From the ECS State Policy Database Parent/Family

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State Status/Date Level Summary CA Signed into law 09/2012 P-12 From bill summary: Allows $10,000 limit on liability for damages caused by minor pupil's misconduct to be adjusted annually for inflation. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_2651-2700/ab_2662_bill_20120926_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 2662 - Ceiling on Parent Liability for Damages Caused by Minor Pupil Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov IL Signed into law 08/2012 P-12 Provides that once established, each parent advisory committee for transitional bilingual education programs autonomously conduct its affairs, including the election of officers and the establishment of internal rules, guidelines, and procedures. Directs the state Advisory Council on Bilingual Education to submit a report to the state superintendent, governor, and general assembly by January 2013 on potential modifications to bilingual education programs to (1) be more flexible and achieve a higher success state among Hispanic students; (2) increase parental involvement, including the use of parent academies (and defines "parent academies"); (3) increase cultural competency through a cultural competency program among bilingual teaching staff (and defines "cultural competency program".). Also requires the report to address whether and how district bilingual parent advisory committees can be supported to increase parent opportunities to effectively express their views on the planning, operation, and evaluation of bilingual education programs. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/97/HB/PDF/09700HB3819lv.pdf Title: H.B. 3819 Source: www.ilga.gov HI Adopted 06/2012 P-12 Requests that the board of education and department of education collaborate with parent organizations to establish, implement, and monitor the statewide policy recommendations identified by the department of education in response to 2011 S.C.R. 145, Regular Session of 2011. Requests that the board of education and department of education report their findings and make recommendations, including proposed legislation, to facilitate family engagement to the legislature no later than 20 days prior to the convening of the 2013 regular session. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2012/bills/SCR79_.pdf Title: S.C.R. 79 Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov LA Signed into law 06/2012 P-12 Requires each teacher to schedule at least two parent-teacher conferences during the first semester each school year. Requires at least one parent or guardian of the child to attend or participate in at least one of the scheduled parent-teacher conferences. Prohibits a teacher from requiring a parent/guardian to attend if the conference is deemed unnecessary due to the student's academic record. Permits the parent/guardian of a middle or high school student with more than one teacher to attend a conference by conference call. Directs the governing authority of each elementary and secondary school to adopt rules relative to a parent/guardian's failure to attend at least one scheduled parent-teacher conference. Requires that rules prohibit any negative action against the child as a result of the parent's failure to attend a parent-teacher conference. http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=812542 Title: S.B. 685 Source: legis.la.gov CO Signed into law 06/2012 P-12 Current law prohibits an employee of a school or school district from requiring a student to participate in a survey, analysis, or evaluation that addresses or requests certain information unless the student's parent provides written consent for the student's participation. This bill adds assessments to the documents for which parental consent is required. In addition to the existing list of information, the employee must obtain parental consent if the document requests a social security number or information concerning the student's or parent's religious beliefs or practices. For a parent's consent to be valid, the employee must make a written copy of the document available for inspection at convenient locations and times. http://www.leg.state.co.us/CLICS/CLICS2012A/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/FF17422673A6E9EF87257981007F434A?Open&file=036_enr.pdf Title: S.B. 36 Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us CO Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Amends membership of the Colorado state advisory council for parent involvement in education appointed by the state board of education. Changes the members who are parents from grades 1-12 to K-12. Two of the parents must be members of a school or district accountability committee. Replaces member from parent and information centers with representatives from two state-based nonprofits specializing in promoting parent involvement from underserved populations. Makes other changes to the advisory council membership. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2012a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/8B566F0AC43197AC872579AD0065BF04?Open&file=160_enr.pdf Title: S.B. 160 Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us TN Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Requires the department of education to establish within the schools in the achievement school district a four-year pilot program to increase parent involvement in schools. Begins with 2012-2013 school year. Directs office of research and education accountability to study, recommend changes after second year. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/107/Bill/HB2994.pdf Title: H.B. 2994 Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov 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 TN Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Authorizes LEAs to partner with individuals, community and faith-based groups and organizations to design and implement programs to improve parental involvement in their children's education and schools, especially in high priority schools. Provides framework for parental involvement classes. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/107/Bill/HB3505.pdf Title: H.B. 3505 Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov LA Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Allows for a public school to be transferred to the Recovery School District (RSD) if such transfer is approved by the state board of education and both of the following conditions are met: (1) Parents or legal guardians representing at least 51% of the students attending the school sign a petition requesting the transfer; (2) The school has received a letter grade of "F" or any variation thereof, for three consecutive years. Requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations for implementation of the petition process, including a petition format and submission process, signature validation procedures, and student transfer procedures. (R.S. 17:10.5(F)) http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=793655 Title: H.B. 976 Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us ME Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Requires school administrative units and public charter schools, in consultation with parents, teachers and administrators, to develop a parental involvement plan that promotes student achievement. Each school board and governing board is required to annually approve a parental involvement plan for the school administrative unit and the public charter school and to submit the plan to the Commissioner of Education. Also requires the Commissioner of Education to post on the Department of Education's publicly accessible website the names of all schools and public charter schools that do not develop a parental involvement plan. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=SP0609&item=1&snum=125 Title: S.P. 609 Source: www.mainelegislature.org UT Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 From bill summary: Requires the state board of education to establish a three-year pilot online school survey system that includes surveys for students to evaluate their teachers and school administrators; parents to evaluate their children's teachers, schools and administrators, and themselves (including attendance at parent teacher conferences, involvement in the school, and involvement in their children's homework); and teachers to evaluate their schools and school administrators. Requires the state board to contract with a provider or develop a system to provide technology for the pilot online school survey system. Requires a participating district or charter school to administer online student surveys of teachers, make available to parents online access to surveys which they may complete for their children's teachers and schools, and make available to teachers online access to a survey of their school which they may complete. Directs the state board to make rules establishing procedures for administering surveys or making available online access to surveys. Requires the state board to analyze and aggregate the survey data. Provides that survey results must be made available to school districts and school administrators for the purpose of determining how to better meet the needs of students and parents, monitoring school improvement efforts, and obtaining data that may be used as part of an educator evaluation system and to inform decisions on employment and professional development. Makes a one-time appropriation of $40,000 to the state board of education. http://le.utah.gov/~2012/bills/hbillenr/hb0149.pdf Title: H.B. 149 Source: le.utah.gov UT Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Recognizes the parents and family members of students in Utah schools for their efforts to foster the education of their children by nurturing them, monitoring their progress and volunteering time in their schools. Expresses support for policies of the state office of education, and its constituent districts, unit schools and charter schools, that provide parents with opportunities to be actively involved in their children's education. Recognizes the efforts of districts, schools, teachers, and their parent associations and organizations to create an environment conducive to parental engagement and to encourage family engagement through programs and practices. http://le.utah.gov/~2012/bills/sbillenr/scr005.pdf Title: S.C.R. 5 Source: le.utah.gov NH Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 01/2012 P-12 Requires school districts to adopt a policy allowing an exception to specific course material based on a parent's or legal guardian's determination that the material is objectionable. Requires such parent to notify the school principal or designee in writing of the specific material to which they object and a provide an alternative agreed upon by the school district and the parent, at the parent's expense, sufficient to enable the child to meet state requirements for education in the particular subject area. http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2011/HB0542.html Title: H.B. 542 Source: www.gencourt.state.nh.us CA Vetoed 10/2011 P-12 From bill summary: Requires interventions to be implemented for a school that is identified as persistently lowest-achieving but does not receive specified school improvement grant funding. Requires a governing board of a local educational agency to allow parents and legal guardians to provide testimony at the regularly scheduled public hearing. Prohibits more than one parent or legal guardian per pupil from signing a petition, and requires the petition, and, if the petition includes a specific charter school operator, a summary of the charter petition, to meet specified language requirements. Requires, if the petition includes a specific charter school operator, that the charter petition include specified elements. Requires that, if paid signature gatherers are being used, the petition include a statement indicating that some signature gatherers may be paid. Requires all parties involved in the signature gathering process to adhere to specified school procedures. Requires the state department of education to provide specified information on its Web site, in easy to understand terms, regarding the petition process, the 5 intervention options that parents and legal guardians may request, a sample petition that meets specified requirements, and an up-to-date list of schools that have implemented an intervention pursuant to these provisions. Makes clarifying changes to, and provide definitions for, those intervention petition provisions. Requires the schoolsite council at each school that is eligible for a petition to be submitted pursuant to these provisions to provide, at its next scheduled meeting, or a meeting within 90 days, whichever is sooner, information regarding the petition process, including the intervention options available and the process for submitting a petition. Bill text: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0201-0250/ab_203_bill_20110920_enrolled.pdf Governor's veto message: http://gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_203_Veto_Message.pdf Title: A.B. 203 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov RI Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Adds a new chapter to create the Rhode Island Family Engagement Advisory Council to promote family engagement with education practice in Rhode Island. Sets membership and duties. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law11/law11246.htm Title: H.B. 5995 Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us OH Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Establishes a pilot project for any school operated by the Columbus school district that has been ranked in the lowest 5% of all public schools statewide for three or more consecutive years. Requires the district board to implement any of five requested reforms if at least 50% of the parents of students in a school, or 50% of parents and of parents in feeder schools, sign a petition requesting that reform. Directs the board not to implement the requested reform under any of specified circumstances. Directs the state board, within 6 months after the first such petition has been resolved, to annually evaluate the pilot program and submit a report to the general assembly with its recommendations with respect to the continuation of the pilot program, its expansion to other districts, or the enactment of further legislation establishing the program statewide under permanent law. Pages 41-43 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf Title: H.B. 153 - Parent Trigger Pilot for Columbus Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us LA Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Requires the superintendent of the Recovery School District (New Orleans) to develop a community outreach plan to engage parents and community leaders in the successful operation and academic improvement of all schools under its jurisdiction and to solicit input on any proposed changes in school governance regarding the establishment of any new school site. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760374 Title: S.B. 216 Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ NC Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Allows the parent of multiple birth siblings who are assigned to the same grade level and school to request a consultative meeting with the school principal to consider that the initial school placement of the siblings be in the same classroom or in separate classrooms. Requires the request to be be made no later than five days before the first day of each school year or five days after the first day of attendance of students during the school year if the students are enrolled in the school after the school year commences. Permits the school to recommend to the parent the appropriate classroom placement for multiple birth siblings and provide professional educational advice to assist the parent with the decision regarding appropriate classroom placement. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/HTML/S726v5.html Title: S.B. 726 Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us NC Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Provides that corporal punishment will not be administered on a student whose parent or guardian has stated in writing that corporal punishment must not be administered to that student. Provides that parents/guardians must be given a form to make such an election at the beginning of the school year or when the student first enters the school during the year. Provides that if the parent or guardian does not return the form, corporal punishment may be administered on the student. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/HTML/S498v4.html Title: S.B. 498 Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us SC Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Postsec. Extends the date by which the Education and Economic Development Act, now called Personal Pathways to Success, must be implemented fully (the primary goals of Personal Pathways to Success are to increase high school completion rates, better prepare students for work and college, increase parental involvement, and increase options for students at risk of dropping out of school). Provides that Personal Pathways to Success must be implemented fully by July 1, 2012 (was July 1, 2011). http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/bills/3748.htm Title: H.B. 3748 Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov TX Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Provides that if the commissioner is presented with a written petition signed by the parents of a majority of the students enrolled at a campus that has an "unacceptable" performance rating for three consecutive school years after the campus is reconstituted, and the petition specifies that the parents request either the repurposing of the campus, alternative management of the campus, or campus closure, the commissioner must order the specific action requested. However, if the board of trustees of the district present a written request that the commissioner order a specific action other than that requested in the parents' petition and a written explanation of the basis for the board's request, the commissioner may order the action requested by the board of trustees. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/SB00738F.pdf#navpanes=0 Title: S.B. 738 Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us HI Adopted 06/2011 P-12 Requests that the board of education and the department of education collaborate with parent organizations to develop statewide policies for family engagement for Hawaii's public schools. Requests that the board of education and the department of education report their findings and make legislative recommendations to facilitate family engagement to the legislature before the 2012 regular session. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2011/Bills/SCR145_.HTM Title: S.C.R. 145-11 Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov NV Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Creates the Office of Parental Involvement and Family Engagement within the Department of Education. Describes the duties of the office, which include adopting policies and developing a list of practices designed to increase the involvement of parents and the engagement of families in the support of the education of their children. Revises the contents of the annual reports of accountability for school districts prepared by school districts to include information on the involvement of parents and the engagement of families in the education of their children.Revises requirement that all school districts develop a plan for improving the pupil achievement to require that such plans include strategies and practices to improve and promote effective involvement and engagement of parents and families. Requires the Commission on Professional Standards in Education to prescribe coursework on parental involvement and family engagement. Revises the membership of the Statewide Council for the Coordination of the Regional Training Programs to include the Director of the Office of Parental Involvement and Family Engagement. Requires the Statewide Council to establish a statewide program for teachers and administrators concerning parental involvement and family engagement. Requires the regional training programs for the professional development of teachers and administrators to provide training on parental involvement and family engagement. http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/76th2011/Bills/AB/AB224_EN.pdf Title: A.B. 224 Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us NV Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Revises the requirements for the policy adopted by the State Board of Education to encourage parental and family involvement in supporting the education of their children This bill requires the revised policy to include: (1) promotion of an atmosphere for parents and families to visit the school that their children attend and feel welcome, valued and connected to the staff of the school, other parents and families and to the education of their children; (2) promotion of regular two-way meaningful commuication between parents, families and schools relating to learning by pupils; (3) collaboration among parents, families and schools to support learning by pupils and health development of pupls at home and school; (4) empowerment of parents and families to advocate for their children to ensure that all pupils are treated fairly and have access to learning opportunities that support pupil achievement; (5) promotion of an equal partership between parents, families and schools in making decisions that affect children, parents and families; and (6) collaboration of parents, families and schools with the community. http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/76th2011/Bills/SB/SB229_EN.pdf Title: S.B. 229 Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us TN Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Urges employers to develop programs under which their employees with children in school can take time off to volunteer in their children's schools. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/107/Bill/SB1880.pdf Title: S.B. 1880 Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/ MT Vetoed 04/2011 P-12 Allows parental control over student participation in courses of instruction, assemblies, etc. that involve human sexual education. Requires districts to inform parents/guardians when such events will be held or taught. Prohibits districts from allowing any abortion services providers to offer materials or instruction at a school. http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2011/billpdf/HB0456.pdf Title: H.B. 456 Source: http://data.opi.mt.gov AZ Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 States that parents have a right to review learning material and activities and remove their child from certain activities or classes deemed harmful by the parent. http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/1r/bills/sb1453h.pdf Title: S.B. 1453 Source: http://www.azleg.gov CO Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Encourages districts to adopt policies to increase parental involvement. Requires schools that must develop improvement plans to notify parents of the issues giving rise to the need for such a plan, and to include other relevant information about the plan and timeline.The same policy applies to charter schools required to develop improvement plans. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2011a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/64C61264FC2538048725780800800CFC?Open&file=1126_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1126 Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us/ AR Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Authorizes parents with multiple birth siblings who are assigned to the same grade level and school, prek-6 to request in writing that the school place the siblings in the same classroom or in separate classrooms. Allows districts to deny requests under certain circumstances and provides parents with an appeal process. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Bills/SB268.pdf Title: S.B. 268 Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us AR Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Authorizes a school district board of directors to create and implement a program to authorize a parent of a child enrolled in the school district to act as a monitor in a school bus. Directs the Commission for Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation to adopt rules to implement this section. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Bills/SB321.pdf Title: S.B. 321 Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us AR Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Directs the department of education to monitor each school district's parental involvement plan to: (i) Evaluate whether the school district is implementing its plan and the implementation's effectiveness; and (ii) Assess the areas in which a school district needs to revise its plan or its implementation of the plan. The department will place priority for monitoring on districts that have been identified as being in: (i) School improvement for two consecutive school years; or (ii) Academic distress. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Bills/SB740.pdf Title: S.B. 740 Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ OH Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Repeals Section 3306.31, which required each district with a three-year average graduation rate of 80% or less to have a linkage coordinator to serve as the primary mentor, coach and motivator for at-risk students and coordinate those students' participation in academic programs, social service programs, out-of-school cultural and work-related experiences, and in-school and out-of-school mentoring programs, based on student need, among other duties. Repeals Section 3313.821, which directed each district board to appoint a family and civic engagement team to develop five-year family and civic engagement plans, among other responsibilities. Repeals Section 3313.822, which provided that as an alternative to appointing both a business advisory council and a family and civic engagement team, a local board could appoint one committee to function as both. Eliminates the requirement that school districts establish family and civic engagement teams, except as required for implementation of federal ''Race to the Top" grants. Directs districts required by Race to the Top funds to employ a linkage coordinator and engage in other activities for closing the achievement gap and increasing the graduation rate to continue such activities for the life of the grant award. http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_30_EN_N.pdf Title: H.B. 30 - Family and Civic Engagement Teams, Linkage Coordinators Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us AR Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Concerns parental notification in cases of police investigation of possible child abuse. Directs principals to not provide parental notification if a request is made to interview a student during the course of an investigation of suspected child maltreatment and a parent, guardian, custodian, or person standing in loco parentis is named as an alleged offender. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Acts/Act613.pdf Title: H.B. 1578 Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us VA Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Authorizes local school boards to adopt and implement policies pursuant to which electronic records and electronic signatures may be accepted from any parent, guardian, or other person having control or charge of a child enrolled in the relevant school division. http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0261+pdf Title: H.B. 2243 Source: http://lis.virginia.gov MS Vetoed 03/2011 P-12 Allows parental choice for the placement of twins or higher order multiples in seperate classrooms. Authorizes local boards to offer surplus inventory textbooks to parents or guardians of students residing in the district.(Vetoed because it is identical to H.B. 637) http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2011/pdf/SB/2500-2599/SB2536SG.pdf Title: S.B. 2536 Source: Westlaw/StateNet MS Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Allows parental choice for the placement of twins or higher order multiples in seperate classrooms. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2011/pdf/HB/0600-0699/HB0637SG.pdf Title: H.B. 637 Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/ CA Adopted 09/2010 P-12 Adopts emergency regulations to implement Senate Bill 4, Chapter 3, 5th Extraordinary Session of 2010. This Senate Bill and these emergency regulations establish the parent empowerment process whereby parents of students who are or will be enrolled in up to 75 schools that are subject to federal corrective action plans, are not making adequate yearly progress, and have Academic Performance Index scores below 800, have the right to petition for the implementation of specified school reform interventions. The rulemaking, among other things, specifies the requirements for these petitions and the petition process. Also provide more detailed descriptions of thei ntervention models (turnaround, restart, school closure, transformation and alternative governance arrangement) than are provided in statute. Title: 5 CA ADC 4800, 4801, 4802, 4803, 4804, 4805, 4806, 4807 Source: NY Signed into law 09/2010 P-12 Permits membership in certain school related associations by grandparents in parental relation to children in the New York City public schools. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=%0D%0A&bn=S06355&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y Title: S.B. 6355 Source: assembly.state.ny.us CA Signed into law 07/2010 P-12 Amends Section 45125.01. Adds to existing provision allowing a single district or county superintendent to act on behalf of multiple districts to run a background check if a person is an applicant for employment, or is employed on a part-time or substitute basis, in a position not requiring certification qualifications in multiple school districts within a county. New provision extends this provision to include background checks on noncertificated candidates assuming a paid or volunteer position. Amends Section 49024. Specifies that a parent volunteering in a classroom or on a field trip, or a community member providing noninstructional services, is included in the definition of "nonteaching volunteer aide" (and as such, is not required to obtain an Activity Supervisor Clearance Certificate from the Commission on Teacher Credentialing). Adds that the requirement to obtain a certificate does not apply to a candidate who is required by the school district to clear a Department of Justice and FBI criminal background check prior to beginning the paid or volunteer activities. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0301-0350/ab_346_bill_20100709_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 346 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov TN Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 Requires a parent or caretaker relative receiving temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) services to participate in either a parent education training class or a program of volunteer service in a school. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/HB2644.pdf Title: H.B. 2644 Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/ TN Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Prohibits parent whose parental rights have been terminated from being eligible to receive child's report card or other information concerning child's schooling. - Amends TCA Title 49. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/SB3053.pdf Title: S.B. 3053 Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/ CT Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Establishes a Parent Trust Fund to fund programs aimed at improving the health, safety and education of children by training parents in civic leadership skills and supporting increased, sustained, quality parental engagement in community affairs. This Fund will receive federal or private money from grants and gifts. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2010/ACT/PA/2010PA-00111-R00SB-00438-PA.htm Title: S.B. 438 - Sec. 26 Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov CT Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Requires all schools to hold parent-teacher conferences at least twice a year. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2010/ACT/PA/2010PA-00111-R00SB-00438-PA.htm Title: S.B. 438 - Sec. 29 Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov TN Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Requires schools to have a plan for parent participation in the schools which is designed to improve parent and teacher cooperation in such areas as homework, attendance, discipline, and planning for higher education opportunities for students. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/SB1321.pdf Title: S.B. 1321 Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov TN Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Urges local education agencies to consider the needs of working parents in scheduling parent-teacher meetings. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/SB3276.pdf Title: S.B. 3276 Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills TN Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 In determining the classroom assignments of multiple birth siblings, the board of education is required to give preference to a request of the parent as to the placement of such children. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/SB2480.pdf Title: S.B. 2480 Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov WI Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Requires boards annually to prepare budgets for each school in the district. Requires boards to collaborate with nonprofits and government agencies to provide comprehensive social services and educational support. Requires boards to provide alternative methods of attaining a high school diploma for those pupils who are unlikely to graduate, including a prpogram allowing a pupil or former pupil to retake a course in which he/she was not initially successful. Requires boards to conduct an annual survey of parents to develop of modify parent involvement and school improvement plans. http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act215.pdf Title: S.B. 437 Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us CA Signed into law 01/2010 P-12 Creates new sections 53300 and ff. of the Education Code, establishing new "Parent Empowerment" section. Provides that for any school not identified as a persistently low-achieving school under new Section 53201 (see enacted S.B. 1E http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx5_1_bill_20100107_chaptered.pdf), that is subject to corrective action under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act and after one full year continues to fail to make adequate yearly progress (AYP), and has an Academic Performance Index score of less than 800, and in which at least half of parents of students or a combination of at least half of such and of parents of students in a feeder elementary or middle school sign a petition asking the district to implement one or more of the four interventions specified in new Section 53202 (the turnaround model, the restart model, school closure or the transformation model) or the federally mandated alternative governance arrangement identified in NCLB, requires the district to implement the option requested by the parents unless, in a regularly scheduled public meeting, the district makes a finding in writing stating why it cannot implement the specific recommended option and instead designates in writing which of the other options it will implement in the subsequent school year consistent with federal requirements. Directs the district to notify the state superintendent and state board upon receipt of a petition, and upon its final disposition of that petition. Provides that if the district indicates it will implement a different alternative governance arrangement than requested by the parents, it must notify the state superintendent and the state board that the alternative governance option selected has substantial promise of enabling the school to make AYP. Provides that no more than 75 schools may be subject to such a petition (with schools counted toward this total upon state receipt of its final disposition of the petition). Pages 6-7 of 7: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx5_4_bill_20100107_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 4E - Parent Empowerment Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Vetoed 10/2009 P-12 Authorizes parents or guardians of English learners to bring an oral language interpreter to all conferences, meetings or proceedings held at a district building or schoolsite or sponsored by the district or school, except when prohibited by state or federal law. Bill: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1501-1550/ab_1510_bill_20090825_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1501-1550/ab_1510_vt_20091011.html Title: A.B. 1510 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NY Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Substantially amends powers and duties of New York City board, authorizing the board to: (1) Approve all regulations proposed by the chancellor or city board (2) Approve the educational facilities capital plan, following any applicable hearings conducted by the community district education councils (3) Approve annual estimates of the sum the board deems necessary for district operations and the capital budget (4) Approve allocations to community districts and approve community district budgets, with a proposed budget for the city board and chancellor's administrative and operational expenditures, following a public hearing (5) Approve a city district procurement policy (6) Approve proposals for all school closures or significant changes in school utilization, including phase-outs, grade reconfigurations, re-sitings or co-locations of two schools, following any hearing (7) Adopt a policy proposed by the chancellor, promoting the recruitment and retention of staff, that considers the diversity of students attending schools in the city district. Directs the city board to review at a regular public meeting an annual report issued by the chancellor outlining the initiatives taken to enhance diversity and equity in recruitment and retention, and the impacts of such initiatives to the workforce at the city district, community district and school level (8) Approve all franchises, revokable consents and concessions awarded by the city district or community districts (9) Approve city board by-laws (10) Respond at a regular public meeting to the recommendations made in annual reports issued by the city-wide council on special education, the city-wide council on English language learners and the city-wide council on high schools (11) Conduct an annual survey to allow parents, teachers and school personnel to evaluate the performance of the city board and chancellor as regards city district resources, oversight and curriculum. Requires the results of such survey to be made publicly available, including on the city board Web site. (12) Provide information, data, estimates and statistics as requested by the director of the city's independent budget office or the city comptroller, in a timely fashion. Eliminates provision directing the board to approve contracts that would significantly impact the provision of educational services or programming in the district. Replaces with provision directing the board to approve city district or community district contracts that meet any of certain criteria. Requires all items requiring city board approval to be by a public vote at a regular board meeting. Prior to approval of any item listed in 1-6 above, requires the city board to undertake a review process to allow the public to submit comments on the proposed item. Requires notice of the proposed item to be circulated to all community superintendents, community district education councils, community boards and school based management teams at least 45 days before a city board vote. Specifies contents that said notice must contain. Also requires a revised public notice to be provided in the event a proposed item listed in 1-6 above is substantially revised, and specifies elements the revised public notice must include. Provides that following the public review process but prior to voting, the city board must make publicly available an assessment of all public comments concerning the item under consideration. Specifies elements the assessment must contain. Allows for emergency adoption of proposed items under certain circumstances. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A08903&sh=t Title: A.B. 8903 - New York City Board Powers and Duties Source: assembly.state.ny.us NY Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Amends provisions regarding community superintendents in New York City. Clarifies that a community superintendent's delegation of powers or duties is at the community superintendent's sole discretion. Adds that (1) screening committees to appoint supervisory staff and (2) the appointment of principals and supervisory principals must be consistent with the chancellor's recommendations establishing a process that promotes staff and parent involvement in the recruitment, screening, interviewing and recommendation of candidates. Also requires a community superintendent to consult with the school based management team when appointing or rejecting principal and assistant principal candidates. Provides that principal and assistant principal candidates must meet the requirements of the chancellor's regulations, including evaluation of each candidate's record of performance in comparable positions, and that such candidates are subject to the chancellor's power to reject such appointments. Clarifies that community superintendents have the power and duty to supervise principals in every building in the district. Requires community superintendents' annual evaluations of school principals to include evaluation of a principal's ability to develop an effective shared decisionmaking relationship with the school based management team. Provides the community superintendent must have access to all records he/she deems necessary in performing principal evaluations, and must consider comments in an assessment made by the school based management team. Amends language relating to a community superintendent's authority to review and approve school-based budgets proposed by the school. Permits the community superintendent to approve a school-based budget proposal only after certifying that it is sufficiently aligned with its school's comprehensive education plan. Directs the community superintendent to prescribe parameters for principals to submit written demonstrations of such alignment, and provisions allowing the school based management team to respond to such justification. Requires the community superintendent to consider a principal's written justification and any response provided by the school based management team before making such certification. Additionally directs community superintendents to: (1) Establish a process allowing school based management team members to dispute a principal's decision when team members reach a consensus that the decision is inconsistent with the goals/policies in their school's existing comprehensive educational plan. Requires the community superintendent to provide a written response to the school based management team and principal that includes the information reviewed and basis for the community superintendent's decision regarding such dispute. (2) Assist parents in accessing information, addressing concerns and responding to complaints that cannot be resolved at the school level. Directs a community superintendent to establish a central office to directly interact with parents, respond to information requests, receive input and comments, assist the community superintendent in resolving complaints in a timely manner, and work to develop a cooperative relationship with parents and the school community. (3) Hold at least two public forums each school year to report on the district's performance, including progress made toward achieving the district comprehensive educational plan goals; discuss plans for improvement; and receive parental and community comments and concerns. Requires the community superintendent to ensure that notice for the forums is provided to maximize the participation of parents, students and school staff, and is specifically circulated to school based management teams, the community district education council and relevant community boards. (4) Provide notice of any proposed school closing or significant change in school use, including phase-out, grade reconfiguration, re-siting or co-location of schools to all impacted parents, including information on where to locate a copy of the educational impact statement and the date of any hearing on such school closure or significant change in school use. Directs the New York City schools chancellor to ensure that community superintendents are assigned to tasks predominantly in their own community districts. Bars assignment of a community superintendent to any task that would impair his/her ability to exercise the powers and duties enumerated in section 2590-e, such as responding to parental concerns, appointing and evaluating principals, approving school budgets, overseeing instruction, providing access to information and assisting in resolving complaints. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A08903&sh=t Title: A.B. 8903 - Community Superintendents Source: assembly.state.ny.us NY Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Existing provision permits the use of school facilities for holding civic meetings. New provision specifies that civic meetings include meetings of parent associations and parent-teacher associations. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A08903&sh=t Title: A.B. 8903 - Parent Association/Parent-Teacher Association Meetings Source: assembly.state.ny.us OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Partially from the DOE summary of H.B. 1:Modifies the current requirement for the state board to develop a standard for reporting financial information to the public. Requires districts and educational service center boards to report revenues and expenditures by school building, including expenditures for salaries, and with expenditures for classroom teachers, other certified staff, and all other employees reported separately, as well as per-pupil expenditures per building. Provides that the state board's existing minimum standards for all public schools must require instructional materials and equipment, including library materials, to be aligned with the academic content standards. Directs the state board to adopt minimum operating standards for school districts, which districts must comply with unless they receive a waiver from the state superintendent. According to DOE summary, the operating standards override any conflicting provisions of a collective bargaining agreement. Provides the operating standards must include: (1) Standards for the effective and efficient organization, administration and supervision of districts (full text of this provision in "full text" field below) (2) Standards for the establishment of business advisory councils and family and civic engagement teams by school districts (3) Standards incorporating the classifications for the components of the adequacy amount under Chapter 3306 of the Revised Code into core academic strategy components and academic improvement components, as specified in rules adopted under section 3306.25 of the Revised Code (4) Standards for school district organizational units, as defined in sections 3306.02 and 3306.04 of the Revised Code, that require: (i) The effective and efficient organization, administration and supervision of each school district organizational unit so that it becomes a thinking and learning organization according to principles of systems design and collaborative professional learning communities research as defined by the state superintendent, including a focus on the personalized and individualized needs of each student; a shared responsibility among organizational unit administrators, faculty and staff to develop a common vision, mission and set of guiding principles; a shared responsibility among organizational unit administrators, faculty and staff to engage in a process of collective inquiry, action orientation and experimentation to ensure the academic success of all students; commitment to job-embedded professional development and professional mentoring and coaching; established periods of time for teachers to pursue planning time for the development of lesson plans, professional development, and shared learning; commitment to effective management strategies that allow administrators reasonable access to classrooms for observation and professional development experiences; commitment to teaching and learning strategies that utilize technological tools and emphasize inter-disciplinary, real-world, project-based, and technology-oriented learning experiences to meet the individual needs of every student; commitment to high expectations for every student and commitment to closing the achievement gap so that all students achieve core knowledge and skills in accordance with the statewide academic standards adopted under section 3301.079 of the Revised Code; commitment to the use of assessments to diagnose the needs of each student; effective connections and relationships with families and others that support student success; commitment to the use of positive behavior intervention supports throughout the organizational unit to ensure a safe and secure learning environment for all students (ii) A school organizational unit leadership team to coordinate positive behavior intervention supports, family and civic engagement services, learning environments, thinking and learning systems, collaborative planning, planning time, student academic interventions, student extended learning opportunities, and other activities identified by the team and approved by the district board of education. Provides that the team must include the building principal, representatives from each collective bargaining unit, the building lead teacher, parents, business representatives and others that support student success. Eliminates requirement that state board develop a state plan for technology to encourage the use of technology in educational settings. DOE summary document: http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635 Bill text (pages 979-984 of 3120): http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.07 Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 From DOE summary of H.B. 1: Requires school districts, community schools, STEM schools and chartered nonpublic schools to inform, prior to opening day each school year, each enrolled student and the student's parent of the parental notification procedures in the school's protocol for responding to threats and emergency events, which are established under existing law. Pages 1155-1157 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635 Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3313.536 Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Renumbers to 3313.82 existing provision requiring local boards and educational service center boards to appoint a business advisory council. Creates new section 3313.821 requiring local boards, and permitting boards of community schools and STEM schools, to appoint a family and civic engagement team comprised of parents, community representatives, health and human service representatives, business representatives and any other representatives identified by the board. Directs teams to: (1) Work with local county family and children first councils to recommend to the board qualifications and responsibilities to be included in school family and civic engagement coordinator job descriptions (2) Develop five-year family and civic engagement plans (3) Provide annual progress reports on the development and implementation of the plan. Directs boards to submit the plan and annual progress reports to the county family and children first council. (4) Advise and provide recommendations to the board on matters specified by the board. Creates new section 3313.822. Provides that local boards, instead of appointing a family and civic engagement team and a business advisory council, may appoint one committee to function as both. Permits local boards to determine the membership of such committees, provided the membership requirements set in 3313.821 are met. Pages 1200-1202 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3313.82, 3313.821, 3313.822 Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Directs the state board, by January 29, 2010, to develop a list of best practices for improving parental involvement that public and nonpublic schools may use to increase parental participation. Directs the department of education to make the list available on its Web site. Page 2843 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.80.40 Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us MO Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Postsec. Creates the Volunteer and Parents Incentive Program to be implemented and administered by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Under the program, the Department will provide a reimbursement to parents or volunteers who donate time at certain schools. To be eligible, individuals must donate time at a school in a district that is unaccredited or provisionally accredited or has a population of at least 50% at risk students as described in the act. Subject to appropriation, for every 100 hours donated by a volunteer or parent, the department will provide him or her with a reimbursement for the cost of three credit hours at a public institution of higher learning located in Missouri. The reimbursement cannot exceed $500 every two years. If a participating school district becomes classified as accredited, it may continue to participate in the program for an additional two years http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB291.pdf. Title: S.B. 291--Volunteer and Parents Incentive Program Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov LA Vetoed 06/2009 P-12 Provides for a tax credit against the corporate income tax and the corporation franchise tax for employers who allow parental involvement in schools during working hours. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=666542 Title: S.B. 194 Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ CO Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Creates the state advisory council for parent involvement in education in the department of education. Specifies the council membership. Directs the council to advise public education entities concerning best practices and strategies, aligned with national standards, for increasing parent involvement in public education and promoting family and school partnerships. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2009a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/AB811B08F9A2ED0987257537001D221E?open&file=090_enr.pdf Title: S.B. 90 Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us NV Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Requires employers with a certain number of employees to grant to an employee who is a parent, guardian or custodian of a child enrolled in a public school a specified number of hours of leave from their place of employment, to be taken in specified increments, per school year per child to attend school-related activities or events or to volunteer at the school in which the child is enrolled. Chapter 292 http://www.leg.state.nv.us/75th2009/Bills/AB/AB243_en.pdf Title: A.B. 243 Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us NY Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Enacts the public schools emergency alert act. Requires the New York City Schools chancellor to implement an emergency alert notification system to convey to parents timely information concerning emergency incidents or occurrences, as defined by such chancellor, that pose an imminent threat to the health or safety of students, faculty and staff; provides that the system may include automated delivery of text messages, phone calls and e-mail. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A01245&sh=t Title: A.B. 1245 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CO Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Allows an employee of a qualified employer to take unpaid leave to attend parent-teacher conferences; limits the unpaid leave; permits the employer to require specified increments of leave; requires written verification from the school; relates to children in private schools or a nonpublic home-based educational program; does not include independent contractors, domestic servants employed in and about private homes, seasonal workers, or farm and ranch labor. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2009a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/72A677413BD8FA8F87257537001A374C?open&file=1057_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1057 Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us MN Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Allows a child's parent or guardian to designate a "significant individual" to participate in a school conference involving that child. Requires the parent or guardian to give prior written consent to allow the individual to participate in the conference and have access to data on the child that is needed for and relevant to the conference. Allows the parent or guardian to withdraw consent in writing at any time. Allows a school to accept a suggested form included in this paragraph or another form for purposes of providing consent under this section. https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0002.5.html&session=ls86 Title: H.F. 2 Source: https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us TN Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Requires the Department of Education (DOE) to develop standards for parental involvement in K-12 public schools and include a report on local education agency (LEA) compliance at the district and school levels in the DOE Tennessee Education Report Card beginning in the 2010-11 school year and subsequent years. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/SB0293.pdf Title: S.B. 293 Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov ID Vetoed 04/2009 P-12 Enacts the Parents as Teachers Family Support Act; awards grants to local agencies to provide home visits for eligible families, parent group meetings, developmental and health screenings and referrals to community resources with the goal of enhanced school readiness, increased parent involvement in education and understanding of child development, child abuse and maltreatment prevention, early identification of health and developmental delays, and improved child health outcomes such as immunization rates. http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/H0245.htm Title: H.B. 245 Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov AR Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Improves student achievement and closes achievement gaps among student subgroups by providing public access to comprehensive school improvement plans; improves parental involvement and communication with parents; increases transparency and accountability of public schools and public school districts to the public; makes public school and public school district data more accessible to researchers and policymakers. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Acts/Act1373.pdf Title: S.B. 943 Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us AR Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Requires each school's parental involvement plan to provide instruction to parents on how to incorporate developmentally appropriate learning activities in the home environment, including: (a) Role play and demonstration by trained volunteers; (b) The use of and access to department of education web tools for parents; (c) Assistance with nutritional meal planning and preparation; and (d) Other strategies or curricula developed or acquired by the district for at-home parental instruction approved by the department of education. Requires districts to provide training at least annually for volunteers who assist in an instructional program for parents. Requires administrator education programs to include instruction on the importance of parental involvement, successful strategies for encouraging parents to be partners in their child's education, and the relationship between cultural diversity and parental involvement. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Acts/Act397.pdf Title: H.B. 1272 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us VA Signed into law 02/2009 P-12 Requires school divisions to include a detailed statement in the summary already required by law to be issued to parents and guardians to assist them in understanding the family life education program implemented in the school division, if the curriculum of the program offers only abstinence education. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1980ER Title: H.B. 1980 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us MA Signed into law 12/2008 P-12 Provides the procedures by which a parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian of a minor, by a caregiver authorization affidavit, may authorize a designated caregiver to exercise certain concurrent parental rights and responsibilities related to the designated minor's education and health care. http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/185/ht04pdf/ht04718.pdf Title: H.B. 4718 Source: http://www.mass.gov/ UT Adopted 11/2008 P-12 Provides a formula to allocate funds appropriated by the 2008 Legislature for school districts and charter schools to provide English Language Learner Family Literacy Centers. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/code/r277/r277-715.htm Title: R277-715 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MA Signed into law 10/2008 P-12 Provides access to pupil information for parents and evaluators; provides that a school committee shall, upon request by parents, provide timely access to parents, independent evaluators and educational consultants for observation of a child's current and proposed program, including academic and non- academic aspects of any such program; relates to evaluation of a child's performance in a program. http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/185/ht00pdf/ht00391.pdf Title: H.B. 391 Source: http://www.mass.gov NY Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Provides that members of committees on special education may provide parents of a child with a disability with a list of programs and services available outside the school setting. Provides that the list must clearly state that such services are in addition to services provided by a school district and will not be paid for by the district. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S07981&sh=t Title: S.B. 7981 Source: assembly.state.ny.us MA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Relates to classroom placement of twins; provides that the parents of twins or higher order multiples may request that the children be placed in the same classroom or in separate classrooms when the children are in the same grade level at the same school; provides that the school may recommend placement and provide professional education advice; requires the placement request to be made by a specified time; provides that higher order of multiples shall mean triplets, quadruplets, quintuplets or more. http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/185/ht00pdf/ht00469.pdf Title: H.B. 469 Source: NY Vetoed 07/2008 P-12 Requires school districts to provide information to parents of blind and deaf students regarding programs and institutions administered by the state. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A09511&sh=t Title: A.B. 9511 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Requires public schools to provide parents or guardians with information regarding making complaints or requesting information; provides for the responsibilities of schools and school governing authorities to provide such information; relates to parental notification, procedures for making complaints and procedures for requesting information; requires contact information in student handbooks. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=505397 Title: S.B. 440 Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Revises provisions related to habitual truancy and habitual tardiness. Requires a student's parent to enforce the student's attendance at the school to which the student is assigned. Requires a school principal or designee to provide a parent with written notification upon the student's third unexcused absence or unexcused occurrence of being tardy, and to hold a conference with such student's parent. Requires the student's parent to sign a receipt for such notification. Establishes fines and penalties for parents of habitually truant or habitually tardy students in grades K-8. Defines "tardy" for purposes of this section as including leaving or checking out of school unexcused prior to the regularly scheduled dismissal time at the end of the school day but not including reporting late to class when transferring from one class to another during the school day. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=502040 Title: H.B. 1133 Source: www.legis.state.la.us NJ Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Permits parent of twins or higher order multiples enrolled in public school to select shared or separate classroom placement of their children. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2008/Bills/A2000/1671_I1.PDF Title: A.B. 1671 Source: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ TN Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Specifies that identifying opportunities for parents to participate in and support classroom instruction in the school includes the following: organizing fundraising activities; volunteering as a field trip chaperone; assisting in the library, computer lab, or on the playground; offering after school clubs; and recycling clothes. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC1097.pdf Title: S.B. 2162 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Provides that no student who has been expelled from any school for possessing weapons or drugs shall be admitted or readmitted to any public school until the student provides written documentation that he and his parent or legal guardian have participated in rehabilitation or counseling programs. (Existing policy only required the student to produce written documentation of participation in a counseling or rehabilitation program prior to re-enrollment in a public school.) http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=497668 Title: H.B. 361 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OK Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Allows a parent or guardian of multiple-birth siblings to request that the children attend the same school and be placed in the same classroom or in separate classrooms if the children are in the same grade level at the same school and meet the eligibility requirements of the class; allows the school to recommend classroom placement to the parents and provide professional education advice to the parents to assist them in making the best decision for their children's education. http://www.sos.state.ok.us/documents/Legislation/51st/2008/2R/SB/2037.pdf Title: S.B. 2037 Source: http://www.sos.state.ok.us TN Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Provides that if a student is a victim of child abuse or sexual abuse that occurred on school grounds or under the schools care, then the principal must verbally notify the parents and provide all school information and records relevant to the alleged abuse. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC1011.pdf Title: H.B. 3162 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us MN Vetoed 05/2008 P-12 Authorized a parent or guardian of a student to designate an individual to participate in a school conference involving the child of the parent or guardian. Authorized the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota Office of Higher Education may each share educational data with the other agency for the purpose of analyzing and improving school district instruction. Revised provisions relating to physical education requirements. Pertains to alignment of certain assessments and state standards. https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=S3001.5.html&session=ls85 Title: S.B. 3001 Source: https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/ KY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Provides that family resource and youth services centers must provide services to enhance a student's ability to succeed in school. Provides that the most economically disadvantaged students and families must receive priority status for receiving services. Provides that family resource centers must be located in or near every elementary school in the state in which at least 20% of the student body are eligible for free/reduced lunch. Provides family resource centers must promote identification and coordination of existing resources, and must include the following core components for each site: (a) Full-time preschool child care for 2- and 3-year-old children (b) After-school child care for children ages 4-12, with full-time child care during the summer and on other days when school is not in session (c) Families in training, which shall consist of an integrated approach to home visits, group meetings, and monitoring child development for new and expectant parents (d) Family literacy services or a similar program designed to provide opportunities for parents and children to learn together and promote lifelong learning (e) Health services or referrals to health services, or both. Provides that youth services centers must be located in or near each school in the state, except elementary schools, in which at least 20% of the student body are eligible for free/reduced lunch. Provides youth services centers must promote identification and coordination of existing resources, and must include the following core components for each site: (a) Referrals to health and social services (b) Career exploration and development (c) Summer and part-time job development for high school students (d) Substance abuse education and counseling (e) Family crisis and mental health counseling. Establishes a grant program for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to award grants to eligible school districts to establish or maintain family resource or youth services centers. Provides that a family resource or youth services center that receives funding for one year or more is not ineligible for funding based solely on the percent of the student body eligible for free/reduced lunch unless the percent of the student body eligible for free/reduced lunch is below 20% for 5 consecutive years. Specifies that a school district may not operate a family resource center or a youth services center that provides abortion counseling or makes referrals to a health care facility for the purpose of seeking an abortion. Directs the division of family resource and youth services centers to promulgate administrative regulations to implement requirements for applications for continuation funding of a family resource or youth services center and establish a continuing education program for coordinators and staff. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/SB192/bill.doc Title: S.B. 192 Source: www.lrc.ky.gov UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Establishes UPSTART, a pilot project that uses a home-based educational technology program to develop the school readiness skills of children age 4-5 who have not entered kindergarten. Provides that UPSTART is created to evaluate the effectiveness of giving preschool children access, at home, to online interactive individualized instruction to prepare them academically for success in school, and to test the feasibility of scaling an online home-based curriculum in reading, math and science to all preschool children in Utah. Requires the state board of education to use an RFP process to select an education technology provider to deliver the home-based technology program. Provides standards that the home-based educational technology program must meet. Among these: The contractor must: --Provide technical support to families for the installation and operation of the instructional software --Provide for the installation of computer and Internet access in the homes of low-income families that cannot afford the equipment and service --Work in cooperation with school district personnel who will provide administrative and technical support for the program --Solicit families to participate in the program --In implementing the home-based educational technology program, seek the advice and expertise of early childhood education professionals in the Utah System of Higher Education on issues such as: (i) soliciting families to participate in the program (ii) providing training to families (iii) motivating families to regularly use the instructional software. In addition, the contractor must have the capability to perform specified tasks through the Internet. These include: --Communicating with parents --Storing research data --Producing reports for parents, schools and the legislature --The capability to quickly and efficiently modify, improve and support the product. Provides the program must include: --Computer-assisted, individualized instruction in reading, mathematics, and science --A multisensory reading tutoring program --A validated computer adaptive reading test that does not require the presence of trained adults to administer and is an accurate indicator of reading readiness of children who cannot read. Provides that the contract must provide funding for a home-based educational technology program for preschool children for one year with an option to extend the contract for additional years or to expand the program to a greater number of preschool children, subject to legislative appropriation. Provides a school district may participate in UPSTART if the local school board agrees to work in cooperation with the contractor to provide administrative and technical support for the pilot project. Provides a school district that participates in UPSTART will receive funding for paraprofessional and technical support staff, and must agree to adopt standardized policies and procedures in implementing the pilot project. Requires the contractor to solicit families to participate in UPSTART through a public information campaign and referrals from participating school districts. Provides that at least 30% of participating children must be from low-income families, and that participating children must be from families with diverse ethnic backgrounds and reside in both urban and rural areas in different regions of the state. Requires the contractor to make the home-based educational technology program available to families at an agreed-upon cost if the number of families who would like to participate in UPSTART exceeds the number of participants funded by the legislative appropriation. Directs the state auditor to either conduct an annual audit of the contractor's use of funds for UPSTART or contract with an independent certified public accountant to conduct an annual audit. Directs the state board of education to: --Require by contract that the contractor will open its books and records relating to its expenditure of funds pursuant to the contract to the state auditor or the state auditor's designee --Reimburse the state auditor for the actual and necessary costs of the audit --Contract with an independent, qualified evaluator, selected through an RFP process, to evaluate the home-based educational technology program for preschool children. Also directs the state board to make an annual report on UPSTART to the Education Interim Committee. Provides that the report must address the extent to which UPSTART is accomplishing the purposes for which it was established as set forth in statute, and must include: --The number of families: (i) volunteering to participate in the program (ii) selected to participate in the program (iii) requesting computers (iv) furnished computers --The frequency of use of the instructional software --Obstacles encountered with software usage, hardware or providing technical assistance to families --Student performance on pre-kindergarten and post-kindergarten assessments conducted by school districts and charter schools for participating and non-participating students --As available, the evaluation of the program conducted pursuant to statute. Section 26 of S.B. 2 establishes a repeal date of July 1, 2014. Pages 10-15: http://le.utah.gov/~2008/bills/sbillenr/sb0002.pdf Title: S.B. 2 - Sections 3-9 Source: le.utah.gov UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Establishes the English Language Learner Family Literacy Centers to: (1) Increase parent involvement (2) Communicate with parents who are not proficient in English concerning required and optional activities at the school, in the parents' preferred language to the extent practicable (3) Increase academic achievement, literacy skills and language gains in all ethnic groups of students and their families (4) Coordinate with school administrators, educators, families and students (5) Support and coordinate with other language acquisition instructional services and language proficiency programs in the public schools. Directs the state board of education, after consultation with school districts and charter schools, to adopt a formula that allocates the money appropriated by the legislature for the English Language Learner Family Literacy Centers Program to school districts and charter schools in a fair and equitable manner. Provides that money appropriated for the English Language Learner Family Literacy Centers Program must be used by school districts and charter schools to pay for costs of English Language Learner Family Literacy Centers. Directs the state board of education to make a report to the Education Interim Committee on the effectiveness of the English Language Learner Family Literacy Centers Program before November 30, 2011. Pages 36-37 of 43: http://le.utah.gov/~2008/bills/sbillenr/sb0002.pdf Title: S.B. 2 - Section 24 Source: le.utah.gov VA Signed into law 03/2008 Postsec. Requires the Board of Visitors or other governing body of every public institution of higher education in Virginia to establish policies and procedures requiring the release of the educational record of a dependent student, as defined by 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, to a parent at his request (Chapter 495). http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB1058ER2 Title: H.B. 1058 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us UT Adopted 03/2008 P-12 Provides that all charter schools (and schools if district does not have districtwide plan) must develop a school-wide written model for prevention and intervention for student behavior management and discipline procedures for students who habitually disrupt school environments and processes (the "plan"). Requires plan to include: (1) written standards for student behavior expectations, including school and classroom management (2) effective instructional practices for teaching student expectations, including self-discipline, citizenship, civic skills and social skills (3) systematic methods for reinforcement of expected behaviors and uniform methods for correction of student behavior (4) uniform methods for at least annual school level data-based evaluations of efficiency and effectiveness. (5) an ongoing staff development program related to of student behavior expectations, effective instructional practices for teaching and reinforcing behavior expectations, effective intervention strategies, and effective strategies for evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of interventions. Adds parents to role groups for whom training in anti-bullying awareness and intervention strategies must be offered. Requires student assessments of the prevalence of bullying in schools to be conducted not just at the district level but also at the school and charter school level. Extends school staff who must receive anti-bullying awareness and intervention skills to include custodians, kitchen and lunchroom workers, and secretaries. Requires each plan to also provide direction to school districts for dealing with disruptive students. This part of the plan must: (1) direct schools to determine the range of behaviors and establish the continuum of administrative procedures that may be used by school personnel to address the behavior of habitually disruptive students (2) provide for identification, by position(s), of individual(s) designated to issue notices of disruptive student behavior (3) provide for documentation of disruptive student behavior prior to referral of disruptive students to juvenile court.   Directs districts, schools and charter schools to implement strategies and policies consistent with their plans, and to develop, use and monitor a continuum of intervention strategies--including teaching student behavior expectations, reinforcing student behavior expectations, re-teaching behavior expectations, followed by effective, evidence-based interventions matched to student needs prior to administrative referral--to assist students whose behavior repeatedly falls short of expectations. Provides that, as part of any suspension or expulsion process that results in court involvement, once a school district, school or charter school receives information from the courts that disruptive student behavior will result in court action, the school district, school or charter school must provide a formal written assessment of habitually disruptive students. Requires that assessment information be used to connect parents and students with supportive school and community resources. Requires districts, schools and charter schools to provide procedures for qualifying minors and their parents to participate in decisions regarding consequences for disruptive student behavior. Requires policies to provide for notice to parents and information about resources available to assist parents in resolving school-age minors' disruptive behavior. Requires policies to provide for notices of disruptive behavior to be issued by schools to qualifying minor(s) and parent(s) consistent with: (1) numbers of disruptions and timelines set in statute (2) school resources available (3) cooperation from the appropriate juvenile court in accessing student school records, including attendance, grades, behavioral reports and other available student school data. Requires policies to provide due process procedures for minors and parents to contest allegations and citations of disruptive student behavior. Directs the state office of education to develop, review regularly and provide to local school boards and charter school governing boards model policies to address disruptive student behavior and appropriate consequences. Title: R277-609 Source: www.rules.utah.gov UT Adopted 10/2007 P-12 Requires all charter schools to have a committee consisting of a majority of parents designated to make decisions regarding School LAND Trust Program funds. Requires all charter schools to have a current school plan for enhancing or improving academic excellence, approved by the State Charter School Board for state chartered schools. Title: R277-477-3 Source: www.lexis.com NC Signed into law 07/2007 P-12 Ensures that parents receive actual notice of a student's expulsion or suspension from school. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/PDF/H1739v0.pdf Title: H.B. 1739 Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us NC Signed into law 07/2007 P-12 The purpose of the ROPE Scholars Pilot Program is to strengthen middle grades education in order to provide students with the opportunity to graduate from high school with the core academic skills needed for postsecondary education and high-skilled employment, and thereby to reduce the high school dropout rate, increase high school and college graduation rates and decrease the need for remediation in institutions of higher education. It is the intent of the ROPE Scholars Program to: -Reduce class size to one teacher to every 17 students -Provide annual salary increments of up to $5,000 per year to teachers certified in the fields of mathematics, science, or special education -Provide a coordinator position at each participating school to assist in community and parental support -Encourage students participating in the program, through agreements executed between the local school administrative unit and students and their parents or guardians, to: (1) Maintain a 95% attendance rate each year; (2) Achieve a minimum of a "B" average; (3) Take the PSAT and the SAT or the ACT and achieve an adequate score, as determined by the state board; (4) Meet the standards for admission established by the board of governors of the University of North Carolina (5) Engage in community service work each month during the school year for the number of hours determined by the state board; and (6) Evidence good character by not engaging in unlawful conduct. -Provide students who successfully participate in the program with college scholarships. Directs the state board to develop a competitive process through which units may apply to participate in the pilot program. The number of participating units will be limited to three units in the 2008-09 fiscal year. The units will be selected from different geographical areas of the state and shall include at least one urban and one rural unit. The state board will develop a process to evaluate the effectiveness of the program, and is required to prepare a report for the legislative oversight committee that includes the cost of implementing the pilot program and indicates state laws, rules and policies that would preclude the implementation of the pilot. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/HTML/S1030v0.html Title: S.B. 1030 Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/ DE Signed into law 07/2007 P-12 Revises the designated nominating organization for the parent members of the Professional Standards Board from the Congress of Parents and Teachers to the Secretary of Education. Requires the secretary to solicit nominations from groups such as the Congress of Parents and Teachers, the Parent Leadership Institute, and formal advisory councils. http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/lis144.nsf/vwLegislation/SB+123/$file/legis.html?open Title: S.B. 123 Source: http://www.legis.state.de.us TN Signed into law 07/2007 P-12 Includes school art supplies with a sales price of $100 or less per item as items exempt from sales tax during the annual sales tax holiday. The "sales tax holiday" exempts from tax imposed the following items of tangible personal property, if sold between 12:01 a.m. on the first Friday of August and 11:59 p.m. the following Sunday: (1) Clothing with a sales price of one hundred dollars ($100) or less per item; (2) School supplies with a sales price of one hundred dollars ($100) or less per item; (3) School art supplies with a sales price of one hundred dollars ($100) or less per item; and (4) Computers with a sales price of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) or less per item. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0534.pdf Title: S.B. 616 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us OR Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Defines "Person in parental relationship" as an adult who has physical custody of a child or resides in the same household as the child, interacts with the child daily, provides the child with food, clothing, shelter and incidental necessaries and provides the child with necessary care, education and discipline. "Person in parental relationship" does not mean a person with a power of attorney or other written delegation of parental responsibilities if the person does not have other evidence of a parental relationship. Also, this bill authorizes a district to admit an otherwise eligible person who is not receiving special education and who has not yet attained 21 years of age prior to the beginning of the current school year if the person is shown to be in need of additional education in order to receive a diploma. http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/sb0200.dir/sb0215.en.pdf Title: S.B. 215 Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us SC Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 06/2007 P-12 Adds a new section (59-18-1600) to provide that a school that has received an unsatisfactory absolute academic performance rating on its most recent report card to offer an orientation class for parents to focus on certain issues (the value of education, discipline, for example), to provide for written notification to parents about the date and time of the class, and to provide that a parent or guardian of each student registered to attend the school attend the orientation class. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3254.htm Title: H.B. 3254 Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net NV Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Establishes an Advisory Council on Parental Involvement and prescribes the membership and duties of the council. State accountability law requires that support teams must be established for each public school that is designated as demonstrating need for improvement for 3 consecutive years or more. Requires each support team to review certain information pertaining to the school and revise the school's plan to improve accordingly. Authorizes a teacher in an elementary school to provide to each parent and legal guardian of a pupil enrolled in the school a report containing certain information about the pupil and the involvement of the parent or legal guardian in the education of his child. Requires principals of schools designated as demonstrating need for improvement for 3 consecutive years or more to provide aggregate information concerning the educational involvement accords to the support team established for the school. Requires provision of the code of honor relating to cheating to the pupil as well as his parent or legal guardian for their signature on that document. http://www.leg.state.nv.us/74th/Bills/SB/SB143_EN.pdf Title: S.B. 143 Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us GA Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Requires twins or other multiples to be placed in the same classroom if the parent requests. Also allows districts to establish maximum class sizes in grades 9-12 for mathematics, science, social studies, and language arts. Provides such maximum class sizes may not exceed the funding class size by more than 39%. Directs local boards to report annually to the state board and to each school council in its school system such class sizes established. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/pdf/sb123.pdf Title: S.B. 123 Source: www.legis.state.ga.us GA Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Enacts the Charter Systems Act. Amends definitions of "charter," "charter petitioner," "local revenue," and "petition," and adding definitions of "charter system," "governing council," "school-level governance," and "system charter school." Provides procedures for the establishment of charter systems. Provides that, with exceptions, all schools within a charter system are system charter schools. Directs the state board of education to establish rules to allow a local school district to submit a petition to establish a charter system. Provides that such rules must include specific components toward the goal of maximizing school level governance and the involvement of parents, teachers, and community members in such governance. Directs the state board, subject to legislative appropriation, to disburse planning grants to local school systems that wish to become charter systems, and to disburse $125,000 implementation grants to each charter system. Authorizes the state board to approve up to 5 petitions for charter systems during the 2008 fiscal year, and in following years to approve up to a maximum number of petitions as may be established in board rules and as subject to availability of funding for implementation grants. Directs the state board to establish a charter advisory committee to review charter petitions for compliance with established standards, and to make recommendations to the state board on charter policy and petitions. Amends code section 20-2-2064 relating to the approval or denial of a charter petition. Amends code section 20-2-2064.1 relating to the review of a charter by the state board, by directing the state board to give all due consideration to input from the charter advisory committee. Amends code section 20-2-2065, relating to operating requirements, control, and management. Amends code section 20-2-2067.1 relating to the amendment of the terms of charter for a charter school, the initial term of a charter, and an annual report. Revises code section 20-2-2068, relating to charter amendments and terminations. Amends code section 20-2-2068.1 (effective July 1, 2008), relating to the application of the Quality Basic Education Formula, grants, local tax revenue, and funds from local bonds. Adds new language directing that, for system charter schools, federal, state, and local revenue be distributed to each such school by the charter system with an objective of maximizing spending at the school level. Amends code section 20-2-2069, relating to the office of charter school compliance, to add references to charter systems and the charter advisory committee. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/pdf/sb39.pdf Title: S.B. 39 Source: www.legis.state.ga.us NV Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Requires the parent of a child who is the victim of a sexual offense to give written consent before the name of the child may provided to a school. http://www.leg.state.nv.us/74th/Bills/SB/SB57_EN.pdf Title: S.B. 57 Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/ MN Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Encourages local school board to formally adopt and implement parental and family involvement policy. Specifies requirements and components of such policies http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H2245.2.html&session=ls85 (Section 29) Title: H.F. 2245 [Parental Involvement] Source: http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us NY Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Provides that by July 1, 2008, a student progress report must be prepared for all students. States that the progress report must provide parents with information on their child's performance on state assessments over multiple years of testing, and must also explain the process by which parents may inquire further about their child's progress. Requires all districts and charter schools to prepare and disseminate the student progress report to parents in a timely manner. Directs the commissioner to develop methods to support educators in the use of performance data to assist in student learning, which must be periodically improved based on feedback from educators. Also directs the commissioner to develop informational materials to help parents and teachers understand the regents learning standards and the results of state assessments. Directs the commissioner to develop a school leadership report card and a separate school progress report card to assist boards of education, the state and the public in assessing the performance of school leaders, including superintendents and principals, and the schools they lead. Provides the report cards must include an assessment of the school's progress in achieving standards of excellence, including parent involvement, curriculum, teacher quality, and accountability measures. Directs the commissioner to promulgate regulations requiring trustees or boards of education to attach copies of such report cards to the statement of estimated expenditures, and to otherwise make the report cards publicly available in the same manner as a district report card. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S02107&sh=t Title: S.B. 2107 - Part A, Section 2 Source: assembly.state.ny.us NY Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Provides that an application for a charter school cannot be approved unless the charter entity finds that in a school district where the total enrollment of resident students attending charter schools in the base year is greater than 5% of the total public school enrollment of the district in the base year, (1) granting the application would have a significant educational benefit to the students expected to attend the proposed charter school, or (2) the school district in which the charter school will be located consents to such application. Adds a provision that when a revision of a charter involves the relocation of a charter school to a different school district, the proposed new school district must be given at least 45 days notice of the proposed relocation. Requires the applicant to additionally provide an analysis of the community support for such relocation and of the projected programmatic and fiscal impact of the charter school on the proposed new school district of location and other public and nonpublic schools in the area. Increases the number of charters that may be issued from 100 to 200. Increases the number of charters that may be approved by the board of trustees of the state university of New York from 50 to 100. Provides that of the 100 charters that may be approved by other authorizers, up to fifty must be reserved for the New York City district. Provides that before a charter school may be located in part of an existing public school building, the charter entity must provide notice to the parents of students then enrolled in the existing school building, and must hold a public hearing to discuss the location of the charter school. Adds provision that charter schools must demonstrate good faith efforts to attract and retain a comparable or greater enrollment of students with disabilities and limited English proficient students when compared to the enrollment figures for such students in the school district in which the charter school is located. Extends from two to three years the leave of absence a teacher employed by a school district may take to teach at a charter school. Requires each charter entity to notify the school district in which the charter is located and to public and nonpublic schools in the same geographic area as the proposed charter school within 30 days of its receipt of an application for formation of a new charter school or for renewal of an existing charter school, and at least 45 days prior to initial approval of the charter application by the charter entity. Requires the school district in which a charter school is to be located to hold a public hearing to solicit comments from the community prior to the issuance, revision, or renewal of a charter. Requires such hearing to be held in the community potentially impacted by the proposed charter school. When a revision involves the relocation of a charter school to a different school district, requires the proposed new school district to also hold such hearing. Also requires such school districts to be given an opportunity to comment on the proposed charter to the charter entity, and requires such charter entity to consider any comments raised and submit any such comments to the board of regents with the application for issuance, revision or renewal of a charter. Provides that in the event the school district fails to conduct a public hearing, the board of regents must conduct a public hearing to solicit comments from the community regarding the issuance, revision or renewal of a charter. Requires that the measures included in the charter school's annual charter school report card (which include, at a minimum, graduation rates, dropout rates, performance of students on standardized tests, college entry rates, total spending per pupil and administrative spending per pupil) be presented in a format that is easily comparable to similar public schools. Also requires the charter school to ensure that such information is easily accessible to the community. Requires that the board of regents' annual report on charter schools to the governor and heads of the senate and assembly include a list of all actions taken by a charter entity on charter application and the rationale for the renewal or revocation of any charters. Requires that the format for this annual report be developed in consultation with representatives of school districts and charter school officials. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S02107&sh=t Title: S.B. 2107 -- Part D-2 Source: assembly.state.ny.us ID Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Amends existing law to declare English to be the official state language. Provides that English is the sole language of government, subject to exceptions. Provides that specified actions must be in English, subject to exceptions. Requires all state funds appropriated or designated for the printing or translation of materials or the provision of services or information in a language other than English to be returned to the state general fund. Directs the state board of education to adopt rules governing the use of foreign languages in the public schools that promote the following principles: (a) Non-English speaking children and adults should become able to read, write and understand English as quickly as possible; (b) Foreign language instruction should be encouraged; (c) Formal and informal programs in English as a second language should be initiated, continued and expanded; and (d) Public schools should establish communication with non-English speaking parents within their systems, using a means designed to maximize understanding when necessary, while encouraging those parents who do not speak English to become more proficient in English. Session Law Chapter 254 http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1172.html Title: S.B. 1172 Source: www3.state.id.us UT Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Requires specific parental notification and consent before public education students who are minors may participate in the clinical experience segment of health care occupation programs at a high school or other institution to which the student has been referred. http://le.utah.gov/~2007/bills/hbillenr/hb0371.htm (see section 1, part 5) Title: H.B. 371 Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us/ WY Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Requires the state to provide staff development grants to child caring facilities to assist the owners or staff of those facilities to obtain continuing education training in early childhood development or related topics; also requires the state to provide technical assistance to child caring facilities on best practices for quality operational improvements and business management services of child caring facilities; requires the state to develop and distribute materials to inform parents about choices available in childcare programs and how to choose an appropriate child caring facility; finally, requires the state to contract for delivery of voluntary family strengthening educational programs to promote family involvement in children's development. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2007/Enroll/HB0095.pdf Title: H.B. 95 Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2007/bills.htm OH Signed into law 12/2006 P-12 Directs the department to make its individual academic career plan available through its Ohio career information system web site for districts and schools to use as a tool for communicating with and providing guidance to students and families in selecting high school courses. http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_0311 Title: S.B. 311-- Sec. 3313.603(H) Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us OH Signed into law 12/2006 P-12 Requires local boards to adopt procedures for notifying each high school student's parent of the requirements of the Ohio core curriculum (high school graduation requirements effective with the Class of 2011) and that a consequence of not completing the curriculum is ineligibility to enroll in most state universities in Ohio without further coursework. http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_311 Title: S.B. 311 Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us IL Issued 09/2006 P-12 Creates the Parent Leadership Council to serve as an advisory body to the state board of education and office of the governor. Provides that the duties of the council are: (a) To identify best practices in parent involvement at schools within Illinois, as well as other states, and to develop recommendations addressing how those practices can be adopted and implemented in Illinois schools. (b) To provide assistance and advice to the Illinois State Board of Education on parent involvement in Illinois schools and its impact on student achievement, communication and partnerships with community and other groups, and school family involvement policies. (c) To make recommendations to the Illinois State Board of Education on State resources and materials that could promote and improve parental participation in Illinois schools. (d) To submit an annual report to the Illinois State Board of Education and office of the governor detailing their findings and recommending action items for implementation. http://www.illinois.gov/Gov/pdfdocs/execorder2006-10.pdf Title: E.O. 2006-10 Source: www.illinois.gov IL Adopted 09/2006 P-12 Establishes rules regarding the Parental Participation Pilot Project. Pages 259-264 of 405: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/register/register_volume30_issue41.pdf Title: 23 IAC 560.10, .20, .30, .40, .50 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2006 P-12 Relates to students whose primary language is not English. Requires the Department of Education to monitor adherence to requirements relating to parental notification in their primary language as part of its regular monitoring and review of public schools and districts to make certain related determinations, and to notify school districts of certain related information. Requires the notification be made using electronic methods. Title: A.B. 680 Source: California Legislature NY Signed into law 07/2006 P-12 Directs the commissioner to develop guidelines by which school districts may establish a program to make available to parents or guardians of students, an Internet-based electronic communications system to provide for the transmission of individual personalized messages or group communication over the Internet, to communicate with the teachers of such children. Title: A.B. 347 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet HI Signed into law 07/2006 P-12 Requires each state agency and all covered entities to take reasonable steps to ensure limited English proficient persons have meaningful access to services, programs, and activities. Requires steps to include competent, timely oral language services and written translations of vital documents. Establishes an office of language access and the language access advisory council in the department of labor and industrial relations. Requires each state agency and covered entity to establish a plan for language access. Provides an appropriation. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/hb2778_cd1_.htm Title: H.B. 2778 Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov NJ Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Requires the Department of Education to include in its parental rights in special education booklet, information describing services available through, and contact information for, state agencies serving adults with disabilities and to require all school districts with grades 9 through 12 to designate at least one staff member to serve as a disability services resource for parents. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/S1500/1220_I1.PDF Title: S.B. 1220 Source: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us GA Adopted 06/2006 P-12 Clarifies rules regarding the Comprehensive Academic Performance System (CAPS) Demonstration Site Grant. The intent of the funding is to provide seed resources to stimulate the adoption of a school-based comprehensive academic performance system that consolidates the use of curriculum standards alignment and pacing, benchmark assessment, differentiated instruction, parent involvement, and public accountability. Use of a web-based accountability system is required. Each participant school, with the support of its affiliated district, must: (a) Develop and implement an achievement-oriented, comprehensive instructional model that champions standards-based instruction, benchmark assessment, data driven decision-making, differentiated instruction, parent involvement, and public accountability; (b) Make the time and funding commitments required for the training of leaders, teachers, coaches, parents, community, etc.; (c) Set annual and benchmark measurable goals for improving learning, teaching and assessment; (d) Align instruction to state standards for the content that all students should know by grade span and subject; (e) Conduct formative and summative assessment of student academic achievement at regular intervals; (f) Utilize results of benchmark student assessments that have clear performance criteria to differentiate instruction; (g) Publicize student performance statistics at each interval, including statistics by subject, by teacher and by class; (h) Provide parents with specific information regarding the performance of their students; (i) Agree to participate in ongoing coordination with the GaDOE and school/system project teams. http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/docs/160/1/4/200/72.pdf Title: GAC 160-1-4-.272 Source: rules.sos.state.ga.us CT Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Concerns parental involvement reporting in school profiles; raises the importance of parental involvement among administrators and enable parents to see a wider spectrum of involvement choices; relates to methods to engage parents. Public Act No. 167 http://www.cga.ct.gov/2006/ACT/Pa/pdf/2006PA-00167-R00HB-05513-PA.pdf Title: H.B. 5513 Source: Connecticut Legislature IA Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 If the diagnostic assessments administered to K-3 students indicate that a child is reading below grade level, requires the district to submit a report of the assessment results to the parent, which the parent must sign and return to the district. Provides that if the parent does not sign or return the report, the district must note in the student's record the inaction on the part of the parent. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272 Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 5 Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us FL Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Defines secondary schools as those serving grades 6-12. Specifies that the following guiding principles must be used in the annual preparation of each secondary school's improvement plan: (a) Struggling students, especially those in failing schools, need the highest quality teachers and dramatically different, innovative approaches to teaching and learning. (b) Every teacher must contribute to every student's reading improvement. (c) Quality professional development provides teachers and principals with the tools they need to better serve students. (d) Small learning communities allow teachers to personalize instruction to better address student learning styles, strengths, and weaknesses. (e) Intensive intervention in reading and math must occur early and through innovative delivery systems. (f) Parents need access to tools they can use to monitor their child's progress in school, communicate with teachers, and act early on behalf of their child. (g) Applied and integrated courses help students see the relationships between subjects and relevance to their futures. (h) School is more relevant when students choose courses based on their goals, interests, and talents. (i) Master schedules should not determine instruction and must be designed based on student needs, not adult or institutional needs. (j) Academic and career planning engages students in developing a personally meaningful course of study so they can achieve goals they have set for themselves. Requires local boards to adopt policies to address: (a) Procedures for placing and promoting grade 6-12 students entering from out of state or from a foreign country, including a review of the student's prior academic performance. (b) Alternative methods for students to demonstrate competency in required courses and credits, with special support for students who have been retained. (c) Applied, integrated, and combined courses that provide flexibility for students to enroll in courses that are creative and meet individual learning styles and student needs. (d) Credit recovery courses and intensive reading and math intervention courses based on student performance on the FCAT. These courses should be competency based and offered through innovative delivery systems, including computer-assisted instruction. Districts should use learning gains as well as other appropriate data and provide incentives to identify and reward high-performing teachers who teach credit recovery and intensive intervention courses. (e) Grade forgiveness policies that replace a grade of "D" or "F" with a grade of "C" or higher earned subsequently in the same or a comparable course. (f) Summer academies for students to receive intensive reading and mathematics intervention courses or competency-based credit recovery courses. A student's participation in an instructional or remediation program prior to or immediately following entering grade 9 for the first time shall not affect that student's classification as a first-time 9th grader for reporting purposes. (g) Strategies to support teachers' pursuit of the reading endorsement and emphasize reading instruction professional development for content area teachers. (h) Creative and flexible scheduling designed to meet student needs. (i) Procedures for high school students who have not prepared an electronic personal education plan to prepare such plan. (j) Tools for parents to regularly monitor student progress and communicate with teachers. (k) Additional course requirements for promotion and graduation which may be determined by each school district in the student progression plan and may include additional academic, fine and performing arts, physical education, or career and technical education courses in order to provide a complete education program. Requires the department to: (a) By February 1, 2007, increase the number of approved applied, integrated, and combined courses available to districts. (b) By the beginning of the 2006-2007 school year, make available a professional development package designed to provide the information that content area teachers need to become proficient in applying scientifically based reading strategies through their content areas. (c) Share best practices for providing a complete education program to students enrolled in course recovery, credit recovery, intensive reading intervention, or intensive math intervention. (d) Expedite assistance and decisions and coordinate policies throughout all divisions within the department to provide districts with support to implement the Florida Secondary School Redesign Act. (e) Use data to provide the Legislature with an annual longitudinal analysis of the success of this reform effort, including the progress of 6th grade students and 9th grade students scoring at Level 1 on FCAT Reading or FCAT Math. Directs the commissioner of education to create and implement the Secondary School Improvement Award Program to reward public secondary schools that demonstrate continuous student academic improvement and show the greatest gains in student academic achievement in reading and math. Pages 35-39 of 160: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006 Title: H.B. 7087 - Section 19 Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov TN Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Concerns Education; permits state employees with children enrolled in schools to take off up to one day a month from work to voluntarily participate at their children's schools. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB3246.pdf Title: S.B. 3246; H.B. 3123 Source: Tennessee Legislature VT Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Directs the commissioner of education to send annually to each superintendent a list of information that schools must provide to the electorate, community members, parents and students under state and federal law. Directs school boards to inform high school students and students' parents or guardians of the right to opt out of the federal requirement that student contact information be provided to military recruiters or institutions of higher education. Directs school boards to permit parents to disallow provision of student contact information to military recruiters or institutions of higher learning, or both. Requires schools to provide information each year to parents and students regarding school choice options available to them. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2006/acts/ACT127.HTM Title: H.B. 538 Source: www.leg.state.vt.us GA Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Provides that a student whose parent or legal guardian is in military service is granted up to 5 excused absences per school year to visit with his or her parent or legal guardian prior to deployment or while on leave. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/pdf/hb984.pdf Title: H.B. 984 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.legis.state.ga.us ID Issued 04/2006 P-12 Establishes the Executive Office for Families and Children. Provides that the duties of the council include: A. Coordinating all boards, councils, commissions, and initiatives as recommended by the Governor, within the Executive Office of the Governor with duties and responsibilities affecting families and children, including but not limited to: (i) Governor's Coordinating Council for Families and Children; (ii) Governor's Council on Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention; (iii) Early Childhood Coordinating Council; (iv) Parents as Teachers; (v) Idaho Women's Commission; (vi) Faith Based Liaisons; (vii) Serve Idaho; (viii) Suicide Prevention Advisory Council; (ix) Idaho's Brightest Stars Initiative; (x) Día de los Niños/Day of the Child Initiative. B. Identifying and recommending programs and policies for a comprehensive delivery of effective, efficient and integrated services for families and children, including: (i) Promoting implementation of multi-agency strategic budgeting, common performance measures, and coordination of services; (ii) Promoting an interagency funding system for the delivery of integrated services; (iii) Addressing state strategies, priorities and outcome measures to meet the needs of children. C. Cooperating and consulting with state agencies and departments on programs, policies and issues involving families and children, including but not limited to, the Department of Health and Welfare, Department of Corrections, Department of Juvenile Corrections, the State Department of Education and the Department of Commerce and Labor; D. Participating in national, regional and statewide efforts to cooperatively address issues and policies affecting families and children in Idaho; E. Developing a state plan for promoting the well-being of families and children in Idaho in conjunction with cities and counties, faith based and community organizations, state councils, boards and commissions, state agencies and departments, and federal organizations; F. Serving as a repository of agreements and plans concerning programs for families and children from community organizations and other relevant local, state and federal agencies and facilitating the exchange of this information and data with relevant interstate and intrastate entities; G. Provide input and comment on community, tribal and federal plans, agreements and polices relating to families and children; H. Serving as an advocate for the families and children of Idaho and directing the people of Idaho to the appropriate local, state or federal agency to address issues or concerns related to families or children. I. Accepting private contributions, federal funds, funds from other public agencies or any other source. The moneys shall be used solely for the purposes provided under this executive order and shall be expended and accounted for as provided by law. http://gov.idaho.gov/mediacenter/execorders/eo06/eo_2006-09.htm Title: Executive Order 2006-09 Source: gov.idaho.gov ID Issued 04/2006 P-12 Continues the "Governor's Coordinating Council for Families and Children" within the governor's office. Provides that the objectives for the Coordinating Council are to: a. Maintain a comprehensive inventory of resources and programs serving families and children in Idaho. b. Facilitate communication among individuals and organizations that provide services to families and children. c. Work with organizations, agencies and individuals to identify gaps in service to families and children. d. Work with organizations, agencies and individuals to develop consistent, accurate and timely collection and reporting of data to provide comprehensive statistical measurements on Idaho's families and children. e. Develop strong state and local partnerships to foster and support results-based community programs. f. Create a statewide awareness of the importance of healthy families and children. http://gov.idaho.gov/mediacenter/execorders/eo06/eo_2006-15.htm Title: Executive Order 2006-15 Source: gov.idaho.gov KY Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Creates the KinCare Support Program, a centralized statewide service program to provide grandparents caring for minor grandchildren with information and referrals through a statewide toll-free telephone number. Requires the program to provide information on a wide variety of services, including educational services Creates new section mandating the Administrative Office of the Courts to develop a standard power of attorney for the limited purpose of establishing authority to consent to medical treatment for a minor and to make school-related decisions for a minor. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HB45/bill.doc Title: H.B. 45 Source: www.lrc.ky.gov WV Rule Adoption 04/2006 P-12 Amends rules regarding half-day attendance and specific ages for compulsory school attendance. Identifies the specific number of days in which a parent, guardian or custodian of children with excessive unexcused absences must attend a school-based conference, and defines satisfactory attendance related to the revocation of drivers' licenses. http://wvde.state.wv.us/policies/p4110_ne.pdf Title: Title 126, Series 81 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet VA Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Provides a sales and use tax exemption, beginning in 2006, for certain school-related items purchased during a specific three-day period during August each year. The exempt items are (i) school supplies, where the selling price of each item is $20 or less, and (ii) footwear and clothing where the selling price of each item is $100 or less. The bill also authorizes dealers to absorb the sales and use tax on all other items sold during the same time period and thereby relieve the purchaser of the obligation to pay such tax. Dealers who absorb such taxes are liable for payment of the same to the Tax Commissioner. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0579 Title: S.B. 571 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us KY Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Encourages the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish the Kentucky Youth Development Coordinating Council; establishes membership and permits the creation of subcommittees of the council; requires the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service to perform the administrative functions of the council; establishes the duties of the council; requires the council to submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly as specified. Includes among the council's duties collaboration with public and private partnerships to support statewide networks connecting quality and sustainable state and local youth development efforts, such as mentoring partnerships and after-school and extended-learning opportunities, and to leverage private, state, and federal resources to support these efforts; and encouraging state agencies and nonprofit organizations to collaborate on model programs and demonstration projects that promote youth and parental involvement, strengthen families, and focus on target populations of youth. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/SJ184/bill.doc Title: S.J.R. 184 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WA Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Reactivates the center for the improvement of student learning; creates an educational ombudsman (within the office of the governor) to increase parent, guardian, and community involvement in public education and to serve as a resource for parents and students as an advocate for students in the public education system. (Governor vetoed section 9.) http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2005-06/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202006/3127-S.SL.pdf Title: H.B. 3127 Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov WA Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Declares an intent to reactivate the center for the improvement of student learning, and to create within the center an educational ombudsman to serve as a resource center for parents and students and as an advocate for students in the public education system. Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to report to the legislature by September 1, 2007, and thereafter biennially, regarding the effectiveness of the center for improvement of student learning, how the services provided by the center for improvement of student learning have been used and by whom, and recommendations to improve the accessibility and application of knowledge and information that leads to improved student learning and greater family and community involvement in the public education system. Creates the office of the education ombudsman within the office of the governor for the purposes of providing information to parents, students, and others regarding their rights and responsibilities with respect to the state's public elementary and secondary education system, and advocating on behalf of elementary and secondary students. Requires the education ombudsman to report on the work and accomplishment of the office and advise and make recommendations to the governor, the legislature, and the state board of education annually. The initial report to the governor, the legislature, and the state board of education shall be made by September 1, 2007, and there shall be annual reports by September 1st each year thereafter. The annual reports shall provide at least the following information: (1) How the education ombudsman's services have been used and by whom; (2) Methods for the education ombudsman to increase and enhance family and community involvement in public education; (3) Recommendations to eliminate barriers and obstacles to meaningful family and community involvement in public education; and (4) Strategies to improve the educational opportunities for all students in the state, including recommendations from organizations and groups provided in this act.Provides that if specific funding is not provided by June 30, 2006, in the omnibus appropriations act, section 2 of this act is null and void.One of the new duties is to edentify strategies for improving the success rates of ethnic and racial student groups with disproportionate academic achievement. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2005-06/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/3127-S.PL.pdf Title: H.B. 3127 Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov IL Adopted 02/2006 P-12 Establishes rules regarding the Early Childhood Block Grant program. Allows entities other than school districts to apply for preschool and parental training programs; eliminates grants to fund preschool education programs to conduct research into effective programs; rolls parental training program services and activities either into the preschool program or preventive initiative program; requires that prevention initiative programs be based on research and provide comprehensive services. Begins on page 426 of 1275: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/register/register_volume30_issue11.pdf Title: 23 IAC 235.10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, Appendix A, B Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WI Signed into law 12/2005 P-12 From Legislative Council Memo: Prior law required each school board to annually distribute, by January 1, to the parent or guardian of each pupil enrolled in the school district a copy of the school district performance report (SPR) or give it to each pupil to take home. The SPR contains information, by school and by school district, on items such as: academic achievement, including scores on statewide pupil assessment examinations; various indicators of school and school district performance, including attendance data and suspension and expulsion data; certain staffing and financial data; information about use of the open enrollment program; and the method of reading instruction. The SPR also includes a comparison of the school district's performance on academic achievement and certain other indicators of performance with the performance of other school districts in the same athletic conference. 2005 Wisconsin Act 62 does the following: • Requires that each school board distribute or send home the SPR only upon request; provides that annually, by January 1, each school board must notify the parent or guardian of each pupil enrolled of the right to request the SPR. • Requires that, if requested, the SPR be distributed or sent home annually by May 1. • Provides that if the school district maintains an Internet site, the SPR must be made available to the public on that site. http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/lc_act/act062-ab425.pdf Title: A.B. 425 Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us IL Signed into law 08/2005 P-12 Provides that by the beginning of the 2006-2007 school year, the State Board of Education shall by rule establish a parental participation pilot project to provide grants to the lowest performing school districts to help these districts improve parental participation through certain activities, including parent-teacher conferences, open houses, family nights, volunteer opportunities, and family outreach materials. Requires the pilot project to be for a period of at least 4 school years. Allows a school district to apply to the State Board for the establishment of a parental participation pilot project for the entire district or for a particular school or group of schools in the district. Requires the state board to select 4 school districts in specified geographic areas to participate in the pilot project. Requires the board, when selecting participants, to consider the following criteria: (1) whether the district or school has any of the following problems and whether those problems can be mitigated or addressed through enhanced parental participation: (A) low rates of satisfactory performance on state assessments; (B) high rates of low-income students, limited English proficient students, dropouts, chronically truant students, and student mobility; or (C) low student attendance rates; and (2) the methods the district or school will use to measure the progress of the pilot project in the district or school. Requires each participating district or school to establish a parental participation committee to assist in developing and implementing the parental participation pilot project. Requires the committee to develop an academic improvement plan that details how the pilot project should be implemented in the participating district or school, and to make recommendations to the local board on specified matters. Requires local boards to submit annual progress reports to the state board detailing the effect of the pilot project on the district or school. Provides for a review and final evaluation of the project. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Parental Participation Pilot Project Fund as a special fund in the state treasury. Repeals these provisions on December 31, 2010. Effective immediately. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0507 Title: S.B. 10 Source: www.ilga.gov MN Signed into law 07/2005 P-12 The commissioner must adopt and publish a policy to provide public and parental access for review of basic skills tests, Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments, or any other such statewide test and assessment. Upon receiving a written request, the commissioner must make available to parents or guardians a copy of their student's actual answer sheet to the test questions to be reviewed by the parent. http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0141.1&session_year=2005&session_number=1 Title: H.F. 141 - Multiple Components Source: http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us MN Signed into law 07/2005 P-12 School officials must not use the refusal of a parent or guardian to consent to the administration of psychotropic drugs to their student or to consent to a psychiatric evaluation, screening or examination of the student as a ground, by itself, to prohibit the student from attending class or participating in a school-related activity, or as a basis of a charge of child abuse, child neglect or medical or educational neglect. http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0141.1&session_year=2005&session_number=1 Title: H.F. 141 - Multiple Components Source: http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us CO Vetoed 06/2005 P-12 Section 4: Repeals and reenacts 22-7-605 pertaining to the content and format of state-mandated school accountability reports. Section 5: Adds new subsection requiring the department to print selected school accountability reports in Spanish. Requires the department to work with each district and the state charter school institute to determine whether a school's report will be printed in Spanish and the number of reports to be printed in Spanish for each selected public school. Section 6: Requires state acceditation process to be based on individual student improvement (in addition to student achievement), both in the subjects tested in the state assessment system (reading, writing, math and science) and in subjects for which there are state model content standards but no statewide assessment. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/489B14D223FBDD2087256F5D006BE665?open&file=214_enr.pdf Title: S.B. 214 (Section 4-6) Source: www.leg.state.co.us NV Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Establishes a monitoring system for the statewide system of accountability; revises various provisions governing the statewide system of accountability; requires the Department of Education to prescribe an educational involvement accord for use in all public schools which includes a description of how the parent or legal guardian will be involved in the education of the pupil; requires the Department of Education to prescribe a code of honor relating to cheating. http://leg.state.nv.us/73rd/bills/SB/SB214_EN.pdf Title: S.B. 214 Source: StateNet AK (H) PERMANENTLY FILED LEGIS RESOLVE 19 05/2005 P-12 Proclaiming July 24, 2005, as Parents' Day. States that the Alaska State Legislature encourages all parents to commit themselves to responsible and nurturing parenting to ensure the sound development of their children and to build strong and healthy communities. http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill_text.asp?hsid=HCR011Z&session=24 Title: H.C.R. 11 Source: www.legis.state.ak.us FL Vetoed 05/2005 P-12 Defines term "psychotropic medication." Prohibits a recipient of state funds from requiring student to be prescribed or administered psychotropic medication as condition of receipt of educational services. Requires that, before a student is evaluated for the purposes of classification or placement for special education for any disorder listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the parent must be notified that: (a) The behaviors prompting the evaluation could be the result of underlying physical conditions. (b) The parent should consider consulting a medical doctor to rule out physical causes. (c) The parent has the right to decline the evaluation. (d) The evaluation and subsequent classification or placement may be documented on the student's cumulative record. (Vetoed because similar bill enacted, S.B. 1090: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/bills_detail.aspx?Id=16186&iSessionSelectedIndex=1&sBillSubjectText=&sBillNumberText=1090&iSponsorSelectedIndex=0&iBillListSelectedIndex=0&sStatueAmendedText=&iBillTypeSelectedIndex=0&iReferredToSelectedIndex=0&iChamberSelectedIndex=1&iBillSearchListPageIndex=0) http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/bills_detail.aspx?Id=15715&iSessionSelectedIndex=1&sBillSubjectText=&sBillNumberText=1090&iSponsorSelectedIndex=0&iBillListSelectedIndex=0&sStatueAmendedText=&iBillTypeSelectedIndex=0&iReferredToSelectedIndex=0&iChamberSelectedIndex=1&iBillSearchListPageIndex=0 Title: H.B. 209 Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov MO Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 This act requires the State Board of Education to adopt a policy by December 1, 2005, that encourages effective involvement by parents and families in support of the education of their children. The act delineates elements and goals for the development of the policy adopted by the State Board. Further, the act requires the Board of Education of each school district to adopt policies no later than March 1, 2006, that encourage effective involvement by parents and families in support of their children and the education of their children. This act is identical to SB 1208 (2004) http://www.senate.mo.gov/05info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=21100 Title: S.B. 480 Source: StateNet MN EFFECTIVE DATE '05-'06 SCHOOL YEAR AND LATER 05/2005 P-12 A parent or guardian of twins or higher order multiples may request that the children be placed in the same classroom or in separate classrooms if the children are in the same grade level at the same school. The school may recommend classroom placement to the parents and provide professional education advice to the parents to assist them in making the best decision for their children's education. A school must provide the placement requested by the children's parent or guardian, unless the school board makes a classroom placement determination following the school principal's request according to this section. The parent or guardian must request the classroom placement no later than 14 days after the first day of each school year or 14 days after the first day of attendance of the children during a school year if the children are enrolled in the school after the school year commences. At the end of the initial grading period, if the school principal, in consultation with the children's classroom teacher, determines that the requested classroom placement is disruptive to the school, the school principal may request that the school board determine the children's classroom placement. Title: S.F. 180 Source: StateNet CO Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Requires districts to provide written notification to parents of a high school dropout who is not subject to compulsory education laws. States that the notice should have the goal of attempting to return the student to school and of conveying ot the student's parent the long-term ramifications to the student of dropping out of school. http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/3482A575C7AF359787256F81006BF303?Open&file=164_enr.pdf Title: S.B. 164 Source: www.leg.state.co.us AZ Vetoed 04/2005 P-12 Requires every local board, in consultation with parents, teachers and administrators, to develop and adopt a policy to promote the involvement of parents and guardians of children enrolled in the schools within the school district, including: --PROCEDURES BY WHICH PARENTS MAY LEARN ABOUT CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES THAT ARE PART OF THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM AND EXTRACURRICULAR CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES THAT HAVE BEEN APPROVED BY THE SCHOOL. --PROCEDURES BY WHICH PARENTS MAY LEARN ABOUT PARENTAL RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES UNDER THE LAWS OF THIS STATE, INCLUDING A DOCUMENT THAT IS NOT INTENDED TO EXCEED TWO PAGES AND THAT CONTAINS A SUMMARY AND A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: (a) THE RIGHT TO OPT OUT OF SEX EDUCATION CURRICULUM IF ONE IS PROVIDED BY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT PURSUANT TO RULES ADOPTED BY THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. (b) OPEN ENROLLMENT RIGHTS PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-816.01. (c) HOME SCHOOLING RIGHTS PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 15-745, 15-802 AND 15-802.01. (d) THE RIGHT TO OPT OUT OF ASSIGNMENTS (e) THE RIGHT TO OPT OUT OF IMMUNIZATIONS (f) THE RIGHT TO ENGLISH IMMERSION WAIVERS AND THE RIGHT TO PURSUE LEGAL ACTION FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS RIGHT (g) THE RIGHT TO SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES (h) THE PROMOTION REQUIREMENTS PRESCRIBED IN SECTION 15-701. (i) THE MINIMUM COURSE OF STUDY AND COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL PRESCRIBED IN SECTION 15-701.01. (j) THE RIGHT TO OPT OUT OF INSTRUCTION ON THE ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-716. (k) THE RIGHT TO REVIEW TEST RESULTS PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-743. (l) THE RIGHT TO GIFTED PROGRAMS PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-770. (m) THE RIGHT TO ACCESS INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-730. (n) THE RIGHT TO RECEIVE A SCHOOL REPORT CARD PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-746. (o) THE ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS PRESCRIBED IN SECTIONS 15-802, 15-803 AND 15-821. (p) THE RIGHT TO PUBLIC REVIEW OF COURSES OF STUDY AND TEXTBOOKS PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-721. (q) THE RIGHT TO BE EXCUSED FROM SCHOOL ATTENDANCE FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-806. (r) POLICIES RELATED TO PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION. (s) THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE ON SCHOOL COUNCILS PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-351. (t) THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A PARENTAL SATISFACTION SURVEY PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-353. (u) INFORMATION ABOUT THE STUDENT ACCOUNTABILITY INFORMATION SYSTEM AS PRESCRIBED IN SECTION 15-1042. (v) THE RIGHT TO ACCESS THE FAILING SCHOOLS TUTORING FUND PURSUANT TO SECTION 15-241. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2431 Title: H.B. 2431 Source: www.azleg.state.az.us AZ Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Authorizes local boards to adopt guidelines for the standardization of the format of school accountability report cards required by section 15-746 http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/ars/15/00746.htm&Title=15&DocType=ARS Authorizes local boards to adopt policies that require parental notification when a law enforcement officer interviews a student on school grounds. Provides both optional and mandatory parameters for such policies, including under what circumstances a parent may be present when a law enforcement officer interviews the student. Expands school crime reporting requirements to mandate that school report cards report the total number of incidents that occurred not only on school grounds but also at school bus stops, on school buses and at school sponsored events that required a law enforcement officer, including a certified peace officer who serves as a school resource officer, to be contacted. Specifies that the total number of incidents reported must only include reports that law enforcement officers report to the school are supported by probable cause. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1044 Title: S.B. 1044 Source: www.azleg.state.az.us AZ Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Transfers the family literacy program from the state board's division of adult education to the division of early childhood education programs. Adds that the representative of an adult education provider funded by the division of adult education on any project team can be filled by a provider that complies with the policies, academic standards, performance outcomes, assessment and data collection requirements of adult education as prescribed by the division of adult education. In required grant application provisions, allows application to include determination that the family literacy programs will document efforts to continually recruit eligible families in place of a determination that at least ten but no more than twenty parents with children will be eligible for and enrolled in the family literacy program at all times. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2050 Title: H.B. 2050 Source: www.azleg.state.az.us 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 AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Postsec. Requires each district's student services plan to include a district-level tracking system for students who fail to reach proficiency on state-mandated assessments. Specifies that guidance and counseling services in each district's "student services program" include academic advisement for class selection by establishing academic goals in elementary, middle, and high school; interpretation of criterion-referenced and norm-referenced testing and dissemination of results to the school, students, parents, and community; academic assessment counseling and career counseling, including advising students on the national college assessments, workforce opportunities, and and alternative programs that could provide postsecondary opportunities for students; and guidance in understanding the relationship between classroom performance and success in school. Specifies that the psychological services offered through a district's student services program include consultation and counseling with parents, students, and school personnel to ensure that all students are ready to succeed and that all students are preparing for college and work. Specifies that the career services offered through a district's student services program include the dissemination of appropriate course-taking patterns and the effect of taking more rigorous courses so that students are better prepared for college and work success. Requires every school counselor to provide a career planning process for each student to include career awareness, employment readiness, career information, and the knowledge and skill necessary to achieve career goals. Requires school counselors to also encourage parents, during regular parent conferences, to support partnerships in their children's learning and career planning process. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2868.pdf Title: H.B. 2868 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Clarifies requirements regarding parental notification by school personnel of student misconduct, law enforcement access to a student or a student's being taken into custody. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB2688.pdf Title: H.B. 2688 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us MT Signed into law 03/2005 Postsec. Community College Create parents as scholars program. For the purpose of this program(1) "Approved educational program" means:      (a) a program in a unit of the Montana university system, as provided in 20-25-201, a community college, a tribal college, or any other accredited college in Montana in which an individual is enrolled in pursuit of an associate's or baccalaureate degree; or      (b) an accredited high school or training program approved by the department by rule. http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/2005/billhtml/HB0555.htm Title: H.B. 555 Source: StateNet VA Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Provides that the noncustodial parent of a student enrolled in a public school or day care center must be included, upon the request of such noncustodial parent, as an emergency contact for events occurring during school or day care activities. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0034 Title: S.B. 981 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us KY Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Mandates that the Kentucky Department of Education provide assistance to schools and teachers, including publicizing professional development opportunities, methods of measuring effective professional development, the availability of high quality instructional materials, and developmentally appropriate screening and diagnostic assessments of student competency in mathematics and reading. Also requires the department to provide access to samples of units of study, annotated student work, diagnostic instruments, and research findings, and give guidance on parental engagement. Also requires that the department conduct an annual review of the state grant programs it manages and make recommendations, when needed, to the Interim Joint Committee on Education for changes to statutory requirements that are necessary to gain a greater return on investment. Requires the department to provide administrative support and oversight to programs to train classroom coaches and mentors to help teachers with reading and mathematics instruction. Declares an emergency. http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93.htm Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93/FN.doc Title: H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraph 4) Source: lrc.ky.gov ID Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Revises the definition of a "habitual truant." Revises the provisions applicable to proceedings against parents and guardians whose children are habitual truants. Allows proceedings to be brought against any parent of a habitual truant who is found to have knowingly allowed such pupil to become an habitual truant. Identifies such parent or guardian as guilty of a misdemeanor. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1066.html Title: S.B. 1066 Source: www3.state.id.us UT Vetoed 03/2005 P-12 Prohibits school personnel from making certain medical recommendations for a minor, including the use of psychotropic drugs; prohibits the removal of a minor from parental custody based on a parent's refusal to consent to the administration of psychotropic drugs; prohibits the consideration of a petition for removal of a minor from parental custody based on a parent's refusal to consent to the administration of psychotropic drugs. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2005/bills/hbillenr/hb0042.pdf Title: H.B. 42 Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us AR Signed into law 02/2005 P-12 An act to ensure the continuation of district honor roll and academic achievement recognition programs. Specifies that no district may be prohibited from identifying students for honor roll, for valedictorian and salutatorian, or for other academic honors. Allows any parent or student who does not want to have the student identified as an honor student or listed on the honor roll to submit a written request to the principal of the school requesting that the student not be identified. Requires school and district to honor such written request. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb250.pdf Title: S.B. 250 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us OH Signed into law 02/2005 P-12 Designates the fourth week of September as Parent's Week; revises provisions governing child support collection. Qualifies teachers employed by chartered nonpublic schools for annual stipends for holding valid certificates issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Allows students who otherwise must pass the ninth grade proficiency tests for a high school diploma to substitute passage of the Ohio Graduation Test in a particular subject for passage of the ninth grade test in the same subject to satisfy that testing requirement. http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses125/04-hb493-revised-125.pdf http://lsc.state.oh.us/analyses/analysis125.nsf/6407a071d8587c3c85256da200703bb6/ Title: H.B. 493 Source: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us NY Signed into law 01/2005 P-12 Authorizes caregivers to review school records and to consent to medical and dental diagnosis and treatment of a minor child, excuse absences from school and participation in school sponsored activities. Title: S.B. 6818 Source: StateNet CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 Requires the principal of a school to take immediate steps to seek the consent of the parent or guardian of an elementary school pupil prior to making the pupil available to a peace officer for questioning. Prohibits making the pupil available for questioning if the parent or guardian requests that the pupil not be questioned until he or she can be present. Permits a member of administration, school counselor or teacher selected by the pupil to be present. Provides exceptions. Also requires the principal, prior to making a minor high school pupil available for questioning by a peace officer, to inform the pupil of the pupil's right to have a person, as prescribed, present during the questioning. Makes a school officer or staff member who is present in the questioning immune from civil or criminal liability arising from participation in that questioning. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1001-1050/ab_1012_bill_20040825_enrolled.html Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1012_veto.pdf Title: A.B. 1012 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to contract with entities organized under law to operate family child care home education networks that support educational objectives for children in such licensed homes that serve families eligible for subsidized child care. Requires the family child care home education network programs to provide specified services, including age and developmentally appropriate activities for children, parenting education, and parent involvement. Provides that its provisions do not impose any new requirement on a family child care home education network, as specified. Under existing law the Child Care and Development Services Act provides services to children to age 14. Changes the maximum age for eligibility in the program to 13, and modifies the definition of ''parent'' under the Child Care and Development Services Act, as specified. Incorporates additional changes in Section 8208 of the Education Code proposed by AB 2525http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2525_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf (chaptered 9-29-04), to be operative only if AB 2525 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective January 1, 2005, and this bill is chaptered last. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0351-0400/ab_379_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 379 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Section 10: Changes the law from requiring a school counselor or psychologist to attend a parent-teacher conference regarding a pupil suspension to authorizing the counselor or psychologist to attend attendance of a school counselor or psychologist at a parent-teacher meeting. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2851-2900/ab_2855_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2853_2855_2856_sign.pdf Title: A.B. 2855 (multiple provisions) Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Repeals mandate and replaces with policy authorizing school district governing boards to adopt a policy permitting a parent or guardian of a pupil who has been suspended by a teacher to attend a portion of the school day in the classroom from which the pupil was suspended. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2851-2900/ab_2855_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2853_2855_2856_sign.pdf Title: A.B. 2855 (multiple provisions) Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 SEC. 12: Requires a school district to use its uniform complaint process to help identify and resolve any deficiencies related to instructional materials, conditions of facilities that are not maintained in a clean and safe manner or in good repair, and teacher vacancy or misassignment. Requires a notice to be posted in each classroom in each school in the school district notifying parents and guardians that there should be sufficient textbooks or instructional materials, school facilities must be clean, safe, and in good repair, and the location to obtain a form to file a complaint in case of a shortage. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions) Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov/ CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Changes the maximum age for program eligibility to 13, and modifies the definition of ''parent'' under the Child Care and Development Services Act. Deletes provision providing a formula for determining whether a family is eligible to receive services under the Child Care and Development Services Act based on the family's income. Deletes provision that children who were receiving services as of January 1, 1998, in certain child care programs, whose family income is above the eligibility level may continue to receive services so long as they continue to meet criteria that applied to the program on December 31, 1997. Existing law provides that the assigned reimbursement rate for alternative payment programs includes the cost of child care plus the administrative cost of the alternative payment program. This bill imposes a limit on administrative costs for the alternative payment program. Existing law contains various provisions relating to the implementation of the plan developed by the Commission on Child Care and Development Services and the expansion of child care and development services. This bill deletes these provisions as they have been superseded by existing law. The existing law requires the State Department of Education to disburse augmentations to the base allocation for the expansion of child care and development programs, with certain requirements. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2525_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions) Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Creates the Teen Parents in Foster Care Act. Provides ways in which families of dependent minor parents may be preserved, by assisting such parents in raising their children, and participating in school and extracurricular activities. Encourages the state and local child welfare agencies to collect data on the number of minors in foster care who give birth and the number of minor parents who remain in placement with their minor children, and to collect information to be used to develop a more cost-effective infant supplemental payment rate structure to more adequately reimburse caregivers. Requires child welfare agencies, to the greatest extent possible, to identify and utilize whole family placements and other placement models that provide supportive family focused care for dependent teens and their children. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1151-1200/sb_1178_bill_20040823_enrolled.html Title: S.B. 1178 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 Requires each person who becomes subject to the Department of Corrections on or after January 1, 2006, with the exception of inmates serving a sentence of imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole or who are sentenced to death, to be evaluated with respect to his or her educational and vocational level of development and capacity and with respect to his or her psychosocial level of development and ability to lead a constructive life. Requires that a program be prescribed and implemented for the inmate, based upon these evaluations, that addresses his or her deficient levels of educational, vocational, and psychosocial development, so as to better equip him or her to lead a constructive life upon release from prison. Provides for evaluations and programs exempted persons contingent upon available funds. Also requires the Director of Corrections to make a parenting education course available to every inmate incarcerated in the state corrections system who is serving a sentence for a crime involving his or her child or a child formerly under his or her care. This bill would require the parenting course to be susceptible of completion within the sentence of the inmate, and would prohibit a reduction in the sentence for an inmate who failed to complete an available parenting course. Also provides, commencing in the 2005–06 fiscal year, for the application of these provisions, subject to the availability of funding and other specified conditions, to other inmates incarcerated in the state corrections system. Also requires the Department of the Youth Authority to make a parenting course available to wards confined by that department under similar conditions and criteria. Provides that the sole remedy available to an inmate or ward who is eligible for, but does not receive, the assessment, rehabilitation program, or education course described in these provisions shall be to file a petition for a writ of mandate to compel the department or the director to provide that assessment, rehabilitation program, or education course. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1351-1400/sb_1399_bill_20040826_enrolled.html Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/SB_1399_veto.pdf Title: S.B. 1399 Source: California Legislative Web site MI Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Relates to the State School Aid Act of 1979; allocates funds for grants to intermediate districts to provide programs for parents with preschool children to improve school readiness and foster the maintenance of stable families by encouraging positive parenting skills. http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0337.pdf Title: S.B. 885 Source: StateNet MA Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 P-12 Relates to the membership makeup of the State Board of Education. http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/ht04903.htm Title: H.B. 4903 Source: StateNet HI Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 Limits paid leave for government employees who attend parent-teacher conferences to two hours, and clarifies that government employees are eligible to receive paid leave to attend the parent-teacher conferences of adult children who are attending a public or private school in grades kindergarten through twelve. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/hb1780_sd1_.htm Title: H.B. 1780 Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site NH Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Establishes that further study is needed to determine the biological or medical reasons for administering psychotropic drugs, such as Ritalin, to students in public schools, preschools, and childcare centers and to investigate the research documenting the medications' effects on their development, progress in school, and health. Establishes a committee to study the prescription and use of psychotropic drugs, including Ritalin, in childcare centers, preschools and public K-12 schools. Requires the committee to report its findings and any recommendations for proposed legislation to the speaker of the house of representatives, the senate president, the house clerk, the senate clerk, the governor, and the state library on or before November 1, 2005. Specifies that parental refusal to place child on psychotropic drugs, including Ritalin, is not in and of itself grounds for the state to take the child into state custody. http://gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2004/HB0551.html Title: H.B. 551 Source: gencourt.state.nh.us MI Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Creates a parent involvement plan within school districts and public school academies designed to encourage parental participation. http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0107.pdf Title: S.B. 307 Source: StateNet TN Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Requires local districts to devise policies and procedures to encourage parental involvement in public schools. Plans must include: (1) A plan for parent participation in the schools which is designed to improve parent and teacher cooperation in such areas as homework, attendance and discipline; and (2) Procedures by which parents may learn about the course of study for their children and have access to all learning materials. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0706.pdf Title: H.B. 2635 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us TN Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Concerns education; provides for local education agencies to include contact information on child advocacy groups and the state department in student handbooks or other information disseminated to parents. Title: H.B. 2161 Source: StateNet VA Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Directs local school boards to notify parents of the educational rights of students who fail to graduate or who have failed to achieve the number of verified units of credit required for graduation as provided in the standards of accreditation or who have been identified as having limited English proficiency or who have been identified as disabled and receive special education of their right to a free public education through age 21. Pursuant to §§ 22.1-1 and 22.1-5, public schools are free to "persons of school age" (at least age five on or before September 30 of the school year and under 20 years of age on or before August 1). In addition, subsection D of § 22.1-5 sets forth for students for whom English is a second language the opportunity for a free public education through the age of 21. Finally, persons who have been identified as disabled who receive special education are entitled to a "free and appropriate education" through 21 years of age pursuant to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and § 22.1-213. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0509 Title: S.B. 438 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us NE Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 Eliminates a requirement for school districts to provide abortion information. Title: L.B. 172 Source: StateNet AR Signed into law 02/2004 P-12 Provides for family resource centers to remove nonacademic barriers to academic success; authorizes use of national school lunch funds for this program; provides that the State Child Abuse and Prevention Board shall determine which schools are priority elementary schools and to award grants to qualified school districts. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1091.pdf Title: H.B. 1091 Source: StateNet DE Adopted 09/2003 P-12 Amends Regulation 881 "Releasing Students to Persons Other Than Their Parents or Legal Guardians" to add the category of "relative caregiver" to the list of individuals who may have legal care of a child. http://www.state.de.us/research/AdminCode/Education/Education%20Administrative%20Code%20-%20800%20Health%20and%20Safety.htm#P4_57 Title: 14 DAC 881 Source: Alabama State Web site NY Vetoed 08/2003 P-12 Authorizes caregivers to review school records and to consent to medical and dental diagnosis and treatment of a minor child, excuse absences from school and participation in school sponsored activities. Title: S.B. 2062 Source: StateNet MI Signed into law 08/2003 P-12 Sec. 107a. (1) The family resource center curriculum blue ribbon study committee is established to explore and make recommendations on implementing a new integrated system of delivering adult education and related family services beginning with the 2004-2005 school year, including, but not limited to: (a) Educational services, including, but not limited to, high school completion programs, adult basic education, general education development (G.E.D.) test preparation, English as a second language programs, and early childhood education. (b) Family services, including, but not limited to, even start programs, 21st century learning center grants, before- and after-school child care programs, parenting classes, and referrals for family and child services. (c) Employment and training services, including, but not limited to, career preparation programs and work readiness classes. (2) The family resource center curriculum blue ribbon study committee shall consist of the following: (a) Two members of the senate, 1 appointed by the senate majority leader and 1 appointed by the senate minority leader. (b) Two members of the house of representatives, 1 appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and 1 appointed by the minority leader of the house of representatives. (c) A representative of the Michigan association of community and adult education. (d) A representative of the Michigan works! association. (e) Three local adult education program directors, appointed jointly by the legislative members appointed under subdivisions (a) and (b). (f) Three local Michigan works program directors, appointed jointly by the legislative members appointed under subdivisions (a) and (b). (g) The state director of adult education. (3) The timetable for the work of the family resource center curriculum blue ribbon study committee is as follows: (a) Not later than September 1, 2003, report on its progress to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees responsible for this act. (b) Not later than November 1, 2003, make final recommendations to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees responsible for this act. http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/billenrolled/house/pdf/2003-HNB-4401.pdf Title: H.B. 4401 (multiple provisions) Source: www.michiganlegislature.org IL Signed into law 08/2003 P-12 Amends the School Code. Relates to homework assistance information for parents. Provides that the State Board of Education shall provide information on its Internet web site regarding strategies that parents can use to assist their children in successfully completing homework assignments. Provides that the Board shall notify all school districts about availability of information. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=891&GAID=3&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=3763&SessionID=3 Title: S.B. 891 Source: Illinois Legislative Web site LA Signed into law 07/2003 P-12 Provides for the establishment of a 2-year parental involvement demonstration program in local school systems, beginning with the 2003-04 school year. Program is to be funded with available funds (if they exist) from the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program, to establish programs in Title I-recipient schools chosen by the independent review panel from all schools identified by local board as having either lower scores on latest state assessment than the year before OR less than a five point improvement in such scores for use in determining the school's performance score as part of state accountability program. Independent panel review board must choose a cross section of elementary, middle and high schools, considering both test scores and an assessment of school readiness. Requires every participating school to submit to an official comprehensive evaluation of its parental involvement program by an independant parent review board. Allows schools that succeed in meaningful parent involvement to be eligible for awards. Requires schools found to be in noncompliance to comply with provisions of this section by one year from date of official review, if no waiver has been granted by the independent parent review board. Noncompliance may result in assignment of technical support and in random monitoring by the independent parent review board. Defines purpose, criteria and duties of independent parent review board. Requires state board to select an independent parent review board from applications from qualifying organizations. States that the independent parent review board must annual evaluate the effectiveness of a participating school's parent involvement policy in improving the school's academic quality, and that the findings resulting from such evaluations are to be considered public information and may be included in the state's report card. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/03RS/CVT1/OUT/0000KT46.PDF Title: S.B. 706 Source: www.legis.state.la.us LA Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Repeals provision allowing only one parent-teacher association or booster club for each school. http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB162&doctype=BT Title: H.B. 162 Source: www.legis.state.la.us HI Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Requires public employers to provide at least two hours of paid (including travel time) leave during normal business hours to attend parent-teacher conference or parent-caregiver conference; limits employee to no more than two conferences per child in a calendar year; clarifies that the provision of paid leave not adversely interfere with the operations of the work unit nor require the applicable agency to incur additional human resources or overtime costs. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/docs/getstatus.asp?qu=SB205&showstatus=on&showtext=on&press1=docs Title: S.B. 205 Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site HI Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Allows a caregiver of a minor who lives with the minor, but is not the minor's legal guardian, to execute an affidavit of caregiver consent to enroll the minor in school and allow participation in curricular and co-curricular activities;provides that a caregiver who makes a false statement in the affidavit of caregiver consent shall be subject to criminal penalties. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/docs/getstatus.asp?qu=SB946&showstatus=on&showtext=on&press1=docs Title: S.B. 946 Source: Hawaii Legislative web site IA Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Eliminates language requiring any district providing a family support program and that is requesting additional Phase III funding to meet the requirements of the main section describing family support programs and obtain department approval. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill) Source: www.legis.state.ia.us AR Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Requires school districts to provide parents of students in grades nine through twelve (9-12) with a list of classes that are required to be taught by the school district. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2339.pdf Title: H.B. 2339 Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site AR Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Appropriates funds for commission on closing the academic achievement gap and parental involvement. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2067.pdf Title: H.B. 2067 Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site AR Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Requires parental authorization for surveys or questionnaires administered to students requesting any personally identifiable information. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/SB895.pdf Title: S.B. 895 Source: State legislative web site AR Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Requires public schools to create a parental involvement plan. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB1387.pdf Title: H.B. 1387 Source: State legislative web site SD Signed into law 02/2003 P-12 Amends 13-26-4.   A school may have teacher-parent conferences during the school year and not more than 16.5 hours may be counted as hours in session. Also, boards may designate a maximum of 5.5 hours of the 16.5 session hours as in-service teacher training. Title: H.B. 1041 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us CA Signed into law 09/2002 P-12 Authorizes a school principal, or his or her designee, to notify each pupil's parent or legal guardian and each school employee in writing of the general nature of a violent crime, that occurs on the schoolsite of an elementary or secondary school of which he or she is the principal. Declares that it does not create any liability in a school district or its employees for providing notice of the occurrence of a violent crime. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/01-02/bill/asm/ab_2151-2200/ab_2198_bill_20020920_chaptered.html Title: A.B. 2198 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CT Signed into law 07/2002 P-12 Postsec. This bill permits judges and family support magistrates to order divorcing parents and fathers subject to paternity orders to support their offspring who enroll in accredited college or vocational programs after high school until they reach age 23. It specifies criteria the court must consider and conditions the parents and students must satisfy. It applies to cases where the first child support order is entered on or after October 1, 2002. Parents must ask the court to enter such orders, and can do so at any time before the child's 23rd birthday. The bill states that it does not create a right of action by a child for parental support for higher education and that its coverage does not include support for graduate or post-graduate education. Title: HB 5088 Source: State website DE Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 Permits civil charges to be brought against a student at the same time that criminal charges are brought against the parent, if the student is age 12 or over; amends both the truancy statute and the probation before judgment statute to permit the use of probation before judgment when a parent is charged. http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/LIS141.NSF/vwLegislation/ Title: H.B. 380 Source: www.legis.state.de.us MO Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 Defines family literacy and permits districts to create family literacy programs and to use at-risk funding to support them. Makes family literacy an area of critical need. Beginning in FY 2005, 1.5% of line 14 funding will be used to fund family literacy programs in unaccredited and provisionally accredited districts and academically deficient schools. Title: H.B. 1711 Source: House Research Staff Summaries CO Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Establishes a Family Literacy Education Grant Program within the Department of Education; permits local education providers to apply for grants in order to provide family literacy education, adult literacy education or English language literacy education. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2002a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/749A738EBAEFDEC587256B3E0082C23B?Open&file=1303_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1303 Source: www.leg.state.co.us AZ Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Withdraws Auditor General's mandate to evaluate the Healthy Families and family literacy program; moves responsibility for family group decision making program reports from auditor general to department. Requires report on Health Start program to be delivered to the speaker of the house, president of the senate and governor on or before December 31, 2002. Deletes obsolete language regarding delivery of other reports. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/laws/0245.htm Title: H.B. 2347 Source: www.azleg.state.az.us MD Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Establishes appointed New Prince George's County Board of Education and requirements for membership. Provides for compensation of board members. Allows for nonvoting student member. Establishes Chief Executive Officer as executive officer, secretary, and treasurer of county board. Establishes duties of CEO of the board in Prince George's County. Creates selection process for superintendent for Prince George's County. Establishes office, duties and selection process of chief academic officer, chief financial officer and chief accountability officer in Prince George's County. Establishes Parent and Community Advisory Board in Prince George's County; requires regular board and CEO consultation with the Parent and Community Advisory Board. Requires Prince George's County CEO to develop comprehensive master plan, for the board to review, approve, and begin implementation of by November 1, 2002. Requires state board and state superintendent to review and approve master plan. Establishes numerous required areas the master plan must address, including curriculum, professional development, personnel evaluation, addressing the needs of at-risk students and closing the achievement gap. Requires CEO and board to publish annual report addressing specified areas. Allows Prince George's County board or designated committee to hear appeal of CEO's decision on areas affecting specific student. Requires annual allocation of state and Prince George's County government funds through FY07 for public school construction projects. Makes project release for bidding contingent upon approval by the Interagency Committee on School Construction. Changes borders of Prince George's County. Establishes system for election, removal and compensation of Prince George's County board members, 5 representing local areas and 4 at large. Allows for voting student member; student member prohibited from voting on specified administrative and personnel issues. Terms of appointed New Prince George's County board members to expire December 3, 2006. Requires chief academic officer of Prince George's County to devise plan for teacher participation in development of curriculum, instruction, and professional development. Provides for supplementary annual state funding for Prince George's County in FYs 04-07 contingent upon and to the degree of achievement of benchmarks and outcomes in the master plan approved by the state superintendent and state board. Requires New Prince George's County Board to locate interim CEO by August 15, 2002 and permanent CEO by January 1, 2003. Requires consultant to perform comprehensive review of Prince George's County system and new board by June 1, 2006, including review of educational and management reforms made by new board. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0949e.rtf Title: H.B. 949 Source: mlis.state.md.us CT Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Mandates that the Commissioner of Education and Public Health create plan for the colocation where possible of family resource centers and school-based health clinics in order to improve access to services and to make the delivery of services more cost-efficient. http://www.cga.state.ct.us/2002/act/Pa/2002PA-00036-R00HB-05179-PA.htm Title: H.B. 5179 Source: www.cga.state.ct.us FL Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Inserts "directory" section to inform students and parents of their rights pertaining to a number of areas, including nondiscrimination, student records, discipline, safety, etc. See Bill section 92, page 173, line 19 ff. 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 FL Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Establishes legislative intent that 1) every K-12 public school student attend school throughout the school year and comply with the school's code of conduct; and 2) parents of every public K-12 student "comply with the school's reasonable and time-acceptable parental involvement requests." See bill section 114, page 318, line number 23 ff: 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 VA Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Directs the Virginia Center for School Safety, the Coordinator of Emergency Management, and the Board of Education to include, within the Model School Crisis and Emergency Management Plan for public schools, effective procedures and means by which parents can contact the relevant school or division regarding the location and safety of their schoolchildren and by which school officials may contact parents, with parental approval, during a critical event. Title: H.B. 886, S.B. 230 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet VA Signed into law 02/2002 P-12 Requires local school boards to develop and implement policies to prohibit the administration of questionnaires or surveys to public school students during the regular school day or at school-sponsored events without written, informed parental consent for the student's participation in such questionnaire or survey when participation may subsequently result in the sale of personal information regarding the individual student. Title: H.B. 357 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet UT To governor 06/2001 P-12 The House Bill requires a public school to notify the custodial and attempt to notify the noncustodial parent of a student who is injured or becomes ill at the school and requires medical treatment for the injury or illness at a facility not located on the school premises. The bill specifies that this does not apply to a noncustodial parent forbidden to have contact with the student under a court order.The Senate Bill is similar but requires a peace officer, case worker, or school to inform a custodial and noncustodial parent when a minor is taken into protective custody or suspended or expelled from school. Title: H.B. 1001A, S.B. 1001A Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2001S1/htmdoc/hbillhtm/HB1001.htm MI Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 Encourages school districts to adopt parental involvement contracts; requires department to develop model. Title: H.B. 4630 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NC Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 Session Law Number 244., Ensures that the parents or guardians of students who are suspended or expelled for more than 10 days from school receive notice that is in the appropriate language when foreign language resources are readily avialable. Title: S.B. 811 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NV Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Requires the state Board of Education and the board of trustees of each school district to adopt policies encouraging parental involvement in the education of their children. Title: A.B. 201 Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/71st/bills/AB/AB201_EN.html TX Signed into law 05/2001 Postsec. Sec. 31.072. PARENTS AS SCHOLARS PILOT PROGRAM. Requires the commission to establish a Parents as Scholars pilot program under which recipients of financial assistance participating in the program are allowed to fulfill applicable work or employment activities requirements by engaging in educational activities designed to result in receipt of a postsecondary degree. Certain recipients of temporary assistance for needy families are eligible. Title: H.B. 1187 Source: Texas Legislative Web Site IN Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Sets forth provisions that a school's strategic and continuous school improvement and achievement plan may include to encourage parental involvement in the school; requires models of parental involvement plans be available to schools for use in developing plans; requires a parent to enter into a written compact with the child's school setting forth expectations for the child, the parent, the child's teachers and school; provides for civil actions against a parent. Title: S.B. 505 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AR Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Requires public schools and public libraries to install internet filters or purchase internet connectivity from a provider that provides filter services to limit access to material that is harmful to minors. Title: H.B. 1003 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NM Vetoed 04/2001 P-12 The purpose of the Legislative Parental Involvement Act is to promote school and community partnerships that will increase parental involvement in public schools to promote the social, emotional and academic growth of children; to foster relationships and improve communications between home, school, the parent, the student and the community; and to provide greater accountability among parents, school personnel and students. The "legislative parental involvement program" is created in the department of education to distribute state matching funds to participating schools for increasing parental involvement based on a ratio of the amount of money raised by the participating school and the participating school's percentage of students eligible for free and reduced fee lunch programs. Requires annual reports from districts. Title: S.B. 303 Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site AR Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Mandates parental notification of students reported to, interviewed by or taken into custody by law enforcement personnel. Title: H.B. 2275 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet UT Vetoed 03/2001 P-12 Requires a public school to notify the custodial and attempt to notify the noncustodial parent of a student who is injured or becomes ill at the school and requires medical treatment for the injury or illness at a facility not located on the school premises. Title: H.B. 168 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet UT Vetoed 03/2001 P-12 Requires a peace officer, case worker or school to inform a custodial and noncustodial parent when a minor is taken into custody or suspended or expelled from school. Title: S.B. 222 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet VA Signed into law 02/2001 P-12 Relates to publication of procedure for changing special education placements. Directs the Board of Education to publicize and disseminate, to parents of students who are enrolled in special education programs or for whom a special education placement has been recommended, information regarding current federal law and regulation addressing procedures and rights related to the placement and withdrawal of children in special education. Pursuant to a second enactment, the Superintendent of Public Instruction must apprise local school boards of the provisions of this act by Superintendent's Administrative Memorandum no later than 30 days after its enactment. Title: H.B. 1226 Source: http://senate.state.va.us CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Requires the superintendent to convene and conduct the summit pursuant to the approved plan, and would require the various state departments to participate in the summit and collect, complete, and submit to the summit available research regarding, among other things, the casual relationship between the presence or absence of parenting skills and dysfunctional behavior. Title: S.B. 1348 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet SC Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Relates to education; enacts the Parent Involvement in Their Children's Education Act; establishes a framework for encouragement of increased parental involvement in the education of their children, for parental involvement training for educators and school staff, for parental responsibilities for their child's academic success, and for efforts to increase parent-teacher contacts. Title: S.B. 1164 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Public Act No. 91-784., Provides that the provision (Article of the School Code) requiring the assignment of a surrogate parent for educational matters does not apply to a child who resides with a foster parent; allows the surrogate parent to be assigned for educational matters if the child is a ward of the State residing in a residential facility; requires special education teachers to be categorically certified, so in order to teach a student with a specific disability the teacher must be certified. Title: S.B. 1447 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CT Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Expands responsibilities of surrogate parents appointed by Education Commissioner to represent children who may require special education in the absence of their real parents; monitors success; requires local school boards to notify said parents of discipline policies, suspensions and expulsions like regular parents; relates to disclosure of information in special education hearings; grants funds to local districts and magnet schools evenly; approves sheltered workshop training. Title: H.B. 5316 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WI Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Parent" means any of the following: biological parent; husband who has consented to the artificial insemination of his wife; male who is presumed to be the child's father under section 891.41; male who has been adjudicated as the child's father by final order or judgment of an Indian tribal court of competent jurisdiction or by final order or judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction in another state; adoptive parent; legal guardian; person acting as a parent of a child; person appointed as a sustaining parent under section 48.428; or person assigned as a surrogate parent. "Parent" does not include any of the following: Person whose parental rights have been terminated; the state; a county or a child welfare agency, if child was made a ward of the state, county or child welfare agency under ch. 880 or if a child has been placed in the legal custody or guardianship of the state, county or child welfare agency under ch. 48 or ch. 767; or an American Indian tribal agency if the child was made a ward of the agency or placed in the legal custody or guardianship of the agency. Title: A.B. 412 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NH Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Creates a Parents as Teachers Pilot Program to create a partnership between parents and early childhood development professionals; provides there shall be 2 school district based programs, one in an urban community and one in a rural community in Sullivan county. Title: S.B. 170 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet VA Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Provides that the juvenile and domestic relations court, upon finding that a parent has willfully and unreasonably failed to accompany a suspended student to meet with school officials to discuss improving the student's behavior, or upon the student's receiving a second suspension or being expelled, to order not only the student or his parent, but both, to participate in such programs or treatment as the court deems appropriate to improve the student's behavior. Title: H.B. 1147 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Postsec. Requires notification to parents of school courses leading to college credit; requires that each high school shall publish annually and deliver to each parent with children enrolled in school, information concerning the entrance requirements and the availability in school of programs leading to college credit, such as advanced placement and international baccalaureate programs. Title: S.B. 6559 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet TN Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Urges employers to excuse employees from work to attend parent-teacher conferences when given 24 hour notice. Title: H.J.R. 56 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Allows juvenile courts to fine parents for failing to attend parent-teacher conferences. Gives juvenile courts the authority to order parents to participate in "programs or treatment" that the court determines necessary to improve student behavior. Title: H.B. 1187 Source: Georgia Department of Education (www.doe.k12.us) UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 The amendments to this act provide for increased "parents rights" in the realm of public education. The new law states that parents have the right to "…control the care, supervision, upbringing, and education of their children…" When a new policy or rule is adopted by the state board of education it must include a report detailing its impact on these parents' rights. In addition, this new law states that schools are prohibited from requiring in-home educational or parenting programs without parental permission. Title: H.B. 102 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Conforms current law to the requirements of the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) by directing schools to annually notify parents of students currently enrolled and in attendance of their rights under FERPA and related regulations. Title: H.B. 536 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NM Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Relates to educational standards; provides for remediation and academic improvement programs; restricts promotions; provides for parental involvement. Title: H.B. 78 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet