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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 AL | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | From K-12 appropriations bill: Establishes legislative intent that local school systems be permitted to develop flexible school terms extending over the school year including late school start dates. School systems are encouraged to use late school dates to replace high cooling cost days in August with lower cost days later in the school year. Directs the state department of education to encourage and work with pilot school systems to determine the cost savings from a later start date.
Title: S.B. 318 - School Start Dates
Source:
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| NY | Issued 04/2012 | P-12 | Establishes the New NY Education Reform Commission to provide guidance and advice to the governor on education policy, performance, and innovation. Directs the commission to study the best national and international public education models and best practices to recommend ways to increase educational productivity and student performance in the state. Directs the commission to comprehensively review and assess the state's education system to ultimately create significant savings while improving student achievement and providing students with a high-quality education. Requires that the review include, but not be limited to:
a. studying teacher recruitment and performance, including incentives to keep the best teachers, and the teacher preparation, certification and evaluation systems;
b. analyzing factors that support P-12 student achievement to ensure all students are on track to graduate from high school ready for college, careers, and active citizenship;
c. evaluating education funding, distribution of state aid, and operating costs to identify efficiencies in spending while maintaining the quality of educational programs, including special education;
d. increasing parent and family engagement, including examining the school calendar and district-level policies that increase parental involvement;
e. examining the unique issues faced by high-need urban and rural districts, including comparing best practices and identifying the different services that these districts might require to be successful;
f. analyzing the availability of technology and its best use in the classroom, including the accessibility of, and obstacles to, using technology in the classroom in light of the requirements and demands of the job market to best prepare our students; and
g. examining the overall structure of the state's education system to determine whether it meets students' needs while respecting the taxpayer.
Directs the commission to compare student achievement outcomes with education spending, focusing on districts that generate higher than average achievement per dollars spent, including high-need districts that are providing students with the opportunity to receive a sound basic education, and identifying how districts can boost student achievement without increasing spending. Directs the commission to submit preliminary recommendations by December 2012, and final recommendations by September 2013, at which time the commission will terminate its work.
http://www.governor.ny.gov/executiveorder/44
Title: E.O. No. 44
Source: www.governor.ny.gov
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| FL | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Requires each local board to enter into an interlocal agreement to establish the School District Consortium to maximize the purchasing power for goods and services. Provides a consortium may be statewide or regional, as appropriate to achieve the lowest cost.
Page 8 of 41: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5101er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5101 - School District Consortium to Increase Purchasing Power
Source: myfloridahouse.gov
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Requires each local school board to report annually to the Board of Education the percentage of its annual operating budget allocated to instructional costs. The Board of Education shall include this information in the annual School Performance Report Card for each school division, as well as annually report the same to the House Committees on Appropriations and Education and to the Senate Committees on Finance and Health and Education. This bill incorporates HB 78.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?121+ful+HB250ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 250
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/
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| TX | Adopted 10/2011 | P-12 | The Texas Education Agency (TEA) proposes an amendment to s.109.1002, concerning the financial accountability rating system. The section establishes indicators applicable to school district financial accountability ratings. The proposed amendment would update the School Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas (School FIRST) by specifying new provisions for implementation beginning with data from fiscal year 2010-2011, including the deletion of one non-critical school district indicator and the deletion of two non-critical open-enrollment charter school indicators, along with new rating worksheets and calculations that reflect these changes. The proposed amendment to the rating system would provide relief from the recommended financial reserves due to current economic conditions and changes in state funding. Pages 3-8 of 32: http://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/pdf/backview/1014/1014adop.pdf
Title: 19 TAC 109.1002
Source: www.sos.state.tx.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Directs the department to develop standards for determining, from existing data, the amount of annual operating expenditures for classroom instructional purposes and for nonclassroom purposes for each school district, each community school that is not an internet- or computer-based community school, each Internet- or computer-based community school, and each STEM school. Directs the department to present these standards to the state board for consideration no later than January 1, 2012. Requires the state board to consider the proposed standards and adopt a final set of standards by July 1, 2012. Directs the department to categorize all districts, joint vocational school districts, and community schools that are not computer- or Internet-based, into 3-5 categories (3-5 categories for each type of school), based on average daily student enrollment (joint vocational school districts = average daily membership), and to categorize all internet- or computer-based community schools into a single category, and to categorize all STEM schools into a single category. Using the aforementioned standards, directs the department to compute for fiscal years 2008-2012, and annually for each fiscal year thereafter:
(1) The percentage of each district's, community school's, or STEM school's total operating budget spent for classroom instructional purposes
(2) The statewide average percentage for all districts, community schools, and STEM schools combined spent for classroom instructional purposes
(3) The average percentage for each of the aforementioned categories of districts and schools spent for classroom instructional purposes
(4) The ranking of each district, community school, or STEM school within its respective category according to:
(a) From highest to lowest percentage spent for classroom instructional purposes
(b) From lowest to highest percentage spent for noninstructional purposes.
Requires the department to note within each category of district, joint vocational school district, the districts/joint vocational school districts, and among non-internet or community based community schools, internet- and computer based community schools and STEM schools, schools that are among the 20% for lowest operating expenditures or among the 20% for highest performance index scores (for joint vocational school districts, among the 20% with the highest performance measures required for career-technical education under 20 U.S.C. 2323). Requires specified operating information to be reported on the department Web site and on each district's, community school's and STEM school's report card.
