From the ECS State Policy Database P-3 Family Involvement

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]. State Status/Date Level Summary OR Signed into law 07/2013 P-12 Early Reading Program H.B. 3232 (Section 2) Directs the Oregon Education Investment Board to establish the Oregon Early Reading Program to improve readiness of children preparing to enter kindergarten and improve reading proficiency by the end of third grade. Defines the mission(s) of the program that m... More... AK Signed into law 07/2013 P-12 Early Literacy and Family Involvement S.B. 57 Amends existing law and requires each school district to annually provide to parents and guardians of students enrolled in kindergarten through grade three in a public school current information on the importance of early literacy, including intervention strat... More... NE Signed into law 05/2013 P-12 Learning Communities and Learning Community Coordinating Councils L.B. 585 Changes provisions relating to learning communities. There is currently only one learning community in the state which is composed of 11 member districts in Douglas/Sarpy counties. The transportation of students in a learning community is changed by the bill. ... More... WA Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 Early Learning Opportunities. H.B. 1723 Amends existing law to express intent to establish the Early Start Program to provide a continuum of high quality and accountable early learning opportunities for Washington's parents and children. Allows schools administering the Washington kindergarten inven... More... NM Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 Home Visiting Accountability Act S.B. 365 Directs the department to provide statewide home visiting services using a standards-based program. Provides definitions for home visiting programs and systems, standards based program, and eligible families. Requires home visiting programs to do two or more o... More... AK Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Early Childhood Education Program S.B. 182 Establishes a Voluntary Parent and Early Childhood Education Program for children under 5, to be planned, implemented, and reported on by the Department of Education and Early Development. The program must provide a system of early childhood education that, am... More... CO Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Ensuring K-3 Literacy Education H.B. 1238 Requires each local education provider (LEP, i.e., school districts, Boards of Cooperative Educational Services or BOCES, charter schools) to provide to students in kindergarten through 3rd grade the instruction and evidence based interventions necessary to en... More... MO Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 Reading/Literacy H.B. 1543--Multiple Provisions 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-ne... More... KY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Family Resource and Youth Services Centers S.B. 192 Provides that family resource and youth services centers must provide services to enhance a student's ability to succeed in school. Provides that the most economically disadvantaged students and families must receive priority status for receiving services. Pro... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 UPSTART Program S.B. 2 - Sections 3-9 Establishes UPSTART, a pilot project that uses a home-based educational technology program to develop the school readiness skills of children age 4-5 who have not entered kindergarten. Provides that UPSTART is created to evaluate the effectiveness of giving pr... More... UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 English Language Learner Family Literacy Centers S.B. 2 - Section 24 Establishes the English Language Learner Family Literacy Centers to: (1) Increase parent involvement (2) Communicate with parents who are not proficient in English concerning required and optional activities at the school, in the parents' preferred language to... More... NY Adopted 09/2007 P-12 Prekindergarten and Kindergarten Program Requirements Title 8 NYCRR Section 100.3 Amends regulations regarding program requirements for students in prekindergarten and kindergarten. Directs each school operating a prekindergarten and/or kindergarten to adopt and implement curricula, aligned with the State learning standards, that ensures co... More... IA Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Statewide Voluntary Preschool Program H.F. 877 Creates a statewide voluntary preschool program for four-year-old children. Provides that preschool teachers in the program must be certified and possess a bachelor's or graduate degree in early childhood education or another appropriate major from an accredit... More... WA Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Child Care Provider Information S.B. 5317 Declares that the purpose of this act is to provide tools to promote the hiring of suitable providers of child care by: (1) Providing parents with access to information regarding child care providers; (2) Providing child care providers with known information r... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Early Childhood Education and Family Literacy H.B. 2050 Transfers the family literacy program from the state board's division of adult education to the division of early childhood education programs. Adds that the representative of an adult education provider funded by the division of adult education on any project... More... AR Rule Adoption 06/2004 P-12 Better Chance Program ADE 174 Establishes general guidelines for the operation of early childhood programs funded under the Arkansas Better Chance Program and the Arkansas Better Chance for School Success Program. http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/ade%20174%20abc.pdf... More... AR Signed into law 02/2004 P-12 Family Resource Centers H.B. 1091 Provides for family resource centers to remove nonacademic barriers to academic success; authorizes use of national school lunch funds for this program; provides that the State Child Abuse and Prevention Board shall determine which schools are priority element... More... HI Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Commission on Fatherhood S.B. 1423 Establishes the Commission on Fatherhood within the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to provide for a statewide program, on a permanent and continuing basis, to promote healthy family relationships between parents and children that are father- friendly and in... More... MD Vetoed 05/2003 P-12 Early Childhood Education H.B. 635 Authorizes early childhood educational and developmental programs to enter specified agreements to promote early childhood educational programs. States that the purpose of the agreement is to collaborate and develop a plan to provide parents of indigent or at-... More... MO Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 Major Bill -- Family Literacy Component H.B. 1711 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 pr... More... OK Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 Early Childhood Programs S.B. 1212 Relates to funding for parent education programs; relates to the development and implementation of a Technology Intern Partner Program; relates to procedures and funding for such intern program; authorizes school districts to operate as federal Head Start Prog... More... PA Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 Adult Literacy/Family Literacy S.B. 35 Act No. 26 of 2001. Amends the Pennsylvania Adult Basic and Literacy Education Act; provides for short title, for findings and purpose, for definitions, for grant program, for limitations on funding, for interagency coordinating council, for audits and records... More... FL Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Cuts Early Childhood Programs S.B. 1162 - Omnibus The following programs have been repealed by S.B. 1162: 1) Gold Seal Quality care program, a three tiered quality rating system 2) Early screening and intervention program for children in subsidized child care programs 3) Child Development Associate Trai... More... NM Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Even Start Family Literacy H.B. 33 Relates to public education; provides for even start family literacy programs; provides for benchmarks, performance standards and evaluations; makes an appropriation.... More... NH Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Parents as Teachers Pilot Program S.B. 170 Creates a Parents as Teachers Pilot Program to create a partnership between parents and early childhood development professionals; provides there shall be 2 school district based programs, one in an urban community and one in a rural community in Sullivan coun... More... ID Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Parents as Teachers S.B. 1538 Appropriates funds to the Executive Office of the Governor for fiscal year 2001; limits the number of full-time equivalent positions to 24; provides legislative intent regarding the Parents as Teachers Program.... More... UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Parent Rights H.B. 102 The amendments to this act provide for increased "parents rights" in the realm of public education. The new law states that parents have the right to "…control the care, supervision, upbringing, and education of their children…" When a new policy or rule is a... More...