CAStates legislative intent relating to the role of school counselors and counseling programs. Authorizes the academic counseling component of educational counseling to include an individualized review of pupil's academic and deportment records and career goals, and the opportunity for a counselor to meet with each pupil and his or her parents or legal guardian to explain the academic progress needed to complete middle or high school, and pass the high school exit examination, and be eligible for admission to a 4-year institution of postsecondary education and the availability of career technical education, among other things. Authorizes the career and vocational counseling component of educational counseling to include identifying personal interests, skills, and abilities, career planning, course selection, and career transition, and assisting pupils to understand the changing work environment, the effect of work on lifestyle, the relationship between academic achievement and career success, the importance of maximizing career options, the value of participating in career technical education and work-based learning activities and programs, and the need to develop essential employable skills and work habits, among other things. Requires ongoing professional development related to career and vocational counseling to include strategies for pupils pursuing postsecondary education, career technical education, multiple pathways, college, and global career opportunities. Bill: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0251-0300/sb_272_bill_20090825_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0251-0300/sb_272_vt_20091011.html
Title: S.B. 272
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
CAVeto message: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/ab_132_vt_20091011.html
Title: A.B. 132
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
CATitle: S.B. 123
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
OHRequires each such local board to staff a linkage coordinator for closing the achievement gap and increasing the graduation rate. Defines "linkage coordinator" as an individual who is the primary mentor, coach and motivator for students identified as at risk of not graduating (as defined by the governor's closing the achievement gap initiative), and who coordinates those students' participation in academic programs, social service programs, out-of-school cultural and work-related experiences, and mentoring programs, based on students' needs. Provides the linkage coordinator must coordinate remedial disciplinary plans and work with school staff to gather student academic information and engage parents of targeted students. Requires that the linkage coordinator serve as the liaison between the school and the governor's closing the achievement gap initiative and participate in all professional development activities as directed by the initiative. Requires the linkage coordinator to establish and coordinate the work of academic promotion teams to address identified students' academic and social needs. Provides that such teams' membership may vary by school, and may include the linkage coordinator, parents, teachers, principals, school nurses, school counselors, probation officers, or other school personnel or community members.
Directs the governor's closing the achievement gap initiative to work with each organizational unit of every district with a three-year average graduation rate at or below 80% to assess progress in implementing activities, and assist linkage coordinators, administrators and other school staff in ensuring compliance with the district's spending plan required under Section 3306.30. Specifies that items related to implementing actions in schools are subject to the state superintendent and the governor's closing the achievement gap initiative, and defines state superintendent actions if the superintendent or initiative disapprove items in the plan. Directs the department to work with the governor's closing the achievement gap initiative in reconciling the spending plan of a district with a three-year average graduation rate at or below 80% with the district's actual spending.
Pages 1107-1109 and 2841 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.31 and 265.70.80
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
NYTitle: Title 8 NYCRR 80-2.9, 80-4.3, 80-5.18
Source: www.dos.state.ny.us
TXTitle: H.B. 2542
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
TXTitle: H.B. 3951
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
TXPage 28 of 108: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03646F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3646 - Section 39
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
TX(1) Increasing geographic diversity of the entering freshman class
(2) Counseling and outreach efforts aimed at students qualified for automatic admission
(3) Recruiting Texas residents who graduate from other institutions of higher education to the university's graduate and professional degree programs
(4) Recruiting students who are members of underrepresented demographic segments of the state's population
(5) Assessing and improving the university's regional recruitment centers.
Provides that any year in which UT Austin uses the exception, the institution may not offer admission to nonresident students such that nonresident students would make up more than 10% of the first-time freshman class. Prohibits UT Austin from using the exception in any academic year in which, on the deadline for general applications, (1) the university was under a court order barring the institution from considering an applicant's race in making an admissions decision or (2) the institution's governing board has determined that an applicant's race may not be considered as a factor in first-time undergraduate admissions decisions. Pages 1-5 and 6-7 of 21: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/SB00175F.pdf
Title: S.B. 175 - Section 1, subsections (a)-(f), (j)-(k)
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
TXPostsec.
graduates who attend public or private or independent institutions of higher education is required to (1) provide to prospective students information related to enrollment in public or private or independent
institutions of higher education, including admissions and financial aid information; and (2) assist those prospective students in completing applications related to enrollment in those institutions, including admissions and financial aid applications. Pages 18-19 of 21: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/SB00175F.pdf
Title: S.B. 175 - Section 6
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
TXPostsec.
Also requires a certified high school counselor to explain, at the beginning of the school year, the requirements of automatic admission to a general academic teaching institution to each 10th and 11th grade student whose grade point average is in the top 25% of the student's class.
Pages 9-12 of 21: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/SB00175F.pdf
Title: S.B. 175 - Section 3 and 4
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
TXPostsec.
Directs the coordinating board to publish an annual report on the impact of the University of Texas at Austin's use of the exception to the policy to automatically admit applicants in the top 10% of their graduating class, on the state's goal of closing college access and achievement gaps under "Closing the Gaps," the state's master plan for higher education. Requires the reporting of specified information on UT Austin student demographics and high schools of origin. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/SB00175F.pdf
Title: S.B. 175 - Section 1, subsections (g), ((l)
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
MNhttps://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
OHpersonalized learning plan using either the Ohio career information system, a career planning system provider or a paper version that outlines high school coursework related to potential career goals. Adds that at the high school level, career planning must incldue a revision of the personalized learning plan. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/68/3301-68-01_PH_FF_A_RU_20090513_1242.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-68-01
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us
GAFor each focused program of study, requires the department of education to convene a committee that includes high school teachers, counselors, representatives from the University System of Georgia Board of Regents, the Technical College System of Georgia, the governor's Office of Workforce Development, employers, and others as deemed appropriate by the department. Directs each committee to develop a focused program of study blending academic and technical content developed around college and career readiness standards with real-world problems and projects for students. Requires recommendations to include statewide articulation and dual enrollment courses to allow prepared high school students to move directly into postsecondary education. Directs the committees to develop measures to certify equivalency in content and rigor for all statewide articulation and dual enrollment courses.
Establishes means for identifying high school students qualified to enroll in credit-bearing postsecondary coursework. Requires secondary and postsecondary credit to be awarded to any student who articulated or dual enrollment course. Requires students in grades 6-8 to be provided counseling, advisement, career awareness, career interest inventories and information to help them evaluate academic skills and career interests. Requires all students by end of grade 8 to select a preferred focused program of study and develop an individual graduation plan. Requires high school students to be provided counseling annually to enable them to complete their individual graduation plans, and prepare them for a seamless transition to postsecondary study, training or employment. Sets forth required components of every individual graduation plan, including integration of experience-based, career-oriented learning experiences that may include internships, apprenticeships, mentoring, co-op education and service learning, as well as opportunities for postsecondary learning through articulation, dual enrollment and joint enrollment.
Requires the department to provide training for counselors and graduation coaches about (1) high demand, high skill and high wage opportunities for bachelor's degrees, associate's degrees and certificates; (2) how a combination of rigorous academic and technical courses can prepare students for these fields, (3) how to organize a teacher adviser system that engages teachers in working with a group of students and their parents in setting goals, identifying individual programs of study, and establishing individual graduation plans to achieve those goals. Requires the plan to include strategies for school staff to effectively involve parents in the educational and career guidance process and in the development of individual graduation plans. Provides that on request by any local school system, training may be given to counselors and graduation coaches in any middle or high school.
Directs the state board, in collaboration with the Technical College System of Georgia and the University System of Georgia Board of Regents, to establish a process for certifying all focused programs of study by using national certifying agencies where they exist and developing state industry-certifying panels in career pathways where no national certifying agency exists. The certification process must, at a minimum, validate that a program of study curriculum meets industry standards where applicable, that its teachers hold current industry certification where applicable, and that its facilities, equipment and software are adequate to teach the curriculum.
Bill: http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/pdf/sb178.pdf
Veto Message 11 (scroll toward bottom of page): http://gov.georgia.gov/00/press/detail/0,2668,78006749_139486062_140372354,00.html
Title: S.B. 178 Section 10, Part 1
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
NDTitle: H.B. 1400 - Counselor Positions Section
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov
UTDefines Student Education Occupation Plan (SEOP) as a developmentally organized intervention process that includes:
(1) a written plan, updated annually, for a student's (grade 9-12, at a minimum) education and occupational preparation
(2) all state board, local board and local charter board graduation requirements
(3) evidence of parent or guardian, student, and school representative involvement annually
(4) attainment of approved workplace skill competencies, including job placement when appropriate
(5) identification of postsecondary goals and approved sequence of courses.
Requires district- and school-level policies and practices to free licensed school counselors for appropriate identified activities with secondary students. Bars secondary school counselors from devoting significant time to non-school counseling activities, including test coordination and assessment and other activities inconsistent with the Program. Makes receipt of certain funds to support high school counseling programs contingent upon maintainance of Program criteria and ratios. Replaces requirement that counseling programs be reviewed on-site every three years with requirement that programs be reviewed on-site every six years, with three year interim reviews in a locally-developed format.
Requires Comprehensive Counseling and Guidance Programs to include parental involvement in all available Comprehensive Counseling and Guidance Program steering/advisory committees. Requires all schools and charter schools receiving Comprehensive Counseling and Guidance Program funds to provide school-based data projects demonstrating program or intervention effectiveness as required by the state office of education.
Repeals former R277-462-4 on use of program funds. Replaces with R277-462-4, which establishes criteria for all SEOPs. Requires all secondary schools receiving Comprehensive Counseling and Guidance funds to complete written SEOPs for all students prior to start of student's 9th grade year.
Adds new R277-462-5, which requires all districts and charter schools to annually certify to the state office of education the full-time equivalent licensed school counselors assigned to each school, and that the secondary school counselor to student ratio is 1:350 or lower. Annually requires any district or charter school not meeting the counselor/student ratio to submit to the state board a plan for meeting established ratios in a reasonable time frame to continue to receive Comprehensive Counseling and Guidance Program and Minimum School Program funding. Adds provision that as additional funds for Comprehensive Counseling and Guidance Programs become available, lower counselor to student ratios may be required following state board approval and adequate notice to districts and charter schools.
Adds new R277-462-6, which requires districts and charter schools to meet all administrative rule provisions related to the Program to receive Program funds, and sets forth permissible uses of Comprehensive Counseling and Guidance Program Funds for grades 7-12.
Requires the state office of education to annually gather data from districts and charter schools on the number and assignments of school counselors, for use in determining local compliance with Program provisions, including counselor/student ratios. Requires the annual report on the Program to include data and compliance information and be submitted to the legislature and state board. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/code/r277/r277-462.htm
Title: R277-462
Source: www.rules.utah.gov
SDhttp://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2009/Bill.aspx?File=HB1186ENR.htm
Title: H.B. 1186
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us
OHPostsec.
Title: H.B. 525
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
COEstablishes rules for HB 1370 that provides moneys to school districts, boards of cooperative services, and charter schools for increasing the number of school counselors for secondary students and the level of school counseling services provided.
http://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/NumericalSubDocList.do?deptID=4&deptName=300%20Department%20of%20Education&agencyID=109&agencyName=301%20Colorado%20State%20Board%20of%20Education&ccrDocID=2996&ccrDocName=1%20CCR%20301-74%20ADMINISTRATION%20OF%20THE%20SCHOOL%20COUNSELOR%20CORPS%20GRANT%20PROGRAM
Title: 1 CCR 301-74
Source: http://www.sos.state.co.us/
LACreates the state High School Dropout Prevention Act of 2008. Directs the state board to work with the school districts that have the lowest four-year cohort graduation rates. Directs the state board to incorporate specific dropout prevention strategies, target resources, and gather data that will improve graduation rates and educational outcomes in all grades in all schools. Directs the state board to develop specific methods of targeted intervention or identify appropriate existing methods for districts with a four-year cohort graduation rate below 70%. Provides that these intervention methods may include:
(a) Early intervention for students who are at risk of failing Algebra I or any 9th grade math class
(b) Alternative programs designed to reengage dropouts
(c) Increased availability of advanced placement courses
(d) Comprehensive coaching for middle school students who are below grade level in reading and math
(e) Teacher advisories such as the use of graduation coaches and other supports designed to specifically address the needs of youth most at risk of dropping out of school
(f) Strategies specifically designed to improve the high school graduation rate of students at highest risk for dropping out, including youth in the foster care system, pregnant and parenting youth, Limited English Proficient students, and students with special education needs
(g) Communicating with students and their parents or legal guardians about the availability of local after school programs and the academic enrichment and other activities the programs offered
(h) Opportunities for credit recovery
(i) Opportunities to participate in the Jobs for America's Graduates program.
Directs the state board to gather the following data to ensure that all programs are research-based and data-driven, and to use such data for continuous program improvement:
(a) Total number of high school suspensions and expulsions
(b) Total number of students enrolled in alternative schools
(c) Total number of students who have failed Algebra I or English I
(d) Total number of students who are repeating the ninth grade
(e) Total number of students required to repeat a ninth grade course.
Directs school districts failing to show a decline in their annual dropout rates to annually submit to the state board a written report that documents:
(a) The outcomes of the dropout prevention strategies to date at the school system level
(b) How the school system dropout prevention strategies and activities will be modified, based on the data.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=502007
Title: H.B. 1091
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
WV"Revisions were needed in Policy 2510 to allow local school districts greater flexibility in the implementation of the rigorous academic standards and high quality programs that characterize West Virginia's 21st century teaching and learning initiative. The intent of these proposed revisions is to place the focus on providing students with excellent learning opportunities that result in student mastery of West Virginia's high quality content standards and objectives (CSOs) rather than on a prescriptive compliance language that may discourage 21st century creativity and innovation. Thus, these revisions were designed to allow counties more
flexibility in the implementation of a rigorous curriculum that is tailored to the unique needs and constraints of each school without compromising the intent and spirit of the 21st teaching and learning initiative.
"Proposed revisions include removing restrictive language requiring 60 minutes of daily uninterrupted reading at grades 3-4, allowing counties/schools greater latitude in scheduling appropriate learning opportunities for students. The requirement for a 225 minute block for core courses for grades 5-8 was removed and replaced with language that requires a 180 minute block for core courses, again to allow greater local flexibility for scheduling learning opportunities for students. Proposed revisions also remove the grade 5-8 requirement for annual implementation of programs and/or separate courses in advisory, guidance and counseling, career exploration and technology. Policy language was revised to clarify the recommendation that all students in the professional pathway be enrolled in Algebra I in 8th grade. Policy language remains that requires a foreign language to be offered for students in grades 7 and 8, but removes prescriptive language that requires counties to use the 1A in grade 7 and 1 B in grade 8th scheduling option. At grades 9-12, language was revised to allow Life Science and Earth Science to satisfy the requirement for chemistry for 9th graders entering in 2008-09 and 2009-10, allowing more time for districts to secure chemistry teachers and lab facilities. Language requiring a college transition English course was removed and language was added to allow counties to determine options for students who need additional time to successfully complete Algebra I and to allow counties to grant up to two math credits for students' successful course completion. Language requiring a specific sequence for required social studies courses was added, and language was revised to allow state-approved Career Technical Education courses to satisfy the Arts requirement for graduation.
Major Revisions or Reasons for New Policy:
* Reading requirement for grades 3-4: Policy language was revised to allow local flexibility in the scheduling of a 90 minute uninterrupted reading block that may include reading and language arts instruction provided through whole group, small group and reading center activities.
* Reading requirement for grades 5-8: Policy language was revised to reduce the required time for core courses to 180 minutes giving responsibility for determining time allocations that provide adequate time for students to achieve mastery of the WV CSOs to the principal and a team of teachers.
* Algebra I in 8th grade: Policy language was changed from use of the word "expect" to the word "recommend" to clarify that the intent of current policy
is to recommend that all students in the professional pathway be enrolled in Algebra I in 8th grade.
* Required programs/courses in Advisory, Counseling, Career Exploration and Technology: Policy language requiring these programs to be implemented annually was replaced with language that requires these activities (advisory, career exploration and counseling) to be integrated into an organized advisory program that includes career guidance and counseling and allows local flexibility for scheduling these activities. The intent of the revised language is to allow local decision making for the scheduling of technology applications instruction throughout the grade 5-8 curriculum, rather than in a separate technology course.
* Required foreign language course in grades 7 and 8: Policy language requires districts to offer a foreign language course for students in grades 7 and 8 as described in current policy. Language that prescribes the specific method of scheduling this course was removed to allow more flexibility at the local level and to ensure the implementation of quality programs. Additionally, the revised policy language will also provide WVDE/counties/schools flexibility in addressing staffing and scheduling needs in order to support the development of articulated foreign language programs at the elementary level.
* Required course in chemistry: Policy language was revised to permit Life Science or Earth Science to satisfy the graduation requirement for chemistry/conceptual chemistry for 9th graders entering in 2008-09 and 2009-10, allowing more time for districts to secure chemistry teachers and lab facilities. (Students entering 9th grade in 2010-11 must have chemistry/conceptual chemistry to meet graduation requirements.)
* College transition English course: Policy language was revised to remove the college transition English course requirement with the expectation that instruction in the required English classes will address the needs of student who do not achieve the state assessment college readiness benchmark for English.
* Students who need additional time to complete Algebra I: While language in Policy 2510 is consistent with research indicating the best option for scheduling additional time for Algebra I CSO mastery is to do so within the same year, policy language permits the local-level identification of students who need additional time to master Algebra I content standards and objectives. The identification of students for this option must be a data-driven decision and counties may select from a number of scheduling options to assure that students master the Algebra I CSOs. Scheduling options such as "double blocking" Algebra I, Algebra Support and Algebra I, or other similar options may be determined at the local level, as long as the priority of the selected option is to provide students the best possible opportunity to succeed in mastery of the Algebra I CSOs. Counties selecting a scheduling option that places students who need extra time in two separate math courses may grant students up to two math credits toward graduation upon successful course completion. Counties that provide identified students additional time by enrolling them in two separate math courses may award up to two math credits toward graduation requirements upon students' successful completion of each
course. (A student who is identified as being in need of additional time to master Algebra I CSOs, and who has been determined by an IEP Team to be unable
even with extended learning opportunities and significant instructional modifications to meet state and county standard graduation requirements, may, in accordance with Policy 2510, Section 5.6.9.a., receive a modified diploma.)
* Social studies course sequence: Policy language was added to indicate a required sequence of social studies courses: World Studies to 1900; United
States Studies to 1900; Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Studies; Civics for the 21st Century. This sequence is required to assure maximum understanding of the material and alignment of content with state assessment.
* Additional courses to satisfy the Arts requirement: Policy language was added to permit students in Skilled Pathway concentrations that complete state approved career/technical courses that reflect creative and innovative arts content may substitute these courses for the arts credit required for graduation. Designation of these courses will be made by state-level administrators of career/technical and arts programs.
Text of new regulations: http://wvde.state.wv.us/policies/p2510_ne.pdf
Title: Title 126, Series 42
Source: www.lexis.com
COhttp://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2008a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/744186C0692144BE8725740200640365?open&file=1370_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1370
Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us/
MDhttp://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/13a/13a.04.10.01.htm
Title: COMAR 13A.04.10.01, .02
Source: http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/
NMPostsec.
Community College
http://www.sos.state.nm.us/2008/SBill460.pdf
Title: S.B. 460
Source: http://legis.state.nm.us/LCS/default.asp
GA505-2-.26: Makes available an optional Computer Science Endorsement (6-12) to provide strengthened and enhanced competency levels for teaching computer science skills in grades 6-12.
505-2-.96: Renames the Professional Foods specialization to Culinary Arts and deletes a temporary certificate "option" which will be replaced by a new endorsement.
505-2-.150: Adds the new endorsements of Culinary Arts and Computer Science to the list of teaching endorsements.
505-2-.166: Creates an optional endorsement for individuals assigned to teach secondary computer science courses.
505-2-.167: Creates an endorsement allowing teachers with Family and Consumer Sciences Education certification to teach the culinary arts curriculum to students in grades 6-12.
505-2-.202: Provides for issuing a Non-Renewable Certificate in School Counseling with a master's degree in Social Work.
505-2-.300: Establishes the certification requirements and guidelines for the new Educational Leadership certificates. The previous version of Rule 505-2-.300 is proposed to be repealed and replaced by this new rule.
505-2-.350: Establishes guidelines for the "grandfathering" of the previous endorsements (the individual rules are being repealed) and establishes the new Teacher Leader Endorsement.
505-2-.351: Repeals rule regarding "Director of Media Centers" endorsement. Replaces with new rule establishing a Teacher Leader Endorsement, which is intended to serve as the initial certification step for teachers to begin assuming basic leadership-type functions while remaining in the classroom. This endorsement is optional and is not required to perform the leadership-type functions as outlined in rule.
505-2-.352: Repeals rule regarding "Director of Pupil Personnel Services" endorsement. Current holders of the endorsement will be "grandfathered" and continue to be in-field to serve in this position, as outlined in proposed PSC Rule 505-2-.350. Future pupil personnel services directors must hold the Leadership certificate.
505-2-.353: Repeals rule regarding "Director of Special Education" endorsement. Current holders of the endorsement will be "grandfathered" and continue to be in-field to serve in this position, as outlined in proposed PSC Rule 505-2-.350. certificate.
505-2-.354: Repeals rule regarding "Director of Technology/Career Education" endorsement. Current holders of the endorsement will be "grandfathered" and continue to be in-field to serve in this position, as outlined in proposed PSC Rule 505-2-.350. Leadership certificate.
505-2-.355: Repeals rule regarding "Instructional Supervision" endorsement. Current holders of the endorsement will be "grandfathered" and continue to be in-field to serve in this position, as outlined in proposed PSC Rule 505-2-.350. Future instructional supervision educators must hold the Leadership certificate.
505-3-.062: This new rule establishes guidelines for a Computer Science Endorsement Program.
505-3-.063: This new rule establishes guidelines for a Culinary Arts Endorsement Program.
Title: GAC 505-2-.10, -.26, -.96, -.150, -.166, -.167, -.202,-.300, -.350, -.351, -.352, -.353, - .354, -.355; 505-3-.62, -.63
Source: www.lexis.com
MIhttp://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/publicact/pdf/2007-PA-0141.pdf
Title: S.B. 403
Source: Michigan Legislature
IATitle: IAC 281-12.2(256), 12.3(11), 12.4(12)
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
CAPostsec.
http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_0401-0450/ab_428_bill_20071012_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 428
Source: http://www.senate.ca.gov/
ILTitle: S.B. 122
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet