This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format.
Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date].
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 MN | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Establishes world language proficiency certificates. Permits all Minnesota schools to awards Minnesota World Language Proficiency Certificates or Minnesota World Language Proficiency High Achievement Certificates. Outlines the requirements a student must achieve to receive a World Language Proficiency Certificate. Outlines the requirements a student must achieve to receive a World Language Proficiency High Achievement Certificate.
https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0002.5.html&session=ls86
Title: H.F. 2
Source: https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Creates the International Student Exchange Visitor Placement Organization. Defines duties of organization.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Acts/Act966.pdf
Title: S.B. 903
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/
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| HI | Vetoed 04/2008 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Establishes a Global Youth Center at the University of Hawaii. Provides that the purpose of the center is to generate and link an international framework in which youth from around the world may become actively engaged in the attainment of world peace, environmental sustainability, and human and economic productivity for future generations. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2008/Bills/HB2045_SD1_.htm
Title: H.B. 2045
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Establishes in law a program to promote the value and importance of geography in schools through a committed and cooperative effort among agencies involved in higher education, K-12 education, and the National Geographic Society of Washington, D.C.
Provides the program must consist of activities designed to improve geography education, including the following pursuits conducted by Louisiana Geography Education Alliance:
(a) Providing professional development opportunities to for K-12 throughout the state, including out-of-state summer institutes provided by other alliances and the National Geographic Society.
(b) Sponsoring master teachers to conduct workshops at Northwestern State University or other selected sites throughout the state for Louisiana teachers.
(c) Purchasing classroom materials developed by the National Geographic Society and distributing them throughout schools in the state.
(d) Holding a yearly conference for K-12 teachers that imports hundreds of teachers.
(e) Distributing information related to geography and social studies education via an electronic mail distribution list as needed throughout the year.
(f) Providing Internet access to geography lesson plans, related geography websites, professional development events, alliance activities, and the national geography standards through a Louisiana Geography Education Initiative Program (LaGEIP) Web site.
Establishes in law a regional partnership program to carry out specified activities related to geography education. Directs the legislature to make an annual appropriation to LaGEIP to the extent funds are available.
Creates the Louisiana Geography Education Initiative Program Council to approve activities selected for LaGEIP sponsorship and other LaGEIP projects and programs, and to establish rules and procedures for the conduct of the LaGEIP and the council in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=403764
Title: S.B. 489
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| CO | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Recognizes the importance of international education in public elementary and secondary schools. Directs the state board of education to appoint an international education advisory council to explore international opportunities for learning, professional development, exchange programs and the availability of curriculum materials. Requires the advisory council to make recommendations to the state board and commissioner of education on expanding international education programs and opportunities and ways of encouraging participation in such programs. Requires the advisory council to advise the state board and department of education on international education program opportunities and the availability of federal, state, local and non-profit agency funding for such programs. Requires the advisory council to survey districts, public schools and charter schools on existing international education programs, opportunities and activities.
Specifies the membership of the advisory council. Requires review of the council prior to repeal, effective July 1, 2015. Authorizes the department to receive public and private gifts, grants, and donations to implement the act, as well as legislative appropriations. Creates the international education fund for any moneys received by the department.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/FF0C1AC4503DE89E87256F660055A6EF?Open&file=1087_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1087
Source: www.leg.state.co.us
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| CT | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Encourages international studies programs; encourages the development of international education opportunities and programs; requires the Commissioner of Education to establish an international education advisory committee to explore international opportunities for learning, exchange programs and the availability of curriculum materials for students, teacher, administrators and educational policy makers. http://www.cga.state.ct.us/2004/act/Pa/2004PA-00153-R00HB-05577-PA.htm
Title: H.B. 5577
Source: Connecticut Legislative Web site
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Requires the department to create a program to promote the integration of the arts and foreign languages into the elementary school program. Schools are to submit applications, with the department granting funds to at least one school per region, giving preference to schools that do not already have a comprehensive arts and foreign language program. Requires programs to include a number of specified components, including integrating arts and foreign language across the curriculum and instruction in each of the four disciplines of dance, drama, music and the visual arts that includes the core content skills and knowledge taught in a sequential manner and includes all students in the elementary school. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/SB154/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 154
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us
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