| Issue |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
 Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 07/2012 |
P-12 |
School districts must include in their annual school accountability report card whether the school district currently has a state-approved gifted education program and the percentage and number of students being served by the program. http://www.senate.mo.gov/12info/pdf-bill/tat/SB599.pdf (page 9)
Title: S.B. 599- Gifted Education
Source: www.senate.mo.gov |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 07/2012 |
P-12 |
The State Board of Education must establish standards for agricultural education that may be adopted by a private school accredited by an agency recognized by the United States Department of Education. Any such private school must reimburse the Department annually for the cost of oversight and maintenance of the program.
The department of elementary and secondary education shall provide staffing support including but not limited to statewide coordination for career and technical student organizations' activities that are an integral part of the instructional educational curriculum for career and technical education programs approved by the department. http://www.senate.mo.gov/12info/pdf-bill/tat/SB599.pdf (page 12)
Title: S.B. 599- CTE and Private Schools
Source: www.senate.mo.gov |
Health |
Signed into law 07/2012 |
P-12 |
Public and charter schools serving grades nine through twelve may provide their students instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Students with disabilities may participate to the extent appropriate as determined by the provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act or Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. http://www.senate.mo.gov/12info/pdf-bill/tat/SB599.pdf (page 10)
Title: S.B. 599-CPR
Source: www.senate.mo.gov |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 07/2012 |
P-12 |
Under current law, if a school receives a report of child abuse arising from school personnel following the district's policy on spanking or the use of reasonable force to protect persons or property, the school superintendent or school board president must send a notice of the incident to the county juvenile officer. This act requires the notice to be sent to the law enforcement in the county. Also, under current law, the report of the incident must be investigated by a law enforcement officer designated by the juvenile officer. This act requires that the investigation be conducted by the law enforcement in the county. http://www.senate.mo.gov/12info/pdf-bill/tat/SB599.pdf
Title: S.B. 599-Child Abuse
Source: www.senate.mo.gov |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Vetoed 06/2012 |
P-12 |
This bill changes the laws regarding travel hardships for public school students by prohibiting any current or retired school administrator from appointment to a board of arbitration regarding an appeal regarding a change in a school district's boundaries in which the voters in one of the districts votes against the change and the voters of the other district vote for the change.
In the provisions regarding the Commissioner of Education within the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education reassigning a pupil because of a travel hardship, the bill authorizes the continuance of any assignment granted before August 28, 2012, until the student, and any sibling of the student, completes his or her course of study or the parent withdraws the student.
The bill establishes a process to make reassignment mandatory for any pupil or sibling of a pupil living in St. Albans, St. Elizabeth, or Gravois Mills, under conditions which include a minimum driving distance of at least 17 miles to the current school, the other school is at least seven miles closer, and the transfer will not cause the receiving district to exceed its class size restrictions. A reassignment must be made in the order that applications are received. If a parent withdraws a student after receiving a travel hardship, any subsequent hardship assignment is discretionary. A pupil must be eligible to apply for reassignment under the enrollment requirements established in the bill, and the sending district must pay an amount which cannot exceed the pro rata cost of instruction to the receiving district. http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills121/biltxt/truly/HB1789T.htm Veto letter:http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills121/rpt/HB1789vl.pdf
Title: H.B. 1789
Source: www.house.mo.gov |
Special Populations--Foster Care |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to ensure that specified criteria are implemented in every district regarding the enrollment and educational success of foster care children.
If a foster care student transfers before or during the school year, the receiving school must initially honor placement of the student in educational courses and programs based on the student's previous enrollment or educational assessments from the sending school, provide comparable services to a foster care student with disabilities based on his or her current Individualized Education Program, and make reasonable
accommodations and modifications to address the needs of incoming foster care students with disabilities, subject to an existing 504 or Title II Plan, to provide equal access to education. The receiving district may conduct subsequent evaluations to ensure appropriate placements.
Schools may waive the prerequisites or other preconditions for placement in a course or program and must waive specific courses required for graduation if similar course work has been satisfactorily completed at another school or provide reasonable justification for the denial. If a waiver is not granted, the receiving school must provide an alternative means of acquiring the required course work so that graduation may occur on time. If a foster care student who transfers at the beginning of or during his or her senior year is ineligible to graduate from the receiving school after all alternatives specified in the bill have been considered, the sending and receiving schools must ensure the student receives a diploma from the sending school if the student meets the graduation requirements of the sending school. http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills121/biltxt/truly/HB1577T.htm
Title: H.B. 1577
Source: www.house.mo.gov |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
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 |
Postsecondary Success--Developmental/Remediation |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
Postsec. |
(1) Requires the Coordinating Board for Higher Education within the Department of Higher Education to require all two- and four-year public higher education institutions to identify and use
best practices in remediation identified by the board and other institutions and organizations and to eliminate practices that have been found to be ineffective in preparing or which delay
students from enrollment in college-level courses;
(2) Requires the board with the assistance of the Committee on Transfer and Articulation to require all two- and four-year public higher education institutions to create by July 1, 2014, a
statewide core transfer library of at least 25 lower division courses that are transferable among all public higher education institutions;
(3) Requires the board to develop a policy to foster reverse transfer so that any student who has accumulated sufficient hours in combination from more than one public institution that grants
an associate degree to be awarded a degree. The department must maintain the alignment of the statewide assessments for entry-level courses in English, mathematics, foreign languages,
sciences, and social sciences associated with an institution's general education core with previously established compentencies;
(4) Allows the board to charge and collect fees from out-of-state public institutions for the costs of reviewing and assuring the quality of programs they offer;
(5) Requires the board to include in its annual report to the Governor and General Assembly campus-level data on student persistence and progress toward implementing revised remediation,
transfer, and retention practices;
(6) Changes the laws regarding the coordinating board's responsibility for proprietary schools to:
(a) Allow a proprietary school that has been in continuous operation for at least five years to apply to the board for a two-year certificate of approval;
(b) Allow the board to increase the base fee charged by the board for an annual certificate of approval from one-tenth of a cent to thirteen one-hundredths of a cent per $1 of net tuition and fees income with a maximum fee of $5,000 and a minimum fee of $500 per school. Currently, the minimum fee is $250 with a maximum of $2,500. The fee for a certificate of approval to recruit students is raised from $250 to $500, with a maximum of $5,000. The board may increase the base annual fee and the minimum and maximum amounts by administrative rule every five years, beginning in Fiscal Year 2013, to no more than the federal
Consumer Price Index since the last fee increase;
(c) Allow the board to establish additional appropriate fees through administrative rule for generating sufficient funding to cover the costs associated with the certification program, with the advice of the Proprietary School Advisory Committee; and
(d) Allow the board to review a new program proposal within 90 days from the date that a certified school submits the proposal and within 60 days from the submission of a revised program. If the review has not occurred in that period, the program may be offered until the department completes its review and identifies a substantive issue for correction. The school will have 90 days after notification of the deficiency to correct the deficiency without having to cease offering the program;
(7) Creates the Proprietary School Certification Fund for the deposit of all fees regarding proprietary schools to fund the costs associated with the operation of the program;
(8) Increases the maximum bond amount that the board may require for a proprietary school from $25,000 to 100,000;
(9) Requires the department to collect only that data needed to administer, supervise, and enforce the provisions of the proprietary school program and, subject to appropriations, to provide a system for the electronic submission of all data;
(10) Changes the responsibility for the appointment of the members of the Proprietary School Advisory Committee from the coordinating board to the Commissioner of Higher Education within the department and requires that at least three of the seven members of the committee represent degree-granting schools and at least one of the three represents a school that confers a bachelor's degree or higher;
(11) Allows the department to take action against any violation of the proprietary school laws that is authorized in Section 407.020, RSMo, relating to unlawful merchandising practices; http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills121/billpdf/truly/HB1042T.PDF
Title: H.B. 1042
Source: www.house.mo.gov |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides that any school district in St. Charles County that becomes an urban school district because of the 2010 federal decennial census will retain terms of three years for its school board members. In addition, school board member elections will continue to be held at the general municipal election in April of each year. http://www.senate.mo.gov/12info/pdf-bill/tat/SB450.pdf
Title: S.B. 450
Source: www.senate.mo.gov |
School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 |
Modifies S.B. 54. SCS/SB 1 c[ ][ ] This act modifies provisions relating to communications between school district employees and students.Current law requires each school district to promulgate a written policy on teacher-student and employee-student communication by January 1, 2012, which would include restrictions on teachers' use of work-related internet sites and nonwork-related internet sites, as described in the act. This act modifies the components that must be included in each school district's policy. It repeals the existing components and requirements and instead requires each district to promulgate a written policy concerning employee-student communication by March 1, 2012. The policy must include, but not be limited to, the use of electronic media and other mechanisms to prevent improper communications between staff members and students. This act repeals the prohibition on a teacher establishing, maintaining, or using a work-related internet site unless it is available to school administrators and the child's legal custodian, physical custodian or legal guardian. This act also repeals the prohibition on a teacher establishing, maintaining, or using a nonwork-related internet site which allows exclusive access with a current or former student. This act also repeals the definitions of: exclusive access, former student, work-related internet site, and nonwork-related internet site.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/11info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=S1&BillID=4696921
Title: S.B. 1
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Health |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 |
Establishes the High School Sports Brain Injury Prevention Act which requires school boards to work with the Missouri State High School Activities Association to develop guidelines regarding concussions and head injuries.
http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills111/billpdf/truly/HB0300T.PDF
Title: H.B. 300
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 |
Grants the Office of the Child Advocate the authority to file any findings or reports of the Child Advocate regarding the parent or child with the court and to issue recommendations regarding the disposition of an investigation, which may be provided to the court and the investigating agency. The Office may also mediate between alleged victims of sexual misconduct and school districts.SECTION 160.261 - If a student reports alleged sexual misconduct by a teacher or other school employee to a school employee who is required to report to the Children's Division, the employee and the school district superintendent must forward the allegation to the Children's Division within twenty-four hours. Any reports made to the Children's Division must be investigated by the Division in accordance with Division procedures. The school district must not conduct an investigation for purposes of determining whether the allegations should be substantiated. A district may investigate the allegations for purposes of making a decision regarding the accused employee's employment. This act also requires the investigating officers to review the report using a preponderance of evidence standard. SECTION 160.262 - This act authorizes the Office of the Child Advocate to offer mediation services when requested by both parties when child abuse allegations arise in a school setting. The mediator must not be a mandated reporter of child abuse. No student, parent of a student, school employee, or school district will be required to enter into mediation. If either party does not wish to enter into mediation, mediation will not occur. Procedures for mediation are described in the act. SECTIONS 160.2100 & 160.2110: This act creates the Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children. This act shall be known and may be cited as ''Erin's Law." Task Force members must be individuals who are actively involved in the prevention of child abuse and neglect and child welfare. The President Pro Tem of the Senate, the Minority Leader of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Minority Leader of the Senate may each appoint one member of the General Assembly to the task force. Additional membership is specified.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/11info/bills/sb054.htm
Title: S.B. 54
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Farm-to-Table Advisory Board consisting of at least one representative from the University of
Missouri-Extension Service; the departments of Agriculture, Corrections, Economic Development, and Elementary and Secondary
Education; and the Office of Administration. The Director of the Department of Agriculture will appoint one person who is actively
engaged in the practice of small agribusiness. The representative from the Department of Agriculture will serve as chair of the board and coordinate meetings. The board must hold at least two meetings but may hold more if necessary to fulfill its requirements.
Purpose of the Advisory Board is to provide recommendations for strategies that allow schools and state institutions to more
easily incorporate locally grown agricultural products into their cafeteria offerings, salad bars, and vending machines and that
increase public awareness of local agricultural practices and the role that local agriculture plays in sustaining healthy
communities and supporting healthy lifestyles.
http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills111/sumpdf/HB0344T.pdf
Title: H.B. 344
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 |
WHEREAS, Section 105.454(5), RSMO, reqires the Governor to designate those members of hisstaff who have supervisory authority over each department, division or agency of the state government.
NEW, THEREFORE, I, JEREMIAH W. NIXON, governor of the state of Missioui by virtue of the aufhority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the State of Missouri, do hereby designate the following members of my staff as having supervisory authority over the follwoing departments, divisions or agencies:
Department of Economic Development Doug Nelson
Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Mike Nietzel
Department of Higher Education Mike Nietzel
Title: E.O. 11-22
Source: http://governor.mo.gov.orders/2011/11-22 |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
Postsec. |
Repeals sections 335.036, 335.200, 335.203, 335.206, and 335.209 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri. Enact four new sections relating to higher education financial assistance programs. This bill requires the Department of Higher Education to make available a nonrenewable advanced placement incentive grant of $500 to any recipient of financial aid under the A+ Schools or Access Missouri programs if the recipient received a score of three or higher on two advanced placement examinations in mathematics or science while attending a Missouri public high school. The Nursing Education Incentive Program, established within the Department of Higher Education to address nursing shortages. The State Board of Nursing within the Division of Professional Registration in the Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration is authorized to provide funding for the program. Subject to appropriations, Department of Higher Education will award grants to eligible higher education institutions accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association based on criteria to be determined by the board and the Department of Higher Education. Grant award amounts cannot exceed $150,000, and no campus may receive more than one grant per year. An eligible institution must offer a nursing program that meets the predetermined category and area of need as established by the board and the Department of Higher Education, based on data from sources specified in the bill. The bill also repeals the provisions regarding an obsolete incentive grant program which focused on nontraditional nursing students and the provisions regarding the Nurse Training Incentive Fund.
http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills111/billpdf/truly/HB0223T.PDF
Title: H.B. 223
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
Postsec. |
Repeals sections 172.030, 173.005, and 174.450 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri and enact in lieu thereof three new sections relating to higher education governing boards. Currently, the Coordinating Board for Higher Education, the University of Missouri Board of Curators, and the Missouri State University Board of Governors have nine voting members, with no more than one person appointed from the same Congressional district. This bill requires at least one voting member, but no more than two, to be appointed from each Congressional district.A member who is in office on the effective date of the bill may complete his or her term.
http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills111/billpdf/truly/HB0174T.PDF
Title: H.B. 174
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures--State Executives/State Agencies |
Vetoed 05/2011 |
Postsec. |
Modifies the composition of the Coordinating Board for Higher Education, the Board of Curators for the University of Missouri and the governing board of Missouri State University. For each board, current law provides that no more than one person will be appointed from each congressional district. This act provides that at least one but no more than two persons will be appointed from each congressional district.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/11info/pdf-bill/tat/SB163.pdf
Title: S.B. 163
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Relates to school retirement system in Kansas City. Actuarial equivalent tables and formulas are to be set forth in a written document which may be changed from time to time if recommended by the retirement system's actuary and approved by the board of trustees. The assets of the retirement system are to be held in trust for the exclusive benefit of members and their beneficiaries and for defraying reasonable administrative expenses of the retirement system. No part of such assets are to be used for or diverted to any purposes other than for such exclusive benefit or for any purpose inconsistent with the requirements of this retirement plan. In the event of the complete termination of the retirement system or the complete discontinuance of contributions to the retirement system, the rights of all members to benefits accrued to the date of termination or discontinuance shall be fully vested and nonforfeitable. If a member leaves employment with an employer to perform miliary service and dies while in such service the member's survivors are entitled to any additional benefits (other than benefit accruals relating to the period of qualified military service) that would have been provided had the member resumed employed and then terminated on account of death. The members period of qualified military services is to be counted as creditable service for purposes of vesting but not for purposes of determining the amount of the member's retirement allowance. Provisions are made for retiree performing substitute, part-time or temporary employment as long as they earn no more than fifty percent of the annual salary or wages last paid before retirement. If a person exceeds hour limit or such compensation limit, payment of the retirement allowance will be suspended for the month in which such limit was exceeded.
Any member may elect to have their distribution transferred directly to another eligible retirement plan.
http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills111/biltxt/truly/HB0229T.htm
Title: H.B. 229
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 |
This substitute allows a school district, after 10 years, to return donated real property to the original donor or to sell it as surplus.
http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills101/biltxt/truly/HB1831T.HTM
Title: H.B. 1831
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov/ |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
Postsec. |
Specifies that recipients of the Bright Flight Scholarship Program must be residents of Missouri; expands scholarship eligibility to individuals who have received a General Education Development diploma, who have completed a homeschooled program of study, who have completed secondary coursework through the Virtual Public School, or any other program of academic instruction that satisfies the compulsory attendance law. Provides that qualifying score necessary for a student to receive a scholarship will be determined at the beginning of an eligible student's final year of secondary coursework. Provides all students in the top 3% of the state ACT or SAT test-takers will receive awards prior to any student in the top fourth or fifth percent. If sufficient funds are appropriated, each eligible student with a qualifying score in top fourth or fifth percentile will be offered a $1,000 scholarship. Students are allowed to renew the scholarship as long as they remain in compliance with requirements of the act. If military service interrupts schooling, provisions are made for awardees to receive scholarship following military service. Bill also modifies the financial assistance amounts provided through the Access Missouri Financial Assistance Program to allow for students attending schools in the two-year sector are eligible for $1300 maximum and $300 minimum each year and students attending schools in the four-year sector, including Linn State Technical College are eligible for $2850 maximum and $1500 minimum each year. Act covers open-record and annual reporting requirements on the public higher education institutions.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/10info/bills/sb733.htm
Title: S.B. 733
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
In fiscal years 2011 through 2013, the Department of Education cannot penalize a school district on its accreditation review for failing to achieve resource standards if the school funding formula or transportation categorical is underfunded as specified and the district cannot be penalized in the following fiscal year if the governor withholds funds from the school funding formula.
http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=bills101/bills/hb1543.htm
Title: H.B. 1543--Multiple Provisions
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires regulations to be issued requiring contractors and subcontractors working on public works construction projects at public schools to establish and implement a random drug and alcohol testing program. The tests must be administered by a certified laboratory and must require notification to the employer and employee of the results of any positive drug and alcohol test. The school district must be notified of the action taken to protect the safety of the students as a result of a positive test. Cost of the program must be covered by the employer on the public works project.
http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills101/hb1543.htm
Title: H.B. 1543--Multiple Provisions
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
In fiscal years 2011 through 2013 the requirement for school districts to dedicate 1% of their formula funding to professional development and the 75% funding and fund placement requirements for teacher salaries will be suspended if the school funding formula or transportation categorical is underfunded as specified or will be suspended in the following fiscal year if the Governor withholds funds from the school funding formula.
http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills101/bills/hb1543.htm
Title: H.B. 1543--Multiple Provisions
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
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 medical services, including a trained employee providing CPR and other lifesaving procedures in good faith and according to medical practices; (3) specifies that, under certain specified conditions, a student must be allowed to self-administer medication for any chronic health condition; and (4) adds other school employees, trained and supervised by a school nurse, to the list of individuals who are authorized to use an epinephrine auto-syringe on a student and specifies that these employees will be immune from civil liability when done in good faith and according to medical practices.
http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills101/bills/hb1543.htm
Title: H.B. 1543--Multiple Provisions
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
P-3 Family Involvement |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Removes the provision specifying that no fee can be charged for Parents as Teachers services, clarifies that families with children younger than the kindergarten entry age will be eligible to receive specified services, requires priority to be given to high-needs families according to department criteria, and allows school districts to establish cost-sharing strategies for these services. These provisions will expire December 31, 2015.
http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills101/bills/hb1543.htm
Title: H.B. 1543--Multiple Provisions
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
Postsec. |
Currently, the minimum time for holding investments in the Missouri Higher Education Savings Program is 12 months. The act removes that requirement. The sunset provision governing the Missouri Higher Education Deposit Program, which is a nonexclusive alternative to the Missouri Higher Education Savings Program and administered by the Missouri Higher Education Savings Program Board, is also removed.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/10info/bills/sb772.htm
Title: S.B. 772
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
This bill specifies that bullying as it relates to required school district anti-bullying policies must include cyberbullying and electronic communications.
http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills101/bills/hb1543.htm
Title: H.B. 1543--Multiple Provisions
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Removes the requirement but allows the General Assembly to make an annual appropriation to the Missouri Career Development and Teacher Excellence Plan, commonly known as the Career Ladder Program. Beginning in Fiscal Year 2012, the state portion of career ladder payments will only be made available to school districts if an appropriation is made. Any state appropriation must be made prospectively in relation to the year in which work under the program is performed. A school district may fund the program for its teachers for work performed in years for which no state appropriation is made available. The variable match formula of the program is removed and the payment must be on a matching basis with 60% local funding and 40% state funding.
http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills101/bills/hb1543.htm
Title: H.B. 1543--Multiple Provisions
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
Teaching Quality--Teacher Rights |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Allows the special administrative board, when it has been granted governing powers for a district in the St. Louis City School District to appoint a hearing officer to conduct a contested case of a teacher's dismissal. The board must render a decision on the charges upon the review of the hearing officer's recommendations and the hearing record.
http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills101/sumpdf/HB1543T.pdf
Title: H.B. 1543--Multiple Provisions
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Transfers the administrative responsibility for the Minority Teaching Scholarship from the Department of Elementary and
Secondary Education to the Department of Higher Education and the administrative responsibility for the Minority and Underrepresented Environmental Literacy Program, which awards scholarships to ethnic groups who are most severly underpresented as determined by data gathered by the National Academy of Sciences in specified academic areas from the Minority Environmental Literacy Advisory Committee within the Department of Natural Resources to the Department of Higher Education.
http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills101/bills/hb1858.htm
Title: H.B. 1858
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Currently, students who are active-duty military dependents are exempt from the three-year attendance requirement for the A+ Program. This substitute adds a dependent of a retired military member who relocates to Missouri within one year of the date of his or her parent's retirement from active duty to the attendance exemption. Chapter 335
http://www.house.mo.gov/billsummary.aspx?bill=HB2147&year=2010&code=R
Title: H.B. 2147
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Adopted 11/2009 |
Postsec. |
Distinguishes between the residency requirements pertaining to in-state tuition eligibility and state student financial aid eligibility. Adds requirements addressing loss of residency.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/6csr/6c10-3.pdf
Title: 6 CSR 10-3.010
Source: http://www.sos.mo.gov/ |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Creates the Persistence to Graduation Fund. Department of Elementary and Secondary Education will establish a procedure for school districts to apply for grants to implement drop-out prevention strategies. Grants may be available to school districts that have at least sixty percent of students eligible for a free and reduced lunch. Grants will be awarded for one to five consecutive years. Upon expiration, school district may apply for an extension. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education must give preferences to school districts that propose a holistic approach to drop-out prevention as described in the act. The Department may stop payments to a district it it determines that the district is misusing funds or if the district's program is deemed ineffectual. The Department must provide written notice 30 days prior to cessation of funds. Department must report annually to the legislature the recipients and amount of grants and data for the preceding five years for each recipient district.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB291.pdf
Title: S.B. 291--Persistence to Graduation Fund
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Attendance--Compulsory |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Act established school flex program allowing eligible students in 11th and 12th grades to attend school a minimum of two instructional hours per school day within their school district; pursue a timely graduation; provide evidence of college or technical career education enrollment and attendance; or proof of employment and labor that is aligned with the student's career academic plan; refrain from being expelled or suspended; pursue course and credit requirements for a diploma and maintain a 95% attendance rate. Parental and principal approval required. Participating school districts must report annually to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the department must report annually to the Joint Committee on Education on the program's effectiveness. Act also changes the requirement for compulsory attendance age for school districts (except St. Louis City school district). Act changes compulsory attendance age to seventeen or successful completion of sixteen credits toward high school graduation. For the purposes of homeschooling, act defines a completed credit towards high school graduation as 100 hours or more of instruction in a course. Home school education enforcement and records will be subject to review only by the local prosecuting attorney.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB291.pdf
Title: S.B. 291--School Flex Program
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is to commission a study comparing performance of charter school students with an equivalent group of district students representing an equivalent demographic and geographic population that will be conducted by the Joint Comittee on Education. Study will examine charter schools' impact on the constituents of the district by using a contractor through a proposal process. Study must include an analysis of the administrative and instructional practices of each charter school and include findings on best practices that lend themselves to replication or incorporation in other schools. Student performance assessment must include, but may not be limited to: MAP test performance; student re-enrollment rates; educator, parent and student satisfaction data; graduation rates and performance of students enrolled in the same public school for three or more consecutive years.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/bills/sb291.htm
Title: S.B. 291--Charter Schools
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Curriculum--Physical Education |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Beginning with the 2010-2011 school year, school districts must ensure that students in elementary school participate in moderate physical activity for the entire school year for an average of 150 minutes per week, or 30 minutes per day. Students with disabilities must participate to the extent appropriate. Middle school students may, at the school's discretion, participate in at least 225 minutes of physical activity per week, or 45 minutes per day. Elementary school students must be provided a minimum of one recess period of twenty minutes per day, which may be incorporated into the lunch period. The Commissioner of Education must annually select for the recognition of students, schools and school districts that are considered to have achieved improvement in fitness. A school district may meet any of these requirements above the state minimum physical education requirement by additional physical education instruction or other activities approved by the individual school district under the direction of any certificated teacher or administrator or other school employee under the supervision of a certificated teacher or administrator.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB291.pdf
Title: S.B. 291--Physical Activity Requirements
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Equity |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Prohibits municipal fire departments and police departments, state agencies, state departments, and political subdivisions public agencies and political subdivisions from discrimination based on an individual's elementary and secondary education program; provides that employers may require individuals to have other abilities or skills for their position.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB232.pdf
Title: S.B. 232
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Modifies the elementary and secondary education funding formula. Beginning on July 1, 2010 moneys derived from the passage of Prposition A will be deposited into the Classroom Trust Fund and distributed to school districts in that manner. Act modifies the definition of "special education pupil count". Special education pupil count now includes the number of public school students with a services plan. The special education section of the act becomes effective July 1, 2009.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB291.pdf
Title: S.B. 291--Education Funding
Source: http://wwww.senate.mo.gov |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides that school districts that offer virtual courses to resident students who are enrolled in the school district shall receive state school funding. School districts may offer virtual courses through technological methods as described in the act that could take place outside of the regular school district facility. In addition, school districts may develop a virtual program for any grade level. Charter schools may also offer virtual courses for students enrolled in the charter school and receive state funding. Nothing in the act will preclude a private, parochial, or home school student residing within a school district offering virtual courses from enrolling in the school district for purposes of participating in virtual courses. Sets funding distribution level to 94 percent of the hours of attendance for such class and course completion calculations at 50% and 100%. Both school districts and charter schools must ensure that courses purchased from outside vendors are aligned to the state curriculum standards and comply with state requirements for teacher certification.
Title: S.B. 291--Virtual Courses for School Districts and Charter Schools
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
P-3 |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Creates pilot program within the Missouri Preschool Project. Program will serve up to 1250 students with preschool services and be administered by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in collaboration with the Coordinating Board for Early Childhood. School districts that are classified as unaccredited and non-sectarian community-based organizations located within such school districts may receive grants. Grants run for three years and are renewable. At least 50 percent of the placements must be offered through non-sectarian community-based organizations. Children who are one to two years away from kindergarten entry may participate in the program. Children of active duty military personnel will receive admission preference. The program must comply with current early childhood standards. Community-based organizations may employ teachers with at least an associate's degree provided they show they are on the path to obtaining a bachelor's degree within five years. School districts and community-based organizations must collect both short- and long-term data about student performance where feasible and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education must make a good faith effort to collect long-term student performance data. The Department will accept applications in competitive bid process to begin implementing the program in the 2010-2011 school year. Grants awarded in this program are subject to appropriation.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/bills/sb291.htm
Title: S.B. 291--Missouri Preschool Plus Grant Program
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Creates the Volunteer and Parents Incentive Program to be implemented and administered by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Under the program, the Department will provide a reimbursement to parents or volunteers who donate time at certain schools. To be eligible, individuals must donate time at a school in a district that is unaccredited or provisionally accredited or has a population of at least 50% at risk students as described in the act. Subject to appropriation, for every 100 hours donated by a volunteer or parent, the department will provide him or her with a reimbursement for the cost of three credit hours at a public institution of higher learning located in Missouri. The reimbursement cannot exceed $500 every two years. If a participating school district becomes classified as accredited, it may continue to participate in the program for an additional two years
http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB291.pdf.
Title: S.B. 291--Volunteer and Parents Incentive Program
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Week |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Act allows school boards to establish a four-day school week instead of five-day school week by the adoption of a resolution by a majority vote of board members. Any school district that does so must file a calendar with the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. A minimum term for a school district adopting a four-day school week includes 142 days and 1044 hours of pupil attendance. A school district that adopts a four-day school week and subsequently meets at least two fewer performance standards on its annual performance report over a two year period must revert to a five-day school week. If the school district then meets the same number of performance standards it had met prior to adopting the four-day school week, it can resume a four-day school week. Current law requires a school district to make up the first six days of school lost or canceled due to inclement weather and half the number of days lost of canceled in excess of six days. This act provides that such make-up will occur if necessary to ensure that the district's students will attend a minimum of 142 days and a minimum of 1044 hours for the school year. School districts that adopt a four-day school week may schedule make-up days on Friday.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB291.pdf
Title: S.B. 291--Four Day School Week
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
School Safety |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires school district discipline policies to prohibit confining a student in an unattended, locked space except for an emergency situation while awaiting the arrival of law enforcement personnel. By July 1, 2011, each school district must adopt a written policy that addresses the use of restrictive behavioral interventions as a form of discipline or behavior management technique, as described in the act. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education must develop a model policy by July 1, 2010 in cooperation with associations, organizations, agencies and individuals with specialized expertise in behavior management.
Title: S.B. 291--Seclusion Rooms
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Special Populations--Foster Care |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
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 grades and credits, requesting school records, and submitting school records that have been requested. A child placing agency will promote educational stability for foster care children when making placements. Each school district must accept for credit any full or partial course work satisfactorily completed by a pupil while attending certain schools. A pupil who completes the graduation requirements of his or her school district of residence while under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court will receive a diploma. Students who are absence from school for placement changes or court-ordered activity will have grades and credits calculated as of the date the pupil left school. Such absence will not result in a lowering of the pupil's grades. Subject to federal law, school districts are authorized to permit access of pupil school records to a child placing agency for the purpose of fulfilling educational case management responsibilities required by the juvenile officer or by law and to assist with school transfer or placement of a pupil. Each child who is in foster care or is placed in a licensed residential care facility is entitled to a full school day of education unless the school district determines that fewer hours are warranted. A full school day is defined as six hours under the guidance and direction of teachers in the education process for children in foster care or for children placed for treatment in a licensed residential care facility by the Department of Social Services. For children placed for treatment in a licensed residential care facility by the Department of Social Services, the Commissioner of Education, or his or her designee, will be an ombudsman to assist the family support team and the school district.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB291.pdf
Title: S.B. 291--Foster Care Education Bill of Rights
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Student Supports--Mentoring/Tutoring |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Creates Missouri Senior Cadets Program which will provide opportunities for twelfth grade students in public school to mentor kindergarten through eighth grade students. Seniors must be a state resident, attending a state high school, maintaining a 3.0 GPA and planning to attend college. Seniors who donate ten hours per week during the academic year will receive one elective credit that may be used to fulfill graduation requirements. If a student attends a public college or university located in the state after participating in the program, subject to appropriation, the state will provide a reimbursement in the amount of three credit hours per semester for up to four years.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB291.pdf
Title: S.B. 291--Senior Cadets Program
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Modifies provisions relating to teacher and school employee retirement systems; provides for an investment fund, recalculation of the cost of prior service credit, retirement system purchasing, disbursement of the guaranteed payment option upon member death, nonprofit educational associations, retirement system employee liability, the venue of suits against employees and garnishment of retirement funds for spousal maintenance or child support.
http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills091/bills/hb265.htm
Title: H.B. 265
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov/ |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Allows a school term for students participating in a school flex program as established in section 160.539 to consist of a combination of actual pupil attendance and attendance
at college or technical career education or approved employment aligned with the student's career academic plan for a total of 1,044.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB291.pdf
Title: S.B. 291- School Flex Program Attendance
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Vetoed 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the State Board of Education and Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills091/billpdf/truly/HB0002T.PDF
Title: H.B. 2
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
Postsecondary Finance |
Vetoed 06/2009 |
Postsec. |
Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Higher Education.
http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills091/bills/HB3.htm
Title: H.B. 3
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov/ |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Defines "school term" as a minimum of 174 school days for schools with a 5-day school week or a minimum of 142 school days, as that term
35 is defined in section 160.041, for schools with a four-day school week. 160.041 defines the "minimum school day" as three hours for schools with a 5-day school week or four hours for schools with a 4-day school week in which the pupils are under the guidance and direction of teachers in the teaching process. A "school month" consists of four weeks of 5 days each for schools with a 5-day school week or four weeks of four days each for schools with a 4-day school week.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB291.pdf
Title: S.B. 291 - School Calendar
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
STEM |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation declaring the third week of March as Math, Engineering, Technology, and Science Week.
http://house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills091/bilsum/truly/sHB506T.htm
Title: H.B. 506
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Creates the "Teacher Choice Compensation Package" for the St. Louis City School District to permit performance-based salary stipends, upon the decision of a teacher, to reward teachers for objectively demonstrated superior performance. It also creates the Teacher Choice Compensation Fund in the State Treasury. The General Assembly must annually appropriate $5 million to the fund. A teacher must give up his or her right to a permanent appointment for the duration of his or her employment with the school district to participate in the Teacher Choice Compensation Package. If a teacher chooses to no longer participate in the Compensation Package, he or she may not resume permanent teacher status with the district. Teachers will qualify annually in October.
Stipends will be offered in increments of $5,000, up to $15,000 but must not exceed 50% of a teacher's base salary. The Department will make a payment to the district in the amount of the stipend, which will be delivered as a lump sum in January following the October qualification. If funds are insufficient, the Department may prorate payments.
The Teacher Choice Compensation Package will be open to every person employed by the St. Louis City School District regardless of certification status, provided the other requirements are satisfied. Stipends will be prorated for part-time employees and will be forfeited for any teacher dismissed for cause. Beginning with the 2010-2011 school year, teachers who opt out of their permanent contract may be eligible based on the following: student scores on a value-added test instrument as described in the act, evaluations by principals or other administrators, evaluations by parents, and evaluations by students. The Department is required to develop or identify model instruments for use by school districts, which may also use or develop their own instruments. The Department is required to develop criteria for determining eligibility for stipend increments. Test-scores will be given more weight than evaluations. The level of scores required must take into account classroom demographics.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB291.pdf
Title: S.B. 291 - Performance-based Salary Stipends
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Eliminates tenure protection for non-certified employees in the St. Louis City School District who are hired after August 28, 2009.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB291.pdf
Title: S.B. 291 - Tenure
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Allows all public career-technical schools to participate in the A+ Schools Program.
http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills091/bills/hb490.htm -
Title: H.B. 490
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires school districts to adopt policies on allergy prevention and response, with priority given to addressing potentially deadly food-borne allergies; relates to allergy management, age- appropriate response, confidentiality of student medical information, school safety and environmental policies.
http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills091/bills/hb922.htm
Title: H.B. 922
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
High School |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires school districts to allow certain students with disabilities to participate in graduation ceremonies after four years of high school attendance.
http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills091/bills/hb236.htm
Title: H.B. 236
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Allows the governor to establish the "P-20 Council" as a private-not-for-profit corporation on behalf of the state. The purpose of the Council will be to create a more efficient and effective education system to more adequately prepare students for entering the workforce and will be reflected in the articles of incorporation and bylaws. Indicates the makeup of the Council's board of directors. Council may receive and borrow money, enter into contracts, and spend money for activities appropriate to its purposes. Duties of the Council may include: studying the potential for a state-coordinated economic and educational policy; determining where obstacles make state support of certain programs difficult; creating programs; and exploring ways to better align academic content. Council must submit an annual report to the governor and the legislature containing information about its operations. Act allows the Departments of Economic Development, Elementary and Secondary Education, and Higher Education to contract with the Council for activities described in the act. Act repeals statute requiring the Commissioner of Higher Education, Chair of the Coordinating Board for Higher Education, Commissioner of Education, President of the State Board of Education, and Director of the Department of Economic Development to meet and discuss ways to create a more efficient and effective education system.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/bills/sb291.htm (full text of bill http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB291.pdf)
Title: S.B. 291--P-20 Council
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Modifies the number of school days to be made up due to inclement weather.
http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills091/bills/hb682.htm
Title: H.B. 682
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to produce "The Parents' Bill of Rights" to inform parents of children with individualized education programs of their educational rights under federal and state law by January 1, 2010. The publication must state it does not confer any right or rights beyond those conferred by federal or state law. In addition, the publication must state that it is only for informational purposes. The publication must contain ten points of information, as described in the act. Department must ensure that the content is consistent with legal interpretations of existing federal and state law and provides equitable treatment of all disability groups and interests. In addition, the Department must post a copy of it on its website and each school district must provide a copy of "The Parents' Bill of Rights" upon determining that a student qualifies for an individualized education program and at such time as a school district is required under state or federal law to provide the parent or parents with notice of procedural safeguards.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB291.pdf
Title: S.B. 291--Parents' Bill of Rights
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Special Education--Placement |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Revises laws relating to special education due process hearings; provides for a five-day notice for all special education due process hearings; provides that the responsible public agency must sign a written settlement agreement and a designee must be identified who may bind the school district.
http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills091/bills/hb289.htm
Title: H.B. 289
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
Special Populations--Immigrant Education |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
Postsec. |
Prohibits the enrollment of unlawfully present aliens in public institutions of higher education.
http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills091/bills/hb390.htm -
Title: H.B. 390
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Issued 01/2009 |
Community College |
(Executive Order 2009-01) Creates and establishes the Automotive Jobs Task Force; identifies state economic polices and legislative enactments that help or hinder the development of high tech automobile production facilities within the state; evaluates the effectiveness of job training programs, both inside and outside state government, in preparing workers for the future of the automotive industry.
http://governor.mo.gov/orders/2009/09-01.htm
Title: E.O. 3
Source: http://governor.mo.gov |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 10/2008 |
P-12 |
Amends rules regarding the guidelines for the administrator assessment center that requires all candidates applying for an initial school administrator certificate.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c80-631.pdf
Title: 5 CSR 80-631.010
Source: http://www.sos.mo.gov |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 08/2008 |
Postsec. |
Amends rule to incorporate 2008 changes. Updates certification requirements for Library Media Specialist certificate in Compendium of Missouri Certification Requirements. Updates certification requirements for Postsecondary Career Educators as of January 2008. http://www.dese.mo.gov/schoollaw/rulesregs/80800280.htm
Title: 5 CSR 80-800.280
Source: http://www.dese.mo.gov |
Postsecondary Faculty |
Adopted 08/2008 |
Postsec. |
Amends rule to incorporate changes for Library Media Specialist. Updates certification requirements for Postsecondary Career Educators as of January 2008. http://www.dese.mo.gov/schoollaw/rulesregs/80800260.htm
Title: 5 CSR 80-800.260
Source: http://www.dese.mo.gov |
Student Supports--Mentoring/Tutoring |
Adopted 08/2008 |
P-12 |
Proposes rules regarding the mentoring program. Establishes standards for successful mentoring programs.
http://dese.mo.gov/schoollaw/rulesregs/80850045.htm
Title: 5 CSR 80-850.045
Source: http://dese.mo.gov |
No Child Left Behind--Special Populations |
Adopted 07/2008 |
P-12 |
Proposes rules regarding standards to administer a program of grants to local public school districts for the provision of early childhood screening, parent education and programs for developmentally delayed children. MISSOURI 17888
http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c50-270.pdf
Title: 5 CSR 50-270.010
Source: http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c50-270.pdf |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Summer School |
Adopted 07/2008 |
P-12 |
Proposes rules regarding standards for summer school programs. MISSOURI 17889
http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c50-340.pdf
Title: 5 CSR 50-340.050
Source: http://www.sos.mo.gov |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 |
Creates the Rebuild Missouri Schools Program to allow loans to rebuild certain damaged school facilities.
Title: S.B. 1170
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Adopted 07/2008 |
P-12 |
Proposes rules regarding a program that makes scholarships available for eligible students who make a commitment to a teaching career and who enroll in a college program leading to certification to teach in public schools.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c80-860.pdf
Title: 5 CSR 80-860.050
Source: http://www.sos.mo.gov |
Postsecondary Finance |
Vetoed 06/2008 |
Postsec. |
Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Higher Education.
http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills081/bills/hb2003.htm
Title: H.B. 2003
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov
|
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Instructs the Revisor of Statutes to change all references of the term junior college to community college in the Revised Statutes of the State.
http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills081/bills/hb1869.htm
Title: H.B. 1869
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
Special Education |
Adopted 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Proposes to move rules from the Office of Administration to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Allows the council to establish interest rates and maximum loan amounts that meet the needs of consumers in the Assistive Technology Loan Program.
www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/4csr/4c110.pdf
Title: 5 CSR 110-1.020
Source: www.sos.mo.gov |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Relates to the disclosure of personnel records and confidential unemployment information by the Division of Employment Security, vocational and technical education, unemployment claims qualification requirements, prohibited employment practices, war on terror veterans unemployment compensation, and overtime pay.
http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills081/bills/hb2041.htm
Title: H.B. 2041
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 |
Allows school districts to participate in the A+ schools program irrespective of their accreditation status; provides that vocational schools may participate in the program if they are accredited by the Higher Learning Commission; provides that private school reimbursements must not exceed the community college tuition rate for courses that are similar and offered in a community college in the service area; provides for transfers from workers compensation premiums to the Kids Chance Scholarship Fund.
http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills081/bills/hb2191.htm
Title: H.B. 2191
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 05/2008 |
P-12 |
Incorporates the current state plan for career education.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c60-120.pdf
Title: 5 CSR 60-120.010
Source: http://www.sos.mo.gov |
Curriculum--Language Arts |
Approved by voters 05/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
(CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 1;HJR 7 - 2007) Proposes an amendment to the Constitution relating to English as the Official State Language.
Title: V. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
Postsec. |
Allows Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority to originate federally guaranteed student loans; provides that the authority's origination of Stafford loans under the Federal Family Education Loan Program must not exceed a specified percentage of the previous year's total program volume.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/08info/bills/sb967.htm
Title: S.B. 967
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Allows the State to enter into the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children which applies to school age children of active duty uniformed members of the military forces of the United States including the National Guard and Reserve members, children of members or veterans who are medically discharged or retired and members who have died on active duty or as a result of injuries sustained while on active duty.
Title: H.B. 1678
Source: http://www.house.state.mo.us |
Reading/Literacy |
Adopted 05/2008 |
P-12 |
Proposes to rescind rules regarding the standards for remedial reading classes.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c50-320.pdf
Title: 5 CSR 50-320.010
Source: http://www.sos.mo.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 |
Creates an alternative method of obtaining teacher certification from the Board of Education; provides that an individual may obtain teacher certification by obtaining certification from the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence and verification of ability to work with children by completing contact hours in the classroom; provides that certification may not be granted in the areas of early childhood education, elementary education, or special education.
Title: S.B. 1066
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
Postsec. |
Establishes the Textbook Transparency Act which requires textbook publishers to make the price, certain substantial content revisions, copyright dates, and the variety of formats for a text available, upon request, to faculty members or textbook adopters at public higher education institutions; provides that when feasible, public institutions of higher education must develop policies allowing students to use financial aid that has not been disbursed for tuition or fees to purchase textbooks.
http://www.house.state.mo.us/billtracking/bills081/bills/hb2048.htm
Title: H.B. 2048
Source: http://www.house.state.mo.us |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Adopted 02/2008 |
P-12 |
Proposes rules to implement a public virtual school program to serve school-age students residing in the MO.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c50-500.pdf
Title: 5 CSR 50-500.010
Source: http://www.sos.mo.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 11/2007 |
P-12 |
Proposes rules regarding continuing education program licensure and approval. Specifies the hours of continuing education for credit.
Title: 20 CSR 2255-4.010
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 10/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Amends rule to incorporate 2007 Compendium changes. Deletes certification requirements for Postsecondary Career Educators as of June 2007.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c80-800.pdf
Title: 5 CSR 80-800.380
Source: http://www.sos.mo.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 10/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Amends rule to incorporate 2007 changes. Updates application process for Adult Education and Literacy certificate in Compendium of Missouri Certification Requirements. Deletes certification requirements for Postsecondary Career Educators as of June 2007.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c80-800.pdf
Title: 5 CSR 80-800.280
Source: http://www.sos.mo.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 10/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Amends rule to incorporate changes in 2007. Deletes certification requirements for Postsecondary Career Educators as of June 2007.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c80-800.pdf
Title: 5 CSR 80-800.260
Source: http://www.sos.mo.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 10/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Amends rule to incorporate changes in the Compendium for 2007. Deletes certification requirements for Postsecondary Career Educators as of June 2007.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c80-800.pdf
Title: 5 CSR 80-800.270
Source: http://www.sos.mo.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 10/2007 |
Postsec. |
Deletes the certification requirements for Postsecondary Career Educators as of June 2007.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c80-800.pdf
Title: 5 CSR 80-800.220
Source: http://www.sos.mo.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 10/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Amends to update certification requirements in Compendium of Missouri Certification Requirements. Deletes certification requirements for Postsecondary Career Educators as of June 2007.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c80-800.pdf
Title: 5 CSR 80-800.230
Source: http://www.sos.mo.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 10/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Amends rule to incorporate 2007 Compendium changes. Deletes certification requirements for Postsecondary Career Educators as of June 2007.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c80-800.pdf
Title: 5 CSR 80-800.350
Source: http://www.sos.mo.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 10/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Amends rules to incorporate changes in the Compendium of Missouri Certification Requirements. Deletes the requirements for Postsecondary Career Educators as of June 2007.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c80-800.pdf
Title: 5 CSR 80-800.200
Source: http://www.sos.mo.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 10/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Amends rule to incorporate 2007 Compendium changes. Deletes the certification requirements for Postsecondary Career Educators as of June 2007.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c80-800.pdf
Title: 5 CSR 80-800.360
Source: http://www.sos.mo.gov |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
Community College |
Relates to economic development and incentive programs; relates to ticket resales, tax increment financing, distressed areas assemblage tax credit, charitable organization tax credit eligibility, beef tax credits, equity investment tax credits, film production tax credits, enhanced enterprise zones, auto manufacturing electricity sales tax exemptions, vocational school districts, community college job training programs, workforce investment boards and the quality jobs program.
http://www.house.state.mo.us/
Title: H.B. 1A
Source: http://www.house.state.mo.us/ |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
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. Creates the Access Missouri Financial Assistance program, defines eligibility criteria and maximum and minimum financial awards. Repeals Gallagher student financial assistance and college guarantee programs and directs that certain gambling boat boarding fee revenue that currently goes to the Missouri College Guarantee Fund be instead deposited into the Access Missouri Financial Assistance Program.
