From the ECS State Policy Database Curriculum

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 NV Adopted 11/2012 Postsec. Revises and describes what should be included in courses of study in career and technical education. http://www.leg.state.nv.us/nac/NAC-389.html Title: NAC 389.516, 520, 521, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527, 529, 530, 532, 534, 536, 537, 543, 5435, 545, 5455, 547, 5475, 549, 5495, 5515, 553, 5535, 572, 573, 575, 576, 577, 579, 581, 582, 584, 586, 588, 589, 590, 592, 594, 596, 597, 598, 600, 601, 6013, 6015, 6017, 604, 606, 608, 610, 611, 612, 614, 616, 618, 620, 622, 624, 6525, 6529, 653, 6534, 6535, 6536, 6537, 6538, 6539, 6541, 6542, 6543, 6544, 6545,6546 Source: www.leg.state.nv.us NV Adopted 06/2012 P-12 Adopting the Common Core Standards at certain grade levels for English language arts and mathematics; providing for the implementation of the Common Core Standards in prescribed school years; repealing certain existing standards in English language arts and mathematics; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Register/2011Register/R019-11A.pdf Revising provisions governing alternate methods for demonstrating proficiency in writing. http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Register/2012Register/R083-12I.pdf Revising substance of curriculum for career readiness courses. http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Register/2012Register/R001-12A.pdf Title: NAC 389 Source: www.leg.state.nv.us LA Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Requires the state board of education to create a process for authorizing course providers, including online or virtual providers, postsecondary education institutions, and corporations that offer vocational or technical courses. The process must include certain required information to be provided by proposed authorizers, including the administration of state assessments, the school systems where the provider will operate, the proposed courses offered, and the alignment of the courses with any approved Louisiana diploma. Provides for an initial authorization period of three years and provides for reauthorization for additional periods of three to five years. Provides for monitoring and evaluation of course providers by the board. Requires the board to create a common course numbering process and course catalogue for all courses and a reciprocal teacher certification process for certain teachers residing in other states who are employed by course providers. The bill also addresses state funding for the courses and providers. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=793655 For more details on process and other rulemakings by the state board per this legislation, see pages 74-78 of 276: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1212/1212.pdf Title: H.B. 976 Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us PA Signed into law 10/2011 P-12 Updates the definition of ''vocational agricultural education" to include instruction that develops student potential for success in entering and advancing through careers in the food, agriculture and natural resources sciences, such as production agriculture, animal science, agribusiness management and marketing, agricultural research, energy systems, agricultural mechanics and engineering, biotechnology, food science, processing and retailing, banking, agricultural education, forestry, horticulture,landscape contracting, nursery and floriculture production, retail garden center management, leadership and career development, management, economics and marketing, natural resource management, plant and soil science, power and systems technology, rural-urban interfacing and other related fields. http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=PDF&sessYr=2011&sessInd=0&billBody=S&billTyp=B&billNbr=0389&pn=1200 Title: S.B. 389 Source: http://www.legis.state.pa.us CA Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 From bill summary: Updates references to certain categories of persons and requires instruction in social sciences to include a study of the role and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, persons with disabilities, and members of other cultural groups, to the development of California and the U.S.. Amends provision prohibiting instruction or school sponsored activities that promote a discriminatory bias because of certain characteristics (i.e., race, gender), so that such provisions refer to race or ethnicity, gender, religion, disability, nationality, and sexual orientation, or other characteristic listed. Amends provision prohibiting a district governing board from adopting instructional materials that contain any matter reflecting adversely upon persons because of specified characteristics, to refer to race or ethnicity, gender, religion, disability, nationality, sexual orientation, and occupation, or other characteristic listed as specified. Amends provision requiring adopted instructional materials to accurately portray the role and contributions of culturally and racially diverse groups, to include Pacific Islanders, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, and persons with disabilities. Clarifies legislative intent to require that alternative and charter schools take notice of these provisions in light of existing provisions that prohibit discrimination in any aspect of their operation. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sb_48_bill_20110714_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 48 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CT Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Includes genocide education in the materials provided by the Department of Education to school districts for student curriculum and educator in-service training. Classifies American sign language as a foreign language for purposes of the prescribed education curriculum. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/ACT/Pa/pdf/2011PA-00136-R00HB-06499-PA.pdf Title: H.B. 6499 - Sec. 1 and 2 Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov FL Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Authorizes school districts to provide a digital curriculum for students in grades 6 through 12 (Sec. 17). Requires a district's strategic plan to include plans to implement a middle school career and professional academy (Sec. 20). Eliminates the requirement that a student choose the 18 credit accelerated graduation option no later than ninth grade (Sec. 19). Authorizes school districts to select premethods and postmethods for determining student learning gains for supplemental educational service providers (Sec. 28). http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1255er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1255&Session=2011 Title: H.B. 1255 - Sec. 17, 19, 20, 28 Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov FL Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Sec. 8 - Adjusts the charter school enrollment process such that students living in a development that provides the facility and related property with an appraised value of at least $10 million for a charter school in the development shall be entitled to 50 percent of the enrollment in the charter school. Provides that charter school systems may be designated as local education agencies for the purpose of receiving federal funds. Sec. 11 & 12 - Increases the number of students that may be assigned to an instructor in the school year Pre-kindergarten program from 11 to 12, and from 18 to 20 for an instructor plus an assistant. Sec. 14 - Redefines the term "core curricula courses" for the purpose of designating classes subject to the maximum class size requirements and requires the state Department of Education to maintain a list of such courses. Sec. 15 - Provides flexibility for school districts to implement class size requirements when additional students enroll in a school after the October survey and for students in grades 4 to 8 who take high school courses. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-055.pdf Title: S.B. 2120 - Sec. 8, 11, 12, 14, 15 Source: http://laws.flrules.org WV Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Amends and reenacts the law relating to the authority of school curriculum teams and local school collaborative processes with respect to selection and use of testing and assessment instruments not required by statute or state board when certain conditions are met. Provides that school curriculum teams should: (1) Provide professional opportunities for teachers, administrators and other school personnel that allow them to have a direct voice in the operation of their schools and to create a culture of shared decision-making focused on the ultimate goal of raising student achievement; (2) Encourage the use of different, high-quality models of teaching, scheduling and other aspects of educational delivery that meet a variety of student needs; (3) Increase high-quality educational opportunities for all students that close achievement gaps between high-performing and low-performing groups of public school students; and (4) Provide public schools with increased school-level freedom and flexibility to achieve these purposes when they have achieved exceptional levels of results-driven accountability. Provides for the discretionary use of certain assessments, instructional strategies and programs for certain teams when certain conditions are met. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3116%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=3116 Title: H.B. 3116 Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us FL Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Sec. 21 - Requires the state Commissioner of Education, by April 15 of each school year, to appoint three state or national experts in the content areas submitted for adoption to review the instructional materials and evaluate the content for alignment with the applicable Next Generation Sunshine State Standards. Provides that the reviewers will be designated as state instructional materials reviewers and will review the materials for the level of instructional support and the accuracy and appropriateness of progression of introduced content. Revises statutes related to instructional materials for public schools requiring that by 2015-2016, all adopted instructional materials for K-12 students are to be in electronic or digital format. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-055.pdf Title: S.B. 2120 - Sec. 21 Source: http://laws.flrules.org IA Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Postsec. Establishes a council for agricultural education (advisory). Sets membership and duties. The duties of the council are to review, develop, and recommend standards for secondary and postsecondary agricultural education. http://search.legis.state.ia.us/NXT/gateway.dll/cl/84th%20ga%20-%20session%201/01___enrolled/001___bills/01___house/hf592.html?f=templates$fn=document-frameset.htm$q=agriculture$x=server$3.0#LPHit1 Title: H.B. 592 Source: http://search.legis.state.ia.us AK Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Establishes advisory task force on theme-based education as a legislative task force to compile data and advise the legislature on public school curriculum. Establishes membership. Requires the task force to meet at the call of the chair at least once every three months. Directs the task force to (1) Compile research conducted in the state and nationally on theme-based education; (2) Explore new approaches that may effective in producing increased levels of career readiness; and (3) Prepare legislative recommendations to improve curriculum in the state. Directs the task force to submit its findings and recommendations no later than January 1, 2012. Dissolves the task force effective January 1, 2012. http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill_text.asp?hsid=SB0001Z&session=27 Title: S.B. 1 - Task Force on Theme-Based Education Source: http://www.legis.state.ak.us WA Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Relates to encouraging instruction in the history of civil rights; adding a new section to chapter 28A.230 RCW; and creating a new section. Effectove 07/22/2011 http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2011-12/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202011/5174.SL.pdf Title: S.B. 5174 Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov MI Signed into law 12/2010 P-12 Directs the state department of education develop or adopt, and make available to schools, one or more model programs for gun safety instruction for elementary school pupils; Requires the model program to adopt or be based on the "Eddie Eagle" gunsafe accident prevention program developed by the national rifle association; Encourages each school district and public school academy to adopt and implement the model gun safety instruction program developed in at least grade 3 beginning in the 2011-2012 school year. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2009-2010/publicact/htm/2010-PA-0367.htm Title: S.B. 1402 Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov PA Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 11/2010 P-12 This section requires the Secretary of Education to establish state standards for business, computer and information technology courses within 18 months. http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=PDF&sessYr=2009&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=0101&pn=4389 Title: H.B. 101- Section 1552 Source: http://www.legis.state.pa.us AZ Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Prohibits a school district or charter school from including courses or classes that either promote the overthrow of the United States government or promote resentment toward a race or class of people. Specifies that the act cannot be construed to restrict or prohibit: courses or classes for Native American pupils that are required to comply with federal law; the grouping of pupils according to academic performance, including capability in the English language that may result in a disparate impact by ethnicity; courses or classes that include the history of any ethnic group and that are open to all students, unless the course or class violates this act; courses or classes that include the discussion of controversial aspects of history; and the instruction of the Holocaust, any other instance of genocide, or the historical oppression of any particular group of people based on ethnicity, race, or class. Chapter 311 Title: H.B. 2281 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AZ Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Establishes the course's worth at one credit. Includes competently discharging a firearm at one or more targets to demonstrate marksmanship in the course requirements. Requires qualified instructors to hold current firearms safety instruction certification from a listed organization. Defines "firearm". Chapter 332 http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/hb2725s.pdf Title: H.B. 2725--Multiple Provisions Source: http://www.azleg.gov FL Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Civics Education [SPSC]; Designates act "Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Civics Education Act"; provides requirement that reading portion of language arts curriculum include civics education content for all grade levels; provides requirements for civics education course that student must successfully complete for middle grades promotion; requires administration of end-of-course assessment in civics education as field test at middle school level,etc. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0105er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0105&Session=2010 Title: H.B. 105 Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov OK Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Authorizes districts to offer an elective high school course on the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and its impact and an elective course on the New Testament and its impact; or an elective course that teaches students knowledge of biblical content, characters, poetry, and narratives that are prerequisites to understanding contemporary society and culture, including literature, art, music, mores, oratory, and public policy; and familiarizes students with the content, history of, literary style and influence of Hebrew Scriptures or New Testament. Requires that the Bible be the primary text of the course, although it may be supplemented with additional resources. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10bills/HB/HB2321_ENR.RTF Title: H.B. 2321 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us MD Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Establishes the Task Force to Explore the Incorporation of the Principles of Universal Design (i.e., an approach to education curriculum design in which curriculum is intentionally and systemically designed from the beginning to address students' individual differences; specifically recommends the use of flexible instruction materials, techniques, and strategies) for Learning into the education systems in Maryland; provides for the membership, purposes, and staffing of the Task Force. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/chapters_noln/Ch_305_sb0467E.pdf Title: S.B. 467 Source: http://mlis.state.md.us UT Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Postsec. Section 1: Directs the state board, by December 31, 2010, to review mandates provided for in administrative rule, to determine whether some could be waived to remove funding pressures on public schools temporarily. Sections 2-4: Eliminates the requirement to administer criterion-referenced tests to students in grade 2. Directs the state board, before the October 2010 Education Interim Committee meeting, to present its plan for a pilot program for the 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years to (1) replace the 10th-grade basic skills competency test with computer adaptive testing of basic skills, and (2) administer the ACT exam to high school students. Directs the state board to implement such a pilot program during the 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years. Exempts districts and charter schools from administering the 10th-grade basic skills competency test during the the 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years. Directs the state board to re-direct the money saved by not administering the 10th-grade basic skills competency test to fund implementation of the pilot program during the 2010-11 and 2011-12 fiscal years. Exempts a student from the 10th-grade basic skills competency test requirement if the student was in 10th grade in the 2008-09 or 2009-10 school years and did not pass the competency test (10th-grade basic skills competency test functions as exit exam unless certain waivers apply). Section 5: Exempts local boards from the requirement to develop and administer activity disclosure statements for high school-level extracurricular activities (as called for in Section 53A-3-420) until the 2012-13 school year. Section 6: Exempts the state board, until the 2012-13 school year, from the requirements called for in Section 53A-3-602.5 to annually (1) develop a school performance report for schools, districts and charter schools, and (2) collect and electronically report specified performance data for schools, districts and charter schools. Section 7: Exempts a school district from certain requirements related to the disposal of textbooks until the 2012-13 school year. Section 8: Until the 2012-13 school year, releases districts from the requirement in Section 53A-13-107 that an annual presentation on adoption be given to students in grades 7-12. Section 9: Until the 2012-13 school year, releases districts from the requirement in Section 53A-14-107 regarding alignment of primary instructional materials aligned with the core curriculum adopted under Section 53A-1-402. http://le.utah.gov/~2010/bills/hbillenr/hb0166.pdf Title: H.B. 166 Source: le.utah.gov VA Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Establishes the Open Education Curriculum Board. Provides that the board may offer financial incentives to encourage individuals to submit educational materials to the Consortium; provides that certain content may be licensed or sold for a reasonable fee, provided the cost does not exceed the cost of comparable commercial products. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB241ER+pdf Title: S.B. 241 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ VA Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Allows local school boards to offer firearm safety education programs in the elementary grades; requires that program objectives incorporate, among other principles of firearm safety, accident prevention and the rules of the National Rifle Association's Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program and comply with curriculum guidelines. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+CHAP0859+pdf Title: H.B. 1217 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us OH Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Creates the teen driver education license plate fund in the state treasury, from applicants who obtain teen driver education license plates. Directs the department of public safety to use the money in the fund to fund the rental, lease or purchase of the simulated driving curriculum of the Michelle's leading star foundation by local boards of education. Directs the department of public safety to adopt rules establishing a process for distributing money in the fund to those boards. http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=128_HB_27 Title: H.B. 27 Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us SD Signed into law 02/2010 P-12 Requires the Department of Education to develop a framework for entrepreneurship education for use at middle and high school levels. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2010/Bills/HB1152ENR.pdf Title: H.B. 1152 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us VA Signed into law 02/2010 P-12 Repeals the requirement for economics education and financial literacy instruction in middle and high schools. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB196ER+pdf Title: H.B. 196 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us WI Signed into law 02/2010 P-12 The purpose of the statute on instruction in human growth and development instruction is to encourage all school boards to ensure that pupils in their districts are provided ageappropriate instruction in human growth and development. The Act provides that the instruction should support and enhance communication between pupils and their parents and provide pupils with the knowledge, skills, and support necessary to make healthy decisions now and throughout their lifetimes and to make responsible decisions about sexual behavior. The Act defines "age-appropriate" as suitable to a particular age group of pupils based on the developing cognitive and emotional capacity of and behaviors typical for the age group. a school board that elects not to provide an instructional program in human growth and development must, by September 30 of each school year, send home to the parent or guardian of each pupil enrolled in the school district a notice that includes all of the following: -- A statement that the school board is encouraged by state statute to provide instruction in human growth and development in grades kindergarten to 12. -- The subjects of instruction required if the school board were to provide instruction in human growth and development. -- A statement that the school board is not providing any instruction in human growth and development to pupils enrolled in the school district. Eliminates the prohibition on volunteer health care providers providing instruction on human sexuality, reproduction, family planning, HIV and AIDS, prenatal development, childbirth, adoption, available prenatal and postnatal support, and male and female responsibility in a school. Link to Act memo: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/lc_act/act134-ab458.pdf. To full text: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/AB-458.pdf Title: A.B. 458 Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us WI Signed into law 02/2010 P-12 Act 114 requires school boards to award a science credit to a pupil for each agriculture course the pupil successfully completes in the high school grades if the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has determined that the course qualifies as science, according to criteria established by DPI. http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/AB-236.pdf Title: A.B. 236 Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us WI Signed into law 12/2009 P-12 Requires social studies instruction in public schools to include the history of organized labor in America and the collective bargaining process. Act No. 99 http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act99.pdf Title: A.B. 172 Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us NC Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Requires credit education for all students; provides that each student receive personal financial literacy instruction that includes the true cost of credit, choosing and managing a credit card, borrowing money for an automobile or other large purchase, home mortgages, credit scoring and credit reports, and other relevant financial literacy issues; requires the State Board of Education to determine into which courses and grade levels the curriculum shall be integrated. http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1474v5.pdf Title: H.B. 1474 Source: http://www.ncleg.net IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Requires the state board of education, subject to appropriation, to provide grants to institutions of higher education that offer state-approved agricultural science teacher preparations programs and public community colleges that provide an articulated agricultural science teacher education course of study. Makes changes concerning the activities for which such funds may be used. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB3600lv.pdf Title: H.B. 3600 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Postsec. Requires the state board of education to promote an annual campaign about disability history and awareness in the state. Requires a school district to provide instruction on disability history, people with disabilities and the disability rights movement. Requires the regional superintendent of schools to monitor a school district's compliance with this curricular requirement during his/her annual compliance visit. Permits public postsecondary institutions to conduct and promote activities that provide education on, awareness of and an understanding of disability history, people with disabilities and the disability rights movement. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB1035lv.pdf Title: H.B. 1035 Source: www.ilga.gov HI Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 07/2009 P-12 Requires sexuality health education programs funded by the state to provide medically accurate and factual information that includes education on abstinence, contraception and methods of disease prevention. Bill text: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2009/Bills/SB777_HD1_.HTM Governor's veto message: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2009/bills/GM827_.PDF Title: S.B. 777 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NC Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Removes the requirement that local school administrative units (LEAs) provide only abstinence until marriage education and requires LEAs to provide reproductive health and safety education in grades seven through nine; requires such education to include instruction on sexually transmitted diseases, contraceptive methods, and sexual assault and abuse; requires LEAs to provide a comprehensive school health education program that meets all the requirements of this subsection and all the objectives established by the State Board. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H88v8.pdf Title: H.B. 88 Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us LA Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Requires public schools to provide a specified amount of physical activity each school day for students in specified grades; provides for the establishment of school health advisory councils by each city, parish and local public school board; provides that the councils shall advise on issues relative to compliance with school vending machine restrictions, use of physical fitness assessment results, and school recess policies. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=663587 Title: H.B. 400 Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Bars the state from issuing a driver's license to a person under the age of 25 unless the person submits a driver education certificate that states that the person has completed and passed a state education agency-approved driver education and traffic safety course or driver education course (or approved equivalent), or if the person is 18 years of age or older, a driver education course approved by the Texas Education Agency. Authorizes the commissioner to charge a fee to each driver education school in an amount not to exceed the actual expense incurred in the regulation of driver education courses. Directs the commissioner of education by rule to establish the curriculum and designate the educational materials a driver education course for minors and adults and a driver education course for adults only. Takes effect March 2010. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/SB01317F.pdf Title: S.B. 1317 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Requires districts to consider offering a driver's education course each school year. Authorizes districts to charge fees for courses or contract with a driver education school. Establishes requirements for minimum hours of behind-the-wheel and observation instruction in driver's education courses. Bars the issue or renewal of an individual's driver's education instructor license if the individual has 6 or more points assigned to his/her license. Requires the state to collect data on collisions of students taught by public schools, licensed driver education schools, and other entities that offer driver education courses, and on the collision rate of students taught by certain course instructors. Requires the state to issue an annual report listing the collision rate for students taught by each driver education entity and the collision rate for students taught by specified course instructors, noting the severity of collisions involving students of each entity and each type of course. Directs the department of public safety to appoint a task force to review and make recommendations on the effectiveness of materials provided by the state education agency for use in driver training schools. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB02730F.pdf Title: H.B. 2730 - Sections 12.02 through -.04, 12.08, 12.13 Source: www.legis.state.tx.us NJ Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Establishes pilot program in Department of Education to provide instruction in personal finance to high school seniors. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2008/Bills/A2000/1943_I1.HTM Title: A.B. 1943 Source: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us TX Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Authorizes a driver education school to teach all or part of the classroom portion of an approved driver education course by an alternative method of instruction that does not require students to be present in a classroom if the commissioner of education approves the alternative method. Requires that the alternative method include testing and security measures equivalent to those in the usual classroom setting and satisfies any other applicable requirements. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/SB00858F.pdf Title: S.B. 858 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet 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 MN Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Establishes a process for the commissioner and qualified experts and other stakeholders including parents and teachers to develop a model that projects anticipated high school performance on preparation and rigorous coursework measures and compares schools with similar schools. 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 OH Adopted 05/2009 P-12 Sets criteria for family and consumer sciences programs in grades 7-12. Requires all such programs to be approved by the department of education. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/61/3301-61-04_PH_FF_N_RU_20090513_1242.pdf Title: OAC 3301-61-04 Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us TN Signed into law 05/2009 Postsec. Authorizes any student to substitute three semester or three quarter hours of American government for three of the semester or quarter hours in American history required for a baccalaureate degree if offered by the higher education institution (was 6 semester hours/9 quarter). http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/billinfo/BillSummaryArchive.aspx?BillNumber=SB1073&ga=106 Title: S.B. 1073 Source: http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov KS Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Requires the State Board of Education to develop state curriculum standards for personal financial literacy for all grade levels within the existing mathematics or other appropriate subject matter curriculum. Also requires the State Board to encourage school districts, when selected textbooks for mathematics, economics, family and consumer science, accounting or other appropriate courses, to select textbooks containing substantive provisions on personal finance. Chapter 2009-139 http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2010/84.pdf Title: S.B. 84 Source: http://www.kslegislature.org IN Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Requires public schools, charter schools and accredited nonpublic schools to provide instruction in personal financial responsibility to students in grades 9 through 12. Public Law 154. http://www.state.in.us/legislative Title: H.B. 1581 Source: http://www.state.in.us ND Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Beginning July 1, 2010, each school district shall ensure that its curriculum for either economics or problems of democracy includes the exposure of students to concepts of personal finance, including: a. Checkbook mechanics, including writing checks, balancing, and statement reconciliation; b. Saving for larger purchases; c. Credit, including credit card usage, interest, and fees; d. Earning power, including jobs for teenagers; e. Taxation and paycheck withholdings; f. College costs; g. Making and living within a budget; and h. Mortgages, retirement savings, and investments. Upon written request, the state superintendent may allow a school district annually to select courses other than economics or problems of democracy for purposes of exposing students to the concepts of personal finance, as listed in this section, provided the school district can demonstrate that the number of students exposed to the concepts in the other selected courses would meet or exceed the number of students exposed under the requirements of subsection 1. The requirements may be provided by the regular classroom teacher of the course in which the concepts of personal finance are incorporated. http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/61-2009/bill-text/JARF1000.pdf Title: H.B. 1400 - Sec. 25, Personal Finance Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov OK Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Directs each school district to adopt a policy, with grade-level-appropriate instructional levels, that assures that all students are encouraged, and have the opportunity, to read and study the founding documents of America that are pertinent to understanding the principles, character, and world view of America's founders, including documents that contributed to the foundation or maintenance of America's representative republican form of limited government, the Bill of Rights, our free-market economic system, and patriotism. Each school district is required to permit a principal or teacher to use, read, or post in a public school building, classroom, or at any public school event any excerpts or portions of the documents, writings, speeches, proclamations, or records relating to the history, heritage, or foundation of the United States or the State of Oklahoma including, but not limited to, the: 1. Mayflower Compact; 2. Declaration of Independence; 3. Constitutions of the United States and the State of Oklahoma; 4. Federalist Papers; 5. Pledge of Allegiance; 6. National anthem; 7. Presidential records and speeches; 8. Acts and published records of Congress; and 9. United States Supreme Court decisions and records. School districts may not limit or restrain instruction in American or Oklahoma state history or heritage based on religious references in documents, writings, speeches, proclamations, or the materials. These and any other materials shall be used for educational purposes only and not to establish or promote any religion. States that students may voluntarily choose to read, write, share, report, or otherwise study a topic which is religious in nature provided other students are provided with the same opportunity to freely choose a topic. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10HB/HB1756_int.rtf Title: H.B. 1756 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us MT Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Each agricultural education program in the state that completes the national quality program standard evaluation as adopted by rule and submits a plan of improvement to the office of public instruction's agricultural education specialist must receive a one-time payment of $500. Each of the 76 active agricultural education programs in the state that submits a detailed budget to increase the quality of its agricultural education program based on the plan of improvement may receive a one-time payment of up to $1,000. Each school that adds agricultural education to its curriculum and recruits and retains an endorsed agricultural education teacher must receive a one-time payment of up to $7,500. http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2009/billpdf/HB0464.pdf Title: H.B. 464 Source: http://data.opi.mt.gov/ ND Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Provides for inclusion of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution in the school social studies curriculum; provides for graduation requirements. http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/61-2009/bill-text/JBDQ0500.pdf Title: H.B. 1435 Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov AR Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Creates the State Legislative Task Force on the assessment and improvement of state history education in public schools. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Acts/Act1462.pdf Title: S.B. 452 Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us MD Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Authorizes the State Department of Education to develop a standardized course numbering system to facilitate the collection of data on student participation in courses offered in the public schools; authorizes each county school system to adopt the standardized course numbering system on a voluntary basis; requires a specified county school system to provide a translation of course numbers under specified circumstances. http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/hb/hb0588e.pdf Title: H.B. 588 Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ MD Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Requires each local school system to develop and implement an annual physical fitness measurement program; establishes specified program elements for the fitness measurement programs; requires the State Department of Education to take specified steps to support the establishment of the fitness measurement programs; requires the Department to establish an Advisory Council on Health and Physical Education; provides for the membership of the Advisory Council. http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/sb/sb0879t.pdf Title: S.B. 879 Source: http://mlis.state.md.us NM Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Requires that media literacy be offered as an elective for public school students in grades six through twelve. http://nmlegis.gov/Sessions/09%20Regular/final/HB0342.pdf Title: H.B. 342 Source: http://nmlegis.gov/ MD Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Authorizes local school systems to develop and implement Wellness Policy Implementation and Monitoring Plans to establish baseline student data for the health-related components of physical fitness and to assist students with personal fitness plans; relates to funding. http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/hb/hb1264t.pdf Title: H.B. 1264; S.B. 879 Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ VA Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Requires that minor applicants for a driver's license show they have successfully completed, with a parent or guardian, an in-person 90-minute or longer driver safety course prescribed by DMV; increases the learner's permit issuance fee. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1782ER Title: H.B. 1782 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ VA Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Requires the Board of Education to establish objectives for Holocaust education with an emphasis on the causes and ramifications of the Holocaust; provides that such objectives must be infused into the appropriate curriculum areas and Standards of Learning. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2409ER Title: H.B. 2409 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us VT Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Intended to implement the November 2008 Report of the Senate Committee on Judiciary's 34-Point Comprehensive Plan for Vermont's Sexual Abuse Response System. Puts an emphasis on prevention by implementing a comprehensive statewide approach to the prevention of child sexual abuse; includes a sexual abuse prevention component in all school health curricula; conducts outreach efforts to raise awareness of families and communities about child sexual abuse; requires school districts to check the child abuse and neglect registry and vulnerable adult abuse, neglect, and exploitation registry prior to hiring staff or volunteers, and to conduct periodic rechecks of the registries. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2010/bills/Passed/S-013.pdf Title: S.B. 13 Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us VA Signed into law 02/2009 P-12 Adds the value and benefits of marriage for men, women, children, and communities to the list of topics to be covered in family life education curricula. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1746ER Title: H.B. 1746 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ VA Signed into law 02/2009 P-12 Requires school divisions to include a detailed statement in the summary already required by law to be issued to parents and guardians to assist them in understanding the family life education program implemented in the school division, if the curriculum of the program offers only abstinence education. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1980ER Title: H.B. 1980 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us VA Signed into law 02/2009 P-12 Adds the value and benefits of marriage for men, women, children, and communities to the list of topics to be covered in family life education curricula. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+SB827ER Title: S.B. 827 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ MI Signed into law 12/2008 P-12 Encourages a school district that teaches world history in middle school or high school to focus instruction regarding Africa on at least one of certain kingdoms of Africa. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/publicact/pdf/2008-PA-0312.pdf Title: H.B. 4902 Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/ CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Requires the State Board of Education and the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that information about financial literacy is included in appropriate subject area frameworks. Encourages school districts to include, during instruction in economics, instruction related to the understanding of personal finances, including, but not limited to, budgeting, savings, credit, and identity theft. http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm Title: A.B. 1502 Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Encourages the State Board of Education and the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that the history-social science framework, evaluation criteria, and instructional materials include information about American Indians and encourage instruction about American Indians including their tribal and sovereign governments and their relationship with the state government. Requires a related report by the board. http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm Title: A.B. 2034 Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Requires the State Board of Education and the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that the history-social science framework adopted includes instruction on the Vietnam War, including the Secret War in Laos, the role of Southeast Asians in that war, and the refugee/immigrant/new American Experience. http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm Title: A.B. 2064 Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Encourages schools to include the role and contribution of Italian Americans in social science instruction. Encourages the State Board of Education to include the role and contribution of Italian Americans in the curriculum frameworks in the social sciences at the next revision of those frameworks. Makes findings and declarations relating to the contributions Italian Americans have made to California and the United States. http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm Title: A.B. 1863 Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov UT Adopted 09/2008 P-12 Amends rule addressing the operating procedures of the Instructional Materials Commission. Defines "curriculum alignment" as the assurance that the material taught in a course or grade level matches the standards, objectives and assessments set by the state or school district for specific courses or grade levels. Defines "curriculum map" as a visual representation, a tool, for assisting developers to conceptualize shared visions and values which will drive the curriculum as a whole. Amends R277-469-8, "Agreements and Procedures for School Districts." Requires detailed Core curriculum alignment before purchase of primary instructional materials by public schools and school districts purchased after July 1, 2008. Eliminates reference to instructional materials not recommended by the commission. Makes R277-469-9 "Qualifications for Core Curriculum Alignment Independent Parties." Title: R277-469 Source: www.lexis.com IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Authorizes the state treasurer to create the State Treasurer Financial Education and Savings Not-For-Profit Corporation to promote financial literacy and savings among the residents of the state and to issue grants and scholarships for educational purposes. Sets forth requirements for the creation and operation of the corporation. Effective immediately. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB2098lv.pdf Title: S.B. 2098 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Adds homeownership, including the basic process of obtaining a mortgage and the concepts of fixed and adjustable rate mortgages, subprime loans, and predatory lending, as part of the financial literacy component of consumer education for public school pupils. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB2387lv.pdf Title: S.B. 2387 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Vetoed 07/2008 P-12 Amends existing law that requires the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to recommend minimum standards of course of study of schools in the state and requires the State Board of Education and the State Department of Education to revise the framework in science to include specified topics in environmental education. Requires climate change to be included among the topics. Title: S.B. 908 Source: http://www.senate.ca.gov/ PA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Amends the Environmental Education Act. Provides for the establishment of the Center for Environmental Education and the Center for Environmental Education Board. Relates to k-12 environmental curriculum standards, adult environmental education, and higher education. Creates the Environmental Education Fund. http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=PDF&sessYr=2007&sessInd=0&billBody=S&billTyp=B&billNbr=0356&pn=1098 Title: S.B. 356 Source: http://www.legis.state.pa.us RI Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Requires that the physical education and health curriculums in schools be based on standards set by the Health Education Framework and the Physical Education Framework. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law08/law08463.htm Title: S.B. 2621 Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Creates and provides for the Financial Literacy and Education Commission; provides for membership, powers and duties; relates to education on saving and managing spending, credit and debt, especially credit card debt. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=504292 Title: S.B. 405 Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Requires, by a specified time, that all children attending public schools shall have the opportunity to study the critical languages in addition to the traditional languages currently offered. Not later than the beginning of the 2013-2014 school year, every student enrolled in a secondary school in the state shall be afforded the opportunity to study at least one of the critical languages as defined by the United States Department of State and the United States Department of Education. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=504273 Title: S.B. 549 Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ NY Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Creates a temporary special advisory panel on driver education availability and curriculum enhancement to examine, assess and make recommendations to improve drivers education instruction and make such instruction more available. Directs the panel to consider, among other items, whether requiring districts to provide drivers education instruction would be beneficial. Directs the panel to submit a report with its recommendations to the governor and legislature by December 31, 2008. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S06985&sh=t Title: S.B. 6985 Source: assembly.state.ny.us RI Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Requires that the physical education and health curricula in schools be based on standards set by the state Health Education Framework and the state Physical Education Framework commencing September 1, 2012. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/billtext08/housetext08/h7280a.pdf Title: H.B. 7280 Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us NH Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Updates the health education curriculum requirements to include instruction on the effects of alcohol and other drugs, child abuse, human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, and sexually transmitted diseases on the human system; requires schools districts to adopt a policy allowing an exception to such instruction based on religious objections; changes the name of the Health Education Review Committee to the Coordinated School Health Committee. http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2008/SB0359.html Title: S.B. 359 Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us NH Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Expands the Department of Education's pre- engineering technology curriculum in public schools program for students in specified grades interested in engineering careers; removes digital electronics and computer integrated manufacturing from the course requirements; requires the evaluation of existing programs. http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2008/HB1282.html Title: H.B. 1282 Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us NH Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Establishes a commission to review the state's statutes on human immunodeficiency virus education, prevention, and control. http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2008/SB0395.html Title: S.B. 395 Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us CT Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Concerns high school credit for private world language courses; provides that students may earn up to two credits toward high school graduation for completion of a world language courses offered by a nonprofit provider and the student passes a test prescribed by the Commissioner of Education. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2008/ACT/Pa/pdf/2008PA-00138-R00HB-05820-PA.pdf Title: H.B. 5820 Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov/ AZ Vetoed 05/2008 P-12 Provides that a school district shall not eliminate or reduce instruction in physical education, the arts, music, career and technical education, or vocational education unless the reduction or elimination is necessary for budgetary reasons, unless the governing board of the district votes at a public meeting to do so, or in some cases because enrollment or interest in that subject is insufficient to justify continued instruction. http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/48leg/2r/summary/h.hb2557_05-14-08_astransmittedtogovernor.doc.htm Title: H.B. 2557 Source: http://www.azleg.gov IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Part of this bill makes financial literacy part of the core curriculum and defines it as: Not limited to financial responsibility and planning skills; money management skills, including setting financial goals, creating spending plans, and using financial instruments; applying decision=making skills to analyze debt incurrence and debt management; understanding risk management, including the features and functions of insurance; and understanding saving and investing as applied to long-term financial security and asset building. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?category=billinfo&service=billbook&GA=82&hbill=S Title: S.F. 2216 - Financial Literacy Segment Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Amends previous language to remove "voluntary model" from the establishment of core curriculum for grades 9-12, beginning with students graduating in the 2010-2011 class. Prohibits the state board from requiring specific textbooks. Requires core curriculum technical assistance and implementation strategies for districts and accredited nonpublic schools, including assistance with the development of formative and end-of-course assessments that teachers can use to measure student progress. Requires an annual report to the general assembly regarding activities, findings and student progress under the core curriculum. For the school year beginning July 1, 2008 and thereafter, district board plans must include a timeline for each student to successfully complete, prior to graduation, all components of the state-designated career information and decision-making system administered by the department in accordance with federal law (Perkins Act). Boards are required to adopt an implementation plan for the full implementation of the core curriculum established for kindergarten through grade 8 by the 2015-2015 school year. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?category=billinfo&service=billbook&GA=82&hbill=S Title: S.F. 2216 - Core Curriculum Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us OK Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Beginning with the 2008-2009 school year, the Board must require, as a condition of accreditation, that public elementary schools provide to students in full-day kindergarten and grades one through five, in addition to other requirements set forth, an average of sixty (60) minutes each week of physical activity, which may include, but not be limited to, physical education, exercise programs, fitness breaks, recess, and classroom activities, and wellness and nutrition education. Requires each district board of education to determine the specific activities and means of compliance with the provisions of this subsection, giving consideration to the recommendations of each school's Healthy and Fit Schools Advisory Committee. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2007-08bills/SB/SB1186_ENR.RTF Title: S.B. 1186 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us OK Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Amends existing law which requires public school districts to include instruction concerning the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution during Celebrate Freedom Week; requires the instruction to be grade appropriate; requires inclusion of the civil rights movement and passage of civil rights legislation in the instruction; requires the State Board of Education to establish different levels of required content that is appropriate for different grade levels. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2007-08bills/HB/HB2229_ENR.RTF Title: H.B. 2229 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us KY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Establishes the Ernie Marx Resolution. Directs the department of education to review Holocaust and genocide curricula developed by other states and review the state core content at the elementary, middle, and high school levels to determine places where the study of the Holocaust and genocide may be included. Requires the department to develop a curriculum guide that outlines age-appropriate and course-related material and activities teachers may use to teach the history of the Holocaust. Requires the department to submit a final report and curriculum guide on study of the Holocaust and genocide to the state board for consideration by March 2009. Requires that the curriculum guide be disseminated to local schools for the 2009-2010 school year. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/HJ6/bill.doc Title: H.J.R. 6 Source: www.lrc.ky.gov MD Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Creates a Task Force to Study How to Improve Financial Literacy in the State; requires the task force to study the current ability of high school students to understand basic financial concepts, evaluate the current provision of financial literacy education in public schools, assess the utility of such education as part of primary and secondary education, and to study the ability of adult consumers to understand financial concepts and the problems created by a lack of financial literacy. http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/hb/hb1242e.pdf Title: H.B. 1242; S.B. 533 Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ WA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 The bill creates the farm-to-school program within the department of agriculture to facilitate increased procurement of Washington grown food by schools. The department of agriculture, along with the department of health, the office of the superintendent of public instruction (OSPI), the deartment of general administration and Washington State University, must execute the following, in order of priority: 1. Identify and develop policies and procedures to implement and evaluate the farm-to-school program; 2. Assist food producers, distributors and food brokers to market state grown food to schools; 3. Assist schools in connecting with local producers; 4. Identify and recommend mechanisms that will increase the predictability of sales for producers; 5. Identify and make available existing curricula, programs and publications for educational purposes; 6. Support efforts to advance other farm-to-school connections; and, 7. Seek additional funds. In cooperation with OSPI, the department of agriculture must collect data on the activities conducted under the act and report biennially to the legislature. The bill also creates the Washington grown fresh fruit and vegetable grant program within OSPI to facilitate consumption of state grown food by school children. The grant program is to be modeled after the fderal fresh fruit and vegetable program (42 USC Sec. 1769(g)); however, schools receiving grants under this federal program are not eligible for state grants. OSPI must solicit applications, conduct a competitive process and make one to two-year grants to urban and rural schools. The superintendent must follow certain factors and criteria when evaluating applications and selecting grantees. Priority is to be given to applicant schhols with grades K-8 that participate in the national school lunch program and have 50% or more of their students eligible for free or reduced price meals. In coordination with the department of agriculture, OSPI is directed to track outcome measures of the grant program. School districts are authorized to operate school gardens or farms for the purpose of growing fruits and vegetables to be used for educational purposes and to be offered to students through district meal and snack programs. Student organizations (such as 4-H) must be given the opportunity to be involved in the operation of the garden or farm. When the gardens/farms are used for educational purposes, students must be afforded the opportunity to learn about conventional and organic growing methods. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202008/6483-S2.SL.pdf Title: S.B. 6483 Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov/legislature UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Directs the state board of education to adopt rules that establish: (1) The qualifications of the independent parties who may evaluate and map the alignment of the primary instructional materials before a district may purchase such primary instructional materials (2) Requirements for the detailed summary of the evaluation and its placement on a public Web site before a district may purchase the primary instructional materials. Pages 17-18: http://le.utah.gov/~2008/bills/sbillenr/sb0002.pdf Title: S.B. 2 - Section 11 Source: le.utah.gov WV Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Adds education concerning CPR and first aid to the health education curriculum to students in grades six to 12. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2008_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/HB4124%20ENR%20SUB.htm Title: H.B. 4124 Source: www.legis.state.wv.us OR Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Requires the Department of Education to establish Oregon Farm-to-School and School Garden Program and to assist school districts that participate in the United States Department of Agriculture's National School Lunch Program or School Breakfast Program in utilizing Oregon food products and produce from school gardens and to promote food- and garden-based educational activities. http://www.leg.state.or.us/08ss1/measpdf/hb3600.dir/hb3601.en.pdf Title: H.B. 3601A Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us TN Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Directs the State Board of Education to develop guidelines for Develop guidelines for the use of LEAs to foster foreign language fluency as part of holistic education for all students in grades kindergarten through twelve (K-12). Current law requires two years of instruction in a foreign language. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0628.pdf Title: S.B. 2980 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Requires local school boards to incorporate into their local wellness policy as a goal a minimum of an average of 150 minutes of physical fitness for all students. Such program may include any combination of (i) physical education classes, (ii) extracurricular athletics, or (iii) other programs and physical activities deemed appropriate by the local school board. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB242ER Title: H.B. 242 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us UT Adopted 11/2007 P-12 2007 H.B. 364 prohibits a school district from purchasing certain instructional materials unless the materials have been evaluated by an independent party for alignment with the state core curriculum. Adopted rule requires that the mandated alignment evaluation be made available on a Web site at no charge; exempts charter schools from the evaluation requirement; provides direction to publishers who want to sell primary instructional materials to Utah schools on the correct procedures and forms required for consistent, independent party alignment to the core; and provides requirements for online posting to publisher websites. Title: R277-469 Source: www.rules.utah.gov CA Vetoed 10/2007 P-12 Establishes the Financial Literacy Initiative for improving financial literacy by offering instructional materials for teachers and schools to provide high-quality financial literacy education for pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide an online library of financial literacy resources and materials and to convene a related advisory committee. Requires a related biennial report about online materials by authors and publishers. http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/ab_150_bill_20070920_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/ab_150_vt_20071014.html Title: A.B. 150 Source: http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/ OK Adopted 10/2007 P-12 Amends rules to require public schools to provide personal financial literacy education in grades 7-12. Outlines 14 areas of instruction that the student must demonstrate satisfactory completion in order to obtain a Passport to Financial Literacy, which will be required to graduate with a standard diploma. OKLAHOMA 14926 Title: OAC 210:35-9-31 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OR Adopted 09/2007 P-12 Adds health and physical education to list of curriculum defined by state content standards. Title: OAR 581-022-1210 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OK Adopted 08/2007 P-12 Amends rules to require that public elementary schools provide instruction in physical education for full-day kindergarten through grade 5 students for an average of sixty (60) minutes each week. Title: OAC 210:25-5-31 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OR Signed into law 07/2007 P-12 Creates a Task Force on Civics and Financial Education to study and make recommendations about how to increase and improve civics and financial education in kindergarten through grade 12 public schools. http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/hb2500.dir/hb2584.en.pdf Title: H.B. 2584 Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us OR Signed into law 07/2007 P-12 Requires the state department to collect data on: (1) The number of minutes of physical education that are provided to K-8 students each school week in each public school within the district; (2) The physical capacity of public schools to provide K-5 students with at least 150 minutes of physical education during each school week and to provide 5th-8th-grade students with at least 225 minutes of physical education during each school week; and (3) The additional facilities required by public schools to provide physical education to these students. Requires K-8 students to participate in physical education for the entire school year. K-5 students must participate in physical education for at least 150 minutes during each school week. Students in grades 6-8 must participate in physical education for at least 225 minutes during each school week. Requires school districts and public charter schools to offer instruction in physical education that meets the state academic content standards for physical education. Addresses specifics of program. http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/hb3100.dir/hb3141.en.pdf Title: H.B. 3141 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NC Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Postsec. Community College Encourages the public schools, the community college system and the University of North Carolina to offer American Sign Language for credit as a modern foreign language. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H915v0.html Title: H.B. 915 Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/ NC Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Requires local boards of education to ensure that students in grades nine through twelve receive annual health instruction including information about the manner in which a parent may lawfully abandon a newborn baby with a responsible person. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H485v0.html Title: H.B. 485 Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/ WV Adopted 06/2007 P-12 Amends rules regarding foreign language content standards and objectives for West Virginia schools. Title: Title 126, Series 44G Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OK Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Prohibits counting recess towards the physical education requirements; directs the state board to encourage school districts to provide physical activity options to students; requires school districts to provide a physical activity report to parents and guardians; specifies contents of the report; creates the Fit Kids Physical Education Task Force; provides for membership; providing for vacancies, quorum, cochairs, meetings, staffing, and travel reimbursement; states duties of the task force; requires the task force to file a report by certain date; provides for noncodification. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2007-08bills/HB/HB1601_ENR.RTF Title: H.B. 1601 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us OK Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Requires personal financial literacy education to be taught in public schools in the state; lists areas of instruction; directs school districts to provide personal financial literacy instruction; provides for integration of instruction into existing courses; grants school districts certain options; directs the state board to adopt curriculum standards for personal financial literacy; encourages the State Textbook Committee to adopt certain textbooks. Beginning with students entering the seventh grade in the 2008-2009 school year, in order to graduate from a public high school accredited by the state board with a standard diploma, students must fulfill the requirements for a personal financial literacy passport. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2007-08bills/HB/HB1476_ENR.RTF Title: H.B. 1476 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us TN Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Removes the provision in the junior and senior high school curriculum that permits a course on personal finance to satisfy the instruction requirement on the free enterprise system. Present law requires the state board of education to establish a program of instruction for the public high schools on the essentials of the free enterprise system. Instruction must be given in Accordance with the course of study prescribed by the state board for at least one semester, equal to one half unit of credit. Present law provides that successful student participation in a one-half unit course on personal finance will render the student eligible for the one-half unit of credit. This bill deletes this provision. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/HB1944.pdf Title: H.B. 1944 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us TX Became law without governor's signature 05/2007 P-12 To address an increase in births to unmarried parents in Texas from 1995 to 2002, the office of the Attorney General created the Parenting and Paternity Awareness (P.A.P.A.) program. The program involves engaging students in discussions regarding marriage, committed relationships, and the importance of a father to a child's well-being. Many teachers across Texas have received the curriculum training with positive response from both teachers and students. However, the Texas Education Code does not require school districts to provide an educational program or support services for students who are parents, or to female students who are pregnant. Requiring this type of program in schools may result in students who are better informed about the duties and responsibilities of parenting, relationship skills, and money management. Additionally, such a program may decrease the number of pregnancies and improve parenting relationships and financial skills of those who are parents and of those who are soon to become parents. H.B. 2176 requires a school district to incorporate a parenting and paternity awareness program, developed by the state board in conjunction with the Office of the Attorney General, into the high school health curriculum. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/HB02176F.pdf Title: H.B. 2176 Source: http://www.legis.state.tx.us FL Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Relates to physical education; provides requirements for student participation in physical education; requires review and revision of the Sunshine State Standards for physical education; requires the Department of Education to develop and school districts to provide professional development program. Requires districts to provide 150 minutes of physical education each week for K-5 students. Encourages districts to provide 225 minutes of physical education each week for students in grades 6 - 8. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0967er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0967&Session=2007 Title: H.B. 967 Source: Florida Legislature TN Eligible for GOVERNOR'S desk. 05/2007 P-12 This bill requires that the course of instruction in all public schools in grades 9 through 12 include instruction regarding the procedure for voluntarily surrendering an infant in Tennessee. This bill requires the state board of education to develop guidelines for the materials and method of instruction used to teach the procedure for voluntarily surrendering an infant in Tennessee. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB0293.pdf Title: S.B. 293, H.B. 0234 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us CO Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Concerns the adoption of science-based content standards for instruction regarding human sexuality. The standards are intended to help reduce the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy, and abortion among teenagers, and for teen pregnancy prevention program that encourage teenagers to return to abstinence and to teach the effective use of condoms and other means of contraception. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2007a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/8BE351914A5391DD8725726400804B00?open&file=1292_ren.pdf Title: H.B. 1292 Source: Colorado Legislature MN Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Creates a pilot program to award five world languages grants to develop and implement sustainable, high-quality model world languages programs and to enhance existing world languages programs at various grade levels for students in kindergarten through grade 12. Program participants must simultaneously support both English language learners in maintaining their native language while mastering English and native English speakers in learning other languages. Specifies application and eligibility requirements. The commissioner must award three grants to k-8 sites, one grant to a qualified site interested in developing or enhancing a sustainable Mandarin Chinese program and one grant to an indigenous American Indian world languages program. (Sections 38, 42) http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H2245.2.html&session=ls85 Title: H.F. 2245 [World Languages] Source: http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H2245.2.html&session=ls85 ND Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Increases funding for for the Department of Career & Technical Education by $4.9 million, 29 percent over from the previous biennium. The $4.9 million in this legislation is part of a total $8 million increase in workforce training funds coordinated between K-12 education, the University System, Commerce Department, Job Services North Dakota and the Department of Career and Technical Education. Creates a North Dakota elementary student entrepreneurship program under the authority of the state board. Requires the state board to adopt policies to create a program of grants to support entrepreneurship education that is coordinated with classroom curriculum, standards, and activities encouraging and showcasing entrepreneurial activities at the elementary education level. The grants must be administered through local school districts and require matching funds of up to fifty percent of the curriculum and activity costs. Defines membership of the Workforce Enhancement Council: The private sector members of the workforce development council, the director of the department of career and technical education, and the director of the division of workforce development, who shall serve as chairman. Establishes procedures for how the Council will approve grants. http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/60-2007/bill-text/HQML0500.pdf Title: H.B. 1019 Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov/ IN Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Directs each district to include a study of the Holocaust in each high school U.S. history course. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/PDF/HE/HE1059.1.pdf Title: H.B. 1059 Source: /www.in.gov/legislative WA Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Provides that, to the extent funds are appropriated or are available for this purpose, the superintendent of public instruction and other members of the partnership created in RCW 28A.300.455 shall make available to school districts the list of identified financial literacy skills and knowledge, instructional materials, assessments, and other relevant information. Encourages each school district to provide its students with an opportunity to master the financial literacy skills and knowledge developed under RCW 28A.300.460. Provides that it is not necessary to evaluate and apply the office of the superintendent of public instruction essential academic learning requirements or to develop grade level expectations. Provides that the financial literacy public-private partnership expires June 30, 2009. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1980-S2.PL.pdf Title: H.B. 1980 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CO Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Postsec. Concerns the display of flags. Allows display of flags from countries other than the U.S. or the state of Colorado under particular circumstances, including for educational, cultural or historical purposes with the prior permission of the chief administrative officer of the state, county, municipal or other public building or grounds. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2007a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/A5823CF3B65934EF87257251007B684B?open&file=1050_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1050 Source: Colorado Legislature NM Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Provides for physical education in grades kindergarten through six in elementary schools. Adds physical education program units and charter school student activities program units into the program cost calculation and makes an appropriation. (Slight variation in language between senate and house bills regarding charter school student calculation.) http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/HB0208.pdf http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/SB0156.pdf Title: H.B. 208/S.B. 156 Source: http://legis.state.nm.us NM Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Directs each school district to align its curricula to meet the state standards for each grade level and subject area so that students who transfer between public schools within the school district receive the same educational opportunity within the same grade or subject area. Provides for a schedule for implemenation. http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/HB0911.pdf Title: H.B. 911 Source: http://legis.state.nm.us AR Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Section 52 repeals code concerning requirements for social studies, civics education, character and citizenship. (Act No. 1573) http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2007/public/SB274.pdf Title: S.B. 274 (Curriculum) Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us ND Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Amends graduation requirement of one-half unit of physical education during each school year to include the following: Once every four years the unit must be a concept-based fitness class that includes instruction in the assessment, improvement, and maintenance of personal fitness. http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/60-2007/bill-text/HBCN0400.pdf Title: S.B. 2354 Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov/ ND Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Amends several pieces of required instruction; changes from United States history, geography, and government to 1) geography; 2) government; and 3) North Dakota studies, with an emphasis on the geography, history, and agriculture of this state, in the fourth and eighth grades. In addition to these requirements, each public and nonpublic high school is required to make available to each student, at least once every two years, one-half unit of North Dakota studies, with an emphasis on the geography, history, and agriculture of this state. http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/60-2007/bill-text/HARP0300.pdf Title: S.B. 1172 Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov ND Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 From the fiscal note: This bill as amended requires that North Dakota Studies be taught in grades 4 and 8. It also requires that North Dakota's high schools must offer a semester course in North Dakota studies at least once every two years. Most schools will not require additional teachers. Larger school districts may have to alter assignments or hire additional teachers. The curriculum and materials for the course may have a fiscal impact on districts. Development of the 4th grade and 8th grade texts was funded with state funds last legislative session. The Division of Independent Study plans the completion of the texts for next summer and estimates the cost at $40 for each Grade 4 and 8. There is no high school text under development so costs are unknown. The cost of materials for these classes will vary from district to district and cannot be determined.Relates to studies requirements for public and nonpublic elementary and middle schools. http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/60-2007/bill-text/HARP0300.pdf Title: H.B. 1172 Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov VA Signed into law 02/2007 P-12 Requires the state Board of Education to incorporate instruction on dating violence and the characteristics of abusive relationships into its curriculum guidelines for family life education. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB1916ER Title: H.B. 1916 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MI Signed into law 12/2006 P-12 Makes technical changes to requirements for high school graduation; provides that a parent may request a personal curriculum that modifies student standard requirements; amends provisions regarding a school psychologist; provides for an emancipated minor; provides for special education students. Public Act 623 http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/billenrolled/Senate/pdf/2006-SNB-1427.pdf Title: S.B. 1427 Source: Michigan Legislature CA Signed into law 09/2006 P-12 Prohibits the State Board of Education from adopting the same basic instructional materials in language arts or mathematics for the same grade level in successive years. Requires that instructional materials for language arts be submitted to the state board for adoption in 2008. Requires school districts to ensure each pupil is provided with language-arts textbooks. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2701-2750/ab_2722_bill_20060915_enrolled.pdf Title: A.B. 2722 Source: California Legislature WV Adopted 09/2006 P-12 Amends rules regarding the pre-K & K-12 program or curriculum requirements; reduces the amount of required teaching time for English Language Arts and Reading in middle school; changes pathway options to high school graduation from 3 to 2; requires a minimum number of Advanced Placement courses be offered or an International Baccalaureate program at the high school level; revises the school Breakfast and Lunch program; revises components of the Five Year School and School System Strategic Plans. http://www.wvsos.com/csrdocs/worddocs/126-042.doc Title: Title 126, Series 42 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Vetoed 09/2006 P-12 Requires the 2008 Reading/Language Arts/English Language Development Curriculum Frameworks and Criteria adopted by the Board of Education to include the accelerated English program. Requires the board, commencing with the 2008 Reading/Language Arts/English Language Development Curriculum Frameworks and Criteria adoption cycle, to allow publishers to submit for adoption as a basic core program under the program instructional materials that conform to the program. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1751-1800/sb_1769_bill_20060907_enrolled.pdf Title: S.B. 1769 Source: California Legislature CA Vetoed 09/2006 P-12 Authorizes a school district, in providing instruction in economics, to include instruction related to the understanding of personal finances, including, but not limited to budgeting, savings, credit and identity theft. Encourages the State Department of Education to develop a model personal finance curriculum for these purposes. Title: A.B. 1950 Source: California Legislature CA Vetoed 09/2006 P-12 Establishes the State Seal of Biliteracy to recognize high school graduates who have mastered speaking, reading, and writing skills in one or more languages, in addition to English. Requires each participating school district to determine the requirements necessary for a pupil to qualify for the seal. Requires the providing of information to districts so they can maintain records and identify pupils who qualify for the seal. Title: A.B. 2445 Source: California Legislature CA Vetoed 09/2006 P-12 Relates to instruction on human rights issues in grades 7 through 12, inclusive. Requires the social science courses to include particular attention to the study of the inhumanity of the unconstitutional deportation of citizens and lawful permanent residents of the United States to Mexico during the Great Depression. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1551-1600/sb_1575_bill_20060831_enrolled.pdf Title: S.B. 1575 Source: California Legislature CA Signed into law 09/2006 P-12 Extends the operation of existing laws that provides the State Department of Education the authority to exercise general supervision over courses of physical education and specified authority over interscholastic athletics indefinitely. Requires the state Interscholastic Federation to report to the Legislature with certain requirements. Title: S.B. 562 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AL Adopted 08/2006 P-12 Establishes rules allowing any Alabama public school system that has adequate certified physical education teachers in Grades K-8 to request of theState Superintendent of Education an exemption of the one credit of physical education in Grades 9-12 to substitute for physical activity-based subjects(e.g., R.O.T.C., Marching band, and athletics) and other subject areas underexceptional circumstances for physical education under specified conditions. ALABAMA 7596 Title: AAC 290-3-1-.02 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet DE Adopted 08/2006 P-12 Establishes rules regarding the development of a recommended statewide uniform curricula for all public schools in the state. The purpose of this regulation is to provide a process through which all Delaware school districts demonstrate the alignment of their local curricula with the State Content Standards in the content areas specified in the 14 DE Admin. Code 501. http://www.state.de.us/research/AdminCode/title14/500/1502.shtml#TopOfPage Title: 14 DAC 502 Source: Delware Regulations NY Signed into law 07/2006 P-12 Provides for the establishment of a curriculum for instruction regarding child development and parental skills and responsibility for the welfare of pupils and the community to be available in school districts. Provides that such curriculum may include instruction relating to the consequences and prevention of shaken baby syndrome, which may include the viewing of a video presentation for students in secondary schools. Title: A.B. 6832 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet HI Became law without governor's signature 07/2006 P-12 Requires standards-based curricula to meet specific K-12 alignment criteria. Authorizes schools to develop an articulated and aligned K-12 standards-based curriculum in one or more of the areas of language arts, math, science and social studies. Requires schools to provide professional development and requires schools that develop a standards-based curriculum to use standards-based formative assessment tools to monitor student progress, on at least a quarterly basis throughout the school year. Requires schools to develop rigorous classroom-based performance assessments. Authorizes schools to implement software programs to help align course material with state content and performance and federal educational standards. Directs the department to submit annual progress reports to the legislature no later than 20 days prior to the convening of the 2007, 2008 and 2009 regular sessions. Requires these progress reports to include information on the process of aligning course materials for all grades with Hawaii content and performance standards and federal educational standards, and on any vendor selected to provide its software program or programs to assist in course material alignment. Also requires the department to submit a second annual report to the legislature including: (1) An assessment of the implementation of articulated and aligned standards-based curricula in schools and complexes; (2) Performance and competency indicators of student achievement for evaluating the implementation of a standards-based curriculum; (3) A plan for a complex-by-complex development and implementation of a standards-based curriculum; (4) Resource requirements and a time line to implement specific portions of the curriculum to other school complexes or possible statewide application; and (5) Any need to contract with a curricula developer or consultant to carry out the purposes of this section. Makes appropriations. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb3059_cd1_.htm Title: S.B. 3059 Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov DE Signed into law 07/2006 P-12 Relates to a Level 1 Learner's Permit; relates to successful completion of a course in driver education in a public or private high school in the state; requires the passing of a written test and road skills; provides for payment of appropriate fees. Title: H.B. 256 Source: Delaware Legislature IL Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Provides that a school district offering a secondary agricultural education program approved for state and federal funding must ensure components available to its secondary agricultural education students; provides that nothing may prevent those programs that are in operation before the effective date of the Act and that do not have an active state and nationally affiliated Future Farmers of America chapter from continuing to receive funding from the state board. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/94/HB/PDF/09400HB4986lv.pdf Title: H.B. 4986 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet SC Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 06/2006 P-12 Provides grants to school districts to provide financial literacy instruction for students; establishes goals and establishes the Financial Literacy Board of trustees and the purposes of the Board and its composition, functions, and duties; provides for two separate funds to accept public and private monies; provides procedures for applying for a grant; establishes fiscal guidelines, and evaluation requirements; provides for contributions to charitable funds through individual income tax returns. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/4707.doc Title: H.B. 4707 Source: South Carolina Legislature SC Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Relates to high school courses in American sign language; provides that a school district may give credit as a foreign language to a pupil who satisfactorily completes a high school course in American sign language. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/1107.doc Title: S.B. 1107 Source: South Carolina Legislature MO Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Creates the Holocaust Education and Awareness Commission, to be housed in the department of education and to promote implementation of holocaust education and awareness programs. http://www.senate.mo.gov/06info/pdf-bill/tat/SB1189.pdf Title: S.B. 1189 Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov/ TN Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Concerns education and curriculum; requires department of education to create a state board to approve a high school financial literacy curriculum; creates in the state treasury a fund to be known as the "financial literacy fund ". State funds and private contributions for the promotion of financial literacy shall be deposited into the financial literacy fund. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB3741.pdf Title: S.B. 3741; H.B. 3753 Source: Tennessee Legislature LA Adopted 05/2006 P-12 Establishes Content Standards Curriculum Framework for Students Teaching and Reaching (STAR) to serve as the one teacher preparation course to be used by all secondary teachers in Louisiana. Pages 4-8 of 75: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0605/0605rul.pdf Title: LAC 28:CXXV.101, 301-317 Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov TN Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Concerns Education Curriculum; directs the comptroller's office of education accountability to evaluate the effectiveness of family life curricula in helping youth to abstain from sexual activities, prevent unwanted pregnancies and prevent sexually transmitted diseases. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/HB3819.pdf Title: H.B. 3819 Source: Tennessee Legislature ID Adopted 05/2006 P-12 Extends the curricular materials selection adoption cycle from 5 to 6 years. Adds limited English proficiency as a subject area for curricular materials selection. Title: IDAPA 08.02.03 Source: adm.idaho.gov FL Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 District school boards and superintendents must prescribe and adopt standards and policies to provide each student the opportunity to receive a complete education program, including language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, health, physical education, foreign languages, and the arts, as defined by the Sunshine State Standards. The standards and policies must emphasize integration and reinforcement of reading, writing, and mathematics skills across all subjects, including career awareness, career exploration, and career and technical education. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006 Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 10) Source: Florida Legislature GA Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Creates the Agricultural Education Advisory Commission. Requires the head of the agricultural education program of the Department of Education to report annually to commission regarding the conditions, needs, issues and problems of the program. Requires the commission to periodically review the conditions, needs, issues and problems related to the agricultural education program, issue annually a report on the same to the General Assembly, and recommend any action or legislation which the commission deems necessary or appropriate. Repeals commission effective December 31, 2012. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/pdf/hb1227.pdf Title: H.B. 1227 Source: www.legis.state.ga.us GA Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Authorizes high schools to offer elective courses in the History and Literature of the Old Testament Era and the History and Literature of the New Testament Era. Requires the state board, by February 2007, to adopt a curriculum for each course, including objectives, reading materials, and lesson plans. Specifies that the Old and New Testament shall be the basic text for each respective course. Effective July 2007, students may earn .5 Carnegie units of elective credit for completing each course. Requires the courses to: (A) Be taught in an objective and nondevotional manner with no attempt made to indoctrinate students as to either the truth or falsity of the biblical materials or texts from other religious or cultural traditions; (B) Not include teaching of religious doctrine or sectarian interpretation of the Bible or of texts from other religious or cultural traditions; and (C) Not disparage or encourage a commitment to a set of religious beliefs. Specifies that no person shall be assigned to teach such courses based in whole or in part on any religious test, profession of faith or lack thereof, prior or present religious affiliation or lack of affiliation, or criteria involving particular beliefs or lack thereof about the Bible. Adds that the qualifications and training of teachers shall be determined by local boards. Authorizes a local board to monitor the content and teaching of the courses as it deems appropriate. Clarifies that these provisions do not limit the authority of a local board to offer courses regarding the Old Testament or the New Testament that are not in compliance with these provisions; provided, however, that no state funds shall be expended in connection with such a course that does not meet the requirements of these provisions. Also clarifies that local boards are not barred from offering elective courses based upon the books of other religions or societies. In determining whether to offer such courses, the local board may consider various factors including student and parent demand for such courses and the impact such books have had upon history and culture. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/pdf/sb79.pdf Title: S.B. 79 Source: www.legis.state.ga.us WV Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Postsec. Establishes the third week of October as Disability History Week. Directs public schools to provide instruction on disability history, people with disabilities and the disability rights movement. Provides that the instruction must be integrated into the existing school curriculum in a manner such as, but not limited to, supplementing existing lesson plans, holding school assemblies or providing other school activities. Encourages state institutions of higher education to conduct and promote activities that provide education, awareness and understanding of disability history, people with disabilities and the disability rights movement. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2006_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/hb4491%20enr.htm Title: H.B. 4491 Source: www.legis.state.wv.us MS Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Authorizes the state board to make civil and human rights education a part of the K-12 curriculum. Provides guidelines for grade level classroom learning. Establishes a civil rights education commission to inventory civil rights exhibits and resources and coordniate civil rights awareness and education in the public schools. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2006/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2718SG.htm Title: S.B. 2718 Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us MS Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Enacts the Education Reform Act of 2006. Section 18 directs the state board to develop a wellness curriculum for use by each school district. Directs the board to establish rules and regulations to be followed by the districts whereby the districts will implement the curriculum.  Wellness curriculum must include educating students about the value of exercise, proper diet and abstinence from use of tobacco and alcohol. Requires the state board to adopt regulations for districts' compliance concerning what products may be sold in vending machines on campus and when they can be sold. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2006/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2602SG.htm Title: S.B. 2602 Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us CA Vetoed 10/2005 P-12 Social sciences curriculum. This bill would encourage a school district to provide instruction in social sciences that accurately reflects the role of affected populations of the continent of Asia, the subcontinent of South Asia, and the Pacific Islands in the many historical events leading up to and during World War II. Title: S.B. 684 Source: StateNet OK Adopted 10/2005 P-12 Replaces the term multicultural education with the term racial and ethnic education. Establishes new school board policy for the rule change. OKLAHOMA 13851 Title: OAC 210:20-19-2 thru -4 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NY Signed into law 10/2005 P-12 Establishes and creates the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A06362&sh=t Title: H.B. 6362 Source: CA Vetoed 09/2005 P-12 Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt statewide academically rigorous content standards in core curriculum areas, and requires the board to review and modify existing curriculum frameworks where appropriate to bring them into alignment with these content standards. This bill would, as a component of that review, require the State Board of Education to integrate instruction on intergroup relations and tolerance into existing curriculum frameworks where appropriate, with certain requirements. . Title: H.B. 723 Source: StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2005 P-12 Rewrites Section 51220.6 of the Education Code, relating to driver education. Specifies that a private school is not required to offer driver's education. Provides that the satisfactory completion of an Internet-based, correspondence, or other distance-learning course offered by a private high school meets driver's ed instructional requirements. Establishes certain requirements for such Internet or CD driver's ed courses. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0801-0850/ab_846_bill_20050922_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 846 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Consideration of governor's veto pending 09/2005 P-12 Allows social studies instruction in grades 7-12 to include instruction the role of Filipinos in World War II and that war, and encourages this instruction to include specific components. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_15_bill_20050823_enrolled.pdf Title: A.B. 15 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov IL Signed into law 08/2005 P-12 Creates the College and Career Success for All Students Act. Requires a teacher of an Advanced Placement course to obtain appropriate training, subject to appropriation. Requires the State Board of Education to establish training guidelines that require teachers of Advanced Placement courses to obtain recognized Advanced Placement training endorsed by the College Board, subject to appropriation. Provides that Advanced Placement and pre-Advanced Placement training to teachers in Illinois high schools must meet certain requirements. Requires the state board to encourage school districts to offer rigorous courses in grades 6 through 11 that prepare students for the demands of Advanced Placement course work. Requires the state board to encourage school districts to make it a goal that all 10th graders take the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholars Qualifying Test so that test results will provide each high school with a database of student assessment data to identify students who are prepared or who need additional work to be prepared to enroll and be successful in Advanced Placement courses. Also requires the state board to: (1) Seek federal funding through the Advanced Placement Incentive Program and the Math-Science Partnership Program to support Advanced Placement and Pre-Advanced Placement professional development; (2) Focus state and federal funding with the intent to carry out activities that target school districts serving high concentrations of low-income students; (3) Subject to appropriation, develop a communications plan that includes disseminating to parents materials that emphasize the importance of Advanced Placement or other advanced courses to a student's ability to gain access to and to succeed in postsecondary education and materials that emphasize the importance of the PSAT/NMSQT. (4) Subject to appropriation, annually evaluate the impact of this Act on rates of student enrollment and success in Advanced Placement courses, on high school graduation rates, and on college enrollment rates. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0534 Title: S.B. 574 Source: www.ilga.gov IL Signed into law 08/2005 P-12 Provides that in addition to the unit of instruction studying the events of the Holocaust, the curriculum of every public elementary school and high school shall include a unit of instruction studying other acts of genocide across the globe, including, but not limited to, the Armenian Genocide, the Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, and more recent atrocities in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sudan. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=312&GAID=8&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=14536&SessionID=50&GA=94 Title: H.B. 312 Source: http://www.ilga.gov IL Signed into law 08/2005 P-12 Adds that the total amount from driver education fees and reimbursement from the state for driver education must not exceed the total cost of the driver education program in any year and must be deposited into the school district's driver education fund as a separate line item budget entry. Requires all moneys deposited into the school district's driver education fund to be used solely for the funding of a high school driver education program approved by the state board of education that uses state board-certified instructors. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0426 Title: S.B. 69 Source: www.ilga.gov AL Signed into law 07/2005 P-12 Amends Section 16-6B-2 to specify that American Sign Language is a foreign language for purposes of satisfying certain curriculum requirements; and to apply such provision to hearing-impaired students for the 2005-2006 school year and to all students beginning with the 2006-2007 school year. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2005fs/bills/sb94.htm Title: S.B. 94 Source: http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us IL Signed into law 07/2005 P-12 Creates the Amistad Commission. Contains provisions concerning the membership and duties of the Commission. These duties include: (i) providing assistance and advice to schools within the state with respect to the implementation of education, awareness programs, textbooks, and educational materials concerned with the African slave trade, slavery in America, the vestiges of slavery in this country, and the contributions of African-Americans to our society; (ii) surveying and cataloging the extent and breadth of education concerning these topics; (iii) acting as a liaison to textbook publishers and others in forming a curriculum on these subjects; (iv) coordinating events and programs on slavery and related issues; and (iv) developing with the cooperation of the State Board of Education, curriculum guidelines for the teaching of information on slavery topics and issues. Authorizes the commission to call upon any department, office, division, or agency of the state, or of any county, municipality, or school district of the State, to supply such data, program reports, and other information, personnel, and assistance as it deems necessary to discharge its responsibilities under this Act. Requires the state board to assist the commission in a variety of ways, including by: (i) marketing and distributing information and materials on slavery topics to schools, and (ii) conducting at least one teacher workshop annually on slavery issues. Requires the Commission to make biannual reports on its activities to the Governor and the General Assembly. Effective immediately. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0285 Title: H.B. 383 Source: StateNet NY Signed into law 07/2005 P-12 Requires instructions regarding the correct use of an automated external defibrillator be included as a part of the health education curriculum in all senior high schools when cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction is being provided. In addition to the requirement that all teachers of health education be certified to teach health, persons instructing pupils in the correct use of automated external defibrillators must possess valid certification by a nationally recognized organization or the state emergency medical services council. Title: H.B. 236 Source: http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us IL Signed into law 07/2005 P-12 A physical education course of study must include a developmentally planned and sequential curriculum that fosters the development of movement skills, enhances health-related fitness, increases students' knowledge, offers direct opportunities to learn how to work cooperatively in a group setting, and encourages healthy habits and attitudes for a healthy lifestyle. A physical education course of study is to provide students with an opportunity for an appropriate amount of daily physical activity. A physical education course of study must be part of the regular school curriculum and not extra-curricular in nature or organization. Provides for excusing students in grades 9-12 who must use that time for special education services. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0189 Title: H.B. 1540 Source: http://www.ilga.gov/legislation LA Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Beginning in the 2006-2007 school year and thereafter, requires all public elementary and secondary schools to: (1) Encourage and motivate children of all physical abilities to participate in physical activity for the purpose of allowing all children to reach their full potential as individuals. (2) Improve physical activity and fitness in schools by encouraging innovative physical education programs that consist of physical exertion of a moderate to vigorous intensity level. (3) Improve nutrition in children by making available during the day snacks with higher nutritional values. (4) Increase the awareness of children about the importance of physical activity and improved nutrition and the effects of both on improving health. (5) Encourage increased parental awareness of the positive impact on health and fitness of increasing the activity level of children and of improving nutrition. (6) Encourage daily physical activity and the development of lifelong patterns of physical activity. (7) Encourage the enjoyment of physical activity and the improvement of nutritional and eating habits. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=319230 Title: S.B. 146 (Sections K- Source: www.legis.state.la.us LA Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Requires the inclusion of the topic of adoption awareness in middle or high school courses that include material related to family life, including Family Life and Consumer Science Education courses. Defines adoption awareness. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=317551 Title: H.B. 777 Source: www.legis.state.la.us DE SIGNED 06/2005 P-12 In order to support state-wide academic standards and to ensure that students in Delaware public school do not suffer in the event they should change schools for whatever reason, it is essential that the Department of Education establish uniform, state-wide curricula for students enrolled in the many public schools of Delaware. This Act requires the department of education to establish uniform, state-wide curricula for all public schools. As with other regulations governing classes, instruction and courses of study, these rules and regulations shall be proposed by the Secretary of Education subject to the approval of the State Board of Education. http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/LIS143.nsf/vwLegislation/ Title: H.B. 47 Source: http://www.legis.state.de.us CO Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Standardizes the calculation of graduation rates and dropout rates that are required to be reported by school districts for accreditation. Standardizes and requires the reporting of continuing education rates and mobility rates by school districts for accreditation. Requires one accreditation indicator to be the percentage of students enrolled in an Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate diploma program, or institution of higher education through a dual enrollment program. Requires districts to report achievement of accreditation indicators disaggregated for student year, race, low family income, students with disabilities, and English language learners. Requires districts and the state charter school institute to annually report the status of students who have not graduated in 4 years and remain enrolled in the district or an institute charter school. Permits the state board of education to audit accreditation data. http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/DFD64504612C4BC587256F5800587C38?Open&file=091_enr.pdf Title: S.B. 91 Source: www.leg.state.co.us CO Vetoed 06/2005 P-12 Establishes the statewide physical education recognition program to recognize and reward public schools and physical education teachers meeting established criteria. Creates the statewide physical education recognition board to establish objective criteria for a tiered rating to a physical education program or teach, solicit and review applications for recognition, rate physical education programs, and recommend annual monetary awards to the highest rated school programs and an outstanding physical education teacher in an elementary school, middle school and high school. Provides that if the fund does not receive at least $50,000 by June 1, 2006, repeals the act effective July 1, 2006. If the act is not repealed earlier, repeals the act effective July 1, 2010. http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/2EC8168D1E92E69187256F5E0067F7AB?Open&file=1237_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1237 Source: www.leg.state.co.us SC Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Adds Chapter 10, entitled Physical Education, School Health Services, and Nutritional Standards. Applies to elementary schools. Sets the amount of physical education instruction that each student in kindergarten through fifth grade must receive each week on a phased-in basis. Provides for physical education teacher to student ratio. Provides for a measure of effectiveness of the physical education program and for a physical education activity director. Provides for the appropriation of of funds for licensed nurses in elementary schools. Provides for a coordinated school health model and an assessment program for school health programs. Provides for the minimum amount of time elementary school students must have to eat lunch. Provides for the establishment of a district level and elementary level coordinated school health advisory council and sets its powers and dutires. Provides for a weekly nutrition component for the health curriculum. Implementation is contingent on funding. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/prever/3499_20050525.htm Title: H.B. 3499 Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net TX Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Contingent on funding, requires state board to establish and implement a financial literacy pilot program to provide students in participating school districts with the knowledge and skills necessary as self-supporting adults to make critical decisions relating to personal financial matters. Requires the agency shall collaborate with the Office of Consumer Credit Commissioner and the State Securities Board to develop the curriculum and instructional materials for the program. The curriculum and instructional materials must include information about: (1) avoiding and eliminating credit card debt; (2) understanding the rights and responsibilities of renting or buying a home; (3) managing money to make the transition from renting a home to home ownership; (4) starting a small business; (5) being a prudent investor in the stock market and using other investment options; (6) beginning a savings program; (7) bankruptcy; (8) the types of bank accounts available to consumers and the benefits of maintaining a bank account; (9) balancing a check book; and (10) the types of loans available to consumers and becoming a low-risk borrower. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlo/79R/billtext/SB00851F.HTM Title: S.B. 851 Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us TX Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Amends Sec. 28.0021. Requires instruction in personal financial literacy in one or more courses required for high school graduation. Requires districts and open-enrollment charter schools to incorporate instruction in personal financial literacy into any course meeting a requirement for an economics credit, using materials approved by the board. Requires districts and open-enrollment charter schools to comply beginning with the 2006-2007 school year. Requires the board to adopt essential knowledge and skills for a course not later than the 2008-2009 school year. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=79&SESS=R&CHAMBER=H&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=00492&VERSION=5&TYPE=B Title: H.B. 492 Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us GA Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Creates the Georgia Driver's Education Commission. Authorizes the commission to recommend to the governor and the general assembly changes in state programs, statutes, policies, budgets and standards relating to the provision of driver education and training to maximize participation in driver's education and training and accident reduction. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/sum/sb226.htm Title: S.B. 226 Source: www.legis.state.ga.us GA Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Creates the Joint Agricultural Education Study Committee for the purposes of promoting the importance and study of agriculture in the state. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/versions/hr50_HR_50_AP_6.htm Title: H.R. 50 Source: http://www.legis.state.ga.us TN Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 All high school agricultural education programs that were twelve-month programs for the 1992-1993 fiscal year, or any fiscal year thereafter, are to be maintained as twelve-month programs by the local board of education, so long as a quality agricultural education program as determined by criteria established by the vocationaltechnical education division, agriculture education program, of the department of education is maintained. Public Chapter 143 http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB1563.pdf Title: S.B. 1563/H.B. 2123 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us AZ Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Authorizes districts and charter schools to incorporate into the existing curricula instruction on the dangers of unsupervised interaction with strangers. Allows each district and charter school to develop its own course of study thereon. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1289 Title: S.B. 1289 Source: www.azleg.state.az.us WV Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Adds a new article, designated §5-1E-1, §5-1E-2, §5-1E-3, §5-1E-4 and §5-1E-5; and amends and reenacts §18-2-6a and §18-2-7a, all relating to promoting healthy lifestyles; creating a Healthy Lifestyles Office in the Department of Education and the Arts; establishing the functions of the Office; creating a special revenue account; establishing a voluntary menu labeling program; requiring physical activity in the schools; and encouraging the use of health foods and beverages in the vending machines of schools.Requires the state department to establish the requirement that each child enrolled in the public schools of this state actively participates in physical education classes during the school year to the level of his or her ability as follows: (1) Kindergarten to and including grade five. -- Not less than thirty minutes of physical education, including physical exercise and age appropriate physical activities, for not less than three days a week. (2) Grade six to and including grade eight. -- Not less than one full period of physical education, including physical exercise and age appropriate physical activities, each school day of one semester of the school year. (3) Grade nine to and including grade twelve. -- Not less than one full course credit of physical education, including physical exercise and age appropriate physical activities which shall be required for graduation and the opportunity to enroll in an elective lifetime physical education course. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2005_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/HB2816%20enr.htm Title: H.B. 2816 Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us AZ Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Requires all public schools to incorporate instruction on skin cancer prevention into the existing curriculum in the common school grades if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provides a comprehensive program on skin cancer prevention free of charge to schools. The instruction must be provided in an age-appropriate manner and must include (1) the basic facts about skin cancer, including the negative impact of human exposure to ultraviolet radiation obtained through sunburns and tanning; and (2) a comprehensive set of strategies and behaviors to reduce the risk of contracting skin cancer. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1297 Title: S.B. 1297 Source: www.azleg.state.az.us WA To governor 04/2005 P-12 Encourages that Washington's tribal history be taught in the common schools. Also adds a new section that requires, beginning in 2006, and at least once annually through 2010, the Washington state school directors' association is encouraged to convene regional meetings and invite the tribal councils from the region for the purpose of establishing government-to-government relationships and dialogue between tribal councils and school district boards of directors. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2005-06/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202005/1495-S.SL.pdf Title: H.B. 1495 Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov WA Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Encourages each school district board of directors to adopt a family preservation education program curriculum and offer a family preservation unit in high school. The board of directors may adopt the model curriculum developed by the superintendent of public instruction or the board may develop its own curriculum with input from the community. Requires the state department of education to develop a family preservation education program model curriculum. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2005-06/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1252-S.PL.pdf Title: H.B. 1252 Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov/ OK Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Requires the state board of education to establish a physical activity program for public school students in the fifth grade, which each school district may elect to implement. The program is to incorporate the fitness challenges adopted by the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. It is also required to incorporate a "Walk Across Oklahoma" activity plan for school districts. The plan is to establish routes that challenge students to complete virtual walks across the state and at the same time learn facts, geography, and history about various locations in the state. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2005-06HB/hb1647_enr.rtf Title: H.B. 1647 Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us WV Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Adds new section: §18-2-7c, to read as follows:(a) The Legislature finds and declares that persons with an understanding of personal finance are better prepared to manage their money and that providing a personal finance program in secondary schools in West Virginia will prepare students to handle their finances. (b) To provide students a basic understanding of personal finance, the State Board shall develop a program of instruction on personal finance which may be integrated into the curriculum of an appropriate existing course or courses for students in secondary schools. Prescribing personal finance instruction in secondary schools by the State Board of Education. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2005_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/hb2837%20enr.htm Title: H.B. 2837 Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Includes salaries or supplemental pay for staff for organized physical activity courses as provided under Act 660 of 2005 in the definitions of "Athletic expenditures" and "Interschool scholastic activity expenditures." http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2916.pdf Title: H.B. 2916 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Amends in-service training requirements for teachers of Arkansas history . http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb187.pdf Title: S.B. 187 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Allows a high school course offered under the international baccalaureate diploma program to be treated the same as an advanced placement course in terms of the state grading scale and weighted credit, teacher licensure requirements, district reporting of courses offered and test fee reimbursement. Renames The Arkansas Advanced Placement Incentive Program Act of 1995 the Arkansas Advanced Placement and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Incentive Program Act of 1995. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1054.pdf Title: S.B. 1054 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Allows motor vehicles seized by law enforcement agencies to be donated to school districts for driver's education courses. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2828.pdf Title: H.B. 2828 Source: StateNet AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Requires the Arkansas Science and Technology Authority to develop a knowledge-based technology curriculum for use in grades 7-12 beginning in the 2007-2008 school year. Requires the curriculum to include a collection of the substantive material used to teach a particular subject matter, lesson plans and recommendations for activities and other learning processes. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2964.pdf Title: H.B. 2964 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us AZ Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Establishes the mandatory physical education implementation task force. Sets forth task force's membership. Requires the task force to develop an implementation plan that will result in a uniform physical education program in grades K-8 and that takes the following into consideration: (1) Time constraints, including the length of the school day and school year; (2) Program content consistent with national standards; (3) Staffing requirements; (4) Facilities and resource requirements; (5) Fiscal considerations; (6) Exemptions from a mandatory program both at the individual student level and at the school level. Requires the implementation plan to include an appropriate timeline for achieving full implementation by a date certain and the development proposal for draft legislation that the task force believes is necessary to successfully implement the proposed program. Requires the final report and implementation plan to be submitted to the governor and the legislature by December 15, 2005. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2111 Title: H.B. 2111 Source: www.azleg.state.az.us SC Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Enacts the Financial Literacy Instruction Act; provides a curriculum for local school boards to teach financial literacy; provides for a fund to receive public and private contributions for financial literacy instruction. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3020.htm Title: H.B. 3020 Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net AZ Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Creates new section allowing school districts and charter schools to offer a one-semester course in firearm marksmanship and gun safety, to be designated as the Arizona Gun Safety Course. Specifies the areas of instruction that the course must include. Requires districts and charter schools offering this course to arrange for adequate use of shooting range time by students in the course at any established shooting range. Requires instructors to be certified by the Arizona Game and Fish Department. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1271 Title: S.B. 1271 Source: www.azleg.state.az.us KS Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Requires the state board to develop nutrition guidelines for all foods and beverages made available to public school students during the school day. Requires the state board of education to consult with other state agencies, private foundations and other private entities in developing such guidelines, and to give particular attention to providing healthful foods and beverages, physical activities and wellness education with the goals of preventing and reducing childhood obesity. Requires local boards to consider these guidelines when establishing the district's wellness policy. http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/searchBillNumber.do Title: S.B. 154 Source: www.kslegislature.org OK Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, the state board of Education must require, as a condition of accreditation, that school districts provide to all students physical education programs which may include athletics. The state board must also require that public elementary schools provide instruction, for students in full-day kindergarten and grades one through five, in physical education or exercise programs for a minimum of an average of sixty (60) minutes each week. Requires the state board to disseminate information to each school district on the benefits of physical education programs and strongly encourage districts to provide physical education instruction to students in grades six through twelve. Instruction in physical education is required to be aligned with the Priority Academic Student Skills as adopted by the State Board of Education. Encourages local boards to require students to complete two units or sets of competencies of physical and health education for graduation. http://www.sos.state.ok.us/documents/Legislation/50th/2005/1R/SB/312.pdf Title: S.B. 312 Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us WI Issued 03/2005 P-12 Postsec. Community College Creates the governor's council on financial literacy. The council's mission is to measurably improve the financial literacy of Wisconsin citizens. In addition to other tasks, the council will serve as a sounding board for the governor's office and the office of financial literacy and is to provide a semi-annual report on its progress, beginning on December 31, 2005. http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/journal_media_detail.asp?prid=1026 Title: Executive Order # 92 Source: http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/ VA Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Clarifies that physical education is to include activities such as, but not limited to, cardiovascular, muscle building, or stretching exercises, as appropriate. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0350+pdf Title: S.B. 1130 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us VA Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Creates the Entrepreneurship Education Program, consisting of grants administered by the state board to public secondary schools to support innovative educational programs designed to assist students in the development of their entrepreneurial, academic, and life skills. The programs are requried to, among other things, (i) incorporate experiential learning; (ii) include partnerships with business and higher education; and (iii) assist students in practicing and mastering business concepts, such as negotiation, pricing, and the development and implementation of plans for individual student businesses.  This act will expire on July 1, 2007, if no gifts, donations, bequests, or other funds effectuating its purposes are received by that date.  http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0033 Title: S.B. 969 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us KY Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Postsec. Requires colleges and universities to: (a) Utilize institution-wide resources to work with elementary and secondary educators and other entities to align curriculum content to ensure that students who achieve proficiency on standards established at the prekindergarten through secondary levels will require no remediation to successfully enter a postsecondary education program; (b) Provide quality undergraduate teacher preparation programs to ensure that those preparing to teach reading or mathematics at all grade levels have the necessary content knowledge, assessment and diagnostic skills, and teaching methodologies; (c) Deliver appropriate continuing education for teachers in reading and mathematics through institutes, graduate level courses, and other professional development activities that support a statewide agenda for improving student achievement in reading and mathematics; (d) Conduct or assist with research on best practices in assessment, intervention strategies, teaching methodologies, costs and effectiveness of instructional models, and other factors as appropriate to reading and mathematics; (e) Provide staff to consult and provide technical assistance to teachers, staff, and administrators at elementary, middle, and secondary school sites; (f) Assume active roles in the statewide initiatives referenced in Sections 2 and 5 of this Act; and (g) Develop written procedures for measuring the effectiveness of activities outlined in paragraphs (a) to (e) of this subsection. Declares an emergency. http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93.htm Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93/FN.doc Title: H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraph 7) Source: lrc.ky.gov KY Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Postsec. Community College Defines terms, including "mathematics coach," "mathematics diagnostic assessment," "mathematics intervention program," "mathematics leader," "mathematics mentor," and "numeracy." Establishes the Committee for Mathematics Achievement to develop a multi-faceted strategic plan to improve student achievement in mathematics at all levels of schooling, prekindergarten through postsecondary and adult. Specifies that at a minimum, the plan must address: (a) Challenging curriculum that is aligned prekindergarten through postsecondary, including consensus among high school teachers and postsecondary education faculty about expectations, curriculum, and assessment; (b) Attitudes and beliefs of teachers about mathematics; (c) Teachers' knowledge of mathematics; (d) Diagnostic assessment, intervention services, and instructional strategies; (e) Shortages of teachers of mathematics, including incentives to attract strong candidates to mathematics teaching; (f) Statewide institutes that prepare cadres of mathematics leaders in local school districts, which may include highly skilled retired mathematics teachers, to serve as coaches and mentors in districts and schools; (g) Cohesive continuing education options for experienced mathematics classroom teachers; (h) Closing the student achievement gap among various student subpopulations; (i) Curriculum expectations and assessments of students among the various school levels, prekindergarten, primary, elementary, middle, and high school; (j) Content standards for adult education centers providing mathematics curricula; (k) Introductory postsecondary education mathematics courses that are appropriate to the wide array of academic programs and majors; (l) Research to analyze further the issues of transition from high school or GED programs to postsecondary education mathematics; and (m) The early mathematics testing program under KRS 158.803. Other factors may be included in the strategic plan as deemed appropriate by the committee to improve mathematics achievement of Kentucky students. Requires the committee to (a) Design a statewide professional development program that includes summer mathematics institutes at colleges and universities, follow-up, and school-based support services, beginning no later than June 1, 2006, to prepare teams of teachers as coaches and mentors of mathematics at all school levels to improve student achievement. Specifies areas the design must address. (b) Require schools and districts approved to have participants in the mathematics leader institutes to provide specified assurances to support institute participants and students who need modified instructional and intervention services in math. Establishes committee membership, terms, chairmanship, attachmetn to Kentucky Department of Education, and responsibilities. Specifies that the committee must: (a) Present a draft strategic plan addressing the requirements in subsection (1) of this section and other issues that arose during the work of the committee to the Education Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee no later than August 2005; (b) Present the strategic plan for improving mathematics achievement to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by July 15, 2006, which shall include any recommendations that require legislative action; and (c) Provide a final written report of committee activities to the Interim Joint Committee on Education and the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2006. Also specifies that the committee will have ongoing responsibility for providing advice and guidance to policymakers in the development of statewide policies and in the identification and allocation of resources to improve mathematics achievement. In carrying out this responsibility, the committee must periodically review the strategic plan and make modifications as deemed appropriate and report those to the Interim Joint Committee on Education. Mandates that the committee collaborate with the Center for Mathematics to ensure that there is ongoing identification of research-based intervention programs for K-12 students who have fallen behind in mathematics, rigorous mathematics curricula that prepare students for the next level of schooling, research-based professional development models that prepare teachers in mathematics and pedagogy, and strategies for closing the gap between high school or GED and postsecondary mathematics preparation. Declares an emergency. http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93.htm Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93/FN.doc Title: H.B. 93 (Section 2) Source: lrc.ky.gov AR Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Allows grant funds for fish and wildlife conservation education to be distributed to conservation districts in addition to school districts. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/SB394.pdf Title: S.B. 394 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us KY Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, requires each school to limit access to no more than one day each week to retail fast foods in the cafeteria, whether sold by contract, commercial vendor, or otherwise. Requires every district to appoint a food service director who is responsible for the management and oversight of the food service program in the district; allows two or more contiguous districts to form a "school food service area," in which a school food service director must be jointly selected by the participating superintendents to oversee the school food service area. Each school food service director must be certified as a "school food service and nutrition specialist" or certified by a Level 2 certificate issued by the American School Food Service Association within three years after this bill goes into effect. Requires school cafeteria managers to annually receive at least two hours of continuing education in applied nutrition and healthy meal planning and preparation. Defines "competitive food," "school day" and school-day-approved beverage." Defines "school-day-approved beverage" as water, 100% fruit juice, lowfat milk, and any beverage that contains no more than 10 grams of sugar per serving. Requires the state board to specify the minimum nutritional standards for all foods and beverages sold outside the National School Breakfast and National School Lunch programs in vending machines, school stores, canteens, and a la carte cafeteria sales. Requires minimum nutritional standards to be based on the most recent edition of the United States Department of Agriculture's Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Requires the state board rule to address serving size, sugar, and fat content of the foods and beverages. Permits school districts to impose more stringent standards than the state board standards. Requires all schools to follow the state board minimum standards unless the school has obtained a waiver from the state board. Requires any waiver approved by the state board to be reviewed on an annual basis. Bars schools from selling competitive foods or beverages from the time of the arrival of the first student at the school building until 30 minutes after the last lunch period. Allows only school-day-approved beverages to be sold in elementary schools during the school day in vending machines, school stores, canteens, or fundraisers that sell beverages by students, teachers, or groups on school grounds. Establishes fines and other sanctions for any public school that violates the school food nutrition requirements in section 4 of this bill. Requires each school food service director to annually assess school nutrition in the district and issue a written report to parents, the local school board, and school-based decision making councils. The report must include: (a) An evaluation of compliance with the National School Breakfast and National School Lunch programs; (b) An evaluation of the availability of contracted fast foods or foods sold through commercial vendors; (c) A review of access to foods and beverages sold outside the National School Breakfast and National School Lunch programs, including vending machines, school stores, canteens, and a la carte cafeteria sales; (d) A list of foods and beverages that are available to students, including the nutritional value of those foods and beverages; and (e) Recommendations for improving the school nutrition environment. Requires the state board to develop an assessment tool that each school district may use to evaluate its physical activity environment. Requires the evaluation to be completed annually and released to the public at the same time as the school food service director's annual nutrition report. Requires every local board to discuss the findings of the nutrition report and physical activity report, seek public comments during a public meeting of the board, and annually hold an advertised public forum to present a plan to improve school nutrition and physical activities in the school district. Requires each school council of an elementary school to develop and implement a wellness policy that includes moderate to vigorous physical activity each day and encourages healthy choices among students. The policy may permit physical activity to be considered part of the instructional day, up to 30 minutes per day, or 150 minutes per week. Each school council must adopt an assessment tool or utilize an existing assessment program to annually determine each child's level of physical activity. Requires the department to make available a list of available resources to carry out the provisions of this subsection, and to report annually to the Legislative Research Commission on how the schools are providing physical activity under these requirements, and on the types of physical activity being provided. The policy developed by the school council must comply with provisions required by federal law, state law, or local board policy. Bill summary, history and text: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/SB172.htm Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/SB172/FN.doc Title: S.B. 172 Source: lrc.ky.gov AR Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Defines "organized physical activity course." Beginning in the 2005-2006 school year, allows a student in grades 9-12 successfully completing an organized physical activity course meeting certain specifications to earn .5 unit of physical education credit towards high school graduation. Specifies that a student is limited to only the .5 unit of physical education credit for graduation for the organized physical activity course, and that the student is not allowed any other credit toward graduation for that same course. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb2.pdf Title: S.B. 2 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us GA Adopted 01/2005 P-12 Establishes rules regarding instruction in United States and Georgia history and government. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-4-2-.07.pdf Title: GAC 160-4-2-.07 Source: StateNet UT Rule Adoption 12/2004 P-12 Amends rules concerning driver education programs for state schools. Reflects revision date change made to the Driver Education for Utah High Schools Manual. UTAH REG 27423 (SN) Title: R277-746 Source: StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Requires a master contracts with nonpublic, nonsectarian schools for the provision of special education and related services to include that, with respect to a nonpublic, nonsectarian school that is associated with a licensed children's institution, there be a method of evaluating whether the school meets specified guidelines, and with respect to a nonpublic, nonsectarian school, the school be subject to the alternative accountability system of the Public School Performance Accountability Program in the same manner as public schools during the school's testing period, and each pupil placed in the school be tested in accordance with that accountability program, and the school prepare a school accountability report card. Requires the test results to be reported by the nonpublic, nonsectarian school to the State Department of Education. Authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to certify a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency for a period of not longer than 18 months. Requires a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency to make notification of its intent to seek certification. Requires that only those nonpublic, nonsectarian schools and agencies that provide special education that utilize staff who hold a certificate, permit, or other document equivalent to that which staff in a public school would be required to hold may be certified. Requires a nonpublic, nonsectarian school that provides special education and related services to an individual with exceptional needs to certify in writing to the Superintendent of Public Instruction that the school satisfies various requirements relating to, among others, access to standards-based curriculum and instructional materials, access to specific instruction and assistance, and a discipline policy. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1851-1900/ab_1858_bill_20040930_chaptered.pdf Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_1858_sign.pdf Title: A.B. 1858 (multiple provisions) Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Section 2: Repeals the requirement that pupils in American government and civics courses required for high school graduation read and be taught specified documents, including the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution and the Gettysburg Address. Requires the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that those documents are incorporated in the framework when the history-social science framework is revised. Requires the State Board of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to ensure that an appropriate number of questions on the California Standards Tests relate to those documents if any portion of the California Standards Tests is revised. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2851-2900/ab_2855_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2853_2855_2856_sign.pdf Title: A.B. 2855 (multiple provisions) Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Requires schools initially applying to participate in the High Priority Schools Grant Program on or after the 2004–05 fiscal year to include highly qualified teachers and appropriately credentialed teachers for English learners in the component on quality of staff in the school action plan. Specifies that the mandatory school action plan components on facilities, curriculum, instructional materials, and support services for those schools be on facilities in good repair, curriculum, sufficient instructional materials, and support services. Requires schools initially applying to participate in the High Priority Schools Grant Program on or after the 2004–05 fiscal year to measure the availability of instructional materials against a specified definition of ''sufficient instructional materials.'' http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions) Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 SEC. 18: Requires the governing board of every district to hold a public hearing and make a determination as to whether each pupil in each school in the district has sufficient textbooks or instructional materials in each subject that are consistent with the content and cycles of the curriculum frameworks. Requires the hearing to be held at a time that will encourage the attendance of teachers and parents and guardians of pupils who attend the schools in the district and prohibits the hearing from taking place during or immediately following school hours. Defines ''sufficient textbooks or instructional materials'' to mean that each pupil, including English learners, has a textbook or instructional materials, or both, to use in class and to take home to complete required homework assignments but specifies that 2 sets of textbooks or instructional materials for each pupil are not required. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions) Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Provides that if any part of a school's instruction in health conflicts with the religious training and beliefs of a parent or guardian of a pupil, the pupil, upon the parent or guardian's written request, shall be excused from the part of the instruction that conflicts with the religious training and beliefs. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2525_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions) Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Requires the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that specified historical documents are incorporated into the framework when the history-social science framework is revised. These documents are: (1) The Declaration of Independence; (2) The United States Constitution, including the Bill of Rights; (3) The Federalist Papers; (4) The Emancipation Proclamation; (5) The Gettysburg Address; and (6) George Washington's Farewell Address. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2525_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions) Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 Permits a school district to include instruction on personal finance, including budgeting, savings and credit, in social sciences courses for students in grades 7 through 12. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2401-2450/ab_2435_bill_20040826_enrolled.html Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2435_veto.pdf Title: A.B. 2435 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 Eliminates the requirement imposed on school district governing boards to include certain environmental education materials as part of the adopted instructions materials. Provides that a contribution to the Environmental Education Account will satisfy the requirement for an entity receiving a permit from a regional water quality control board or the State Water Resources Control Board to provide elementary and secondary public schools with storm water pollution educational materials. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1651-1700/ab_1696_bill_20040825_enrolled.html Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1696_veto.pdf Title: A.B. 1696 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 Deems, for purposes of computing the average daily attendance generated by a pupil enrolled in a history or social science course required by a school district as a condition of receipt of a high school diploma, a pupil serving as a member of a precinct board for an election to be under the immediate supervision of the certificated teacher of the history or social science course. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1901-1950/ab_1944_bill_20040824_enrolled.html Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1944_veto.pdf Title: A.B. 1944 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 Community College Appropriates a specified amount of funds from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for the support of the Advancement Via Individual Determination Program. Makes these amounts applicable toward the minimum funding requirements for a school district and community college districts. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_3001-3050/ab_3017_bill_20040827_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_3017_veto.pdf Title: A.B. 3017 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Provides that the satisfactory completion of a course in automobile driver education offered by a private secondary school satisfies the instructional requirements for a provisional driver's license for persons under 18 years of age if specified conditions are met. Existing law generally regulates driving schools and driving instructors. However, existing law provides, until a July 1, 2004, inoperative date, that those provisions are not to be construed to direct or restrict driver education courses offered by private secondary schools, or to require credentialed or certified instructors for courses offered by those private schools. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2005. This bill deletes the July 1, 2004, inoperative date and the January 1, 2005, repeal date, thereby continuing these provisions indefinitely. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_524_bill_20040918_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 524 Source: California Legislative Web site DE Rule Adoption 09/2004 P-12 Amends regulations relating to the requirements for a standard certificate for educational personnel. Changes are made to conform to changes in statute regarding licensure and certification of educators. Section is renumbered to reflect its movement to the Professional Standards section. Title: 14 DAC, 331, 1566, 1.0 - 3.3.12 Source: StateNet SD Adopted 09/2004 P-12 Eliminates requirement that evidence of completion of all required sections of the Dakota STEP assessment must appear on the student's transcript before graduation may be authorized and a signed diploma may be issued; Removes curriculum and special education directors from the administrative program group and places them in the school service program group; revises rules so they are content standards based and allows preparing institutions the flexibility to vary their courses to meet the content standards. SOUTH DAKOTA REG 4035 (SN) Title: 24:14:04:12.01, 12.02; 15:06:33, 36; 03:06:06.05, 15:01:01; 16:01:01, 05:03; 06:01, 02, 03, 07:01; 16:07:01, 02, 03, 08:01 thru 58 (Non-Seq.), 09:03 thru 05, 10:06 and 07 Source: StateNet NM Rule Adoption 08/2004 P-12 Amends issuing agency and statutory references; requires that disciplinary records be included in the records of transferring students; requires elective courses meet PED standards; requires that accountability data system numbers be included in transcripts. NEW MEXICO REG 4162 (SN) Title: NMAC 6.30.2.1, .3, .10 Source: StateNet RI Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 Requires (a) The board of regents for elementary and secondary education to adopt a statewide curriculum in mathematics and English-language arts for students in grades 3-10 by May 1, 2005. (b) The curriculum adopted by the board of regents must: (1) be aligned with state standards and assessments utilized by the state department of education; (2) contain sufficient detail to guide teachers in planning lessons aligned with state standards and assessments; and (3) be offered on a voluntary basis to school districts; provided, however, school districts shall not be required to utilize or implement such curriculum. Title: H.B. 7714 Source: rilin.state.ri.us/gen_assembly/ CA Vetoed 07/2004 P-12 Encourages the instruction of World War II and the role of Filipinos in that war in social science instruction in grades 7 through 12, inclusive. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2512_bill_20040624_enrolled.html Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2512_Veto.pdf Title: A.B. 2512 Source: California Legislative Web site LA Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 Relates to the physical activity and nutrition of students. Identifies childhood obesity as a growing problem in Louisiana. Identifies benefits of regular physical activity and healthy eating habits. States purposes of this section are: (1) To promote, encourage, and motivate children of all physical abilities to participate in physical activity for children to reach their full potential as individuals; (2) To promote physical activity and fitness in schools by encouraging innovative physical education programs that consist of physical exertion of a moderate to vigorous intensity level; (3) To promote improved nutritional levels in children by providing for snacks with higher nutritional value during the school day; (4) To inform children and their parents about the importance of physical activity and improved nutrition and the effects of both on positive outcomes. (5) To increase parental awareness of their children's activity and fitness levels. (6) To promote daily physical activity, the enjoyment of physical activity, the improvement of nutritional levels and eating habits and the development of lifelong patterns of physical activity. Deletes existing provision that, beginning with the 2004-05 school year, schools serving children in grades K-6 provide at least thirty minutes of quality physical activity for students each school day. Replaces with provision that in 2004-05 school year, schools serving children in such grades provide at least thirty minutes of "quality moderate to vigorous" physical activity for students every school day. Requires every public elementary school to annually report to its local board on compliance with this provision. Also requires every local board to annually report to the state board on compliance with this provision. Requires suitably adapted physical activity to be included as part of the individual education plans for students with chronic health problems, other disabling conditions or other special needs that preclude participation in regular physical activity. Encourages secondary school students not enrolled in a physical education course to participate in moderate to vigorous physical activity commensurate with student ability for at least 30 minutes a day. Requires various state agents, including the department of education and the department of health and hospitals, as well as the American Heart Association, to collaborate to develop an outreach and communication plan consisting of current information and research on health, nutrition and physical education and fitness issues. This plan must be disseminated to every local public school board and made available to parents and students. Beginning with the 2004-05 school year, requires a public elementary or secondary school selected from each regional education service center region in the state to be annually identified for an outstanding program of physical activity implemented at the school. As funds are available, requires monetary awards to be given these outstanding schools. Allows any public school serving students in grades 7, 8, 9 or 10 to apply to participate in a three-year pilot program to begin in the 2005-06 school year. Requires the state board to choose up to eight schools from each of the eight regional service districts to participate in the program, striving to achieve equal geographic distribution. Identifies areas of study: (1) An annual assessment that measures aspects of health-related fitness, rather than skill or agility, of the students in participating schools; (2) An assessment of the changes in weight status of the students who are enrolled in participating schools and who are receiving combined nutritional and physical activity intervention versus a nutritional intervention or physical activity intervention alone; and (3) The collection of individual baseline and longitudinal data to measure the improvement of each individual student. No assessment shall compare any student to another. Idenfities state entities required to collaborate to develop the elements of the pilot program and the recommendations for its implementation. Requires every school selected to participate in the program to provide a comprehensive report to the state board at the end of each school year on the effectiveness of the pilot program in accomplishing the pilot program objectives. States that the pilot program established in this bill must in no way interfere with or replace any effort, purpose, assessment or program implemented by the Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT7/OUT/0000LVUO.PDF Title: S.B. 871 Source: www.legis.state.la.us RI Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 Requires the Board of Regents for elementary and secondary education to select and/or develop a statewide curriculum in mathematics and English/Language arts in grades kindergarten (k) through twelve by August 31, 2006. The curriculum selected and/or developed by the board of regents must (1) be aligned with state standards and assessments utilized by the state department of education; and (2) contain sufficient detail to guide teachers in planning lessons aligned with state standards and assessments. The state commissioner is to convene an advisory committee in each area (math and English/language arts). Title: S.B. 2672 Source: Rhode Island Legislative Web Site RI Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 P-12 Community College Places driver education course requirements under the Board of Governors for Higher Education instead of the Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education. which substantially conform with the current curriculum utilized by the instructor(s) at the Community College of Rhode Island, including a minimum of three (3) hours of instruction focusing upon specific Rhode Island traffic laws, the specific requirements of the Rhode Island graduated licensing statute in section 31-10-6 and eight (8) hours specifically for instruction on the effects of alcohol and drugs on a driver. All driver's education programs shall include information concerning the Anatomical Gift Act chapter 18.6 of title 23, and information on donor cards pursuant to the applicable provisions of chapter 18.6 of title 23. The program does not offer outside the classroom road test instruction or driving lessons to Rhode Island students. Title: H.B. 8665 Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/gen_assembly ND Rule Adoption 07/2004 P-12 Establishes rules regarding initial licenses, distance learning instructor - definition - qualifications - licensure, two-year and five-year renewals, professional development for license renewal, multicultural education and native american studies, and reentry. Title: NDAC 67.1-02-02-, -04, -05, -07, -09 Source: StateNet HI Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Establishes a Hawaiian language medium education program. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/hb2667_cd1_.htm Title: H.B. 2667 Source: Hawaii Legislative web site VT Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 The purpose of the act is to encourage wellness programs in Vermont public schools and in Vermont communities.  Wellness programs will be designed to encourage life-long patterns of healthy eating and regular physical exercise among Vermont citizens. Provides for physical activity programs and physical education programs; provides for nutrition education; provides for assistance to school districts on wellness; provides for a definition of nutritious foods. Requires the development of a model school fitness and nutrition policy. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2004/acts/ACT161.HTM Title: H.B. 272 Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us AZ Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Provides an additional duty of incorporating instruction of Native American history into appropriate existing curricula; provides that the instruction curriculum for all schools shall include the history of Native Americans in Arizona. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0339.htm Title: S.B. 1365 Source: Arizona Legislative Web site CO Signed by Governor 06/2004 P-12 Encourages each school district and charter school to adopt a financial literacy curriculum and to make successful completion of the program a graduation requirement. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/88DE0C519CF9551087256D790053005C?Open&file=1360_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1360 Source: Colorado Legislative Web site CO Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Concerns limitations on education regarding manifestations of human sexuality. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/6B239FC2932F199287256E1A00062311?Open&file=1375_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1375 Source: Colorado Legislative Web site TN Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Urges state board of education to study the inclusion of alcohol awareness and drug usage awareness in K-12 curriculums, including dangers of driving under the influence. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/HJR1006.pdf Title: H.J.R. 1006 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us CO Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Promotes "Colorado History Day" (NHD), a year-long academic enrichment program that engages students in grades six to twelve in the process of discovery and interpretation of historical topics. and making an appropriation to schools. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/CFD276C782F7232787256DDE00801172?Open&file=1202_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1202 Source: Colorado Legislative Web site VA Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Relates to the Family Life Education Program in grades K through 12; provides additions to the curriculum include steps to take to avoid sexual assault, the availability of counseling and legal resources and, in the event of such sexual assault, the importance of immediate medical attention and advice, as well as the requirements of the law. Title: H.B. 1015 Source: StateNet FL To governor 05/2004 P-12 Creates the "Middle School Reform Act;" provides definitions; prescribes program criteria and content; provides a timeline for implementation; requires an academic performance study of middle grade students and schools with recommendations for increase in performance; requires school improvement plan to include rigorous reading requirement; provides for individual student plans; provides for additions to academic improvement plans; adds criteria to the assessment process for instructional personnel; requires DOE to conduct study on physical education in public schools; requires school districts to implement mandatory physical education under certain circumstances. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0354er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/ Title: S.B. 354 Source: Florida Legislative Web site IA Vetoed 05/2004 P-12 Creates new section allowing driver's education to be provided by a teaching parent. Teaching parent must provide, among other requirements, thirty hours of classroom instruction, and four hours of classroom instruction concerning substance abuse. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=HF2394 Title: H.F. 2394 Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us AL Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Urges schools to provide instruction on healthy lifestyle choices including programs for physical education; urges restrictions on granting waivers for physical education. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp Title: S.J.R. 97 Source: Alabama Legislative Web site HI Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Designated April as "Financial Literacy for Youth" month. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/hb1898_hd1_.htm Title: H.B. 1898 Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site PA Issued 04/2004 P-12 Postsec. Community College Creates the office of financial education, responsible for: (1) Coordinating financial education programs across agencies; (2) Developing and maintaining a comprehensive database of financial education programs, materials and resources; (3) Providing support for the task force on working families; (4) Advising the governor and state agencies on financial education matters; (5) Representing the Commonwealth in developing partnerships with appropriate public and private financial education agencies; and (6) Performing other duties as assigned by the Governor or the Secretary of Banking. Creates the governor's task force for working families, defines responsibilities, membership and directs task force to issue report by March 1, 2005. http://www.oa.state.pa.us/oac/cwp/view.asp?A=351&Q=185699 Title: Executive Order Source: http://www.oa.state.pa.us/ VA Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Requires local boards to incorporate art, music, and physical education as a part of the instructional program at the elementary school level, and to employ five elementary resource positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade five for art, music, and physical education. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955 Title: H.B. 1014 Source: leg1.state.va.us VA Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Amends section 22.1-253.13:1 and 22.1-253.13:2 . Specifies that the Standards of Learning form the core of Virginia's educational program and other educational objectives. Specifies that the state board must, at a minimum, define Standards of Learning for English, mathematics, science, history and social science. Specifies that "communication" as included in the Standards of Learning comprises listening, speaking, reading and writing. To passage on public input on proposed revisions to the Standards of Learning, adds that the department must provide and maintain Web capacity to allowing K-12 educators to submit recommendations for improvements to the Standards of Learning, when under review by the state board, as well as to the related assessments. Deletes "career education schools" from language requiring local boards to implement career and technical education programs. Provisions (i) increase from one half-time to one full-time principal in elementary schools with fewer than 300 students; (ii) provide one full-time assistant principal for each 400 students in each school, regardless of grade level; (iv) lower the pupil-teacher ratio from 25:1 to 21:1 in middle and high schools, to ensure the provision of scheduled teacher planning time; (v) reduce the required speech pathologist caseload from 68 to 60 students; (vi) require two technology support positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade 12 divisionwide; and (viii) modify the current funding mechanism for remediation. Requires the state board to submit to the governor and the general assembly a report on the condition and needs of public education in the commonwealth and shall identify any school divisions and the specific schools therein that have failed to establish and maintain schools meeting the existing prescribed standards of quality. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955 Title: H.B. 1014 Source: leg1.state.va.us KY Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Designates Millersburg Military Institute as the official Kentucky military school. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SJ83/bill.doc Title: S.J.R. 83 Source: StateNet AZ Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Allows high schools with driver education programs to educate students enrolled in the program about organ donation options. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0125.htm Title: H.B. 2513 Source: Arizona Legislative Web site VA Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Creates new section requiring school divisions to provide students alternatives to student dissection of animals. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0918 Title: H.B. 1018 Source: StateNet GA Adopted 04/2004 P-12 Clarifies rules regarding the list of state-funded K-8 school subjects and grades 9-12 courses. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-4-2-.03.pdf Title: GAC 160-4-2-.03 Source: Georgia State Web site CO Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Postsec. Community College Concerns the treatment of American Sign Language as a foreign language in education that counts toward graduation requirements. http://www.state.co.us/gov_dir/leg_dir/olls/sl2004a/sl_74.htm Title: H.B. 1037 Source: Colorado Legislative Web site UT Rule Adoption 04/2004 P-12 Amends rules concerning elementary and secondary school core curriculum. Revises several middle and high school Core Curriculum requirements. UTAH REG 26902 (SN) Title: R277-700 Source: StateNet ID Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 Amends existing law to remove language setting forth alternative requirements for driver training programs; to provide that the State Board of Education shall adopt rules to provide students with driver education opportunities while students are enrolled in commercial driver training programs; to revise license application requirements; to set forth standards for courses of instruction. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1353.html#billtext Title: S.B. 1353 Source: Idaho Legislative Web site ID Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 Amends existing law relating to reimbursement to public school districts for driver training courses to increase the average cost per pupil reimbursement from $110 to $125. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1255.html#daily Title: S.B. 1255 Source: Idaho Legislative Web site WY Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 Relates to public schools; establishes a pilot project for expansion of foreign language instruction through grade six; imposes requirements upon participant schools; establishes initial and on-going training and professional development for teachers and teacher assistants; provides for program implementation and administration through the state superintendent. Title: H.B. 170 Source: StateNet WA Vetoed 03/2004 P-12 Provides for financial literacy; provides for the creation of a set of financial literacy learning guidelines, providing information on instructional materials that help students meet the learning guidelines, data collection and creating a public- private partnership to help provide instructional tools and professional development to school districts that wish to increase the financial literacy of their students. Title: H.B. 2455 Source: StateNet AR Signed into law 02/2004 P-12 Requires that advanced placement courses be available in the four core areas (English, math, science, social studies) in high school; exempts high schools offering the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1154.pdf Title: H.B. 1154 Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site AR Signed into law 01/2004 P-12 Requires public school districts to offer a personal finance course to students in grades nine through twelve. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB41.pdf Title: S.B. 41 Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site AR Rule Adoption 11/2003 P-12 Establishes rules governing standards of accreditation of Arkansas public schools. http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/ade%20156%20standards.pdf Title: ADE 156 Source: Arkansas State Web site IL Total veto stands 11/2003 P-12 Removes a provision that allows a school district to adopt a policy to permit proficiency examinations for the practice driving part of the driver education course at any time after the completion of 3 hours of practice driving under direct individual instruction. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=70&GAID=3&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=502&SessionID=3 Title: S.B. 70 Source: Illinois Legislative Web site GA Adopted 10/2003 P-12 Provides list of state-funded K-8 subjects and 9-12 courses. Amended 10/2003 clarifying rules regarding state-funded subjects and courses. Assigns a unique course number to accurately report gifted education services using the Resource Class model. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-4-2-.03.pdf Title: GAC 160-4-2-.03 Source: Georgia State Web site NY Signed into law 10/2003 P-12 Enacts the "student financial education act" to create within children the skills, knowledge and experience necessary to manage personal finances and obtain general financial literacy; allows a credit union organized to open and maintain a student branch upon agreement with a school; defines student branch; authorizes the superintendent to promulgate regulations appropriate to the formation and operation of student branches. Title: S.B. 4113 Source: StateNet CA Signed into law 10/2003 P-12 Establishes the Outdoor Environmental Education Program to foster stewardship of the environment and an appreciation of the importance of the wise use of natural resources. Requires the Department of Education administer the program and, according to a priority system to be developed by the department, select applicants for participation in the program pursuant to specified criteria. Requires a contracted evaluator to evaluate the program. The program and its evaluation will be implemented only if the Department of Finance determines that private funds are available to cover the costs of the program and its evaluation. Bill makes provisions inoperative on July 1, 2005, and repeal them on January 1, 2006. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1301-1350/ab_1330_bill_20031003_chaptered.html Title: A.B. 1330 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Signed into law 10/2003 P-12 Relates to existing law that establishes a 5-year pilot grant program to school districts to cover the costs of advanced placement examination fees and authorizes school districts to apply to the department for grant funding under the program based on the number of economically disadvantaged pupils in the district who will take the next offered advanced placement examinations. Deletes the existing repeal date of January 1, 2005 and makes the new repeal date January 1, 2008. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_507_bill_20031003_chaptered.html Title: S.B. 507 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Signed into law 10/2003 P-12 Establishes the Office of Education on the Environment. Requires the office to develop education principles for the environment for elementary and secondary school pupils, to develop a model curriculum and to submit the curriculum for approval. Requires the curriculum be available electronically. Relates to the adoption of instructional materials for environmental education. Establishes the Environmental Education Account. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1501-1550/ab_1548_bill_20030910_enrolled.html http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1501-1550/ab_1548_bill_20031003_chaptered.html Title: A.B. 1548 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Signed into law 10/2003 P-12 Establishes the Comprehensive Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention Education Act. Authorizes school districts to provide comprehensive sexual health education in any kindergarten to grade 12, inclusive, to ensure that all pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, receive HIV/AIDS prevention education. This bill would incorporate additional changes proposed by AB 300, to be operative only if this bill and AB 300 are both enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2004, and this bill is enacted last. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0051-0100/sb_71_bill_20031001_chaptered.html Title: S.B. 71 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Signed into law 09/2003 P-12 Specifies pupils may receive instruction relating to the components of preventative health. The instruction on nutrition may include related topics such as obesity and diabetes. Specifies the health care professionals should represent the varied fields of health care, including managed care, health care providers, and voluntary collaboration with managed health care providers. Prohibits marketing of services by certain entities. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0151-0200/ab_195_bill_20030929_chaptered.html Title: A.B. 195 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Signed into law 09/2003 P-12 Establishes the Arts Work Visual and Performing Arts Education Program to be administered by the department of education for awarding grants to local educational agencies to develop their capacity to implement high- quality, instructional programs based on the state adopted visual and performing arts content standards for pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12. Requires the selection of an expert panel to evaluate the programs. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1501-1550/ab_1512_bill_20030929_chaptered.html Title: A.B. 1512 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Signed into law 09/2003 Postsec. Requires the Trustees of the California State University and the Board of Governors of California Community Colleges, and requests the Regents of the University of California and accredited private and independent colleges and universities to require students to successfully complete minimum coursework in business ethics prior to receiving a business degree. Establishes the Golden State Business and Social Responsibility Award to honor certain graduates. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0801-0850/sb_821_bill_20030929_chaptered.html Title: S.B. 821 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Signed into law 09/2003 P-12 Requires the department of education to encourage K- 12 schools to provide quality physical education that develops the knowledge, attitudes, skills, behavior, and motivation needed to be physically fit for life. Requires the department to encourage those schools to provide extracurricular physical fitness programs and clubs, and to encourage the use of school facilities for physical fitness programs. Authorizes test results to be given orally. This bill would delay until July 1, 2007, the requirement that a pupil pass the physical performance test as a condition of receiving the exemption. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0051-0100/sb_78_bill_20030922_chaptered.html Title: S.B. 78 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Signed into law 09/2003 P-12 Authorizes the inclusion of instruction on World War II and the American role in that war. Makes a finding and declaration that the current state- adopted academic content standards already include instruction on the Korean and Vietnam wars in the appropriate grade level consistent with those standards. Encourages the instruction include personal testimony of those involved in those wars. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1501-1550/ab_1537_bill_20030917_chaptered.html Title: A.B. 1537 Source: California Legislative Web site IL Signed into law 08/2003 P-12 Provides that community service may include participation in a high school or community blood drive or other blood recruitment campaign. Provides for development of units of instruction. Allows a school district to also teach students about blood donor and transplantation programs. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0547 Title: S.B. 372 Source: Illinois Legislative Web site MI Signed into law 08/2003 P-12 Requires sex education instruction to include information clearly informing pupils that having sex or sexual contact with an individual under the age of 16 is a crime punishable by imprisonment, and that one of the other results of being convicted of this crime is to be listed on the sex offender registry on the Internet for at least 25 years. See Sec. 166a: http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/billenrolled/house/pdf/2003-HNB-4401.pdf Title: H.B. 4401 (multiple provisions) Source: www.michiganlegislature.org IL Signed into law 08/2003 P-12 Public schools and educational facilities may not contract with an entity engaged in giving instruction in the driving of motor vehicles or in the preparation of an applicant for the Secretary of State's driver's license examination unless that entity is licensed by the Secretary of State. Includes other provisions. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0408 Title: H.B. 1491 Source: Illinois Legislative Web site IL Signed into law 08/2003 P-12 Amends the School Code. Provides that the teaching of United States History shall include a study of the role and contributions of Asian Americans. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=890&GAID=3&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=3761&SessionID=3 Title: S.B. 890 Source: Illinois LEgislative Web site RI Became law without governor's signature 07/2003 P-12 Community College Transfers the administration of the driver education program from the department of elementary and secondary education to the Community College of Rhode Island. Title: H.B. 5598 Source: StateNet CA Signed into law 07/2003 P-12 Expresses the encouragement of the Legislature for K-12 instruction to contain instruction on the Vietnam War, including the Secret War in Laos and the role of the Southeast Asians in that war; encourages including a component drawn from personal testimony of the Southeast Asians who were involved in the Vietnam War and those men and women who contributed to the war effort on the homefront. Specifies this instruction shall be carried out in a manner that does not result in any new duties or programs being imposed on school districts. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0051-0100/ab_78_bill_20030710_chaptered.html Title: A.B. 78 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Signed into law 07/2003 P-12 Relates to public school instruction on World War II and the American role in that war; authorizes the instruction in the area of social sciences to contain instruction on World War II and the American role in that war. (Existing law required instruction on World War II.) http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0351-0400/ab_399_bill_20030619_enrolled.html Title: A.B. 399 Source: California Legislative Web site HI Signed into law 07/2003 P-12 Allows the Department of Education to adopt a program for grades 3- 12 which provides opportunities for competency in a second language. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/docs/getstatus.asp?qu=SB1326&showstatus=on&showtext=on&press1=docs Title: S.B. 1326 Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site IL Signed into law 07/2003 P-12 Requires sex education materials and instruction to advise pupils of the provisions of the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act, responsible parenting and the availability of confidential adoption services. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=2298&GAID=3&DocTypeID=HB&LegID=3567&SessionID=3 Title: H.B. 2298 Source: Illinois Legislative Web site LA Signed into law 07/2003 P-12 Starting in the 2004-05 school year and thereafter, requires every public school serving students in grades K-6 to offer students at least 30 minutes of quality physical activity every school day. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/03RS/CVT2/OUT/0000KT2Y.PDF Title: S.B. 398 Source: www.legis.state.la.us TX Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Relates to awards granted under the Texas Advanced Placement Incentive Program to schools for providing a college advanced placement course. Title: S.B. 578 Source: StateNet LA Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Requires the free enterprise curriculum to include instruction in personal finance beginning with the 2004-2005 school year. States that personal finance includes but is not limited to income, money management, spending and credit, and savings and investing. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/03RS/CVT1/OUT/0000KO78.PDF Title: S.B. 38 Source: www.legis.state.la.us FL Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Postsec. Requires school boards to advise students taking American Sign Language as a foreign language that post-secondary schools outside of Florida may not accept these courses as satisfying foreign language requirements. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/house/Session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=0162&Chamber=Senate&Year=2003&Title=%2D%3EBill%2520Info%3AS%25200162%2D%3ESession%25202003 Title: S.B. 162 Source: Florida Legislative Web site AL Issued 06/2003 P-12 Designates the American Village Citizenship Trust Statewide Educational Center and Classroom Laboratory in American History, Civics, and Government, as created by §16-44A-30 as the state's American History and Civics Initiative. Creates and charges the American Village Cornerstone of Liberty Commission to work jointly with the Board of Trustees of The American Village Citizenship Trust: 1. To attain the goal for Alabama to educate and inspire its students in critical academic areas of American history and civics, as a foundation for building good citizens. 2. To help invite and host local, state, regional, and national leaders at national ceremonies to lay the "Cornerstone of Liberty" at the American Village Citizenship Trust. 3. To review and make recommendations to secure state and national private and public support for the Cornerstone of Liberty American History and Civics Initiative of The American Village Citizenship Trust, which has as its goal to educate and inspire 100,000 students on-site annually at the state's American history and civics classroom, and also to reach hundreds of thousands of other students in their own local classrooms through a voluntary classroom outreach program in American history and civics, with the mission to help students know American history, cherish the ideals of liberty, and serve our country as good citizens. 4. To recommend other ways in which Alabama can help respond to the call to action issued by United States President George W. Bush, and to help lead this country in a return to the principles set forth by our Founders, that knowledge of American history and civics is an essential foundation for good citizenship. http://www.governorpress.alabama.gov/pr/ex-08-2003-06-05.asp Title: Executive Order 2003-08 Source: http://www.governorpress.alabama.gov SC Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Requires high school students to receive instruction in the area of personal finance. Title: S.B. 258 Source: StateNet TX Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 As a condition of accreditation, a school district is required to provide instruction using the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) in the foundation curriculum, whereas in the enrichment curriculum, the TEKS standards are only required to be used as guidelines. C.S.S.B. 815 repeals language describing the requirements for the enrichment curriculum and provides that a school district must provide instruction of certain essential knowledge and skills in the enrichment curriculum as a condition of accreditation. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=78&SESS=R&CHAMBER=S&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=00815&VERSION=5&TYPE=B Title: S.B. 815 Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us TX Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Directs the state board to implement the inclusion of elements relating to personal finance among the essential knowledge and skills in the required public school curriculum, and to adopt and promote a personal finance education program that provides public school districts with textbook selections to assist in the program's implementation. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=78&SESS=R&CHAMBER=H&BILLTYPE=CR&BILLSUFFIX=00015&VERSION=5&TYPE=B Title: H.C.R. 15 Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us MN Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Effective the 2003-04 school year and later, bars the state education commissioner from implementing the profile of learning portion of the state's results-oriented graduation rule, or classroom assessments that schools must use. Replaces references to "results oriented graduation rule" with "academic standards." (Retains requirement that students pass basic skills test to be eligible for high school graduation.) Requires students to complete district-determined course credit requirements to be eligible for high school graduation starting with students entering the ninth grade during the 2004-05 school year. Establishes language arts, math, science, social studies and the arts as subject areas required for statewide accountability. Requires public elementary and middle schools to offer at least three and require at least two of the following four arts areas: dance, music, theater and visual arts. Requires public high schools to offer at least three and require at least one of the following five arts areas: media arts, dance, music, theater and visual arts. Requires the commissioner to submit proposed science and social studies standards to the legislature by February 1, 2004. Requires the commissioner to consider recommendations from specified stakeholders when developing state academic standards in language arts, math, science, social studies and the arts. Specifies that standards must: (1) be clear, concise, objective, measurable, and grade-level appropriate; (2) not require a specific teaching methodology or curriculum; and (3) be consistent with the constitutions of the United States and the state of Minnesota. Requires the commissioner to adopt rules for implementing statewide rigorous core academic standards in language arts, math and the arts. Specifies that after the rules are initially adopted, the commissioner may not amend or repeal these rules nor adopt new rules on the same topic without specific legislative authorization. Requires these academic standards to be implemented for all students beginning in the 2003-2004 school year. Additionally requires the commissioner to supplement the required state academic standards with grade-level benchmarks, although high school benchmarks may cover more than one grade. Establishes other requirements regarding benchmarks. Requires every district to establish its own standards in the elective subject areas of health and physical education, vocational and technical education, and world languages. Requires every district to offer courses in all above elective subject areas, and to use a locally selected assessment to determine whether a student has achieved an elective standard. Additionally requires every district, by the 2007-08 school year, to adopt graduation requirements that meet or exceed state graduation requirements. Must provide students who enter grade 9 in or before the 2003-04 school year the opportunity to earn a diploma based on existing local graduation requirements in effect when student entered ninth grade. Establishes graduation requirements based on course credits in language arts, math, science, social studies and electives, including the arts, for students entering grade 9 in the 2004-05 school year. Beginning the 2005-06 school year and later, requires annual statewide testing in language arts and math in grades 3 through 8 and at the high school level. Also requires annual science assessments in one grade in grades 3-5 span, the grades 6-9 span, and the grades 10-12 span for the 2007-08 school year and later. Requires a state-developed test in a subject other than writing, developed after the 2002-03 school year, to include both multiple choice and constructed response questions. Requires state tests to be aligned with state academic standards, and for statewide results to be aggregated at the school and district level. Deletes language excluding test scores of students receiving limited English proficiency instruction from school and district testing results. Permits exemption of limited English proficiency students if the student has been in the United States for fewer than three years. Requires state assessments, by the 2006-07 school year to include a value-added component to measure student achievement growth over time. Requires commissioner to include alternative assessments for the very few students with disabilities for whom statewide assessments are inappropriate and for students with limited English proficiency. Permits school, district or charter school to use a high school student's performance on a state assessment as a percentage of the student's final grade in a course or to place the student's assessment score on the student's transcript. Requires the commissioner to develop language arts, math and science assessments aligned with state standards, which districts must use. Specifies that commissioner must not develop state assessments for academic standards in social studies and the arts. http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/getbill.pl?session=ls83&version=latest&number=HF302&session_number=0&session_year=2003 Title: H.F. 302 (multiple provisions) Source: www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us AR Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Develops a comprehensive plan to revise content standards and curriculum frameworks adopted by the state in core academic areas of reading, writing, mathematics, science, history, geography and civics. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2374.pdf Title: H.B. 2374 Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site AR Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Requires school districts to provide parents of students in grades nine through twelve (9-12) with a list of classes that are required to be taught by the school district. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2339.pdf Title: H.B. 2339 Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site DE Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Postsec. Enables state colleges, universities, high schools and those contracted by the Department of Education to conduct driver education classes without obtaining a commercial driver training school license as long as the curriculum is approved and given by certified teachers. http://www.legis.state.de.us/Legislature.nsf/fsLIS?openframeset&Frame=Main&Src=/LIS/LIS142.NSF/Home!Openform Title: H.B. 25 Source: Delaware Legislative Web site AR Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Changes the requirement for physical education under Arkansas Code from students through grade 9 to students through grade 8; requires the district to provide assurance of compliance. Title: S.B. 936 Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site MT Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Authorizes formation of student banks, called "student financial institutions" in a high school as an education program to serve only those students enrolled in the school in which the program is located. The student financial institution may be advised but not owned by one or more state- or federally chartered financial institutions, as specified. Requires the trustees (board members) in every high school or K-12 district to consider and, if advisable, establish a student financial institution. http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/2003/billhtml/SB0380.htm Title: S.B. 380 Source: data.opi.state.mt.us AR Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Implements oral health instruction into public school curricula. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/SB811.pdf Title: S.B. 811 Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site KS Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Requires the state board to assist in the implementation of personal financial literacy instructional programs, to include consumer financial education, personal finance and personal credit. Requires the state board to create standards and objectives for personal finance literacy for all grade levels as part of the current math curriculum or another appropriate subject-matter curriculum. Requires the state board to encourage districts to choose math, economics and other such textbooks that substantively address areas of personal finance. Requires the state board to create curriculum, materials and guidelines for implementing the program of instruction on personal financial literacy. Adds that accredited nonpublic schools may use the state board-developed curriculum, materials and guidelines, and specifies that local board use of these curriculum, materials and guidelines is voluntary rather than mandatory. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2004/74.pdf Title: S.B. 74 Source: http://www.kslegislature.org AR Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Requires that all courses offered by school districts be aligned with the Arkansas Curriculum Frameworks. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2375.pdf Title: H.B. 2375 Source: State legislative web site NM Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Requires multicultural content for a percentage of instructional material approved by the State Board of Education. Title: S.B. 396 Source: StateNet NM Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Enacts the Fine Arts Education Act; provides funding for fine arts in public schools through the funding formula; defines the number of program units for teachers certified by the national board. Title: H.B. 12 Source: StateNet WV Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Continues the West Virginia commission on holocaust education until the first day of July, 2009 unless sooner terminated, continued or reestablished. Title: H.B. 2879, S.B. 510 Source: West Virginia Legislature WV Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Relates to continuation of the West Virginia commission on Holocaust education. Title: H.B. 2879 Source: StateNet UT Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Section 53A-3-402 requires local boards to implement the core curriculum using instructional materials that best correlate to the core curriculum and graduation requirements; administer required tests and create plans to improve student progress; use progress-based assessments as part of a plan to identify schools, teachers and students that need remediation and determine the type and amount of resources to implement that remediation; develop early warning systems for students or classes failing to make progress; work with the state office of education to establish a library of documented best practices; implement training programs for school administrators, including basic management training, best practices in instruction, budget training, staff management, managing for learning results and continuous improvement, and how to help every child achieve optimal learning in core academics. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2003/bills/sbillenr/sb0154.pdf Title: S.B. 154 (Omnibus Bill) Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us UT Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Section 53A-13-108 is a new section of law requiring the state board to establish rigorous curriculum and graduation requirements for grades 9-12, beginning no later than with the graduating class of 2007. These must (1) use competency-based standards and assessments; (2) include instruction that stresses financial literacy; (3) increase requirements to exceed the existing credit requirements of 3 units in language arts, 2 units in math and 2 units in science. The state board is also required to establish competency-based standards and assessments for elective courses. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2003/bills/sbillenr/sb0154.pdf Title: S.B. 154 (Omnibus Bill) Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us AR Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Provides for organ donor education in driver education courses and high school health classes; provides for leave for bone marrow or organ donation. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/SB167.pdf Title: S.B. 167 Source: State legislative web site NJ Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Provides for instruction for middle school and high school students in the dynamics of domestic violence and child abuse. Title: S.B. 487 Source: StateNet WV To governor 03/2003 P-12 Relates to continuing the commission on holocaust education; provides for reimbursement of reasonable expenses by members; authorizes the commission to accept state funds as appropriated by the Legislature. Title: S.B. 510, H.B. 2879 Source: StateNet KY Adopted 03/2003 P-12 Establishes rules regarding the criteria a school shall meet in order to designate a course an advanced placement course, including content and program standards concerning student admission criteria, data collection, and reporting. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/kar/704/003/510.htm Title: 704 KAR 3:510 Source: StateNet MS Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Allows local boards to create a local school health/physical education advisory council to help the district implement health and physical education instruction. Lists areas in which local school health/physical education councils may make recommendations and requires the local board to appoint members to the local council, with one person on the council representing each of 11 groups, including the clergy, health care professionals and parents who are not employed by the district. Specifies that the physical activity coordinator employed by the state department of education monitor and act as a clearinghouse for the activities of the local school health/physical education advisory councils to be created. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2003/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2339SG.htm Title: S.B. 2339 Source: billstatus.ls.state.ms.us 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 UT Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Section 53A-1-402.6 requires the state board to implement a core curriculum that will enable students to communicate effectively, apply mathematics and access, analyze and apply information. Depth and complexity should increase from year to year. 53A-1-409 requires the state board to provide expertise and consult with local boards and districts relating to competency-based education and progress-based assessments. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2003/bills/sbillenr/sb0154.pdf Title: S.B. 154 (Omnibus Bill) Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us AR Signed into law 02/2003 Postsec. Amends the requirement for a course in American History or civil government prior to receiving a baccalaureate degree. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/SB213.pdf Title: S.B. 213 Source: State legislative web site CA Signed into law 09/2002 P-12 Requires the Department of Education to incorporate nutrition education curriculum content into the health curriculum framework at its next revision. Requires the department to make competitive grants available to school districts and county offices of education to start up or expand instructional school gardens and garden salad bars with a compost program. Title: A.B. 1634 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2002 P-12 Imposes new duties on the state department regarding physical education. Requires the department to monitor the number of hours of physical instruction offered to pupils in grades 1 to 12. Requires the Board of Education to adopt model content standards in the curriculum area of physical education. Provides for reporting requirements. Title: A.B. 1793 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2002 P-12 Declares the Legislature encourages the incorporation of survivor, rescuer and liberator testimony into the teaching of human rights, genocide and the Holocaust. Establishes a State Task Force on Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights and Tolerance Education as an advisory body and the Center for Excellence on the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights and Tolerance as a pilot program at the California State University, Chico to train teachers. Title: A.B. 2003 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Vetoed 09/2002 P-12 Requires the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission within the Department of Education to identify model programs, standards, and curricula relating to ethnic studies at the high school level. Requires the commission to submit a report to the Governor and Legislature and to make the report available on the department's Internet Web site. Appropriates funds for the purposes of the report. Title: A.B. 2001 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2002 Postsec. Relates to the Donahoe Higher Education Act. Encourages institutions of higher education to develop programs that support learning about other cultures, global issues, and the international exchange of students and scholars. Encourages public and private institutions to develop programs in international studies, promote the presence of international students, and to facilitate exchange programs, as their resources permit. Title: A.B. 1342 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MA Signed into law 08/2002 P-12 "[W]ithin five years of the effective date of this act, any foreign language classes required by the department [...] or by a school district shall be required for students in elementary schools and optional for students in high schools." http://www.state.ma.us/legis/bills/house/ht05010.htm Title: H.B. 5010 Source: http://www.state.ma.us/legis/bills/house/ht05010.htm MO Signed into law 07/2002 P-12 Requires the department to conduct a study of economics and personal finance education, to be submitted to the general assembly by January 1, 2003. Requires the study to include recommendations on 1) in-service training methods for teachers on economics and personal finance; 2) funding to integrate the subjects into K-12 math, reading, writing, social studies, business, and family and consumer science courses; 3) methods of integration of testing on economics and personal finance in the state assessments with sufficient test questions to allow a separate reportable score for each of these two subjects; 4) requirements for a capstone high school course in economics and personal finance with a passing grade required for high school graduation; 5) K-12 teacher certification requirements relating to these subjects. Title: H.B. 1973 Source: www.moga.state.mo.us OK Vetoed 06/2002 P-12 On or before September 1, 2002, the state board must adopt rules to ensure that students who transfer into an Oklahoma school district from out of state after the student's junior year of high school shall not be denied, due to differing graduation requirements, the opportunity to be awarded a standard diploma. Creates the "Oklahoma Social Studies Stimulus Program" to be administered by the state department. The purpose of the program is to provide incentives to encourage innovative ways of educating students through the social studies and to prepare students to become active, engaged participants in the democratic process. Title: S.B. 701 Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2001-02SB/sb701_enr.rtf NJ Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 Establishes the Amistad Commission to coordinate educational and other programs on slavery and African-American history in public and nonpublic schools and public and private nonprofit resource organizations. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2002/Bills/A1500/1301_R1.HTM Title: A.B. 1301 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OH Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 Transfers jurisdiction over high school drivers' education courses to the Department of Public Safety; requires school districts offering drivers' education to meet the standards for private entities by a certain date; requires certain driver education courses to include 30 minutes of instruction relating to anatomical gifts and anatomical gift procedures; prohibits reporting of certain student personally identifying information. Title: H.B. 407 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet SC SENATE override line item veto Nos. 2. 06/2002 P-12 Postsec. Requires funding equal to 1994-95 appropriation to be appropriated to the state department annually to offset any reduction suffered by districts due to a change in the distribution of employee contribution funds. Provides that in the event of an EIA revenue shortfall, lapsed funds remaining after EIA purposes must be distributed to districts for funding buildings and exempts EIA appropriations for teacher salaries and benefits from reductions to offset an official EIA revenue shortfall. Requires state board to establish a task force comprised of superintendents, principals, teachers, parents, school board members, and representatives of business and industry, including tourism-related industries no later than July 1, 2002. This task force to the extent possible is to be equally divided among proponents of existing or earlier starting dates for schools, proponents of later starting dates for schools, including proponents for dates after Labor Day, and persons who legitimately have no preferences. Also requires districts to provide advanced placement courses in all secondary schools which enroll an adequate number of academically talented students to support the course. Part II concerns public higher education: Each four-year campus of each state-supported public institution of higher learning must have equal representation on all formal and informal councils, advisory groups, committees, and task forces of the commission. Independent four-year colleges must have representation on all formal and informal committees and commissions dealing with higher education statewide issues. Also addresses instate tuition for certain students. Beginning with school year 2002-2003, the annual amount of a LIFE Scholarship for eligible resident students attending a four-year independent institution must be the cost of attendance up to a maximum of the average annual cost of tuition at the state's four-year public institutions of higher learning in the corresponding academic year. In addition, beginning with school year 2002-2003, eligible resident students attending two-year independent institutions may not receive an annual LIFE scholarship of more than the maximum cost of tuition at two-year regional public institutions for thirty credit hours a year or its equivalent." Title: H.B. 4879 Source: http://www.ecs.org/html/offsite.asp?document=http://www.scstatehouse.net/ OK Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Relates to the Comprehensive Local School Plan; deletes certain review and submission requirements; modifies the adoption cycle for school improvement plans; relates to review of the adopted curriculum; modifies the review cycle of curriculum; requires a review cycle to coordinate with textbook adoption cycle. Title: H.B. 2341 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet TN Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Requires CPR training in either junior or senior high school, as established by State Board of Education; provides that CPR training would commensurate with the learning expectations within the lifetime wellness curriculum. Title: S.B. 2153 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet FL Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Postsec. Adds subsection relating to Advanced International Certificate of Education Program (AICE); sets out that public secondary school students are exempt from payment of Advanced Placement exam fees, regardless of whether or not they obtain a passing score on the exam. Exempts any student earning at least nine credits from any program included in this section (i.e., Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate) from participating in otherwise mandatory postsecondary education program. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf Title: S.B. 20E Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us FL Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Requires every local board to create a plan for a K-12 foreign language curriculum, to be submitted to the commissioner by June 30, 2004. See bill section 1061, page 1785, line 20 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf Title: S.B. 20E Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us HI Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Increases the Drivers Education Underwriters Fee to provide an additional amount to the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs for the benefit of the Department of Education and an amount to the Department of Transportation to operate and administer a mandatory driver education program for persons under the age of 18. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/hb1730_.htm Title: H.B. 1730 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet KS Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Requires review of curriculum standards in certain core academic areas every five instead of three years. Changes date to requires state board to prepare public education performance report card on or before January 1 of each academic year. Eliminates language requiring Kansas, Inc. to perform a study to be conducted in 1997 evaluating changes in pupil performance attributable to the school accreditation system. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2002/9.pdf Title: S.B. 9 Source: www.kslegislature.org AL Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Appropriates a certain amount from the Education Trust Fund to the Governor's Commission on Physical Fitness. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb161.htm Title: H.B. 161 Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us IA Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Adds one nonvoting student member to state board, making total board membership 10, provides for application process and appointment of student member. Also requires school districts and nonpublic schools to report number of ninth graders who do not graduate from the school or school district, as well as the number of students who are tested on multiple assessment measures to determine student achievement levels, and the percentage of students who are so tested annually. Requires the board to develop and adopt uniform definitions consistent with the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and any federal regulations adopted pursuant to the federal Act. Permits department to conduct school site visits of accredited schools and districts on as-needed basis. Addresses conditions of employment of Superintendent staff. Addresses procedures in open enrollment law. Renders provision of school breakfast programs optional rather than mandatory. Modifies section addressing parental reimbursement for nonpublic school pupil transportation. Regulates the provision of textbooks to students in accredited nonpublic schools. Modifies requirements for school bus drivers' licenses. Establishes a conservation education program board and the duties of said board. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/79GA/Legislation/HF/02500/HF02515/Current.html Title: H.B. 2515 Source: www.legis.state.ia.us ME Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Defines comprehensive family life education; directs the Commissioner of Education to take action to implement K-12 comprehensive family life education programs, contracting with local family planning services. Includes parental opt-out. http://janus.state.me.us/legis/bills/billdocs/LD160305.doc Title: H.B. 1180 Source: /janus.state.me.us MS Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Allows any local school district to fund extended day and -year programs for kindergarten or compulsory age students through sources other than the adequate education program. Permits local boards to expend funds from any available sources to help defray costs of student field trips to public or private nonprofit museums. Allows local boards to enter into contracts or agreements with public or private individuals or entities to provide staff training or development. Requires School Executive Management Institute to issue certificates of completion to those school board members who complete the basic education course within the institute. Deletes language relating to required content and location of local board member basic training courses. Transfers responsibility for issuance of school board member continuing education courses from institute to state school boards association. Requires state school boards association to report annually to state board and assembly education committee chairs on activites and provide evaluation of continuing education programs offered by the association each year. Eliminates language mandating content of continuing education courses conducted by School Executive Management Institute for elementary and secondary school principals. Eliminates language requiring board members to file annually a certificate of completion of continuing education course conducted by postsecondary institutions but maintains same requirement for courses conducted by Mississippi School Boards Association. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2002/html/HB/0400-0499/HB0494SG.htm Title: H.B. 494 Source: billstatus.ls.state.ms.us MS Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Requires department employment of physical activity coordinator for grades K-12, and specifies qualifications and duties of such. Recommends duration and frequency of physical education classes in grades K-9, beginning with 2002-2003 school year. Title: S.B. 2249 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet UT Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Modifies provisions related to the State System of Public Education by requiring the State Board of Education to consult with teachers and parents in establishing the core curriculum; aligns the core curriculum and tests administered under the Utah Performance Assessment System for Students (U-PASS) with each other. Title: S.B. 99 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet VA Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Authorizes local school boards to establish a Banking-at-School Partnership Program, consisting of school banks or school credit unions on the premises of public schools within the school division that have been developed and are operated jointly by a public school and a financial institution licensed to conduct business in the Commonwealth. The Program will be designed to provide a multidisciplinary method to reinforce, augment, and support the objectives of the relevant Standards of Learning and career and technical education competencies through practical experiences that (i) allow students to apply mathematical concepts, communication and computer technology skills, and knowledge of economic principles; (ii) allow students to develop proficiency in basic life skills pertaining to money management, personal finance, banking, commerce and trade, and investments; (iii) facilitate financial literacy and an understanding of the American economic system, Virginia's economy, the global economic system, and the effect of personal finance decisions on the national and state economic systems; and (iv) permit students to explore entrepreneurships and career options in banking and finance. The Program will be funded solely by gifts, grants, donations, in-kind services, and bequests received by a public school from its licensed partner financial institution. The department is to develop guidelines for these programs in consultation with the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Financial Institutions, the Virginia Bankers Association, and the Virginia Credit Union League. Parental permission is required for student participation in these programs. Schools with high concentrations of at-risk and disadvantaged studented will be encouraged to participate in the Banking-at School Partnership Program. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?021+ful+CHAP0774 Title: H.B. 966 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us VA Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Adds instruction in the benefits of adoption as the preferred choice in the event of an unwanted pregnancy to the family life education curriculum guidelines. In addition, the measure clarifies that the Board of Education, in establishing requirements for appropriate training for teachers of family life education, is to include training in instructional elements to support the various curriculum components. Title: H.B. 1206 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet VA Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Adds organ and tissue donor awareness to the topics that must be included in instruction for driver education in public school classrooms; adds the Department of Health to those entities cooperating in the development of the curriculum. Title: H.B. 686 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet VA Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Provides that the State Department of Education's standardized driver education instruction for public schools to include distracted driving. Title: S.B. 597 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 01/2002 P-12 Commencing with the 2003–04 school year and each year thereafter, at least one course, or a combination of the two courses in mathematics required to be completed by pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, prior to receiving a diploma of graduation from high school, shall meet or exceed the rigor of the content standards for Algebra; if at any time, in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, or in any combination of those grades, a pupil completes coursework that meets exceeds the academic content standards for Algebra, those courses shall apply towards satisfying the requirements. Title: A.B. 804 Source: California Legislative Web Site NJ Vetoed 12/2001 P-12 Establishes Commission on Italian and Americans of Italian Heritage Culture and Education; appropriates funds. The duties of the commission include giving assistance to and advising public and nonpublic schools on the positive contributions and achievement of Italians and of Americans of Italian Heritage in our society and encouraging a recognition of those values, both cultural and historical, which derive from the Italian heritage. Title: A.B. 3693 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Vetoed 09/2001 P-12 Requires the State Department of Education to collect specified information from all public high schools on existing academic and career-related curriculum for the purposes of establishing a clearinghouse of information on academic and career-related curriculum. Requires the department to send an announcement to all school districts that the information is available upon request and to make the information available on the department's Internet website. Title: A.B. 1341 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Vetoed 09/2001 P-12 Imposes new duties on the State Department of Education regarding physical education, including, among others, that the department would be required to issue a notice of noncompliance to each school district that fails to comply with certain requirements, including among others, requirements regarding the number of hours of physical instruction offered to pupils in grades 1 and 12, inclusive. Requires each school district to report the results of any testing to parents. Title: A.B. 367 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NC Signed into law 08/2001 P-12 Session Law Number 363., Requires the public schools to provide courses of instruction on North Carolina history and geography to students in elementary and middle schools; enacts the Student Citizenship Act of 2001. Title: H.B. 195 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet LA Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 Authorizes local school systems to offer instruction in personal financial management to students, provided such instruction is integrated into an existing course of study. Title: S.B. 212 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet ME Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 Public Law No. 403., (LD 291)Requires that Maine Native American history and culture be taught in all elementary and secondary schools; requires the Department of Education to include Maine Native American history and culture in the system of learning results; establishes a commission to investigate and recommend how the Department will accomplish this task. Title: H.B. 255 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OR Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 Eliminates the 2-year second language requirement for students who have completed grade 12; requires all students who have met the requirements for Certificate of Initial Mastery to demonstrate proficiency in second language; requires school districts to make available the ability to demonstrate proficiency in arts, including music; requires adoption of criteria for waiver of second language and music requirements. Title: S.B. 65 Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us/01reg/measures/sb0001.dir/sb0065.en.html NV Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 Makes an appropriation to the Governor's Advisory Council on Education Relating to the Holocaust for the continuation of its educational programs. Title: A.B. 520 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet TX Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 Relates to cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction of public school students. Title: H.B. 821 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NV Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Revises provisions governing the accountability of public schools; revises provisions governing the requirements for a person to take tests on general education development; revises provisions governing the pupil count and the calculation of basic support under certain circumstances; revises provisions governing the reporting of results of certain achievement and proficiency examinations; revises the requirements for a course in American government and a course in American history. Title: S.B. 165 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet KY Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Directs a study of the Advanced Placement Program in Kentucky's high schools; directs the co-chairs of the Interim Joint Committee to Education to appoint a special subcommittee composed of four Senate members and four House of Representatives members to study Kentucky's Advanced Placement Program; directs the subcommittee to develop a plan that assures that every Kentucky student has access to Advanced Placement courses and report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education. Title: S.C.R. 2 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet TN Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Requires public schools to include in the course of instruction a component on personal finance education to help students develop an understanding of and develop appropriate skills relating to the role of money, credit, budgets, financial planning, and other relevant financial topics. Requires the Department of Education to provide the appropriate curriculum in grades K-12 for personal finance education. Local boards of education may implement additional courses and materials in personal finance at their discretion. Title: H.B. 1177 Source: Tennessee Legislative Web Site VT Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Authorizes schools to offer American Sign Language (ASL) as a course of foreign language credit; directs the Board of Education to establish licensing credentials for ASL teachers; directs the Commissioner of Education to encourage postsecondary institutions to accept secondary school ASL credits as foreign language credits. Title: S.B. 25 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WV Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Creates the Holocaust Education Commission, a permanent state commission which, as an organized body and on a continuous basis, will survey, design, encourage and promote implementation of holocaust education. Title: S.B. 647 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AR Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Requires public elementary schools to provide instruction in the subjects of visual art or music for all students. Title: H.B. 1883 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet ND Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Relates to the authority of school district boards to establish student financial institutions operated as part of a high school educational program; permits the institution to lend money, cash checks and take deposits; provides for the fee for establishing a student banking facility. Title: S.B. 2231, 2230 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NM Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Establishes marching band as a physical education requirement. Title: H.B. 554 Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site OK Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 States that on or before October 1 of each year, the state department of education must issue a report on the Advanced Placement Incentive Program for the previous school year which shall include, but is not limited to, the number of: students taking an advanced placement exam and the number of exams taken; exams that receive a score of 3 or better; school sites which have received funding and the amount of awards, by type of award; school sites offering advanced placement courses and school sites with students taking an advanced placement exam; students who receive assistance with the test fee and the average amount of assistance; and an evaluation of the cost versus the benefits of this program. This provision includes fiscal support for needy students taking the International Baccalaureate tests, as well as advanced placement. Title: S.B. 790 Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/docs/sb_enr.html TX Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Directs the department to develop a grant program to large urban school districts for elementary schools for the purpose of establishing agricultural related projects. Title: S.B. 701 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet UT Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Postsec. Modifies provisions related to the State System of Public Education by requiring the State Board of Education to develop and implement a concurrent enrollment course on Mandarin Chinese to be taught over EDNET, the state's two-way interactive system for video and audio, to high school juniors and seniors in the state's public education system. Title: S.B. 57 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet UT Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Provides that the State Board of Education shall approve instructional materials for use in health, physiology, hygiene, and prevention of communicable disease curricula that local school boards may choose to adopt; provides local schools with an option of using other instructional materials for the curricula consistent with state law and board rules emphasizing abstinence before marriage and fidelity after marriage. Title: S.B. 75 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet UT Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Requires music, visual art, dance or theater instruction to take place in elementary schools. Title: H.B. 174 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OR Unofficially rejected by voters 11/2000 P-12 Postsec. Community College MEASURE 9 Prohibits public school instruction (K-12 or Community College level) from encouraging, promoting, or sanctioning homosexual and bisexual behaviors. Title: V. 32 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Requires the State Department of Education to request proposals for the development of model curricula, aligned with state content standards, on California Native American history, culture, and tribal sovereignty, to be incorporated into educational materials for pupils in grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Appropriates a specified amount from the General Fund to the department for these purposes. Title: S.B. 1439 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NJ Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Revises the mission of the New Jersey School of Arts to provide assistance to secondary schools in meeting Visual and Performance Arts Standards; appropriates funds. Title: A.B. 2175 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 Makes legislative findings and declarations concerning the value of visual and performing arts. Requires the State Board of Education to adopt content standards for visual and performing arts, pursuant to recommendations developed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, on or before June 1. Title: S.B. 1390 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NY Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 Makes available to all elementary schools in the state suitable curriculum materials to aid in the instruction of pupils in the understanding and acceptance of children with disabilities. Title: A.B. 3597 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 Chapter No.213, Requires the State Board of Education to adopt a model curriculum guide for use by public schools for exercises related to Cesar Chavez Day. Requires the State Board of Education to ensure that the state curriculum framework, where appropriate, includes instruction in Cesar Chavez and the history of the farm labor movement in the United States. Creates the Cesar Chavez Day of Service and Learning Program. Title: S.B. 984 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet RI Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Requires the state department to develop model programs that encourage "emotional and social competency and learning." The new law states that emotional competency includes self-awareness, emotional self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills. It promotes good mental health and is an effective prevention intervention in such problem areas as: aggressive, violent and delinquent behaviors; school truancy and drop out; depression and suicidal thought; and substance abuse. Requires model programs to be evidence-based and include an evaluation component. Title: S.B. 2572 Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText00/SenateText00/S2572.htm RI Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000 P-12 Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop curricular material on genocide and human rights violations and issues including slave trade, great hunger in Ireland, the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust and Mussolini's Fascist Regime. Title: H.B. 7397 Source: www.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText00/HouseText00/H7397.htm FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Creates the Justin Marksz Teen Safety Driving Act; requires every motor vehicle occupant under the age of 18 to wear a safety belt or child restraint device; prohibits a person under the age of 18 from being a passenger in the front seat; makes additional requirements for learner's permit holders prior to licensing; places additional restrictions on minor drivers. Title: S.B. 1530 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 196., Requires instruction in public schools regarding sacrifices made by veterans. Title: S.B. 172 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AK Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Relates to a curriculum for Native language education. Title: S.B. 103 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OK Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Modifies the Oklahoma Advanced Placement Incentive Program. Authorizes test fee assistance for students taking multiple tests in one year. Authorizes the state board to award additional grants to school sites demonstrating successful implementation of the courses for which the first grants were awarded. Modifies awards to allow for support of preadvanced placement courses, International Baccalaureate courses, and development of advanced placement vertical teams. Effective 7-1-00. Title: S.B. 1015 Source: Legislative Review, Oklahoma HI Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 States that the Department of Education shall regulate courses of study to be pursued in all grades of public schools and classify them by methods the department deems proper. Title: H.B. 2495 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AL Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Allows driver's education teacher to administer the written, vision, oral, or driving portion of the examination. Title: S.B. 241 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Relates to environmental education; changes the make up of Arizona Advisory Council on Environmental Education; expands eligibility for grants for environmental education sites; modifies the definition of environmental education. Title: S.B. 1379 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Directs the Interim Joint Committee on Education to study the issue of the instruction of the principles of economics and the need for promoting economic education during the 2000-2002 legislative interim. Title: H.C.R. 82 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Requests the Kentucky Board Of Education to encourage teachers and school administrators to post and teach from historic displays of original documents reflecting American history, which may include the Ten Commandments; permits cost of posting and maintaining displays to be defrayed in whole or part by voluntary private contributions. Title: S.J.R. 57 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet VA Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Relates to social studies; requires the Board of Education, in prescribing the Standards of Learning assessments, to provide local school boards the option of administering end-of-course tests for United States History to 1877, United States History: 1877 to the Present, and Civics and Economics. Title: H.B. 1020 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WV Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Authorizes the state treasurer to conduct a program on banking in the public schools. Title: H.B. 4080 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 The law is clarified so that Physical Education is no longer mandatory by law. Rather the State Board of Education can set the standard requirements for Physical Education. Title: H.B. 1187 Source: Georgia Department of Education KY Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Relates to geography education; establishes the Kentucky Geographic Education Board and the Kentucky Geography Education Trust Fund; permits the Fund to receive grants and gifts from public and private sources. Title: H.B. 254 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Relates to public schools; creates an arts in elementary schools pilot program to determine if a sequential ongoing arts program in the state's elementary schools can improve the overall excellence and scholarship of students; provides components for a preassessment and annual evaluations. Title: H.B. 325 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Relates to public schools; provides for defining and establishes a core curriculum including identification of basic knowledge skills and competencies; requires local school boards to design school activities and programs to focus and enhance the core curriculum; provides for an annual report. Title: S.B. 68 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Increases the ceiling on reimbursement to schools for driver education costs from $ 70 to $ 100 per student. Title: S.B. 114 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Establishes a World War II oral history project in public schools. Title: H.B. 2418 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Develops a grant program to fund public educational activities and development of educational materials to ensure that the events surrounding the exclusion, forced removal, and internment of civilians and permanent resident aliens of Japanese ancestry will be remembered, and so that the causes and circumstances of this and similar events may be illuminated and understood. Title: H.B. 1572 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet VA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Relates to history requirement in middle and high school; amends the requirement for study of documents of Virginia history and the United States Constitution to require emphasis on the relationship between the various documents and Virginia history and to state the purpose of this study as being to increase knowledge of citizens' rights and responsibilities. Title: S.B. 114 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet VA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Amends the Standards of Quality to require that the Board of Education supplement the Standards of Learning for Social Studies to ensure the study of contributions to society of diverse people; defines diverse as including consideration of disability, ethnicity, race and gender. Title: S.B. 487 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet