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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 NH | Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 01/2012 | P-12 | Requires school districts to adopt a policy allowing an exception to specific course material based on a parent's or legal guardian's determination that the material is objectionable. Requires such parent to notify the school principal or designee in writing of the specific material to which they object and a provide an alternative agreed upon by the school district and the parent, at the parent's expense, sufficient to enable the child to meet state requirements for education in the particular subject area.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2011/HB0542.html
Title: H.B. 542
Source: www.gencourt.state.nh.us
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2010 | P-12 | Requires local boards to develop a policy to give all students enrolled in a course that includes animal dissection reasonable notice of their rights to complete an alternative project approved by the student's teacher. Requires such notice to be distributed to parents and students enrolled in the course at the beginning of the school year.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=%0D%0A&bn=a3467&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y
Title: A.B. 3467
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | Postsec. | Exempts foreign students enrolled in joint degree programs with Texas universities from the statutorily required 12 semester credit hours of Government/Political Science and Texas and American History, instead requiring such students to take a four-hour American Way course as set forth in the bill. This exemption would apply only to foreign students enrolled in joint degree programs conferred by both a Texas and a foreign university.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/SB01051F.pdf
Title: S.B. 1051
Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| 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
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