From the ECS State Policy Database Scheduling/School Calendar--Summer School

This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date]. State Status/Date Level Summary CA Signed into law 09/2012 P-12 Partially from bill summary: Amends methodology for establishing tuition fee for the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science operated by the regents of the University of California. Requests the regents to set a tuition fee within a range that corresponds to actual program costs of up to but not exceeding $2,810 per session in the year 2012 (and may increase this fee by up to 5% each year thereafter), but returns this provision to existing law on January 1, 2018. Also increases the application fee to an amount not exceeding $30. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_1651-1700/ab_1663_bill_20120921_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 1663 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov MD Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Extends the Maryland After-School Opportunity Fund Program to include summer programs. Provides that only nonpreofit organizations are eligible to receive a grant. Directs the executive committee to ensure funds are granted to nonprofit organizations in all geographic areas of the state as equitably as possible. Permits the executive committee to award a capacity building grant from the fund to assist nonprofit organizations to increase staff capacity, training, and sustainability of the programs.http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/hb/hb0886t.pdf Title: H.B. 886 Source: mlis.state.md.us KY Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Outlines rationale for summer learning camps. Encourages development of a summer learning program for children from low-income families and children behind in grade level work who are entering the second year of the primary program through grade 5. Requires that the summer learning program provide a blend of evidence-based instruction in reading and math, plus experiential and enrichment activities in the arts, technology and sports. Defines terms, including "enrichment instructor" and "low-achieving Title I student". Encourages schools with schoolwide Title I programs or Targeted Assistance Title I programs to establish summer learning camps that meet specified requirements, including 3 hours of daily instruction for Title I-eligible students; 3 hours of planned enrichment activities, available to Title I-eligible students as well as other students; innovative professional development with the opportunity for piloting and assessing innovative models of instruction; provisions for transporting full-day participants and one-way transportation for students participating in enrichment programs only; and evaluation procedures. Directs the department to provide technical assistance upon request from a school or district in developing a summer learning camp. Permits districts to contract with private providers to offer enrichment programs. Establishes student participation parameters, including students to receive priority for program enrollment. Requires pre- and post-program reporting by districts to the department of education, as well as a summary annual report for each summer learning camp in the district. Identifies required components of summer learning camp reports. Requires the department to publish statewide summary report that highlights best practices and success stories, and to provide state academic assessment data disaggregated by those attending summer learning camps. Establishes funding procedures. Pages 1-7 of 9: http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/SB95/bill.doc Title: S.B. 95 - Summer Learning Camps Source: www.lrc.ky.gov KY Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Transfers the Governor's Scholars Program from the office of the governor to the education and workforce development cabinet. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB278/bill.doc Title: H.B. 278 Source: www.lrc.ky.gov CA Signed into law 10/2011 P-12 From bill summary: Provides that any school that establishes a program pursuant to the After School Education and Safety Program, or establishes a program with a before school program component pursuant to the program, is eligible to receive a supplemental grant to operate the program in excess of 180 regular schooldays or during any combination of summer, intersession, or vacation periods for a maximum of 30% of the total grant amount awarded, per school year, to the school. (Current provisions make a school that establishes a before school program component pursuant to the After School Education and Safety Program eligible for a supplementary grant to operate the program in excess of 180 schooldays during any combination of summer, intersession, or vacation periods.) Allows supplemental grantees to change the location of the program and to open eligibility for the program. Requires a supplemental grantee operating a 6-hour extended day program to submit, for prior approval by the state department of education, a revised program plan. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0401-0450/sb_429_bill_20111008_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 429 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov IL Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Provides that if a student has performed below grade level for two consecutive years, a remedial summer school program must provide an emphasis on reading and math. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/97/HB/PDF/09700HB0139lv.pdf Title: H.B. 139 Source: www.ilga.gov CT Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Sec. 1 - Establishes a task force to address the academic achievement gaps in Connecticut by considering effective approaches to closing the achievement gaps in elementary, middle and high schools. Requires the task force to submit a master plan to the General Assembly by July 1, 2012. Provides that the task force must terminate on January 1, 2020. Sec. 2 - Establishes an Interagency Council for Ending the Achievement Gap (the council) to assist the achievement gap task force, in the development of the master plan to eliminate the academic achievement gaps in Connecticut, implement the provisions of the master plan, and, if necessary, make recommendations for legislation relating to the master plan to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly. Directs the council to submit annual progress reports on the implementation of the master plan to the General Assembly. Sec. 3 - Permits local or regional boards of education for schools designated as low-achieving under state law to increase the number of school sessions each year and the number of school hours each day in order to improve student performance and remove the school from the list of low-achieving schools. Sec. 4 - Provides that the summer reading program required in priority school districts must be offered to children enrolled in kindergarten who are determined by their school to be substantially deficient in reading based on measures established by the State Board of Education. Directs each priority school district to require the schools under its jurisdiction to assess the reading level of students enrolled in kindergarten at the end of the school year and in grades 1-3 at the beginning, middles and end of the school year (assessment was previously only required in grades 1-3 at the middle and end of the school year). Required individual reading plans must be monitored by school literacy teams that will consist of, but not be limited to, teachers, school reading specialists, internal or external reading consultants, the school principal and the provider of the additional instruction. Adds kindergarten to the grade range for which priority school districts may require students found substantially deficient in reading to attend summer school. Sec. 5 - Permits the Commissioner of Education to identify schools to participate in a pilot study for the purposes of promoting best practices in early literacy and closing the academic achievement gaps. Sec. 6 - Provides that the required statement of educational goals (which identify specific expectations for students in terms of skills, knowledge and competence) prepared by the board of education be annually established. Sec. 7 - Requires, on and after July 1, 2011, any person applying for a certification in the endorsement area of elementary education to achieve a satisfactory evaluation on the appropriate State Board of Education approved mathematics assessment in order to be eligible for such elementary education endorsement. Sec. 8 - Requires, not later than July 1, 2012, the Department of Education to approve and make available model curricula and frameworks in reading and mathematics for grades prekindergarten to grade four, inclusive, for use by boards of education for school districts or individual schools identified by the department as having academic achievement gaps. Sec. 9 - Requires the Connecticut School Reform Resource Center (the Center) to provide a program of professional development activities for teachers to educate such students that includes research-based child development and reading instruction tools and practices. Requires the Center to develop strategies for assisting such students who are in danger of failing and develop culturally-relevant methods for educating students whose primary language is not English. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/ACT/PA/2011PA-00085-R00SB-00929-PA.htm Title: S.B. 929 Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov GA Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Extends for 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years a provision waiving the state from specified reimbursement for additional days of instruction for low-performing students. Page 8 of 11: http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/116810.pdf Title: H.B. 192 - Remediation Source: www.legis.ga.gov UT Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Identifies allowable expenditures of K-3 Reading Improvement Program funds, including, among other uses, focused reading remediations through before- and after-school programs and summer programs, or reading software. Directs the state board to annually report to the education interim committee a summary of reading improvement program expenditures by districts and charter schools. http://le.utah.gov/~2011/bills/sbillenr/sb0063.pdf Title: S.B. 63 Source: le.utah.gov CA Signed into law 10/2010 P-12 From bill summary: Makes inoperative until July 1, 2013 the requirement that districts offer programs of direct, systematic and intensive supplemental instruction (during summer, before or after school, on Saturdays or during intersession--not during the regular instructional day) to pupils in grades 2-9 who have been recommended for retention or who have been retained at their grade for the next year. Provides that until July 2013, relieved from performing any activities under this provision that are deemed to be reimbursable state mandates. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1601-1650/ab_1610_bill_20101019_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 1610 - Supplemental Instruction Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 09/2010 P-12 Primarily from bill summary: Requires, in any fiscal year in which the total state appropriation for that fiscal year under the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program exceeds the total state appropriation for the 2008–09 fiscal year after certain funds have been allocated, that the excess amount be allocated for direct grants to community learning centers in accordance with the following schedule: 35% to community learning centers serving high school pupils; 50% to community learning centers serving elementary and middle school pupils; and 15% to summer programs serving elementary and middle school pupils. Requires priority for funds allocated to programs serving elementary and middle school pupils to be given to programs with expiring grants, subject to specified requirements. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0751-0800/sb_798_bill_20100929_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 798 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov RI Passed 11/2009 P-12 Creates a thirteen member special legislative task force whose purpose it would be to make a comprehensive study of summer learning programs and report back to the General Assembly. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/billtext09/housetext09/h5967aa.htm Title: H.B. 5967 Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Defines "community school" as a school that partners with its community to provide enrichment and life skill opportunities for students, parents and community members. Subject to an appropriation or the availability of funding for such purposes, requires the state board of education to make grants available to fund community schools and to enhance programs at community schools. Requires a request- for-proposal process to be used in awarding grants. Provides that proposals may be submitted on behalf of a school, a school district, or a consortium of 2 or more schools or school districts. Establishes components a school must offer to qualify for a community school grant, including before- and after-school programming each school day to meet identified student needs, weekend programming and at least four weeks of summer programming. Adds "fostering innovative approaches to education" to the P-20 council's charge. Authorizes the creation of a P-20 council working group on community schools, community participation and other innovative approaches to education that foster community partnerships. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB0684lv.pdf Title: H.B. 684 Source: www.ilga.gov IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Clarifies that districts must continue to operate a summer breakfast and lunch program as long as they have one or more schools (i) in which at least 50% of the students are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals and (ii) that have a summer school program. Pages 53-55 of 63: http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB1977lv.pdf Title: S.B. 1977 - Summer Food Service Source: www.ilga.gov CA Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 The purpose of the After School Education and Safety Program is to create incentives for establishing before- and after-school enrichment programs (including during the summer) that partner public schools and communities to provide academic and literacy support and safe alternatives for youth. Adds section 8481 to the Education Code, to provide that article 22.5, "After School Education and Safety Program," will become inoperative on September 1, 2009 and is repealed as of January 1, 2010. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/abx4_2_bill_20090728_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 2 - Section 8 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov RI Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to begin planning an initial, demonstration after school and summer learning program that meets high quality standards; includes child care. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law09/law09087.htm Title: H.B. 5802 Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us RI Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to begin planning an initial, demonstration after school and summer learning program that meets high quality standards. Goal: Meets high quality standards, is age/grade appropriate, runs programming during the hours of 3:00 p.m. through 6:00 p.m. during the week, promotes the healthy development of youth, connects to the school day, builds on the existing after school and summer learning infrastructure in the state (including child care, 21st century community learning centers program, child opportunity zones, community-based organizations and public schools), incorporates experiential learning, social/emotional development and project-based activities and serves all children and youth from kindergarten to 12th grade with an emphasis on children and youth who attend high poverty, low performing schools. (Public Law No. 2009-93) http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law09/law09093.htm Title: S.B. 954 Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us OR Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Requires the Department of Education to establish a pilot program to encourage school districts to provide supplemental summer instruction; authorizes school districts participating in the program to seek public or private funds for the purposes of offering such instruction at no charge or for a reduced charge and to enter into contracts with public or private entities to provide such instruction. Chapter 428 http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/sb0400.dir/sb0484.en.pdf Title: S.B. 484 Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us ND Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Summer school courses and programs eligible for payment from the state: 1. a. Remedial mathematics provided to students enrolled in any grade from kindergarten through eight; b. Remedial reading provided to students enrolled in any grade from kindergarten through eight; c. Beginning after the conclusion of the 2009-10 school calendar, mathematics provided to students enrolled in any grade from five through eight; d. Beginning after the conclusion of the 2009-10 school calendar, reading provided to students enrolled in any grade from five through eight; e. Beginning after the conclusion of the 2009-10 school calendar, science provided to students enrolled in any grade from five through eight; and f. Beginning after the conclusion of the 2009-10 school calendar, social studies provided to students enrolled in any grade from five through eight; and 2. Any