructor of adult education and who will not have routine contact with children and who, within the two-year period prior to the date of application, was the subject of a criminal records check prior to being hired for short-term employment with the school district, educational service center, or chartered nonpublic school to which application is being made must not be required to undergo a criminal records check prior to the applicant's rehiring by that district, service center or school. Pages 395-396 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Criminal Records Check for Adult Educators
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Directs the board of education of each city, exempted village, and local school district, the governing authority of each community school, and the governing body of each STEM school with a building ranked in the lowest 10% of all public school buildings according to its performance index score, to require each classroom teacher teaching in a core subject area to register for and take all written exams prescribed by the state board of education for licensure to teach that core subject area and the grade level to which the teacher is assigned. Provides that a teacher who passes such exam must not be required to take the exam again for three years, regardless of the performance index score ranking of the building in which the teacher teaches. Permits district boards, community schools and STEM schools to use the results of such exams in
developing and revising professional development plans and in deciding whether or not to continue employing a teacher. Provides, however, that no decision to terminate or not to renew a teacher's employment
contract may be made solely on the basis of the results of a teacher's exam until and unless the teacher has not attained a passing score on the same required exam for at least three
consecutive administrations of that exam. Pages 400-401 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Licensure Exam Retakes for Teachers in Lowest-Performing Schools
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| PA | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Creates a new avenue for mid-career professionals to joing the teaching ranks through the use of "residency" certificates that allow for a streamlined process for professionals with expertise in key fields, such as science and mathematics, to earn a teaching certificate and bring their knowledge into the classroom. Provides that a candidate holding a valid instructional certificate issued by another state may be eligible for a comparable Pennsylvania certificate upon satisfying certain requirements. Grants to Secretary of Educatio n specific powers and duties with respect to post baccalaureate certification programs for residency teaching certificate programs, intern certificate programs and alternative certification programs. Background checks: imposes a time period for employment based upon degree of offense.
Link to Fiscal Note: http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/BI/FN/2011/0/HB1352P2227.pdf
Title: H.B. 1352
Source: http://www.legis.state.pa.us
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Requires the state board, in consultation with the department of education, to review current policies, rules and regulations pertaining to transitional licensure options and make recommendations relative to the following:
(1) The clarification of provisions applicable to transitional license education providers affiliated with Tennessee institutions of higher educatˇon and providers that are not affillated with a Tennessee institution of higher education, such as out-of-state or online education-related organizations; (2) The process by which providers or transitional licensure programs receive approval by the state, and specifically such process for those providers that have been approved for an existing partnership with an LEA; and (3) lnforming LEAs of the availability of transitional llcensure options, including the feasibility of higher education institutions providing information relative to the requirements, cost and performance of transitional licensure programs.
http://state.tn.us/sos/acts/107/pub/pc0380.pdf
Title: S.B. 688
Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Provides that an educator's certificate is not considered to have expired if the employee has completed the requirements for renewal of the certificate or permit, the employee submitted the request for renewal
prior to the expiration date, and the date the certificate or permit would have expired is before the date the state board for educator certification takes action to approve the renewal of the certificate or permit. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB01334F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: H.B. 1334
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Permits a person who voluntarily accepts an assignment that requires a different class of certificate than the one held in the person's previous professional capacity to be employed under a probationary contract. Provides this provision does not apply to a person returning to an earlier-held professional capacity in a district. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB02380F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: H.B. 2380
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Requires that to be eligible to be issued a certificate to teach students with visual impairments, a person must (1) complete all coursework required by an approved educator preparation program or complete approved alternative certification program, (2) perform satisfactorily on each examination prescribed by statute for certification to teach students with visual impairments, after completing the educator preparation program or alternative program, and (3) satisfy any other requirements prescribed by the board. Provides that the coursework or alternative education program requirement does not apply if the application for
the initial certificate was submitted by September 1, 2011. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/SB00054F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: S.B. 54
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| WA | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Requires the superintendent of public instruction to charge an application processing fee for initial educator certificates and subsequent actions. Creates the educator certification processing account.
