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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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| LA | Adopted 07/2012 | P-12 | From July 2012 Louisiana Register: This policy revision, related to approval for alternative schools or programs, will ensure that LEAs comply with prescribed polices and standards for approval of alternative schools and programs. Revisions include: (1) establishing a deadline for alternative program approval by BESE (July 1 of a given year); (2) revising the deadline for the department of education to provide an annual report from
alternative schools/programs to BESE (June to September); and (3) establishing monitoring for alternative schools and programs as needed. Revisions to Bulletin 111, Chapter 35 (Inclusion of Alternative Education Schools and Students in Accountability), defined and distinguished alternative schools and programs and established the category within the school accountability. These revisions required the establishment of a deadline for alternative program approval by BESE. Pages 115-116 of 411: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1207/1207.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2903
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Transfers responsibility for placing a student in alternative school or alternative educational placement from local board to local superintendent. Removes certain exceptions to requirement that a suspended or expelled student remain under the suspending or expelling district's supervision. Requires a student placed in an alternative school or alternative education program to attend and participate in such program. Requires such student's parent, tutor, or legal guardian to ensure such attendance, and makes parental violation of this requirement subject to specified penalties set forth in compulsory attendance laws. Requires visiting teachers or supervisors of child welfare and attendance to file court proceedings to enforce these truancy provisions. Requires state board rules and regulations to provide for local governing entities to enter into an agreement with an education service provider for the education of delinquent, adjudicated or student subject to certain other circumstances. Requires rules and regulations to include certain elements, including the required offering of specified academic, behavioral, and mental health interventions (including credit recovery and on-site access to at least one career or vocational certification option) to support the on-time graduation of students who are suspended, expelled, or at high risk for dropping out or entry into the juvenile justice system. Provides that nothing shall prohibit a nonprofit organization providing such alternative education services from applying to operate a charter school. Requires the governing authority of a Type 5 charter school to receive approval from the superintendent of the Recovery School District before entering into an agreement with an educational service provider for alternative education services, and provides such agreement is not subject to specified provisions. Provides that any existing agreement and any prospective agreement between the Recovery School District and an educational service provider for alternative education is not subject to specified provisions, but is subject to the state superintendent's approval. Repeals provisions (1) allowing local waivers from requirements to provide alternative education to suspended or expelled students and (2) requiring dismissal of expelled students exhibiting disorderly conduct at an alternative education program. http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=812492
Title: H.B. 1209
Source: legis.la.gov
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Amends existing law to provide for federal funds and state funding, to provide that the school district where the Youth Challenge Program is located may take steps to have the Youth Challenge Program be considered and designated as an alternative secondary school and to revise the sunset date. http://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2012/H0662.pdf
Title: H.B. 662
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Defines "alternative education program." Prohibits a superintendent from assigning an employee to an alternative education program in the disposition of any disciplinary action involving the employee, or as part of a corrective action plan established pursuant to the local district evaluation plan. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB168/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 168
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Raises from 16 to 17 the maximum age at which children are required to attend a public school regularly during the entire school year, subject to specified exceptions. To take effect July 1, 2015. Raises the maximum age from 17 to 18, with specified exception to take effective July 1, 2017.
Requires the State Department of Education on or before December 1, 2012 to develop a GED Options Program and request the departmental legislation necessary to implement the Program.
Requires that, the State Department of Education on or before September 1, 2013 report on: (1) successful interventions at the early childhood and elementary school level; (2) best practices for parental education and involvement; and (3) alternative educational pathways.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/sb/sb0362e.pdf
Title: S.B. 362
Source: mlis.state.md.us
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Requires the department of education to waive accreditation standards for an accredited nonpublic alternative high school that contracts with a school corporation to provide alternative education services for students who: (1) have dropped out of high school; (2) have been expelled; or (3) were not successful in the school corporation; to accommodate the nonpublic alternative high school's program and student population. Provides that a school corporation that enrolls a student who has legal settlement in another school corporation for the student to receive services from a nonpublic alternative high school receives state tuition support for the student. Provides that a student who is placed in a residential facility is entitled to receive certain defined educational services from the school corporation in which the facility is located. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/SE/SE0283.1.html
Title: S.B. 283
Source: www.in.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2011 | P-12 | Permits a student who has been suspended for more than 20 days to be immediately transferred to an alternative program. Provides that an eligible student may not be denied participation in an alternative learning opportunities program solely because s/he has been expelled, or suspended for more than 20 days. Provides an exception when such transfer is deemed to cause a threat to the safety of students or staff in the alternative program. Permits a student who has been expelled or suspended more than 20 days to be eligible to enroll in a charter alternative learning opportunities program. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/97/PDF/097-0495.pdf
Title: H.B. 2086
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| NH | Adopted 08/2011 | P-12 | Implements alternative education programs at regional career and technical education centers or associated high schools. Adds language for 'at risk' students and for tuition and transportation for 'at risk' students as required by changes in the state law of 2007. Ed 1405 will eliminate reimbursement for bus contracts.
Title: NH ADC Ed 1301.01; NH ADC Ed 1302.01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06; NH ADC Ed 1303.01, 02; NH ADC Ed 1304.01; NH ADC Ed 1405.01
Source: Westlaw/StateNet
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| CT | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Specifies that a student who has been expelled for the first time and is at least 16 years old is not required to withdraw from regular public school to attend adult education as part of an alternative educational opportunity during the expulsion. Allows such an expelled student to enroll in an adult education program without the approval of his or her school principal (that approval is still required for students who have not been expelled). http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/ACT/PA/2011PA-00126-R00HB-06433-PA.htm
Title: H.B. 6433
Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov
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| TX | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Requires that a district located in a county with a population of 125,000 or less provide educational services to a student who is expelled from school. Permits the district to count the student in its average daily membership. Defines what may be considered an educational placement under these provisions, including among others a contracted placement with an institution of higher education, an adult literacy council, or a community organization that can provide an educational program that allows the student to complete the credits required for high school graduation. Provides that an educational placement other than a district's disciplinary alternative education program is subject to the educational and certification requirements applicable to an open-enrollment charter school. From bill summary: exempts a county that meets certain criteria, including having a juvenile justice alternative education program (JJAEP) serving fewer than 15 students, from certain JJAEP requirements.
Bill text: pages 223-224 of 263: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/821/billtext/pdf/SB00001F.pdf#navpanes=0
Bill summary (see article 70): http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/BillSummary.aspx?LegSess=821&Bill=SB1
Title: S.B. 1
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | From Legislative Staff Summary: Creates the College-Preparatory Boarding Academy Pilot Program (Academy) for at-risk students. Defines the key elements of the program and establishes "at-risk" student eligibility criteria consistent with eligibility standards for a range of non-educational federal and state programs that support needy families, children, and youth. Provides that an "eligible student" is a student who is a resident of the state and entitled to attend school, is at risk of academic failure, is currently enrolled in grade 5 or 6, is from a family whose income is below 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines, and who meets at least two additional risk factors, which are specified in the bill. Outlines a process for the State Board of Education to select an experienced, qualified operator and prescribes the qualifications and obligations of the operator. Directs the Academy to enroll up to 80 students beginning in August 2012, and to grow to a student capacity of 400 students. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-236.pdf
Title: S.B. 404
Source: http://laws.flrules.org
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Provides that local policies to allow a student to enroll in an alternative school may permit a student to permanently transfer to an alternative school so that the student need not reapply annually for
permission to attend the alternative school. Page 169 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Transfer to Alternative School
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Requires a student who receives deferred prosecution for, is found by a court or jury to have engaged in, or a superintendent or designee has a reasonable belief that a student has engaged in aggravated robbery to be removed from class and placed in a disciplinary alternative education program. Permits a student to be placed in a disciplinary alternative education program if the superintendent or designee has a reasonable belief that the student has engaged in aggravated robbery. Permits a district to expel a student who has received deferred prosecution for or has been found by a court or jury to have engaged in, has been arrested for or charged with, has been referred to a juvenile court for allegedly engaging in, or has received probation or deferred adjudication for aggravated robbery. Clarifies provision allowing expulsion of a student in a disciplinary alternative education program. Specifies that misconduct must be documented and while on the program campus despite documented behavioral interventions. Defines "serious misbehavior" for purposes of this provision.
Provides that each school district in a county with a population over 125,000 and the county juvenile board must annually enter into a joint memorandum of understanding that a student may be placed in the juvenile justice alternative education program if the student engages in serious misbehavior, as defined in statute.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB00968F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: H.B. 968
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Requires a district to provide the parents of a student removed to a disciplinary alternative education program with written notice of the district's obligation to provide the student with an opportunity to complete
coursework required for graduation. Requires the notice to include information on all methods available for completing the coursework, and state that the methods are available at no cost to the student. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/SB00049F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: S.B. 49
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Requires districts to establish alternative learning environment programs for at-risk students. Specifies that such programs are not punitive in nature. Requires districts to report on programs, including information on student race and gender. Requires districts to assess students at the beginning of enrollment in such a program in order to properly design interventions. Directs department of education to promulgate rules to implement policy and includes other requirements of department of education.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Bills/SB81.pdf
Title: S.B. 81
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Provides criteria for districts to make a determination on an individualized basis before placing compulsory-school-age children returning from out-of-home placement in the mental health, juvenile justice or foster care system into an alternative school.out-of-home placement in the mental health, juvenile justice or foster care system.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2011/pdf/HB/1100-1199/HB1178SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 1178
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/
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| GA | Adopted 07/2010 | P-12 | Rule 160-4-8-.12, "Alternative Education Programs" has been repealed and a new rule adopted. Defines "alternative/non-traditional education program" as a program operating in affiliation with a school; a program does not report full-time equivalent (FTE) or receive an Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) designation. Achievement data for students enrolled in the program are reported back to the school where the student is reported for FTE. Provides a program may be housed within a school, on the same site or at a different location. Provides that programs may include Attendance Recovery, Credit Recovery, Disciplinary Program, Early College, Evening School, and Open Campus.
Clarifies that an "Alternative/Non-traditional Education School" has an official school code and serves as the home school for students enrolled. The school receives an AYP designation; reports FTE counts for all enrolled students; and earns Quality Basic Education (QBE) formula funds directly. Defines "Community-based Alternative Education/Non-traditional Program" as a type of alternative education/non-traditional program where students are engaged in educationally relevant and meaningful learning experiences in the school and larger community. The academic curriculum is integrated into work-based learning and structured work experiences using partnerships among business, industry, government, community and school, including Performance Learning Centers. Defines "sparsity grant" as a grant provided to each LEA that is unable to offer its students or a portion of its students educational programs and services comparable to those which are typically being offered to students in the state; the inability to offer students comparable programs and services is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that the LEA has full-time equivalent counts less than base size specified in state law.
Requires each LEA to provide an alternative/non-traditional education program/school for students in grades 6-12 with appropriate due process, who have been suspended from his/her regular classroom. Permits LEAs to provide an alternative/non-traditional education program/school to serve a student who is eligible to remain in his/her regular classroom but is more likely to succeed in a non-traditional educational setting. Authorizes an LEA to provide an alternative/non-traditional education program/school jointly with one or more LEAs. Authorizes an LEA to contract with educational management organizations to provide a non-traditional/alternative education program/school. Sets requirements/parameters for such contracts. Permits an LEA to use sparsity grant funds for all alternative/non-traditional education program(s)/school(s), but specifies that funds must be used exclusively for salaries and benefits for certified positions and assistants/paraprofessionals working in the program/school. Requires that all alternative/non-traditional education programs/schools only provide curriculum aligned to Georgia Performance Standards (GPS); permits curriculum to be delivered through computer-assisted instruction and online courses. Requires that programs/schools participate in state testing program, provide counseling services, operate in full compliance with federal and state laws and state board rules governing special education students and students with special needs, provide teachers that meet the requirements of the Georgia Professional Standards Commission in all classes, adhere to maximum class size provisions, and allocate to all Alternative/Non-traditional Education Programs/Schools the same expenditure per segment(s) based on what the student earns at his or her Full Time Equivalent reporting school, including federal and state funds allocated to the LEA for the student.
For students in grades 9-12, permits LEAs to (1) award course credit based on demonstrated competency on course examination(s) for course work completed while enrolled in the program/school in lieu of the 150/135 clock hours of instruction and (2) determine the length of the school day in lieu of the school day length set in state board rule.
Establishes reporting requirements for alternative/non-traditional education programs/schools. Requires each LEA to maintain and annually report to the state department of education on each alternative/non-traditional education program/school. Requires each program/school school improvement plan to demonstrate how the alternative/non-traditional education program/school modified SBOE rules, including methods to measure competency as well as what is defined as a full school day. Requires LEAs to seek parental and public input before submitting a program/school's improvement plan to the department of education. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-4-8-.12.pdf
Title: 160-4-8-.12
Source: www.doe.k12.ga.us
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| WV | Signed into law 07/2010 | P-12 | Provides uniformity in alternative schools and requires a pilot program that will allow alternative schools in elementary and middle schools. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb2010%20enr.htm&yr=2010&sesstype=2X&i=2010
Title: S.B. 2010
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us
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| AK | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | An Act relating to the provision of information regarding a student by a school district to the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs, Alaska Challenge Youth Academy.
http://www.legis.state.ak.us/PDF/26/Bills/HB0360Z.PDF
Title: H.B. 360
Source: http://www.legis.state.ak.us
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Relates to approval by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education of certain alternative schools and alternative education programs; relates to specific standards and criteria used by the board to approve schools; to provide guidelines for such report; to provide an effective date; and to provide for related matters.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722571
Title: H.B. 1225
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Existing policy requires a county with a population greater than 125,000 to develop a juvenile justice alternative education program. This provision adds that a county with a population greater than 125,000 is not required to develop a juvenile justice alternative education program if, with the state juvenile probation commission's approval, the county's juvenile board enters into a memorandum of understanding with each school district that outlines the responsibilities of the board and districts in minimizing the number of students expelled without receiving alternative educational services and includes specified coordination between districts and juvenile boards. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB01425F.pdf
Title: H.B. 1425
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Establishes parameters for alternative learning centers, alternative learning programs, and contract alternative programs.
https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0002.5.html&session=ls86
Title: H.F. 2
Source: https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Authorizes students assigned to alternative schools to attend workforce training programs; requires each school district having an alternative school program to submit an annual report to the state department of education describing the results of its annual alternative school program review and evaluation.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2009/pdf/SB/2500-2599/SB2575SG.pdf
Title: S.B. 2575
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Provides that pending the decision by the division superintendent as to whether to require that a student charged with an offense involving intentional injury to another student of the school division attend an alternative education program, a local school board may impose a short-term suspension upon such student; provides that a school board may require a student charged with certain juvenile offenses to attend an alternative education program.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2341ER
Title: H.B. 2341
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| KY | Adopted 02/2009 | P-12 | Establishes requirements for extended school services. Defines "A5 program" as an alternative program with no attendance boundaries, serving dropouts returning to an alternate educational environment, potential dropouts, discipline problem students, nontraditional students (e.g., students who have to work during the school day), students needing emotional or psychological treatment and other at-risk students. Clarifies that "extended school services" are for students unlikely to achieve proficiency, transition to the next level of learning successfully, or be able to meet the academic expectations in 703 KAR 4:060 without additional time or differentiated opportunity to learn. Adds that "extended school services" also includes instructional and support services provided as interventions included in the student's intervention plan, in primary through grade 5, or in the student's Individual Learning Plan, in grades 6-12, to ensure that the student remains in school and is on track to meet goals for postsecondary education and career after high school. Provides definitions for "formative assessment," "individual learning plan" and "interim or benchmark assessments." Adds community based mentoring and academic advising to noninstructional activities that may be characterized as "support services."
Clarifies that extended school services (ESS) are to to provide additional time and differentiated opportunity to learn in which rigorous academic and enrichment content are aligned with individual student needs to improve struggling students' performance. Provides that priorities for ESS must be placed on designing and delivering services to students at academic risk with specific objective that students are able to:
(1) Progress from grade to grade with their cohort
(2) Exit elementary school ready to meet middle school-level academic expectations
(3) Exit middle school ready to meet high school-level academic expectations
(4) Exit high school ready to meet academic expectations of postsecondary education and the workplace, with particular emphasis on literacy and mathematics.
Specifies that the extended school services provided to a student shall be planned, documented and evaluated through the intervention plan, at primary through grade 5, or in the student's Individual Learning Plan, in grades 6 through 12. Removes existing language on components that the instructional program for extended services must include. Requires the instructional program for ESS to include
(1) diagnostic assessments to identify areas of greatest academic need,
(2) Development of goals, in consultation with classroom teachers, for eliminating the identified academic need, including timelines and specific measurable outcomes
(3) Formative and summative assessments to facilitate student progress and to determine if the student has achieved the learning goals of the intervention plan
(4) Instructional strategies that are varied and that do not replicate practices that have proven to be ineffective for the student in the traditional classroom
(5) A plan for collaboration and consistent use of interventions among the teachers supporting the student in core academic classes and those providing supports through extended school services
(6) Counseling and academic advising to remove barriers to achievement
(7) Regular communication with the parent or guardian
Provides that the ESS instructional program may be operated during the regular school day or in night programs.
Specifies ESS must provide differentiated opportunity to learn. Directs certified staff to plan, deliver and evaluate extended school services instruction and supports in collaboration as part of a student's Individual Learning Plan (ILP)
Requires teachers providing instruction in extended school programs to be provided with professional development on effective instructional strategies for meeting the needs of at-risk students and use of formative assessment strategies to monitor progress. Requires certified staff to supervise noncertified tutors.
Provides that students may be identified as in need of extended school services based on student performance on high school, college or workforce readiness assessments required by KRS 158.6459
Requires districts solicit input from parents and the community to identify potential barriers to participation. Requires that identified barriers be addressed through engagement with community partners or off-campus locations of after school, weekend or evening services.
Provides "A6 program" means that unique line for a school that starts in the biennium ending with the school year 2009-10 at one standard error of measurement below the school's baseline accountability index to a point that is one standard error of measurement below 80 on the accountability index scale in the biennium ending with the school year 2013-14, with the calculated points defining this line rounded to the nearest tenth. If a school's baseline is above 80, the assistance line means a horizontal line at 80 minus one standard error of measurement.
Title: 704 KAR 3:390
Source: www.lexis.com
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2009 | P-12 | Provides that a school division may assign a student deemed at-risk for a long-term suspension to a regional alternative education program; clarifies that the program is a regional alternative education program.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1945ER
Title: H.B. 1945
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| NH | Adopted 11/2008 | P-12 | Requires the department to deliver a program of prevention and recovery of dropouts that increased the dropout age to 18 and permits a student to complete secondary education requirements through approved alternative programs.
NEW HAMPSHIRE 6887
Title: Ed 1300
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2008 | P-12 | Establishes a presumption that students 16 years of age and younger who are expelled or suspended pending expulsion by a local school district or charter school are appropriate for placement in an alternative education program.
http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis144.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+326/$file/legis.html?open
Title: H.B. 326
Source: http://legis.delaware.gov
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| ME | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Defines alternative education program as a program in which the primary purpose is to provide at-risk students with curricula and assessment; defines alternative learning as an educational option that a public school or publicly supported program offers at-risk students by offering certain educational opportunities; defines at-risk student as a student who may not be promoted, may drop out and is truant; establishes a commission to study alternative education programs.
http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/externalsiteframe.asp?ID=280028627&LD=2303&Type=1&SessionID=7
Title: H.B. 1661A
Source: http://janus.state.me.us/house/
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| MI | Signed into law 01/2008 | P-12 | Specifies policies, requirements and procedures for "strict discipline academies" for students who have been expelled, suspended or referred by courts, human services or juvenile agencies.
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/publicact/pdf/2008-PA-0001.pdf
Title: S.B. 703 (sec. 1311g)
Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2007 | P-12 | Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to revise the Academic Performance Index to include additional information by a specified deadline regarding specified data of pupils who were referred to an alternative education program and school and district dropout rates. Requires the Superintendent to establish a specified advisory committee to advise him or her and the state Board of Education on issues related to revision of the Academic Performance Index.
Chapter 731
http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0201-0250/sb_219_bill_20071014_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 219
Source: http://info.sen.ca.gov
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Establishes the Alternative Education Programs Committee. The committee shall review and make recommendations for the promotion of alternatives in education within existing school systems including how alternative education programs contribute toward helping students be college, work and citizenship ready.