Enacts the Higher Education Student Funding Act, limiting tuition increases that institutions may charge. Grants Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority (MoHELA) authority to transfer assets of the authority to the newly created Lewis and Clark Discovery Fund. Requires MoHELA to distribute $350 million of assets of the authority to the fund not later than September 30, 2013. Moneys in the fund may be appropriated by the general assembly only for funding for capital projects at public colleges and universities and funding for the Missouri Technology Corporation's ability to work with colleges and universities in identifying opportunities for commercializing technologies. Directs the department of economic development to allocate a percentage of the state ceiling for private activity bonds to MoHELA.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/07info/pdf-bill/tat/SB389.pdf
Title: S.B. 389 [Postsecondary Finance]
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Governance |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Modifies the responsibilities of the legislative committee on education. Requires the committee to meet at least twice a year. Charges committee with monitoring, studying and analyzing the higher education system in the state, as well as monitoring the establishment of performance measures required by this act and reporting on such measures to the general assembly and the governor. Authorizes the committee to make requests of the department of economic development. Directs the committee within three years to review the impact of the newly created higher education funding act and review a new model for the funding of higher education institutions.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/07info/pdf-bill/tat/SB389.pdf
Title: S.B. 389 [Committee on Education]
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Faculty |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Multiple provisions relating to higher education. Stipulates that in order to receive increases in state appropriations, two- and four-year institutions must work with the commissioner of higher education to establish agreed-upon competencies for certain entry-level courses. The coordinating board for higher education will establish policies to ensure that such courses are accepted in transfer among public institutions. Authorizes the commissioner to order an institution willfully disregarding a coordinating board policy to remit a fine. Requires the coordinating board to hold out-of-state public higher education institutions to criteria similar to those required of public in-state higher education institutions in order for such institutions to operate within the state. Requires binding resolution for certain disputes among institutions of higher education. Prohibits higher education institutions from rejecting applicants for faculty positions based solely on lack of graduate degree if candidate has an undergraduate degree and has served at least eight years in the general assembly.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/07info/pdf-bill/tat/SB389.pdf
Title: S.B. 389 [Postsecondary Institutions]
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 |
Creates the teaching fellows program. For each of the first four years that an applicant teaches in a qualifying district, up to one-fourth of the applicant's educational loans, not to exceed $5,000 per year, will be repaid. For students without educational loans, a stipend of up to $5,000 may be issued. At the conclusion of the fifth academic year that an applicant teaches in a qualifying district, an amount equal to $1,000 shall be granted to the applicant. Directs the department of higher education to promulgate rules to enforce the provisions of this act. Directs the department to create and maintain a coordinator position who will be responsible for identifying, recruiting and selecting potential students for the program.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/07info/pdf-bill/tat/SB389.pdf
Title: S.B. 389 [Teaching Fellows]
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov/ |
Student Supports--Mentoring/Tutoring |
Issued 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Missouri Mentor Initiative, under which up to 200 full-time employees of the state of Missouri are eligible for one hour per week of paid approved work to mentor in Missouri public primary and secondary schools.
Title: E.O. 20
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
Issued 10/2006 |
P-12 |
Adds elementary and secondary education as another category with full membership representation on the Regional Homeland Security Oversight Committee in order to make certain that schools are included and actively engaged in homeland security planning at the state and local level.
http://www.gov.mo.gov/eo/2006/eo06_044.htm
Title: Executive Order 2006-44
Source: http://www.gov.mo.gov/ |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Rule Adoption 10/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides greater flexibility for institutionsoffering innovative and alternative programs for the certification of professional educators.
http://dese.mo.gov/schoollaw/rulesregs/pending/80-805030.html
Title: 5 CSR 80-805.030
Source: http://dese.mo.gov/ |
Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
Signed into law 07/2006 |
P-12 |
Authorizes school nurses to keep on hand and adminster prefilled syringes of epinephrine in specified dosage strengths. Provides that when the nurse believes that a student is having an acute anaphylactic episode, the nurse may, based on training, administer the medication. Provides prescription requirements for such syringes.
http://www.house.mo.gov/bills061/biltxt/truly/HB1245T.HTM
Title: H.B. 1245
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov/ |
Special Education |
Signed into law 07/2006 |
P-12 |
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 school district where the school is located.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/06info/pdf-bill/tat/SB834.pdf
Title: S.B. 834
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov/ |
Attendance--Truancy |
To Governor 06/2006 |
P-12 |
In any city not within a county where a student accumulates 15 or more absences during any one school year, the child's school district must report absences to the division of family services, children's division, within 10 business days of the 15 day of absence. Notification must include: (1) the student's full name and parents' or guardians' full names; (2) the addresses and phone numbers of the student and parents or guardians; (3) the student's date of birth and age; (4) the student's current school and grade level; (5) the student's current grades for all classes in which the student is enrolled; and (6) the total number of days missed and specific days missed from school. Upon receipt of a report, the children's division is required to notify the child's parent or guardian that the child has accumulated 15 or more absences and the report may be subject to state educational neglect provisions.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/06info/pdf-bill/tat/SB894.pdf
Title: S.B. 894
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires the Commissioner of Higher Education, the Chair of the Coordinating Board for Higher Education, the Commissioner of Education, the President of the State Board of Education, and the Director of the Department of Economic Development to meet and discuss ways in which their respective departments may collaborate in order to achieve a more efficient education system that more adequately prepares students for the challenges of entering the workforce.
Directs these parties to report jointly each year to the general assembly and the governor the actions taken by their agencies and their recommendations for policy initiatives and legislative changes to achieve the policy goals defined in statute.
Title: S.B. 580
Source: www.lexis.com |
Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
If a school district has been classified as unaccredited within the previous five school years and the district is subsequently classified as provisionally accredited, the district will be subject to lapse on June 30 of any school year in which the state board of education withdraws provisional accreditation or at a later date as determined by the state board of education.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/06info/pdf-bill/tat/SB894.pdf
Title: S.B. 894
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov/ |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Creates the Holocaust Education and Awareness Commission, to be housed in the department of education and to promote implementation of holocaust education and awareness programs.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/06info/pdf-bill/tat/SB1189.pdf
Title: S.B. 1189
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov/ |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Pertains to aspects of calculation of state aid. Addresses changes in calculating a district's average daily attendance and local effort component.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/06info/pdf-bill/tat/SB894.pdf
Title: S.B. 894
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Includes auto-injectible epinephrine for anaphylactic shock as a permissible self-administered medication. Specifies necessary conditions for self-administration including a written treatment plan, proof that a student has demonstrated the skill required, and a signed liability release for the school.
http://www.house.mo.gov/bills061/biltxt/truly/HB1732T.HTM
Title: H.B. 1732
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov/ |
High School |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Directs the department of education to develop a "ready to work" endorsement program by June 30, 2007. Provides that the program must include:
(1) Voluntary participation by high school seniors who choose to participate;
(2) Academic components;
(3) Work readiness components;
(4) Assessment tools and techniques for a third-party, independent, and objective assessment and endorsement of individual student achievement through an existing workforce investment service delivery system; and
(5) An easily identifiable guarantee to potential employers that the entry-level employee is ready to work.
Requires the department to involve representatives of the division of workforce development, employers, students, career center providers, local workforce investment boards, and school district personnel. See end of page 16: http://www.senate.mo.gov/06info/pdf-bill/tat/SB894.pdf
Title: S.B. 894
Source: www.senate.mo.gov |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board to establish a virtual public school by July 1, 2007. All K-12 students in the state may enroll. State school aid will treat the student as part of the enrollment of the district in which the student physically resides at the choice of the student's parent or guardian. The virtual public school will report aid-related data to the district of residence. The school district will receive 15% and the virtual public school will receive 85% of the state aid attributable to the student. A full-time equivalent student is one who completes six credits per regular term, and each virtual course counts as one class.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/06info/pdf-bill/tat/SB912.pdf
Title: S.B. 912
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov/ |
P-3 Ensuring Quality |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires the department of Education to develop, by June 30, 2007, standards for early childhood education which will be applicable to public preschool programs that receive federal Title I funds or Missouri preschool project funds. The standards must include an assessment of needs; a focus on cognitive, language physical, and social/emotional development; and highly qualified, properly certified teachers. In developing the standards, the department must involve representatives of many groups, including the business community, existing early childhood programs, school districts, and private and faith-based providers. Districts that offer fee-based programs may continue to offer them, in compliance with federal law.
http://www.house.mo.gov/bills061/biltxt/truly/HB1511T.HTM
Title: H.B. 1511
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov/ |
School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires every school district to adopt an anti-bullying policy no later than September 1, 2007. Policies may not contain specific lists of protected classes of students. Policies must require district employees to report any instance of bullying of which the employee has firsthand knowledge and address training of employees in the requirements of the district policy.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/06info/pdf-bill/tat/SB894.pdf
Title: S.B. 894
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Creates the Urban Flight and Rural Needs Scholarship Program for scholarships for students entering teacher education programs who commit to teaching at certain high-risk population schools. Defines eligibility and amount of scholarship.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/06info/pdf-bill/tat/SB980.pdf
Title: S.B. 980
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov |
Special Education |
Issued 02/2006 |
P-12 |
Transfers the Assistive Technology Advisory Council to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education from the state Office of Administration.
http://www.gov.mo.gov/eo/2006/eo06_006.htm
Title: Executive Order 06-06
Source: http://www.gov.mo.gov |
High School |
Adopted 12/2005 |
P-12 |
Modifies high school graduation requirements effective with the Class of 2010. Increases total number of units students must earn from 22 to 24. Adds .5 unit personal finance, .5 unit health education course. Increases Communication Arts (language arts) from 3 to 4 units and math, social studies and science requirements from 2 to 3 units. Decreases total number of electives from 10 to 7. Establishes further requirements relative to high school graduation.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c50-345.pdf
AGENCY CONTACT: Stan Johnson, Assistant Commissioner, Division of School Improvement, PO Box 480, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0480
Title: 5 CSR 50-345.300
Source: www.sos.mo.gov and Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Education--Finance |
Rule Adoption 08/2005 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is eligible to apply for and receive federal funds under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Part B for the provision of special education and related services to eligible children and youth. MISSOURI REG 15900 (SN)
Title: 5 CSR 70-742.140
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
SIGNED BY GOVERNOR 07/2005 |
P-12 |
Currently, both metropolitan school district teachers and principals are included in the section of the Metropolitan school district's teacher tenure statute which outlines procedures regarding reductions in force. This act removes school principals from the section.
