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Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers


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State Status/Date Level Summary
CASigned into law 09/2012P-12State Superintendent Reassuming Rights, Duties, Powers of Insolvent District
A.B. 2662 - State Superintendent Reassuming Rights, Duties, Powers of Insolvent District
From bill summary: Authorizes the superintendent of public instruction to reassume the rights, duties, and powers of a district receiving an...

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CASigned into law 09/2012P-12Districts Receiving Emergency Apportionments
A.B. 2279
Amends conditions under which a trustee and necessary staff appointed to a district receiving an emergency apportionment must serve (a trust...

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CASigned into law 09/2012P-12Inglewood Unified School District Takeover and Emergency Loan
S.B. 533
From bill summary: Expresses legislative intent to provide emergency apportionment assistance to the Inglewood Unified School District. Requ...

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TNSigned into law 05/2012P-12Statewide Accountability
S.B. 2208
Directs commissioner of education to establish appropriate performance goals and measures for LEAs. Rewards LEAs that reach the achievement ...

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ARSigned into law 04/2011P-12District Takeovers by State Board
S.B. 383
If the state board orders the takeover of a school district under authority and also orders the removal of the school district board of dire...

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KYEmergency Rule Adoption 01/2010P-12Low-Achieving Schools
703 KAR 5:180
Establishes the processes to be followed during a school leadership assessment and district leadership assessment after a school is identifi...

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KYSigned into law 01/2010P-12Interventions for Persistently Low-Achieving Schools and Advanced Placement
H.B. 176
Amends accountability provisions in KRS 160.346. Defines "persistently low-achieving school". Defines "school intervention" as a process cho...

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CASigned into law 07/2009P-12King City Joint Union High School District
S.B. 130
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to provide emergency apportionment assistance to the King City Joint Union High School District and ...

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OHSigned into law 07/2009P-12Accountability Compliance Commission
H.B. 1 - Section 3306.34
Provides that a separate accountability compliance commission must be established for each school district for which the state superintenden...

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OHSigned into law 07/2009P-12Failure to Comply with Finance Provisions
H.B. 1 - Section 3306.33
By July 2011, directs the department of education to provide technical assistance to that either has failed to comply with any applicable ex...

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LAVetoed 07/2009P-12Low-performing Schools
H.B. 495
Specifies criteria that exempts a school from being transferred to the state-run Recovery School District, even if the school is low perform...

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TXSigned into law 06/2009P-12Assistance to Low-Performing Districts and Schools
H.B. 3 - Section 59 - Part IV
Amends language regarding actions the commissioner may take as regards a district that does not satisfy accreditation criteria, academic per...

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OKSigned into law 05/2009P-12Alternative Governance for Schools in Need of Improvement
S.B. 268
Requires district boards of education for schools identified for improvement for a specified number of consecutive years to implement altern...

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LASigned into law 07/2008P-12Academic Crisis Schools
H.B. 909
The recovery district shall retain jurisdiction over any school transferred to it for academic crisis purposes for a period of not less than...

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AZSigned into law 04/2008P-12Accountability
H.B. 2711
Relates to intervention in mismanaged school districts.
A. Provides the Department of Education shall investigate a school district for syst...

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PASigned into law 07/2007P-12Distressed School Districts
H.B. 842, Sec. 5 (Section 113 (c) of the Act)
These provisions set parameters for how staff of a "distressed" district in which pupils have been reassigned to another district are to be ...

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LASigned into law 06/2007P-12Recovery School District Procurement of Services and Property
S.B. 154
Grants the Recovery School District the same authority to procure services and property afforded to a city, parish, or other local public sc...

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MDVeto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 04/2006P-12State Takeover of Low Performing Schools
H.B. 1215; S.B. 914
Prohibits the State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Schools from imposing a certain restructuring of a governance arrange...

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IDSigned into law 03/2006P-12State Takeovers
H.B. 743 Section 2
Authorizes the state board to issue an order for state supervision of a local school district. States that when the state board enters an or...

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COVetoed 06/2005P-12Corrective Action
H.B. 1216
Repeals and reenacts the corrective action provisions for underperforming public schools. Requires the state board to annually notify each d...

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ARSigned into law 04/2005P-12Public School Facilities Program Act
S.B. 593
Establishes the Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program Act. Requires the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and
Trans...

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MDRule Adoption 06/2003P-12State Reconstitution
COMAR 13A.01.04.10
A. If the State Board of Education rejects a local board of education reconstitution proposal, school improvement plan, or annual update, or...

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CASigned into law 05/2003P-12Oakland Unified School District: Emergency Loan
S.B. 39
Appropriates funds to provide the Oakland Unified School District with an emergency loan. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction ...

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LASigned into law 05/2003P-12Transfer of Failed School or Failed Charter to Recovery School District
S.B. 710
Specifies that any elementary or secondary school found academically unacceptable under the state school accountability system must be desig...

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CAVetoed 09/2002P-12Requires State Takeover
A.B. 1904
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to assume all the legal rights, duties and powers of the governing board of the West Fresn...

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CASigned into law 09/2002P-12Sanctions
S.B. 1310
Sets deadlines regarding sanctions applied to state-monitored schools, allows for the placement of a trustee at a low-performing school. Spe...

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MDSigned into law 05/2002P-12Principal Training Pilot Program
H.B. 7
Establishes the Principal Training Pilot Program; requires that the State Board of Education award incentive funding under the program to pr...

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NYSigned into law 04/2002P-12Roosevelt Union Free School District Takeover
S.B. 6617
Authorizes the removal of the Board of Education of the Roosevelt Union Free School District and the appointment of an interim board of educ...

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INSigned into law 05/2001P-12Placement of School in Academic Receivership
S.B. 165
Deletes language permitting local board to place school in academic receivership if school fails for four consecutive school years to attain...

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