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/billpdfs/LD175801.pdf
Title: H.B. 1224
Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Permits at risk students to attend an alternative education program at a regional vocational education center. Authorizes the department of education to pay tuition and transportation costs for such attendance.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2007/SB0101.html
Title: S.B. 101
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Creates pilot program for alternative programs of education for disruptive pupils established, appropriates funds and district eligibility requirements.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/23rdSpecial/Bills/AB/AB2_EN.pdf
Title: A.B. 2A
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Adds a new section: A pilot project of mandated attendance in an alternative school for students who have been suspended shall be established by the department for the school year 2007-2008 in any county having a metropolitan form of government and a population in excess of five hundred thousand (500,000) according to the 2000 federal census. Such pilot project shall be subject to alternative school staffing and space availability. The department shall monitor and review the pilot project and shall report the results of the review to the senate and house education committees and the state board of education by February 16, 2009.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0455.pdf
Title: H.B. 2138
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Requires greater accountability for alternative education; for example, requires academic indicators to include grade point averages or other student academic performance measures, performance on the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP), performance on the Gateway tests, attendance, dropout rates, and graduation rates, for students in
alternative schools or who have been in alternative schools. Requires local education agencies to develop and implement formal transition plans for the integration of students from regular schools to alternative schools and from alternative schools to regular schools; provides that each LEA shall track the operation and performance of alternative school programs.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0517.pdf
Title: S.B. 2157
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| TN | Eligible for GOVERNOR'S desk. 05/2007 | P-12 | Requires the advisory council for alternative education, established by Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-6-3404, to study issues relating to establishing pilot alternative
school programs. Requires review any prior evaluations of such schools that have been established. The council is to make recommendations concerning programs, policies and
curricula of any new pilot programs that may be established. The recommendations shall include a rigorous evaluation component. Findings must be submitted in writing to the
governor, the state board of education and the house and senate education committees by January 1, 2008.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/HB1545.pdf
Title: H.B. 1545, S.B. 1427
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Requires the advisory council for alternative education to study alternative school pilot sites and report to the governor, the state board of education, and the house and senate education committees.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0320.pdf
Title: H.B. 1545
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Requires registration and licensure of alternative adolescent residential or outdoor programs. Allows provisional licensing and requires background checks for certain employees and managers. Directs the department of labor and industry to adopt rules regarding program criteria, including inspection of programs for licensure every three years..
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2007/billhtml/HB0769.htm
Title: H.B. 769
Source: http://data.opi.mt.gov/
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Deletes the requirement that a local school district operate an alternative education program prior to the revocation of a student's operator's license, intermediate license, or instruction permit; requires that the application of any minor under the age of 18 for a license or permit include parental consent for the release of academic and attendance information required under KRS 159.051. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/07RS/HB32/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 32
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Directs the state board to promulgate guidelines for alternative school programs which provide broad authority to school boards of local school districts to establish alternative education programs to meet the specific needs of the school district.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2007/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2338SG.htm
Title: S.B. 2338
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Requires the state superintendent of public instruction to review at-risk program strategies funded under the block grant model, specifically including alternative schools and imposes a moratorium on new alternative schools recognized under the model during the review period; continues the summer school & extended day programs during school year 2007-2008; also requires the state superintendent to study and develop recommendations on distance education programs and to establish a task force for this purpose. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2007/Enroll/HB0115.pdf
Title: H.B. 115
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2007/bills.htm
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Requires state board of education curriculum for alternative schools to stress student success and removes language concerning alternative schools that is penal in nature; establishes an advisory council on alternative education.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB2723.pdf
Title: S.B. 2723
Source: Tennessee Legislature
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 |
Alternative schools that provide dropout-prevention and academic-intervention services pursuant to s. 1003.53 shall receive a school-improvement rating. The school-improvement rating must identify schools as having one of the following ratings: (a) "Improving" means schools with students making more academic progress than when the students were served in their home schools. (b) "Maintaining" means schools with students making progress equivalent to the progress made when the students were served in their home schools. (c) "Declining" means schools with students making less academic progress than when the students were served in their home schools.
The school-improvement rating will be based on a comparison of student performance data for the current year and previous year. Schools that improve at least one level or maintain an "improving" rating pursuant to this section are eligible for school recognition awards.
Student Learning Gains
For each alternative school receiving a school-improvement rating, the Department of Education will annually identify the percentage of students making learning gains as compared to the percentage of the same students making learning gains in their home schools in the year prior to being assigned to the alternative school.
School Report Cartds
The Department of Education will annually develop, in collaboration with the school districts, a school report card for alternative schools to be delivered to parents throughout each school district. The report card will include the school-improvement rating, identification of student
learning gains, student attendance data, information regarding school improvement, an explanation of school performance as evaluated by the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and indicators of return on investment.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 47)
Source: Florida Legislature
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Makes revisions to school grade provisions, such as the inclusion of information for students receiving a special diploma and grades for K-3 and alternative schools.
Each school that has students who are tested and included in the school grading system, except an alternative school that receives a school-improvement rating pursuant to s. 1008.341, will receive a school grade; however, an alternative school may choose to receive a school grade under this section in lieu of a school-improvement rating. Additionally, a school that serves any combination of students in kindergarten through grade 3 which does not receive a school grade because its students are not tested and included in the school grading system will receive the school grade designation of a K-3 feeder pattern school identified by the Department of Education and verified by the school district. A school feeder pattern exists if at least 60 percent of the students in the school serving a combination of students in kindergarten through grade 3 are scheduled to be assigned to the graded school.
A school's grade will be based on a combination of: 1. Student achievement scores, including achievement scores for students seeking a special diploma. 2. Student learning gains as measured by annual FCAT assessments in grades 3 through 10; learning gains for students seeking a special diploma, as measured by an alternate assessment tool, must be included not later than the 2009-2010 school year. 3. Improvement of the lowest 25th percentile of students in the school in reading, math, or writing on the FCAT, unless these students are exhibiting satisfactory performance.
Effective with the 2005-2006 school year, the achievement scores and learning gains of eligible students attending alternative schools that provide dropout-prevention and academic-intervention services will be used to determine the home school's grade. If an alternative school chooses to be graded pursuant to this section, student performance data for eligible students will not be included in the home school's grade but will be included only in the calculation of the alternative school's grade. School districts must require collaboration between the home school and the alternative school in order to promote student success.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 45)
Source: Florida Legislature
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Directs the commissioner of education to gather information to facilitate discussion during the next legislative session about increasing the compulsory education age to 18, and to present the data to the senate and house committees on education during January, 2007. Requires information gathered to include the number of young people who have dropped out of school in each of the last 10 years, the types of facilities and programs that are available to help young people at risk of not completing school to obtain a high school diploma or its equivalent, costs of services alternative to the public school system, and other information which will inform the discussion. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2006/acts/ACT182.HTM
Title: H.B. 867 - Section 20 (h)
Source: www.leg.state.vt.us
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Relates to expelled or suspended students. Defines "behavior which constitutes a threat" (and as such, allows a board to place a student in a state-funded agency program) as including assault, battery or abuse of others; the threat of force; being under the influence of drugs or alcohol; the use, possession, sale, or transfer of drugs or alcohol; or the carrying, possessing, or transfer of weapons or dangerous instruments; and any other behavior which may endanger the health or safety of others. Authorizes a local board to adopt a policy providing that if a student is suspended or expelled for any reason, or faces charges that may lead to suspension or expulsion but withdraws prior to a hearing, from any public or private school in this or any other state, the receiving district may review the details of the charges, suspension, or expulsion and determine if the student will be admitted, and if so, what conditions may be imposed upon the admission.
Authorizes a local board to adopt a policy providing that if a student is suspended or expelled for any reason, or faces charges that may lead to suspension or expulsion but withdraws prior to a hearing, from any public or private school in this or any other state, the receiving district may review the details of the charges, suspension, or expulsion and determine if the student will be admitted, and if so, what conditions may be imposed upon the admission. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HB688/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 688
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| NC | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | AN ACT to direct the state board of education to adopt standards for alternative learning programs, and to require local boards of education to develop proposals that are submitted to the State Board of education before establishing any alternative learning program or alternative school. http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/HTML/H1076v5.html
Title: H.B. 1076
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Governing boards that expel pupils must provide access to an educational program for those students. Such a program may be operated by the school district, the county superintendent of schools, or a consortium of districts or in joint agreement with the county superintendent of schools. Allows governing boards to enter into an agreement with a county superintendent of schools in another county to provide education
services for the district's expelled pupils.Requires each school district to maintain the following data:
(A) The number of pupils recommended for expulsion.
(B) The grounds for each recommended expulsion.
(C) Whether the pupil was subsequently expelled.
(D) Whether the expulsion order was suspended.
(E) The type of referral made after the expulsion.
(F) The disposition of the pupil after the end of the period of expulsion.
Deletes the requirement that a school district annually report expulsion data to CDE and instead authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to collect this data as part of a periodic coordinated compliance review. Repeals the requirement that the state superintendent develop, update every other year, and distribute directories of public and private agencies providing services to special education pupils with "low-incidence" disabilities. Repeals the requirement that CDE publish and distribute to local educational agencies an annual school crime report.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/ab_110_bill_20050718_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 110 --Expulsion Section
Source: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Authorizes the department of education to retain up to 1% of any appropriation for the expelled and at-risk student services grant program to evaluate the program. Beginning January 1, 2006, requires the department to annually report to the general assembly on the outcomes and effectiveness of the program, related to school attendance, attachment and achievement.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/86586AF58A7872A987256FB6006E7A5F?Open&file=1311_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1311
Source: www.leg.state.co.us
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Urges the Governor to include increased funding for alternative education programs in the 2005-06 General Appropriations Act. Currently, LEAs are required to have at least one alternative school in grades 7-12. Link to fiscal note summary: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Fiscal/HJR0116.pdf
Title: H.J.R. 116
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| TN | SIGNED BY GOVERNOR. 05/2005 | P-12 | Allows local boards of education to establish evening alternative schools for students in grades six (age 11) through twelve (6-12). Previous provision allowed alternative schools only for students over 16. http://tennessee.gov/sos/acts/104/pub/pc0200.pdf
Title: H.B. 1938
Source: http://tennessee.gov/sos/acts
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| WV | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | House Bill 3018 includes provisions relating to alternative education programs and the Mountaineer Challenge Academy. Attendees of both are given an extra year to graduate or pass the General Education Degree (GED) tests, subject to federal law. Additionally, attendees of the Academy are considered enrolled in the referring county, but only for the purposes of funding, attendance rates and graduation rates and only to the extent permitted by federal law.
Title: H.B. 3018
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Wrapup/2005/final/final.pdf
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | States that teacher certification requirements do not apply to persons teaching concurrent credit courses or advanced placement courses who: (i) Are employed by a postsecondary institution; (ii) Meet the qualification requirements of that institution or the department of workforce education; and (iii) Are teaching in a course in which credit is offered by an institution of higher education or a technical institute.
Also states that grade level/subject matter teacher certification requirements do not apply to licensed teachers teaching in the following settings:
(i) An alternative learning environment;
(ii) A juvenile detention facility;
(iii) A residential and day alcohol, drug, and psychiatric facility program;
(iv) An emergency youth shelter;
(v) A facility of the Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services; or
(vi) A facility of the Division of Developmental Disabilities Services of the Department of Human Services; and
(E) A licensed special education teacher teaching two or more core academic subjects exclusively to children with disabilities.
Authorizes the department fo education to offer and operate a nontraditional teacher licensure program.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1044.pdf
Title: S.B. 1044 (sections 16-17)
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Amends the public school funding act of 2003. Requires the State Board of Education to promulgate rules clarifying not only which alternative learning environment programs qualify for funding, but also the characteristics of students who qualify for funding because they have been placed in an alternative learning environment program. Clarifies attendance record requirements for purposes of state funding. Adds definitions of the teacher's salary fund, operating fund and debt service fund. Modifies language defining "National school lunch students." Modifies formula for calculating student growth funding for 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 school years.
Adds language that a school district that has experienced a significant growth in enrolled students in the previous 3 years must receive funding for the expected increase in the number of national school lunch students based on the expected increase in enrolled students based on the levels of funding provided in this section for national school lunch students. Requires the state board to adopt rules determining specified provisions of this policy.
ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/bills/2005/public/SB939.pdf
Title: S.B. 939
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Increases the compulsory school age from 16 to 17 years of age, with exceptions. Provides that certain provisions that apply to truant officers apply to the regional superintendent of schools or his designee in a school district that does not have a truant officer. Makes changes concerning the compliance procedure for persons who fail to send a child to school. Allows certain students to enroll in graduation incentives programs. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0858
Title: S.B. 2918
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| CA | Vetoed 07/2004 | P-12 | Provides that a pupil who will attain the age of 16 years during the school year may be admitted to a regional occupational center or program. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1551-1600/sb_1591_bill_20040624_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB_1591_Veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1591
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CO | Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding the administration of accountability for alternative campuses and processes for being designated an alternative campus. http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeboard/brdbook/2004/JULY%202004/VIII-A-1as.pdf
Title: 1 CCR 301-57
Source: Colorado State Web site
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| MA | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 | P-12 | Relates to establishing an alternative education grant program; contains text of section 126 of H 4850; requires that parents or legal guardians attend specified conferences with teachers; provides for assistance to address needs of children who have been exposed to violence and abuse; provides for at- risk students.
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/ht04914.htm
Title: H.B. 4914
Source: StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Implements the recommendation of the house interim committee on providing an appropriate education for students on long-term suspension to direct the state board of education to develop and recommend a funding formula for alternative learning programs and alternative schools. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/html2003/bills/currentversion/ratified/house/hbil1455.full.html; http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/html2003/bills/currentversion/ratified/house/hbil1456.full.html
Title: H.B. 1455 and 1456
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 | P-12 | Each school district is required to adopt a plan to create alternative education programs to educate students who are removed from the classroom because of a suspension of more than ten (10) days or who are chronically truant. The plan must be adopted by the school committee and shall be submitted to the Commissioner for approval no later than January 1, 2005.
Title: H.B. 7722
Source: rilin.state.ri.us/gen_assembly
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Requires that upon a child's discharge or release from the custody of the Department of Youth Services certain records pertaining to the child be released to the superintendent of the school district in which the child is entitled to attend school; specifies that a school district's policy on the assignment of students to alternative school may provide for the assignment of any child released from the custody of the Department of Youth Services to such school.
Title: H.B. 106
Source: StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Establishes the Department of Juvenile Services Education Department; requires each facility established and operated by the Department of Juvenile Services to have an education center; provides that each child in the custody of the Department receive appropriate educational services; establishes the Department of Juvenile Services Board of Education; provides for the appointment, terms, and removal of members of the Board of Education.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2004rs/bills/hb/hb1139e.rtf
Title: H.B. 1139
Source: StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Requires a child discharged from a committed residential placement to receive step down aftercare for a period to be determined by the Department of Juvenile Services; requires a child in a step down aftercare program to receive specified services; requires a child placed in step down aftercare to receive an appropriate education from the State Department of Education; requires the Department of Juvenile Services to keep specified records.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2004rs/bills/sb/sb0767t.rtf
Title: S.B. 767
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes local school boards to expand federal No Child Left Behind Act funds to pay for training, incentives and salary supplements to school district employees; authorizes the expending of moneys to reimburse licensed district employees for relocation expenses for moving for employment purposes; authorizes district to establish dual enrollment programs for high school students to enroll in higher learning institutions; relates to alternative school programs.
http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/extrel/leg/04Edsum.html
Title: H.B. 657
Source: StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Concerns General Assembly, Directed Studies; directs the office of education accountability (with the asasistance of the state board and state department) to study and evaluate the quality of curriculums and policies and procedures relative to punishment utilized by Tennessee alternative schools and present findings and recommendations to the education oversight committee. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Summary.asp?BillNumber=SJR0746
Title: S.J.R. 746
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | The performance of alternative schools that qualify is to be measured under a different set of accountability indicators. Schools that serve a population that is more than 95% "at risk" as defined by the law must demonstrate baseline levels of and measurable annual benchmards on at least one measure of academic performance. These measures must be based upon progres of individual students or groups of students and include one or more other indicators; must measure nonacademic or behavioral improvement appropriate for the particular schools, including average daily attendance, student post-matriculation rates of enrollment, enlistment or employment, rates of stability or retention, reduced rates of suspension or other discipline, or attendance rates. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont2/
Title: S.B. 83
Source:
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Relates to a delinquent child; provides that a youth court must consider additional factors before entering a disposition order or placing the child in a training school; requires review of child's medical history, mental health records and school records; provides for privacy of records.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/html/HB/1500-1599/HB1500SG.htm
Title: H.B. 1500
Source: StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Provides for safe schools through alternative education programs; provides certain juvenile justice records to public school officials.
Title: H.B. 4037
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2003 | P-12 | Establishes emergency rules concerning alternative schools accountability model. CALIFORNIA REG 15452 (SN)
http://ccr.oal.ca.gov/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?clientID=125942&E22=Title%205&E23=1068&E24=&infobase=ccr&querytemplate=%261.%20Go%20to%20a%20Specific%20Section&record={F02A}&softpage=Document42
Title: Title 5 CCR 1068 thru 1074
Source: California State Web site
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12
Postsec. | Creates the Innovative Education Initiatives Act to develop cooperative efforts between secondary schools and institutions of higher education to reduce dropout rates, increase high school and college graduation rates and decrease the need for higher education remedial programs; creates the cooperative innovative high school programs; permits public and private colleges and private businesses or organizations to participate; provides for funding. The General Assembly strongly endorses the Governor's goal of making North Carolina's system of
education first in America by 2010. With that as the goal, the Education Cabinet shall set as a priority cooperative efforts between secondary schools and institutions of higher education so as to reduce the high school dropout rate, increase high school and college graduation rates, decrease the need for remediation in institutions of higher education, and raise certificate, associate, and bachelor degree completion rates.
The Cabinet shall identify and support efforts that achieve the following purposes: (1) Support cooperative innovative high school programs; (2) Improve high school completion rates and reduce high school dropout rates; (3) Close the achievement gap; (4) Create redesigned middle schools or high schools; (5) Provide flexible, customized programs of learning for high school students who would benefit from accelerated, higher level coursework or early graduation; (6) Establish high quality alternative learning programs; (7) Establish a virtual high school; (8) Implement other innovative education initiatives designed to advance the state's system of education. Requires the Education Cabinet to identify federal, state, and local funds that may be used to support these initiatives. In addition, the Cabinet is strongly encouraged to
pursue private funds that could be used to support these initiatives. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/html2003/bills/AllVersions/Senate/S656vc.html
Title: S.B. 656
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Relates to placement of certain students in alternative education programs.
Title: H.B. 1314
Source: StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | States that mandatory minimum 24-month expulsion of any student age 16 or older, or mandatory minimum 12-month expulsion of student under age 16 in grades six through 12, who is found guilty of possession of, or knowledge of and intentional distribution of, or possession with intent to distribute any drug or controlled substance on school grounds does not apply if the student participates full time in a juvenile drug court program operated by a Louisiana court. States that the district may place the student in an state board-approved alternative education program for suspended and expelled students.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB639&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 639
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Makes juvenile justice alternative education pilot program a permanent, non-pilot program. Specifies that the juvenile justice alternative education program is for students who are suspended, expelled, identified as candidates for being suspended or expelled, or ordered to attend by the juvenile court as a condition of probation. Requires the department of education to oversee and the state board of education to organize and run the program. Establishes composition of juvenile justice alternative education advisory board membership. Specifies that the state board must, with the advice of the advisory board, select a private agency to administer the program, and that the program may be operated in a facility owned and operated by a private party or a county board. Specifies that student who is suspended, expelled or is identified as a candidate for suspension or expulsion must attend the program starting the first day of the student's suspension or expulsion. Requires students to receive courses focusing on English/language arts, math, science and social studies. Requires every board to consider course credit earned in such a program as credit earned in a county school. Requires the county board to pay the juvenile justice alternative education program the basic current expenses per pupil for each student transferred to the program from the county's schools.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/hb/hb0490e.rtf
Title: H.B. 490
Source: mlis.state.md.us
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Prohibits the state board from providing funding to an alternative education program that does not receive a recommendation for continued funding in the evaluation provided for in this subsection. Any school district not receiving such a recommendation for continued funding may request a hearing before the board with a review of the evaluation prior to the board's final determination. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04SB/sb801_enr.rtf
Title: S.B. 801
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Requires state board to establish criteria and application process for a school to be designated an alternative education campus. Mandates that criteria and application process include specified components. Permits charter school meeting criteria to be designated an alternative education campus. Mandates that Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) results for all part-time students at an alternative education campus be included in the school's academic performance and academic improvement ratings. However, any school designated an alternative education campus is exempt from receiving an academic performance or improvement rating unless the state board approves receipt of such ratings. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2002a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/631277866E3CECB087256B0300718AF9?Open&file=094_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 94
Source: www.leg.state.co.us
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| LA | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Lowers age for when certain students may attend alternative education or vocational-technical education programs; provides relative to attendance of certain students in BESE-approved adult education programs. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/021ES/CVT5/OUT/0000JJ1G.PDF
Title: H.B. 21A
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | Relates to alternative educational service providers that the school district may contract with; includes the state national guard youth challenge program; grants number of highschool credits based on the students' level of academic proficiency as measured by the program.
Title: H.B. 1646
Source: www.leg.wa.gov
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | Defines terms; expands defined terms to include definitions for alternative education and dangerous student; sale of narcotics and possession of deadly weapons and controlled substances on educational facility premises, vehicles and at school-sponsored functions; assault and battery committed by pupil; suspension and expulsion, and exceptions; hearing; notice and procedure of hearing; notification by regular mail; postponement of hearing; allowing county boards to determine whether a student is a dangerous student; allowing county boards to refuse to provide alternative education to dangerous students who have been expelled; reexamination of dangerous student status; reporting requirements; authority to request subpoena in certain circumstances; establishing guidelines for permitting a reduction in mandatory twelve-month suspension; removing provisions applying to students with disabilities and maintaining that application to students with disabilities must be consistent with federal law; and expanding and redefining deadly weapon as the phrase applies to schools.
Title: S.B. 4
Source: ftp://129.71.164.29/ftp-senate02/SB1-99/
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| OH | Signed into law 11/2001 | P-12 | Permits school districts that establish certain alternative schools to contract with nonprofit or for profit entities to operate those schools; provides that teachers employed by those entities may be licensed in the same manner as employees of nontax supported schools; establishes criteria for the issuance of a conditional certification of alternative educators; relates to personally identifiable information of students.
Title: H.B. 196
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2001 | P-12 | Authorizes a school district superintendent or designee, if he or she chooses to extend a suspension, to address the academic needs of the pupil by transferring the pupil to an alternative school placement for remedial instruction or, to the extent feasible, provide access to instructional materials, assignments and tests in classes in which the student is enrolled. Provides for parental notification. Makes any testimony provided in an expulsion privileged.
Title: A.B. 177
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Allows State Board of Education to establish standards for private alternative education programs; specifies what is included in school district annual evaluation of private alternative education programs.
Title: S.B. 258
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Establishes a pilot program under which participating local school administrative units place all students who are on short-term out-of-school suspension in alternative learning programs.
Title: S.B. 71
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | States that each urban school district as defined in Section 1210.568 of this title and as identified as having a high population of elementary grade students who are at-risk and in need of alternative education shall expand the annual student needs assessment and alternative education to include a needs assessment and education plan for such students; delays implementation of this section until the current expenditure per pupil in average daily attendance in public elementary and secondary schools in unadjusted dollars for the 1998-99 school year or any school year thereafter for Oklahoma, as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics annually in the Digest of Education Statistics, reaches at least 90% of the regional average expenditure for that same year, and funds are provided.
Title: H.B. 1499 Multiple Components for At-Risk Elementary Students
Source: Oklahoma Legislative Web Site
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Alternative Approaches grants are to be targeted at school districts located in counties with a high number of dropouts for the school year preceding the year for which the grant is being sought, and a high number of referrals to the juvenile justice system, or to a nonprofit organization or entity formed by an interlocal cooperative agreement in those districts. To be eligible for a High Challenge grant, a program must meet research-based criteria set by the state department. The Alternative Approaches Technical Assistance Center is required to provide the department with research and recommendations on effective programming for high-challenge children; limits Alternative Approaches grants for alternative education to middle-grade level alternative schools provided by a school district and to secondary-grade level programs provided pursuant to a contract with a nonprofit organization.
Title: H.B. 1460
Source: Oklahoma Legislative Web Site
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Relates to the placement in an alternative education program or expulsion of a public school student who makes a false alarm or report or a terroristic threat.
Title: H.B. 1088
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Creates optional age-appropriate education programs for students in grades K-5 who require guidance, supervision and discipline in a structured learning environment and who need to be redirected toward appropriate classroom decorum and acceptable personal behavior. The programs shall provide instructional and support services that will enable students to maintain academic achievement, attain basic skills and academic proficiencies, and otherwise benefit from a public education during the time that they may be removed from the regular classroom. The programs shall also be designed to accommodate students within the school building to which they have been assigned, facilitate the efficient transition of students between the optional education program and their regular classroom, and provide for the continuity of instruction, a nurturing environment, necessary guidance and supervision, and the participation of the student's parents in correcting his behavior. Such programs shall be adequately staffed by licensed teachers or other persons with demonstrated qualifications to instruct and manage students with a range of academic gifts and deficiencies, disciplinary problems, and the need to develop and use appropriate social skills.
Title: S.B. 1144
Source: http://hod.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Reorganizes the student discipline statutes and moves some sections to other articles of Title 22.1. Requires division superintendents, in making recommendations for expulsion for violations other than those involving weapons or drugs, to consider various factors such as the student's age, grade level, academic and attendance records, and disciplinary history, and the appropriateness and availability of an alternative education placement or program; allows school boards to exclude from attendance students who have been suspended for more than 30 days or expelled by another school division or for whom private school admission has been withdrawn regardless of the offense; allows school boards to permit students who have been expelled, excluded, are subject to a long-term suspension, or have been found guilty or not innocent of a crime which could have resulted in injury to others, to attend an alternative education program provided by teh school division.
Title: H.B. 2512
Source: http://hod.state.va.us
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Revises the definition of suspension; revises data used to determine school's performance grade category; revises information required to be included in student code of conduct; specifies types of drills and emergencies for which district school boards are required to develop procedures; requires district school boards to establish model emergency management and emergency preparedness procedures. Requires schools to report data concerning school safety and discipline to the department of education. Includes provisions such as ability of teachers to remove disruptive students from the classroom, liability protection for teachers, reporting of safety incidents, etc.
Title: S.B. 852
Source: Florida House of Representatives
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Clarifies the authority of school superintendents, principals and school boards to suspend, expel, or change the placement of pupils for conduct that renders a pupil's presence in the classroom detrimental to the school's educational environment or the best interest of a class as a whole; requires school boards to obtain 2 appraisals before purchasing certain real property; authorizes the referral of such pupils to an alternative school program.
Title: H.B. 776
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Contingent upon the provision of appropriated funds designated for such purpose, all school districts in the state providing alternative education programs shall expand the programs to include middle school grade students.
Title: S.B. 901
Source: Lexis-Nexis/Statenet
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| ME | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Public Law No. 683, (LD 2027); Encourages public school alternative education programs; requires school alliance to set consistent standards for regional public school choice programs; provides that shared service agreements between schools may include alternative education programs; establishes alternative education as a component of secondary technical education; establishes a stakeholders group to study the possibility of Federal charter school grant funds.
Title: H.B. 1420
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Relates to elementary and secondary education; changes certain provisions regarding special instructional assistance programs for students with developmental deficiencies; provides for the application of mandatory education requirements to children between ages seven and 16 apply who are assigned to alternative public school programs and to the parents, guardians, or other persons having control or charge of such children.
Title: H.B. 114
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | In-school suspension and alternative schools have been combined to create alternative programs. In-school suspension may be included as a type of alternative program. The Office of Educational Accountability determines what is an acceptable performance of alternative education programs. The intent of the alternative education program is to meet the education needs of a student suspended from his or her regular classroom and also of a student who is eligible to remain in his or her regular classroom but is more likely to succeed in a nontraditional setting. Funding for the alternative education program shall be based on 2.5 percent of the full-time equivalent count for grades 6 through 12. For the 2001-2002 school year and thereafter, the funds shall be allocated based on the actual count of students served not to exceed 2.5 percent of the full-time equivalent count.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Clarifies that regional pilot projects for alternative education are designed for elementary as well as middle and high school students; directs the Department of Education to issue a request for proposals for regional pilot projects for selected alternative education options for elementary school students.
Title: H.B. 188
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Provides that a student who has been granted an Alternative Education Plan and fails to comply with the condition of the plan shall be in violation of attendance laws; authorizes the Division Superintendent or Attendance Officer of the school division in which such student was last enrolled seek the students immediate compliance.
Title: H.B. 1468
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 07/1999 | P-12 | Extends the termination date of the In-School Intervention Pilot Program.
Title: H.B. 2067
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MO | Signed by governor 07/1999 | P-12 | School districts may provide an alternative education program and enroll a pupil in such if the district determines such enrollment is appropriate.
Title: H.B. 889
Source:
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| SC | Signed into law 06/1999 | P-12 | Provides for a system of alternative schools for specified students in grades 6-12 for which a school district shall receive certain funding it chooses to establish, maintain and operate an alternative school either individually or through a cooperative agreement with other districts; repeals section relating to competitive grants to fund alternative schools.
Title: S.B. 727
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Signed by governor 06/1999 | P-12 | Commissioner shall annually evaluate each district's alternative education program including student performance on assessment instruments.
Title: S.B. 4
Source: "Advocate," Summer 1999
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| AR | Signed into law 04/1999 | P-12 | Extends the expiration of the Arkansas Pygmalion Commission; to remove legislative members from the commissions; relates to the Arkansas Pygmalion Commission on Nontraditional Education.
Title: H.B. 1966
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/1999 | P-12 | Pertains to alternative learning environments; relates to school aid, school districts, the Department of Education; requires the Pygmalion Commission to report its findings to the Legislature.
Title: S.B. 861
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12 | Request the House and Senate Interim Committee on Education to conduct a study of the feasibility and desirability of establishing a residential alternative school for At-Risk Youth.
Title: H.C.R. 1009
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12 | Establishes an alternative middle school program; provides for implementation of the program; makes an appropriation.
Title: H.B. 329
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12 | Establishes a grants program for pilot discretionary programs for disruptive elementary and middle school students who do not qualify for the alternative education programs established; defines disruptive student as a student whose behavior interrupts or obstructs the learning environment and results in 2 or more short-term suspensions or requires repeated intervention by school personnel.
