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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 04/2011

Attendance


P-12
Clarifies and Defines Attendance
S.B. 2226
Creates a new section that defines attendance (absence) (15.1 - 20 - 02.1).
1. To be deemed in attendance for purposes of this chapter, a student may not be absent from school without excuse for more than:
a. Three consecutive school days during either the f...

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Signed into law 03/2011

School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution


P-12
Bullying Prevention
H.B. 1465
Adds six new sections to chapter 15.1-19, relating to the prevention of bullying in public schools.
Defines bullying as conduct that occurs in a public school, on school district premises, in a district owned or
leased schoolbus or school vehicle, or at any pu...

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Signed into law 08/2009

Attendance


P-12
Student Absences
S.B. 2217
Requires teachers to notify administrators when a student is absent without an excuse. Requires administrators to investigate the absence. Provides for penalities. Unless the responsible party (parent, guardian) has made substantial and reasonable attempts to ...

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Signed into law 08/2009

School Safety


P-12
School Procedures to Help in Identification and Location of Missing Children
S.B. 2161
Relates to school enrollment procedures to aid in the identification and location of missing children. When a child enrolls in a public or nonpublic school, licensed day care facility, home
education, licensed day care center, licensed child care facility, hea...

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Signed into law 05/2009

At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)


P-12
Student Performance Strategist
H.B. 1400 - Sec. 8, Strategist
Beginning with the 2010-11 school year, each district must have available one full-time equivalent student performance strategist for every four hundred students in average daily membership in kindergarten through grade three. Each school district shall submit...

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Signed into law 05/2009

Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures


P-12
Stabilization Fund Dollars
H.B. 1400 - Stabilization Fund Dollars
Requires the superintendent of public instruction to notify the superintendent and board of each school district in the state, by certified mail, that any education stabilization fund dollars
received by the district as a result of the American Recovery and Re...

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Signed into law 05/2009

P-16 or P-20


P-12
Commission on Education Improvement
H.B. 1400 - Sec. 40, Commission on Education Improvement
Amends the membership and duties of the North Dakota Commission on Education Improvement. The commission is supposed to:
a. Examine the current system of delivering and financing public elementary and secondary education and shall develop recommendations addr...

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Signed into law 04/2001

Accountability--Accreditation


P-12
Waivers
S.B. 2166
Allows any school or school district to apply to the superintendent of public instruction for a waiver
of any rule governing the accreditation of schools, provided the waiver encourages innovation, has
the potential to result in improved education opportuniti...

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