From the ECS State Policy Database Teaching Quality--Working Conditions

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 MI Signed into law 07/2010 P-12 Amends current law to require the state department of education to develop a model policy on basic instructional supplies; institutes a step-by-step process at the local level for teachers to file claims alleging insufficient materials; only in districts identified to be placed under the school reform/redesign officer would teachers be able to directly ask the department to investigate a claim of insufficient materials; removed the department's requirement to establish a hotline. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2009-2010/billenrolled/Senate/htm/2010-SNB-1163.htm Title: S.B. 1163 - 116(c) Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov MI Signed into law 01/2010 P-12 Part of Michigan's Race to the Top Legislation. Requires district boards of education to ensure that all teachers and principals working in its schools and instructional programs have adequate access to basic instructional supplies. Requires the state department of education (DOE) to develop and publish on its website a definition of what constitutes basic instructional supplies. The DOE must establish and publicize on its website both a telephone line and an online system for principals and teachers to file a claim that the district failed to provide adequate access to basic instructional supplies. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2009-2010/publicact/htm/2009-PA-0203.htm Title: H.B. 926 - Sec. 166c Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov LA Adopted 06/2009 P-12 Provides for the immunity and legal defense of teachers. Provides for the rights of beginning teachers. Provides for the distribution of the list of rights to schools, parents and legal guardians. Provides for the posting of the list. http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v115/28v115.doc Title: LAC 28:CXV.519 Source: MS Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Prohibits public school students in 7th-12th grades who fail to maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.0 from participating in extracurricular activities. Authorizes and directs the state board to define failing schools and school districts under certain standards. Requires districts to develop and public certain annual reports prescribed by the state board. Authorizes the state board to request the governor to declare a state of emergency in a school district which meets the definition of a failing school district for two consecutive years. Establishes a recovery school district within the department of education under the direction of the superintendent to provide management and oversight for all districts that are subject to state conservator ship and to hear certain appeals from those districts. Provides for the annual audit of public school districts under the direction of the state auditor. Prescribes training requirements for school board members and superintendents in failing school districts. Requires districts receiving accreditation assistance from the department of education to implement programs specified by state superintendent. Directs the state auditor to conduct a review of the finances of any district determined to be in a serious financial condition and make an immediate report thereon. Clarifies that education employment procedures do not apply to any category of employee in a school district subject to a state conservatorship. Require districts with schools determined to be failing to establish community-based education councils that are accountable to the community. Provides for the removal of appointed or elected school superintendents of underperforming school districts under certain circumstances. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2009/pdf/SB/2600-2699/SB2628SG.pdf Title: S.B. 2628 Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us VA Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Requires school boards to ensure that all elementary school teachers are provided an average of 30 minutes a day of planning time. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2474ER Title: H.B. 2474 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us WV Proposed Rule COMMENT DEADLINE: 06/01/2007 08/20/2007 Rule Adoption 05/2007 Postsec. Community College Amends rules regarding academic freedom and responsibility, appointment, promotion, tenure, non- reappointment or dismissal of faculty, and grievance procedures for matters pertaining to faculty. WEST VIRGINIA 5002 Title: Title 133, Series 9 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet