From the ECS State Policy Database Students--Incentives

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 WA Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 Promotion of Policies that Provide Incentives for Students to Participate in Community Service H.B. 1412 Requires each school district to adopt a policy that is supportive of community service and provides an incentive, such as recognition or credit, for students who participate in community service. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2013-14/Pdf/Bills/Hou... More... WA Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Establishing the Pay for Actual Student Success Dropout Prevention Program. H.B. 1599 Creates the pay for actual student success program to invest in proven dropout prevention and intervention programs and to provide a financial award for high schools that demonstrate improvement in certain dropout prevention indicators. Gives certain responsib... More... CA Vetoed 07/2008 P-12 Student Incentives S.B. 1709 Authorizes school districts to provide nonmonetary incentives to pupils in grades 7-11 for achievement or improvement based upon the individual results of each pupil test in the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program, including a designation of achi... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Academic Contests H.B. 2167 Provides that charter schools may be recipients of money from the Academic Contests Fund for the purpose of sending pupils who are state level winners of academic contests and their chaperones to the national levels of these contests so that the pupils may rep... More...