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 VA | Signed into law 03/2012 | Postsec. | Allows a private institution of higher education that operates a teacher education program approved by the Board of Education to operate a college partnership laboratory school. Currently, only a public institution of higher education that operates a Board approved teacher education program may do so. Tuition may be charged for courses which the student receives college credit or for enrichment courses that are not required to achieve a Board approved high school diploma. This bill is identical to SB 475.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?121+oth+HB765FER122+PDF
Title: H.B. 765
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/
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| HI | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12 | Repeals §304A-1203, which established the Hawaii institute for educational partnerships to:
(1) Continually review the teacher preparation system so that it might be redesigned to be responsive to the needs of the state's public school system
(2) Develop innovative strategies to effectuate the changes in the teacher education program at the school level
(3) Where appropriate, establish university-school partnerships as the mechanisms by which to implement the innovative strategies developed by the institute.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2010/Bills/SB2432_.HTM
Title: S.B. 2432
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12
Community College | Establishes the Illinois Hope and Opportunity Pathways through Education (IHOPE) Program, to be adminstered by the state board of education, to develop a comprehensive system to re-enroll significant numbers of high school dropouts in programs that will enable them to earn their high school diploma. Requires the program to award grants to educational service regions and the Chicago school district to help establish instructional programs and other services designed to re-enroll high school dropouts. Requires the program to provide incentive grants to regional offices of education and the Chicago school district to develop partnerships with school districts, public community colleges, and community groups to build comprehensive plans to re-enroll high school dropouts in their regions or districts. Provides that programs may include comprehensive year-round programming, evening school, summer school, community college courses, adult education, vocational training, work experience, programs to enhance self-concept and parenting courses. Requires interested offices of education or district to develop an IHOPE plan for state board approval. Requires each plan to involve school districts, public community colleges, and key community programs that work with high school dropouts located in an educational service region or the City of Chicago before the plan is submitted for approval. Authorizes a regional office of education or Chicago public schools to operate its own IHOPE-funded program or contract with other not-for-profit entities, including school districts, public community colleges, and not-for-profit community-based organizations, to operate a program. Authorizes an education service region or City of Chicago to provide a sub-grant to such not-for-profit entities to provide services. Requires IHOPE program funding to be distributed based on the proportion of dropouts in the educational service region or school district to the total number of dropouts in the state. Specifies that a regional office of education or the Chicago school district may claim state aid for students enrolled in an IHOPE-funded Program, provided specified criteria are met.
Specifies that funded programs may be full-time, part-time work/study programs with flexible scheduling, online programs, or dual enrollment programs in which students attend high school classes in combination with community college classes or students attend community college classes while simultaneously earning high school credit and eventually a high school diploma. Requires IHOPE programs to meet specified criteria, including:
(1) Small size (no more than 100 students)
(2) Specific performance-based goals and outcomes and measures of enrollment, attendance, skills, credits, graduation, and the transition to college, training and employment
(3) Experienced leadership and staff who are provided with ongoing professional development
(4) Voluntary enrollment
(5) High standards for student learning, integrating work experience, and education, including during the school year and after school, and summer school programs
that link internships, work, and learning
(6) Extensive support services
(7) Small teams of students supported by full-time mentors
(8) A comprehensive technology learning center with Internet access and broad-based curriculum focusing on academic and career subject areas
(9) Learning opportunities that incorporate action into study.
Requires IHOPE-funded programs to report specified data to the state board, including student enrollment figures, attendance information, course completion
data, graduation information and post-graduation information, as available. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB1796lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 1796
Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12
Postsec. | Authorizes a school district and an institution of higher education located wholly or partially in the county in which the district is located to contract for the district to pay a portion of the costs of designing or building an instructional facility or stadium or other athletic facilities owned by or under the control of the institution of higher education. Provides for such a partnership only if both parties enter into a written agreement authorizing the district to use the facility.
Authorizes one or more districts to enter into an agreement with an institution of higher education for the district(s) to pay a portion of the costs of the design, improvement or construction of an instructional facility owned by or under the control of the institution of higher education. Provides for such a partnership only if both parties enter into a written agreement authorizing the district to use that facility, including authorizing the enrollment of district students in courses offered
at that facility. Pages 72-73 of 108: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03646F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3646 - Section 74
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| ID | Adopted 08/2008 | P-12
Postsec. | Provides certification to meet the special needs of virtual schools, distant education and public school/postsecondary partnerships. Promotes greater flexibility and increased content competency among teachers and valid certification for higher education faculty serving K-12 classrooms. IDAHO 7544
Title: IDAPA 08.02.02
Source: IDAPA 08-0202
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| NY | Vetoed 12/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Directs the department of health to approve the establishment of a college-linked senior living community that has a formal, jointly defined program in collaboration with a local college offering degree programs in gerontology and allied health professions to develop and evaluate a new intergenerational model of delivering long-term care services to the elderly. Provides this college-linked senior living community must consist of senior independent living apartments, an adult care facility and a residential health care facility. Provides that services within the college-linked senior living community must be provided based on a partnership that includes a teaching, training, research and clinical affiliation with shared resources including student, staff, faculty, facilities, equipment and scheduled social and recreational activities.
Provides that the partnership must be located in a county with a population of more than 96,000 and less than 97,000, according to federal decennial census of 2000 by a college offering degrees in, but not limited to, gerontology and allied health professions to develop and evaluate a new intergenerational model of delivering long-term care services to the elderly.
Provides that after the residential health care facility has been operational for two years, the college-linked senior living community project must submit a report to the commissioner of health, the governor, the speaker of the assembly and the temporary president of the senate that includes: an assessment of the cost-effectiveness of the project; the number of individuals served by the project; a description of the demographic and clinical characteristics of the residents served by the project; a survey of the residents and/or family members regarding the quality of life of residents served by the project; a description of the partnership between the senior living community and the college, with an accounting of the exchange of resources, including sharing of space, equipment and personnel, including students and faculty; and recommendations for the replication of the project in other areas of the state.
Bill text: http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S02139&sh=t
Title: S.B. 2139
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Authorizes the board of trustees of Ball State University, Indiana State University, Indiana University or Purdue University to establish a university-administered school in any county in Indiana in which the institution is situated. Allows a district board to enter into a contract with the board of trustees of one of the authorized institutions to educate students in a university-administered school.
Authorizes the board of trustees of Ball State University, Indiana State University, Indiana University or Purdue University to establish at the institution's main campus laboratory schools for:
(1) developing, testing, and evaluating new methods of instruction and materials;
(2) comparing new methods with conventional methods in use; and
(3) training teachers in new methods of instruction and materials, as is found acceptable.
Directs an institution operating a laboratory school to prepare an annual report containing:
(1) a comparison of the results obtained by the new methods of instruction with the conventional methods of instruction; and
(2) the new methods of instruction recommended for general use in public schools.
Authorizes Ball State University to establish the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities as a laboratory school. Provides the academy must serve as both a public, residential high school and a program for public school educators. Authorizes Indiana University to establish the Indiana School for the Arts as a laboratory school. Provides the school must serve as both a public, residential high school and a program for public and nonpublic school educators. Directs both the academy for science, mathematics and humanities and the school for the arts to:
(1) establish an advisory committee that represents the education and business communities in Indiana (in the case of the academy) and the education and the arts communities in Indiana (in the case of the school for the arts);
(2) determine the standards for admissions and the curricula and courses of study to be offered;
(3) develop curriculum material for distribution and use throughout the public school system;
(4) develop programs to encourage interaction with public school educators (and nonpublic school educators, in the case of the school for the arts);
(5) make curriculum material available to students in public schools throughout Indiana by the use of telecommunications technology; and
(6) establish cooperative arrangements with private and public entities in order to effectively operate the program.
Authorizes the board of trustees of Vincennes University to establish a grammar school to teach foreign languages.
Title: S.B. 526 (omnibus) - Article 24.5
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/SE/SE0526.1.html
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Defines "public-public partnership" as a contractual agreement between a school district and another governmental agency, political subdivision, or institution of higher education to meet a clearly defined need for facilities, infrastructure, or goods and services. Authorizes any school district to use public-public partnerships as a project delivery method for the building, altering, repairing, improving, maintaining, or demolishing of any structure, or any improvement to real property owned by the school district.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/SB858.pdf
Title: S.B. 858
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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