other high school summer courses that satisfy requirements for graduation, comprise at least as many clock-hours as courses offered during the regular school term, and comply with rules adopted by the superintendent of public instruction. http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/61-2009/bill-text/JARF1000.pdf Title: H.B. 1400 - Summer School Section Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov AR Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Creates the Smart Core Incentive Funding Program to provide a financial incentive to assist with a public high school's efforts to encourage students to complete the Smart Core curriculum and promote programs that contribute to student success, including tutoring, after-school and summer programs that may include the College Preparatory Enrichment Program, professional development for mathematics, science, literacy, foreign language, and Advanced Placement instruction and support to school counselors. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Acts/Act1481.pdf Title: S.B. 918 Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Repeals the Professional Development Block Grant. Amends requirements related to annual census for special education, such that census must include students age 3 to 21 (rather than birth to 21) receiving special education services. Eliminates requirement that state board of education annually report on "children of non English background" receiving special education services. Eliminates provision authorizing the state board to provide matching grants to districts to support technology-related investments. Eliminates provision directing the state board to adopt rules for the administration of the School Technology Program. Authorizes student biometric information to be destroyed without notification to or the approval of a local records commission within 30 days after use of the information is discontinued due to student graduation, withdrawal, or a written request from the individual having legal custody of a student. Establishes circumstances under which a district may levy a tax or issue bonds for facilities alteration or reconstruction. Adds provision requiring that summer session costs be reimbursed based on the actual expenditures for providing these services. Deletes certain provisions related to clock hour requirements for teachers' continuing education units. Authorizes school student records to be released, transferred or disclosed to the state board or another state government agency or among state government agencies to evaluate or audit federal and state programs or perform research and planning, but only to the extent that the release, transfer, disclosure, or dissemination is consistent with the federal FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act). Authorizes the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy to develop additional campuses throughout the state, but specifies that any additional campus does not need to serve as a residential institution. Adds to the board of trustees of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy to include the superintendent of the district where each campus is located. Abolishes the board of trustees of the Illinois Summer School for the Arts on the effective date of this legislation. Transfers to the state board of education all of the board of trustees' powers, duties, assets, liabilities, employees, contracts, property, records, pending business, and unexpended appropriations. Repeals 105 ILCS 420, the Council on Vocational Education Act and 105 ILCS 423, the Occupational Skill Standards Act. Eliminates provision requiring the state board of education's annual report on vocational education to include recommendations on programs and policies to overcome sex bias and sex stereotyping in vocational education programming and an assessment of the state's progress in achieving such goals prepared by the state vocational education sex equity coordinator pursuant to the Federal Vocational Education Law. Requires a school enrolling a student to make a copy of the student's certified birth certificate and return the original to the person enrolling the child. Provides that once a school has received a certified copy of the child's birth certificate, the school need not request another such certified copy with respect to that child for any other year in which the child is enrolled in that school. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB2482lv.pdf Title: S.B. 2482 Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation WV Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Requires county boards filling summer school program positions to give employment preference to professional educators who are regularly employed by the county on a full-time basis. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2008_SESSIONS/2X/BILLS/hb217%20enr.htm Title: H.B. 217B Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MO Adopted 07/2008 P-12 Proposes rules regarding standards for summer school programs. MISSOURI 17889 http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c50-340.pdf Title: 5 CSR 50-340.050 Source: http://www.sos.mo.gov WY Adopted 07/2008 P-12 Establishes emergency rules regarding grants under the Wyoming Bridges Summer School, Enrichment and Extended Day Grant Program. Sets forth grant requirements and application procedures to which districts must adhere to for eligibility. http://www.k12.wy.us/A/supt_memos/2008_096.pdf Title: Chapter 33 Source: Department of Education OK Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Relates to schools; provides a school district which has a certain amount of students participating in a summer reading program may be allocated a base amount of moneys for the program which shall be in addition to the per-student reimbursement amount provided; provides a student in a certain grade who is an English language learner and is found not to be reading at a certain level shall be eligible to participate in a summer reading remediation program. One section slated NOT to be codified requires the state department to conduct a survey of districts to determine their ability to administer the criterion-referenced tests at 8th grade and the end-of-instruction tests at the secondary level online and within the limitations of the testing window dates established by the state board of education. Requires the department to report to the legislature and governor by December 2008 and to recommend solutions. http://www.sos.state.ok.us/documents/Legislation/51st/2008/2R/SB/1769.pdf Title: S.B. 1769 Source: http://www.sos.state.ok.us TX Adopted 06/2008 P-12 The Intensive Summer Program purpose is to create pilot programs in which institutions of higher education provide intensive academic instruction for students who are identified as being at risk of dropping out of school or college. The areas for intensive instruction are English/language arts, mathematics and science. The Intensive Summer Programs pilot will identify best practices and strategies that work to help prepare students for college and workforce readiness. http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/Rules/tac3.cfm?Chapter_ID=4&Subchapter=L Title: 19 TAC 1.4.L.4.210 -.214 Source: http://www.thecb.state.tx.us IL Adopted 01/2008 P-12 Strengthen recipient districts' accountability with respect to implementation of the program, chiefly by providing for some quality assurance measures regarding the teachers paid from the state funds provided. Salient among these requirements are following the established curriculum and sequence and planning to teach every day while the program is in session. The latter provision has been found to be critical because the Summer Bridges Program is compressed into a short period of time and each day of instruction is important to students' success. Pages 881-888 of 917: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/register/register_volume32_issue6.pdf Title: 23 IAC 232.50, .60 Source: www.cyberdriveillinois.com CO Adopted 11/2007 P-12 Clarifies rules regarding the Summer School Grant Program for Academic Achievement, including funding provisions, curriculum and assessments and evaluation of progress. COLORADO 9376 http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeboard/download/bdregs_301-50.pdf Title: 1 CCR 301-50 Source: CO Board of Education NY Adopted 08/2007 P-12 Establishes criteria for the award of grants for the Excelsior Scholars program for grade 7 math and science students. Establishes criteria for the award of grants for summer institutes for mathematics and science teachers in grades 5-8. Effective November 15, 2007. Pages 21-24 of 48: http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2007/aug15/pdfs/rules.pdf Title: Title 8 NYCRR Section 100.14 and 100.15 Source: www.dos.state.ny.us IL Signed into law 08/2007 P-12 Directs a district to develop a plan to have a summer breakfast or lunch (or both) program for each school (i) in which at least 50% of the students are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals and (ii) that has a summer school program. Requires such plans to be implemented in the summer of 2008 and to operate for the duration of the summer school program. Provides that if the district has one or more elementary schools, the program must be operated such that all eligible students receive services. Provides that if a school in which at least 50% of the students are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals is not open during the summer, the school must, on request by a not-for-profit entity, provide information on the number of children in the school who are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals. Allows a school to opt out if reimbursement would not cover costs. Eliminates provision that encouraged the boards of all districts serving at least 50% free- and reduced-price meals to operate a summer meal program or identify a not-for-profit entity to do so. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HB/PDF/09500HB1964lv.pdf Title: H.B. 1964 Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation WV Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Amends Education Code in the following ways: 1) Prescribes authorities of county school boards. 2) Expands purposes for which schools may expend funds. 3) Establishes certain vehicle and driver safety requirements for transporting students to a school-sponsored activity. 4) Expands the purposes for which county boards may lease school buses. 5) Requires county school boards to provide suitable educational facilities, equipment and services for special education students. 6) Requires county school boards to give preference to professional educators currently employed by the board for summer school employment. 7) Establishes service personnel classification title for licensed practical nurse. 8) Adds posting and notice requirements for filling service personnel positions. 9) Prohibits displacement of aides to create vacancy for licensed practical nurse. 10) Establishes parameters for the workday and beginning work station for certain service personnel. 11) Modifies process for determining certain service personnel hiring priority in cases of school merger or consolidation. 12) Modifies personal leave procedures and authorizes transfer of personal leave in certain circumstances for all full-time employees of a county school board . 13) Modifies employment benefits accrued by substitute service personnel employed by a county school board. 14) Requires county school boards to make certain training available to all regularly employed teachers' aides. 15) Prohibits an autism mentor or aide who works with autistic students from transferring to another position after the fifth day prior to the beginning of the instructional term under certain conditions. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2007_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/hb2189%20EnrSUB.htm Title: H.B. 2189 Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/ WY Signed into law 02/2007 P-12 Requires the state superintendent of public instruction to review at-risk program strategies funded under the block grant model, specifically including alternative schools and imposes a moratorium on new alternative schools recognized under the model during the review period; continues the summer school & extended day programs during school year 2007-2008; also requires the state superintendent to study and develop recommendations on distance education programs and to establish a task force for this purpose. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2007/Enroll/HB0115.pdf Title: H.B. 115 Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2007/bills.htm TX Adopted 08/2006 P-12 Amends rules relating to the optional extended year program for students in kindergarten through grade eleven who are identified as likely not to be promoted to the next grade level for the succeeding school year. TEXAS 9885 http://www.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter105/ch105aa.html Title: 19 TAC 2.105.AA.105.1001 Source: Texas Rules WY Emergency Rule Adoption 06/2006 P-12 Establishes emergency rules concerning the Bridges summer school, enrichment, and extended day grant programs. Sets forth the grant requirements and application procedures for eligibility and application for financial assistance for the provision of intervention, remediation, and enrichment programs to students. Describes minimum programmatic requirements, time-frames for submitting the application, allocation of funds, and provides definitions. http://soswy.state.wy.us/RULES/6250.pdf Title: Chapter 33 Source: http://soswy.state.wy.us/Rule_Search_Main.asp 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 ND Adopted 04/2006 P-12 Amends administrative rules pertainingto credentials for Title I coordinator, library media, special education director, special education strategist, and reconfiguration ofinstructional days, high school summer school payments, and entrance standards or high school, elementary and kindergarten students. Special education Director Credential (Ch. 67-11-08): http://www.dpi.state.nd.us/resource/rules/proposed/67-11-08.pdf Paraprofessionals (sec. 67-11-14-05) : http://www.dpi.state.nd.us/resource/rules/proposed/67-11-14.pdf Special education strategist credential (sec. 67-11-16-03): http://www.dpi.state.nd.us/resource/rules/proposed/67-11-16.pdf *** Accreditation procedures ( Ch. 67-19-01): http://www.dpi.state.nd.us/resource/rules/proposed/67-19-01.pdf High school summer school, cooperative programs (67-2-01): http://www.dpi.state.nd.us/resource/rules/proposed/67-20.pdf Corrective action procedures (67-22-01): http://www.dpi.state.nd.us/resource/rules/proposed/67-22-01.pdf Elementary summer school (67-24-01): http://www.dpi.state.nd.us/resource/rules/proposed/67-24.pdf Title: NDAC 67-11-01-01, thru 01-07.1 non-seq, 67-15-02-01 thru 02-07non-seq, 67-19-01-01 thru 01-43 non-seq, 67-20-01-01 thru 01-08, 67-22-01-01thru 01-03, 67- 24-01 thru -01-07 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WY Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Relates to school finance; implements 2005 recalibration modifications to the state education resource block grant model; clarifies duties of the secretary of state, state superintendent, Department of Education, school districts and the School Facilities Commission; specifies model recalibration parameters; eliminates superseded, superfluous and executed statutes; provides for a summer school grant program; provides for a report on bureau of Indian affairs schools and litigation expenses. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2006/Enroll/HB0139.pdf Bill sumnmary: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2006/Summaries/HB0139.htm Title: H.B. 139 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet LA Adopted 12/2005 P-12 Allows students to attend summer school from private providers if the summer school applications from the private provider are approved by the district. Page 7 of 106: http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0512/0512RUL.pdf Title: LAC 28:CXV.2504 Source: www.doa.state.la.us/osr, Lexis-Nexis/StateNet LA Adopted 12/2005 P-12 Relates to private schools. Adds programs of study and revises summer school policy. Pages 8-34 of 106: http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0512/0512RUL.pdf Title: LAC 28:LXXIX, Chapter 1-31 Source: www.doa.state.la.us, Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OK Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Requires each school district to ensure that instructional time each day of the school year in kindergarten through third grade is focused on reading and mathematics. Requires the state board of education to encourage school districts to integrate the teaching of the other curricular areas in the Priority Academic Student Skills (PASS) adopted by the board with the instruction of reading and mathematics.If a teacher determines that a third-grade student is not reading at grade level by the end of the second quarter of the school year, the parent or guardian of the student must be notified of the reading level of the student; the program of reading instruction for the student as required pursuant to the Reading Sufficiency Act; and the potential need for the student to participate in a summer academy or other program designed to assist the student in attaining grade-level reading skills. After consultation with the parent, a student may be retained in grade. Summer academy reading programs are to incorporate the content of a reading program administered by the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation or a scientifically based reading program administered by the state board and be taught by teachers who have successfully completed professional development in the reading program. Allows school districts to approve an option for students who are unable to attend a summer academy. The optional program may include, but is not limited to, an approved private provider of instruction, approved computer- or Internet-based instruction, or an approved program of reading instruction monitored by the parent or guardian. School districts must not be required to pay for the optional program, but are to clearly communicate to the parent or guardian the expectations of the program and any costs that may be involved. Does not apply to students with disabilities or English Language Learners. Amends 70 O.S. 2001, Section 11-103.6. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2005-06HB/hb1621_enr.rtf Title: H.B. 1621 Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us AZ Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Changes statutory reference from "extended school year program" to "extended school year services" for students with disabilities. Rewrites language pertaining to circumstances under which extended school year services must be provided to such students. Specifies that the student's individualized education program (IEP) team must determine whether a student is eligible for extended school year services, and that such determinations must be based on retrospective data, and predictive data when empirical data are not available. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2432 Title: H.B. 2432 Source: www.azleg.state.az.us WY Signed into law 02/2005 P-12 Continues assistance to school districts for full-day kindergarten programs ($5 million) and the summer school grant program ($4.5 million); provides assistance to school districts for health insurance ($33,321,419). http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2005/enroll/SF0047.pdf Title: S.F. 47 Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us CA Vetoed, back in Senate to unfinished business 10/2004 P-12 Community College Postsec. Relates to existing law which authorizes a principal to recommend a high school pupil for community college summer session attendance, if that pupil demonstrates adequate preparation in the discipline to be studies and has exhausted all opportunities to enroll in an equivalent course at his or her school. Deletes provision that principal can recommend no more than 5% of the total number of pupils in the school who have completed that grade immediately prior to the time of recommendation. Deletes the requirement a principal may only recommend a pupil for community college summer attendance who demonstrates certain preparation and has exhausted all opportunities at his or her school of attendance. Provides that a community college district may not admit special part-time or full-time students to a summer academic term or session unless and until the governing board of that district certifies, at a regular, public meeting of that governing board, that the decision to allow the enrollment of these students will not displace any regular students of the district. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0901-0950/sb_905_bill_20040823_enrolled.html Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/SB_905_veto.pdf Title: S.B. 905 Source: California Legislative Web site LA Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Increases certain fees imposed by the board of directors of the state school of math, science, and the arts. Increases maximum possible security deposit from $100 to $150; increases maximum possible room and board fee for summer session from $300 to $400 per student. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT8/OUT/0000LUZM.PDF Title: H.B. 431 Source: www.legis.state.la.us DE Signed into law 07/2003 P-12 Allows the use of indicators other than assessments prior to mandatory summer school; permits other indicators to be used to determine if a student has demonstrated proficient performance relative to the state content standards prior to summer school; provides other indicators cannot be used to waiver participation in summer school on more than two occasions. http://www.legis.state.de.us/Legislature.nsf/fsLIS?openframeset&Frame=Main&Src=/LIS/LIS142.NSF/Home!Openform Title: S.B. 141 Source: Delaware Legislative Web site IN Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Allows a school corporation to enter into an agreement with other school corporations and accredited nonpublic schools to provide joint summer school programs for high school students. Allows the joint programs to be conducted by state educational institutions and students to receive high school and college credit for the programs. Requires the scorer of an examination required for licensure as a teacher or school administrator to provide certain information to an individual who did not pass all or part of the examination. http://www.in.gov/serv/lsa_billinfo?year=2003&request=getBill&docno=230 Title: S.B. 230 Source: Indiana Legislative Web site MA Signed into law 08/2002 P-12 Permits districts to establish full-time or part-time preschool, after-school or summer school programs English language learners programs, although these programs may not substitute for English language learners programs provided during the regular school year. http://www.state.ma.us/legis/bills/house/ht05010.htm Title: H.B. 5010 Source: http://www.state.ma.us/legis/bills/house/ht05010.htm ID Signed into law 07/2002 P-12 Creates mechanism and funding for alternative summer school programs. Title: H.B. 687 Source: Idaho State Board of Education Web site MD Signed into law 07/2002 P-12 Allows, if federal funds are sufficient, districts in addition to Baltimore and Prince George's County to apply to department for grants to participate in the Maryland Educational Opportunity Summer Pilot Program. Extends pilot program through June 30, 2007. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb1370t.rtf Title: H.B. 1370 Source: mlis.state.md.us CO Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Expands the Summer School Grant Program to provide funding to school districts for the operation of intensive literacy and reading comprehension education services to students preparing to enter the first grade who scored at an unsatisfactory level on the kindergarten reading readiness assessment. Only schools providing full-day kindergarten are eligible to apply for grant funds. The department is encouraged to apply for "No Child Left Behind" funds to help support the program. Bill also reduces the funds available to qualifying schools in the teacher pay incentive program for low-performing schools. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2002a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/FAB1CA6943E47F8F87256B3C004D317E?Open&file=1304_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1304 Source: www.leg.state.co.us MD Signed by governor 05/2002 P-12 Provides that if additional federal funding becomes available for the Maryland Educational Opportunity Summer Pilot Program, counties other than Baltimore County and Prince George's County are eligible to apply to the department for grants. Extends pilot program through Juned 30, 2007. Title: H.B. 1370 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet DE Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Before enactment of this legislation, this subparagraph banned any 3rd-, 5th- or 8th-grader scoring Well Below the Standard on the state reading assessment from being promoted to the next grade unless the student participated in a summer school program and attained a proficient-level score on the state reading assessment before the start of the new school year. The subparagraph now states that a 3rd-, 5th- or 8th-grader scoring Well Below the Standard on the state reading assessment may not be promoted to the next grade unless he/she attends a summer school program and scores at Below the Standard or above on the state reading assessment before the start of the next school year and, if the student at the end of summer school scores at Below the Standard, the student's parents/guardian and the district agree upon an individual improvement plan. In addition, a separate subparagraph barred any 8th-grader performing Well Below the Standard on the state math assessment from being promoted to the next grade unless he/she attended summer school and attained a proficient score on the state math assessment before the beginning of the new school year. The new legislation changes this such that now no 8th-grader scoring Well Below the Standard on the state math assessment can be promoted unless he/she attends summer school and scores at Below the Standard or above on the state math assessment before the start of the new school year and, if the student performs at Below the Standard, the student's parents/guardian and the district agree on an individual improvement plan. http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/LIS141.NSF/vwLegislation/ Title: S.B. 322 Source: www.legis.state.de.us KY Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Authorizes the commissioner of education to approve district requests for grant waivers that would allow the district to use grants for extended day/week/year through an "alternative service delivery option," including offering programs during the school day. Title: H.B. 626 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MS Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Deletes the automatic repealer on the authority of local school boards to provide extended school day and extended school year programs and on local school district instructional home rule authority. Title: S.B. 2317 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NM Vetoed 04/2001 P-12 Creates public school reading proficiency fund to help train teachers to teach reading and writing to students below grade level; sets up "enterprise centers" to provide fee-for-service assistance to districts; creates "probationary school intervention funds" for grants to probationary schools; requires colleges of education to form a consortium to develop criterion-referenced end-of-course tests for high schools (to be administered during 2002-03); makes appropriations for professional development days for teachers, teacher mentorship programs, etc.; appropriates dollars to summer programs, bilingual, art/music, full-day kindergarten; appropriates dollars to standards/assessment alignment, development of new assessments and early literacy interventions. Title: S.B. 307 Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Extends the date of repeal of existing law authorizing the Compton Unified School District to identify low-performing schools in the district and make pupils in K-12 in those schools eligible for extended school year instruction, to 1/1/2002. Title: S.B. 1387 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Renames summer school instructional programs as supplemental instructional programs and would authorize the programs also to be offered before school. Requires the governing board of each school district to offer that supplemental instruction to pupils in grades 2 to 9, inclusive, who have been recommended for retention. Title: S.B. 1683 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Public Act No. 91-4587; Amends the School Code to provide that the School Safety and Educational Improvement Block Grant Program shall provide funding for school report cards and criminal background investigations; adds the Summer Bridges program to the programs included in the general education block grant. Title: H.B. 4587 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Re-arranges paragraphs of the Standards of Quality pertaining to remediation programs and requirements in order to provide consistency, clarity, and readability; clarifies that any student who does not pass literacy tests or any of the Standards of Learning assessments in grades 3, 5, or 8 must be required to attend a summer school program or to participate in another form of remediation and that any student who passes one or more, but not all, may attend a remediation program. Title: H.B. 1353 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet