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 | 21st Century Skills |
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| Accountability |
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| Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
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| Accountability--Reporting Results |
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| Accountability--Rewards |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Learnfare |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Play |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers |
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| Accountability--School Improvement |
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| Adult Basic Education |
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| Assessment |
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| Assessment--Accommodations |
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| Assessment--College Entrance Exams |
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| Assessment--Computer Based |
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| Assessment--End-of-Course |
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| Assessment--Formative/Interim |
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| Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
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| Assessment--Legal Issues |
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| Assessment--NAEP (NAEP Results and NAEP Organization) |
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| Assessment--Performance Based/Portfolio |
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| Assessment--Value Added |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
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| Attendance |
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| Attendance--Compulsory |
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| Attendance--Statutory Ages (Upper and Lower) |
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| Attendance--Truancy |
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| Background Checks |
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| Bilingual/ESL |
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| Brain Research |
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| Business Involvement |
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| Career/Technical Education |
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| Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship |
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| Cheating |
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| Choice of Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Charter Districts |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Closings |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Cyber Charters |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Research |
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| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
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| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment--Research |
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| Choice of Schools--Innovation Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers--Privately Funded |
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| Civic Education |
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| Civic Education--Character Education |
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| Civic Education--Civic Knowledge and Literacy |
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| Civic Education--Curriculum/Standards |
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| Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance |
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| Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Alignment |
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| Curriculum--Arts Education |
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| Curriculum--Censorship |
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| Curriculum--Core Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Drivers Education |
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| Curriculum--Environmental Education |
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| Curriculum--Excusal |
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| Curriculum--Family Living Education |
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| Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
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| Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
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| Curriculum--Geography Education |
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| Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education |
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| Curriculum--Home Economics |
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| Curriculum--International Education |
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| Curriculum--Language Arts |
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| Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling |
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| Curriculum--Mathematics |
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| Curriculum--Multicultural |
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| Curriculum--Physical Education |
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| Curriculum--Science |
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| Curriculum--Sex Education |
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| Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
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| Curriculum--Speech Education |
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| Data-Driven Improvement |
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| Demographics |
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| Demographics--Condition of Children/Adults |
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| Demographics--Enrollments |
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| Desegregation |
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| Economic/Workforce Development |
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| Education Research |
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| Equity |
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| Federal |
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| Finance |
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| Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
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| Finance--Aid to Private Schools |
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| Finance--Bonds |
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| Finance--District |
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| Finance--Does Money Matter? |
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| Finance--Equity |
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| Finance--Facilities |
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| Finance--Federal |
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| Finance--Funding Formulas |
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| Finance--Litigation |
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| Finance--Local Foundations/Funds |
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| Finance--Lotteries |
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| Finance--Performance Funding |
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| Finance--Private Giving |
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| Finance--Resource Efficiency |
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| Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
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| Finance--Student Fees |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
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| Governance |
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| Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
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| Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
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| Governance--Mandates |
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| Governance--Regional Entities |
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| Governance--School Boards |
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| Governance--School Boards--Training |
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| Governance--Site-Based Management |
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| Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
