ECS
From the ECS State Policy Database
1994-2013

Education Commission of the States • 700 Broadway, Suite 810 • Denver, CO 80203-3442 • 303.299.3600 • fax 303.296.8332 • www.ecs.org

The following summary includes policies ECS has tracked in this database since 1994. 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. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the topic of interest.

Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date].

State Status/Date Level Summary
+ 21st Century Skills
+ Accountability
+ Accountability--Accreditation
+ Accountability--Measures/Indicators
+ Accountability--Reporting Results
+ Accountability--Rewards
+ Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions
+ Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Learnfare
+ Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive
+ Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Play
+ Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers
+ Accountability--School Improvement
+ Adult Basic Education
+ Assessment
+ Assessment--Accommodations
+ Assessment--College Entrance Exams
+ Assessment--Common Core/National Tests
+ Assessment--Computer Based
+ Assessment--End-of-Course
+ Assessment--Formative/Interim
+ Assessment--High Stakes/Competency
+ Assessment--NAEP (NAEP Results and NAEP Organization)
+ Assessment--Performance Based/Portfolio
+ Assessment--Value Added
+ At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)
+ At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education
+ At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol
+ Attendance
+ Attendance--Compulsory
+ Attendance--Statutory Ages (Upper and Lower)
+ Attendance--Truancy
+ Background Checks
+ Bilingual/ESL
+ Brain Research
+ Business Involvement
+ Career/Technical Education
+ Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship
+ Cheating
+ Choice of Schools
+ Choice of Schools--Charter Schools
+ Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Charter Districts
+ Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Closings
+ Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Cyber Charters
+ Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance
+ Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Research
+ Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment
+ Choice of Schools--Innovation Schools
+ Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools
+ Choice of Schools--Tax Credits
+ Choice of Schools--Vouchers
+ Choice of Schools--Vouchers--Privately Funded
+ Civic Education
+ Civic Education--Character Education
+ Civic Education--Civic Knowledge and Literacy
+ Civic Education--Curriculum/Standards
+ Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance
+ Class Size
+ Counseling/Guidance
+ Curriculum
+ Curriculum--Alignment
+ Curriculum--Arts Education
+ Curriculum--Censorship
+ Curriculum--Computer Science
+ Curriculum--Core Curriculum
+ Curriculum--Drivers Education
+ Curriculum--Environmental Education
+ Curriculum--Excusal
+ Curriculum--Family Living Education
+ Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed.
+ Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language
+ Curriculum--Geography Education
+ Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education
+ Curriculum--Home Economics
+ Curriculum--International Education
+ Curriculum--Language Arts
+ Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling
+ Curriculum--Mathematics
+ Curriculum--Multicultural
+ Curriculum--Physical Education
+ Curriculum--Science
+ Curriculum--Sex Education
+ Curriculum--Social Studies/History
+ Data-Driven Improvement
+ Demographics
+ Demographics--Condition of Children/Adults
+ Demographics--Enrollments
+ Desegregation
+ Economic/Workforce Development
+ Economic/Workforce Development--Value of an Education
+ Education Research
+ Equity
+ Federal
+ Finance
+ Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost
+ Finance--Aid to Private Schools
+ Finance--Bonds
+ Finance--District
+ Finance--Does Money Matter?
+ Finance--Equity
+ Finance--Facilities
+ Finance--Federal
+ Finance--Funding Formulas
+ Finance--Litigation
+ Finance--Local Foundations/Funds
+ Finance--Lotteries
+ Finance--Performance Funding
+ Finance--Private Giving
+ Finance--Resource Efficiency
+ Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
+ Finance--Student Fees
+ Finance--Taxes/Revenues
+ Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues
+ Governance
+ Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule
+ Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest
+ Governance--Mandates
+ Governance--Regional Entities
+ Governance--School Boards
+ Governance--School Boards--Training
+ Governance--Site-Based Management
+ Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
+ Health
+ Health--Child Abuse
+ Health--Mental Health
+ Health--Nutrition
+ Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses
+ Health--Suicide Prevention
+ Health--Teen Pregnancy
+ High School
+ High School--Advanced Placement
+ High School--College Readiness
+ High School--Credit Recovery
+ High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates
+ High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment
+ High School--Early Colleges/Middle Colleges
+ High School--Exit Exams
+ High School--GED (General Education Development)
+ High School--Graduation Requirements
+ Instructional Approaches
+ Instructional Approaches--Constructivism
+ Instructional Approaches--Grading Practices
+ Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling
+ Instructional Approaches--Homework/Study Skills
+ Instructional Approaches--Official English
+ Instructional Approaches--Problem Based Learning
+ Instructional Approaches--Single-Sex Education
+ Instructional Approaches--Teaching Across Disciplines
+ Instructional Approaches--Time/Time on Task
+ Instructional Approaches--Tracking/Ability Grouping
- Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools
CTSigned into law 05/2013P-12Community Schools
S.B. 1002
Allows local or regional boards of education to establish a community school or schools to participate with community partners to provide various educational and social services to students, families, and community members during hours when school is not in se...

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ILPassed 05/2013P-12Promise Neighborhood Grants
H.R. 154
Urges Congress, the President of the United States, and the U.S. Department of Education to consider communities in the state, including communities in the City of Chicago, as Promise Neighborhoods and award grants as such. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/98/H...

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NMSigned into law 03/2013P-12Community Schools Act
H.B. 542
Provides a strategy to organize the resources of a community to ensure student success while addressing the needs of the whole student. Attempts to partner federal, state and local entities with private community-based organizations to improve the coordination...

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DCSigned into law 07/2012P-12Community Schools Incentive, Title IV
Bill 19-648
Requires the mayor to establish and administer the multiyear Community Schools Incentive Initiative to award multiyear grants to incentivize the
establishment of no fewer than 5 new community schools, with priority given to schools that have: a focus on mental...

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WVAdopted 06/2012P-12Education Innovation Zones
WV ADC s 126-75-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Background: Legislation authorizing the West Virginia Board of Education (WVBE) to designate Education Innovation Zones in schools, groups of schools and departments or subdivisions of a school or schools was entered into statute in October, 2009. The legislat...

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CTSigned into law 05/2012P-12Family Resource Centers & School-Based Health Clinics
S.B. 458
(Sec. 8) Directs the education commissioner to establish at least 10 new family resource centers and at least 20 new or expanded school-based health clinics in alliance districts (the 30 lowest-performing districts). By law, family resource centers are located...

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ORSigned into law 03/2012P-12Early Childhood and Youth Councils
H.B. 4165
Revises the purpose of the Early Learning Council to ensuring that children enter school ready to learn, determines responsibilities, membership and term limits and establishes the Early Learning Council Fund. Requires that the Early Learning Council implement...

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MNSigned into law 07/2011P-12Full-service School Zones
H.F. 26
Allows a school board to establish full-service school zones and provide transportation for students in these zones. Provides that zones may be created for schools in areas with higher than average crime or other social and economic challenges that provide edu...

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KYAdopted 03/2011P-12Students with Chronic Health Conditions
H.R. 187
Encourages the state department of education, the Kentucky Board of Nursing, the Kentucky Education Association, and the Kentucky School Boards Association to work with the American Diabetes Association, the Epilepsy Foundation of Kentucky, and the American Lu...

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WISigned into law 04/2010P-12Act 215 - Misc. Provisions
S.B. 437
Requires boards annually to prepare budgets for each school in the district. Requires boards to collaborate with nonprofits and government agencies to provide comprehensive social services and educational support. Requires boards to provide alternative methods...

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COIssued 03/2010P-12Governor's Early Childhood Leadership Commission
Exec. Order B 2010-002
The Commission is to ensure and advance a comprehensive service delivery system for children from birth to age eight using data to improve decision-making, alignment, and coordination among federally-funded and state-funded services and programs. The Early Chi...

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OHSigned into law 07/2009P-12"Help Me Grow" Advisory Council
H.B. 1 - Section 3701.611 and 289.20
Establishes the "Help Me Grow" advisory council, to serve as the state interagency coordinating council, as described in 20 U.S.C. 1441. Establishes duties of the council. Authorizes the council to advise and assist the departments of health and education on t...

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OHSigned into law 07/2009P-12Service Coordination Workgroup
H.B. 1 - Section 751.20
Establishes the Service Coordination Workgroup, consisting of a representative of 10 state offices/agencies, including the departments of education; health; job and family services; mental health; developmental disabilities; and youth services, and to be chair...

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TXSigned into law 06/2009P-12Council on Children and Families
S.B. 1646
Creates the Council on Children and Families to coordinate the state's health, education and human services systems to ensure that children and families have access to needed services, and improve efficiency in the provision of services. Establishes council me...

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TXSigned into law 06/2009P-12Interagency Task Force for Children with Special Needs
S.B. 1824
Defines "children with special needs" as children younger than 22 diagnosed with a chronic illness, intellectual or other developmental disability, or serious mental illness. Creates the Interagency Task Force for Children with Special Needs to improve the coo...

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INSigned into law 05/2009P-12Board for the Coordination of Programs Serving Vulnerable Individuals
H.B. 1289 - Section 1
Creates the board for the coordination of programs serving vulnerable individuals to coordinate the delivery of services to vulnerable individuals in need of services; requires the Superintendent of the Department of Education or designee to serve on the board...

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GAAdopted 03/2009P-12Grant Programs
GAC 96-1-.01, .04, .05, .07
Establishes guidelines for the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Treatment grant program, the Abstinence Until Marriage grant program, the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant program, and the Caring Communities grant program.
Juvenile Delinquency Prevention ...

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UTSigned into law 03/2009P-12County/Local Board Collaboration
S.B. 92
Modifies provisions regarding local governmental entity and school district cooperation in education matters. Allows a representative of county government to attend and participate in the board discussions at local school board meetings. Requires local boards ...

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ILSigned into law 08/2008P-12
Postsec.
Community College
Commission on Children and Youth
H.B. 4456
Creates the Commission on Children and Youth Act. Provides for membership, appointments, goals, recommendations, and reports. Provides that the Early Learning Council must have primary responsibility for development of a five-year strategic plan for children a...

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LASigned into law 07/2008P-12Integrated Services for At Risk Students
S.B. 701
Provides for integrated case management through the use of No Wrong Door; relates to disadvantaged children and their families; relates to student achievement, truancy intervention, drop out prevention, family safety and stability, foster care and adoption, pr...

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KYSigned into law 04/2008P-12Family Resource and Youth Services Centers
S.B. 192
Provides that family resource and youth services centers must provide services to enhance a student's ability to succeed in school. Provides that the most economically disadvantaged students and families must receive priority status for receiving services. Pro...

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NYVetoed 12/2007P-12
Postsec.
College-Linked Senior Living Community
S.B. 2139
Directs the department of health to approve the establishment of a college-linked senior living community that has a formal, jointly defined program in collaboration with a local college offering degree programs in gerontology and allied health professions to ...

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ILAdopted 07/2007P-12Children's Mental Health Initiative Grants
23 IAC 555.10 thru .160, and Appendix A
Creates new Part of rules, "Children's Mental Health Initiative Grants." Subpart A, "School Mental Health Support Grants," (pages 136-141 of 201 http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/register/register_volume31_issue30.pdf) includes the following ...

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LASigned into law 06/2007P-12Truancy and Assessment and Service Centers
S.B. 187
Gives permanent status to truancy and assessment and service centers (which were initially established through a pilot program). Deletes language directing the Families in Need of Services program to serve in a coordinating and facilitating capacity for the ce...

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TXSigned into law 06/2007P-12Withholding Funding When Goals Not Met
H.B. 1609
Codifies provisions concerning program performance goals, objectives, and measures and provides the commissioner of education authority to withhold funding from a Communities
In Schools (CIS) program that consistently fails to achieve performance criteria. (CI...

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MDSigned into law 05/2007P-12Student Self-Injury Prevention
H.B. 1046
Requires the State Superintendent of Schools, in collaboration with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, to establish and promote in schools in the State a public awareness campaign related to self-injury by cutting; provides for the components of the ...

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IDSigned into law 03/2007P-12Teen Early Intervention Mental Health and Substance Abuse Specialist Program
S.B. 1147
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 existenc...

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IDIssued 04/2006P-12Executive Office for Families and Children
Executive Order 2006-09
Establishes the Executive Office for Families and Children. Provides that the duties of the council include:

A. Coordinating all boards, councils, commissions, and initiatives as recommended by the Governor, within the Executive Office of the Governor with ...

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IDIssued 04/2006P-12Governor's Coordinating Council for Families and Children
Executive Order 2006-15
Continues the "Governor's Coordinating Council for Families and Children" within the governor's office. Provides that the objectives for the Coordinating Council are to:
a. Maintain a comprehensive inventory of resources and programs serving families and chi...

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KYSigned into law 04/2006P-12Kentucky Youth Development Coordinating Council
S.J.R. 184
Encourages the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish the Kentucky Youth Development Coordinating Council; establishes membership and permits the creation of subcommittees of the council; requires the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension S...

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MDSigned into law 04/2006P-12Integrated Children and Family Programs for At Risk Youth
S.B. 882
Establishes an advisory council to the children's cabinet to make recommendations to the children's cabinet on methods for meeting the policy and program goals of the state for integrated children and family programs, coordinate state programs with local progr...

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TNSigned into law 06/2005P-12Family Resource Centers
S.B. 2115
Sets the purpose of each family resource center: to maximize the potential learning capacity of the child by ensuring that school environments and neighborhoods are safe and socially enriching, that families are strong and able to protect children and meet the...

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MD(H) THIRD READING PASSED (131-0) 04/2005P-12Children in State-Supervised Care - Transfer of Educational Records
S.B. 426
Requiring a placement agency responsible for a child in State-supervised care, or the agency's designee, to provide notice to a public school or a specified nonpublic school regarding the enrollment or imminent enrollment of a child in State-supervised care; r...

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MD(S) THIRD READING PASSED WITH AMENDMENTS (44-2) 04/2005P-12Department of Juvenile Services Educational Programs - Private Residential Rehabilitative Institutions
H.B. 1148
Requiring private residential rehabilitative institutions to develop and implement a specified educational program; requiring a specified educational program to be approved by the State Department of Education before the program is implemented; providing for t...

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MD(S) THIRD READING PASSED (46-0) 04/2005P-12Children in State-Supervised Care - Transfer of Educational Records
H.B. 1259
Requiring a placement agency responsible for a child in State-supervised care, or the agency's designee, to provide notice to a public school or a specified nonpublic school regarding the enrollment or imminent enrollment of a child in State-supervised care; r...

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MDVetoed 04/2005P-12Department of Juvenile Services Educational Programs - Private Residential Rehabilitative Institutions
S.B. 503
Requiring private residential rehabilitative institutions to develop and implement a specified educational program; requiring a specified educational program to be approved by the State Department of Education before the program is implemented; providing for t...

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MTSigned into law 04/2005P-12SCHOOL DISTRICT TUITION LAWS
H.B. 83
AN ACT REVISING THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TUITION LAWS; REQUIRING THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION TO PAY TUITION FOR CHILDREN WHO ATTEND SCHOOL OUTSIDE OF THE DISTRICT OF RESIDENCE BECAUSE OF PLACEMENT IN FOSTER CARE OR A GROUP HOME; ELIMINATING THE REQUIRE...

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VASigned into law 03/2005P-12Virginia Interagency Coordinating Council
S.B. 1188
Authorizes the state lead agency for early intervention to contract with local lead agencies for the implementation of local early intervention systems statewide. Under the bill, a local lead agency shall have the duty to (i) establish and administer a local s...

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CASigned into law 09/2004P-12Special Education: Mental Health Services
S.B. 1895
Relates to referral of a pupil suspected of needing mental health services to a community health service by a local education agency, providing mental health services to students with exceptional needs, monitoring of compliance to provide mental health service...

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LASigned into law 07/2004P-12Early Intervention Program for At Risk Children
H.B. 956
Authorizes the creation of an early intervention pilot program in certain parishes, to address the underlying causes of behavioral problems and school performance problems related to behavior. Authorizes local boards, law enforcement agencies, courts with jur...

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LASigned into law 06/2004P-12Juvenile Service Center Truancy and Assessment
H.B. 1527
Authorizes any parish in the state, not just pre-existing pilot program parishes, to create truancy and assessment and service centers. Louisiana State University's office of social services research and development to develop and implement a monitoring and ev...

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LASigned into law 06/2004P-12Special Education
H.B. 258
Specifies that children with exceptionalities enrolled in state-operated facilities and receiving special education services provided by the special school district shall be enrolled as residents of such facilities, and that eligible children enrolled in state...

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LASigned into law 06/2004P-12School Employees
H.B. 1163
Permits city, parish, or other local public or nonpublic school systems to contract with local law enforcement agencies to provide for school resource officers. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT3/OUT/0000LV4G.PDF...

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ARSigned into law 02/2004P-12Family Resource Centers
H.B. 1091
Provides for family resource centers to remove nonacademic barriers to academic success; authorizes use of national school lunch funds for this program; provides that the State Child Abuse and Prevention Board shall determine which schools are priority element...

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GASigned into law 06/2003P-12Child Abuse Records
S.B. 201
Relates to child abuse and deprivation records; permits the Department of Human Resources to share access to child abuse records and release information from such records to the Office of School Readiness, includes principals, guidance counselors, school socia...

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ORSigned into law 05/2003P-12Community Learning Centers
S.B. 158
Includes community learning centers as part of services to children and families system. http://pub.das.state.or.us/LEG_BILLS/PDFs/ESB158.pdf...

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TXBecame law without governor's signature 05/2003P-12Mental Health and Substance Abuse Programs
S.B. 491
Requires the Texas Education Agency, in conjunction with the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, the Texas Department of Health, and the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, shall assess existing school-based mental health and subs...

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WASigned into law 05/2003P-12Children's Mental Health
H.B. 1784
Improves coordination of services for children's mental health; improves field-level cross-program collaboration and efficiency, the early periodic screening diagnosis and treatment plan to reflect the current mental health system structure and identifying and...

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NMSigned into law 04/2003P-12Youth Council Act
S.B. 425
Creates a youth council within the children, youth and families department; enacts the Youth Council Act; youth membership shall be provided by educational advisors, faith-based organizations and community-based youth-serving organizations; provides that meeti...

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TNSigned into law 04/2003P-12Child Immunization Records
S.B. 1938
Includes third party payors or carriers regulated by department of commerce and insurance and self- insured entities as entities authorized to share information regarding child immunization records; relates to schools, child care facilities, and other institut...

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KYSigned into law 03/2003P-12Interlocal Cooperation Agreements
S.B. 133
Includes any county or independent school district in the definition of "public agency" as related to interlocal cooperation agreements. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/SB133/bill.doc...

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NMSigned into law 03/2003P-12Family and Youth Services Program
H.B. 212 (Omnibus Bill)
Adds Section 66, which allows any school to create a family and youth resources program to provide an intermediary for students and families to access social and health care services. Any school with at least 80% of students eligible for free & reduced lunch ...

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VASigned into law 03/2003P-12Comprehensive Community Police and Management
H.B. 1714
Relates to the State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; relates to the comprehensive assessment and planning team referral; requires the council to review and approve a request by such team to establish a collaberative...

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AZIssued 01/2003P-12Governor's Children's Cabinet
Executive Order 2003-04
Establishes a Children's Cabinet to focus attention and resources on problems facing the state's children by collaborating and promoting coordinated policies and service delivery systems that support children, families and communities. Establishes an Advisory ...

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MIRejected by voters 11/2002P-12Reallocation of tobacco settlement revenue
Proposal 02-4
Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to reallocate tobacco settlement revenue on a permanent annual basis funding to certain entities, including nonprofit hospitals, licensed nursing homes, licensed hospices, nurse practitioners, school-linked health cent...

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NYSigned into law 07/2002P-12Coordinated Services
S.B. 7516
Establishes a coordinated children's services initiative for children with emotional and/or behavioral disorders, within the council on children and families, to provide effective collaboration among State and local health, mental hygiene, education, juvenile ...

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AZSigned into law 05/2002P-12Pilot Cooperative Special Education Program
H.B. 2702
Establishes three-year pilot project for cooperative programs for low incidence pupils. Establishes an advisory committee to assist in establishment of the pilot project for cooperative programs for certain groups of pupils with low incidence disabilities. Def...

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CTSigned into law 05/2002P-12Colocation of Family Resource Centers and School-Based Health Clinics
H.B. 5179
Mandates that the Commissioner of Education and Public Health create plan for the colocation where possible of family resource centers and school-based health clinics in order to improve access to services and to make the delivery of services more cost-efficie...

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MDSigned into law 05/2002P-12Special Needs Children and the State School-Based Health Center Policy Advisory Council
H.B. 1386
Renames State Coordinating Countil for Residential Placement of Handicapped Children as State Coordinating Council for Children. Adds Maryland School-Based Health Care Center Policy Advisory Council; State Council on Child Abuse and Neglect; and State Commiss...

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INSigned into law 03/2002P-12
Postsec.
Interagency Task Force
S.B. 290
Requires the Director of the Division of Special Education to coordinate an interagency task force to review services and funding sources available for children and young adults with disabilities and their families....

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ORSigned into law 07/2001P-12Community Learning Centers
H.B. 2082
Directs the Departments of Education, Human Services, the State Commission on Children and Families and the Criminal Justice Commission to support development and implementation of community learning centers; requires specified State and local entities to expl...

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ORSigned into law 06/2001P-12Interagency Shared Information System
S.B. 400
Modifies the Interagency Shared Information System; defines participating State agency or organization for system; directs the Employment Department to establish system for collecting, analyzing and sharing data for development of education, training and emplo...

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ARSigned into law 04/2001P-12Social Workers
H.B. 2380
Provides licensed social workers to serve the needs of children enrolled in public schools in Arkansas....

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ARSigned into law 03/2001P-12Repeals Governor's Partnership Council
H.B. 1633
Repeals the Governor's Partnership Council and the Intervention and Prevention Grant Program for Arkansas School Children....

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NYSigned into law 06/2000P-12Payments to Medical Centers for Serving Preschool Students with Handicaps
S.B. 6735
Authorizes medical assistance payments to certain clinics or diagnostic and treatment centers for services they render to preschool children with disabilities....

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OKVetoed 06/2000P-12Partnership for School Readiness
S.B. 1597
Creates the Partnership for School Readiness Act to facilitate community collaboration of efforts and services that will prepare children to enter school healthy and ready to succeed. Goal also to stress importance of reading to children for 15 minutes per da...

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MSSigned into law 04/2000P-12Early Childhood Services Interagency Coordinating Council
H.B. 418
Establishes an Early Childhood Services Interagency Coordinating Council; provides for the membership and organization of the Council; defines the responsibilities of the Council; establishes an interagency advisory committee to the Council; provides for the m...

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OKSigned into law 04/2000P-12Prevention of Violence
H.B. 2168
States legislative intent to address school violence through prevention. Authorizes districts to contract with nonprofit agencies or community-based service providers for the appropriate personnel and services and to seek any available funding, including the ...

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WASigned into law 03/2000P-12Projects for Youth
H.B. 2807
Authorizes blended funding projects for youth; defines youth eligibility for the projects; directs the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Secretary of the Department of Social and Health Services to transfer appropriated funds to support blended fund...

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VASigned into law 02/2000P-12Office of Comprehensive Services
H.B. 1510
Creates the Office of Comprehensive Services for At-risk Youth and Families, under the lead of the Secretary of Health and Human Resources; assumes the responsibilities of the State Management Team to develop programs and fiscal policies that promote and suppo...

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NYSigned into law 06/1999P-12Extends Maximum Duration of School Health Services Projects
A.B. 6758
Extends to 23 years the maximum duration of certain projects to provide improved and expanded school health services for pre-school and school-age children....

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IASigned into law 04/1998P-12
S.B. 2353
Relates to an allocation of state aid for purposes of school-based youth services program; extends appropriations from 1998 to 2002....

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TXDied 08/1997P-12
S.B. 1535 Communities in Schools
Creates the State Board of Communities in Schools and the operation and expansion of a statewide Communities in Schools program....

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NVDied 07/1997P-12
A.B. 635
Makes an appropriation to the Clark County School District for the establishment of a full-service school center....

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CODied 02/1997P-12
H.B. 1215 Extracurricular Activities
Concerns authorization of school districts to establish corporations to provide extracurricular activities; authorizes a school district or Board of Cooperative Services, in cooperation with other school districts, boards of cooperative services, or private en...

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MDActive 06/1996P-12
Family Support Centers
Prevention and early intervention services for young parents and their children from birth to age 3. Centers located in neighborhoods with high concentrations of adolescent pregnancy, poverty and unemployment. Currently 15 centers housed in schools, churches a...

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UTSigned into law 03/1996P-12
H.B. 135 Collaboration Between School Districts
(Effective: 03/15/96) Relates to public schools: encouraging collaboration between school districts, local health departments, and private medical providers in determining needs and risks to student health and implementing plans to meet those needs and minimiz...

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MSSigned into law 04/1995P-12
S.B. 2507 - After School Programs
Establishes a Support Our Students (S.O.S.) Program within the State Department of Education for the purpose of awarding grants to neighborhood and community based organizations that provide programs for high quality after-school programs for children in grade...

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UTSigned into law 03/1995P-12
H.B. 243 - Education Collaboration With Human Services
Provides for the coordination of educational services with human service programs subject to licensure; requires the program to provide satisfactory evidence that children served will receive appropriate educational services; provides for an approval process; ...

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KYSigned into law 04/1994P-12
S.B. 53 Family Resource and Youth Service Centers
Adds two additional Departments of Education representatives and one additional parent to the Interagency Task Force on Family Resource and Youth Services Centers; requires revisions of the implementation plans to include two additional years; permits the Fami...

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+ Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness
+ Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Induction Programs and Mentoring
+ Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation
+ Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation--Alternative
+ Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Professional Development
+ Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Recruitment and Retention
+ Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Tenure
+ Mentoring/Tutoring
+ Middle School
+ Minority/Diversity Issues
+ Minority/Diversity Issues--African American
+ Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian
+ Minority/Diversity Issues--Hispanic
+ No Child Left Behind
+ No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress
+ No Child Left Behind--Assessment
+ No Child Left Behind--Choice/Transfer
+ No Child Left Behind--Consequences for Schools
+ No Child Left Behind--Finance
+ No Child Left Behind--Parent Involvement
+ No Child Left Behind--Reauthorization Issues/Waivers
+ No Child Left Behind--Report Cards
+ No Child Left Behind--School Support
+ No Child Left Behind--Special Populations
+ No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services
+ Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning
+ Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses
+ P-16 or P-20
+ P-3
+ P-3 Brain Development
+ P-3 Child Care
+ P-3 Content Standards and Assessment
+ P-3 Data Systems
+ P-3 Early Intervention (0-3)
+ P-3 English Language Learners (ELL)
+ P-3 Ensuring Quality
+ P-3 Evaluation/Economic Benefits
+ P-3 Family Involvement
+ P-3 Finance
+ P-3 Governance
+ P-3 Grades 1-3
+ P-3 Health and Mental Health
+ P-3 Kindergarten
+ P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten
+ P-3 Kindergarten--Full Day Kindergarten
+ P-3 Preschool
+ P-3 Public/Private Partnerships
+ P-3 Special Ed./Inclusion
+ P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development
+ P-3 Technology
+ Parent/Family
+ Parent/Family--Parent Rights
+ Parent/Family--Research
+ Partnerships--University/School
+ Postsecondary
+ Postsecondary Accountability
+ Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation
+ Postsecondary Accountability--Diploma Mills
+ Postsecondary Accountability--Licensing/Program Review and Approval
+ Postsecondary Accountability--Student Learning
+ Postsecondary Affordability
+ Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid
+ Postsecondary Affordability--Textbooks
+ Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees
+ Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans
+ Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Undocumented Immigrants
+ Postsecondary Faculty
+ Postsecondary Faculty--Compensation
+ Postsecondary Faculty--Intellectual Property
+ Postsecondary Faculty--Teaching Assistants
+ Postsecondary Faculty--Tenure
+ Postsecondary Finance
+ Postsecondary Finance--Efficiency/Performance-Based Funding
+ Postsecondary Finance--Facilities
+ Postsecondary Finance--Revenue and Expenditures
+ Postsecondary Governance and Structures
+ Postsecondary Governance and Structures--Administrative/Leadership Issues
+ Postsecondary Governance and Structures--State Executives/State Agencies
+ Postsecondary Institutions
+ Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges
+ Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary
+ Postsecondary Institutions--Four-Year Baccalaureate
+ Postsecondary Institutions--HBCUs/Minority-Serving Institutions
+ Postsecondary Institutions--Private/Independent
+ Postsecondary Online Instruction
+ Postsecondary Participation
+ Postsecondary Participation--Access
+ Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements
+ Postsecondary Participation--Affirmative Action
+ Postsecondary Participation--Enrollments (Statistics)
+ Postsecondary Participation--Outreach
+ Postsecondary Students
+ Postsecondary Students--Adults
+ Postsecondary Students--Disabled
+ Postsecondary Students--Foster Youth
+ Postsecondary Students--Graduate/Professional
+ Postsecondary Students--International
+ Postsecondary Students--Low-Income
+ Postsecondary Students--Military
+ Postsecondary Students--Minority
+ Postsecondary Success
+ Postsecondary Success--Completion
+ Postsecondary Success--Developmental/Remediation
+ Postsecondary Success--Retention/Persistence
+ Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation
+ Private Schools
+ Privatization
+ Privatization--Education Management Agencies (EMOs)
+ Proficiency-Based Approaches
+ Promising Practices
+ Promotion/Retention
+ Public Involvement
+ Purposes of Public Education
+ Reading/Literacy
+ Reading/Literacy--Adult Literacy
+ Religion
+ Religion--Prayer/Meditation
+ Religion--Scientific Creationism (Evolution)
+ Remediation (K-12)
+ Rural
+ Scale-Up/Replication
+ Scheduling/School Calendar
+ Scheduling/School Calendar--Day/Class Length
+ Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs
+ Scheduling/School Calendar--Summer School
+ Scheduling/School Calendar--Week
+ Scheduling/School Calendar--Year
+ Scheduling/School Calendar--Year Round
+ School Climate/Culture
+ School Safety
+ School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution
+ School Safety--Code of Conduct
+ School Safety--Corporal Punishment
+ School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness
+ School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension
+ School Safety--No Child Left Behind--Safe Schools
+ School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault
+ School Safety--Special Education
+ School Safety--Uniforms/Dress Codes
+ School/District Structure/Operations
+ School/District Structure/Operations--District Consolidation/Deconsolidation
+ School/District Structure/Operations--District Size
+ School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities
+ School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service
+ School/District Structure/Operations--Libraries
+ School/District Structure/Operations--Org. (K-3/K-8 etc.)
+ School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching)
+ School/District Structure/Operations--School Size
+ School/District Structure/Operations--Shared Services
+ School/District Structure/Operations--Staffing Ratios
+ School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation
+ Service-Learning
+ Social/Emotional Learning and Non-Cognitive Skills
+ Special Education
+ Special Education--Federal Law/Regulations
+ Special Education--Finance
+ Special Education--Inclusion (Mainstreaming)
+ Special Education--Placement
+ Special Education--Transition
+ Special Populations--Corrections Education
+ Special Populations--Foster Care
+ Special Populations--Gifted and Talented
+ Special Populations--Homeless Education
+ Special Populations--Immigrant Education
+ Special Populations--Migrant Education
+ Special Populations--Military
+ Standards
+ Standards--Common Core State Standards
+ Standards--Implementation
+ State Comparisons/Statistics
+ State Longitudinal Data Systems
+ State Policymaking
+ State Policymaking--Ballot Questions
+ State Policymaking--Constitutional Clauses
+ State Policymaking--Politics
+ State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions
+ STEM
+ Student Achievement
+ Student Achievement--Closing the Achievement Gap
+ Student Surveys
+ Students
+ Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities
+ Students--Employment
+ Students--Incentives
+ Students--K-12 Exchange Students
+ Students--Mobility
+ Students--Records/Rights
+ Teaching Quality
+ Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure
+ Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative
+ Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Assignment
+ Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers
+ Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds.
+ Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education
+ Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--State Prof. Standards Bds.
+ Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Substitute Teachers
+ Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay
+ Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance
+ Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits
+ Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness
+ Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring
+ Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals
+ Teaching Quality--Preparation
+ Teaching Quality--Professional Development
+ Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention
+ Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools
+ Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--High-Needs Subjects
+ Teaching Quality--Reduction in Force
+ Teaching Quality--Teacher Attitudes
+ Teaching Quality--Teacher Contracts (Not Tenure)
+ Teaching Quality--Teacher Rights
+ Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract
+ Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining
+ Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining--Strikes
+ Teaching Quality--Working Conditions
+ Technology
+ Technology--Computer Skills
+ Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware
+ Technology--Equitable Access
+ Technology--Funding Issues
+ Technology--Internet Safety
+ Technology--Research/Evaluation
+ Technology--Teacher/Faculty Training
+ Textbooks and Open Source
+ Urban
+ Urban--Change/Improvements
+ Urban--Governance
+ Whole-School Reform Models