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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 VT | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Requires that a district that hires a principal or a technical center director who has not been employed previously in that capacity, to work to ensure that the new principal or technical center director receives mentoring supports during at least the first two years of employment. The superintendent is to work in consultation with the Vermont Principals' Association. Requires that mentoring supports be consistent with best practices, research-based approaches, or other successful models, and be identified jointly by the Vermont Principals' Association and the Vermont Superintendents Association. Requires districts with beginning principals to allocate sufficient funds annually in the first two years of employment toward the cost of mentoring. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2012/Acts/ACT020.pdf
Title: H.B. 430
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Directs the Department of Education to develop and sponsor a superintendent mentoring program for first-year superintendents that includes: (A) Curriculum and instruction; (B) Ethics; (C) Facilities; (D) Human resources; (E) Leadership; (F) School funding; and (G) Technology.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Bills/SB344.pdf
Title: S.B. 344
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| IL | Adopted 06/2010 | P-12 | Primarily from administrative register: Public Act 96-373, effective August 13, 2009, amended Section 2-3.53a of the School Code to also authorize the provision of mentoring services to principals first hired after
July 1, 2008, who are in their second year of employment, provided that there is sufficient funding to conduct the program. The amendments set up a three-step process for state soard staff to determine each year
whether mentoring will be offered to first-year principals only, both first- and second-year principals, or second-year principals only. This determination is based on the anticipated number of participants and the total amount of the appropriation. In years in which the appropriation is insufficient to serve all first-year principals, a mentoring program will be established for second-year principals electing to participate. By continuing to at least serve second-year principals, funding can be used to provide mentoring benefits for those who choose to participate and obviate the need to "lapse" money at the end of the fiscal year. If a program is not offered during a principal's second year, then the principal no longer will be eligible for services after that point in time.
Pages 192-204 of 278: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/register/register_volume34_issue23.pdf
Title: 23 IAC 35.10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60
Source: www.cyberdriveillinois.com
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