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 OR | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Allows a community college district or school district to hire a retired public employee as a teacher or administrator if the primary work duties of the public employee are performed in a county of not more than 35,000 inhabitants; allows a school district or education service district to hire a retired public employee to provide services as a speech-language pathologist or speech-language pathologist assistant.
http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/hb2500.dir/hb2585.en.pdf
Title: H.B. 2585
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| IA | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Creates a beginning administrator mentoring and induction program to promote excellence in school leadership, improve classroom instruction, enhance student achievement, build a supportive environment within school districts, increase the retention of promising school leaders, and promote the personal and professional well-being of administrators. Requires the department to develop and each board to establish a model beginning administrator mentoring and induction program for all beginning administrators. Requires each board to develop an initial beginning administrator mentoring and induction plan. Requires the plan to describe the mentor selection process, describe supports for beginning administrators, describe program organizational and collaborative structures, provide a budget, provide for sustainability of the program, and provide for program evaluation.
Creates a new section establishing an annual appropriation for purposes of administering the beginning administrator mentoring and induction program. Requires each district to be allocated $1,500 per beginning administrator participating in the program. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=HF2792
Title: H.B. 2792 - Section 28 - 30
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us
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| GA | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Authorizes the state board to establish a grant program for High Performance Principals to attract successful principals to schools in need of improvement (that have not made adequate yearly progress for 2 or more consecutive years in the same subject). Mandates that the sole criteria for designating and selecting individuals as High Performance Principals must be data-based evidence of the effectiveness of a proposed High Performance Principal in improving a low performing school or in taking an average or excellent performing school to higher achievement within the last five years. Authorizes the state board to establish and maintain a nonexclusive pool of preapproved eligible candidates for High Performance Principals for consideration by local school systems.
Provides that an individual selected as a High Performance Principal is eligible for a one-year salary supplement, in an amount as determined by the state board and subject to legislative appropriations. Limits an individual grant to a maximum of $15,000 a year; provides that the amount shall be awarded pursuant to state board rule based on the relative recruitment need of that Needs Improvement School. Allows the local school system to apply for up to two additional school years for renewal of the High Performance Principal designation for an individual, subject to appropriation. Requires an individual selected as a High Performance Principal to enter into a contract with the local board which must include terms and conditions relating to the designation of High Performance Principal, as required by the state board.
Requires an individual to reimburse the local board for any moneys paid to him or her relating to the High Performance Principal designation if he or she does not comply with the terms of the contract relating to the High Performance Principal designation.
Requires a local board to report on the effectiveness of an individual designated as a High Performance Principal and his or her impact on the improvement of the school in the school year in which he or she was designated a High Performance Principal. Mandates that the state board use the data in the reports as the primary factor in evaluating applications for renewal of a High Performance Principal designation. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/pdf/sb468.pdf
Title: S.B. 468
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Directs the executive director of the Education Professional Standards Board with the cooperation of the commissioner of education and the president of the Council on Postsecondary Education to establish an interagency task force to collaborate with public and private postsecondary education institutions to redesign preparation programs and the professional development of educational leaders. Requires redesigned programs for developing educational leaders to have:
(a) Recruitment and selection policies that ensure that persons with high leadership potential and talent are being prepared to lead Kentucky schools;
(b) Strong emphasis on developing the essential competencies necessary for improving the safe and efficient management of schools and increasing student achievement;
(c) A standards and research base with coherent goals, learning activities, and assessment around a shared set of values, beliefs, and knowledge about effective administrative practices;
(d) Provisions for field-based internships that incorporate problem-based learning and utilize cohort groups and mentors whenever possible and appropriate;
(e) Strong clinical training options throughout the programs that include extensive collaborations between postsecondary education institutions and school districts;
(f) Induction components for newly hired principals and other education leaders, which provide both collegial support and individual mentoring with documented evidence of the new principals' or other education leaders' abilities to focus on high levels of student learning, growth, and achievement;
(g) Provisions for high-quality professional development that strengthen current school leaders' capacity to work with faculty in changing school and classroom practices to increase student learning, growth, and achievement; and
(h) Support for working conditions that enable leaders to implement strong instructional leadership that improves opportunities for teaching and learning for all students.
Requires the interagency task force to provide a progress report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by October 1, 2007, and as requested thereafter.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HJ14/bill.doc
Title: H.J.R. 14
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Existing law requires the State Department of Education to establish a statewide system of school support that provides intensive and sustained support and technical assistance for school districts, county offices of education, and schools in need of improvement. Existing law requires the system to provide assistance by reviewing and analyzing all facets of a school's operation and by assisting the school in developing recommendations for improving pupil performance and school operations.
This bill requires the review and analysis to include the recruitment, hiring, and retention of principals, teachers, and other staff, including vacancy issues and the roles and responsibilities of district and school management personnel. The bill would authorize the system to access the assistance of the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to review district or school recruitment, hiring, and retention practices. The bill would require the system also to assist schools and districts in efforts to eliminate misassignments of certificated personnel. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_3001-3050/ab_3001_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 3001 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CO | Signed by Governor 05/2004 | P-12 | Concerns educator licensure. Provides requirements for authorization of adjunct instructor, special services intern, emergency applicant, temporary educator, substitute, teacher in residence, career and technical educator, school speech-language pathology assistant, educational interpreter, junior reserve officer training corps instructor, literacy instruction, principal authorization. Provides for issuance of licensures for alternative teachers, provisional teachers, and professional teachers. Provides for issuance of professional special services license, professional principal license, and professional administrator license. Authorizes school districts to develop and implement alternative principal programs to enable individuals from outside the education community to become school principals http://www.leg.state.co.us/CLICS2004A/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/F2FA701F38C118DC87256DB0004D3883?Open&file=1104_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1104
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes local school boards to employ turnaround specialists to address conditions at a public school that may impede educational progress and effectiveness and academic success. The bill also authorizes local school boards to offer increased retirement benefits and compensation to turnaround specialists and licensed instructional personnel teaching in a subject matter in grades six, seven, or eight under a middle school critical shortage program adopted by the state board. Local school boards may offer such turnaround specialists or other administrative personnel incentives such as increased compensation, improved retirement benefits in accordance with Chapter 6.2 (§ 51.1-617 et seq.) of Title 51.1, increased deferred compensation in accordance with § 51.1-603, relocation expenses, bonuses, and other incentives as may be determined by the board. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0436
Title: H.B. 576
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Improves school performance by creating the master school principal program; provides for annual bonuses for qualified principals serving in schools in academic distress. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB46.pdf
Title: S.B. 46
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Current law provides that a principal be employed under a probationary contract the first year of employment with a school district, regardless
of experience with other districts. Senate Bill 1394 allows school districts the option of offering term contracts the first year a principal is employed with the district if the individual has previous experience as a principal. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=78&SESS=R&CHAMBER=S&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=01394&VERSION=5&TYPE=B
Title: S.B. 1394
Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Increases the maximum years of retirement service credit that may be purchased by a school division superintendent for prior service for the Commonwealth or another state.
Title: H.B. 2122
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2002 | P-12 | Creates the Superintendent Training Program for the training of county and school district superintendents, upon application.
Title: A.B. 2540
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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