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2011-12/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202011/1449-S.SL.pdf
Title: H.B. 1449
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Adds criminal offenses and circumstances that disqualify individuals from employment at districts and schools, based primarily on background checks. The bill also describes offenses and circumstances that prompt suspending or revoking a license, certificate or endorsement.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2011a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/4DDFC21CE9178BCD87257808008040AC?Open&file=1121_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1121
Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Directs the Professional Standards Commission to revise its certification renewal rules to require, effective July 2015, demonstration of the impact of professional learning on educator performance and student learning for purposes of certification renewal. Directs the Professional Standards Commission, as part of the revision process, to establish a task force to determine the level of evidence necessary for educators to demonstrate the impact of professional learning and how such evidence will be collected and submitted for purposes of certificate renewal.
Directs the department of education and the Professional Standards Commission to cooperatively develop an online course on educator ethics. Provides one area of emphasis in the course must be best practices for administering state-mandated assessments.
Clarifies the authority and responsibility of local units of administration to subject all prospective personnel to criminal background checks, and the authority of local units of administration to forward the results of criminal record checks to the Professional Standards Commission regarding potential violations of the code of ethics for educators. Clarifies that the Professional Standards Commission also has the authority to order criminal record checks through the Georgia Crime Information Center and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and has the authority to receive the results of such criminal record checks.
http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/116755.pdf
Title: H.B. 285
Source: www.legis.ga.gov
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Amends K.S.A. 2010 Supp. 72-5445. Allows school districts to offer employment contracts to teachers for one or up to two additional years (that is, a fourth or fourth and a fifth year contract) at the end of the teacher's probationary period, thus extending until the sixth year of employment the ability of the teacher to attain due process rights. (Current law states that a new teacher in a school district, area vocational-technical school or community college cannot attain due process rights in less than three years and there is no provision in current law to extend that time.) Any teacher offered a contract under the provisions of the bill would be evaluated and a plan of assistance would be written to assist the teacher meet areas needing improvement as noted in the evaluation. Before signing or rejecting the contract, a teacher would have not less than 48 hours from the time the contract is offered to review and consider the contract and plan of assistance. Additionally, the bill would require school districts to annually file a report with the State Board of Education and the House and Senate education committees, with information regarding numbers of teachers offered due process rights. The provisions related to the additional two years of probationary employment and the reporting requirements would expire on July 1, 2016.
http://kslegislature.org/li/b2011_12/year1/measures/documents/hb2191_enrolled.pdf
Title: H.B. 2191
Source: http://kslegislature.org
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Requires the state Department of Education to develop an informational form that lists and explains the various paths that can be taken in order to obtain certification and tenure in the state and must post the form on its website. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/bills/sb/sb0687e.pdf
Title: S.B. 687
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Requires the state Department of Education to develop a specified form relating to teacher certification and tenure and to post the form on its Web site. Requires the Adjutant General or the Adjutant General's designee to assist military spouses in finding specified employment. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/bills/hb/hb0998e.pdf
Title: H.B. 998
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us
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| MN | Vetoed 05/2011 | P-12 | Requires the state board of education to adopt rules requiring a person who enters a board-approved teacher preparation program on or after January 1, 2014, to pass a skills examination in reading, writing, and mathematics as a requirement for entering that program. The board must issue a one-year license to teach in Minnesota to an otherwise qualified person who completed a teacher preparation program outside the state of Minnesota, during which time that person must take and pass the state skills examination in reading, writing, and math.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/?id=45&year=2011&type=0
Title: S.F. 170
Source: https://www.revisor.mn.gov
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| MN | Vetoed 05/2011 | P-12 | Directs the Board of Teaching to adopt rules requiring persons interested in becoming teacher candidates, beginning January 1, 2014, to pass the basic skills reading, writing, and math exam before entering the program. Strikes language requiring postsecondary teacher preparation institutions and programs to offer remedial assistance to candidates who do not pass the basic skills reading, writing, and math test.
Directs the Board of Teaching to issue a one-year Minnesota teaching license to an otherwise qualified person who completed an out-of-state teacher preparation program and require the person during that one-year period to take and pass the state's basic skills reading, writing, and math exam.
Strikes language allowing a new teacher to teach for up to three years without first having passed the reading, writing, and math basic skills test that is a condition of licensure.
Allows the Board of Teaching to grant continuing licenses only to eligible persons who have passed the basic skills test.
Adds a cross reference to indicate that applicants for a Minnesota teaching license who were trained in other states must take and pass the state's basic skills reading, writing, and math exam during the term of their one-year temporary teaching license.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bin/showPDF.php
Title: S.F. 170
Source: http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Defines prospective employee as an individual who has received an offer of temporary employment by a school district pending results of a national criminal history record check. Districts may temporarily employ people for a maximum of 60 days while awaiting results. School districts are excluded from liability, except in negligence, when employing prospective employees during the 60-day period. Allows a board of education to choose not to require a national criminal history record check rom a prospective substitute teacher who has been employed by the school district in the last year.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf/2011-12%20ENR/hB/HB1418%20ENR.DOC
Title: H.B. 1418
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Amends Section 15-533 of the Arizona Revised Statutes. Exempts teachers from the requirement that they take the teacher proficiency exam if the applicant has taken and passed an equivalent exam in another state. Chapter 306
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/1r/bills/sb1256s.pdf
Title: S.B. 1256--Teacher Certification
Source: http://www.azleg.gov
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Amends Section 15-203 Powers and Duties of State Board of Education. State Board of Education is to adopt rules that provide for teacher certification reciprocity. The rules shall provide for a one year reciprocal teaching certification with minimum requirements, including valid teacher certification from a state with substantially similar criminal history of teacher fingerprinting requirements and proof of the submission of an application for a fingerprint clearance card. For teachers who provide Arizona online instruction pursuant to Section 15-808, the rules must allow automatic certification reciprocity with other states that have similar programs.
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/1r/bills/sb1263h.pdf
Title: S.B. 1263--Teacher Reciprocity
Source: http://www.azleg.gov
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | To renew a professional educator license, a licensee must show that he or she completed certain professional development activities. The department of education checks to ensure that the licensee actually completed the activities and that he or she meets the statutory and regulatory requirements for professional development activities. The bill creates an affidavit of completion of ongoing professional development activities that a licensee seeking renewal will submit. The department is not required to verify the information in the affidavit. The bill also changes the license fee from an annual to a continous appropriation.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2011a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/402C1F8F8BD538B68725781C007AA828?Open&file=1201_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1201
Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us
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| GA | Adopted 04/2011 | P-12 | Directs the professional standards commission to (1) Revise its certification renewal rules so that demonstration of the impact of professional learning on educator performance and student performance is required in order for certification to be renewed, effective July 2015; and (2) Establish a task force to determine the level of evidence necessary for educators to demonstrate the impact of professional learning and how this evidence will be collected and submitted for the purposes of certificate renewal. Directs the department of education and the professional standards commission to cooperatively develop a course on educator ethics to include information on the official Georgia Code of Ethics for educators and have as one area of emphasis best practices for administering state mandated tests.
Directs the state board of education to revise its professional learning rules so that it is the responsibility of principals, district and state leaders to ensure teacher opportunities for professional learning that (1) reflect the findings of the House Study Committee on Professional Learning and (2) are consistent with major research findings and best practices regarding professional learning. Directs the state board to align its rules with the new Professional Standards Commission certification renewal rules requiring the demonstration of the impact of professional learning on educator and student performance when the commission's rules take effect. Directs the department of education to establish the Professional Learning Rules Task Force, in order to review current state board of education professional learning rules, review current research regarding professional learning, and provide suggestions for revisions to the rules and for implementation. Establishes the membership of the task force. Directs the task force to present recommendations for professional learning rules to the state board by July 1, 2013. Requires that recommendations be included in revisions to the state board professional learning rules and be adopted by June 30, 2015. Directs the department of education to provide written guidance aligned to revised state board of education professional learning rules.
Title: H.R. 489
Source:
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| OH | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Qualifies Teach for America participants for a resident educator license. Provides Teach for America participants must meet specified conditions.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_21_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 21
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | The measure allows any person employed as a full-time teacher by an Oklahoma school district in the last five years to be employed as a substitute in another district without a new national criminal history background check if the teacher provides a copy of a national criminal history background check completed in the last five years. The teacher also must provide a letter from the previous school district stating that he or she left in good standing.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf/2011-12%20ENR/SB/SB59%20ENR.DOC
Title: S.B. 59
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Directs the state board to issue standard five-year teaching licenses to individuals who meet certain requirements, including holding out-of-state teaching licenses and successful completion of Teach for America. Requires standard background criminal and child maltreatment checks as well as educational and certificaiton verification. Directs the state board to issue three-year provisional licenses to individuals with a bachelor's degree and three years of employment in the content area in which the individual will teach, an offer to teach, two letters of recommendation, passing schore on a content knowledge and pedagogical tests and criminal and child maltreatement background tests.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Bills/HB1893.pdf
Title: H.B. 1893
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Specifies that any active duty military personnel must be kept in good standing by the administrative body with which he/she is licensed or certified, provided that, at the time of activation, the member was in good standing with a state administrative body, and was duly licensed to engage in his/her profession in the Commonwealth. Requires that any active duty military personnel's certification or licensure must be renewed without payment of fees or obtaining continuing education credits when circumstances associated with military duty prevent obtaining training, and a waiver request has been submitted to the appropriate administrative body. Provides the license or certificate must be continued as long as the holder is an active duty member of the military, and for a period of six months after discharge from active duty.
Directs an administrative body to issue a temporary or regular license or certificate to the spouse of any active duty military personnel within 30 days if the spouse meets the administrative body's statutory requirements and applies to the administrative body. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB301/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 301
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| MN | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12
Postsec. | Establishes an alternative teacher preparation program and limited-term teacher license. Requires reports.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bin/bldbill.php?bill=S0040.3.html&session=ls87
Title: S.F. 40
Source: https://www.revisor.mn.gov
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| MN | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Directs the Board of Teaching to require teacher preparation programs, including alternative teacher preparation programs, to include in the preparation program a board-approved content-specific and performance-based assessment that measures teacher candidates in three areas: planning for instruction and assessment; engaging students and supporting learning; and assessing student learning.
Defines "highly qualified" teacher to include teachers holding a valid teaching license under the section establishing an alternative teacher preparation program, among other licensed teachers.
Directs the Board of Teaching to establish criteria and streamlined procedures to recognize the experience and professional credentials of a person holding an out-of-state diploma or degree from an accredited out-of-state teacher training program and to allow that person to demonstrate to the board his or her qualifications for receiving a Minnesota teaching license based on board-adopted performance measures.
To improve academic excellence and ethnic and cultural diversity and close the academic achievement gap, requires the Board of Teaching to approve qualified alternative teacher programs that offer teacher candidates a two-year limited term license, which may be renewed one additional year, and a means of acquiring a five-year standard license. Outlines the requirements, characteristics of, approval process, and other administrative details of the alternative teacher preparation program and limited-term teacher license.
Repeals the current statutory section, Minnesota Statutes, section 122A.24, governing alternative teacher licensure.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bin/showPDF.php
Title: S.F. 40
Source: http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Adds to grounds for revocation or suspension of a teacher or administrative license: (g) The license holder has engaged in unethical conduct relating to an educator/student relationship as identified by the State Board of Education in its rules; (h) The license holder has fondled a student, had any type of sexual involvement with a student; or (i) The license holder has failed to report sexual involvement of a school employee with a student. Provides a legal duty for school superintendents to report incidences of sexual involvement of school employees with a student, and provides criminal penalties for failure to report.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2011/pdf/HB/0600-0699/HB0641SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 641
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12
Postsec. | Allows a subject-area exam as an alternative to subject-area credit hours for alternative level one teacher licensure. Spells out other criteria for receiving the alternative licensure.
http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/11%20Regular/final/SB0361.pdf
Title: S.B. 361
Source: http://www.nmlegis.gov/
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Requires the knowledge of the science of teaching reading to be part of the teacher assessment examination for elementary licensure.
http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/11%20Regular/final/HB0074.pdf
Title: H.B. 74
Source: http://www.nmlegis.gov
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Assignment |
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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--Unions/Collective Bargaining--Strikes |
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| Technology |
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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--Change/Improvements |
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