Title: H.B. 1248
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12 | Authorizes school boards to adopt regulations empowering the division superintendent or his designee to require certain students to attend alternative education programs after written notice to the student and his parent and notice of the opportunity for the student or his parent to participate in a hearing to be conducted by the division superintendent or his designee regarding such placement.
Title: H.B. 2405
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 02/1999 | P-12 | Allows alternative education for certain pupils; clarifies responsibility for locating and providing for establishment of strict discipline public school academies.
Title: H.B. 4241 Alternative Education
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 12/1998 | P-12 | Authorizes National Guard to award adult high school diploma to certain graduates in the Youth Challenge Program; relates to diplomas to Youth Challenge Program participants who meet minimum academic requirements for graduation.
Title: H.B. 355
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Died 06/1998 | P-12 | Relates to school district program for disruptive students; directs the School District Board to adopt program to address problems of disruptive students in schools; specifies recommended program requirement including parent education class, exemption, pilot program and cost of alternative programs.
Title: H.B. 3083 Programs for Disruptive Students
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 05/1998 | P-12 | Creates the Alternative School Fund within the state treasury; provides for the benefit of chronically disruptive, suspended or expelled students or students who have dropped out without obtaining a high school diploma; provides for investment of funds and expenditure by the Department of Education.
Title: H.B. 27
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Died 05/1998 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education to establish a juvenile Alternative Program as a pilot program in each supreme court district for 1st and 2nd youth offenders; requires submission of report on effectiveness to certain legislative committees; authorizes youth courts to order offenders to participate in program as a disposition alternative in delinquency cases.
Title: H.B. 189
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Died 05/1998 | P-12 | Creates an alternative educational program under the joint direction of the State Department of Education and the Department of Human Services to assist Youth Who are at risk; provides for the teaching of basic education fundamental skills; specifies the goals and objectives of the program.
Title: H.B. 262 Alternative Educational Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | Amends and clarifies law enacted last session which requires school districts to serve expelled students. As amended, allows local board to determine credits student will receive for educational services provided during expulsion. Requires boards to determine the circumstances and manner in which disciplinary actions will be imposed through the discipline code. Allows grant money to be used for services for expelled students and for students at risk of expulsion. Expulsion of "habitually disruptive" students will continue to be mandatory.
Title: S.B. 1 Expelled Students
Source: CO Association of School Boards
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| NE | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | Adopts the Quality Education Accountability Act; provides incentive payments to local systems that have adopted academic standards promulgated by the State Board of Education, has a system of alternative education for all expelled students, has an approved program for learners with high ability, and 60% of the graduation seniors have taken a standard college admissions test and have an aggregate average score above average.
Title: L.B. 1228
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Signed into law 11/1997 | P-12 | Directs the Alternative Education Institute to serve as an educational facility for at-risk youth; provides for the expiration of the terms of office of the board of directors of the institute and reduces the number of members on the board; provides for the appointment of a new board; directs the new board to recommend a plan for the future use of the educational facility. Note: BECAME LAW WITHOUT GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE.
Title: S.B. 8
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| OH | Signed into law 08/1997 | P-12 | Modifies Sec. 3313.534. (E) If a District Board of Education elects under this section, or is required by section 3313.534 of the revised code, to establish an alternative school, the district board may join with the board of education of one or more other districts to form a joint alternative school by forming a cooperative education school district under section 3311.52 or 3311.521 of the revised code, or a joint educational program under section 3313.842 of the revised code. No later than July 1, 1998, the board of education of each city, exempted village, and local school district shall adopt a policy of zero tolerance for violent, disruptive, or inappropriate behavior, including excessive truancy, and establish strategies to address such behavior that range from prevention to intervention. No later than July 1, 1999, each of the big eight school districts, as defined in section 3317.02 of the revised code, shall establish under section 3313.533 of the revised code at least one alternative school to meet the educational needs of students with severe discipline problems, including but not limited to, excessive truancy, excessive disruption in the classroom, and multiple suspensions or expulsions. Any other school district that attains after that date a significantly substandard graduation rate, as defined by the department of education shall also establish such an alternative school under that section.
Title: S.B. 55 Alternative Schools
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Died 08/1997 | P-12 | Relate to certain students expelled from public school or ordereed to attend a juvenile justice alternative education program.
Title: S.B. 410 & H.B. 351 Juvenile Justice Alternative Ed. Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CT | Died 06/1997 | P-12 | Requires parents to pay the cost of alternative educational programs provided to expelled students in order to reduce the financial burden of such programs on school districts.
Title: S.B. 38 Financial Support from Parents for Alternative Educational Programs
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 06/1997 | P-12 | The State Board of Education is authorized to create an alternative school program for students in grades 6-12 to serve students who violate the student code of conduct. This program shall provide the individualized instruction, intervention strategies, and transition to other programs these students need to become successful students and good citizens.
Title: 20-2-769 Alternative school program authorized; annual reports
Source: Official Code of Georgia - 1997 Supplement
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| LA | Died 06/1997 | P-12 | Requires school system to retain supervision of certain suspended and expelled students using BESE approved alternative education programs. S.B. 730 Mandates the provision of alternative programs for disruptive and suspended or expelled students by 1998-99 and clarifies where such programs may be housed.
Title: H.B. 997 & H.B. 1097 & S.B. 730 Alternative Programs for Disruptive Students
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NJ | Died 06/1997 | P-12 | Establishes on pilot basis a "Boot Camp" style residential school program for pupils with disciplinary problems.
Title: A.B. 523 Magnet Schools for Disciplinary Problems
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Signed into law 05/1997 | P-12 | Increases state contribution for adult education programs; creates a state-level alternative education grant program; increases assessment funding to account for graduation exam; appropriates money for early intervention programs for reading in K-3; appropriates money for nonpublic teacher mentor program; allows nonpublic school students to have their Advanced Placement tests paid for by the state; appropriates $30 for the Technology Plan Grant Fund; provides 100% reimbursement funding for the expense of providing free textbooks to students who qualify for the federal free lunch program.
Title: S.B. 6 Budget Bill
Source: Indiana Department of Education
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| OK | Signed into law 05/1997 | P-12 | Relates to schools. Alternative Education Academy Grants.
Title: H.B. 1458 Alternative Education Academy Grants
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| OR | Signed into law 05/1997 | P-12 | Allows parent or guardian to enroll student in alternative education program to meet student's educational needs and interest.
Title: S.B. 184 Alternative Education Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/1997 | P-12 | Makes an appropriation; relates to the National Guard of Arizona; relates to powers and duties of the Adjutant General; requires the Adjutant General to establish an educational program for persons who have previously dropped out of high school and who are under 20 years of age but who are not adjudicated delinquent, to be named Project Challenge, to be conducted by the National Guard of Arizona in a paramilitary environment.
Title: H.B. 2169 Educational Programs for Persons Under 20 who Are At Risk
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ND | Signed into law 04/1997 | P-12 | Provides for the reimbursment of certain school districts having alternative high schools.
Title: H.B. 1051 Alternative Education
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/1997 | P-12 | Repeals sections of the Acts of 1993 which relate to the education of students who are suspended, excluded, or expelled.
Title: H.B. 1936 Suspension, Exclusion and Expulsion
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| MS | Died 02/1997 | P-12 | Creates alternative education program for at-risk youth.
Title: H.B. 920 Alternative Education Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Died 01/1997 | P-12 | Provides an additional count of 0.50 in the state tuition support formula for students of a school corporation who participate in an alternative program. Requires the state board of education to adopt rules to determine eligibility of programs for an additional count as an alternative program. Repeals an obsolete statute concerning alternative education programs under the IPASS program.
Title: S.B. 322 Alternative Education
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| PA | Died 11/1996 | P-12 | H.B. 8 provides school districts with an opportunity to establish alternative education programs for students in grades 7-12. Districts would be permitted to remove disruptive students from their regular education program in favor of placement in the alternative education program. H.B. 8 specifically exempts special education students from alternative education programs. School districts are to be reimbursed by the state for alternative education programs at a rate of $125 per pupil for each nine weeks of enrollment up to a maximum of $500 per year. The state will not provide funding for more than 2% of a district's average daily membership of students enrolled in grades 7-12. School districts starting a disruptive student program in the 1995-96 school year will be eligible for current year funding. (PASA Flyer 2/95, Vol. XXXVIII, No. VIII)
Title: H.B. 8 Alternative Education
Source: PA Association of School Administrators
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| OK | Passed 09/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 05/25/95) Relates to concurrent education and alternative education academy programs and schools; provides for students in common schools to be enrolled concurrently in courses at institutions of higher learning; allows certified teachers to teach students in alternaive schools for which teacher does not hold certification, counseling and social services to be provided by persons who are not required to be certified as school counselors, and rules provide that alternative educational plan shall be fourth component of district's Comprehensive Local Education Plan; clarifies curriculum areas in which students may concurrently enroll at college level and receive high school credit; implements Proficiency Based Promotion.
Title: OAC 210:35-19-3, 210:35-29-1 to 210:35-29-7 Concurrent Enrollment & Alternative Education
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OH | Signed into law 07/1996 | P-12 | Authorizes the board of education of school districts to create alternative disciplinary middle and high schools that may operate in a certain deregulated manner and to adopt certain policies related to student conduct, dress and discipline.
Title: H.B. 601 Alternative Disciplinary Schools
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 05/1996 | P-12 | Authorizes pilot alternative school program for K-12 in three systems of 7,000 or less, one in each grand division to determine most effective methods. Appropriates $25,000 for each program.
Title: S.B. 2563 Authorizes pilot alternative school program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Signed into law 04/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 10/04/96) Provides for development of an information access and delivery system to enable agencies to share information needed to provide joint services to disruptive, violent, and delinquent youth; revises provisions relating to minimum risk nonresidential programs for children; authorizes alternative school board policies for assignment of such students and notice that possession of a firearm will result in school expulsion; provides for second chance schools for youths.
Title: S.B. 1438 Sharing Information on Disruptive Youth (#96-55)
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Died 04/1996 | P-12 | Amends the school code to authorize the Chicago Board of Education to establish alternative schools and to contract with third parties to provide services for those schools. Exempts alternative schools operated by third party from all provisions of the school code except those specified.
