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Equity


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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.

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State Status/Date Level Summary
CASigned into law 07/2012P-12Employee Appointments
A.B. 2125
From bill summary: Until December 31, 2015, in a district with a pupil population over 400,000, authorizes an employee appointment to specif...

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OHSigned into law 06/2012P-12Community Schools
S.B. 316 - Community Schools
Permits the department's office of Ohio school sponsorship to assume sponsorship of a community school whose sponsorship has been revoked by...

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CASigned into law 10/2011P-12
Postsec.
Gender Expression and Gender Identity
A.B. 887
Creates definition of "gender expression" in the Education Code. Adds that a public education is to be offered to all, regardless of gender ...

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ILSigned into law 07/2010P-12
Postsec.
Community College
Diversity in Persons at Supervisory, Technical, Professional and Managerial Levels
S.B. 3531
Establishes the African American Employment Plan Act. Provides that the purposes of the act are to:

(a) improve the delivery of state serv...

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GASigned into law 05/2010P-12Gender Equity Reporting
H.B. 910
Removes some requirements on the department of education relating to annual gender equity reporting; provides for related matters. http://ww...

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CAVetoed 10/2009Postsec.
Community College
Publicizing Student Rights under Title IX
S.B. 248
Requires school districts, the president or chief executive officer of a community college campus, the president of a California State Unive...

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CAVetoed 10/2009P-12Review for Approval of Athletic Facilities for Gender Equitability
A.B. 685
Requires the state department of education to include, as part of its review of an application for new construction plan approval, a determi...

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MOSigned into law 07/2009P-12Discrimination
S.B. 232
Prohibits municipal fire departments and police departments, state agencies, state departments, and political subdivisions public agencies a...

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NEApproved by voters 09/2008P-12
Postsec.
Ballot Initiative: Prohibits Discrimination
V. 3; (Initiative Measure No. 424)
(INITIATIVE MEASURE NO. 424) Proposes an amendment to the State Constitution; prohibits the State from discriminating against, or granting p...

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VASigned into law 03/2008P-12Access to Public Places for Persons With Disabilities
H.B. 214
Adds public entities, including schools, to the list of public places in which persons with disabilities are entitled to the same full and f...

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IAAdopted 11/2007P-12Accreditation Standards Related to Discrimination and Prekindergarten
IAC 281, 12.1(1), 281-12.2(256), 12.3(6), 12.3(13), 12.8(1)
Reflects that education programs are not to discriminate on the basis of the added characteristics of sexual orientation and gender identity...

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UTAdopted 11/2006P-12Education & Funding for Homeless/Emancipated and Ethnic Minority Students
R277-616
Adds new language for determining where a homeless or emancipated student shall attend school and provides for the inclusion of charter scho...

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CAVetoed 09/2006P-12Anti-discrimination and Anti-harassment Policies
A.B. 606
Requires the State Department of Education to develop a model antidiscrimination and antiharassment policy that prohibits such conduct based...

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MISigned into law 08/2006P-12Single Sex Schools
H.B. 4264
Allows single sex schools, classes and programs to be established in the Detroit public schools. Enrollment must be voluntary, and the distr...

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MISigned into law 08/2006P-12Gender Based Classrooms, Schools or Programs
H.B. 6247
Allows gender based classrooms, schools or programs under the Elliot-Larsen civil rights act. Relates to a school district, an intermediate ...

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MISigned into law 07/2006P-12Creation of Single-Gender Schools, Classes, or Programs
S.B. 1296
Provides that a school district or a public school academy may establish and maintain a program within a school in which enrollment is limit...

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WISigned into law 04/2006P-12Single-Sex Schools
A.B. 114
Authorizes a school board to operate single-sex schools, other than charter schools, or provide single-sex courses if the school board makes...

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NY(H) INTRODUCED AND REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ASSEMBLY EDUCATION 05/2005P-12Single gender core course academies demonstration program
H.B. 8092
Establishes the single gender core course academies demonstration program within the education department; provides that such program shall ...

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CAVetoed 09/2004P-12Gender Discrimination
A.B. 358
Requires the state to implement the principles underlying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CE...

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ALSigned into law 03/2004P-12Brown v Board of Education Anniversary Commission
S.J.R. 32
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 Com...

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ALSigned into law 09/2003P-12Brown v Board of Education Anniversary Commission
S.J.R. 16
Creates to the Alabama Interim Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin...

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INSigned into law 03/2002P-12District Review of Programs to Consider Consequences of Tracking, Ability Grouping or Screening of Students by Test Results
S.B. 292
Requires every district to review district's programs to judge if district's practices of separating students by ability, placing students i...

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TXSigned into law 06/2001Postsec.Women's Athletic Development Fund
S.B. 903
Relates to the establishment and use of a women's athletic development fund and a study of women's athletic development practices at institu...

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ARSigned into law 03/2001P-12Civil Rights Compliance
H.B. 2198
The Department of Education may withhold state aid from any district that fails to file its assurance of compliance with civil rights respon...

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HISigned into law 06/2000P-12Equity in School Sports
S.B. 2475
Prohibits discrimination in athletics on the bases of sex in any public school and requires the superintendent of education to develop a str...

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ILSigned into law 06/2000Postsec.Gender Equity In Intercollegiate Sports
S.B. 1589
Public Act No. 91-792., Amends the Board of Higher Education Act; removes the provision repealing the Section concerning gender equity in in...

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GASigned into law 03/2000P-12Athletic Opportunities - Equity
H.B. 1308
Relates to other educational programs under the Quality Basic Education Act; prohibits discrimination based on gender in elementary and seco...

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