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Signed into law 08/2009 | Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
P-12 | Superintendent Qualifications
H.B. 2011--Section 15
Section 15-503. If a governing board (local school board) employs a superintendent or principal, or both, the board shall determine the qualification of the superintendent by action taken at a public meeting. The governing board shall require a superintendent...
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Signed into law 08/2009 | Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
P-12 | Teacher salary reductions
H.B. 2011--Section 21
Gives districts flexibility to select which teachers' salaries to reduce, rather than applying a general salary reduction.
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/3s/bills/hb2011.pdf...
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Signed into law 08/2009 | Teaching Quality--Reduction in Force |
P-12 | Teacher employment
H.B. 2011--Section 14
Section 14. H--Notwithstanding any other law, a school district or charter school shall not adopt policies that provide employment retention priority for teachers based on tenure or seniority.
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/3s/bills/hb2011.pdf...
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Signed into law 08/2009 | Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
P-12 | Teacher Contracts
H.B. 2011--Section 17
Section 15-536 removes deadlines for districts to offer teaching contracts or notify of a general salary reduction and eliminate a prohibition against reducing the salary of a tenured teacher except as a part of a reduction for all teachers.
http://www.azleg.g...
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Signed into law 04/2008 | Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
P-12 | Fiscal Accountability
H.B. 2469
An emergency measure which delays and extends the payback period for over-expenditures for Saddle Mountain Unified School District and Union Elementary School District and provides incentives for the unification or consolidation of these districts with neighbo...
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Signed into law 06/2006 | Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian |
P-12 | Office of Indian Eduation
S.B. 1363
Establishes the office of Indian education in the department of education; provides for personnel; provides for assistance to schools and Indian nations to develop culturally appropriate curricula and instructional materials; encourages parental involvement.
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Signed into law 06/2006 | Postsecondary Online Instruction |
P-12,
Postsec. | E-Learning Information System
S.B. 1512
Relates to an integrated instructional and data system warehouse to act as a depository for e- learning information to enhance information and communication between all public schools in the state; includes universities; relates to a digital curriculum; establ...
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Signed into law 06/2006 | Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
P-12,
Postsec. | Alternative Teacher Certification & Low-income Schools
S.B. 1184
Relates to the alternative teacher development program for placing highly qualified teachers into low income schools; provides for a matching grant to a nonprofit providing alternative teacher recruitment and placing; relates to public schools; requires demogr...
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Issued 04/2006 | STEM |
Postsec. | Governor's Council on Innovation and Technology
E.O. 7;
(Executive Order 2006-07) Replaces Executive Orders 90-01, 92-03 and 2003-07; concerns the Governor's Council on Innovation and Technology; replaces the Science and Technology Council; concerns technology- based economic development and technology transfer amo...
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Issued 06/2005 | Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
P-12 | Governor's Committee for Teacher Quality and Support
Executive Order 2005-11
Creates and defines membership of the Governor's Committee for Teacher Quality and Support, the purpose of which is to: (1) develop teacher training delivery system to addresss the lack of uniform access to quality induction, mentoring and ongoing professional...
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Signed into law 05/2005 | Economic/Workforce Development |
Postsec.,
Community College | Nursing Education Demonstration Project
S.B. 1517 (Section 15-16)
Establishes the Arizona partnership for nursing education demonstration project to increase the capacity of nursing education programs in the state by fostering collaboration among the state's education and health care communities and the state and federal gov...
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Signed into law 05/2005 | Economic/Workforce Development |
Postsec. | Joint Study Committee on Medical School Education
S.B. 1517 (Section 14)
Establishes the joint study committee on medical school education. Requires the committee to:
1. Evaluate the medical education and training needs for health professions and careers throughout the state, including the medical and nursing fields.
2. Review and...
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Signed into law 05/2005 | Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Postsec. | Financial Aid for Medical Students
S.B. 1517 (Section 6-9)
Rewrites section 15-1723 on the amount of medical student loans so that loans are for tuition plus a living allowance.
Creates new section allowing the board of regents to grant scholarships to qualified first-year medical students who are Arizona residents w...
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Signed into law 05/2005 | Postsecondary Finance |
Postsec. | Audits of Full-Time Equivalent Student Enrollment
S.B. 1517 (Section 3)
Requires the full-time equivalent student enrollment reported by each university for the previous fiscal year to be audited annually by the auditor general, beginning in 2006, and for the results of the audit to be reported by the auditor general to the joint ...
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Signed into law 04/2005 | Curriculum |
P-12 | Mandatory Physical Education Implementation Task Force
H.B. 2111
Establishes the mandatory physical education implementation task force. Sets forth task force's membership. Requires the task force to develop an implementation plan that will result in a uniform physical education program in grades K-8 and that takes the foll...
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Signed into law 04/2005 | School/District Structure/Operations |
P-12 | School Districts
S.B. 1068
Establishes the 13-member School District Redistricting Commission to design a proposal to unify school districts in Arizona based on certain criteria. Requires the commission to submit a preliminary report on the proposed school district unification plan to ...
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Issued 08/2004 | Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
P-12 | Establishing the Governor's Arizona Teacher's Excellence Program (AzTEP) Coordination Council
Executive Order 2004-20
Establishes the Arizona Teacher's Excellence Program Coordination Council (AzTEP Council) to solicit, review and approve applications for federal and private grants for recruiting and placing qualified teachers in underserved communities and to oversee the adm...
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Issued 01/2004 | Mentoring/Tutoring |
P-12 | Governor's Mentoring Initiative
Executive Order 2004-01
Creates the Governor's Mentoring Initiative to encourage state employees to volunteer as mentors to school-aged youth in their community through one hour of flex time per week. Specifies that employees whose jobs are compatible with allowing flex time may volu...
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