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Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
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LA | Adopted 07/2012 | P-12 | Approval for Alternative Schools or Programs
LAC 28:CXV.2903
From July 2012 Louisiana Register: This policy revision, related to approval for alternative schools or programs, will ensure that LEAs comp...
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LA | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Alternative Education
H.B. 1209
Transfers responsibility for placing a student in alternative school or alternative educational placement from local board to local superint...
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KY | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Assignment of Certified or Classified Staff to Alternative Education Programs
H.B. 168
Defines "alternative education program." Prohibits a superintendent from assigning an employee to an alternative education program in the di...
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MD | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Compulsory Attendance
S.B. 362
Raises from 16 to 17 the maximum age at which children are required to attend a public school regularly during the entire school year, subje...
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ID | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Youth Challenge Program
H.B. 662
Amends existing law to provide for federal funds and state funding, to provide that the school district where the Youth Challenge Program is...
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IN | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Nonpublic Alternative High Schools Accreditation
S.B. 283
Requires the department of education to waive accreditation standards for an accredited nonpublic alternative high school that contracts wit...
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IL | Signed into law 08/2011 | P-12 | Transfer of Suspended or Expelled Students to Alternative Education
H.B. 2086
Permits a student who has been suspended for more than 20 days to be immediately transferred to an alternative program. Provides that an eli...
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NH | Adopted 08/2011 | P-12 | Alternative Education, Tuition and Transportation
NH ADC Ed 1301.01; NH ADC Ed 1302.01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06; NH ADC Ed 1303.01, 02; NH ADC Ed 1304.01; NH ADC Ed 1405.01
Implements alternative education programs at regional career and technical education centers or associated high schools. Adds language for ...
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TX | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Alternative Education
S.B. 1
Requires that a district located in a county with a population of 125,000 or less provide educational services to a student who is expelled ...
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CT | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Expelled Students Participation in Adult Education Programs
H.B. 6433
Specifies that a student who has been expelled for the first time and is at least 16 years old is not required to withdraw from regular pub...
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OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Transfer to Alternative School
H.B. 153 - Transfer to Alternative School
Provides that local policies to allow a student to enroll in an alternative school may permit a student to permanently transfer to an altern...
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TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Expulsion or Placement in Disciplinary Alternative Education
H.B. 968
Requires a student who receives deferred prosecution for, is found by a court or jury to have engaged in, or a superintendent or designee ha...
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TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Opportunity to Complete Graduation Requirements for Student in Disciplinary Alternative Education
S.B. 49
Requires a district to provide the parents of a student removed to a disciplinary alternative education program with written notice of the d...
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FL | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | College-Preparatory Boarding Academy Pilot Program
S.B. 404
From Legislative Staff Summary: Creates the College-Preparatory Boarding Academy Pilot Program (Academy) for at-risk students. Defines the k...
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AR | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Alternative Learning Environments
S.B. 81
Requires districts to establish alternative learning environment programs for at-risk students. Specifies that such programs are not punitiv...
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MS | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Alternative School Placement
H.B. 1178
Provides criteria for districts to make a determination on an individualized basis before placing compulsory-school-age children returning f...
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WV | Signed into law 07/2010 | P-12 | Alternative Schools
S.B. 2010
Provides uniformity in alternative schools and requires a pilot program that will allow alternative schools in elementary and middle schools...
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GA | Adopted 07/2010 | P-12 | Alternative/Non-Traditional Education Programs
160-4-8-.12
Rule 160-4-8-.12, "Alternative Education Programs" has been repealed and a new rule adopted. Defines "alternative/non-traditional education ...
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LA | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Alternative Schools and Programs
H.B. 1225
Relates to approval by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education of certain alternative schools and alternative education progra...
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AK | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Alternative Education
H.B. 360
An Act relating to the provision of information regarding a student by a school district to the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs...
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TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Alternative Education
H.B. 1425
Existing policy requires a county with a population greater than 125,000 to develop a juvenile justice alternative education program. This p...
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MN | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Alternative Learning Centers
H.F. 2
Establishes parameters for alternative learning centers, alternative learning programs, and contract alternative programs.
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MS | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Alternative Schools and Workforce Development
S.B. 2575
Authorizes students assigned to alternative schools to attend workforce training programs; requires each school district having an alternati...
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VA | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Alternative Education for Students Charged with an Offense
H.B. 2341
Provides that pending the decision by the division superintendent as to whether to require that a student charged with an offense involving ...
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VA | Signed into law 02/2009 | P-12 | Students At-Risk for Long-Term Suspension
H.B. 1945
Provides that a school division may assign a student deemed at-risk for a long-term suspension to a regional alternative education program; ...
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KY | Adopted 02/2009 | P-12 | Extended School Services
704 KAR 3:390
Establishes requirements for extended school services. Defines "A5 program" as an alternative program with no attendance boundaries, serving...
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NH | Adopted 11/2008 | P-12 | Alternative Education Programs
Ed 1300
Requires the department to deliver a program of prevention and recovery of dropouts that increased the dropout age to 18 and permits a stude...
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DE | Signed into law 07/2008 | P-12 | Placement in Alternative Education
H.B. 326
Establishes a presumption that students 16 years of age and younger who are expelled or suspended pending expulsion by a local school distri...
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ME | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Alternative Education Programs
H.B. 1661A
Defines alternative education program as a program in which the primary purpose is to provide at-risk students with curricula and assessment...
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MI | Signed into law 01/2008 | P-12 | Alternative Education Academies
S.B. 703 (sec. 1311g)
Specifies policies, requirements and procedures for "strict discipline academies" for students who have been expelled, suspended or referred...
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CA | Signed into law 10/2007 | P-12 | Alternative education finance
S.B. 219
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to revise the Academic Performance Index to include additional information by a specified ...
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TN | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Greater Accountability for Alternative Education
S.B. 2157
Requires greater accountability for alternative education; for example, requires academic indicators to include grade point averages or othe...
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NH | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Alternative Education and Regional Vocational Centers
S.B. 101
Permits at risk students to attend an alternative education program at a regional vocational education center. Authorizes the department of ...
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ME | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Alternative Education Programs Committee
H.B. 1224
Establishes the Alternative Education Programs Committee. The committee shall review and make recommendations for the promotion of alternati...
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TN | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Pilot: of Mandated Attendance for Suspended Students
H.B. 2138
Adds a new section: A pilot project of mandated attendance in an alternative school for students who have been suspended shall be establishe...
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NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Alternative Programs of Education
A.B. 2A
Creates pilot program for alternative programs of education for disruptive pupils established, appropriates funds and district eligibility r...
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TN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Alternative School Pilot
H.B. 1545
Requires the advisory council for alternative education to study alternative school pilot sites and report to the governor, the state board ...
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TN | Eligible for GOVERNOR'S desk. 05/2007 | P-12 | Alternative Schools
H.B. 1545, S.B. 1427
Requires the advisory council for alternative education, established by Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-6-3404, to study issues relatin...
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MT | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Alternative Adolescent Residential or Outdoor Programs
H.B. 769
Requires registration and licensure of alternative adolescent residential or outdoor programs. Allows provisional licensing and requires bac...
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KY | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | No Pass No Drive
H.B. 32
Deletes the requirement that a local school district operate an alternative education program prior to the revocation of a student's operato...
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MS | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Alternative Education Authority
S.B. 2338
Directs the state board to promulgate guidelines for alternative school programs which provide broad authority to school boards of local sch...
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WY | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Extended Day & Summer School Programs, Distance Learning/Virtual University & Finance - Alternative Education Updates
H.B. 115
Requires the state superintendent of public instruction to review at-risk program strategies funded under the block grant model, specificall...
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TN | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Goals for Alternative Education Schools
S.B. 2723
Requires state board of education curriculum for alternative schools to stress student success and removes language concerning alternative s...
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VT | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Increasing Compulsory Education Age
H.B. 867 - Section 20 (h)
Directs the commissioner of education to gather information to facilitate discussion during the next legislative session about increasing th...
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FL | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | School Improvement Rating for Alternative Schools
H.B. 7087 (Section 47)
Alternative schools that provide dropout-prevention and academic-intervention services pursuant to s. 1003.53 shall receive a school-improv...
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FL | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | School Performance Grades
H.B. 7087 (Section 45)
Makes revisions to school grade provisions, such as the inclusion of information for students receiving a special diploma and grades for K-3...
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KY | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Behavior Which Constitutes a Threat
H.B. 688
Relates to expelled or suspended students. Defines "behavior which constitutes a threat" (and as such, allows a board to place a student in ...
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NC | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Alternative schools
H.B. 1076
AN ACT to direct the state board of education to adopt standards for alternative learning programs, and to require local boards of education...
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CA | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Options for Expelled Students
A.B. 110 --Expulsion Section
Governing boards that expel pupils must provide access to an educational program for those students. Such a program may be operated by the s...
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CO | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Evaluation of Expelled and At-Risk Student Services Grant Program
H.B. 1311
Authorizes the department of education to retain up to 1% of any appropriation for the expelled and at-risk student services grant program t...
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TN | SIGNED BY GOVERNOR. 05/2005 | P-12 | Alternative Schools Okay for Younger Students
H.B. 1938
Allows local boards of education to establish evening alternative schools for students in grades six (age 11) through twelve (6-12). Previou...
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WV | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Alternative Education
H.B. 3018
House Bill 3018 includes provisions relating to alternative education programs and the Mountaineer Challenge Academy. Attendees of both are ...
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TN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Resolution Urging Greater Funding of Alternative Schools
H.J.R. 116
Urges the Governor to include increased funding for alternative education programs in the 2005-06 General Appropriations Act. Currently, LEA...
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AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Public School Funding Act of 2003
S.B. 939
Amends the public school funding act of 2003. Requires the State Board of Education to promulgate rules clarifying not only which alternativ...
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AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Conditions Not Requiring Certification
S.B. 1044 (sections 16-17)
States that teacher certification requirements do not apply to persons teaching concurrent credit courses or advanced placement courses who:...
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IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Compulsory School Age; Alternative Education
S.B. 2918
Increases the compulsory school age from 16 to 17 years of age, with exceptions. Provides that certain provisions that apply to truant offic...
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MA | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 | P-12 | Alternative Education Grant Program
H.B. 4914
Relates to establishing an alternative education grant program; contains text of section 126 of H 4850; requires that parents or legal guard...
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RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 | P-12 | Alternative Education Programs
H.B. 7722
Each school district is required to adopt a plan to create alternative education programs to educate students who are removed from the class...
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CO | Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | Accountability for Alternative Campuses
1 CCR 301-57
Clarifies rules regarding the administration of accountability for alternative campuses and processes for being designated an alternative ca...
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NC | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Alternative Learning Program Funding
H.B. 1455 and 1456
Implements the recommendation of the house interim committee on providing an appropriate education for students on long-term suspension to d...
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CA | Vetoed 07/2004 | P-12 | Regional Occupational Program: Pupil Eligibility
S.B. 1591
Provides that a pupil who will attain the age of 16 years during the school year may be admitted to a regional occupational center or progra...
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OH | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Child Released from Custody
H.B. 106
Requires that upon a child's discharge or release from the custody of the Department of Youth Services certain records pertaining to the chi...
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MD | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Enhancement of Juvenile Services Programs
H.B. 1139
Establishes the Department of Juvenile Services Education Department; requires each facility established and operated by the Department of J...
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MD | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Juvenile Services Step Down Aftercare
S.B. 767
Requires a child discharged from a committed residential placement to receive step down aftercare for a period to be determined by the Depar...
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MS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | No Child Left Behind Act
H.B. 657
Authorizes local school boards to expand federal No Child Left Behind Act funds to pay for training, incentives and salary supplements to sc...
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TN | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Alternative Schools: Curriculum & Policies
S.J.R. 746
Concerns General Assembly, Directed Studies; directs the office of education accountability (with the asasistance of the state board and sta...
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MS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Delinquent Child
H.B. 1500
Relates to a delinquent child; provides that a youth court must consider additional factors before entering a disposition order or placing t...
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CO | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Alternative Schools Under Accountability System
S.B. 83
The performance of alternative schools that qualify is to be measured under a different set of accountability indicators. Schools that serve...
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WV | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Providing For Safe Schools
H.B. 4037
Provides for safe schools through alternative education programs; provides certain juvenile justice records to public school officials....
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CA | Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2003 | P-12 | Alternative Schools Accountability Model (ASAM)
Title 5 CCR 1068 thru 1074
Establishes emergency rules concerning alternative schools accountability model. CALIFORNIA REG 15452 (SN)
http://ccr.oal.ca.gov/cgi-bin/om_...
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NC | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12
Postsec. | Innovative Education Initiatives Act
S.B. 656
Creates the Innovative Education Initiatives Act to develop cooperative efforts between secondary schools and institutions of higher educati...
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TX | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Alternative Education Programs
H.B. 1314
Relates to placement of certain students in alternative education programs....
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LA | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Expulsion Provisions for Students Found Guilty of Certain Drug Charges
H.B. 639
States that mandatory minimum 24-month expulsion of any student age 16 or older, or mandatory minimum 12-month expulsion of student under ag...
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MD | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program
H.B. 490
Makes juvenile justice alternative education pilot program a permanent, non-pilot program. Specifies that the juvenile justice alternative ...
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OK | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Schools
S.B. 801
Prohibits the state board from providing funding to an alternative education program that does not receive a recommendation for continued fu...
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CO | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Alternative Education Campuses
S.B. 94
Requires state board to establish criteria and application process for a school to be designated an alternative education campus. Mandates t...
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LA | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Age to Attend Alternative Or Voc-Ed Programs
H.B. 21A
Lowers age for when certain students may attend alternative education or vocational-technical education programs; provides relative to atten...
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WV | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | Zero Tolerance, Alternative Education
S.B. 4
Defines terms; expands defined terms to include definitions for alternative education and dangerous student; sale of narcotics and possessio...
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WA | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | National Guard Youth Challenge Program
H.B. 1646
Relates to alternative educational service providers that the school district may contract with; includes the state national guard youth cha...
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OH | Signed into law 11/2001 | P-12 | Contracts, Provisions for Alternative Schools
H.B. 196
Permits school districts that establish certain alternative schools to contract with nonprofit or for profit entities to operate those schoo...
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CA | Vetoed 09/2001 | P-12 | School district superintendents and suspension policy
A.B. 177
Authorizes a school district superintendent or designee, if he or she chooses to extend a suspension, to address the academic needs of the p...
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OR | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Private Alternative Education Programs
S.B. 258
Allows State Board of Education to establish standards for private alternative education programs; specifies what is included in school dist...
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OK | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Alternative Approaches Grants
H.B. 1460
Alternative Approaches grants are to be targeted at school districts located in counties with a high number of dropouts for the school year ...
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TX | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | False alarms, Threats
H.B. 1088
Relates to the placement in an alternative education program or expulsion of a public school student who makes a false alarm or report or a ...
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NC | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Programs for Short-Term Suspensions
S.B. 71
Establishes a pilot program under which participating local school administrative units place all students who are on short-term out-of-scho...
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OK | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | At-Risk Elementary Students
H.B. 1499 Multiple Components for At-Risk Elementary Students
States that each urban school district as defined in Section 1210.568 of this title and as identified as having a high population of element...
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VA | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Age-Appropriate Education Programs
S.B. 1144
Creates optional age-appropriate education programs for students in grades K-5 who require guidance, supervision and discipline in a structu...
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VA | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Suspension, Expulsion, Alternative Programs
H.B. 2512
Reorganizes the student discipline statutes and moves some sections to other articles of Title 22.1. Requires division superintendents, in m...
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FL | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Changing the Rules for School Discipline
S.B. 852
Revises the definition of suspension; revises data used to determine school's performance grade category; revises information required to be...
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MS | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Suspension, Expulsion, Alternative Education
H.B. 776
Clarifies the authority of school superintendents, principals and school boards to suspend, expel, or change the placement of pupils for con...
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OK | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Alternative Education Expands to Include Middle Schoolers
S.B. 901
Contingent upon the provision of appropriated funds designated for such purpose, all school districts in the state providing alternative edu...
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ME | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Alternative Education
H.B. 1420
Public Law No. 683, (LD 2027); Encourages public school alternative education programs; requires school alliance to set consistent standards...
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VA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Alternative Education Plan Compliance
H.B. 1468
Provides that a student who has been granted an Alternative Education Plan and fails to comply with the condition of the plan shall be in vi...
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GA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Special Education, Alternative Education
H.B. 114
Relates to elementary and secondary education; changes certain provisions regarding special instructional assistance programs for students w...
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VA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Alternative Education
H.B. 188
Clarifies that regional pilot projects for alternative education are designed for elementary as well as middle and high school students; dir...
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GA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Omnibus Bill - Alternative Schools for Suspended Students
H.B. 1187
In-school suspension and alternative schools have been combined to create alternative programs. In-school suspension may be included as a ty...
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