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| Assessment--College Entrance Exams |
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| IL | Adopted 10/2012 | P-12 | From Illinois Register: Amends charter school provisions to conform with P.A. 97-152, effective July 20, 2011, which created the State Charter School Commission to assume some of the state board's responsibilities relative to charter schools. Additionally, the rules include the process to be used by charter schools should they close. The amendments address notice requirements, disposition of the school's assets and records, and the handling of students' school records.
Also outlines the procedures for the State Charter School Commission's consideration of appeals from charter school developers and charter schools or requests for consideration when a school board fails to act in a timely manner (Sections 650.100 and 650.110). The rules mirror closely the steps of the appeal process used by the state board. Under the Commission's procedures, opportunities will be provided for charter school developers and charter schools to meet with Commission staff and authorized representatives in advance of the public meeting held to consider the request for consideration or appeal. The amendments include timelines for action to ensure that the Commission meets its statutory obligation to render a decision on the request for consideration or appeal within 30 days after the public meeting is held. Pages 273-291 of 402: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/register/register_volume36_issue40.pdf
Title: 23 IL ADC 650.10 through .110
Source: www.cyberdriveillinois.com
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2012 | P-12 | From bill summary: Mandates that measurable pupil outcomes required in a petition to establish a standard or countywide charter school include outcomes that address increases in pupil academic achievement both schoolwide and for all groups of pupils served by the charter school, which this bill defines. Existing law requires charter school seeking a renewal to meet at least one of several criteria. New provision revises the criteria relating to the attainment of the charter school's Academic Performance Index growth target in prior years and requires those growth targets to be met both schoolwide and for all groups of pupils served by the charter school. Also requires the chartering authority to consider increases in pupil academic achievement for all groups of pupils served by the charter school as the most important factor in determining whether to grant a charter renewal.
Requires a chartering authority to consider increases in pupil academic achievement for all groups of pupils served by the charter school as the most important factor in determining whether to revoke a charter. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1251-1300/sb_1290_bill_20120926_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 1290
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2012 | P-12 | From bill summary: Requires a charter school to provide each needy pupil with one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal during each school day, Among other things, excludes a charter
school that offers only nonclassroom-based instruction or only online instruction from this requirement. Bill text: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_1551-1600/ab_1594_bill_20120906_enrolled.pdf
Governor's veto message: http://gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_1594_Veto_Message.pdf
Title: A.B. 1594
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2012 | P-12 | From bill summary: Commencing with the 2013–14 fiscal year, requires the general-purpose entitlement of a conversion charter high school established on or after January 1, 2013, to be equal, for the first 3 years of operation, to the current year base revenue limit per unit of average daily attendance of the sponsoring unified school district, adjusted as specified. Commencing with the 4th year of operation, requires the charter school to generate general-purpose funding based on the statewide average revenue limit funding per unit of average daily attendance received by high school districts. Becomes inoperative either on July 1, 2018, and repealed on January 1, 2019, or on the effective date of a measure enacting comprehensive school finance reform, whichever occurs first.
Bill text: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_1801-1850/ab_1811_bill_20120911_enrolled.pdf
Governor's veto message: http://gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_1811_Veto_Message.pdf
Title: A.B. 1811
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2012 | P-12 | From bill summary: Requires the department of education to provide a district that is a charter school's chartering authority, in accordance with a specified federal law relating to the disclosure of pupil records, individual pupil achievement data, including test results from the STAR Program, high school exit examination, and English language development tests, as well as pupil demographic data and program data, relating to pupils who attend the charter school, except as specified. Requires the department to provide the district with this data, to the extent it has the data, along with the unique pupil identification number of each of those pupils. Bill text: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_1901-1950/ab_1919_bill_20120906_enrolled.pdf
Governor's veto message: http://gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_1919_Veto_Message.pdf
Title: A.B. 1919
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| TX | Adopted 09/2012 | P-12 | From Texas Register: Makes the following changes to improve the application process for charters authorized by the state board: (1) Specifically defines the mitigating factors to be considered when the commissioner considers adverse action for an open-enrollment charter school; (2) Allows the commissioner the latitude to enforce sanctions other than charter revocation for student health, safety, and welfare issues; (3) Requires that a charter holder notify the parents and the Texas Education Agency (TEA) anytime that operations are suspended at a campus or site for a period of more than three days; (4) Clarifies that a charter holder that is a nonprofit entity must maintain its nonprofit status at all times. Adopted as published in the June 8, 2012 Texas Register (pages 38-46 of 68): http://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/pdf/backview/0608/0608prop.pdf
Title: 19 TAC 100.1011, 1015, 1017, 1022, 1023, 1025, 1041, 1063, 1131, 1153, 1201, 1213, 1217
Source: www.sos.state.tx.us
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2012 | P-12 | Allows a principal employed by the New York City district to make a written request to the board of education for an extended leave of absence to serve as a principal at a charter school. Provides that approval of such a leave request for three years or less shall not be unreasonably withheld. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=%0D%0A&bn=A6300&term=&Summary=Y&Text=Y
Title: A.B. 6300
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Allows charter schools that are authorized to provide kindergarten to also offer preschool programs. Addresses requirements for the preschool programs.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2012a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/A386D89EDA600136872579820026D8D7?Open&file=1240_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1240 (section 51)
Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Repeals existing charter school laws and establishes a new chapter governing charter schools based on the recommendations of the Charter School Governance, Accountability, and Authority Task Force established by Act 130, Session Laws of Hawaii 2011. Maintains the charter school administrative office until July 1, 2013. Transfers all funds in the charter schools account established pursuant to section 302B-12(i), HRS, to the general fund. The new charter school laws establish the state public charter school commission, and grants the commission statewide chartering jurisdiction and authority. Establishes mandatory and recommended qualifications of commission nominees. Permits the commission to authorize charter schools anywhere in the state. Establishes entities that may apply to the board of education for statewide, regional, or local chartering authority. Directs the board of education to establish by rule the annual application and approval process for all entities eligible to apply for chartering authority; directs the board not to approve any application for chartering authority until July 2014 or the board adopts rules, whichever is later. Identifies required contents of an application for authorizing authority. Establishes term and content of an authorizing contract. Establishes authorizer powers, duties, and liabilities. Establishes principles and standards for charter authorizing, including that all authorizers are required to develop and maintain chartering policies and practices consistent with nationally recognized priniciples and standards for quality charter authorizing in all of 5 enumerated areas of authorizing responsibility. Establishes authorizer annual reporting requirements. Prohibits an employee, trustee, agent, or representative of an authorizer from simultaneously serving as an employee, trustee, agent, representative, vendor, or contractor of a charter school authorized by that authorizer. Establishes procedures regarding optional charter school purchasing of services from authorizer. Makes the board of education responsible for overseeing the performance and effectiveness of all charter school authorizers. Establishes board procedures for addressing issues with authorizers, including for revocation of an entity's authorizing authority and transfer of entities authorizing power to other authorizers. Establishes considerations and criteria for charter school governing board members and boards, including boards' powers and duties.
Creates procedures for establishing start-up and conversion charter schools, including required content of charter application. Provides the board of education with the power to decide appeals of authorizer denials of charter application or reauthorization, or authorizer revocation of charters, and specifies the board must serve as final arbitrator of such appeals. Requires performance provisions in the charter contract to be based on a performance framework that clearly sets forth the academic and operational performance indicators, measures, and metrics to guide the authorizer's evaluations of each charter school; defines areas for which, at a minimum, indicators, measures, and metrics must be set. Sets additional requirements for performance frameworks. Requires each charter school to set annual performance targets in conjunction with the school's authorizer. Directs authorizers to manage all assessment data for each charter school it oversees, in accordance with the performance framework. Provides relative to authorizers' ongoing oversight responsibilities. Requires each authorizer to annually publish a performance report for each school it oversees. Establishes authorizers' duties and authority in the event of a charter school's unsatisfactory performance or legal compliance, or in the event that corrective action or sanctions are required. Establishes procedures for authorizer renewals, revocations, and nonrenewals of charters. Establishes procedures for charter school closure and dissolution, and for transfer of a charter contract and of oversight of that charter school, from one authorizer to another. Directs the board of education to provide the governor, legislature, and the public with an annual report on charter schools, addressing performance, funding and other specified elements.
Directs the state board of education to establish minimum standards for reporting fiscal, personnel, and student data from charter schools to the department. Establishes procedures regarding charter school occupancy and use of vacant or available public school facilities. Exempts charter schools from certain provisions of Hawaii Revised Statutes; identifies provisions from which charter schools are not exempt. Confirms civil service status of civil service employees in schools that convert to charter schools, and provides charter school employees full participation in state retirement, workers' compensation,
unemployment insurance, temporary disability insurance, and health benefit systems. Provides relative to administration of workers' compensation claims for charter school employees. Specifies funding mechanisms for charter schools. Directs charter schools to elect whether to receive allocations calculated according to the weighted student formula allocation. Permits charter schools, through their authorizer, to propose to the state board of education an alternative weighted student formula.
Establishes department responsibilities toward charter schools, including development of a technical assistance system. Provides that if a charter school is unable to provide all of the required services for a student's free appropriate public education (FAPE), the department must provide services as determined by the student's individualized educational program (IEP) team. Provides additional department duties regarding the provision of special education services in charter schools. Requires the department to provide students in charter schools with the same opportunity to participate in athletics as students in other public schools. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2012/bills/SB2115_CD1_.pdf
Title: S.B. 2115
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Directs the board of education to contract with an implementation and transition coordinator to assist in (1) implementing the recommendations of the charter school governance, accountability, and authority task force, included in 2012 S.B. 2115 and (2) transition from the current charter school system to the charter school system set forth in 2012 S.B. 2115. Establishes the minimum qualifications for an implementation and transition coordinator, and identifies the coordinator's minimum scope of work. Limits term of the contract to one year, but permits the board and coordinator to enter into supplemental contracts as the board deems necessary. Makes an appropriation. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2012/bills/SB2116_CD1_.pdf
Title: S.B. 2116
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Provides that if a chartering group determines that a facility or property purchased from the Orleans Parish School Board is no longer needed for an educational purpose, the group must first offer to sell the facility or property back to the Orleans Parish School Board before seeking to dispose of it to any other person or entity. http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=812059
Title: H.B. 411
Source: legis.la.gov
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| LA | Adopted 06/2012 | P-12 | Makes changes to various provisions related to charter schools. New rules define "management organization," and require a charter application to describe any proposed corporate partnerships. Requires the state superintendent's recommendation to the state board on a Type 5 charter school's application to be based on a recommendation by the Office of Parental Options and the recovery school district. Establishes issues that must be addressed in any contracts entered into between a charter operator and a management organization. Prohibits a charter school other than a Type 5 from beginning operation sooner than 8 months after approval of the charter school has been granted, unless the chartering authority agrees to a lesser time period. Amends provisions regarding state board evaluation of a charter school's performance, to require that Type 5 charter schools be subject to oversight of statutory, regulatory, and contractual obligations and all reporting requirements by the department and the recovery school district, which must regularly report findings to the Office of Parental Options. Amends provisions related to third-year review (which, if successful, allows for a two-year extension of a charter). Amends charter renewal process and timeline, revocation proceedings, and material amendments for BESE-authorized charter schools. Provides a student application period may not be less than 1 month or more than 3 months. Amends provisions regarding enrollment of students, lottery, and waitlist. Incorporates 2011 legislative changes regarding corporate partnerships. Pages 52-56 of 133: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1206/1206.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXXXIX.Chapters 1, 5-19, 27, and 39
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Establishes a procedure for the provision of special education and related services to a child with a disability who is enrolled in a chartered public school and requires chartered public schools to provide due process in the provision of special education and related services to children with disabilities.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2012/SB0300.html
Title: S.B. 300
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Authorizes a board of education to sell real or personal property to certain to a nonprofit institution of higher education or the governing authority of a nonpublic school. Prior to disposing of real property, requires the district to first offer the property for sale to the board of trustees of any college-preparatory boarding school located in the district (previous provision required offering of sale only to communty school governing authority). Requires such offering to be made at a price not higher than the property's appraised fair market value as determined in an appraisal not more than one year old.
Also amends provisions related to district sale of unused school facilities. Permits the district, at the same time it offers the unused school facilities for lease or sale to governing authorities of community schools or the board of trustees of any college-preparatory boarding school, to also offer that property for sale or lease to the governing authorities of community schools with plans either to relocate their operations to the territory of the district or to add facilities to be located within the territory of the district.
Pages 79-86 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - District Sale or Lease of Property or Facilities
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Permits the department's office of Ohio school sponsorship to assume sponsorship of a community school whose sponsorship has been revoked by the department. Permits the office to extend the term of a contract for a school whose sponsorship it has assumed. Provides that certain limits on directly authorized community schools do not apply to community schools sponsored by the office of Ohio school sponsorship. Provides that nothing precludes a community school whose sponsorship has been assumed by the office of Ohio school sponsorship from applying for sponsorship under the Ohio school sponsorship program established under section 3314.029 (http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/3314.029). Requires all community schools sponsored by the office of Ohio school sponsorship to be ranked together for purposes of the department's composite performance index score for academic performance of community schools sponsored by the same entity. Directs the department to exclude from the calculation of an entity's composite performance index score all community schools that have been in operation for less than 2 full school years. Provides certain community schools will cease to be excluded from the index if those schools become subject to closure. Requires the sponsoring entities' annual rankings from highest to lowest to be published between October 1-15. Amends definition of "sponsor" in provisions relating to certain community schools, to include a district board of education or the governing board of an educational service center that agrees to the conversion of all or part of a school or building. Increases from 2 to 5 the number of governing authorities of start-up community schools on which an individual may serve at a time.
Authorizes the department to deny an application submitted by the governing authority of an existing community school, if a previous sponsor of that school did not renew its contract with the school. Requires the department to make available a copy of every approved, executed community school contract filed with the state superintendent. Requires community schools to comply with public school promotion/retention policies, and provision that requires a parent enrolling his/her child to be provided upon enrollment with a copy of the school's most recent accountability report card. Permits children under the age of 5 to be admitted to a community school in the same manner as early enrollees in traditional public schools, and requires a local board and a community school governing authority to include such early enrollee figures in their respective community school enrollment reports. Permits the governing authority of a community school to either (1) establish a single-gender school for either sex, or (2) establish single-gender schools for each sex under the same contract, provided facilities for boys and girls are substantially equal. Establishes procedures by which districts must monthly review enrollment of students in community schools who are entitled to attend school in the district, to verify the community school in which the student is enrolled, and that the student is entitled to enroll in school in the district.
Provides that if, by March 31, 2013, the general assembly does not enact for certain community schools performance standards, a report card rating system, and criteria for closure, those schools are required to permanently close upon meeting certain criteria; provides exceptions.
Pages 117-170 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Community Schools
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Permits a community school that was open for operation as a community school as of May 1, 2005 to operate from or in a home in Ohio, regardless of when the community school's operations from or in a particular home began. Pages 392-393 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Operation of Community School from/in a Home
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Not later than 90 days after the effective date of these provisions, directs the department of education to publish on its website every approved, executed contract with a community school that was filed with the superintendent of public instruction under section 3314.03 of the Revised Code (http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/3314.03) before the effective date of this section. Page 395 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Contracts Between State Superintendent and Community School Governing Authorities
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Establishes the intent of the general assembly to enact a law, not later than December 31, 2012, that establishes a battery of measures to be used to rate the performance of the sponsors of community schools and to determine whether an entity may sponsor additional community schools. Page 396 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Community School Sponsors' Performance
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| CT | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | (Sec. 29-31) Starting in FY 14, allows the SBE (starting in 2014), within available appropriations, to approve (1) operating grants of up to $ 3,000 per student and (2) grants of up to $ 500,000 as startup costs to establish local charter schools on or after July 1, 2012. The grants are payable only if the board of education for the charter school and the union representing the board's certified employees mutually agree on staffing flexibility in the school and the SBE approves the agreement. Increases the state's annual per-student grant to state charter schools over three years from $ 9,400 to $ 11,500. It increases the grant from $ 9,400 to $ 10,500 for FY 13, to $ 11,000 for FY 14, and to $ 11,500 for FY 15 and subsequent fiscal years.
(Sec 32) Allows SBE to grant new state and local charters only to schools located in towns that, at the time of the application, have at least one school participating in the commissioner's network (see Sec. 19) or a school district designated as low-achieving.
Requires two of the first four new state charter schools the SBE approves between July 1, 2012 and July 1, 2017 to be schools specifically focused on providing a dual language or other program models focusing on language acquisition by English language learners. (A dual language program is a two-way bilingual program that integrates language minority and language majority students and provides instruction in both the minority language (such as Spanish) and English.)
Adds to the types of schools to which SBE must give preference when reviewing charter school applications. Preference is to be given to applicants whose primary purpose is to: serve students (a) with a history of low academic performance or behavioral and social difficulties, (b) receiving free or reduced priced lunches, (c) requiring special education, (d) who are ELLs, or (e) who are of a single gender; or improve the academic performance of an existing school that has consistently demonstrated substandard academic performance, as determined by the education commissioner. In addition to providing the preference for serving one or more of the educationally needy populations mentioned above, SBE must give preference to applications that demonstrate highly credible and specific strategies to attract, enroll, and retain such students. Charter applications must include student recruitment and retention plans that clearly describe the school's capacity to recruit and retain such students and how it plans to do so. Permits SBE to deny renewal if that charter schools fails to put sufficient effort into effectively attracting, enrolling, and retaining all of the educationally needy students mentioned above except students of a single gender.
Allows the SBE, upon application, to waive the lottery requirement for schools with a primary purpose of serving at least one of the following: (1) students with a history of behavioral and social difficulties; (2) special education students; (3) ELLs; or (4) students of a single gender. Bars enrollment lotteries for any public school with a school performance index that places it in the lowest-performing 5% of schools that is converted to a local charter school.
(Sec. 33) Requires SDE to study "opt-out lotteries" for determining enrollment in state and local charter schools. Such lotteries automatically include all students who (1) live in the district where the school is located and (2) are enrolled in any grade the school serves, unless a student chooses not to participate. The study must cover (1) the feasibility of charter school governing authorities and boards of education for districts where they are located conducting such lotteries for state charter schools, (2) the methods by which they may be conducted, and (3) the costs of doing so. The SDE must report the study's results and any recommendations to the Education Committee by February 1, 2014.
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2012/ACT/PA/2012PA-00116-R00SB-00458-PA.htm
Title: S.B. 458
Source: cga.ct.gov
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of Georgia so as to (1) Clarify the authority of the General Assembly to provide for the establishment of policies for the provision of public education; (2) Provide that the authority of local boards does not diminish the General Assembly's authority otherwise granted in the state constitution, including the authority to establish special schools; (3) Revise provisions related to special schools to specify that no bonded indebtedness or levy may be incurred without the approval of a local board; (4) Specify that a special school may include state charter schools; (5) Identify schools that may not be classified as state charter schools, including private and for-profit schools; and (6) Provide no deduction may be made to any state funding a local school system is otherwise authorized to receive pursuant to general law as a direct result or consequence of the enrollment in a state charter school of a student residing within the geographic boundaries of the local school system. Provides wording of ballot amendment. http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/125399.pdf
Title: H.R. 1162
Source: www.legis.ga.gov
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Repeals and rewrites provisions related to the Georgia Charter Schools Commission. Provides legislative findings and intent regarding charter schools and statewide oversight of charter schools. Allows commission to approve state charter schools with statewide attendance zone as well as defined attendance zone. Provides for membership, duties, and powers of State Charter Schools Commission. Specifies requirements that applicant charter school must meet, both to be approved by the commission and once school begins operations. Identifies prohibited activities of a member of a governing board of a state charter school. Specifies information that the commission must make available on charter schools to all parents in the state. Requires an annual report to the state board on the academic performance and fiscal responsibility of all approved state charter schools. Provides related to assuming of debt for a charter school whose charter is terminated or not renewed. Provides for funding for state charter schools, including special charter schools offering virtual instruction. http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/127650.pdf
Title: H.B. 797
Source: www.legis.ga.gov
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| MO | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | This act modifies the laws governing charter schools.
SECTION 29.205 – The State Auditor may audit any charter school in the same manner as any agency of the state.
SECTION 160.400 – In addition to the St. Louis City and Kansas City School Districts, charter schools may be operated in unaccredited districts. Charter schools may be operated in districts accredited without provisions if sponsored by the local school board except that a local school board with an enrollment of 1550 students or greater cannot enroll more than thirty-five percent of its enrollment in charter schools it sponsors, as described in the act. Charter schools may be operated in a provisionally accredited district after three full school years of provisional accreditation and APR scores consistent with a classification of provisionally accredited or unaccredited beginning in the 2012-2013 school year. In addition, if the provisional accreditation is related to financial stress or hardship, the State Board of Education must vote to decide whether charters may operate. The sponsor is limited to the local school board or a sponsor that has met accountability standards, as described in the act.
This act modifies sponsorship. If the State Board of Education appoints a special administrative board for Kansas City, the special administrative board may sponsor charter schools. This act removes the restriction that a sponsoring public four-year college or university have its primary campus in the school district or in a county adjacent to the county in which the district is located. In addition, a community college whose service area encompasses some portion of the district may be a sponsor. Currently, any private four-year college or university located in St. Louis City with an enrollment of one thousand students and an approved teacher preparation program may be a sponsor. This act eliminates the requirement that the institution be located in St. Louis City but requires that its primary campus be located in Missouri. Additional sponsors include the special administrative board of the St. Louis City School District, any two-year private vocational or technical school, as described in the act, and the Missouri Charter Public School Commission.
In an unaccredited or provisionally accredited district where a charter school is sponsored by an entity other than the local school board, when the district becomes classified as accredited, a charter school may continue to be sponsored by the entity sponsoring it prior to the classification of accreditation. Such a school will not be limited to the local school board as a sponsor. Charter schools in Kansas City and St. Louis may be sponsored by any eligible entity, regardless of the districts' accreditation classification. A charter school whose charter provides for the addition of grade levels may add grade levels until the planned expansion is complete.
The mayor of St. Louis City may request a two-year private vocational or technical school or the Missouri Charter Public School Commission to sponsor a workplace charter school.
When a charter school chooses to affiliate with a four-year college or university, the college or university will no longer be required to be located within the county in which the school district lies or in an adjacent county.
A school district or the State Board of Education, when acting as a sponsor, may have expenses associated with sponsorship be defrayed by having the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education withhold up to 1.5% of the charter school's state and local funding. A sponsor that receives 1.5% funding to defray expenses associated with sponsorship must submit annual reports to the Joint Committee on Education demonstrating compliance with requirements.
A charter school sponsor must develop policies and procedures for the following: the review of a charter school proposal; the granting of a charter; the performance framework of a charter; the renewal, revocation, and nonrenewal processes; additional criteria for oversight of the charter; and procedures to be used when a school closes. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is required to provide guidance to sponsors in developing these procedures and policies.
Currently, the State Board may suspend a sponsor's ability to sponsor a school for a period of one year. This act modifies the State Board's existing monitoring and suspension authority and instead requires the State Board to evaluate sponsors, as described in the act, to determine compliance with sponsorship standards every three years. If the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education determines that a sponsor is in material noncompliance with sponsorship duties, it must be notified and given remediation time. If compliance does not improve, the Commissioner of Education must conduct a public hearing and recommend corrective action to the State Board of Education. The State Board will have final determination over corrective action. If the State Board removes sponsorship authority for any currently operating charter school, the Missouri Charter Public School Commission will become the school's sponsor.
SECTION 160.403 – The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education must establish an annual application and approval process for all entities eligible to sponsor charter schools. All information and guidelines for eligible sponsors must be made available by November 1, 2012.
This act identifies the information that must be included in an eligible sponsor's application.
By April 1 annually, the Department must grant or deny a sponsoring authority to a sponsor applicant. Within thirty days of the Department's decision, it must execute a renewable sponsoring contract with each approved sponsoring entity. The term will be six years in length and may be renewed.
SECTION 160.405 – This act modifies the framework of a charter school's charter. The charter will be a legally binding performance contract that describes the obligations and responsibilities of the school and the sponsor.
The term of a charter will be for five years, instead of the current provision that allows charters to be not less than five but not greater than ten years. This act identifies additional items that must be contained in a charter. Charter schools operating on August 27, 2012 will have until August 28, 2015 to meet the new requirements for items that must be in a charter.
A charter must be submitted to the sponsor and follow the sponsor's policies and procedures for review and granting. The charter must be consistent with the sponsor's charter sponsorship goals and capacity. In addition, the charter must be approved by the State Board of Education by December 1 prior to the proposed opening date of the charter school.
This act modifies the definition of "high risk" student.
This act eliminates judicial review for the disapproval of a charter.
Charter schools must conduct a background check of education personnel, including through the employee criminal history background check and the Family Care Safety Registry.
Charter schools with local educational agency status must comply with all federal audit requirements for such charters.
Currently, charter schools must collect baseline data during at least the first three years to determine performance. This act requires charter schools to establish baseline student performance during the first year of operation and collect student performance data, as described in the act, throughout the duration of the charter to annually monitor student academic performance, based upon grade levels offered by the school.
The performance standards for alternative and special purpose charter schools that target high-risk students must be based on measures defined in the school's performance contract with its sponsors.
Charter schools are required to comply with all applicable federal and state special education laws including IDEA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
This act allows proposed or existing high risk or alternative charter schools to include alternative arrangements for students to obtain credits for satisfying graduation requirements in the charter application and charter. Alternative arrangements may include credit for off-campus instruction, embedded credit, work experience, independent studies, and performance-based credit options. Upon approval of the charter by the State Board of Education, any alternative arrangements will be approved at the same time.
The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education must conduct a study of any such charter school granted alternative arrangements for students to obtain credit to assess student performance, graduation rates, educational outcomes, and entry into the workforce or higher education.
The sponsor, governing board, and charter school staff must jointly review the school's performance, management, and operations during the first year of operation and then every other year after the most recent review, instead of the current requirement of at least once every two years.
This act removes the requirement that a charter school become a local educational agency for the sole purpose of direct access to federal grants and allows the school to become an agency if the sponsor and the governing board reach a written agreement to become an agency.
Sponsors must annually review the charter school's compliance with statutory standards including statewide assessment participation, completion of the annual report card, data collection, a method to measure pupil progress, and publication of the charter school's annual performance report. Sponsors must have intervention policies to give schools notice of contract violations or performance deficiencies, as described in the act. A sponsor must have a policy to revoke a charter if there is evidence of underperformance or a violation of the law or the public trust that imperils students or public funds, as described in the act.
This act limits the length of probationary status for a charter school to no more than twelve months, provided that no more than one designation of probationary status is allowed for the duration of the charter contract.
This act removes judicial review of a sponsor's final decision to revoke a charter. Instead, the decision to revoke a charter will be subject to an appeal to the State Board of Education, which must then determine whether the charter will be revoked.
Sponsors must conduct a renewal process of charter schools based on objective evidence, as described in the act, including annual performance report results. Beginning August 1 during the year in which a charter is up for renewal, a sponsor must demonstrate to the State Board of Education that the charter school is in compliance with federal and state law and the school's performance contract, including academic performance requirements. The sponsor must also submit a revised charter application to the State Board of Education, which must determine if the sponsor has demonstrated compliance. If compliance is demonstrated, the State Board must renew the charter.
SECTION 160.410 – This act requires charter schools whose mission includes student drop-out prevention or recovery to enroll nonresident pupils from the same or an adjacent county who reside in residential care facilities, transitional living group homes, or independent living programs whose last school of enrollment is in the school district where the charter school is established, who submit a timely application. Charter alternative and special purpose schools may also give a preference for admission to high-risk students, as defined, when the school targets these students through its proposed mission, curriculum, teaching methods, and services.
Charter schools may limit admission based on gender if the school is a single-gender school.
Students of a charter school who are present for the January membership count in Section 163.011 will be counted in the performance of the charter school on the statewide assessments in that calendar year, unless otherwise exempted as English language learners.
If a charter school is operated by a management company, a copy of the contract must be made available for public inspection.
If a student attending a charter school moves so that he or she no longer lives in the school district where charter schools may operate, he or she may complete the current semester at the charter school and will be considered a resident student. The parent or legal guardian will be responsible for the student's transportation.
If a change in school district boundary lines occurs so that a student no longer lives in a school district, or if action by the State Board of Education occurs under Section 162.081 where charter schools may operate, the student may complete the current academic year at the charter school. The parent or legal guardian will be responsible for the student's transportation.
The Foster Care Bill of Rights (Sections 167.018 and 167.019) will apply to charter schools.
SECTION 160.415 – This act contains requirements to be included in a request for proposals if a proposed charter school intends to contract with an education services provider for substantial educational services, management services, or both.
The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education may withhold funding at an adequate level during a charter school's last year of operation until the Department determines that school records, liabilities, and reporting requirements, including a full audit, are satisfied.
SECTION 160.417 – By October 1, 2012, and each October 1 thereafter, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education must identify charter schools experiencing financial stress using information from the report required by Section 162.821. A list of charter schools experiencing financial stress will be provided to the Governor, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and President Pro Tem of the Senate.
Parameters for financial stress are defined in the act.
By November 1, the sponsor must notify the governing board of a charter school if it is identified as experiencing financial stress. The governing board must develop and approve a budget and education plan, which must be submitted to the sponsor within forty-five days. Requirements for what must be included in the plan are described in the act. The sponsor may make suggestions to improve the plan.
The Department may withhold any payment of financial aid until such time as the charter school is in compliance with these requirements.
SECTION 160.420 - In addition to existing criminal background check requirements, charter schools must ensure that a Family Care Safety Registry check is conducted for employees.
Multiple provisions are repealed because they are identical to provisions contained in Section 160.415.
SECTION 160.425 – This act creates the Missouri Charter Public School Commission. It will have nine members, all appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. Members will serve a term of four years, except for the initial appointees, whose terms are staggered. Commission members will be: one member selected from a slate of three candidates recommended by the Commissioner of Education; | |
| SC | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Provides charter school powers and duties and permits a sponsor to retain certain funds for overseeing a charter school; creates the charter school facility revolving loan program for the construction, purchase, renovation, and maintenance of public charter school facilities; permits a public or independent institution of higher learning to sponsor a charter school and determines that the geographical boundaries from which a charter school sponsored by a public or independent institution of higher learning is the same as the boundaries of the state; allows for the application to create a single gender charter school; designates responsibilities to sponsor for special education and ensuring students are served in a manner consistent with LEA obligations; determines membership requirements for board of directors; allows charter school students to participate in certain extracurricular activities under certain conditions; allows a charter school to contract with providers for student transportation; clarifies what must be included in a contract between a charter school and sponsor and requires the department of education to create a contract template that must serve as a foundation for the development of the contract; allows a converted charter school to retain facilities and equipment available before conversion; prohibits acts of unlawful reprisal towards school personnel and educational programs of a school or district because of an application to establish a charter school; directs the distribution process of funds to charter schools; directs the department of education to develop a template to be used by converted charter schools in the creation of annual reports submitted to the sponsor; and provides that a charter school is a covered employer with respect to the South Carolina retirement systems for certain school district employees. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/bills/3241.htm
Title: H.B. 3241
Source: scstatehouse.gov
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| TN | Became law without governor's signature 05/2012 | P-12 | Regulates charter schools' relationships with foreign entities and the use of non-immigrant foreign workers by charter schools.
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/107/Bill/SB3345.pdf
Title: S.B. 3345
Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Revises information to be included in charter school application; makes requirements more specific and focused on performance, finances and governance. Revises responsibility of school districts with respect to charter school application, evaluation, renewal and revocation. Addresses requirements and procedures if charter school must implement a turnaround plan. Provisions also apply to institute charter schools.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2012a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/7658F626024B85A387257981007E053D?Open&file=061_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 61
Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | The bill requires each charter school, effective July 1, 2013, to incorporate as a nonprofit corporation. The bill prohibits a board of education of a school district or the state charter school institute board (authorizer) from approving a charter application submitted by, or entering into a charter contract with, a for-profit entity. Beginning September 1, 2012, an authorizer may not renew a charter or charter contract with a for-profit entity..
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2012a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/04F6DDE9FDD5F76087257981007E078C?Open&file=067_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 67
Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us
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| FL | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Requires a school improvement plan to include strategies for improving student achievement if a school has a significant student achievement gap for one or more subgroups, has not significantly decreased the percentage of students scoring below satisfactory on statewide assessments, or has significantly lower graduation rates for a subgroup compared to the state's graduation rate. Revises provisions requiring a charter school to implement a school improvement plan to raise student achievement. Revises corrective actions to be selected and implemented by a low-performing charter school. Provides requirements for implementation of corrective actions and intervention and support strategies identified in a charter school's school improvement plan. Provides for termination of a charter school not making continuous improvement unless it meets specified criteria. Revises provisions relating to the state board's authority to enforce public school improvement, to require the state board to comply with the federal flexibility waiver approved by the U.S. secretary of education. Beginning with the 2011-12 school year, directs the department of education to annually identify each public school in need of intervention and support to improve student academic performance. Defines all schools earning a grade of "D" or "F" as schools in need of intervention and support. Directs the state board to adopt by rule a differentiated matrix of intervention and support strategies for assisting traditional public schools and rules for assisting a charter school that has earned a "D" or "F." Specifies that the state board must apply the most intense intervention and support strategies to schools earning an "F" grade. Deletes department duties relating to the categorization of low-performing schools. Provides state board, district, and school requirements for implementing strategies and turnaround options to improve school performance. Revises turnaround options available to a district, and requires state board approval of the option selected for implementation. Directs the state board to adopt rules relating to plans for implementing turnaround options. Requires districts, for the 2012-13 school year, to use 15% of their Title I funds to meet supplemental educational services requirements. Requires that supplemental educational services be provided in Title I schools to students performing at Level 1 or Level 2 on the FCAT. Requires each district to contract with department-approved supplemental educational service providers. Revises the contents of the annual report of statewide assessment program results. Requires school report cards to include the percent of students performing at or above grade level and making a year's learning growth in a year's time in reading and math. Revises certain criteria on which school letter grades are based, including permitting more than 50% of a high school's grade to be based on specified factors (previous legislation made specified factors 50% of a high school's letter grade). Includes Postseconary Education Readiness Test as part of calculation of high school's letter grade. Amends methodology for calculating a school district's grade. Requires district grades to be calculated using student performance and learning gains data on statewide assessments for students enrolled in a district for a full school year. http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7127er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7127&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7127 - School Improvement and Education Accountability
Source: myfloridahouse.gov
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to define "district of innovation" and related terms. Authorizes the state board to approve districts of innovation for the purposes of improving students' educational performance. Limit initial approval and subsequent renewals to five year periods. Requires that districts of innovation be provided flexibility from state and local policies in order for educators to meet students' diverse needs. Directs the state board to promulgate administrative regulations to prescribe the conditions and procedures for a local board to be approved as a district of innovation, and identifies specific components state board policy must address. Establishes eligibility requirements for districts applying for designation as a district of innovation. Prescribes the statutory requirements with which schools of innovation within districts of innovation must comply. Clarifies that only schools that choose to be designated as schools of innovation are to be included in a district's application, and that 70% of eligible employees, as defined, must approve a vote for the school to become a school of innovation before joining a district application. However, permits a local board to require a persistently low-achieving school to participate in the district's plan of innovation. Identifies areas in which districts may request approval of practices that are different than current statutory requirements. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB37/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 37
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| LA | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Amends the application process for charter schools and provides for a new type of chartering authority, known as local charger authorizers. Requires the state board to approve a common charter school application for use by all chartering authorities. Requires the board to recruit chartering groups the offer programs that address regional workforce needs, such programs may include technical education and industry-based certifications. Addresses the evaluation of and procedures related to charter applications. Addresses timelines for school boards o respond to charter applications. Requires the state board create a process for authorizing multiple charter schools for chartering groups that have demonstrated a record of success. Removes the existing requirements for charter school staff and requires that all instructional staff have at least a baccalaureate degree. Addresses charter school renewal, extension periods and performance.
Requires the state board to establish procedures for certifying other entities, other than the board itself and local school boards, as local charter authorizers. State agencies and nonprofit
corporations with an educational mission may be certified as local charter authorizers. An entity which has been certified by the board as a local charter authorizer may accept, evaluate, and approve applications for charter schools from chartering groups. Describes the state board's responsibilities related to monitoring and setting standards for local charter authorizers and the schools they charter.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=793655
Title: H.B. 976
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us
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| MN | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Existing law establishes procedures for a charter school authorizer that has chartered multiple schools to withdraw as an approved authorizer. This new provision extends those procedures to an authorizer of a single charter school. Article 2, Sec. 9, Subd. 3 https://www.revisor.mn.gov/data/revisor/law/2012/0/2012-239.pdf
Title: H.F. 2949
Source: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/
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| MN | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Requires charter schools to publish on the school's official website board meeting minutes for at least one year, directory information for the board of directors and committees, contact information for the school's authorizer. Provides that the school may include information for the school's authorizer in other public materials. Requires the school to provide financial statements upon request from an individual. Requires charter schools to include in their annual reports the training attended by each board member in the previous year.
Article 2, Sec. 10, Subd. 4 https://www.revisor.mn.gov/data/revisor/law/2012/0/2012-239.pdf
Title: H.F. 2949
Source: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/
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| MN | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Extends the length of a charter school's initial contract from up to 3 to up to 5 years. [Article 2, Sec. 11, Subd. 6]
Repeals the provision that prohibited the Department or a charter school from assessing or paying an authorizer's fee. Adds a provision limiting authorizer's fees and fees for services specified in statute. [Article 2, Sec. 13, Subd. 15]
Title: H.F. 2949
Source: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/
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| MN | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Extends the power of a charter school's affiliated nonprofit building corporation. Article 2, Sec. 14, Subd. 17a https://www.revisor.mn.gov/data/revisor/law/2012/0/2012-239.pdf
Title: H.F. 2949
Source: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/
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| MN | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Provides that a charter school board may enter into a renewable agreement with a school district, within whose boundaries it operates, to enhance student achievement. Prohibits a charter school authorizer from requiring a collaboration agreement as a condition of entering into or renewing a charter. Provides that a school district does not need to be an authorizer and that the agreement may not impact the authority or autonomy of the charter school or cause the state to pay twice for a student, service or facility. Provides that such agreement may include collaboration regarding facilities, transportation, training, assessments, performance standards. Allows a school district to include the performance of the collaborative charter school tor purposes of student assessment and reporting to the state. Requires the collaborative parties be subject to the same state and federal accountability measures and that all accountability measures be posted on the district, charter, and authorizer website.
Article 2, Sec. 15, Subd. 27 https://www.revisor.mn.gov/data/revisor/law/2012/0/2012-239.pdf
Title: H.F. 2949
Source: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/
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| OR | Administrative Rules 04/2012 | P-12 | Shifts student special education responsibilities from resident school district to the district in which the charter school is located if student is enrolled in a charter school in another school district from which the student resides.
Title: OAR 581-015-2005, 2010, 2040, 2075, 2080
Source: Westlaw/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Provides unsuccessful charter school applicants with an opportunity to testify before the Board of Education. The local school board must submit sufficient documentation as to the rationale for the denial or revocation of the charter school application and a detailed explanation demonstrating that the charter school is not in the public interest or for the welfare of the students eligible to attend the proposed charter school. The Board of Education continues to have no authority to grant or deny a public charter school application or to revoke or fail to renew a charter agreement. The bill also provides that (i) a local school board shall no longer have the discretion to revoke a charter if it finds the school is no longer in the public interest or for the welfare of the students; (ii) local school boards may elect whether charter school personnel are employees of the charter school or of the local school board granting the charter; (iii) the amount of funds provided to the charter school by the local school board shall not be less than 90 percent of the school division's state and local share of the Standards of Quality per pupil funding; and (iv) the local school board shall allow a public charter school to lease or purchase vacant or unused properties or real estate owned by the school board.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB1173ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 1173/S.B. 440
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/
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| AZ | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Requires a charter school sponsor to review a charter at five year intervals using a performance framework adopted by the sponsor. In implementing its oversight and administrative responsibilities, the sponsor is required to ground its actions in evidence of the charter holder's performance in accordance with the performance framework. Requires that the performance framework include academic performance expectations and measurements, operational expectations including adherence to all applicable laws and obligations of the contract, and intervention and improvement policies.
Permits a sponsor to deny the request for charter renewal if the charter holder has failed to 1) meet or make sufficient progress toward academic performance expectations set forth in the performance framework or 2) meet the operational performance expectations set forth in the framework, or comply with the obligations of the contract. Requires a charter holder transferring sponsors to notify the current sponsor once the transfer has been approved and to notify parents or guardians of registered students of the intent to transfer and regarding the timing of the proposed transfer. Requires that the new sponsor enforce the improvement plan but permits modification based on performance. Permits a sponsor to charge an application fee to any applicant and establishes a new charter application processing fund. http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/2r/laws/0155.pdf
Title: S.B. 1424
Source: azleg.gov
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Amends Idaho Code 33-5203(2)(a) to remove the growth cap of six new public charter schools per year, and to remove the cap of one new public charter school per district per year. http://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2012/H0481.pdf
Title: H.B. 481
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
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| ME | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Amends the law authorizing creation of public charter schools. Makes the following changes with regard to authorizers of public charter schools. Allows the Commissioner of Education to suspend an authorizer's authority to enter into new charter contracts if the commissioner finds that the authorizer is deficient in performing its functions. Clarifies the functioning of local school boards that join together to form a regional charter school. Clarifies membership and operations of the State Charter School Commission, including specifying that members who are appointed because of their membership on the State Board of Education continue to serve on the commission only as long as they are members of the State Board of Education. Provides that the transitional 10-school limit on public charter schools in current law applies only to schools approved by the commission. Requires a public charter school authorizer to give a public charter school written notice of deficiencies in the school and to provide written notice of the authorizer's charter revocation procedures and criteria
Makes the following changes with regard to public charter schools. Provides that governing boards of public charter schools are subject to the same conflict of interest provisions as noncharter public school boards. Clarifies when public charter schools take over responsibility for special education services for a student transferring from a noncharter public school and clarifies special education funding. Changes the law regarding payment of special education funds to a public charter school authorized by a local school board by requiring that the payments be made to the local school board, not to the public charter school. Ensures that a public charter school student has the same access to career and technical education programs as students in the noncharter public school in the student's resident school administrative unit
Under current laws, if a school administrative unit fails to make payment to a public charter school, the Treasurer of State is directed to withhold payments to that school administrative unit. This bill provides that the Treasurer of State may withhold those funds from the municipalities that are members of the school administrative unit. Finally, the bill provides that public charter schools have access to high-risk pools and emergency funds operated by the State or by the school's authorizer, but do not have access to local high-risk or emergency funds. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=SP0607&item=1&snum=125
Title: S.P. 607
Source: www.mainelegislature.org
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| AR | Adopted 02/2012 | P-12 | Outlines application requirements for public charter schools and state board approval for licenses for existing open-enrollment public charter schools. Outlines the basis and procedure for public charter school probation or charter modification, revocation or denial of renewal.
Directs charter applicants, local school boards and the state board to carefully review the potential impact of an application for a public charter school on the efforts of a public school district or public school districts to comply with court orders and statutory obligations to create and maintain a unitary system of desegregated public schools. Directs all public charter schools shall observe and comply with all anti-discrimination laws.
Outlines reporting requirements for public charter schools, including an annual report to the Department of Education outlining information including the number of students who dropped out, transferred or were expelled, and student scores on state assessments.
Provides that public charter schools that receive federal dissemination grant funds from the Department of Education provide the Department of Education Charter School Office with a list of the public charter school's best or promising practices in accordance with their approved dissemination grant applications.
Provides that the Department of Education make available the procedures for establishing a public charter school and that the dates and requirements are followed by applicants.
Outlines application, authorization, renewal and state board hearing procedures for conversion public charter schools. Outlines teacher transfer procedures and hiring priorities in the instance of license revocation for conversion public schools.
Outlines application, authorization, renewal and state board hearing procedures for open-enrollment public charter schools. Outlines the charter requirements and open-enrollment regulations and authority of open-enrollment public charter schools. Outlines teacher transfer procedures and hiring priorities in the instance of license revocation for conversion public schools. Directs that the state board provide a status report of the open-enrollment public charter school programs to the General Assembly, House Interim Committee on Education and the Senate Interim Committee on Education. Requires an annual audit and evaluation of open-enrollment public charter schools. Requires an open-enrollment public charter school, in its initial school year of operation, to provide monthly reports on its enrollment status and compliance with its approved budget for the current school year to the Department of Education. Provides that an open-enrollment public charter school receive funds equal to the amount that a public school would receive, and outlines funding procedures for schools adding grades. Provides that, in the first year of operation and in any year when a grade is added, the open-enrollment public charter school shall receive professional development funding based upon the initial projected enrollment student count. Dictates that, upon dissolution of the open-enrollment public charter school, all net assets become property of the state. Outlines regulations for new or renovated facilities.
Defines limited public charter school as a public school that applies for a charter for alternative comprehensive staffing and compensation programs designed to enhance student and teacher performance and improve employee salaries, opportunities, and incentives. Outlines application procedures, teacher transfer and contract regulations, and state board hearing procedures. Provides that the Department of Education annually evaluate limited public charter schools.
Sets forth rules applicable to the closure or dissolution of public charter schools.
http://170.94.37.152/REGS/005.15.11-004F-12843.pdf
Title: AR ADC 005.08.2-1.00 to AR ADC 005.08.2-8.00
Source: http://www.sos.arkansas.gov/rules_and_regs/
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation |
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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--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian |
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| No Child Left Behind |
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| No Child Left Behind--Choice/Transfer |
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| No Child Left Behind--Consequences for Schools |
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| No Child Left Behind--Reauthorization Issues/Waivers |
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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 Data Systems |
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| P-3 Early Intervention (0-3) |
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| P-3 Ensuring Quality |
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| P-3 Family Involvement |
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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 Teaching Quality/Professional Development |
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| Parent/Family |
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| Parent/Family--Parent Rights |
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| Partnerships--University/School |
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| Postsecondary |
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| Postsecondary Accountability |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Licensing/Program Review and Approval |
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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--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--Private/Independent |
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| Postsecondary Online Instruction |
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| Postsecondary Participation |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Access |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Enrollments (Statistics) |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Outreach |
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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--Military |
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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--Education Management Agencies (EMOs) |
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| Proficiency-Based Approaches |
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| Promotion/Retention |
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| Purposes of Public Education |
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| Reading/Literacy |
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| Religion |
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| Religion--Prayer/Meditation |
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| Religion--Scientific Creationism (Evolution) |
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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--Year |
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| School Safety |
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| School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
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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--Facilities |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Org. (K-3/K-8 etc.) |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Shared Services |
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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--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--Ballot Questions |
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| State Policymaking--Constitutional Clauses |
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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 Achievement--Closing the Achievement Gap |
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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--K-12 Exchange Students |
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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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| 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 Contracts (Not Tenure) |
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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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| 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--Internet Safety |
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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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