Requires the department, in accordance with the board standards for categorization of school district expenditures as described above, to annually determine each fiscal year for each district: (1) The ratio of the district's operating expenditures for instructional purposes compared to its operating expenditures for administrative purposes; (2) The per-pupil amount of the district's expenditures for instructional purposes; (3) The per pupil amount of the district's operating expenditures for administrative purposes (4) The percentage of the district's operating expenditures attributable to school district funds; and to determine the statewide average among all school districts for each of the items (1) through (4) above. Directs the department to annually report to each district the district's information for (1) through (4) and the statewide averages in (5). Requires each district, upon receipt of the report, to publish the information on its Web site and publish the report in another way so that it is available to all parents of students enrolled in the district and to taxpayers of the district. Pages 51-54 and 55-56 of 1000 (some provisions of pages 54-55 in separate record): http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Highly Efficient and Highly Effective Schools
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Directs the department of education to develop a system to rank all districts, community schools and STEM schools according to: (1) performance index score for district/community school/STEM school and for each separate building of such; (2) Student performance growth from year to year, using the value-added progress dimension, if applicable, and other measures of student performance growth designated by the superintendent of public instruction for subjects and grades not covered by the value-added progress dimension; (3) Performance measures required for career-technical education; (4) Current per-pupil operating expenditures; (5) Of total current operating expenditures, percentage spent for classroom instruction as determined under standards adopted by the state board of education; (6) Performance of, and opportunities provided to, students identified as gifted using value-added progress dimensions, and other relevant measures as designated by the superintendent of public instruction. Directs the department to rank each district, community school, and STEM school annually in accordance with this system. Requires the department to annually issue a report for school district, each community school, and each STEM school indicating the district's or school's rank on each measure (1) through (5) above, including each separate building's rank among all public school buildings according to performance index score in (1) above.
Creates the governor's effective and efficient schools recognition program. Directs the governor to annually recognize the top 10% of public schools in the state, including district schools, community schools and STEM schools. Requires that the top 10% be identified by the department according to department-established standards, which must include but need not be limited to student performance and fiscal performance, including cost-effectiveness measures.
Pages 54-55 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - More Efficiency and Effectiveness
Source:
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| NC | Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 06/2011 | P-12 | Directs the state board to establish a school calendar pilot program in the Wilkes County Schools, the Montgomery County Schools, and the Stanly County Schools, to determine whether and to what extent a local school administrative unit can save money by consolidating the school calendar. Provides that the school calendar for the 2011-2012 calendar year for the pilot school systems must include a minimum of 185 days or 1,025 hours of instruction covering at least 9 calendar months; permits a participating school system to meet minimum 185 days of instruction by adding instructional hours to previously scheduled days. Directs the state board to report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee by March 15, 2012, on the administration of the pilot program, cost savings realized, and its impact on student achievement. Provides that if the state board finds that it will enhance student performance to do so, the state board may grant a pilot school system a waiver to use up to 5 instructional days or an equivalent number of instructional hours as teacher workdays. Bill text (page 53 of 342): http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H200v9.pdf
State board report: http://www.ncleg.net/documentsites/committees/JLEOC/Reports%20Received/2012%20Reports%20Received/School%20Calendar%20Pilot%20Program.pdf
Title: H.B. 200 - School Calendar Pilot Program
Source: www.ncleg.net
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Permits a city and a special school district with coterminous boundaries to specify by contract that city funding for the district shall be used half for district operations and half for issuance of bonds and, upon agreement of the city legislative body and the school board at the time that the bonds are issued, proceeds of any such bond issue shall be used for maintenance and construction at schools existing at the time the bonds are issued.
http://state.tn.us/sos/acts/107/pub/pc0347.pdf
Title: S.B. 1602
Source: http://state.tn.us
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Removes provisions of law that allow school administrative units to use a process other than a competitive bid process in selecting energy service providers for the design, installation, operation, maintenance and financing of energy conservation or combined energy conservation and air quality improvements. Requires the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of General Services to adopt a model contract for these services. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_125th/chapters/PUBLIC279.asp
Title: H.P. 583
Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org
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| MI | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | From Legislative Staff Summary: Eliminates middle college grants and funding that provides districts additional funds for educating students of limited English-speaking ability. Eliminates language protecting Intermediate School District operational funding from falling below certain levels paid in 1994-95. Revises the fall pupil membership count day from the last Wednesday in September to the first Wednesday in October. Requires districts to post the health care bid required under state law to their web sites. Provides a one-time incentive grant to districts that satisfy four out of five criteria before July 1, 2012: (1) Charging employees at least 10% of health care services costs; (2) Serving as the policyholder for health care service plans; (3) Continuing to implement consolidation plans to reduce school operating costs; (4) Obtaining competitive bids on non-instructional services; and (5) Providing to parents and community members a dashboard or report card demonstrating the district's efforts to manage its finances responsibly. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2011-2012/publicact/htm/2011-PA-0062.htm
Title: H.B. 4325 - K-12 Provisions
Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Directs the state board of education (SBE) to streamline the paperwork process and to alleviate unnecessary, duplicative paperwork. Requires the to permit all reports to be submitted electronically and adopt policies to consolidate and streamline application for state funds. Requires local boards of education to identify software protocols to minimize repetitious data entry. Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to collaborate with More-At-Four to review all reporting requirements and reduce the frequency of reporting as appropriate. Provides that school districts will be granted permission to decline to file additional plans or paperwork if the School Improvement Plan adequately covers the subject. Eliminates the pre-payment of teachers starting July 1, 2012 and provides that from July 1, 2012 forward teachers will be paid for the days that they work in each month instead of the whole month. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H720v6.pdf
Title: H.B. 720
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Creates the Task Force on Creating Administrative Efficiencies until November 30, 2011. The seven-member task force must examine ways to reduce administrative costs and the impact on cost reductions on school district operations and student learning.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf/2011-12%20ENR/SB/SB536%20ENR.DOC
Title: S.B. 536
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Changes the cap on school district expenditures. School districts with more than 1,500 average daily attendance must not spend more than 5% of total expenditures on administration. Districts with more than 500 but less than 1,500 average daily attendance are capped at 7%. Districts with 500 or fewer average daily attendance are capped at 8%. The measure also allows districts to count up to 40% of a superintendent's salary to nonadministrative functions if the superintendent spends part of the time performing exempted nonadministrative services such as teaching or serving as principal, counselor or library media specialist. Requires the total amount a superintendent makes for administrative and nonadministrative services to be recorded under the code for superintendent salary in the Oklahoma Cost Accounting System.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf/2011-12%20ENR/SB/SB664%20ENR.DOC
Title: S.B. 664
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| NY | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Creates the district management efficiency awards program. Directs the commissioner of education to develop a plan, in consultation with the secretary of state, to award competitive grants to districts for achieving school district management efficiencies. Identifies the components the plan must contain, including benchmarks for actual cost savings that must be met before any awards are paid, and the timeline for awarding grants, to ensure grants are first awarded during the 2011-12 school year. Provides either a single district or two or more districts may jointly respond to a request for proposals. Directs the commissioner to give priority to applications that demonstrate that the long-term efficiencies that have been implemented (1) are innovative in changing management or organizational structures to generate significant savings while maintaining or improving student achievement; (2) have the participation of teachers, parents and/or other stakeholders in the district; (3) are measures/strategies that other districts may replicate; or (4) have the greatest quantifiable savings that will be sustainable. Provides grant awards will be based on size of student enrollment.
Chapter 58 http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S02808&Summary=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y
Title: S.B. 2808 - Part B, Sec. 1
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| NC | Signed into law 08/2010 | Postsec. | Provides that any energy savings realized by constituent institutions of the University of North Carolina must remain available to the institution and a portion of those energy savings must be used for other energy conservation measures. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1292v6.pdf
Title: H.B. 1292
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| RI | 07/2010 | P-12 | Establishes the Cooperative Service Among School Districts Act of 2010 to maximize both educational effectiveness and business services, to lead to cost savings. Defines "collaborative," "educational collaborative" "regional collaborative" as 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporations. Authorizes the board of regents for elementary and secondary education to provide for special grants to encourage the development of cooperative service agreements, to be administered by the area educational collaborative. Also permits the regents to establish an ongoing level of subsidy as deemed appropriate to continue the operation of any cooperative service area.
Directs each educational collaborative to submit a plan to the board of regents, for approval by the commissioner of elementary and secondary education, that will increase efficiencies and economies of scale in providing instructional services. Provides the plan must incorporate best practices from business, reflect a regional approach and accompanying volume increase, and must include measures concerning:
(1) Teacher training programs and staff development
(2) Special education programs and diagnostic services required by law or regulation and related functions
(3) Programs for the gifted and talented
(4) Programs for students who are at risk of suspension or expulsion
(5) Development of shared instructional services
(6) Act as regional or statewide administrative unit, or enabling unit or as a participant of a joint purchasing agreement or agreements established pursuant to section 16-2-9.2, for such functions as transportation, cooperative purchasing of food, and other noninstructional support services, such as the purchasing of oil, gas, electricity, health care contracts, supplies, payroll and other business operations, as may be appropriate
(7) Any other consolidation of services and purchasing that achieves efficiencies and cost savings.
Permits an educational collaborative to contract with a non-member school district, or with another educational collaborative. Authorizes districts to contract any of their functions to a regional collaborative when such contracting will increase efficiencies and economies of scale in providing instructional and business services. Provides for board of directors for each education collaborative; requires each participating school committee to appoint one member to the respective governing board. Provides that nothing in these provisions may allow any school district to abrogate any agreement reached by collective bargaining. This act takes effect on December 31, 2010. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law10/law10086.htm
Title: H.B. 7668, S.B. 2266
Source: www.rilin.state.ri.us
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| RI | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Authorizes the department of elementary and secondary education, with the department of administration, to implement a statewide purchasing system for all public schools, for the purchase of goods, supplies and services, including:
(1) General school supplies such as paper goods, office supplies, textbooks and cleaning products
(2) Telecommunications, wireless services, computer equipment, hardware and software needed to support curriculum objectives
(3) General non-medical and dental insurance products and services; provided however, that the statewide purchasing system must permit districts to establish their own benefit and coverage levels.
Authorizes the department of elementary and secondary education and local and regional school districts to participate in purchasing collaboratives, consisting of two or more states, subject to prior approval of the
chief purchasing officer and rules and regulations promulgated by the department. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law10/law10023-13.htm
Title: H.B. 7397, Article 13, Section 5
Source: www.rilin.state.ri.us
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| SC | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Suspends the requirement that the department of education provide printed copies of 2010 district and school report cards; Requires schools and school districts to provide parents with a link ot the report cards via email or other communication methods upon certain conditions. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/4823.htm
Title: H.J.R. 4823 - Sec. 1 and 2
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Authorizes creation of innovative interdistrict cooperative high school programs designed to provide interdisciplinary curriculum and instruction organized into subject-focused themes through alternative, online, work-based, experiential and field-based learning, direct classroom instruction at multiple and varying locations, intensive and accelerated learning to enable early graduation and creative use of facilities to minimize costs and maximize access for geographically dispersed students. Chapter 99
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2913-S.PL.pdf
Title: H.B. 2913
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Former law called for the creation of a single financial accountability rating system. New enactment directs the commissioner, in consultation with the comptroller, to develop separate financial accountability rating systems for districts and charter schools that distinguish among districts and charter schools based on financial performance. Provides the system may not include an indicator or performance measure that requires a district to spend at least 65% of district operating funds or any other specified percentage for instructional purposes, or that lowers a district's financial management performance rating for failure to spend at least 65% or any other specified percentage of district operating funds for instructional purposes.
Creates new Section 39.0821, "Comptroller Review of Resource Allocation". Directs the comptroller to identify districts and campuses that use resource allocation practices that contribute to high academic achievement and cost-effective operations. Identifies process for the comptroller to evaluate relative performance of districts and campuses and identify potential areas for district and campus improvement. In reviewing district and campus resource allocation practices, directs the comptroller to ensure resources are being used for instruction by evaluating operating costs for students and programs, and the staffing cost for each student.
Adds new Section 39.0822, "Financial Solvency Review Required." Directs the state education agency to develop a review process to anticipate the future financial solvency of each school district. Provides the review process must analyze expeditures and revenues for the previous year, and projected expenditures and revenues for the current and following two school years. Identifies areas of expenditure that the review process must consider for the previous year, and for future years as appropriate. Directs the agency to develop an electronic-based program for districts to use in submitting information for purposes of the review process. Directs the commissioner to adopt rules to allow a district to enter estimates of critical data into the program before the district adopts its budget. Specifies capacities the program must contain, including the capacity to provide alerts for a student-to-staff ratio significantly outside the norm, a rapid depletion of the district general fund balance and a significant discrepancy between actual budget figures and projected revenues and expenditures. Such alerts must be developed to notify the agency immediately on occurence of one of the aforementioned conditions. After the agency is alerted, requires the agency to immediately notify the affected district regarding the condition triggering the alert. Also amends Section 39.083, to require each district's annual financial management report to include a description of the data submitted using the electronic-based program.
Adds new Section 39.0823, "Projected Deficit". Provides that if the review process under Section 39.0822 indicates a projected deficit for a school district general fund within the following three school years, the
district must provide the agency interim financial reports, supplemented by staff and student count data, as needed, to evaluate the district's current budget status. Provides that if the interim financial data substantiates the projected deficit, the district must develop a financial plan to submit to the agency for approval. Provides the agency may approve the plan only if the agency determines the plan will permit the district to avoid the projected insolvency. Requires the commissioner to assign a district an "accredited-warned" status if the district fails to submit a financial plan to the agency, fails to obtain agency approval for a plan, fails to comply with an agency-approved plan, or the agency determines in a subsequent school year, based on financial data submitted by the district, that the approved plan for the district is no longer sufficient or is not appropriately implemented.
Adds new Section 39.084, "Posting of Adopted Budget". Directs a district, upon the board of trustee's final approval of the budget, to post a copy of the adopted budget to the district Web site. Requires the district Web site to prominently display the link to the adopted budget. Requires the link to the adopted budget to remain on the district Web site until the third anniversary of the date the budget was adopted.
Pages 89-96 of 180: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB00003F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3 - Section 59 - Part III
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Authorizes the Office of Accountability to conduct a performance review program to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of the budget and operations of a school districts that has a district student eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals under the National School Lunch Act that is above the state average.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10bills/SB/SB473_ENR.RTF
Title: S.B. 473
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Provides for the establishment of small wind innovation zones; provides for the applicability of tax credits; relates to a political subdivision of this state, including but not limited to a city, county, township, school district, community college, area education agency, institution under the control of the state board of regents, or any other local commission, association, or tribal council which adopts, or is encompassed within a local government which adopts, the model ordinance.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=83&menu=text&hbill=HF810
Title: H.B. 810
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Relates to achieving savings in education programs by revising provisions relating to diagnostic assessments, classified staff training, conditional scholarships, certain professional development programs, coordination for career and technical student organizations, and national board certification bonuses. Chapter 539
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2343-S.PL.pdf
Title: H.B. 2343
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| SC | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Allows local school districts and special schools to transfer funds among appropriated revenues in order to ensure the delivery of academic and arts instruction; allows school districts suspend certain professional staffing ratios; negotiates salaries for retired teachers; allows school districts to furlough teachers and district administrators; allows school districts to purchase the most economical type of bus fuel. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/cgi-bin/query.exe?first=DOC&querytext=3352&category=Legislation&session=118&conid=4711663&result_pos=0&keyval=1183352
Title: H.B. 3352
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov
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| FL | Removed from Ballot 04/2008 | P-12 | (BALLOT MEASURE 9.) Requires at least sixty-five percent of school funding received by school districts be spent on classroom instruction, rather than administration. Allows for differences in administrative expenditures by district. Provides the constitutional requirement for the state to provide a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools is a minimum, nonexclusive duty. Reverses legal precedent prohibiting public funding of private school alternatives.
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/initiatives/fulltext/pdf/12-10.pdf
Title: Amend. 9
Source: http://www.dos.state.fl.us/
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Allows a school administrative unit that is a municipality or school administrative district to combine with another school administrative district to create a larger school administrative district; permits public schools in the Lower Kennebec River area to achieve efficiency and improve quality.
http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/externalsiteframe.asp?ID=280023577&LD=910&Type=1&SessionID=7
Title: H.B. 685
Source: Maine Legislature
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Allows a school administrative unit that is a municipality or school administrative district to combine with another school administrative district to create a larger school administrative district.
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/billpdfs/LD091001.pdf
Title: H.B. 685; LD 216
Source: Maine Legislature
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Creates new article in the education code, "Allocation of Expenditures to Student Instruction."
Chapter 1. Purposes and General Provisions
Chapter 2. Authority to Allocate Expenditures to Student Instruction and Learning
Authorizes school corporations to take specific actions to reduce noninstructional expenditures and allocate the resulting savings to student instruction and learning. Authorized actions include:
(1) Creating insurance pools with other school corporations.
(2) Aggregating purchases of natural gas commodity supply.
(3) Consolidating specified purchases with other school corporations or units of government.
Authorizes school corporations to use shared services arrangements with other school corporations and units of government to provide instructional and noninstructional services.
Authorizes school corporations to collaborate with contiguous school corporations to explore the use of cooperatives among school corporations, commonly managed school corporations, or the consolidation of school corporations to provide effective and efficient management of the school corporations or functions within.
Directs educational service centers to support and facilitate actions by school corporations to pool resources, including by the use of an educational service center's existing cooperative agreements. Directs educational service centers to annually report to the state board the results of the efforts of the educational service centers during the preceding school year to help school corporations pool resources.
Chapter 3. State Board Action
Directs the state board to explore methods to reduce the expense to school corporations for the purchase of textbooks, technology, school buses and other vehicles, and other areas of expenses as determined by the state board. Directs the state board to annually survey school corporations to determine actions taken to allocate resources to student instruction and learning. Directs the state board to issue an annual report of actions taken to each school corporation, the public and the general assembly. Additionally requires the state board to report annually to the state superintendent, the governor, and the general assembly on:
(1) Consolidated purchasing arrangements used by multiple school corporations, through educational service centers, and throughout Indiana.
(2) Shared services arrangements used by multiple school corporations, through educational service centers, and in Indiana as a whole.
(3) The efforts of school corporations to explore cooperatives, common management, or consolidations.
Directs the state board to analyze each school corporation's expenses for the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 school years to determine how much each school corporation spent on student academic achievement expenditures, student instructional support expenditures, overhead and operational expenditures, and nonoperational expenditures. By June 30, 2007, requires the state board to report the results of the analysis to the state superintendent, the governor, and the general assembly.
Provides that, for each school year using the 2005-2006 school year as a baseline:
(1) the office of management and budget must report to the state board, the governor, and the general assembly on the progress or lack thereof of each school corporation, of all school corporations in each educational service center's area, and in Indiana as a whole in improving the ratio of student instructional expenditures to all other expenditures for the previous school year;
(2) the state board must publicly recognize each school corporation and educational service center that has an improved ratio of student instructional expenditures to all other expenditures during the previous school year;
(3) the office of management and budget and the division of finance of the department must be available to consult with and provide technical assistance to each school corporation that did not have an improved ratio of student instructional expenditures to all other expenditures during the previous school year; and
(4) each school corporation must report to the public in its annual performance report and to the members of the general assembly whose districts include the school corporation on specified expenditures.
Requires, beginning with the 2007-2008 school year, each governing body to establish goals for academic, instructional support, overhead/operational and nonoperational expenditures that will increase the school corporation's allocation of taxpayer resources directly to student instruction and learning. Directs the state board to recognize and reward the school corporations that meet their expenditure goals.
Title: S.B. 526 (omnibus) - Article 42.5
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/SE/SE0526.1.html
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| ME | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | (Resolve) Provides for legislative review of portions of Chapter 28: Closing a School in the Unorganized Territory, a major substantive rule of the Department of Education.
Title: H.B. 35
Source: Maine Legislature
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| CO | Rejected by voters 11/2006 | P-12 | (REFERENDUM J; HB 06-1283) Creates the State Public School Expenditures Accountability Act. If approved, would amend state statutes to require districts to spend at least 65% of their operational expenditures on classroom instruction beginning in the 2007-08 school year. Districts spending less than 65% would be required to increase spending on the specified items by two percentage points each year until the threshold is met. Districts would be authorized to request a one-year waiver from the spending requirement. The legislature would be authorized to sanction any school district that failing to comply with the spending requirement. Districts would be required to adopt an annual budget report, in a standard format, for public inspection, and would be allowed to hold elections to exempt them from these requirements.
Requires school districts to adopt an annual budget report, in a standard format, for public inspection, and to spend a percentage of operational budgets on direct classroom expenditures; concerns capital construction, charter school transfers, mill levies, local bonds and bond redemption funds; allows a district to hold an election to determine voter preference to exempt the district from requirements.
Title: Referendum J
Source:
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2006 | P-12 | Directs the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, working with the Department of Administration, to establish a statewide purchasing system for products and services pertaining to public schools, which would include telecommunications, wireless services, general insurance products and services, and school transportation for children with special needs. Public Law No. 298
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText06/HouseText06/H6853.pdf
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText06/HouseText06/H6853A.pdf
Title: H.B. 6853; S.B. 2531
Source: Rhode Island Legislature
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| CO | Rejected by voters 06/2006 | P-12 | Proposes a constitutional amendment to require that in each state fiscal year a school district spend at least 65% of its operational expenditures on classroom instruction.
Creates the State Public School Expenditures Accountability Act; requires school districts to adopt an annual budget report, in a standard format, for public inspection, and to spend a percentage of operational budgets on direct classroom expenditures; concerns capital construction, charter school transfers, mill levies, local bonds and bond redemption funds; allows a district to hold an election to determine voter preference to exempt the district from requirements.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/lcs/0506initrefr.nsf/89fb842d0401c52087256cbc00650696/d35caec1adcb56ae8725713e0058cb10/$FILE/ATTSVQLD/Amendment%2039.pdf
H.B. 1283
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2006a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/627AF3E860CE5FE1872570DE007CBF64?Open&file=1283_rer.pdf
Title: Amendment 39 (H.B. 1283)
Source: CO Secretary of State
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Directs the commissioner of education to work with education administrators to study the actual costs of providing services to elementary and secondary pupils and, on or before January 30, 2007, to make a recommendation to the general assembly regarding weighting of these pupils.
Directs the commissioner of education to study the effect of the provisions of 32 V.S.A. § 5401(12) and (13), relating to excess spending in school districts and district spending adjustment, on various types of school districts such as those that provide for the education of a significant portion or all of their students through paying tuition and those that have a small number of students. As part of the study, requires the commissioner to consider the effect of removing the portion of secondary technical education tuition which is in excess of the district's equalized per pupil spending from the calculation of excess spending, and the effect of removing interest payments made on funds borrowed in anticipation of capital construction aid from the calculation of district spending adjustment. Requires the commissioner to report the results of the study to the general assembly by January 30, 2007.
Directs the commissioner of education to study alternatives for computing education spending, including alternative methods for counting the average daily membership and to report the results of the study to the general assembly by January 30, 2007.
Directs the commissioner of education to work with Vermont educators and the state board to study the quality of Vermont public schools and independent schools which receive public funds and to study and analyze methods to reduce costs and to deliver the results of the analysis and recommendations for legislative action to the senate and house committees on education by January 30, 2007.
Directs the commissioner of education to report to the senate and house committees on education by January 30, 2007 regarding recommendations, if any, for amendments to Title 16 provisions addressing school district auditing requirements, including the frequency and scope. In developing the recommendations, requires the commissioner to confer with the state auditor of accounts and with representatives of the Vermont association of school business officials, the Vermont superintendents association, and the Vermont school boards association. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2006/acts/ACT182.HTM
Title: H.B. 867 - Section 20 (a) through (f)
Source: www.leg.state.vt.us
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| IL | Adopted 05/2006 | P-12 | Authorizes the Education Purchasing Program. Designates the state board as the state education purchasing entity. States criteria on which certification of education purchasing contracts and/or statewide education master contracts will be based. Pages 566-576 of 705: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/register/register_volume30_issue18.pdf
Title: 44 IAC 1110.10 thru .60
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year: (a) Each district school board must designate a classroom teacher to serve as the teacher representative to speak on behalf of the district's teachers regarding paperwork and data collection reduction. (b) Each district school board must provide the school community with an efficient method to communicate with the classroom teacher designee regarding possible paperwork and data collection burdens and potential solutions. The teacher designee must annually report his or her findings and potential solutions to the school board. (d) Each district school board must submit its findings and potential solutions to the State Board of Education by September 1 of each year. (e) The State Board of Education must prepare a report of the statewide paperwork and data collection findings and potential solutions and submit the report to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives by October 1 of each year.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 11)
Source: Florida Legislature
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Requires the commissioner, in consultation with the comptroller, to develop and implement a financial accountability
rating system for school districts in this state that: (1) distinguishes among school districts based on levels of financial performance; and
(2) includes procedures to: (A) provide additional transparency to public education finance; and (B) enable the commissioner and school district administrators to provide meaningful financial oversight and improvement.
The commissioner shall annually establish and publish the proposed expenditures for each school district as determined by the
commissioner based on an evaluation of information relating to the best practices of campuses and districts. The commissioner shall consider unique characteristics of the district, including the district's size. The proposed expenditures must include amounts for: (1) instructional expenditures; (2) central administrative expenditures; (3) district operations; and (4) any other category designated by the commissioner.
If the board of trustees of a school district intends to exceed the proposed expenditures established by the commissioner, the board must adopt and publish a resolution that includes an explanation justifying the board's actions.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/data/docmodel/793/billtext/pdf/HB00001F.PDF
Title: H.B. 1 C (Sections 2.05; 2.09)
Source: Texas Legislature
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Section 3: Authorizes school corporations (districts) individually, in collaboration with other school corporations, and through the educational services centers to take action to reduce noninstructional expenditures and allocate the resulting savings to student instruction and learning. Such actions may include the following:
(1) Pooling of resources with other school corporations for various forms of insurance, whether by pooling risks for coverage or for the purchase of coverage, or by the creation of or participation in insurance programs,
(2) Aggregating natural gas purchases, and
(3) Consolidating purchases with other school corporations or units of government of the following:
(A) School buses and other vehicles and vehicle fleets.
(B) Fuel, maintenance, or other services for vehicles or vehicle fleets.
(C) Food services.
(D) Facilities management services.
(E) Transportation management services.
(F) Textbooks, technology, and other school materials and supplies.
(G) Any other purchases a school corporation may require. Purchases may be made by contiguous school corporations, as part of regional consolidated purchasing arrangements, or from consolidated sources under multistate cooperative bidding arrangements.
Authorizes a school corporation to use shared services arrangements with other school corporations and units of government, including:
(1) the use of shared administrative services overseeing transportation, food service, facilities, or other operations;
(2) the use of shared administrative services to manage finance, payroll, human resources, information technology, purchasing, or other administrative services; and
(3) the use of shared resources to provide instruction, supplemental services, extracurricular activities, or other student services.
Authorizes a school corporation to collaborate with contiguous school corporations to explore the use of cooperatives among school corporations, commonly managed school corporations, or the consolidation of school corporations to provide effective and efficient management of the school corporations or functions of the
school corporations.
Directs Educational service centers to support and facilitate actions by school corporations, including by the use of an educational service center's existing cooperative agreements. Requires the educational service centers to annually report to the state board the results of the efforts of the educational service centers during the preceding school year.
Directs the state board to explore methods, including statewide purchases, to reduce the expense to school corporations for the purchase of textbooks, technology, and school buses and other vehicles. Directs the state board to survey the school corporations annually to determine actions taken by the school corporations to allocate resources to student instruction and learning.
Directs the state board to analyze each school corporation's expenses for the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 school years to determine how much each school corporation spent, from whatever source, directly or indirectly, on (1) Student academic achievement expenditures; (2) Student instructional support expenditures; (3) Overhead and operational expenditures; and (4) Nonoperational expenditures. Requires the state board to determine the types of expenses that are included in each category. Requires the state board, not later than June 30, 2007, to report the results of the analysis to the state superintendent, the governor, and the general assembly.
Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, and using the 2005-2006 school year as a baseline:
(1) Directs the office of management and budget to analyze and report to the state board, the governor, and the general assembly concerning the progress or lack of progress of each school corporation, all school corporations in each educational service center's area, and in the state as a whole in improving the ratio of student instructional expenditure to all other expenditures for the previous school year;
(2) Directs the state board to publicly recognize each school corporation and educational service center that has an improved ratio of student instructional expenditures to all other expenditures during the previous school year;
(3) Directs the office of management and budget and the division of finance of the department to be available to consult with and provide technical assistance to each school corporation that did not have an improved ratio of student instructional expenditures to all other expenditures during the previous school year; and
(4) Directs each school corporation to report specific data to the public in the school corporation's annual performance report.
Beginning with the 2007-2008 school year, requires each governing body to establish goals for expenditures in the following categories: (1) Student academic achievement expenditures; (2) Student instructional support expenditures; (3) Overhead and operational expenditures; and (4) Nonoperational expenditures that will increase the school corporation's allocation of taxpayer resources directly to student instruction and learning, in light of the unique circumstances present in the school corporation. Directs the state board to recognize and reward the school corporations that have met their goals.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/PDF/HE/HE1006.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1006 - Section 3
Source: www.in.gov
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| TX | Issued 08/2005 | P-12 | Directs the commissioner of education to create and implement a comprehensive financial accountability and reporting system to ensure transparency and fiscal efficiency in school district operations. The financial accountability and reporting system must include an indicator establishing a requirement that 65% of school district funds be expended for instructional purposes as defined by the National Center for Education Statistics. The system will include indicators of school district efficiency, including the use of shared-services agreements and consolidation of administrative functions, as well as a requirement for clear and concise accounting of school district expenditures.
Investigations and Actions. The commissioner will conduct special accreditation investigations of school districts exhibiting poor financial management and may take appropriate action under Subchapter G, Chapter 39, Texas Education Code; or lower a school district's accreditation rating as deemed appropriate by the commissioner; or both.
http://www.governor.state.tx.us/divisions/press/exorders/rp47
Title: Executive Order RP47
Source: http://www.governor.state.tx.us
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Establishes the Task Force on School District Administrative Efficiency. The purpose of the Task Force (which expires December 31, 2006) is to determine how school administration and operations may be made more efficient through administrative reorganization and consolidation. The Task Force is to review and analyze data collected by the state department from school districts of administrative services costs. Establishes membership of the task force.
http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2005-06HB/hb1021_enr.rtf
Title: H.B. 1021(multiple provisions)
Source:
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| WV | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | House Bill 2578 increases the ratios of professional and service personnel to students in net enrollment. The increases in the ratios of professional and service personnel per 1,000 students will be done in a manner that will reflect the greater need of counties with a low student population density for additional personnel.
Title: H.B. 2578
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Wrapup/2005/final/final.pdf
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | The bill requires school divisions to pay 25 percent of the cost of the school efficiency review in the fiscal year immediately following the completion of the final school efficiency review report. Provides for the Director of the Department of Planning and Budget to develop, coordinate and manage a school efficiency review program. The bill also provides that commencing with reviews completed in fiscal year 2006, partial recovery of the cost of individual reviews may be made in the fiscal year beginning not less than 12 months and not more than 24 months following the release of a final efficiency review report for an individual school division. Such recovery may occur if the affected school division superintendent or superintendent's designee has not certified that at least half the recommendations have been implemented or at least half of the equivalent savings of such efficiency review have been realized. Lacking such certification, the school division shall reimburse the state for 25 percent of the cost of the school efficiency review. Such reimbursement shall be paid into the general fund of the state treasury. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0620
Title: H.B. 1967
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Provision of budget bill. Directs the Office of Education Accountability to conduct an inventory and assessment of indicators that may be used to analyze financial, academic, and demographic data in order to evaluate school performance. The inventory and assessment are to be under the direction of the Eduation Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee. With approval of the Subcommittee and the Legislative Research Commission, funds may be used to contract for special expertise in the area of financial or performance reviews.
Title: H.B. 267
Source: Kentucky 2005 legislative summary
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Concerns reviews of school districts, and, in connection therewith, requiring pilot efficiency reviews of a limited number of school districts to identify administrative savings that can be gained through best practices. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/7559053176F837C087256E19005E1CFA?Open&file=144_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 144
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Concerns school district and charter school procurement; concerns contracts for materials and services the governing board may authorize for purchase which do not comply with requirements of procurement rules adopted by the State Board of Education; specifies criteria; applies to General Services Administration contracts. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0050.htm
Title: H.B. 2105
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Amends existing law relating to school property to provide that certain contracts shall not be executed unless in cooperation with a cooperative agency or through a contract that has been competitively bid by the state of Idaho, one of its subdivisions, or an agency of the federal government. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1345.html#billtext
Title: S.B. 1345
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| WV | to governor 03/2004 | P-12 | Part of H.B. 4001 requires the state board to adopt and periodically review and update indicators of efficiency for use by the appropriate divisions within the department to ensure efficient management and utilization of resources in the public schools.
