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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 OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Limits legal claim for reimbursement of amount of reduction in funding to districts named in a court's judgment or settlement agreement. Provides the state does not have liability for reimbursement of the amount of such reduction in foundation or transitional aid funding. Provides exceptions. Pages 2835-2836 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.60.70
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Conforms the Arkansas Code to comply with the Arkansas Supreme Court decision in the Lake View case. Requires any school district that was administratively consolidated or administratively annexed under §§6-13-1601 32 through 6-13-1605 to file a written report with the legislature and the department of education on the (1) inclusion of parents in the resulting district's activities, including parent-teacher associations, booster clubs and parent involvement committees; (2) the extent of student participation in extracurricular activities, itemized by each extracurricular activity offered by the district and for each activity indicate which district the student attended prior to reorganization; and (3) the employment status of each administrator by name, gender and race before the annexation or consolidation, which school employed the administrator prior to consolidation, and his or her employment status in the receiving or resulting school district.
Requires resulting school districts to use a state-approved instrument to survey parents and students on: (1) Opportunities for inclusion or participation in the resulting or receiving school district; and (2) The efforts, if any, that were made to include parents from the affected school district in the receiving or resulting school district's activities, including but not limited to parent-teacher associations, booster clubs, and parent involvement committees.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2646.pdf
Title: H.B. 2646
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| ID | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Establishes a safe school facilities levy; establishes criteria under which the levy may be imposed and allows
for judicial confirmation when the safety levy fails; brings all pending lawsuits under the constitutionally based
Education Claims Act. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/H0403.html
Law was overturned by the Idaho Supreme Court August 25, 2004. 2004 Opinion No. 105, Docket No. 29616 at http://www.isc.idaho.gov/opinions/iseeo.pdf
Title: H.B. 403
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Appropriates $ 27,931,118 to the Department of Education as an emergency appropriation for special education costs as a result of the Felix consent decree. This was a result of the Felix v. Cayetano case.
Title: S.B. 1084
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2000 | P-12
Postsec. | Appropriates a specified sum from the General Fund and the State Transportation Fund to the Controller. Allocates from the General Fund, a specified sum for the payment of certain claims by local agencies and school districts for reimbursement for state mandated local costs, and from both the General Fund and the State Transportation Fund, a specified sum would be allocated to ay for prior year deficiencies, including interest, thereon.
Title: S.B. 1894
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Increases Tuition Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) award amounts based on college performance for certain students who qualified for Performance or Honors awards and who chose instead to receive Opportunity Awards.
Title: H.B. 224A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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