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Level |
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CA | Vetoed 09/2012 | P-12 | Teacher Credentialing and Transitional Kindergarten
A.B. 1853
From bill summary: Authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to convene a workgroup of specified members to develop program standar...
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MI | Signed into law 07/2012 | P-12 | Kindergarten Entrance Ages
H.B. 4513
Updates cut-off date for entrance ages into kindergarten. For the 2013-14 school year, a child must be five years of age by November 1. For...
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NY | Signed into law 07/2012 | P-12 | Kindergarten Attendance May Be Mandated in NYC
A.B. 9861
Authorizes the New York City board of education to require children who turn five by December 1 to attend kindergarten. Provides exceptions....
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HI | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Early Learning System
S.B. 2545
Provides legislative findings. Establishes the executive office on early learning, to be temporarily placed in the office of the governor, a...
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OH | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Kindergarten, 1st Grade Entrance
S.B. 316 - Kindergarten, 1st Grade Entrance
Repeals existing requirements providing exceptions to minimum ages for admission to kindergarten or 1st grade. Replaces with provision provi...
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OH | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Birth through 3rd Grade Literacy Education
S.B. 316 - Birth through 3rd Grade Literacy Education
Directs the state board and the early childhood advisory council, in consultation with the governor's office of 21st century education, to d...
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DE | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Kindergarten Readiness Assessment
H.B. 317
Provides that the Department of Education establish a statewide readiness tool that will review a child's readiness for learning when they e...
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HI | Adopted 06/2012 | P-12 | Research on the Correlation Between Late-Born Children and Educational Outcomes
S.C.R. 80
Requests that the department of education conduct research on the correlation between children who are late-born (born after August 1) and e...
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IL | Adopted 06/2012 | P-12 | Kindergarten Readiness Survey Implementation, "K" in State Standards
23 IL ADC 1.420; 23 IL ADC 1.APP. D
From Illinois Register: This rulemaking resulted from the State Board of Education's application for funding under the American Recovery and...
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IA | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Kindergarten Requirement
S.F. 2284 - Division XIII
This section requires that a student who is enrolled in a district and is age 5 by 9/15 be considered of compulsory attendance age unless th...
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TN | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Kindergarten Age
H.B. 2566
Sets kindergarten entrance age. Children entering kindergarten shall be five years of age on or before August 31 for the 2013-2014 school ye...
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IL | Adopted 05/2012 | P-12 | Early Childhood Block Grant
23 IL ADC 235.20, 30, 40, 45, 50, 60, 70; 23 IL ADC 235.APP. A, B, C
From Illinois Register: This rulemaking resulted from the state board's application for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment...
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CO | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Early Literacy Assessment Tool
H.B. 1345 (sec. 7)
Requires the education department to issue request for proposals for the purchase of an early literacy assessment tool that teachers may use...
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GA | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Age for Kindergarten or First Grade Entry for Children Moving from Abroad
H.B. 706 - Age for Kindergarten or First Grade Entry for Children Moving from Abroad
Clarifies that provisions for child's entry into kindergarten and 1st grade for a child who was a legal resident of one or more states two y...
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KY | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | School Entrance and Lower Compusory School Ages
S.B. 24
Amends school entrance ages and compulsory school ages. Effective with the 2017-18 school year, kindergarten entrance age is 5 by August 1 a...
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UT | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Enhanced Kindergarten Program for At-Risk Students
H.B. 513
Creates an early intervention program to provide funds for applicant school districts and charter schools to offer an enhanced kindergarten ...
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WA | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Statewide Implementation of the Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills
H.B. 2586
Requires the Washington kindergarten inventory of developing skills, beginning in the 2012-2013 school year and to the extent funds are avai...
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SD | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Fee for Early Childhood Services
H.B. 1195
Permits schools to charge a fee for early childhood services for any child who is under the age of compulsory attendance pursuant to § 13-27...
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OH | Issued 10/2011 | P-12 | Early Education
Executive Order 2011-21K
Creates the position of Early Education and Development Officer ("Officer") within the Governor's Office of 21st Century Education. Directs ...
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CT | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Closing the Achievement Gap/Early Literacy
S.B. 929
Sec. 1 - Establishes a task force to address the academic achievement gaps in Connecticut by considering effective approaches to closing the...
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OR | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Kindergarten
S.B. 248
Statutes regarding the provision of half-day and supplemental kindergarten are scheduled to sunset with the 2011-2012 school year. S.B. 248 ...
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LA | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | School Readiness Assessments
H.B. 100
Amends and reenacts existing statute relative to school readiness assessment. Provides relative to school readiness tests, inlcuding the sel...
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FL | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Voluntary Prekindergarten Program
H.B. 1255 - Sec. 12
Revises requirements for a good cause exemption for a Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) Program provider who fails to meet minimum student rea...
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OK | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Delays Requirement that Districts Offer Full-Day Kindergarten
S.B. 260
The measure delays the requirement for the requirement for districts to provide full-day, free kindergarten until the 2013-14 school year. h...
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ND | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Kindergarten
S.B. 2150 - Multiple Provisions
Requires each board to provide at least a half-day kindergarten program for any student enrolled in the district or pay the tuition required...
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AZ | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Kindergarten
S.B. 1256--Kindergarten Finance
Arizona Revised Statute 15-821 is clarified. If a child who has not reached the age of five before September 1 of the current school year is...
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OH | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | All-Day Kindergarten
H.B. 30 - All-Day Kindergarten
Repeals provision requiring districts to provide all-day kindergarten to all students beginning in fiscal year 2011. Permits a district that...
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ND | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Readiness Testing and Formative Assessments
H.B. 1273
Allows districts to conduct readiness testing and formative assessments of incoming kindergarten students (within the regular school calenda...
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ND | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Kindergarten Entrance
H.B. 1436
Allows exceptions to the kindergarten enrollment cut-off date (age 5 by August 1) unless the child will be 5 by Dec. 1 and can demonstrate, ...
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MS | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Study of Earlier Kindergarten Entrance
H.B. 619
Directs the department of education to conduct a survey of public school districts to determine the feasibility of enrolling children in pub...
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CA | Signed into law 09/2010 | P-12 | Kindergarten Entrance Age
S.B. 1381
Changes the required birthday for admission to kindergarten and first grade to November 1 for the 2012–13 school year, October 1 for the 201...
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HI | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Kindergarten Entrance Age and Junior Kindergarten Program
S.B. 2068
Amends kindergarten entrance age; provides that beginning with the 2013-14 school year, a child who is at least 5 on the first day of kinder...
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NE | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Kindergarten Entrance
L.B. 1006
Children are eligible for kindergarten if they are 5 years old by July 31, beginning with the 2012-13 school year. Previously, the cutoff da...
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GA | Adopted 12/2008 | P-12 | State Assessments
GAC 160-3-1-.07
Eliminates reference to Georgia Kindergarten Assessment Program - Revised (GKAP-R). Provides all kindergarten students must be assessed usin...
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NH | Signed into law 07/2008 | P-12 | Kindergarten Construction Aid Program
S.B. 530
Extends the kindergarten construction aid program until all school districts operate a kindergarten program; allows a school district to ele...
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GA | Adopted 09/2007 | P-12 | Student Assessment Programs
GAC 160-3-1-.07
Adds language regarding the Assessing Comprehension and Communication in English State to State for English Language Learners (ACCESS for EL...
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HI | Vetoed 07/2007 | P-12 | Prekindergarten and Kindergarten
S.B. 613
Directs the department to encourage inclusionary prekindergarten and kindergarten classes of both special education eligible and general edu...
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HI | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Two-tier Kindergarten Program and Kindergarten Entrance Age
S.B. 17
Establishes a junior kindergarten and kindergarten program in the department of education; establishes a pilot program for the 2005-2006 sch...
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CA | Signed into law 08/2003 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Education Finance
A.B. 1754
Relates to reimburse rates under the Child Care and Development Services Act, revenue limits for school districts and county superintendents...
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AR | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Quality Education Act of 2003 - Accountability and Assessment
H.B. 2697 (Omnibus Bill)
Amends §§ 6-15-402 - 6-15-406. Creates the Arkansas Comprehensive Testing, Assessment, and Accountability Program Act; including requiring t...
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AR | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Children Entering Kindergarten
H.B. 2195
Requires the Department of Education to develop and conduct readiness testing for children who are entering kindergarten....
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NH | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Alternative Kindergarten Programs
H.B. 1188
Relates to the establishment of an alternative kindergarten program within a school district; provides that school districts operating an ap...
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