From the ECS State Policy Database Student Supports

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 CT Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Secondary School Reform Act - Delays by two years the implementation of the secondary school reform requirements enacted in 2010 that: (1) Increase the minimum number of credits required to graduate from high school; (2) Require school districts to offer students support and alternative ways to meet the new graduation requirements; and (3) Require the State Department of Education (SDE) to develop end-of-course exams in various subjects. Eliminates a requirement that the state provide grants to help districts implement the new graduation requirements and instead requires SDE to offer technical assistance to districts wishing to start implementing them. Revises and delays by one year the start of biennial status reports on the implementation of the new graduation requirements. Establishes a task force to address implementation issues arising from enhanced high school graduation requirements. Teacher Evaluations/Tenure - Moves up the deadline for the State Board of Education (SBE), in consultation with the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC), to adopt guidelines for teacher evaluations to July 1, 2012 from July 1, 2013. Requires, for tenure purposes, that teachers whose employing boards enter cooperative arrangements to provide educational services retain their credited service with those boards if their employment is transferred to a committee administering the cooperative arrangement. Student Success Plan - Requires districts to establish a student success plan for each student starting in grade 6. School Governance Councils - Exempts boards of education with low-achieving schools that have only a single grade or that already have substantially similar school governance councils from the existing requirement to establish school councils according to the existing law. Reorganizes and clarifies the sequence and contents of required SDE reports on the implementation and effectiveness of school governance councils. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/ACT/Pa/pdf/2011PA-00135-R00HB-06498-PA.pdf Title: H.B. 6498 Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov OK Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Requires that funds for remediation and intervention be used for any student in grades 6-12 determined to be in need of remediation or intervention including students who have scored at the unsatisfactory or limited knowledge level on tests. Directs school districts to provide intervention, rather than just remediation, to students who do not score at least proficient on certain criterion-referenced tests and end-of-instruction tests. Intervention and remediation may include supplementary services provided on an individual basis or in a classroom setting. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf/2011-12%20ENR/hB/HB1917%20ENR.DOC Title: H.B. 1917 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us ND Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Requires each district to provide students in grade 7 or 8 with an individual consultative process or a nine-week course for the purpose of discussing the results of their career interest inventory, selecting high school courses appropriate to their educational pursuits and career interests, and developing individual high school education plans. Requires each district to notify students that they are entitled to a consultative review at least once during each high school grade and to provide the consultative review when requested to do so. http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/62-2011/documents/11-0208-12000.pdf Title: S.B. 2150 - Multiple Provisions Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov MD Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 This bill requires each local board of education to provide each student in grades 6-12 with the telephone number of the Maryland Youth Crisis Hotline by: (1) printing the number prominently in the school handbook; and (2) printing the telephone number on a student's school identification card, if provided. A local board of education is not required to reprint or reissue school handbooks or student school identification cards in use on July 1, 2010, in order to comply with the bill. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb0973t.pdf Title: H.B. 973 Source: http://mlis.state.md.us