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From the ECS State Policy Database - Highlighted Policies


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This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the state.

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Signed into law 07/2013

Business Involvement


P-12,
Postsec.
Education Campus Fund
S.B. 381
Creates the Innovation Education Campus Fund to provide funding to innovation education campuses - an educational partnership between high schools or school districts, a Missouri four-year public or private institution of higher education, a Missouri-based bu...

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Signed into law 06/2010

Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses


P-12
Health
H.B. 1543--Multiple Provisions
This bill: (1) exempts unqualified school district employees refusing to administer medication or medical services from disciplinary action for the refusal; (2) exempts qualified school district employee from any civil liability for administering medication or...

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Signed into law 07/2009

Special Populations--Foster Care


P-12
Foster Care Education
S.B. 291--Foster Care Education Bill of Rights
Establishes "Foster Care Education Bill of Rights." Each district must designate a staff person to be an educational liaison for foster care children. Liaison would assist with proper educational placements, transferring between schools, ensuring transfer of g...

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Signed into law 05/2007

Economic/Workforce Development


Postsec.,
Community College
Higher Education Finance
S.B. 389 [Postsecondary Finance]
Increases the amount of the Bright Flight scholarships from $2,000 to $3,000 beginning with fiscal year 2011. Beginning with fiscal year 2011, students with test scores between the top five percent and the top three percent qualify for a scholarship of $1,000....

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Signed into law 07/2006

Special Education


P-12
Optional Resolution Conferences and Evaluations of Private School Students
S.B. 834
Removes a section of law that allows for an optional resolution conference to occur as the first step of due process in special education disputes. Provides that evaluations of private school students suspected of having a disability will be conducted by the s...

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