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| Health |
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| Health--Child Abuse |
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| Health--Mental Health |
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| Health--Nutrition |
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| Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
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 | Health--Suicide Prevention |
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| AK | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Requires the department of education to annually provide youth suicide awareness and prevention training to each teacher, administrator, counselor, and specialist to provide services to students in grades seven through 12 in a public school in the state at no cost to the trainees. Requires that the training be offered not less than two hours each year, meets standards for professional continuing education credit in the state, and is periodically reviewed by a qualified person or committee for consistency with generally accepted principles of youth suicide awareness and prevention. Permits training to be offered through videoconferencing or an individual program of study of designated materials. http://www.legis.state.ak.us/PDF/27/Bills/SB0137C.PDF
Title: S.B. 137
Source: legis.state.ak.us
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| SC | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Requires two hours of training in youth suicide awareness and prevention as a requirement for the renewal of credentials of individuals employed in a middle school or high school. The required training counts toward the one hundred twenty renewal credits specified in Department of Education regulations for renewal of credentials and can be accomplished through self-review of suicide prevention materials. Begins with the 2013-2014 school year. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/bills/4690.htm
Title: H.B. 4690
Source: scstatehouse.gov
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Requires districts and charter schools to require each licensed employee to complete two hours of professional development on youth suicide prevention within their license cycle. Directs the state board to develop or adopt sample materials for districts or charter schools to use for such professional development. http://le.utah.gov/~2012/bills/hbillenr/hb0501.pdf
Title: H.B. 501
Source: le.utah.gov
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Requires certain health professionals to complete training in suicide assessment, treatment, and management as part of their continuing education, continuing competency, or recertification requirements. Requires the secretary of the department of health to conduct a study evaluating the effect of evidence-based suicide assessment, treatment, and management training on the ability of licensed health care professionals to identify, refer, treat, and manage patients with suicidal ideation.http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2011-12/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2366-S.PL.pdf
Title: H.B. 2366
Source: apps.leg.wa.gov
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Directs the department of public health, in coordination with the Texas Education Agency, to provide and annually update a list of best practice-based early mental health intervention and suicide prevention programs for implementation in public K-12 schools. Permits districts to select program(s) for implementation in the district. Requires that programs on the list include components for training counselors, teachers, nurses, administrators, and other staff, as well as law enforcement officers and social workers who regularly interact with students, to (1) recognize students at risk of committing suicide, including students who are or may be the victims of or who engage in bullying; (2) recognize students displaying specified early warning signs and a possible need for early mental health intervention; and (3) intervene with students described in (1) and (2) by providing notice and referral to a parent so appropriate action, such as seeking mental health services, may be taken by a parent. Directs the department of public health and Texas Education Agency to consider certain programs in developing the list of programs.
Authorizes local boards to adopt a policy concerning early mental health intervention and suicide prevention that (1) establishes a procedure for notifying parents that their child is recommended for early mental health intervention or that their child is identified as at risk of committing suicide; (2) establishes that the district may develop a reporting mechanism and may designate one or more liaison officers to identify students in need of early mental health intervention or suicide prevention; and (3) sets out available counseling alternatives for a parent to consider when their child is identified as possibly being in need of early mental health intervention or suicide prevention.
Prohibits medical screening of a student as part of the identification process without prior parental permission. Requires that district policies be included in the student handbook and the district improvement plan. Permits the department of health to accept donations for purposes of this act, but prohibits the department of health from accepting anonymous donations. Directs the department of health, by January 2013, to report to the legislation on the development of the list of programs and the implementation in districts of selected programs by those districts that choose to implement programs. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB01386F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: H.B. 1386 - Early Mental Health Intervention and Prevention of Youth Suicide
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Eliminates language requiring the approval role of the Office of Drug Control for materials provided to school districts relating to suicide prevention educational resources. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-051.pdf/files/Ch_2011-051.pdf
Title: S.B. 2104
Source: http://laws.flrules.org
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Allows a governing body to adjourn its schools to allow teachers to participate in a basic or inservice course of education and training on suicide prevention and the recognition of signs that a student may be considering suicide. Requires the division of mental health and addiction to provide information and guidance to local school corporations on evidence based programs for teacher training on the prevention of child suicide and the recognition of signs that a student may be considering suicide. Provides that after June 30, 2013, an individual may not receive an initial teaching license unless the individual has completed training on suicide prevention and the recognition of signs that a student may be considering suicide. Effective 07/01/2011
Title: S.B. 4
Source: Westlaw/StateNet
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Requires the offices of the education ombudsman and the superintendent of public instruction to convene a work group on school bullying and harassment preventionto develop, recommend, and implement
strategies to improve school climate and create respectful learning environments in all public schools in Washington . Terminates the work group on January 1, 2016. Requires the state board for community and technical colleges and the higher education coordinating board to compile and analyze policies and procedures adopted by community and technical colleges or four-year institutions of higher education, as appropriate, regarding harassment, intimidation, and bullying prevention. Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to work with state agency and community partners to develop pilot projects to assist schools in implementing youth suicide prevention activities. Includes mental health and suicide prevention education in the essential academic learning requirements in health and fitness. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2011-12/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202011/1163-S2.SL.pdf
Title: H.B. 1163
Source: apps.leg.wa.gov
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Requires two hours of mandatory in-service professional development once every five years for licensed personnel in teen suicide awareness and prevention.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Acts/Act770.pdf
Title: H.B. 1778
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/
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| PA | Adopted 10/2010 | P-12 | A Resolution promoting youth suicide prevention education for all administrative, teaching and counseling personnel in all public and private high schools in Pennsylvania.
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=PDF&sessYr=2009&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=R&billNbr=0980&pn=4422
Title: H.R. 980
Source: http://www.legis.state.pa.us
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Requires that district school boards provide access to suicide prevention educational resources, as approved by the Statewide Office of Suicide Prevention, to all instructional and administrative personnel as part of the school district professional development system. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2010-204.pdf
Title: S.B. 434
Source: http://laws.flrules.org
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Adds school social workers who work with students in grades 7-12 to the list of persons who must be trained to identify the warning signs of suicidal behavior in adolescents and teens and be taught intervention techniques. Adds participating in or presenting at in-service training programs on suicide prevention to the list of possible continuing professional development activities for teacher certification. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/96/PDF/096-0951.pdf
Title: H.B. 4672
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12 | Requires all high school and middle school principals, guidance counselors and teachers each school year to complete a minimum of two hours of self-study review of suicide prevention materials. Provides that if a local board offers suicide prevention training, it may be completed through self-study review of suicide prevention materials. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/SB65/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 65
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Requires the cabinet for health and family services to post suicide prevention awareness and training information on its Web page by August 1, 2010; requires every public middle and high school administrator to disseminate suicide prevention awareness information to all middle and high school students by September 1, 2010, and September 1 of each year thereafter. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/HB51/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 51
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Effective October 1, 2009. Establishes the Student Harassment Prevention Act. Requires local boards to adopt policies by July 2010 to prevent student harassment and suicide. Includes written and electronic acts motivated by a student characteristic in the definition of harassing behavior. Limits harassment to behavior that takes place on school property or school buses, or at school-sponsored events. Provides no student should be subject to harassment or intimidation. Allows any student who is the object of harassment (or student's parent) to file a written complaint. Requires all schools to develop plans or programs, including peer mediation teams, to encourage students to report and address incidents of harassment, violence or threats of violence. Directs the department to develop a model policy prohibiting harassment, violence and threats of violence that contains specified components, including procedures to report acts of intimidation or harassment, suicide threats, violence and threats of violence.
Requires schools to:
--Implement proven practices to promote safe and harassment-free school environments
--Implement proven practices to prevent harassment, intimidation, violence and threats of violence, and to intervene when such incidents occur
--Incorporate awareness of harassment and intimidation prohibitions into character education curricula
--Report statistics on harassment, violence and threats of violence to the local board, which must provide statistics by school and for the district as a whole to the department of education for posting on the department Web site.
Provides that, to the extent that legislative or local funds are available, all school systems must implement 12 specified suicide prevention standards and policies, including educating students in recognizing signs of suicidal tendencies, informing students of available community suicide prevention services, and promoting cooperation between school staff and community suicide prevention program staff. Effective October 1, 2009.
Title: H.B. 216
Source: www.lexis.com
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Directs the State Department of Education to require annual in-service training for presently employed teachers and principals to include suicide prevention education, with such training to be developed by the State Department of Mental Health; requires such training for newly employed licensed teachers and principals; requires that annual in- service training for teachers in grades k-3 shall include intensive, comprehensive and researched- based reading methods.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2009/pdf/SB/2700-2799/SB2770SG.pdf
Title: S.B. 2770
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2008 | P-12 | Authorizes a school district that receives a professional development block grant to offer to each of its teachers staff development in the prevention of youth suicide.
Chapter 143
http://www.senate.ca.gov/
Title: S.B. 1378
Source: http://www.senate.ca.gov/
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Requires in-service training for teachers, school counselors, principals, and other school administrators in suicide prevention; provides that the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education shall adopt guidelines and rules for such training.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=498837
Title: H.B. 719
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/
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| WI | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Bill directs the local school boards and governing bodies of private schools to inform their professional staffs of the resources available from the department of public instruction. The department must provide annually a model notice, describing the suicide prevention services.
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2007/data/acts/07Act220.pdf
Title: S.B. 493
Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Deletes references to the Illinois Suicide Prevention Strategic Planning Committee and the Committee and replaces them with references to the Illinois Suicide Prevention Alliance. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HB/PDF/09500HB1643lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 1643
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Authorizes the department of health to establish a statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention program that focused on young people ages 10-24 to:
(1) Create public awareness for issues relating to youth suicide prevention;
(2) Build community networks concerning youth suicide prevention; and
(3) Carry out suicide prevention training programs for law enforcement personnel, health care providers, school and University of Hawaii employees, and other persons who have contact with individuals at risk of suicide.
Authorizes the department of health to provide appropriate research, training, and technical assistance to carry out the program, including:
(1) Providing oversight of youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies;
(2) Identifying and understanding causes and associated risk factors of youth suicide;
(3) Analyzing the efficacy of new and existing youth suicide early intervention techniques and technologies;
(4) Examining trends in youth suicidal behaviors and nonfatal suicide attempts;
(5) Evaluating and disseminating outcomes and best practices of mental and behavioral health services at institutions of higher education; and
(6) Other activities deemed appropriate by the director of health.
Authorizes the department of health to submit proposals for funding from federal agencies and private organizations to support the statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention program.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/Bills/HB55_CD1_.htm
Title: H.B. 55
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Creates the statewide Office for Suicide Prevention as a unit of the drug control office in the office of the governor. Directs the office to:
(1) Develop a network of community-based programs to improve suicide prevention initiatives and work to eliminate barriers to providing suicide prevention services to individuals at risk of suicide. Provides that the network must include schools and universities and school personnel.
(2) Prepare and implement the statewide plan with the advice of the Suicide Prevention Coordinating Council.
(3) Increase public awareness about suicide prevention.
(4) Coordinate education and training curricula in suicide prevention efforts for various role groups, including school employees.
Creates the Suicide Prevention Coordinating Council within the statewide office. Directs the coordinating council to advise the statewide office on the development
of a statewide plan for suicide prevention, with the guiding principle that suicide is a preventable problem. Directs the council to make findings and recommendations on suicide prevention programs and activities, and submit an annual report to the governor, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives. Provides that the council must include members representing the Florida Association of School Psychologists and the Florida School Board Association. Directs the state commissioner of education or his/her designee to serve on the council. Directs the council to meet at least quarterly and makes an appropriation to cover the costs of two full-time equivalent positions to implement this act during the 2007-2008 fiscal year.
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/laws/07laws/ch_2007-046.pdf
Title: H.B. 139
Source: election.dos.state.fl.us
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| TN | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Creates the Jason Flatt Act of 2007 to require that in-service training for teachers and principals include at least two hours of instruction in suicide prevention each school year.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB0057.pdf
Title: S.B. 57, H.B. 101
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Defines "teens at risk" as public school students in grades 7-12 who have been identified as expressing or exhibiting indications of depression, suicidal inclination, emotional trauma, substance abuse or other behaviors or symptoms that indicate the existence of, or that may lead to, the development of mental illness or substance abuse. Authorizes the department of health and welfare, the state department of education, the department of juvenile corrections, counties, courts and local school districts to collaborate in planning and developing mental health counseling, substance abuse treatment and recovery support services and individual service plans for teens at risk.
Creates new section creating a 3-year pilot teen early intervention mental health and substance abuse specialist program. Provides that teen early intervention specialists are to work with individual at-risk teens to offer group counseling, recovery support, suicide prevention and other mental health and substance abuse counseling services to teens as needed, regardless of mental health diagnosis. Provides that districts wishing to have a teen early intervention mental health and substance abuse specialist placed in the district may apply may apply to the department of health and welfare for such placement.
For 3-year period beginning at the start of the 2008 school year, directs the department of health and welfare to work with districts where teen early intervention specialists have been placed to gather data on the effectiveness of this program. Session Law Chapter 309
http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1147.html
Title: S.B. 1147
Source: www3.state.id.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Directs the governing boards of each public institution of higher education to develop and implement policies that advise students, faculty, and staff, including residence hall staff, of the proper procedures for identifying and addressing the needs of students that exhibit suicidal tendencies or behavior. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB3064ER
Title: H.B. 3064
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/
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| MI | Signed into law 07/2006 | P-12 | Encourages schools to provide age-appropriate instruction programs regarding warning signs and risk factors of suicide and depression and the protective factors that help prevent suicide; provides professional development for school personnel; provides that failure to comply with parent communication guidelines does not create a cause of action or constitute a breach of duty in any civil action; relates to the Chase Edwards Law. Provides for parental notification if a school district institutes a suicide prevention plan. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/publicact/pdf/2006-PA-0324.pdf
Title: H.B. 4375
Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov
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| CO | To governor 05/2006 | Postsec. | Concerns suicidal behavior among students in higher education; authorizes selected state institutions of higher education to notify a designated contact person in the event that a person who has been designated by the state institution has a reasonable belief that the student is considering suicide or may be a danger to himself or herself; authorizes the institution to release to the contact person only such confidential information that is directly related to the student's suicide risk.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2006A/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/E67AEDFDD1187D6F8725706C006601E7?Open&file=067_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 67
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Requires schools to annually submit the names of organizations and individuals who have provided effective hazing, harassment, bullying, suicide, or substance abuse prevention training for staff or students, or both. Directs the commissioner to consult with the commission on human rights and other relevant organizations regarding organizations and individuals who may not yet have been invited into a school but who are qualified to provide the training. Requires the commissioner to compile the information and make it available to schools throughout the state either on the department's website or in another form in a format determined most appropriate. The intent of this listing is to offer schools a broad set of programs for prevention training which will be periodically updated based on feedback from schools. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2006/acts/ACT182.HTM
Title: H.B. 867 - Section 27
Source: www.leg.state.vt.us
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Allows public school teachers to receive professional development credit by attending an in-service program on juvenile mental health
issues, including awareness and prevention of youth suicide.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2006a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/07205A4A5D8B24FB872570930058AFFE?Open&file=1098_rer.pdf
Title: H.B. 1098
Source: CO Legislative Web Site
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| VT | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Provides that teaching about signs of and responses to depression and risk of suicide is critical to promoting a safe and healthy school environment for all children. Requires the comprehensive health curriculum to promote an understanding of depression and the signs of suicide risk in a family member or fellow student that includes how to respond appropriately and seek help and provides an awareness of the available school and community resources such as the local suicide crisis hotline.
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2006/acts/ACT114.HTM
Title: H.B. 630
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us/
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| ID | Issued 03/2006 | P-12 | Establishes the Idaho Council on Suicide Prevention. Provides that the council's responsibilities are:
A. To oversee the implementation of the Idaho Suicide Prevention Plan;
B. To ensure the continued relevance of the plan by evaluating implementation progress reports and developing changes and new priorities to update the plan;
C. To be a proponent for suicide prevention in Idaho;
D. To prepare an annual report on plan implementation for the governor and legislature.
Provides that the council must include representatives from a number of groups, including the department of education or school districts, the department of juvenile justice and the youth community
http://gov.idaho.gov/mediacenter/execorders/eo06/eo_2006-08.htm
Title: Executive Order 2006-08
Source: gov.idaho.gov
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| NJ | Signed into law 02/2006 | P-12 | Requires State Board of Education to include two hours of instruction in suicide prevention as part of professional development for public school teaching staff members; revises the Core Curriculum Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education to include suicide prevention instruction. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2004/Bills/AL05/310_.PDF
Title: A.B. 3931
Source: Lexis/Nexis, State Net
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Defines "unexpected and unexplained death" as a death that, prior to investigation, appears to have been caused by trauma, suspicious or obscure circumstances, or child abuse or neglect. Includes death from vehicular trauma, fire, drowning, abuse, suicide and unknown causes.
Allows each judicial district to establish a local child fatality prevention review team. Requires each local review team to consist of specified representatives of public and nonpublic agencies in the judicial district that provide services to children and their families and of other individuals who represent the community, including representatives from school districts.
Authorizes local review teams to include representatives from additional entities or groups in the judicial district. Requires local review teams to review specified cases of death of children 18 years of age and younger in the judicial district. Requires the local review teams to (1) review certain cases of unexpected and unexplained death in the judicial district; (2) review the findings concerning cause and manner of the death and attempt to determine if the local review team concurs with the findings; (3) evaluate means by which the death might have been prevented; (4) report case review findings to public and private agencies that have responsibilities for children and make recommendations to these agencies that may help to reduce the number of child deaths; (5) request a plan of action from an agency for improvements to prevent child deaths when the case involves a child in the custody of the agency at the time of death or involves identified system problems at the agency; and (6) submit specified information related to the local team's review to the state review team.
Authorizes local review teams, within existing appropriations and community resources, to (1) promote continuing education for professionals involved in investigating, treating and preventing child abuse and neglect; and (2) promote public education related to preventing child deaths.
Creates the Colorado State Child Fatality Prevention Review Team in the department of public health and environment. Requires the governor, on or before September 2005, to appoint 17 members to the state review team, and for other directors of state departments to appoint specified numbers of ex officio nonvoting members, including one ex officio nonvoting member appointed by the commissioner of education.
Requires the state review team to (1) form committees to review specified types of child deaths in the state; (2) outline trends and patterns of childhood death in the state; (3) identify and investigate risk factors that may lead to childhood death; (4) characterize groups of children who are at risk for childhood death; (5) evaluate the services offered and the system responses to children who are at risk of childhood death and request plans of action for improvement from agencies, when necessary; (6) take steps to improve the quality and scope of data obtained through investigations of childhood deaths; (7) steps to improve the quality and scope of data obtained through investigations and review of childhood deaths; (8) report to the governor and specific committees of the general assembly concerning recommendations for changes to law, rule, or policy that the state review team has determined will promote the safety and well-being of children; (9) subject to appropriations, distribute information to the public on risks to children and recommendations for promoting children's safety and well-being; and (10) performing any other functions necessary to enhance the state's capacity to reduce and prevent childhood injuries and death.
Provides state and local review teams with access to specified records, including records related to previous reports and investigations of suspected child abuse or neglect and records of coroner or medical examiner investigations. Establishes confidentiality requirements for members of state and local review teams and invited participants at meetings; provides for release of information to governmental agencies.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/DB4E4D4BCE1D922987256F39006721E5?Open&file=1280_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1280
Source: www.leg.state.co.us
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| AZ | Vetoed 04/2005 | P-12 | Bars a teacher, principal, counselor or other district or charter school employee, unless the parent is notified in writing and provides written consent to the disclosure of the information requested, from:
(1) Undertaking or contracting to undertake any behavioral or mental health screening on a student in grades K-12.
(2) Asking or compelling a K-12 student to disclose personal information about the student's or student's family's behavioral or mental health history.
(3) Requiring a K-12 student to participate in a survey, assessment, screening, analysis or evaluation used to detect any behavioral or mental disorder or illness.
Specifies the necessary content for written notification.
Exempts the chemical abuse and related gang activity survey conducted by the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission from these provisions.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1270
Title: S.B. 1270
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| MD | (S) THIRD READING PASSED WITH AMENDMENTS (47-0) 04/2005 | P-12 | Authorizing the Youth Suicide Prevention School Program to include specified mental health programs; requiring the Youth Suicide Prevention School Program to develop and implement specified mental health programs; authorizing the State Department of Education to assist in implementing specified programs; and requiring the State Department of Education to seek specified federal funds for Youth Suicide Prevention School Programs
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/hb0930.htm
Title: H.B. 930
Source: StateNet
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| ME | Issued 02/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Orders the governor's children's cabinet to assign staff to participate in a strategic planning process to update and revise the Maine Youth Suicide Prevention Program (MYSPP), outline strategies to improve the quality and accessibility of suicide and self-injury data, submit revised MYSPP statewide implementation plan to the governor by August 31, 2005 and propose actions likely to reduce youth suicide and suicide attempts. Orders children's cabinet to identify appropriate financial resources. Orders collaboration between various agencies and with the private sector.
http://www.maine.gov/governor/baldacci/news/executive-orders/EO%2033%20FY%200405%20-%20suicide%20prevention.doc
Title: Executive Order
Source: http://www.maine.gov
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| NH | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Expands the duties of the health education review committee to include specific consideration of youth suicide prevention initiatives.
Title: H.B. 1397
Source: StateNet
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| CT | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Requires the State Prevention Council to determine long-term goals, strategies and outcome measures to promote the health and well being of children and families including; early intervention strategies, an increase in healthy pregnant women and newborns, a decrease in child neglect and abuse, an increase in school-ready children, an increase in children who succeed in school, a decrease in children who are unsupervised after school and a decrease in juvenile suicide and crime. http://www.cga.state.ct.us/2003/act/Pa/2003PA-00145-R00SB-00886-PA.htm
Title: S.B. 886
Source: Connecticut Legislative Web site
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | The governing body of a regional training program may facilitate and coordinate access to information by teachers and administrators concerning issues related to suicide among pupils. Such information must be offered for educational purposes only. Receipt of or access to information does not create a duty for any person in addition to those duties otherwise required in the course of his employment.
Title: S.B. 36
Source: Nevada Legislative Web Site
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Establishes a program of suicide prevention in public schools.
Title: S.B. 792
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12 | Requires licensed school personnel who have reason to believe that a student is considering suicide to immediately contact at least one of the student's parents to ask whether the parent is aware of the student's mental state and whether the parent wishes to or already has obtained counseling for the student; provides that parental contact will not be made if the student indicates parental abuse as the reason for contemplating suicide.
Title: S.B. 1250
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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