| State |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
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 MN | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Stipulates that students should not be separated by socioeconomic, demographic, ethnic or racial differences. States that Minnesota will offer a diverse and nondiscriminatory educational experience.(Article 2, Sec 42)
http://wdoc.house.leg.state.mn.us/leg/LS87/1/HF0026.0.pdf
Title: H.F. 26
Source: http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Provides oversight of and accountability for state desegregation funding received and expended by the Pulaski County School Districts.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Acts/Act701.pdf
Title: H.B. 1878
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2009 | P-12 | Ensures continued accountability and efficiency for school districts involved in desegregation litigation.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Bills/HB1222.pdf
Title: H.B. 1222
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/
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| NE | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | From the fiscal note: LB 1154 pertains to learning communities. Section 8 changes the requirements for transportation of students in a learning community. Free transportation is to be provided to a student contributing to the socioeconomic diversity of enrollment who is attending another school in the learning community, only if the student lives more than one mile from the school to which he or she transfers. The change may result in a minimal decrease in transportation expenses for affected school districts. Section 9 redefines focus programs, focus schools, magnet schools and pathways. It appears the bill clarifies that school districts may establish one or more focus schools or programs or magnet schools. There appears to be no fiscal impact for these provisions. Section 10 allows a school district to exceed its applicable allowable growth rate for expenditures to pay another school district for the transfer of land from such other school district to the district seeking to exceed its applicable allowable growth rate. Any increased spending pursuant to this provision will increase state aid, two years later. Schools are also allowed to exceed the allowable growth rate by the amount of estimated increased expenditures above that of the second preceding school year for telecommunication services and access to and transmission of data on networks in the first two years that a district participates in Network Nebraska, or in 2008-09, if the district participated in 2007-08.
http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Slip/LB1154.pdf
Title: L.B. 1154
Source: http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Relates to voluntary diversity or court-ordered school desegregation plans under the state's open enrollment law. Deletes provision that "court-ordered desegregation, minority and nonminority pupil ratios shall be maintained according to the desegregation plan or order." Bill is in response to Supreme Court Ruling.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&ga=82&hbill=HF2164
Title: H.F. 2164
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Amends provisions concerning school desegregation funding and litigation costs; extends the time period within which a school district must be declared unitary or at least partially unitary to be eligible for reimbursement.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2008S1/public/HB1003.pdf
Title: H.B. 1003A
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AZ | Vetoed 06/2007 | P-12 | Relates to open enrollment for students in schools ordered to desegregate.
Title: H.B. 2119
Source: http://www.azleg.govt/
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| NE | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Pertains to Class V school districts. (Omaha Public Schools is only class V district as of bill passage.) Provides for the division of a learning community into separate education centers and establishes procedures. Replaces the requirement for Class V school districts to be divided into new school districts with a provision for the creation of education centers within the district. Requires school districts in learning communities to provide enough openings for students residing outside the attendance area of a school such that at least 10% of the students attending the school could reside outside the attendance area. Defines duties and authorities of Class V districts, education centers and learning communities.
http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Slip/LB641.pdf
Title: L.B. 641
Source: http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Authorizes a school district to apply to the commissioner for a waiver from the requirement to maintain racial balance within a district school if the racial imbalance in that school results from: (1) The enrollment of protected multiracial students and the proportion of enrolled multiracial students reflects the proportion of multiracial students who reside in the school attendance area or who are enrolled in the grade levels served by the district; or (2) The enrollment of limited English proficiency students in a transition program that includes an intensive English component. The commissioner must grant the waiver if the district in which the school is located offers the multiracial students or the limited English proficiency students, as appropriate, the
option of enrolling in another school with the requisite racial balance, and the students' parents choose not to pursue that option..
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H2245.2.html&session=ls85
Title: H.F. 2245 [Multiracial Diversity]
Source: http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Authorizes the commissioner to award grants to districts that operated half-day kindergarten programs in the 2006-2007 school year, and that will continue to operate such half-day programs in the 2007-2008 school year, to plan for conversion to full-day kindergartens only in the school year next following the school year in which the planning grant is received, but no later than the 2010-2011 school year. Directs the commissioner to prescribe the procedures and criteria for the award of such grants, which are to be available to districts to defray the additional costs for planning time, the cost of classroom materials, equipment, furniture and supplies not eligible for aid in specified other sections of statute, where such additional costs are incurred in planning for the facilities and staffing that will be needed for such conversion. Provides no district may receive more than one such planning grant.
Directs that $8,500,000 must be paid to the Yonkers City School District on an annual basis to provide additional funding for the costs of educational improvement plans required as a result of a court-ordered settlement in a school desegregation case to which the state was a party. Provides grant funds must be used exclusively for services and expenses incurred by the district to implement such educational improvement plans.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=s2107
Title: S.B. 2107 - Part B, Section 38
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| IA | Adopted 02/2007 | P-12 | These amendments are in response to the June 28, 2007, decision of the United States Supreme Court that student assignments may not be based solely or primarily on race. Thus, under the amended rules, eligible school districts will still be able to deny open enrollment requests if the gain or loss of the student will negatively impact the district's voluntary diversity plan. Rather than defining "minority student" solely in terms of race, the amendments allow eligible districts to define the term for themselves as long as race is not the sole or the determinative factor. Provides that eligible school districts will still be able to deny open enrollment requests if the enrollment or release of the student will negatively impact the district's voluntary diversity plan. http://www.iowa.gov/educate/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,4674/
Title: IAC 281-17.2(282), 17.6(2), 281-17.14(282), 17.14(1) through 17.14(5)
Source: http://www.iowa.gov
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| AZ | Vetoed 04/2005 | P-12 | Provides restrictions on desegregation funds for districts that, as of June 30, 2005, were under desegregation orders or an administrative agreement with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights directed toward remediating alleged or proven racial discrimination.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2498
Title: H.B. 2498
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Replaces the biennial reporting requirements for desegregation districts with an annual report that lists specific items to be reported on a district-wide and school-by-school basis beginning in FY 2006-07. Districts that become subject to a court order or administrative agreement must submit the report by July 15 or within 90 days after the date of the court order or administrative agreement, whichever occurs first. The reports must be submitted to the ADE, and the ADE must compile the information and submit copies to the Governor, President of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Education committee chairmen in both houses.
· Requires school district governing boards that budget for desegregation expenses to ensure that the desegregation expenses will:
· Be educationally justifiable.
· Result in equal educational opportunities for all pupils.
· Be used to promote systemic and organizational changes within the school district.
· Be used in accordance with the Arizona Academic Standards.
· Be used to accomplish specific actions to remediate the violation as specified in the court order or administrative agreement.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2497
Title: H.B. 2497
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Creates the Arkansas Public School Desegregation Lawsuit Resolution Task Force to serve with the members of the Desegregation Litigation Oversight Subcommittee. Requires the task force to (1) Study methods of bringing a final resolution to desegregation litigation and related matters involving the state; (2) Hire and direct experts as may be necessary to facilitate a final resolution of desegregation litigation and related matters involving the state; and (3) Make recommendations to the General Assembly regarding the resolution of desegregation litigation and related matters involving the state.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb974.pdf
Title: S.B. 974
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Allows the Desegregation Litigation Oversight Subcommittee to conduct a comprehensive feasibility study to facilitate a final resolution of the various desegregation cases in the state to which the state of Arkansas or its officers are a party. Authorizes the subcommittee to contract with experts or other unbiased sources to facilitate a final resolution to desegregation cases in the state.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2701.pdf
Title: H.B. 2701
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.u
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Allows a school district to close an isolated school or part thereof following an annexation or consolidation. Specifies that the state board may approve a motion to close such a school if the closure is in the best interest of the students in the school district as a whole. Bars the state board from allowing an isolated school to be closed if it finds the closure will have any negative impact on desegregation efforts or will violate any valid court order from a court of proper jurisdiction.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB1289.pdf
Title: H.B. 1289
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| CA | Vetoed--in Senate to unfinished business 10/2004 | P-12 | The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for costs mandated by the state and incurred by a local agency or school district to implement a new program or higher level of service. Existing law creates certain exceptions. This bill includes within that exception costs mandated by a statute or executive order that imposes a duty on a local agency or school district that was expressly included in a ballot measure approved by the voters in a local election.
Repeals provisions requiring a school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District to use, for home-to-school transportation, the funding made available pursuant to voluntary desegregation programs and requires that pupils in grades 7 to 12 who apply to transfer from a school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District to another school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District to be granted a transfer according to certain priorities, among which is that the transfer would mitigate schoolsite segregation. Replaces with statement of the intent of the Legislature that, if the Grant Joint Union High School District is reorganized to create two new unified school districts, the reorganization must be implemented in a manner that provides constitutionally permissible opportunities for the voluntary racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic integration of pupils attending each school district.
Requires a proposal to reorganize the Grant Joint Union High School District that is initiated by the Sacramento County Committee on School District Organization and approved by the State Board of Education before December 31, 2007, to include requirements that pupils eligible to enroll in any of grades 7 to 12, except expelled pupils, whose parents are residents of any school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union
High School District have the same rights to enroll in any secondary school in a district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District as a pupil whose parents are residents of that other district, and that the successor school districts to the Grant Joint Union High School District provide free transportation to these pupils if they so request, hold joint annual meetings to review segregation issues, and grant seniority rights to employees of school districts that cease to exist as a result of the proposal who become employees of the successor districts.
Requires a ballot measure to approve this proposal to clearly inform the voters that by approving the measure the voters are mandating the successor school districts to incur costs to implement the requirements described above and that these costs would not be reimbursed by the state. Makes legislative findings and declarations in this regard. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1251-1300/sb_1271_bill_20040823_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/SB_1271_veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1271
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| MA | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Relates to the School Building Assistance Program; provides for grants, investments, trusts and bonds; creates the School Building Authority; provides for children with disabilities; prohibits racial desegregation; provides for public-private partnerships, charter schools, construction that will facilitate early education and care programs; financial incentives to cities that adopt zoning policies for increased affordable housing production; provides for hearings.
Title: H.B. 4978
Source: StateNet
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| IA | Adopted 06/2004 | P-12 | Codifies open enrollment policies and procedures from the department's guidelines and decisions. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/2004/iac/281iac/28117/28117.pdf
Title: 281 IAC 17.2 thru .14 (non seq)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules
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| AL | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Amended S.J.R. 16 (Act 2003-500, 2003 2nd Sp. Sess) that related to the Alabama Interim Brown versus Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission, members increased, authority expanded, dissolution date extended to January 1, 2005. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp
Title: S.J.R. 32
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site
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| AL | Signed into law 09/2003 | P-12 | Creates to the Alabama Interim Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp
Title: S.J.R. 16
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2003 | P-12 | Establishes the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Advisory Commission. Requires the commission to develop community and educational awareness programs to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka only after it is determined that private donations sufficient to fund those programs have been deposited with the State. Law is repealed effective January 1, 2006. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0601-0650/ab_648_bill_20030917_chaptered.html
Title: A.B. 648
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| AL | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 06/2003 | P-12 | Proposes an amendment to the Constitution; removes references to segregation of schools by race; repeals section relating to poll taxes. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp?SESSION=1026
Title: H.B. 587
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site
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| IA | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Specifies that the superintendent of a district subject to voluntary or court-ordered desegregation may not deny a request for transfer under the state's open enrollment policy if the request for transfer is submitted to the district before January 1 of the preceding school year prior to the district's adoption of a desegregation plan. Requires the state board to establish guidelines and a review process for districts that approve voluntary desegregation plans. These guidelines must include criteria and standards for districts to observe when creating a voluntary desegregation plan. Requires the department to lend technical assistance to any district attempting to adopt a voluntary desegregation plan. Specifies that a district implementing a voluntary desegregation plan before July 1, 2004 must have until July 1, 2006 to comply with the state board guidelines the state board adopts pursuant to this section.
Deletes the requirement that in open enrollment program, the district of residence must send to the receiving district the Phase III funds allocated to the district of residence for the previous year for the full-time equivalent attendance of the student participating in the open enrollment program.
Makes provision relating to request for open enrollment submitted to a district prior to the district's adoption of a desegregation plan apply retroactively to July 1, 2002 for open enrollment transfer requests received by a district on or after July 1, 2002.
See Sections 35-36 and Section 72: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Sets limits to amount that local board may budget outside of the capital outlay revenue limit. Requires districts pursuing desegregation voluntarily or under mandate to report to the department biennially on desegregation expenditures, activities and documented progress towards unitary status. Report must include a demonstration of demographic and academic achievement trends. Establishes joint legislative committee on desegregation expenses. Sets limits on district expenditures on desegregation activities. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/laws/0068.htm
Title: H.B. 2550
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | Requires every district to review district's programs to judge if district's practices of separating students by ability, placing students into educational tracks, or using test results to screen students result in the systematic separation of students by race, color, creed, national origin or socioeconomic status.
Title: S.B. 292
Source: www.state.in.us/legislative
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Requires local government to amend urban growth boundary if analysis finds actual housing types and densities insufficient for next 20 years; requires inclusion of certain school facilities, parks and open spaces.
Title: H.B. 2976
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Requires school districts involved in court ordered desegregation to comply with zoning requirements within 90 days after release from the court order.
Title: H.B. 2238
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MN | Signed by governor 05/2000 | P-12 | Requires a district to submit a budget each year detailing the cost of its desegregation/integration plan before receiving integration revenue. For Minneapolis, St Paul, or Duluth, these requirements apply only to revenue which exceeds the amount received by the district for FY 2000. For other districts, these requirements apply to all integration revenue.
Clarifies the calculation of integration aid adjustments paid to a district serving nonresidents. Integration revenue follows a pupil residing in Minneapolis, St Paul or Duluth and attending a nonresident district outside of these three districts if the nonresident district has implemented a desegregation plan and the enrollment of the pupil in the nonresident district contributes to desegregation or integration purposes. The aid adjustment paid to the nonresident district equals the integration revenue allowance of the resident district ($536 for Minneapolis, $446 for St Paul or $207 for Duluth), minus the integration allowance of the nonresident district (up to $93 for districts required to implement a desegregation plan), times the pupil units attributable to the pupil for the time the pupil is enrolled in the nonresident district. Also clarifies that the integration revenue for a district other than Minneapolis, St Paul or Duluth, including the alternative attendance adjustment, cannot exceed the actual cost of implementing the desegregation plan.
Title: H.B. 3800
Source: Department of Children, Families and Learning
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