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State |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
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 | Accountability |
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| Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
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| Accountability--Reporting Results |
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| Accountability--Rewards |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--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--Common Core/National Tests |
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| Assessment--End-of-Course |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
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| Attendance |
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| Attendance--Compulsory |
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| Attendance--Statutory Ages (Upper and Lower) |
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| Attendance--Truancy |
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| Background Checks |
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| Bilingual/ESL |
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| Brain Research |
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| Business Involvement |
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| Career/Technical Education |
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| Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship |
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| Cheating |
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| Choice of Schools |
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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--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--Curriculum/Standards |
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| Class Size |
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| Counseling/Guidance |
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| Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Arts Education |
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| Curriculum--Computer Science |
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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--Writing/Spelling |
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| Curriculum--Mathematics |
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| Curriculum--Physical Education |
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| Curriculum--Science |
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| Curriculum--Sex Education |
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| Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
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| Data-Driven Improvement |
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| Demographics--Enrollments |
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| Economic/Workforce Development |
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| Economic/Workforce Development--Value of an Education |
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| Education Research |
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| Equity |
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| Federal |
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| Finance |
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| Finance--Bonds |
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| Finance--District |
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| Finance--Facilities |
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| Finance--Funding Formulas |
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| Finance--Lotteries |
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| Finance--Performance Funding |
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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--Regional Entities |
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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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| Health--Teen Pregnancy |
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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--Credit Recovery |
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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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| Instructional Approaches--Grading Practices |
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| Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
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| Instructional Approaches--Problem Based Learning |
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| Instructional Approaches--Single-Sex Education |
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| Instructional Approaches--Teaching Across Disciplines |
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| Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
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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--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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| Minority/Diversity Issues--Hispanic |
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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--Reauthorization Issues/Waivers |
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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 Early Intervention (0-3) |
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| P-3 English Language Learners (ELL) |
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| P-3 Ensuring Quality |
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| P-3 Evaluation/Economic Benefits |
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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 Public/Private Partnerships |
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| P-3 Special Ed./Inclusion |
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| P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development |
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| P-3 Technology |
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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--Diploma Mills |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Licensing/Program Review and Approval |
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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 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 Online Instruction |
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| Postsecondary Participation |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Access |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Affirmative Action |
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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--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--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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| 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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| Remediation (K-12) |
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| Rural |
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| Scale-Up/Replication |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar |
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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/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--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
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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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| Social/Emotional Learning and Non-Cognitive Skills |
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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--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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| Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
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| Students--Incentives |
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| Students--K-12 Exchange Students |
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| Students--Mobility |
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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--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--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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| CT | Signed into law 07/2013 | P-12 | Teacher Evaluations
S.B. 1097
Requires that, not later than September 1, 2013, each local and regional board of education adopt and implement a new teacher evaluation and support program that is consistent with the guidelines for a model teacher evaluation and support program adopted by th...
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| IA | Signed into law 06/2013 | P-12 | Council on Educator Development
H.F. 215 - Division VI
Establishes a council to study and make recommendations for statewide teacher and administrator evaluations. Requires the council to consider the current systems in place, national systems and standards, the use of student outcomes, indicators of practice (e.g...
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2013 | P-12 | Teacher Evaluation Policies
H.B. 142
Directs that a school board adopt a teacher performance evaluation policy with the involvement of teachers and principals.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2013/HB0142.pdf...
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2013 | P-12 | Educator Evaluation
S.B. 407
Requires the State Board of Education to prescribe the pupil achievement data to be used in the evaluation of teachers and school-based administrators. Requires the Teachers and Leaders Council of Nevada to make recommendations to the State Board concerning th...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2013 | P-12 | Educator Excellence Innovation Program
H.B. 1751
Renames the Educator Excellence Awards Program the "Educator Excellence Innovation Program." Specifies purposes of the program are to systematically transform educator quality and effectiveness and district administrative practices, and to use these enhanced q...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2013 | P-12 | Teacher Evaluations and Teacher Development, Employment Decisions
H.B. 2012 - Teacher Evaluations and Teacher Development, Employment Decisions
Provides that each teacher is entitled to receive a written copy of his/her evaluation promptly on its completion. Requires that, in addition to conducting an annual performance appraisal (or less frequently, under certain circumstances) of each teacher, appro...
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2013 | P-12 | Amends Teacher Evaluation Provisions
H.B. 2500 - Teacher Evaluation Provisions
Amends dismissal and evaluation policies. (See related policy record for dismissal components.)
-- Stipulates that a certificated teacher who is currently a continuing teacher but has been designated in the lowest performance classification for the current sch...
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2013 | P-12 | Teacher Performance Evaluations
H.B. 244
Provides that educators with two or more unsatisfactory, ineffective, or needs development annual summative performance evaluations within a five-year period shall not receive a renewable teaching certificate. Directs the state board of education, no later tha...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2013 | P-12 | Teacher Evaluations
H.F. 630
Provides that the annual evaluation of teachers must include the use of data from valid and reliable assessments aligned to state and local academic standards and must use state and local measures of student growth that may include value-added models or studen...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2013 | P-12 | Charter School Provisions
H.F. 630
Provides that a charter school must comply with continuing truant notification; develop and implement a teacher evaluation and peer review process; and adopt a policy, plan, budget, and process to review curriculum, instruction and student achievement to creat...
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2013 | P-12 | Modifies Deadlines under the Oklahoma Teacher and Leader Effectiveness Evaluation System
S.B. 426
Modifies provisions related to establishing which teachers fall under the requirements of the Oklahoma Teacher and Leader Effectiveness Evaluation System (changes from 2011-12 school year to "prior to full implementation of the Oklahoma Teacher and Leader Effe...
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2013 | P-12 | Multiple Components - School Closings; Guidelines for Teacher Advisory System
H.B. 521
Two of multiple components. Creates a committee to study the implications of public schools closing to become independent schools. Creates a working group to develop best practice guidelines for teacher advisory systems.
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2014/A...
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| CO | To governor 04/2013 | P-12 | Confidentiality of K-12 Educator Performance Data
H.B. 1220
Authorizes access to a teacher's evaluation reports for an individual responsible for reviewing a nonprobationary teacher's appeal. Provides nothing in statute prohibits a district or board of cooperative services (BOCES) from collecting information on an indi...
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2013 | P-12 | Increase in Observations for Written Evaluation
H.B. 317
Enacts annual evaluation of certain employee's performance which will include two observations performed before January and May of each year. Evaulation is also extended to after the third full year of employment.
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/...
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2013 | P-12 | Deadlines and Frequency of Teacher Evaluations
S.B. 207
Removes deadlines and changes the frequency of teacher evaluations. (Was once prior to November 15 and once prior to February 10 of each year; amends to once during the fall semester and once during the spring semester. Adds provision that career teachers rece...
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| TN | Signed into law 04/2013 | P-12 | Teacher Evaluation
H.B. 150
Under current law, only 35% of teacher or principal evaluation are based on student growth data. This bill provides that teachers can request 100% of their evaluation to be based on student growth data, if they achieve a level of "above expectations" or "signi...
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2013 | P-12 | Teacher and Principal Evaluation Systems
H.B. 180
Directs the department of education, before the 2014-15 school year, to develop a framework for a statewide personnel evaluation system. Directs the state board to promulgate administrative regulations to establish a statewide professional growth and effective...
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| NM | Vetoed 03/2013 | P-12 | School Teacher & Principal Evaluation System Council
S.B. 588
Partially from bill analysis: Adds a new section of the school personnel act to require the public education department (PED) to convene a 31-member council to develop a teacher and principal evaluation system in accordance with the uniform statewide standards...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2013 | P-12 | Confidentiality of Teacher Evaluation Data
H.B. 1889
Requires performance indicators, or other data used by the local school board to judge the growth or quality of a teacher, to be kept confidential. Permits disclosure of information pursuant to court order, for the purposes of a grievance proceeding involving ...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2013 | P-12 | School personnel evaluation policies and grievance procedures.
H.B. 2151/S.B. 1223
Makes several changes to the processes by which teachers and certain administrators are evaluated and to the grievance procedure process. Requires teachers, assistant principals, and principals to be evaluated every year, either formally or informally, and suc...
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2013 | P-12 | Teacher Evaluation
S.B. 1167
Requires the Department of Education to develop student growth indicators by October 1, 2014, to be used in the accreditation of schools and the evaluation of teachers.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+SB1167ER+pdf...
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2013 | P-12 | Teacher/Leader Evaluation System
H.B. 72
Delays implementation of phase II of the statewide education accountability system pertaining to teacher and school leader evaluation by providing a phased-in approach over the course of a four-year period commencing school year 2013-2014. Establishes goals an...
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| NM | Passed 02/2013 | P-12 | Validity Study of Teacher and School Administrator Effectivesness
H.J.M. 30
Requests to convene a work group to study the validity of using standards-based assessments for other purposes, principally teacher and school administrator effectiveness and school grading. The work group will report to the legislative education study committ...
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| AK | Adopted 01/2013 | P-12 | Teacher and Administrator Evaluation
4 AAC 04.200, 205; 4 AAC 19.010, 020, 030, 040, 050, 060, 099
Requires by July 1, 2015, a school district will adopt standards of performance for teachers and administrators based on student learning data. At first student data will count for 20% of an evaluation, but that will gradually increase to 50% by the school yea...
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| Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
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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 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--Computer Skills |
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| Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
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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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