Title: H.B. 4001 - Multiple Sections
Source: West Virginia Legislative Web Site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Requires an audit of staffing needs of the Department of Education. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1108.pdf
Title: H.B. 1108
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the Public School Funding Act of 2003; provides equitable funding to public schools; provides a system for monitoring public school expenditures; increases minimum teacher salaries; establishes a knowledge and skills-based pay system for teachers; provides for school-based performance awards. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB42.pdf
Title: S.B. 42
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Adds Ark. Code 6-15-2001. The state department of education and the Division of Legislative Audit of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee of the General Assembly are directed to develop a system for reviewing the financial management practices of school districts and identifies "best financial management code practices." School districts are evaluated and rated on compliance with best practices. Districts that don't conform to best practices are required to develop a plan for meeting best practices within two years. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB33.pdf
Title: S.B. 33 § 9
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Vetoed 04/2003 | Postsec. | Relates to the State Agency Paper Reduction Law; exempts information, brochures, and catalogs distributed by an institution of higher education to any prospective student from the Paper Reduction Law; requires the publication to contain information notifying the recipient of the right to be removed from the distribution list.
Title: S.B. 420
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Requires the State Board of Education to identify reports required from local school districts and to eliminate unnecessary reports and paperwork. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB1040.pdf
Title: H.B. 1040
Source: State legislative web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2002 | P-12 | Requires the Comptroller to review and monitor audits of local education agencies by independent auditors. Requires local education agencies to use certified public accountants for their audits from a directory approved by the Comptroller and to be in good standing with the Board of Accountancy. Prohibits, except as specified, a public accounting firm from performing an audit of the same local education agency under certain circumstances.
Title: A.B. 2834
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | According to a legislative summary, "The bill establishes the Office of Inspector General within the State Board of Education to be responsible for promoting accountability, efficiency and effectiveness and detecting fraud and abuse within school districts, community colleges and universities in Florida." http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us
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| OR | Vetoed 03/2002 | P-12 | Allows school districts and programs that receive grant funds to use funds for any educational purpose.
Title: H.B. 4036B
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | Makes certain changes in the guaranteed energy savings contracts law used by school corporations and political subdivisions; provides that actual savings may include stipulated savings that are documented by industry engineering standards, and that causally connected work is work that is required to properly implement an energy conservation measure.
Title: H.B. 1158
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed by Governor 09/2001 | P-12 | Chapter No.250, Requires the State Department of Education to conduct a study of pupil support, defined to include school counselors, school psychologists, and school social workers, in the schools. Requires the State Department of Education to report the results of the study to the Governor and the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the study.
Title: A.B. 722
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Public Law No. 373., (LD 1301) Provides an option for municipal members of a school district to design a cost-sharing formula; requires a cost-sharing plan to be approved by a referendum of the voters in each municipality in the district; provides for professional facilitation services if local entities cannot agree on cost-sharing changes; requires the Department of Education to provide assistance on cost-sharing to districts and municipalities.
Title: H.B. 977
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | 2001-157., Requires the designation and publication of district performance grades; revises minimum requirements of the Florida Education Finance Program to include minimum classroom expenditure requirements; authorizes the Legislature to require a school district that fails to meet minimum academic performance standards to meet district minimum classroom expenditure requirements.
Title: H.B. 1545
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Specifies that school districts are ineligible to adjust budget limit for energy reduction purposes if the school district did not participate in energy conservation measures during FY 2001.
Title: S.B. 1178
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Allows the County Treasurer to receive and disburse school district funds from 1 account if the school district is using a proper computerized accounting system.
Title: H.B. 1529
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Directs the State Auditor or the auditor's designee to conduct records management audits in all departments, institutions, and agencies of state government, including educational institutions and the judicial and legislative branches to determine if such agencies are managing records in compliance with established administrative and technical procedures.
Title: H.B. 1009
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IA | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Provides for the establishment of the state percent growth for purposes of the state school foundation program. The state budget is set to grow 4 % in the 2001-02 fiscal year and 4% in the 2002-03.
Title: H.B. 191
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12
Postsec. | Amends the School Code; prohibits the State Board of Education from making audit adjustments to general state aid claims paid in fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002 based upon the claimant's failure to provide a minimum of 5 clock hours of daily instruction to students in an alternative education program; prohibits the audit adjustments based upon the claimant's provision of service to non-resident students in an alternative education program without charging tuition.
Title: H.B. 2917
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Concerns public schools; authorizes charter schools to impose fees for excess transportation costs and to engage in the building, planning and inspection process; authorizes public schools to use capital reserve fund expenditures for certain purposes.
Title: H.B. 1124
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NH | Signed into law 05/2000 | Postsec. | Relates to the expending of legacies or gifts and the transfer of funds by the regional community-technical colleges; allows the regional community-technical colleges to expend legacies and gifts without approval of the Governor or Council; allows for the transfer of funds between line items within and among any budgetary unit in the regional community-technical colleges.
Title: S.B. 453
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NH | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Prohibits school districts from using disbursements from the Education Trust Fund as unanticipated revenue.
Title: H.B. 1316
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Requires local school superintendents to make reports to their local boards and to the public in response to financial deficits or budget irregularities. The State Board of Education shall require local boards to do corrective action plans.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source:
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| GA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Allotment sheets will be issued for each school rather than for each system. Each school shall spend a minimum of 90 percent of funds designated for direct instructional costs at the school site. However, funds earned for special education programs shall be summed. One hundred percent of funds earned for direct instructional salaries shall be expended on teachers and aides. Ninety percent of the funds designated for media center costs must be spent at each school site where the funds are earned.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education
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