Title: S.B. 299
Source: StateNet |
Health |
DELIVERED TO SECRETARY OF STATE 06/2005 |
P-12 |
The department of elementary and secondary education shall establish a "Model School Wellness Program", and any moneys appropriated, other than general revenue, by the general assembly for this program shall be used by selected school districts to establish school-based pilot programs that focus on encouraging students to establish and maintain healthy lifestyles. The moneys appropriated shall be from the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization federal grant money. These programs shall include tobacco prevention education and the promotion of balanced dietary patterns and physical activity to prevent becoming overweight or obese, and discussion of serious and chronic medical conditions that are associated with being overweight. The content of these programs shall address state and national standards and guidelines established by the No Child Left Behind Act, the Healthy People 2010 Leading Health Indicators as compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics, and the Produce for Better Health Foundation's "5 A Day, The Color Way" program.
Title: H.B. 568
Source: StateNet |
Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR 05/2005 |
P-12 |
This bill treats American Sign Language (ASL) as a foreign language for the granting of academic credit at public schools and public higher education institutions. Students may receive academic credit for demonstrating proficiency or completing a course with a passing grade. The credit may be used to satisfy the foreign language or language arts requirements, including entrance requirements of public higher education institutions. Nothing in the bill prohibits a department of a higher education institution from establishing specific language requirements for its majors that cannot be met by ASL, nor does the bill prohibit the offering of noncredit courses in ASL. The Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and the Missouri American Sign Language Teachers Association, upon request, will assist in the development and teaching of the courses.
Title: H.B. 530
Source: StateNet |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Currently, the state's education formula is essentially an equalized tax-rate driven formula, meaning that the formula provides a certain amount of money per student, per penny of tax rate. This act seeks to transition the state away from this tax-rate driven philosophy to a formula that is primarily student-needs based.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/05info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=10668
Title: S.B. 287
Source: StateNet |
No Child Left Behind--Report Cards |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
REPORT CARDS
Currently, school districts are required to produce an annual
accountability report card for each school building, distribute
copies to the households with students, and make copies available
to other members of the public upon request. This bill transfers
the responsibility for producing the report card to the
Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, specifying that
there will be report cards for each district, each public school
building in a district, and each charter school. The report card
will be designed to satisfy federal and state statistical
disclosure requirements about academic achievement, finances,
staff, and other indicators. Districts must provide the report
card information by December 1, or as soon as it is ready, and
give preference to distribution methods that will include the
information with other important information, such as student
report cards.
TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS
Currently, the definition of "teacher" for the purposes of tenure
includes certified teachers who teach at the pre-kindergarten
level. The bill clarifies that these teachers must be teaching
in pre-kindergarten programs for which no fees are charged. The
superintendent's supervision of the City of St. Louis district
schools is subject to policies established by the school board,
rather than subject to the control of the board, and the
permissible length of the superintendent's contract is raised.
Currently, the hiring of a treasurer, a commissioner of school
buildings, and a director of personnel is required. The bill
makes the hiring of these positions permissive. The requirement
that the district's teaching appointments and promotions be based
on merit is extended to all employee appointments and promotions.
The remaining references to principals are removed from the City
of St. Louis tenure statute.
SCHOOL DISTRICTS
Currently, when a school district participates in the Career
Ladder Program, it must match state funds on a sliding scale
based on the assessed valuation per eligible pupil. The bill
permits any district that opted out of the program between July
1, 2001, and July 1, 2005, to rejoin by July 1, 2006, at the same
matching level it qualified for when it last participated in the
program.
Title: H.B. 297
Source: StateNet |
P-3 Preschool |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
The current definition of "teacher" in the teacher tenure act includes certified teachers who teach at the pre-kindergarten level. This act modifies the aforementioned definition by requiring that such prekindergarten teachers, in order to fit the definition of teacher, must teach in a prekindergarten program in which no fees are charged to parents and guardians
Title: S.B. 266
Source: StateNet |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
This act requires the State Board of Education to adopt a policy by December 1, 2005, that encourages effective involvement by parents and families in support of the education of their children. The act delineates elements and goals for the development of the policy adopted by the State Board. Further, the act requires the Board of Education of each school district to adopt policies no later than March 1, 2006, that encourage effective involvement by parents and families in support of their children and the education of their children. This act is identical to SB 1208 (2004)
http://www.senate.mo.gov/05info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=21100
Title: S.B. 480
Source: StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations |
DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR 05/2005 |
P-12 |
This bill removes the requirement that school districts take an annual census of children up to age 21 with disabilities, removes obsolete provisions concerning funding for the census, and removes references to the repealed sections
Title: H.B. 258
Source: StateNet |
Special Education |
DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR 05/2005 |
P-12 |
To repeal sections 162.955, 162.959, and 162.961, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof three new sections relating to special educational services
Title: H.B. 276
Source: StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Issued 03/2005 |
P-12 |
The task force is required to evaluate and make initial recommendations on the following topics: (1) developing strategies for improving school bus safety, including, but not limited to, programs or laws that have proven effective to reduce the incidents of school transportation-related accidents; (2) analyzing current state and federal laws and programs governing school bus safety and recommending any changes that would enhance the effectiveness of these laws or programs; (3) reviewing whether requiring seat belts in school buses would prove effective in reducing fatalities and injuries in school transportation-related accidents; (4) recommending specific school bus safety legislation for possible consideration by the Missouri General Assembly; and (5) recommending best practices or policies that could be implemented by state or local governments that would enhance school bus safety. The task force is required to prepare a final report and submit it to the governor by December 31, 2005. Task force expires on December 31, 2005
http://www.gov.mo.gov/eo/2005/eo05_014.htm
Title: EXECUTIVE ORDER 05-14
Source: http://www.gov.mo.gov |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Emergency Rule Adoption 09/2004 |
P-12 |
Adds rules regarding the inspection of frames on school buses. Specifies out-of-service criteria in buses in need of repair. MISSOURI REG 15080 (SN)
Title: 11 CSR 50-2.320
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Revises the provisions of existing law relating to the Kansas City Public School Retirement System. Revises the definition of "break in service" to:
(7) "Break in service", an occurrence when a regular employee ceases to be a regular employee for any reason other than retirement (including termination of employment, resignation, [retirement] or furlough but not including vacation, sick leave, excused absence or leave of absence granted by an employer) and such person does not again become a regular employee until after sixty consecutive calendar days have elapsed, or after fifteen consecutive school or work days have elapsed, whichever occurs later. A break in service also occurs when a regular employee retires under the retirement system established by section 169.280 and does not again become a regular employee until after fifteen consecutive school or work days have elapsed. A "school or work day" is a day on which the employee's employer requires (or if the position no longer exists, would require, based on past practice) employees having the former employee's last job description to report to their place of employment for any reason;
http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills041/bills/hb1502.htm
Title: H.B. 1502
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Amends provisions relating to the Kansas City public school retirement system; allows the board of trustees of the retirement system to use one or more banks for conducting business; provides for certification of a disability for eligible members.
http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills041/bills/sb1242.htm
Title: S.B. 1242
Source: StateNet |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the State Board of Education and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills041/biltxt/truly/HB1002T.HTM
Title: H.B. 1002
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Amends laws regarding financial services and college savings programs; relates to deceptive use of a financial institution's name, identity theft, restrictions on small loans, deeds of trust, variable rate debt instruments and exemptions from attachment and execution.
http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills041/biltxt/truly/HB0959T.HTM
Title: H.B. 959
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Higher Education and the several divisions.
http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills041/biltxt/truly/HB1003T.HTM
Title: H.B. 1003
Source: StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Amends laws regarding sexual offense, assault on a law enforcement officer and payment of restitution for criminal offenses; provides penalties for possession of child pornography; requires registration of sexual offender; prohibits certain sexual offenders from living a specified distance from a school or child care facility; provides a mechanism for county law enforcement agencies to receive restitution from criminals.
Title: H.B. 1055
Source: StateNet |
Assessment |
To governor 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Amends certain policies with regard to MAP testing. Provides that the performance standards of the MAP so that such indicators meet the standards of the National Assessment Educational Progress exam.
This act amends policies with regard to MAP testing by stating that, no later than June 30, 2006, the State Board of Education shall align the performance standards of the MAP so that such indicators meet, but do not exceed, the performance standards of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exam. The department will make other changes necessary to meet existing federal requirements. By July 1, 2006, the department will revise its accreditation standards to permit process and resource standard waivers consistent with academic performance profiles.
http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills041/bills/sb1080.htm
Title: S.B. 1080
Source: StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
To governor 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Provides a student shall not be considered a drop- out or included in a school district's educational persistence ratio for accreditation purposes for being expelled for bringing a weapon to school, violent behavior or an act of violence; provides assistance to school districts as needed in adopting service-learning programs and projects; relates to investigation of alleged child abuse at a school or child care facility.
http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills041/bills/sb945.htm
Title: S.B. 945
Source: StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
To governor 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Allows for the adoption of emergency preparedness plans for the use during natural disasters or other community emergencies by school districts.
1. The board of education of each school district in this state is authorized to adopt an emergency preparedness plan to address the use of school resources, including school facilities, commodity foods, school buses, and equipment if a natural disaster or other community emergency occurs.
2. The emergency preparedness plan may authorize the superintendent or other designated school officials to approve use of school resources to provide relief to the community if an emergency occurs.
3. Food assistance may be provided using commodities distributed by the United States Department of Agriculture consistent with the standards for emergency congregate feeding under such program.
4. The use of school resources under this section shall be subject to review by the board of education within thirty days of authorization or as soon as reasonably possible.
http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills041/biltxt/truly/HB1070T.HTM
Title: H.B. 1070
Source: StateNet |
Special Education |
Rule Adoption 02/2004 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is eligible to apply for and receive federal funds under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Part B for the provision of special education and related services to eligible children and youth. MISSOURI REG 14732 (SN)
Title: 5 CSR 70-742.140
Source: StateNet |
Special Education |
Rule Adoption 02/2004 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules describing Missouri's services for infants and toddlers with disabilities. MISSOURI REG 14733 (SN)
Title: 5 CSR 70-742.141
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Participation--Access |
Issued 12/2003 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
The Commission of the Future of Higher Education was created by Executive Order 03-07 on March 17, 2003, with a final report due by January 1, 2004. The purpose of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education shall be to develop plans to strengthen and improve postsecondary education in Missouri. The commission's objectives will include, but are not limited to: identifying ways to increase the number of Missourians prepared to pursue training and education after high school, including technical, community college, and college or university education; increasing the number of high school students who enroll in and complete such programs; enhancing the affordability of postsecondary education for students from families at all income levels; and increasing the civic and economic benefits of advanced education for individuals, their families, communities, and the state of Missouri.
Report was issued December 31, 2003. http://www.mocbhe.gov/commission/pp/finalreport.pdf
Title: Executive Order 03-07
Source: Missouri State Web site |
Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires school board of each school district with multiple attendance centers containing the same grade levels to, no later than July 1, 2004, develop, and make available to the public, a policy regarding the transfer of that school district's students to other schools within the district. http://www.senate.state.mo.us/03info/billtext/tat/sb666.htm
Title: S.B. 666
Source: StateNet |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Specifies that all valid teaching certificates issued prior to September 1988 are exempt from the professional development requirement that follows. Narrows types of teacher licences available to an initial professional certificate and a career continuous professional certificate. Specifies that the state board must require holders of the four year initial professional certificate to: (a) Participate in a mentoring program approved and provided by the district for a minimum of two years; (b) Complete thirty contact hours of professional development, which may include hours spent in class in an appropriate college curriculum; and (c) Participate in a beginning teacher assistance program. Changes requirements for receipt of the career continuous professional certificate to: four years of teaching under the initial professional certificate and upon verification of the completion of the requirements articulated in paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of subdivision (1) of this subsection. (b) The career continuous professional certificate shall be continuous based upon verification of actual employment in an educational position as provided for in state board guidelines and completion of fifteen contact hours of professional development per year which may include hours spent in class in an appropriate college curriculum. Should the possessor of a valid career continuous professional certificate fail, in any given year, to meet the fifteen-hour professional development requirement, the possessor may, within two years, make up the missing hours. In order to make up for missing hours, the possessor shall first complete the fifteen-hour requirement for the current year and then may count hours in excess of the current year requirement as make-up hours. Should the possessor fail to make up the missing hours within two years, the certificate shall become inactive. In order to reactivate the certificate, the possessor shall complete twenty-four contact hours of professional development which may include hours spent in the classroom in an appropriate college curriculum within the six months prior to or after reactivating his or her certificate. The requirements of this paragraph shall be monitored and verified by the local school district which employs the holder of the career continuous professional certificate.
(c) A holder of a career continuous professional certificate shall be exempt from the professional development contact hour requirements of paragraph (b) of this subdivision if such teacher has a local professional development plan in place within such teacher's school district and meets two of the three following criteria:
a. Has ten years of teaching experience as defined by the state board of education;
b. Possesses a master's degree; or
c. Obtains a rigorous national certification as approved by the state board of education.
Allows a teacher who has not been employed in an educational position for three years or more to reactivate his or her last level of certification by completing twenty-four contact hours of professional development which may include hours spent in the classroom in an appropriate college curriculum within the six months prior to or after reactivating his or her certificate.
Requires the state board to, upon an appropriate background check, issue a professional certificate classification in the areas most closely aligned with an applicant's current areas of certification, commensurate with the years of teaching experience of the applicant, to any person who is hired to teach in a public school in this state and who possesses a valid teaching certificate from another state, provided that the certificate holder shall annually complete the state board's requirements for such level of certification.
Adds that pleading guilty or being found guilty of enticement of a child or attempting to entice a child are offenses that will cause a teaching license to be revoked. Adds that when a teaching certificate holder pleads guilty or is found guilty of any offense that would authorize the state board of education to seek discipline against that holder's certificate of license to teach, the local board of education or the department of elementary and secondary education shall immediately provide written notice to the state board of education and the attorney general regarding the plea of guilty or finding of guilty.
http://www.senate.state.mo.us/03info/billtext/tat/sb296.htm
Title: S.B. 296 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.senate.state.mo.us |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires every school to devote a period of time equal to one class period to an observance that conveys the meaning and significance of Veterans Day. Requires such observance to take place on or as close as possible to Veterans Day. Requires the local board, in consultation with the administrators of each school in the district, to determine the activities which will constitute the required observance.
http://www.senate.state.mo.us/03info/billtext/tat/sb325.htm
Title: S.B. 325
Source: www.senate.state.mo.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
States that no seven-director, urban, or metropolitan school district board of education may hire a spouse of any member of such board for a vacant or newly created position unless the position has been advertised pursuant to board policy and the superintendent of schools submits a written recommendation for the employment of the spouse to the board of education. Requires the names of all applicants as well as the name of the applicant hired for the position to be included in the board minutes. http://www.senate.state.mo.us/03info/billtext/tat/sb686.htm
Title: S.B. 686 (§ 162.261)
Source: www.senate.state.mo.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Eliminates text that barred an employee of the St. Louis school district or relative of a St. Louis school district employee from running for school board. http://www.senate.state.mo.us/03info/billtext/tat/sb686.htm
Title: S.B. 686 (§ 162.601)
Source: www.senate.state.mo.us |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
Postsec. |
Beginning with the 2004-2005 school year and for each school year thereafter, requires every public institution of higher education in the state to require all students living in on-campus housing to sign a written waiver stating that the institution of higher education has provided the student, or if the student is a minor, the student's parents or guardian, with detailed written information on the risks associated with meningococcal disease and the availability and effectiveness of the meningococcal vaccine. States that any student who elects to receive the meningococcal vaccine shall not be required to sign the aforementioned waiver and must present a record of said vaccination to the institution of higher education. Requires each public university or college to maintain records on the meningococcal vaccination status of every student living in on-campus housing at the university or college, including any written waivers. Adds that nothing in this section shall be construed as requiring any institution of higher education to provide or pay for vaccinations against meningococcal disease.
http://www.senate.state.mo.us/03info/billtext/tat/sb686.htm
Title: S.B. 686 (New Section)
Source: www.senate.state.mo.us |
No Child Left Behind |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires rules for classifying public schools to be in place for two years prior to implementation; specifies that this condition does not apply to any requirement for which a timeline for adoption is mandated in either state or federal law. http://www.senate.state.mo.us/03info/billtext/tat/sb296.htm
Title: S.B. 296 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.senate.state.mo.us |
P-3 Finance |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Alters the distribution of Gaming Commission Fund; provides funds for veterans facilities, the National Guard College Trust, early childhood development education, and the College Guaranty Fund.
http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills03/biltxt/truly/HB0444T.HTM
Title: H.B. 444
Source: www.house.state.mo.us |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Eliminates provision requiring first day of school to be on September 1 or later. http://www.senate.mo.gov/03INFO/bills/SB686.htm
Title: S.B. 686 (§ 171.031)
Source: www.senate.mo.gov |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires that, in determining whether it is necessary to change the boundary line between seven-director districts, the board of arbitration must base its decision upon the following:
(1) The presence of school aged children in the affected area;
(2) The presence of actual educational harm to school-aged children, either due to a significant difference in the time involved in transporting students or educational deficiencies in the district which would have its boundary adversely affected; and
(3) The presence of an educational necessity, not of a commercial benefit to landowners or to the district benefitting for the proposed boundary adjustment. http://www.senate.state.mo.us/03info/billtext/tat/sb686.htm
Title: S.B. 686 (§ 162.431)
Source: www.senate.state.mo.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
States that any public school district or districts may designate an educational service agency for the purpose of developing, managing, and providing instructional services or programs to the participating school district or districts. Requires the educational service agency to be designated by local board contract and to operate according to state board-approved standards. Requires an educational service agency to be organized as a nonprofit corporation, with the method of selection of officers to be governed by section 355.326, RSMo. Requires an educational service agency to be considered a political subdivision of the state, with the governing board and employees subject to the conflict of interest prohibitions provided in statute. Requires all meetings of the educational service agency's governing board to be subject to open meeting provisions. Adds that nothing in this section shall relieve a participating school district from the responsibility of providing the instructional service or program which it has contracted for through an educational service agency.
http://www.senate.state.mo.us/03info/billtext/tat/sb686.htm
Title: S.B. 686 (§ 162.1180)
Source: www.senate.state.mo.us |
Special Education |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Provides that special classes, separate schooling, or other removal of children with disabilities from the regular educational environment shall occur only when the nature or severity of the disability of a child is such that education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved satisfactorily. Also changes provisions relating to special education appeals hearings procedures. http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills03/biltxt/truly/HB0655T.HTM
Title: H.B. 655
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board to adopt rules to facilitate job-sharing positions for classroom teachers, as the term "job-sharing" is defined in this section. Rules must allow a classroom teacher in a job-sharing position to receive paid legal holidays, annual vacation leave, sick leave and personal leave on a pro rata basis. "Job-sharing position" must mean any position: (1) Shared with one other employee; (2) Requiring employment of at least seventeen hours per week but not more than twenty hours per week on a regular basis; and (3) Requiring at least seventy percent of all time spent in classroom instruction as determined by the employer; provided that, job sharing position shall not include instructional support or school services positions including, but not limited to, guidance counselor, media coordinator, psychologist, social worker, audiologist, speech and language pathologist, and nursing positions. Specifies that any teacher participating in the job-sharing program must be a member of the public school retirement system, and must receive creditable service on a pro rata basis in that system. Requires any such person to have the option of being a member of the nonteacher school employee retirement system. The option election must be filed with the board of trustees of the public school retirement system within ninety days of first such employment or within ninety days of August 28, 2003, whichever later occurs.
http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills03/biltxt/truly/HB0346T.HTM
Title: H.B. 346 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.house.state.mo.us |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Allows a retired certificated teacher receiving a retirement benefit from the state retirement system to teach full-time for a district for up to two years without losing his or her retirement benefit, provided that the district has a shortage of certified teachers, as determined by the district. Bars the total number of such retired certificated teachers from exceeding fifteen certificated teachers at any one time. Requires the employer's contribution rate to be paid by the hiring district and the employee's contribution rate to be paid by the employee. Specifies that any additional actuarial costs resulting from the hiring of a retired certificated teacher pursuant to the provisions of this section must be paid by the hiring district.
In order to hire teachers under this policy, the district must: (1) Show a good faith effort to fill positions with nonretired certificated teachers; (2) Post the vacancy for at least one month; (3) Have not offered early retirement incentives for either of the previous two years; (4) Solicit applications through the local newspaper, other media, or teacher education programs; (5) Determine there is an insufficient number of eligible applicants for the advertised position; and (6) Declare a critical shortage of certificated teachers that is active for one year.
ANOTHER SECTION OF STATE STATUTES IS MODIFIED IN THE SAME BILL (this section differs slightly from the one above): Allows a retired certificated teacher receiving a retirement benefit from the retirement system to teach full-time for a district for up to two years without losing his or her retirement benefit, provided that the district has a shortage of certified teachers, as determined by the district. The total number of such retired certificated teachers shall not exceed, at any one time, the lesser of ten percent of the total teacher staff for that district, or five certificated teachers. Allows a person receiving a retirement benefit to be employed full-time for up to two years for a district covered by such retirement system, without losing his or her retirement benefit, provided that the district has a shortage of noncertificated employees, as determined by the district. The total number of such retired noncertificated employees shall not exceed, at any one time, the lesser of ten percent of the total noncertificated staff for that district, or five employees. Requires the employer's contribution rate to be paid by the hiring district.
In order to hire teachers and noncertificated employees pursuant to the provisions of this section, the district must: (1) Show a good faith effort to fill positions with nonretired certificated teachers or nonretired noncertificated employees; (2) Post the vacancy for at least one month; (3) Have not offered early retirement incentives for either of the previous two years; (4) Solicit applications through the local newspaper, other media, or teacher education programs; (5) Determine there is an insufficient number of eligible applicants for the advertised position; and (6) Declare a critical shortage of certificated teachers or noncertificated employees that is active for one year.
http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills03/biltxt/truly/HB0346T.HTM
Title: H.B. 346 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.house.state.mo.us |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Allows Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority to provide secondary education loans for nonsectarian tuition and other costs for students who are juniors or seniors enrolling in an accredited secondary school in courses for which post secondary credit may be awarded. http://www.senate.state.mo.us/03info/billtext/tat/sb371.htm
Title: S.B. 371
Source: StateNet |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
P-12 |
Allows a district to be exempt in the 2002-03 school year from the requirement to make up school days canceled due to inclement weather after November 20, 2002, in the school district. Waives the requirement to make up two-thirds of the missed days in the 2003-04 school year. http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills03/biltxt/truly/HB0554T.HTM
Title: H.B. 554
Source: www.house.state.mo.us |
P-3 Finance |
Rejected by voters 11/2002 |
P-12 |
Imposes an additional tax per cigarette and other tobacco products, with the new revenues placed into a Healthy Families Trust Fund to be used for hospital trauma care and emergency preparedness; health care treatment and access; prescription drug assistance for seniors; health care initiatives for low income citizens, women, minorities and children; medical research and smoking prevention; and grants for early childhood care and education.
Title: Proposition A
Source: Missouri Secretary of State Web site |
No Child Left Behind |
Active 10/2002 |
P-12 |
2002 Consolidated Plan: http://www.dese.state.mo.us/divimprove/fedprog/instrucimprov/constat/constateplan.htm
Source: Missouri Department of Education Web site |
No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
Active 09/2002 |
P-12 |
Supplemental Education Services RFP; deadline 12/6/02: (http://www.dese.state.mo.us/divimprove/nclb/Supplemental%20RFP.pdf)
Source: Missouri Department of Education Web site |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 07/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires the department to conduct a study of economics and personal finance education, to be submitted to the general assembly by January 1, 2003. Requires the study to include recommendations on 1) in-service training methods for teachers on economics and personal finance; 2) funding to integrate the subjects into K-12 math, reading, writing, social studies, business, and family and consumer science courses; 3) methods of integration of testing on economics and personal finance in the state assessments with sufficient test questions to allow a separate reportable score for each of these two subjects; 4) requirements for a capstone high school course in economics and personal finance with a passing grade required for high school graduation; 5) K-12 teacher certification requirements relating to these subjects.
Title: H.B. 1973
Source: www.moga.state.mo.us |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 07/2002 |
Postsec. |
This bill expands the Board of Regents for Northwest Missouri State University from seven to nine members. Six members must live in the state college district in which the university is located, and one member must be a resident of Nodaway County. Two additional members from any of the seven state college districts will be added, but no more than one can live in the same congressional district. After staggered terms for the two new members, subsequent members will serve six-year terms. http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills02/biltxt02/truly02/HB1406T.HTM
Title: H.B. 1406
Source: www.house.state.mo.us |
Accountability--Rewards |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 |
Department is required to identify high-achieving schools as performance schools and specify the waivers of rule applicable to those schools. Schools or districts that are academically deficient, unaccredited or provisionally accredited, or that achieve none of the student performance standards established for accreditation: (1) will be identified as priority schools; (2) must submit an accountability compliance statement that identifies areas of deficiency and provides a strategy to address the deficiencies; and (3) must disclose the deficiencies on the school report card. Sets out a schedule for submission of compliance, and the department may withhold state aid from districts that do not meet the standards and timelines. Strategies for improvement must align curricula; develop individual student plans for any student not receiving special education services who scores at the lowest level of proficiency on the statewide assessments and require those students in grades 9-11 to retake the assessment; focus professional development funds on the ares of greatest academic need; improve teacher and administrator effectiveness; and reallocate resources.
Title: H.B. 1711
Source: Summaries of Truly Agreed to and Finally Passed Bills - 2002 |
Assessment |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 |
For students who receive special education services, the state board must, through a teacher panel, determine if appropriate alternate assessments exist or, if not, create such an assessment. When it is determined by the student's individualized education plan team that the alternative assessment is more appropriate for the student, the student will take the alternative assessment, which will address independent living skills, detailed in the bill.
Title: H.B. 1711
Source: House Research Staff Summaries |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires every public school to ensure that the Pledge of Allegiance is recited at least once a week in every student's class. Students are not required to participate.
Title: S.B. 718
Source: Summaries of Truly Agreed to and Finally Passed Bills 2002 |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed by governor 06/2002 |
P-12 |
Adds a definition of "district equalized assessed valuation" to the definitions that are used in interpreting the state school funding formula. The definition averages a district's assessed valuation from the first and secon preceding years. Also revises guaranteed tax bas to encompass the average of the 3rd and 4th preceding years, instead of basing the amount on only the 3rd preceding year, as in prior law. Permits a school district that has a delinquent single taxpayer to apply to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to deduct the taxpayer's assessed valuation from its formula calculation.
Title: H.B. 1711
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 |
Additional revenue from miscellaneous tax revenues (e.g. unclaimed, abandoned and seized money and property) will go to the Schools of the Future Fund. Transfers $5 million from the Lottery Proceeds Fund and unclaimed lottery prize money for FY 2003 to the Schools of the Future Fund.
Title: S.B. 1248
Source: Summaries of Truly Agreed to and Finally Passed Bills 2002 |
High School |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 |
Revises section awarding honorary high school diplomas to certain veterans to include residents or former residents who were civilian prisoners of war. http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills02/biltxt02/truly02/HB1515T.HTM
Title: H.B. 1515
Source: www.house.state.mo.us |
Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires public elementary and secondary schools and libraries to use filtering software or other means to restrict access by minors to pornographic materials on the Internet. Employees, officers, trustees, or Internet service providers that comply are not liable if a minor gains access to pornographic materials. Violators are guilty of a misdemeanor.
Title: H.B. 1402
Source: Summaries of Truly Agreed to and Finally Passed Bills -- 2002 |
P-3 |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 |
Defines family literacy and permits districts to create family literacy programs and to use at-risk funding to support them. Makes family literacy an area of critical need. Beginning in FY 2005, 1.5% of line 14 funding will be used to fund family literacy programs in unaccredited and provisionally accredited districts and academically deficient schools.
Title: H.B. 1711
Source: House Research Staff Summaries |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Repeals and reenacts without change the statue that sets community college property tax rates and creates a procedure to establish capital improvement subdistricts within community college districts, which may levy taxes with voter approval.
Title: H.B. 2022
Source: Sumaries of Truly Agreed to and Finally Passed Bills 2002 |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires districts to have reading programs for kindergarten through grade three that are based on scientific research. The programs must contain five elements, one of which is phonics. Explicit systematic phonics, as defined in the bill, is permitted as part of the program.
Title: H.B. 1711
Source: House Research Stafff Summaries |
Special Education |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires school districts that provide early childhood special education to give preference to a child's birth to age 3 service provider when making the transition to early childhood special education, unless this would result in a cost which exceeds the average cost per student in early childhood special education for the district responsible for educating the student. http://www.senate.state.mo.us/02info/pdf-bill/tat/sb874.pdf
Title: S.B. 874
Source: www.senate.state.mo.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 |
Out-of-state certified teachers with five years of experience and an appropriate background check may receive provisional certification, which will become permanent after five years of teaching in Missouri. The department must promulgate rules that allow teaching assistants with appropriate experience who are pursuing certification to bypass their practice teaching.
Title: H.B. 1711
Source: House Research Staff Summaries |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
Postsec. |
Exempts dependents of active military personnel from the residency requirements of the A+ Schools Program. http://www.senate.state.mo.us/02info/pdf-bill/tat/SB859.pdf
Title: S.B. 859
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Changes the name of the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Changes membership requirements to allow two members to be either deaf or hard of hearing, one parent to be of a child who is deaf or hard of hearing, and executive director who is deaf or hard of hearing. Expands commission's duty to promoting the quality of services to both the deaf and hard of hearing. Establishes "Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Fund," to be administered by executive director of commission. Allows for compensation of evaluators for deaf interpretor certification. Requires Missouri Commission fo the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Board of Certification to recognize specified certificates. Allows certification for purposes of deaf interpreter licensure to come from either the National Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, the National Association of the Deaf or Missouri Interpreter Certification System. http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills02/biltxt02/truly02/HB1783T.HTM
Title: H.B. 1783
Source: www.house.state.mo.us |
Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Specifies that appeal of special education identification, evaluation, placement or provision case where review of the hearing panel's decision is sought by the district or parent must be heard without a jury and that the inquiry may extend to a determination of whether the agency committed any of specified offenses. Specifies that it is the policy of the state of Missouri to provide a free appropriate education consistent with state and federal regulations implementing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Eliminates language requiring that special education services "maximize [students'] capabilities" and that the special educational services provided handicapped children "develop [them] to their maximum capacity." http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills02/biltxt02/truly02/HB2023T.HTM
Title: H.B. 2023
Source: www.house.state.mo.us |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Requires an annual report for each building in a district to be made available in several ways, including but not limited to, providing the report when a student enrolls or receives grades, in newspapers, or on the Internet. Instead of reporting financial information on a building level only when a district has 2 or more buildings that hold the same grades, the bill requires reporting financial information on the district as a whole and by attendance center.
Title: H.B. 865; S.B. 575
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Removes the one-year residency requirement for the Commissioner of Education.
Title: H.B. 45
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Provides honorary high school diplomas to World War I, and World War II and Korean War veterans who left high school before graduation to serve in the United States military.
Title: H.B. 441
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Assessment |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Provides that assessment scores of students for whom English is a second language (ESL) shall not be counted until the student has been educated in a school where English is the primary language for three full years. Also, the act eliminates the mandatory retesting requirement in the following year for students scoring in the lowest level of proficiency on any assessment. Requires that certain public school students receive summer school reading instruction. Local school districts are required to select a reading assessment mechanism and to assign 3rd-grade and older students who are reading below grade level to be assessed for summer school placement. Special education students, student with limited English proficiency, students receiving services under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and whose plan addresses reading and students with insufficient cognitive ability are exempted from the required reading assessment.
http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills01/bills01/sb319.htm
Title: S.B. 319
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School |
To governor 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Provides honorary high school diplomas to World War II veterans who left high school before graduation to serve in the United States military.
Title: H.B. 244; H.B. 94
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Requires the Governor to annually proclaim February lifelong learning month; recommends that the month be observed with appropriate activities in the public schools.
Title: S.B. 201
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Year |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to inclement weather exceptions for mandatory days of school attendance; amends an exception to the mandatory days of school attendance that currently refers to exceptions allowed because of flooding in specific past years to apply to inclement weather in the 2000-2001 school year; amends section that currently permits districts to reduce the year by 11 days and changes this to up to 5 days when a district has missed more than 7 days overall after November 20, 2000; the reduction of days will be on a one-for-one basis, from one day for 8 days missed up to 5 days for 12 or more days missed; waives the requirement for scheduling two-thirds of the missed days into the next year's calendar for the 2001-2002 school year; permits certain school districts that remained open when neighboring districts closed to use their previous year's average daily attendance count for those days; bill contains an emergency clause.
Title: H.B. 274
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Vetoed 07/2000 |
Postsec. |
Makes several changes in the operations of the governing bodies of public colleges and universities, and provides for technical clarification in the statutes relating to these governing boards; includes a technical change to clarify that the board of curators at the University of Missouri and the 7 regional schools may exclude a student representative to the board from a closed meeting, if the voting board members unanimously vote to do so.
Title: H.B. 1396
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
States that current law requires that community college districts provide 50% of the funding for maintenance and repair of facilities and grounds, and prohibits the use of this share for salaries or portions of salaries; allows the district's 50% share of funding to be used for those salaries or portions of salaries directly related to approved maintenance and repair projects.
Title: H.B. 1486
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Specifies that prohibitions on student possession of weapons and possession of weapons or controlled substances, as well as the prohibition on student possession of controlled substances, shall apply to the school playground or parking lot, school bus, or school activity whether on or off the school property; requires that the information annually reported by school districts shall include the rates and durations of and reasons for suspensions or expulsions.
Title: S.B. 944
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |