This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format.
Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date].
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 CA | Signed into law 08/2010 | P-12 | Makes clear that provisions protecting public school students' right to freedom of speech and of the press are also applicable to charter school students. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0401-0450/sb_438_bill_20100817_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 438
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Creates the College Campus Press Act. Provides that all campus media produced primarily by students at a state-sponsored institution of higher learning is a public forum for expression by the student journalists and editors at the particular institution, and that campus media, whether campus-sponsored or noncampus-sponsored, is not subject to prior review by public officials of a state-sponsored institution of higher learning.
Provides that collegiate student editors of campus media are responsible for determining the news, opinions, feature content, and advertising content of
campus media. Bars a collegiate media adviser's termination, transfer, removal, or other forms of discipline or retaliation for the advisor's refusal to
suppress protected free expression rights of collegiate student journalists and of collegiate student editors.
Provides that expression made by a collegiate student journalist, collegiate student editor, or other contributor in campus media is not speech attributable to a state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Provides for lawsuit immunity. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB0729lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 729
Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation
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| MN | to governor 07/2005 | P-12 | Districts may not censor or restrain instruction in American or Minnesota state history or heritage based on religious references in original source documents, writings, speeches, proclamations, or records.
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0141.1&session_year=2005&session_number=1
Title: H.F. 141 - Multiple Components
Source: http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.usv
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