Title: H.B. 1000 Alternative Schools and Contracts With Third Parties to Provide Services
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 04/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 04/09/96) Requiring a continuum model of prevention and intervention programs for disruptive students; setting criteria for funding those programs; authorizing some and requiring some specified disciplinary actions; requiring principals, teachers, and parents to take specified actions; allowing county boards of education to require restitution; requiring the State Board of Education to adopt regulations and provide assistance, etc.
Title: S.B. 221 Programs for Disruptive Students
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 04/1996 | P-12 | Relates to schools; relates to alternative education; allows for abbreviated school day and alternative teacher certification standards for certain facilities.
Title: H.B. 2563 Alternative Education
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Died 03/1996 | P-12 | Provides that before a school district can increase its student count to reflect new students attending its "alternative school" it must apply for approval of the alternative school to a new "advisory committee for alternative schools" created for the purpose and composed of legislators, school officials and others. Allows the committee to choose which schools to fund based on those that seem likely to retain dropouts if the Legislature has not appropriated enough money.
Title: S.B. 1121 Approval of Pupil Count for Alternative Schools
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | Amends existing law to provide that moneys generated from computation of support units be used for alternative school programs.
Title: S.B. 1550 Funding for Alternative School Programs
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education to encourage school corporations to assess the need in the school corporation for alternative programs; establishes a school alternative program study committee to study any issue related to alternative schools for chronically disruptive students; provides that a governmental entity or an employee acting within the scope of the employee's employment is not liable if a loss results from injury to a student or a student's property by an employee of a school corporation.
Title: H.B. 1420 Alternative Programs
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SC | Died 03/1996 | P-12 | Requires school districts to develop alternative schools and requires a child expelled for more than one week to be placed in a private or alternative school.
Title: H.B. 4807 Development of Alternative Schools for At-Risk Students
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 03/20/96) Provides for alternative schools or alternative education programs for disruptive school-age juveniles at the county level and establishes a formula for the State Board of Education to distribute state funding to local school boards for that purpose. Allows students to attend night school. Removes requirements for certified letter if parent/guardian is there and signs acknowledgment of expulsion. Permits county boards to employ a hearing officer to conduct expulsion hearings. The state board was also authorized to provide education programs and services, subject to legislative appropriations, on the grounds of four designed residential facilities for school-age juveniles with behavior problems. In addition, the bill permits the suspension of special education students with disabilities for up to 10 days, and for their expulsion if they bring any deadly weapon to school. County boards were authorized to permit the sale of soft drinks in high schools except during breakfast and lunch periods; 75% proceeds to Faculty Senate and 25% to principal for necessary materials.
Title: H.B. 4065 Safe Schools
Source: West Virginia Department of Education
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| WV | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | Establishes a secure residential school of juvenile status offenders and providing an alternative school for evening classes or night school for children who are expelled or suspended from regular school classes.
Title: H.B. 4139 Alternative Education for Disruptive Students
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Died 02/1996 | P-12 | Requires that under certain conditions a court may order a juvenile to attend an alternative school if the juvenile is committed to a juvenile detention facility or to the Department of Youth Services, but the centers are unable to take the juvenile due to lack of space.
Title: S.B. 456 Alternative Schools for Juvenile Delinquents
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Died 02/1996 | P-12 | Provides a 2% inflation increase in school funding. Sets procedure for development of technology utilization plan. Creates an education technology reserve fund to fund acquisition of equipment to implement technology utilization plan. Provides for establishment of alternative schools to serve students who have been expelled.
Title: S.B. 73 Technology Incentives
Source: Colorado Association of School Boards, Legislative Newsletter Billboard, January 12, 1996
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| MD | Died 02/1996 | P-12 | Requiring each county board of education and the Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore City to establish comprehensive programs for disruptive students; adding certain crimes to the list of reportable offenses; requiring a principal to notify certain persons when a student has committed a certain offense; requiring a county superintendent to suspend a student under certain circumstances and place the student in a certain program.
Title: S.B. 195 Programs for Disruptive Students
Source:
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| MS | Died 02/1996 | P-12 | Requires each school district to maintain and operate an alternative school program within the district beginning with the 1997-1998 school year; requires facilities housing such programs to comply with the same standards applicable to other school facilities in the district; provides that school districtrs failing to operate an altenative school program shall not be entitled to an additional allotment under the minimum program for the alternative school program; and for related purposes.
Title: H.B. 23 & H.B. 108 Alternative School Progrms
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Appropriates to the Department of Education a specific amount for new "alternative school stimulus fund" that is to pay for start-up, transportation, capital and other costs. Prescribes application procedures.
Title: S.B. 1122 Alternative School Stimulus Fund
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Provides for establishing an in-school, district-wide intensive supervision center program for pupils under age 16 who are guilty of gross disobedience or misconduct.
Title: S.B. 1349 In-School District-Wide Supervision Center Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | H.B. 387 Creates alternative programs for at-risk youth in education. H.B. 631 Relates to requiring each school district to operate an alternative school program by 1996-97 school year.
Title: H.B. 387 & H.B. 631 Alternative Education for At-risk Students
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| RI | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Establishes an Alternative School Pilot Program to be adopted by the Board of Regents of Elementary and Secondary Education and the local school committees for the purpose of educating children who have been expelled from school or have otherwise been determined to be unsuitable for attendance at a regular school.
Title: H.B. 7379 Alternative School Pilot Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Includes in basic education funding sufficient money to fund one alternative school for suspended or expelled students in grades 7-12 for each local education agency.
Title: H.B. 2523/S.B. 2432 Funding Alternative School
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OH | Died 11/1995 | P-12 | Authorizes the boards of education of school districts to create alternative disciplinary middle and high schools that may operate in a certain deregulated manner.
Title: H.B. 507 Alternative Discipline
Source: Ohio School Boards Association, Legislative Report 12/4/95
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| CA | Signed into law 10/1995 | P-12 | Reauthorizes a school district that participates in school-based program coordination to establish an alternative education and work center for school dropouts at a continuation high school or adult school or to contract with a private non-profit community-based organization to provide the center. The center would be required to teach basic academic skills, operate on a clinical, client-centered basis, and provide programs that include specified qualities.
Title: A.B. 625 Alternative Education and Work Center for School Dropouts
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 06/1995 | P-12 | Each educational service region except in Chicago may establish one or more alternative schools for disruptive students in grades 6-12 who would otherwise be suspended or expelled. Such schools must be away from regular school grounds. A public school may immediately transfer disruptive students to an alternative school. A meeting will then be held, with a parent invited, to develop the student's education plan, including a date by which the student may return to the regular school. Such a student who fulfills all graduation requirements of a transferring high school will get a diploma from it. The regional school board will control the alternative school.
Title: Disruptive Student Schools: Regional Superintendent Terms
Source: Legislative Research Unit
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| MD | Signed into law 06/1995 | P-12 | Establishes the Baltimore City Alternative Learning Center in the Baltimore City Public School System. A student may be transferred to the Center if the student: 1) assaults a teacher, teacher's aide, student teacher, a professional or paraprofessional school employee, or a student; 2) carries a deadly weapon onto school property; or 3) commits any other act that would be a crime if committed by an adult. Programs within the Center must include elementary and secondary education programs, special education programs that fulfill the social and emotional needs of students and require the participation of the parents or guardians of the students, and vocational and rehabilitative training programs. The purpose of the bill is to provide disruptive students with the services they need and protect school staff and students.
Title: H.B. 970, Chapter 632 Baltimore City Alternative Learning Center
Source: Department of Legislative Reference
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| MO | Signed into law 05/1995 | P-12 | This bill requires public school districts to suspend for at least one year any student who brings a firearm to school. The chief officers of school districts are permitted to modify these suspensions on a case-by-case basis and school districts are not prohibited from offering alternative education programs to suspended students.
Title: H.B. 345 Student Suspension
Source: House Research
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| VA | Signed into law 05/1995 | P-12 | Authorizes local school boards to determine the appropriate alternative education placement of students who have been placed in alternative education by court order.
Title: Alternative Education Placement
Source: Virginia General Assembly 1995 Session Summary
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| CO | Died 04/1995 | P-12 | This bill enables districts to create alternative schools to teach expelled or suspended students, K-12. Council staff is working with a variety of disability community members concerned about students with disabilities. Such a placement could occur if a student's disruptive activities are determined not due to his or her disability. Also it may occur for students that do not have an identified disability. H.B. 1317 places such students at-risk for modeling disruptive behavior, and having teachers that are not appropriately trained for teaching students with disabilities. (Between the Lines, April 1995)
Title: H.B. 1317 Alternative Schools
Source: Colorado Developmental Disabilities Planning Council (CDDPC)
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| GA | Signed into law 04/1995 | P-12 | Authorizes creation of a special school district for incarcerated youth; provides that the Commissioner of Corrections shall serve as superintendent of schools for such special school district; provides that the Board of Corrections shall serve as the board of education and shall establish education standards for such special school district.
Title: H.B. 436 - Educating Incarcerated Youth
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 04/1995 | P-12 | Provides for the establishment of policies by local boards of education requiring the expulsion of students who bring weapons to school; authorizes placement of such students in alternative programs.
Title: S.B. 281 Expulsion of Students for Bringing Weapons to School
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 04/1995 | P-12 | Suspension of students; provides standards for removal of students to alternative school programs.
Title: S.B. 2510 - Student Suspensions
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Became law without governor's signature 04/1995 | P-12 | Provides that local school boards shall determine the alternative education placement of students who attend the public schools of its division or who resides within the school division, in accordance with federal and state laws and regulations. Authorizes school boards to place in alternative programs any student charged with an offense or found guilty or not innocent of a crime for which the court disposition must be disclosed to the division superintendent.
Title: H.B. 2150 - Alternative Education
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/1995 | P-12 | Clarifies reporting requirements concerning alternative learning environments in public schools.
Title: H.B. 1691 - Reporting on Alternative Learning Environments
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Died 02/1995 | P-12 | (Effective: 07/01/95) Allows governing bodies of school corporations to estab. alternative programs for disruptive students. Defines disruptive students as those having two or more suspensions in a school year. Permits alternative programs to be established by contract with private nonprofit or for profit individuals or organizations. Makes a correction in a cross-reference that pertains to an additional count for pupils in an alternative school. Makes a technical change to renumber a code section taking effect in 2001 that has the same code cite as a section that is currently in effect. Makes conforming changes.
Title: H.B. 1265 Alternative Schools
Source: Ind. University Education Policy Center
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| NJ | Active 01/1995 | P-12
Community College | (Effective: 01/31/95) Alternative education programs for potentially dangerous students are expected to be in most of NJ's 21 counties by the end of the month under a "safe schools" initiative. The Assembly last month passed another provision of the plan that would mandate a one year suspension for students who bring firearms to school or are convicted of a firearms offense. About half of the alternative programs have been established at community colleges; others will operate out of vocational technical centers, separate schools, or, at a minimum, school wings that segregate the potentially dangerous students from others.
Title: Alternative Education Programs
Source: Education Week 1/18/95
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| NJ | Active 10/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 10/01/94) Instead of banishing disruptive high school students to detention halls, education officials in New Jersey are sending them to college. Three years ago, the state opened non-traditional high schools in seven districts. Most of them are located on college campuses. This fall, New Jersey's department of education earmarked $3 million in federal funds to begin 14 more alternative schools. By the end of the school year, there will be one in each of the 21 districts in the state. At-risk students receive extra support services, including one-on-one counseling, to help them deal with behavior problems. Each student's program is tailored specifically to his or her needs. There is even an option to enroll in college courses. (Ed Week 10/12/94)
Title: Up, Not Out - Handling Disruptive High School Students
Source: Education Week
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| OK | Signed into law 08/1994 | P-12 | The legislation includes the establishment of eight pilot alternative academies grants for alternative education programs in counties with a high number of dropouts and a high number of referrals to the juvenile justice system. Lawmakers' growing concern in the juvenile justice area resulted in the passage of H.B. 2640 which creates the Oklahoma Juvenile Reform Act. Areas of the Act concerning prevention, intervention and recovery related specifically to education are considered to be of primary importance in the future reduction of juvenile delinquency and crime.
The competitive grants may be awarded by the State Board of Education tob school districts, nonprofit organizations or entities formed by specific interlocal cooperative agreements to serve middle school, junior high school and secondary school students in grades 6 through 12 who are most at risk of not completing a high school education. Funding to support these programs includes $2.0 million appropriated to the State Board of Education and $ 1.0 million to expand access to Head Start programs. Competitive grants for additional dropout recovery programs are established through area vocational-technical school districts. H.B. 2640 also creates the Delinquency and Youth Gang Intervention and Deterrence Act which provides for school, school- related, and after-school programs for children in grades 1 through 12, and their families who live in at-risk school districts, neighborhoods and communities and aid to communities in the development of prevention and early intervention programs and activities.
Title: H.B. 2640 Alternative Education
Source: 1994 Session Highlights
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| DE | Signed into law 06/1994 | P-12 | Provides funding to districts in 3 areas: 1) alternative schools for expelled and disruptive youth; 2) intervention grants for middle and high schools; 3) prevention grants, targeted at younger students (conflict resolution, behavior management, reducing risk of failure, etc.) $6.3 M funding provided in FY95.
Title: H.B. 247 Alt. schools, intervention grants, prevention grants
Source:
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| NV | Signed into law 06/1994 | P-12 | Authorizes school districts, subject to the approval of the state board of education, to establish alternative programs for the education of pupils at risk of dropping out of high school. (Legislative Summary 1993)
Title: A.B. 527 Alternative Programs
Source: Legislative Counsel Bureau
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| WA | Signed into law 06/1994 | P-12 | Allows school boards to establish schools or programs which parents may choose for their children which require dress codes/uniforms; where parents are required to participate in their student's education; and where discipline requirements are more stringent than in other schools in the district.
Title: RCS 28A.320.140 Schools with special standards
Source: WA
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| NM | Signed into law 04/1994 | P-12 | During the 1994 session, the Legislature considered several pieces of legislation related to at-risk students, alternative education programs, gangs and violence. The Legislature appropriated $600,000 to fund alternative education curricula for at risk students and $48,000 to study the feasibility for a countywide alternative high school in San Juan County. Also, the Legislature passed several measures aimed at providing a safe environment on school campuses. (Legislative Education Study Committee 4/7/94)
Title: At Risk, Alternative Ed, Gangs, Violence
Source: State of NM
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| WI | Signed into law 04/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 04/30/94) This law contains provisions relating to teacher licensure for alternative education programs, assessment periods for certain pupils, high school graduation requirements, education for employment standards and rules relating to the youth apprenticeship program. (A New Law 4/30/94)
1) Teacher Licensure The law directs the department of public instruction (DPI) to promulgate rules establishing requirements for licensure as an alternative education program teacher and for the approval of teacher education programs leading to licensure as an alternative education program teacher. An "alternative education program" is defined to mean an instructional program approved by the school board, that utilizes successful alternative or adaptive school structures in teaching techniques and that is offered in place of regularly scheduled curricular programs. Alternative education program does not include a private school or a home based private educational program. The rules must encompass the teaching of multiple subjects or grade levels, or both, as determined by the state superintendent. Further, the state superintendent may require teacher education programs to grant credit towards alternative education licensure for relevant experience or for demonstrated proficiency in relevant skills or knowledge. Under the law, a person is not required to be licensed as an alternative education teacher to teach in an alternative education program. However, the person must hold an appropriate license issued by DPI. These rules must be submitted in proposed form, no later than Oct 1, 1994.
2) Assessment Periods for Certain Pupils The law allows a school board to establish policies to permit a pupil of an age eligible for high school enrollment in the school district to be assigned to a period of assessment as a consequence of the pupil's truancy or upon the pupil's return to school from placement in a correctional facility, mental health treatment facility, alcohol and other drug abuse treatment facility or other out of school placement. The school board policies must specify the conditions under which the pupil might participate in the assessment without being in violation of truancy or attendance law and the maximum length of time that a pupil may be assigned to an assessment period. A pupil may not be required to participate without the written approval of the pupil's parent or guardian. A pupil may not be assigned to any assessment period for longer than the time necessary to complete the assessment and make the placement in an appropriate education program, or for 8 weeks, whichever is less. The school board may not assign a pupil to an assessment period if the school district has an alternative education program available for the pupil that is approriate for the pupil's needs. The law specifies that the goals of an assessment are to develop an educational plan for the pupil, implement an appropriate transitional plan and facilitate the pupil's placement in an education program in which the pupil will be able to succeed. The assessment may, but is not required to, include any of the following new or previolusly completed activities: a) An assessment for problems with alcohol or other drugs. b) An assessment of individual educational needs. c) An assessment of whether the pupil is encountering problems in the community or at home that require the intervention by a social worker. d) A vocational assessment, which may include career counseling. e) A medical assessment.
3) High School Graduation Requirements The law provides that a school board may grant a high school diploma to a pupil who does not meet the specific statutory requirements for high school graduation. Under current law, a public school board may not grant a high school diploma to a pupil unless the pupil has: a) earned a certain number of credits in various subjects in the high school grades; and b) been enrolled in a class or has participated in an activity approved by the school board during each class period of each school day. Administrative rules promulgated by DPI define a "credit" as "the credit given for successful completion of a school term of study in one course in high school grades that meets daily for a normal class period of the equivalent established by the school board." Currently, a school board may not grant a high school diploma to a pupil unless the pupil has earned: a) in the high school grades, at least 4 credits in English, including writing composition, 3 credits of social studies, including state and local government, 2 credits of mathematics, 2 credits of science and 1.5 credits of physical education; and b) in grades 7 to 12, at least 0.5 credit of health education. The law provides that a school board may grant a high school diploma to a pupil who does not meet the requirements set forth above if the following requirements are met; a) the pupil is enrolled in an alternative education program in the school district; and b) the school board has determined that the pupil has demonstrated a level of proficiency in English, social studies, mathematics, physical education and health education, equivalent to the proficiency which a pupil would have attaind if he or she had completed the requirements described above.
4) Education for Employment Standards The law modifies the statutory education for employment standard. The law clarifies the standard currently in place by specifying that, beginning in the 1997-98 school year, the program must incorporate applied curricula; guidance in counseling services; technical preparation (tech-prep); college preparation; youth apprenticeship or other job training and work experience; and instruction in skills relating to employment, The law directs the state superintendent to assist school boards in complying with the provision.
5) Youth Apprenticeship Program The law directs the department of industry, labor and human relations (DILHR) to adopt administrative rules relating to program guidelines for the current WI youth apprenticeship program that is administered by DILHR. (A New Law 4/30/94)
Title: S.B. 89 Alternative Education Programs
Source: WI Assoc of School Boards
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| VA | Passed 03/1994 | P-12 | Relates to alternative education programs. (Statenet 3/18/94)
Title: H.B. 724 Alternative Education Programs
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| Standards |
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| Standards--Common Core State Standards |
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| Standards--Implementation |
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| State Comparisons/Statistics |
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| State Longitudinal Data Systems |
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| State Policymaking |
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| State Policymaking--Ballot Questions |
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| State Policymaking--Constitutional Clauses |
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| State Policymaking--Politics |
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| State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
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| STEM |
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| Student Achievement |
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| Student Achievement--Closing the Achievement Gap |
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| Student Achievement--State Trends |
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| Student Supports |
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| Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
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| Student Supports--Mentoring/Tutoring |
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| Student Supports--Remediation |
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| Student Surveys |
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| Students |
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| Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
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| Students--Employment |
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| Students--Incentives |
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| Students--K-12 Exchange Students |
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| Students--Mobility |
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| Students--Records/Rights |
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| Teaching Quality |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Assignment |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds. |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--State Prof. Standards Bds. |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Substitute Teachers |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
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| Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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| Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
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| Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals |
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| Teaching Quality--Preparation |
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| Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--High-Needs Subjects |
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| Teaching Quality--Reduction in Force |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Attitudes |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Contracts (Not Tenure) |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Rights |
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| Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
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| Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
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| Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining--Strikes |
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| Teaching Quality--Working Conditions |
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| Technology |
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| Technology--Computer Skills |
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| Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
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| Technology--Equitable Access |
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| Technology--Funding Issues |
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| Technology--Internet Safety |
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| Technology--Research/Evaluation |
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| Technology--Teacher/Faculty Training |
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| Textbooks and Open Source |
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| Urban |
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| Urban--Change/Improvements |
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| Urban--Governance |
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| Whole-School Reform Models |
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| Whole Child |
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