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State |
Status/Date |
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Summary |
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 | 21st Century Skills |
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| Accountability |
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| Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
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| Accountability--Reporting Results |
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| Accountability--Rewards |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Learnfare |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Play |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers |
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| Accountability--School Improvement |
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| Adult Basic Education |
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| Assessment |
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| Assessment--Accommodations |
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| Assessment--College Entrance Exams |
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| Assessment--Computer Based |
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| Assessment--End-of-Course |
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| Assessment--Formative/Interim |
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| Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
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| Assessment--Legal Issues |
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| Assessment--NAEP (NAEP Results and NAEP Organization) |
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| Assessment--Performance Based/Portfolio |
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| Assessment--Value Added |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
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| Attendance |
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| Attendance--Compulsory |
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| Attendance--Statutory Ages (Upper and Lower) |
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| Attendance--Truancy |
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| Background Checks |
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| Bilingual/ESL |
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| Brain Research |
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| Business Involvement |
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| Career/Technical Education |
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| Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship |
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| Cheating |
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| Choice of Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Charter Districts |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Closings |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Cyber Charters |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Research |
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| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
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| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment--Research |
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| Choice of Schools--Innovation Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers--Privately Funded |
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| Civic Education |
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| Civic Education--Character Education |
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| Civic Education--Civic Knowledge and Literacy |
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| Civic Education--Curriculum/Standards |
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| Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance |
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| Class Size |
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| Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Alignment |
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| Curriculum--Arts Education |
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| Curriculum--Censorship |
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| Curriculum--Core Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Drivers Education |
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| Curriculum--Environmental Education |
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| Curriculum--Excusal |
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| Curriculum--Family Living Education |
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| Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
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| Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
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| Curriculum--Geography Education |
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| Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education |
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| Curriculum--Home Economics |
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| Curriculum--International Education |
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| Curriculum--Language Arts |
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| Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling |
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| Curriculum--Mathematics |
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| Curriculum--Multicultural |
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| Curriculum--Physical Education |
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| Curriculum--Science |
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| Curriculum--Sex Education |
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| Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
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| Curriculum--Speech Education |
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| Data-Driven Improvement |
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| Demographics |
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| Demographics--Condition of Children/Adults |
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| Demographics--Enrollments |
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| Desegregation |
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| Economic/Workforce Development |
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| Education Research |
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| Equity |
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| Federal |
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| Finance |
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| Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
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| Finance--Aid to Private Schools |
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| Finance--Bonds |
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| Finance--District |
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| Finance--Does Money Matter? |
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| Finance--Equity |
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| Finance--Facilities |
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| Finance--Federal |
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| Finance--Funding Formulas |
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| Finance--Litigation |
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| Finance--Local Foundations/Funds |
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| Finance--Lotteries |
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| Finance--Performance Funding |
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| Finance--Private Giving |
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| Finance--Resource Efficiency |
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| Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
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| Finance--Student Fees |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
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| Governance |
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| Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
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| Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
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| Governance--Mandates |
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| Governance--Regional Entities |
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| Governance--School Boards |
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| Governance--School Boards--Training |
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| Governance--Site-Based Management |
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| Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
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| Health |
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| Health--Child Abuse |
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| Health--Mental Health |
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| Health--Nutrition |
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| Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
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| Health--Suicide Prevention |
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| Health--Teen Pregnancy |
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| High School |
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| High School--Advanced Placement |
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| High School--College Readiness |
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| High School--Credit Recovery |
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| High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
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| High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
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| High School--Early Colleges/Middle Colleges |
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| High School--Exit Exams |
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| High School--GED (General Education Development) |
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| High School--Graduation Requirements |
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| High School--International Baccalaureate |
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| Instructional Approaches |
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| Instructional Approaches--Constructivism |
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| Instructional Approaches--Grading Practices |
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| Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
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| Instructional Approaches--Homework/Study Skills |
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| Instructional Approaches--Official English |
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| Instructional Approaches--Problem Based Learning |
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| Instructional Approaches--Single-Sex Education |
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| Instructional Approaches--Time/Time on Task |
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| Instructional Approaches--Tracking/Ability Grouping |
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| Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
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| International Benchmarking |
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| Leadership |
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| Leadership--District Superintendent |
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| Leadership--District Superintendent--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation--Alternative |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Professional Development |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Recruitment and Retention |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Tenure |
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| Middle School |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--African American |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--Hispanic |
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| No Child Left Behind |
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| No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
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| No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
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| No Child Left Behind--Choice/Transfer |
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| No Child Left Behind--Consequences for Schools |
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| No Child Left Behind--Finance |
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| No Child Left Behind--Parent Involvement |
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| No Child Left Behind--Reauthorization Issues/Waivers |
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| No Child Left Behind--Report Cards |
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| No Child Left Behind--School Support |
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| No Child Left Behind--Special Populations |
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| No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
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| Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
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| Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
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| P-16 or P-20 |
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| P-3 |
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| P-3 Brain Development |
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| P-3 Child Care |
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| P-3 Content Standards and Assessment |
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| P-3 Data Systems |
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| P-3 Early Intervention (0-3) |
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| P-3 Ensuring Quality |
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| P-3 Evaluation/Economic Benefits |
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| P-3 Family Involvement |
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| P-3 Finance |
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| P-3 Governance |
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| P-3 Grades 1-3 |
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| P-3 Health and Mental Health |
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| P-3 Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Kindergarten--Full Day Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Preschool |
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| P-3 Public/Private Partnerships |
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| P-3 Special Ed./Inclusion |
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| P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development |
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| Parent/Family |
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| Parent/Family--Parent Rights |
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| Parent/Family--Research |
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| Partnerships--University/School |
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| Postsecondary |
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| Postsecondary Accountability |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Diploma Mills |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Licensing/Program Review and Approval |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Student Learning |
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| Postsecondary Affordability |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Textbooks |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Undocumented Immigrants |
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| Postsecondary Faculty |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Compensation |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Intellectual Property |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Teaching Assistants |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Tenure |
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| Postsecondary Finance |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Efficiency/Performance-Based Funding |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Facilities |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Revenue and Expenditures |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures--Administrative/Leadership Issues |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures--State Executives/State Agencies |
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| Postsecondary Institutions |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Four-Year Baccalaureate |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--HBCUs/Minority-Serving Institutions |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Private/Independent |
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| Postsecondary Online Instruction |
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| Postsecondary Participation |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Access |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Affirmative Action |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Enrollments (Statistics) |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Outreach |
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| Postsecondary Students |
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| Postsecondary Students--Adults |
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| Postsecondary Students--Disabled |
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| Postsecondary Students--Foster Youth |
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| Postsecondary Students--Graduate/Professional |
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| Postsecondary Students--International |
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| Postsecondary Students--Low-Income |
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| Postsecondary Students--Military |
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| Postsecondary Students--Minority |
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| Postsecondary Success |
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| Postsecondary Success--Completion |
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| Postsecondary Success--Completion--Completion Rates (Statistics) |
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| Postsecondary Success--Developmental/Remediation |
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| Postsecondary Success--Retention/Persistence |
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| Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
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| Private Schools |
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| Privatization |
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| Privatization--Education Management Agencies (EMOs) |
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| Proficiency-Based Approaches |
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| Promising Practices |
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| Promotion/Retention |
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| Public Attitudes |
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| Public Involvement |
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| Purposes of Public Education |
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| Reading/Literacy |
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| Reading/Literacy--Adult Literacy |
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| Religion |
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| Religion--Prayer/Meditation |
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| Religion--Scientific Creationism (Evolution) |
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| Rural |
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 | Scheduling/School Calendar |
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| IA | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | This section requires the director of the Department of Education to appoint members to a school instructional time task force. The task force is to review and submit findings and recommendations pertaining to school instructional time by October 15, 2012.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/SF2284.pdf
Title: S.F. 2284 - Division X
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us
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| LA | Adopted 05/2012 | P-12 | Amends §907, "Secondary Class Times and Carnegie Credit," and §1103, "Compulsory Attendance" to accommodate the newly developed Louisiana Seat Time Waiver (LSTW). §907 permits districts to submit applications to the department of education for a waiver of the instructional time requirement for Carnegie credit. Requires the waiver application to contain a brief description of the program and an assurance that all other requirements for Carnegie credit and graduation requirements will be met. Pages 80-81 of 199: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1205/1205.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.907 and 1103
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov
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| OR | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Provides that the public school system should provide and encourage increased learning time for increased instructional time, opportunities for students to participate in enrichment activities, and teacher collaboration and professional development. (sec. 16 #9; sec. 17c)
http://www.leg.state.or.us/12reg/measpdf/hb4000.dir/hb4014.en.pdf
Title: H.B. 4014
Source: leg.state.or.us
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2011 | P-12 | Provides that if certain specified schools remain on academic watch status for two years, subject to the availability of federal appropriation money, the state board must allow the local school board to operate the school on a state board-approved pilot full-year school plan upon expiration of its teachers' current collective bargaining agreement. Directs a school board to notify the state board of its intent to operate the school on a full-year school plan. Requires a minimum 215 days of student attendance, including not more than 4 institute days, during a 12-month period in a school on a full-year school plan. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/97/PDF/097-0370.pdf
Title: H.B. 1415
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| MN | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Establishes a minimum number of hours for student instruction. Sets the hours at 425 hours per year for kindergarten pupils, 935 hours for pupils in grades 1 to 6 and 1,020 hours per year for pupils in grades 7 to 12. Clarifies that this section does not supersede the commissioner's approval authority of a four-day school week under section 124D.126. (Article 1, Sec 3)
http://wdoc.house.leg.state.mn.us/leg/LS87/1/HF0026.0.pdf
Title: H.F. 26
Source: http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us
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| CA | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Adds new Section 46201.3 to specify (only if subdivision (c) of Section 3.94 of the Budget Act of 2011 is operative) that for the 2011–12 school year, the minimum number of instructional days and minutes school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools are required to offer is reduced by up to seven days. Provides that implementation of the school calendar reduction must be achieved through the bargaining process. Establishes method for reducing each school district, county office of education, and charter school's revenue limit. Provides that this section does not affect the number of instructional days or instructional minutes that may be reduced pursuant to Section 46201.2. Pages 42-43: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/ab_114_bill_20110630_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 114 - School Calendar Reduction for 2011-12 School Year
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Establishes a Blue Ribbon Task Force to study the length of the school year, cost of implementation, current cost of remediation, effects current calendar has of math and science scores. Provides that a report is due to the General Assembly by December 31, 2012. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H765v4.pdf
Title: H.B. 765
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Under existing law, each school district is required to schedule and provide annually a minimum of 180 days of school and a charter school is required to provide at least as many days of school as are required for other public schools in the school district in which the charter is located. For the 2011-2013 biennium, Section 6.5 of this bill authorizes the board of trustees of a school district and the governing body of a charter school to request a waiver of not more than 5 noninstructional days from the required minimum number of school days for a school year in that biennium during an economic hardship to avoid the layoff of teachers and other educational personnel employed by the school district or charter school. A request for a waiver must be reviewed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction and, if approved, transmitted to the Interim Finance Committee, which makes the final determination of whether to grant a waiver. The circumstances in which an economic hardship exists for a school district or charter school are identical to the circumstances in which an economic hardship exists under existing law for a school district or charter school to request a waiver from the required minimum expenditures for textbooks, instructional supplies, instructional software and instructional hardware. Section 7 sets forth the intent of the legislation in establishing a program certified by the the board of trustees of a school district or the governing body of a charter school whereby employees of school districts and charter schools who are members of the Public Employees' Retirement System and who take furlough leave due to extreme fiscal need be held harmless in the accumulation of retirement service credit and reported salary. Section 7 further sets forth provisions concerning the furlough leave as it relates to the Public Employees' Retirement System in a manner similar to the furlough program of state employees.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/76th2011/Bills/AB/AB117_EN.pdf
Title: A.B. 117
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Prohibits charging a teacher with a day of leave for any day on which the teacher's school or school district is closed because of natural disaster, inclement weather, serious outbreak of contagious illness or other unexpected event.
http://state.tn.us/sos/acts/107/pub/pc0284.pdf
Title: S.B. 449
Source: http://state.tn.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Permits a district to begin instruction before the fourth Monday of August at a single campus or at not more than 20% of campuses in the district if the district has an enrollment of 190,000 or more, provides with local funds additional days of instruction at the campus or at each of the multiple campuses, the campus(es) are undergoing comprehensive school reform, and a majority of the students at the campus or campuses are educationally disadvantaged. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB01555F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: H.B. 1555
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Extends for 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years a provision waiving the state from specified reimbursement for additional days of instruction for low-performing students.
Page 8 of 11: http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/116810.pdf
Title: H.B. 192 - Remediation
Source: www.legis.ga.gov
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Amends grade configurations and other criteria that qualify schools for participation in the middle school program. Repeals provision requiring minimum 5 hours of instruction in middle schools to include, for students not performing on grade level, remedial instruction in core academic courses. Repeals provision permitting a middle school to petition the state board to permit a 4.5-hour school day.
Pages 9-11 http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/116810.pdf
Title: H.B. 192 - Middle School Program
Source: www.legis.ga.gov
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Excludes multi-track public schools from the 180-day school year requirement. Repeals provision requiring the 180-day instructional year to include 915 instructional hours for the elementary grades and 990 instructional hours for the secondary grades. Repeals provision requiring a 915-hour instructional year for elementary schools and 990-hour instructional year for secondary schools beginning with 2011-13 school years. Provides that for the 2011-12 school year, 50% of public elementary schools (excluding charter schools and multi-track public schools) must implement a 915-hour instructional year, which must be implemented by all public elementary schools beginning with the 2012-13 school year. Requires all public secondary schools, excepting charter and multi-track public schools, to implement a 990-instructional hour school year for the 2014-16 school years. Permits the board of education to grant any individual school a waiver to the instructional hours or instructional days requirement; requires the board of education to adopt policies and procedures related to the granting of such waivers.
Directs the department of education, with the board of education and office of the governor, and in consultation with representatives of the affected collective bargaining units, to submit to the legislature before the convening of the regular sessions of 2013 through 2018, a report on its progress and efforts to meet certain requirements related to length of the school year. Moves the requirement that the department submit a plan for extending the school year from 2012 to 2015. Provides that the plan must be for increasing the instructional day to 190 days beginning with the 2018-19 school year, rather than 2015-16 school year, as previously required.
Directs the department of education to re-examine what constitutes student instructional hours, determine current levels of student instructional hours at each school, and assess the ability of all schools to comply with the requirements of certain statutory requirements, and report such findings to the legislature by September 2011.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2011/Bills/HB945_CD1_.HTM
Title: H.B. 945
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| NC | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Requires each board of education to adopt a school calendar with a minimum of either 180 days or 1,000 hours of instruction covering at least nine calendar months (previous law required a minimum of 180 days and 1,000 hours). Requires the local board to designate when the 180 instructional days or 1,000 hours will occur. Provides that if, due to inclement weather, a local board complies with this requirement by scheduling 1,000 hours of instruction on less than 180 days, the school district is deemed to have a minimum of 180 days of instruction, teachers employed for a 10-month term are deemed to have been employed for 180 instructional days, and all other employees must be compensated as if they had worked their regularly scheduled hours for 180 instructional days.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H197v4.pdf
Title: H.B. 197
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| NH | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Provides that the number of days in the school year may be defined by the department of education in rules which specify an equivalent number of hours.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2011/HB0112.html
Title: H.B. 112
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Amends Arizona Revised Statute Section 15-802 to state that if a child attends a school that is operated on a year-round basis, the child shall regularly attend during school sessions that total not less than 180 days or 200 school days, as applicable, or the equivalent as approved by the superintendent of public instruction. If shown to the satisfaction of the school principal or the school principal's designee is the child has presented reasons for nonattendance at a public school or the child is over fourteen years of age and is employed. Chapter 306
http://www.azleg.gov.legtext/50leg/1r/bills/sb1256.pdf
Title: S.B. 1256--School Calendar
Source: http://www.azleg.gov
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| HI | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Provides that the single school calendar for all public schools does not apply to schools designated by the board of education in furtherance of a plan to improve educational outcome in students. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2011/Bills/SB1171_.HTM
Title: S.B. 1171
Source:
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Provides that if a public school or district remains closed or provides less than a full day of instruction because of severe weather or other emergency conditions, the Governor may waive the rescheduling in whole or in part. Although the governor has been prohibited from granting a waiver for less than a full day of instruction, if a public school or school district closes for only a portion of its regular schoolday, the hours during which the school or school district is closed may be added together to determine the number of additional full days of instruction that may be waived under this section.
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/62-2011/documents/11-0254-03000.pdf
Title: H.B. 1030
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov/
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| OH | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | To amend sections 3313.482, 3314.08, and 3317.01 of the Revised Code to excuse up to five, instead of three, calamity days for the 2010-2011 school year, to broaden schools' authority to make up calamity days by lengthening remaining days in the school year, to waive the number of hours a community school is closed for a public calamity if it meets certain requirements, and to declare an emergency.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_36_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 36
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Directs the interim Senate Committee on Education and the interim House Committee on Education to jointly study issues relevant to the adoption of an extended school year and report the committees' findings to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives not later than October 1, 2012.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Bills/SB711.pdf
Title: S.B. 711
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| CA | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Extends through 2014-15 school year the provision allowing a school district, county office of education or charter school to shorten its instructional year by up to 5 days without incurring fiscal penalties.
Page 45 of 81: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0051-0100/sb_70_bill_20110324_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 70 - Sec. 46201.2
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| KS | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Allows the School for the Blind to conduct training programs year round. Current law does not prohibit the School for the Deaf from conducting training sessions at any time during the year.
http://kslegislature.org/li/b2011_12/year1/measures/documents/hb2078_enrolled.pdf
Title: H.B. 2078
Source: http://kslegislature.org
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Section 2: Permits the commissioner of education to grant up to the equivalent of 10 instructional days for school years 2010-11 and 2011-12 for districts that have missed an average of 20 or more days in the previous three years and use alternative methods of instruction, including virtual learning, on days when the school district is closed for health or safety reasons, on nontraditional days, or during nontraditional time. Provides average daily attendance for purposes of supporting education excellence in Kentucky funding during the instructional time granted must be calculated in compliance with administrative regulations promulgated by the state board of education.
Section 3: Provides that if the days in the approved calendar designated as makeup days are used, the commissioner of education must grant a request made by a local board of education to waive the makeup of all remaining instructional days scheduled to occur on or after June 21.
Section 4: Permits a local board of education to amend its 2010-11 school calendar by adding at least 30 minutes to any remaining instructional day to make up time missed due to weather or illness. Requires that all instructional time added pursuant to this section be fully credited toward the calculation of the equivalent of 177 six-hour instructional days, and prohibits a school calendar amended pursuant to this section from being deemed an innovative calendar during the 2010-2011 school year
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB427/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 427 - Lost Instructional Days
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Directs public schools to conduct exercises in honor of Armistice Day (Veterans' Day).
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2011/pdf/SB/2600-2699/SB2659SG.pdf
Title: S.B. 2659
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Adds to the ''good cause" circumstances for which school divisions may be granted a waiver from the post-Labor Day school opening schedule a school division that is entirely surrounded by a school division that has an opening date prior to Labor Day in the school year for which the waiver is sought.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0387+pdf
Title: H.B. 1483
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2011 | P-12 | Allows districts flexibility in establishing first day of school, to be on or after the Monday of the 24 week in which August 19 falls; (ii) Not earlier than August 14; and (iii) no Not later than August 26.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Bills/HB1099.pdf
Title: H.B. 1099
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2011 | P-12 | Extends through the 2013 school year the term and duties of the advisory committe on common spring break.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Bills/HB1224.pdf
Title: H.B. 1224
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| MS | Signed into law 02/2011 | P-12 | Exempts certain school districts from the requirement to operate schools for the minimum of 180 days in the event of extreme weather conditions. Allows affected districts to receive per-pupil expenditure payments from the state department of education for up to 10 days. Defines circumstances through which a district would qualify for this exemption.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2011/pdf/HB/1100-1199/HB1156SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 1156
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/
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| VA | Issued 02/2011 | P-12 | Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the efficacy of year-round schools, specifically reviewing: (i) the Board of Education's procedure for approving year-round schools; (ii) which school divisions have implemented year-round schools and their experience with this alternative method of providing education; (iii) conduct a comprehensive analysis of each year-round school, scheduling format, instructional, and extracurricular programs offered, and number of students enrolled in the year-round school; (iv) consider the minimum number of required teaching days or hours that should constitute the length of a school term and the issues attendant thereto; (v) identify and review year-round schools offered by other states and countries, noting advantages and disadvantages; (vi) ascertain and weigh the essential factors that must be considered before implementing year-round schools statewide, including, but not limited to, instructional costs, transportation and special education services, and the need for additional classroom teachers, staff, and support services; (vii) evaluate the impact of changing the scheduling format on school functions and length of terms and school breaks; and (viii) consider and thoroughly vet other issues and matters related to year-round schools as the Commission may deem necessary to provide feasible and appropriate recommendations. The Commission must submit an executive summary to the 2012 Session of the General Assembly and its final report and recommendations to the 2013 Session of the General Assembly.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+HJ646ER+pdf
Title: H.J.R. 646
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12
Postsec. | Exempts private schools approved by the department of education's division of special education prescribed in the pupil's individualized education program from rules adopted by the state board of education prior to 11/24/09.
Changes the office of the county school superintendent from a local education service agency to a local education agency.
Removes requirement that district open enrollment policies be filed with the department of education and requires district policies for open enrollment to be posted on the district's website and available to the public upon request.
Reduces the amount of time pupils in grades seven and eight must be enrolled in an instructional program from 1068 hours to at least 1000 hours beginning in fiscal year 2010-2011.
Requires the board of regents, in consultation with the community college districts in Arizona, to develop and implement common equivalencies for specific levels of achievement on advanced placement examinations and international baccalaureate examinations offered in the state's high schools in order to award commensurate postsecondary academic credits at community colleges and public universities in the state.
Repeals the College and Career Readiness Task Force enacted last year. Chapter 332
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/hb2725s.pdf
Title: H.B. 2725--Multiple Provisions
Source: http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/hb2725s.pdf
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Appropriates Hawaii hurricane relief fund moneys to make funds available to restore instructional days for the 2010-11 school year if an agreement or agreements to restore instructional days are negotiated pursuant to the collective bargaining process. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2010/Bills/SB2124_CD1_.HTM
Title: S.B. 2124
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12 | Requires the state board of education to explore the use of innovative school scheduling models, including extended year, year-round schooling, or other school scheduling models that do not allow for prolonged lapses in instructional time, in low-performing or at-risk public schools. The state board is also required to encourage local boards to use the school scheduling models that are determined to be most effective in enhancing student achievement in low-performing or at-risk public schools. In addition, the bill requires the state to include the funding of these school scheduling models as part of the state's application to the United States Department of Education for the Race to the Top Fund. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb0439t.pdf
Title: H.B. 439
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us
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| CA | Emergency Rule Adoption 03/2010 | P-12 | Amends three sections of the audit guide to bring the regulations into conformance with legislation enacted effective July 28, 2009 (Assembly Bill 2 of the 2009-10 Fourth Extraordinary Session (ABX4 2), Chapter 2, Statutes 2009). Legislation, which is applicable to fiscal years 2009-10 through 2012-13, provides that "a school district, county office of education, or charter school may reduce the equivalent of up to five days of instruction or the equivalent number of instructional minutes without incurring the penalties set forth in Sections 41420, 46200, 46200.5, 46201, 46201.5, 46202, and 47612.5".
Title: Title 5 CCR Sections 19824, 19851, 19854
Source:
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| ME | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Establishes a working group of K-12 school officials, primarily superintendents and career and technical education directors, to prepare draft model academic year calendars that account for regional differences within the state to be submitted to the joint standing committee of the legislature having jurisdiction over education matters. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_124th/chapters/RESOLVE154.asp
Title: H.B. 1100
Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org
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| TN | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | As enacted, allows local education agencies greater flexibility in extending the school day in order to offset days used for professional development or weather-related closings.
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/SB3031.pdf
Title: S.B. 3031
Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Provides that a requirement that the school calendar begin after Labor Day may be waived by the Board of Education, provided the school board certifies that it meets one of the good cause requirements in current law.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB557ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 557/S.B.253
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| | Vetoed 03/2010 | P-12 | Requires each county superintendent to create a county school calendar committee to develop multiple school calendar options for presentation to all employees for vote; requires the generation of new calendar options if the county board or state board rejects the selected calendar; requires the process to continue until a school calendar is approved by the county board and state board; requiring county board approval of school calendar prior to June 1 of each year. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4652%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2010&sesstype=RS&i=4652
Title: H.B. 4652
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2010 | P-12 | Relates to opening of the school year; provides that the requirement that the school calendar begin after Labor Day may be waived by the Board of Education, provided the school board certifies that it meets one of the good cause requirements in current law.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB253ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 253/H.B. 557
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| WV | Signed into law 02/2010 | P-12 | Requires county boards to adopt contingency plans designed to guarantee one hundred eighty separate days of instruction for students and to select beginning and ending dates of the school calendar. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/bill_status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4040%20ENR.htm&yr=2010&sesstype=RS&i=4040
Title: H.B. 4040
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2009 | P-12 | Provides that the Governor proclaims May 22 of each year as Harvey Milk Day and would designate that date as having special significance in public schools and educational institutions and would encourage those entities to conduct suitable commemorative exercises on that date. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0551-0600/sb_572_bill_20091011_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 572
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| WA | Rule Adoption 09/2009 | P-12 | Reduces the number of state-funded learning improvement days from two to one for the 2009-10 school year and thereafter. Makes housekeeping changes by adding program 34, middle school career and technical education - state, to the programs where funding for learning improvement applies.
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/wac
Title: WAC 392-140-950, -956, -961, -962
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Amends provisions concerning average daily attendance under the state aid formula. Makes changes with respect to days that are used for an in-service training program for teachers and parent-teacher conferences. Authorizes a school board to hold school or schedule teachers' institutes, parent-teacher conferences, or staff development on the third Monday in January (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday); February 12 (Abraham Lincoln's birthday); the first Monday in March (known as Casimir Pulaski's birthday); the second Monday in October (Columbus Day); and November 11 (Veterans' Day), provided that (1) the person(s) honored by the holiday are recognized through instructional activities conducted on that day or, if school is not in session, the school day before or after that day, and (2) a public hearing is held for educators and parents. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB1956lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 1956
Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12
Postsec. | Provides that if a public school, university, or community college holds any type of event at the institution on November 11, Veterans' Day, the governing board of the school or institution must require a moment of silence at that event to recognize Veterans' Day. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB0972lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 972
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Section 3306.29: Establishes the Ohio school funding advisory council. Directs the council, by December 1, 2010 and every other year thereafter, to provide recommendations to the state board, the general assembly and the public for revisions to the adequacy components of the evidence-based school funding model . Requires that the recommendations be based on current, high quality research, information provided by school districts, and best practices in operational efficiencies. Requires that the December 2010 recommendations include analysis of the funding model's adequacy in financing for special education, gifted education services, career-technical education, arts education, services for limited English proficient students, and early college high schools.
Also requires the 2010 report to include:
(1) Recommendations for a student-centered evidence-based model that uses a per-pupil level of funding to follow a student to the school that best meets the student's individual learning needs
(2) A study of the extent to which current funding for joint vocational school districts and compact and comprehensive career-technical schools is responsive to state, regional and local business and industry needs, and recommendations for revisions to career-technical education programming and funding
(3) A study of the extent to which the current educational service center system supports school districts in academic achievement, teacher quality, shared educational services, and the purchasing of educational services and commodities, and recommendations for a new regional service delivery system, the educational service system governance structure, and accountability metrics for educational service centers
(4) A study of existing teacher compensation and retirement benefits structures, and recommendations for changes to the systems of teacher compensation and retirement benefits to improve the connections between teacher compensation, teaching excellence and higher levels of student learning
(5) A consideration of whether community schools (charter schools) and STEM schools should be subject to the expenditure and reporting standards and accountability requirements that apply to school districts
(6) An analysis of the effects of open enrollment on students and districts, and recommendations for ensuring that open enrollment policies and financing are equitable for students and districts.
Authorizes the council's analyses and recommendations for 2010 or subsequent biennia to address (but not be limited to):
(1) Strategies and incentives to promote cost-saving measures and efficiencies
(2) Options for adding learning time to the learning year, such as moving educator professional development to summer, adding learning time for children with greater educational needs, accounting for learning time by hours instead of days, and appropriate compensation to districts and staff for providing additional learning time
(3) The adequacy of the model's accounting for and financing of operational costs, including district-level administration and administrative and transportation challenges experienced by low-density and low-wealth school districts, and the effect of those costs on student achievement
(4) The accuacy of the calculation of each component of the funding model, and the model as a whole, in light of current educational needs and practices, and best practices
(5) Options to encourage districts and schools already attaining "excellent" ratings under the state accountability system to go beyond state standards and aspire to higher international norms.
Section 3306.291: Establishes a subcommittee of the Ohio school funding advisory council to study and make recommendations to foster collaboration between school districts and community schools. Directs the subcommittee to recommend fiscal strategies, including changes to the evidence-based funding model, that will provide incentives and compensation for districts and community schools to enter into collaborative agreements resulting in creative and innovative academic programming, and academic and fiscal efficiency. Directs the subcommittee to report its findings and recommendations to the general assembly by September 2010, and periodically thereafter at the direction of the state superintendent.
Section 3306.292: Permits the Ohio school funding advisory council to establish additional subcommittees. Leaves the membership and duties of the additional subcommittees to the discretion of the advisory council. Provides that up to one-half of the members of each additional subcommittee may be individuals who are not members of the council.
Pages 1103-1106 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.29, 3306.291 and 3306.292
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| MO | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Allows a school term for students participating in a school flex program as established in section 160.539 to consist of a combination of actual pupil attendance and attendance
at college or technical career education or approved employment aligned with the student's career academic plan for a total of 1,044.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB291.pdf
Title: S.B. 291- School Flex Program Attendance
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov
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| MO | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Defines "school term" as a minimum of 174 school days for schools with a 5-day school week or a minimum of 142 school days, as that term
35 is defined in section 160.041, for schools with a four-day school week. 160.041 defines the "minimum school day" as three hours for schools with a 5-day school week or four hours for schools with a 4-day school week in which the pupils are under the guidance and direction of teachers in the teaching process. A "school month" consists of four weeks of 5 days each for schools with a 5-day school week or four weeks of four days each for schools with a 4-day school week.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB291.pdf
Title: S.B. 291 - School Calendar
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Relates to optional flexible school day program courses offered by school districts to enable students to earn course credit under certain circumstances. Eliminates requirement that flexible school day program courses be limited to students in grades 9-12. Allows flexible school day program courses to serve students who will be denied credit for courses because their attendance rate was below 90%, and authorizes the commissioner of education to set limitations on funding such flexible school day courses. Provides that courses for students whose attendance rate was below 90% may be offered during the summer. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB01297F.pdf
Title: H.B. 1297
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Allows districts to provide the equivalent of a 180-day school year. Provides that beginning in the 2010-11 school year, schools may be closed on November 11 to allow students and staff to participate in Veterans Day programs. Revises reference to means of calculating school lunch personnel costs. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/pdf/hb193.pdf
Title: H.B. 193
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Directs the Department of Education to provide by rule for a school calendar that is based upon a minimum annual number of hours that is equivalent to the current 180-day school calendar, or for an equivalent amount of hours annually in accordance with rules adopted by the department. At least 175 days or the equivalent must be used for instruction. In meeting the requirement of a 180-day school year or the equivalent, no more than 5 days or the equivalent may be used for in-service education of teachers, administrative meetings, parent-teacher conferences, records' days and similar activities.
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_124th/billpdfs/SP008601.pdf
Title: S.B. 86
Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org/
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| MO | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Modifies the number of school days to be made up due to inclement weather.
http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills091/bills/hb682.htm
Title: H.B. 682
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov
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| ND | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | For 2009-10, requries 180 days in the calendar, with 173 days used for instruction. Three must be used for holidays; up to two must be used for parent-teacher conferences or compensatory time for conferences held outside school day; and two days must be used for professional development. For 2010-11, requires at least 181 days in the calendar. 174 days must be used for instruction; three days for holidays; up to two days must be used for: 1) Parent-teacher conferences; or (2) Compensatory time for parent-teacher conferences held outside of regular school hours; and d. Two days must be used for professional development. Sec. 5 defines a full day of instruction as at least 5.5 hours for kindergarten and elementary students and at least six hours for high school students.
Beginning with the 2011-12 school year, requires districts to provide a school calendar of at least 182 days.
a. 175 must be used for instruction; b. Three must be used for holidays, c. Up to two days must be used for: (1) Parent-teacher conferences; or (2) Compensatory time for parent-teacher conferences held outside of regular school hours; and d. Two days must be used for professional development.
4. A day for professional development must consist of: a. Six hours of professional development, exclusive of meals and other breaks, conducted within a single day; or b. Two four-hour periods of professional development, exclusive of meals and other breaks, conducted over two days.
5. If a school district offers a four-hour period of professional development the district may schedule instruction during other available hours on that same day and be credited with providing one-half day of instruction to students. This subsection does not apply unless the one-half day of instruction equals at least one-half of the time required for a full day of instruction, as defined in this section.
Beginning with the 2010-11 school year, if a district elects to provide an optional third day of professional development, the school district shall do so by: a. Meeting the requirements for a day of professional development as set forth in subsection 4; or b. Shortening four instructional days, for the purpose of providing for two-hour periods of professional development, provided: (1) Each instructional day on which such professional development occurs includes at least four hours of instruction for kindergarten and elementary students and
four and one-half hours for high school students; (2) The instructional time for each course normally scheduled on that day is reduced proportionately or the daily schedule is reconfigured to ensure that the same course is not subject to early dismissal more than one time per school calendar, as a result of this subdivision; and (3) All teachers having a class dismissed as a result of this subdivision are required to be in attendance and participate in the professional development.
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/61-2009/bill-text/JARF1000.pdf
Title: H.B. 1400 - Calendar Section
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov/
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| OK | Adopted 05/2009 | P-12 | Requires all schools to complete the self-examination on their use of school time and assess the amount of time spent on quality instructional time. OKLAHOMA 15352
Title: OAC 210:15-8-3
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Provides that in the event of a natural disaster or serious outbreak of illness affective or endangering students or staff during a school year, the Commissioner of Education may waive for such school year the requirement for 180 days of classroom instruction, if such request is submitted to the commissioner by the Director of Schools; provides the request may be for the entire local education agency or for individual schools with the agency. Pub. Ch. 272
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Amend/SA0447.pdf
Title: S.B. 899
Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Relates to inclusion of five make-up days for days lost due to exceptional or emergency circumstances in each school district's academic calendar, parent- teacher conferences, employment contracts of certified school personnel, borrowing and bond issuance, Smart Core, school district fiscal distress, school budget and expenditure reports, average daily membership, school lunch and open- enrollment public charter school funding, distance learning and the Educational Buildings Maintenance Fund.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Acts/Act1469.pdf
Title: S.B. 814
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Clarifies the school year and length of school day. Kindergarten, for half-day programs, two and one-half hours per day or, for full-day programs, five and one-half hours per day. Grades one through six, five and one-half hours per day; and grades seven through twelve, six hours
per day.
http://nmlegis.gov/Sessions/09%20Regular/final/HB0691.pdf
Title: H.B. 691
Source: http://nmlegis.gov/
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Changes length of the school year from 180 days to 1,080 hours each school year. Limits professional activities to no more than 30 hours each school year. If authorized, parent-teacher conferences may count as instructional time. Authorizes districts to establish an extended-day schedule. A school may elect to extend the length of 1 or more school days to more than 6 hours and reduce the number of school days as long as the total amount of classroom instruction time is not less than 1,080 hours per year. Upon approval by the state board, school taught on Saturday may be substituted for regular school days during which school has been or will be closed.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10HB/HB1864_int.rtf
Title: H.B. 1864
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Establishes a common spring break for all state public schools in each school district.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Bills/SB226.pdf
Title: S.B. 226
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/
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| AR | To governor 03/2009 | P-12 | Encourages Schools to raise awareness of the sacrifices that veterans have made for our country by having a school assembly to commemorate veterans day around the time of the veterans day holiday.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Bills/HCR1017.pdf
Title: H.C.R. 1017
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| KY | Adopted 01/2009 | P-12 | Specifies that the commissioner of education will approve a district's request for approval of an innovative alternative school calendar provided it meets criteria established in rules and is designed to improve teaching and learning in the district. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/702/007/130.htm
Title: 702 KAR 7:130
Source: www.lexis.com
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2008 | P-12 | Repeals a provision of the After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002 that makes a continuous annual appropriation to the Department of Education for purposes of the Program. Authorizes the Legislature to amend any provision of the act by a statute passed by a majority vote of each house. Requires the Secretary of State to submit those provisions to the voters at the statewide general election.
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm
Title: A.B. 1526
Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2008 | P-12 | Provides for the phase out of the Year-Round School Grant Program by reducing the grant amounts each fiscal year until a specified fiscal year. Prohibits the approval of new grants. Requires the funds for the grant program be augmented in the annual Budget Act in a specified amount and transferred to the Department of Education. Provides for the transfer of a specified amount of funds appropriated for the grant program to the Charter School Facility Grant Program to accomplish the reallocation of funding. Chapter 271. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0651-0700/sb_658_bill_20080924_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 658
Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2008 | P-12 | Provides that if, during any school day, a school district closes one or more school buildings due to a condition beyond the control of the district prior to
providing any instruction, then that day may be counted as a full day of attendance for a maximum of two days based upon the average of the 3 prior school days of attendance immediately preceding the closure of the school building. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HB/PDF/09500HB4309lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 4309
Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation
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| CA | Vetoed 07/2008 | P-12 | Relates to the After School Education and Safety Program Act which requires that each component of a program established pursuant to the act include an educational enrichment element that may include fine arts, career technical education, recreation, physical fitness, and prevention activities. Authorizes a program to include visual and performing arts, instead of fine arts. Includes foreign languages in the educational enrichment component.
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm
Title: A.B. 2843
Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov
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| OK | Adopted 07/2008 | P-12 | Proposes rules to require all schools to complete the self-examination on their use of school time and to assess the amount of time spent on quality instructional time.
Title: OAC 210:15-8-3
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Adopted 06/2008 | P-12 | Establishes uniform procedures for approval of innovative alternative school calendars. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/702/007/130reg.htm
Title: 702 KAR 7:130
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WV | Adopted 06/2008 | P-12 | From the introduction to the adopted rules:
"Revisions were needed in Policy 2510 to allow local school districts greater flexibility in the implementation of the rigorous academic standards and high quality programs that characterize West Virginia's 21st century teaching and learning initiative. The intent of these proposed revisions is to place the focus on providing students with excellent learning opportunities that result in student mastery of West Virginia's high quality content standards and objectives (CSOs) rather than on a prescriptive compliance language that may discourage 21st century creativity and innovation. Thus, these revisions were designed to allow counties more
flexibility in the implementation of a rigorous curriculum that is tailored to the unique needs and constraints of each school without compromising the intent and spirit of the 21st teaching and learning initiative.
"Proposed revisions include removing restrictive language requiring 60 minutes of daily uninterrupted reading at grades 3-4, allowing counties/schools greater latitude in scheduling appropriate learning opportunities for students. The requirement for a 225 minute block for core courses for grades 5-8 was removed and replaced with language that requires a 180 minute block for core courses, again to allow greater local flexibility for scheduling learning opportunities for students. Proposed revisions also remove the grade 5-8 requirement for annual implementation of programs and/or separate courses in advisory, guidance and counseling, career exploration and technology. Policy language was revised to clarify the recommendation that all students in the professional pathway be enrolled in Algebra I in 8th grade. Policy language remains that requires a foreign language to be offered for students in grades 7 and 8, but removes prescriptive language that requires counties to use the 1A in grade 7 and 1 B in grade 8th scheduling option. At grades 9-12, language was revised to allow Life Science and Earth Science to satisfy the requirement for chemistry for 9th graders entering in 2008-09 and 2009-10, allowing more time for districts to secure chemistry teachers and lab facilities. Language requiring a college transition English course was removed and language was added to allow counties to determine options for students who need additional time to successfully complete Algebra I and to allow counties to grant up to two math credits for students' successful course completion. Language requiring a specific sequence for required social studies courses was added, and language was revised to allow state-approved Career Technical Education courses to satisfy the Arts requirement for graduation.
Major Revisions or Reasons for New Policy:
* Reading requirement for grades 3-4: Policy language was revised to allow local flexibility in the scheduling of a 90 minute uninterrupted reading block that may include reading and language arts instruction provided through whole group, small group and reading center activities.
* Reading requirement for grades 5-8: Policy language was revised to reduce the required time for core courses to 180 minutes giving responsibility for determining time allocations that provide adequate time for students to achieve mastery of the WV CSOs to the principal and a team of teachers.
* Algebra I in 8th grade: Policy language was changed from use of the word "expect" to the word "recommend" to clarify that the intent of current policy
is to recommend that all students in the professional pathway be enrolled in Algebra I in 8th grade.
* Required programs/courses in Advisory, Counseling, Career Exploration and Technology: Policy language requiring these programs to be implemented annually was replaced with language that requires these activities (advisory, career exploration and counseling) to be integrated into an organized advisory program that includes career guidance and counseling and allows local flexibility for scheduling these activities. The intent of the revised language is to allow local decision making for the scheduling of technology applications instruction throughout the grade 5-8 curriculum, rather than in a separate technology course.
* Required foreign language course in grades 7 and 8: Policy language requires districts to offer a foreign language course for students in grades 7 and 8 as described in current policy. Language that prescribes the specific method of scheduling this course was removed to allow more flexibility at the local level and to ensure the implementation of quality programs. Additionally, the revised policy language will also provide WVDE/counties/schools flexibility in addressing staffing and scheduling needs in order to support the development of articulated foreign language programs at the elementary level.
* Required course in chemistry: Policy language was revised to permit Life Science or Earth Science to satisfy the graduation requirement for chemistry/conceptual chemistry for 9th graders entering in 2008-09 and 2009-10, allowing more time for districts to secure chemistry teachers and lab facilities. (Students entering 9th grade in 2010-11 must have chemistry/conceptual chemistry to meet graduation requirements.)
* College transition English course: Policy language was revised to remove the college transition English course requirement with the expectation that instruction in the required English classes will address the needs of student who do not achieve the state assessment college readiness benchmark for English.
* Students who need additional time to complete Algebra I: While language in Policy 2510 is consistent with research indicating the best option for scheduling additional time for Algebra I CSO mastery is to do so within the same year, policy language permits the local-level identification of students who need additional time to master Algebra I content standards and objectives. The identification of students for this option must be a data-driven decision and counties may select from a number of scheduling options to assure that students master the Algebra I CSOs. Scheduling options such as "double blocking" Algebra I, Algebra Support and Algebra I, or other similar options may be determined at the local level, as long as the priority of the selected option is to provide students the best possible opportunity to succeed in mastery of the Algebra I CSOs. Counties selecting a scheduling option that places students who need extra time in two separate math courses may grant students up to two math credits toward graduation upon successful course completion. Counties that provide identified students additional time by enrolling them in two separate math courses may award up to two math credits toward graduation requirements upon students' successful completion of each
course. (A student who is identified as being in need of additional time to master Algebra I CSOs, and who has been determined by an IEP Team to be unable
even with extended learning opportunities and significant instructional modifications to meet state and county standard graduation requirements, may, in accordance with Policy 2510, Section 5.6.9.a., receive a modified diploma.)
* Social studies course sequence: Policy language was added to indicate a required sequence of social studies courses: World Studies to 1900; United
States Studies to 1900; Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Studies; Civics for the 21st Century. This sequence is required to assure maximum understanding of the material and alignment of content with state assessment.
* Additional courses to satisfy the Arts requirement: Policy language was added to permit students in Skilled Pathway concentrations that complete state approved career/technical courses that reflect creative and innovative arts content may substitute these courses for the arts credit required for graduation. Designation of these courses will be made by state-level administrators of career/technical and arts programs.
Text of new regulations: http://wvde.state.wv.us/policies/p2510_ne.pdf
Title: Title 126, Series 42
Source: www.lexis.com
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| AL | Adopted 05/2008 | P-12 | Increases the minimum number of teaching days in the school year from 175 to 180 (in compliance with 2003 S.B. 4). Permits secondary school students (in both summer school and regular school year) to demonstrate mastery of Alabama course of study content standards without specified instructional time. Authorizes local boards to create honors curricula that include rigor above that of the Advanced Academic Endorsement. Provides that effective with the ninth grade class of 2009-2010 (Class of 2013), the Alabama High School Diploma with Advanced Academic Endorsement becomes the first-choice diploma option for high school students. Permits local boards of education to voluntarily implement this endorsement as the first-choice diploma option for the 2008-2009 school year. Provides that effective with 9th grade students during the 2008-2009 school year, students will be required to complete one distance-learning course prior to graduation. Allows exceptions through Individualized Education Plans.
Eliminates the Alternate Adult High School Diploma, which allowed students who did not pas all sections of the graduation exam to earn a high school diploma by completing all course requirements and passing the GED.
Establishes the Alabama High School Diploma with Credit-Based Endorsement for students who have taken the Alabama High School Graduation Exam through the 12th grade and have passed the reading, mathematics, and one of the science, language, or social studies subject-area tests of the exam. Provides that effective for students in the 12th grade during 2007-2008 school year, to earn an Alabama High School Diploma with Credit-Based Endorsement, eligible general education students and students with disabilities must complete the required credits in the core curriculum for an Alabama diploma and earn one additional Career/Technical Education (CTE) or academic credit related to the student's career objective consistent with any guidelines established by the State Department of Education and local boards of education.
Authorizes local boards to establish Credit Recovery programs allowing certain students learning opportunities to master concepts and skills in one or more failed courses. Requires course content for credit recovery courses to be composed of standards in which students proved deficient rather than all standards of the original course. Provides schools may offer these courses using computer software, online instruction, or teacher-directed instruction. Requires the curriculum to align with state board courses of study content standards in which students are deficient.
Eliminates provision that a secondary school student may earn no more than ten credits during a school year.
Title: 290-3-1-.02
Source: www.lexis.com
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| OK | Adopted 05/2008 | P-12 | Amends rules to clarify and limit the number of parent-teacher conference days that can be counted for attendance purposes as regular school days. OKLAHOMA 15273
Title: OAC 210:10-1-5
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OH | Signed into law 12/2007 | P-12 | Increases the penalty for inducing panic to a felony of the second degree when a school or an institution of higher education is involved; permits school districts to make up calamity days caused other than by a bomb threat in excess of the total number of days specified in their contingency plans and otherwise allowed by adding extra hours to the remaining days in the school year.
Title: H.B. 142
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2007 | P-12 | Requires an applicant school district for new construction to submit to the State Allocation Board a one-time report of existing school building capacity. Requires the maximum school building capacity for each school district applying for new construction funding to be increased by the number of pupils reported by the Superintendent of Public Instruction for that grade level. Provides procedures to reduce dependence on year round educational programs.
http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0101-0150/sb_121_bill_20070912_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0101-0150/sb_121_vt_20071014.html
Title: S.B. 121
Source: http://info.sen.ca.gov
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Revises the definitions of standard school, elementary school, high school, and the number of days of school.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2007/HB0126.html
Title: H.B. 126
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Creates special committee to study traditional school calendar. Expires February 1, 2008.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Fiscal/HJR0147.pdf
Title: H.J.R. 147
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| VT | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Directs the commissioner of education to announce a uniform statewide school calendar each year. Creates a "calendar committee" to develop a uniform statewide school calendar and sets membership: (1) The commissioner of education, or the commissioner's designee, who shall serve as the committee's chair and who shall ensure that the first committee meeting occurs on or before July 15, 2007.
(2) Two representatives of each of the following entities to be selected by the entities:
(A) The Vermont superintendents association. (B) The Vermont school boards association. (C) The Vermont principals' association. (D) The Vermont-national education association.
(3) Two regional technical center directors to be selected by the Vermont association of career and technical education directors.
(4) Two members of the business community to be selected by the Vermont business roundtable.
(5) Two high school students, who shall not be the students sitting on the state board of education, one of whom shall be selected by the speaker of the house of representatives and the other shall be selected by the president pro tempore of the senate.
Any calendar developed must require at least 175 common student attendance days. A majority of students in each grade must be in attendance or participating in a school-sponsored academic activity for a minimum of five and one-half hours, including recess and excluding lunch, for a day to constitute one full student attendance day. If a majority of students in any grade is in attendance or participating for fewer than five and one-half hours, the day shall be counted as one-half of a student attendance day. The calendar must require the first three student days of the academic year to occur on the Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in the week preceding Labor Day.It must allow for waivers and may include a provision that there be a sole vacation period between January 2 and April 30, to occur during the week of town meeting.
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2008/bills/passed/H-015.HTM
Title: H.B. 15
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us
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| WA | Adopted 06/2007 | P-12 | Emergency rule concerning school closures during states of emergency; indicates that when a school district is closed in a county in which a state of emergency has been declared by the governor, the superintendent may consider school district applications to have met the "reasonable effort" test by providing at least the district-wide annual average total instruction hour offerings. http://www.leg.wa.gov/documents/wsr/2007/03/07-03-071.htm
Title: WAC 392-129-105
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov/documents/wsr/2007/table-07.htm
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Expands the circumstances under which a school district in a county whose population is 100,000 or more may apply for an alternative schedule to include an alternative schedule that is designed solely for the purpose of providing professional development for educational personnel.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/74th/Bills/SB/SB151_EN.pdf
Title: S.B. 151
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2006 | P-12 | Revises the requirement for instructional hours in school code to conform to school aid act. The bill would delete provisions in the Revised School Code regarding the minimum required number of hours of pupil instruction and instead require that school districts and public school academies (charter schools) provide at least the minimum number of hours of pupil instruction each school year required under the State School Aid Act.
Currently, the code requires the board of a school district or charter school to increase the number of days and hours of instruction each school year. For example, in 2005-2006, the code required 189 days of instruction and 1,134 hours of instruction; in 2006-2007, schools must offer 190 days and 1,140 hours of instruction, with some exceptions. The bill would delete these provisions, and instead would require the boards of public schools, including charter schools, to provide at least the minimum amount of pupil instruction each school year required under the School Aid Act. ACT 534
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/publicact/pdf/2006-PA-0534.pdf
Title: S.B. 95
Source: Michigan Legislature
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| OH | Signed into law 12/2006 | P-12 | Changes school year from not less than 182 days to 455 hours (for half-day kindergarten; 910 hours for full-day kindergarten); 910 hours for pupils in grades one through six; and 1001 hours for pupils in grades seven through twelve. Ten hours in K-6 and 11 hours per year in grades 7-12 may be for parent-teacher conferences. Ten hours in K-6 and 11 hours per year in grades 7-12 may be for professional meeting of teachers. Morning and afternoon recess periods of not more than 15 minutes duration per period are allowed in grades K-6.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_311
Title: S.B. 311 -- Sec. 3313.48
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| TX | Adopted 08/2006 | P-12 | Amends rules relating to the optional extended year program for students in kindergarten through grade eleven who are identified as likely not to be promoted to the next grade level for the succeeding school year. TEXAS 9885
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter105/ch105aa.html
Title: 19 TAC 2.105.AA.105.1001
Source: Texas Rules
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Beginning with the 2007-2008 school year, the opening date for schools in Florida districts may not be earlier than 14 days before Labor Day each year.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 11)
Source: Florida Legislature
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| SD | Active 05/2006 | P-12 | (Initiated Measure 3) Restricts the start of a regular school term prior to the last day of August. On 11/07/2006 Ballot.
http://www.sdsos.gov/electionsvoteregistration/upcomingelection_ballotquestionstatus.shtm
Title: Measure 3 (V. 6)
Source: South Dakota Secretary of State
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| SC | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Adds new Section 59-1-425. Authorizes local boards to establish an annual school calendar. The statutory school term is one hundred ninety days annually and must consist of a minimum of one hundred eighty days of instruction covering at least nine calendar months. However, beginning with the 2007-2008 school year the opening date for students must not be before the third Monday in August, except for schools operating on a year-round modified school calendar. Three days must be used for collegial professional development based upon the educational standards as required by Section 59-18-300. The professional development shall address, at a minimum, academic achievement standards including strengthening teachers' knowledge in their content area, teaching techniques, and assessment. No more than two days may be used for preparation of opening of schools and the remaining five days may be used for teacher planning, academic plans, and parent conferences. The number of instructional hours in an instructional day may vary according to local board policy and does not have to be uniform among the schools in the district. All school days missed because of snow, extreme weather conditions, or other disruptions requiring schools to close must be made up. All school districts shall designate annually at least three days within their school calendars to be used as make-up days in the event of these occurrences. Act No. 260
http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/prever/4429_20060314.htm
Title: H.B. 4429
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net
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| WI | Vetoed 04/2006 | P-12 | Eliminates provision that school year include 180 school days. Replaces with provisions defining school year as minimum hours of instruction. Provides that scheduled hours in the school year may include no more than 35 hours on Saturdays. http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/acts/05enAB0084.pdf
Title: A.B. 84
Source: www.legis.state.wi.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Relates to reduction of state aid when the length of the school term is below 180 days or 990 hours; provides for a declared state of emergency; relates to calendars and teaching contracts. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0026, http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0096
Title: S.B. 66, H.B. 349
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WI | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Current law requires at least 437 hours of direct pupil instruction in kindergarten, at least 1,050 hours of direct pupil instruction in grades 1 to 6, and at least 1,137 hours of direct pupil instruction in grades 7 to 12. Each school board is required to submit an annual report to the Department of Public Instruction containing certain information. Under prior law, information about the number of hours of pupil instruction was not required to be included in the annual report. 2005 Wisconsin Act 252 requires each school board to include in its annual report the number of hours of direct pupil instruction provided in each school.
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/acts/05Act252.pdf
Title: Act No. 252
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Adopted 11/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Each district school board, each community college district board of trustees, and each university board of trustees must adopt an annual calendar prior to the beginning of each fiscal year that will be observed by all schools or post high school educational institutions. This rule spells out objectives for the annual calendars, including: (a) minimal loss of time between student exit from one public institution and entry into another; b) opportunity for students to move through the educational system at their respective paces; c) opportunity for effective and efficient utilization of resources; and (e) opportunity for family activities. The rule also establishes starting times for common entry periods at community colleges and four-year institutions. Other specifications are mentioned as well.
http://www.firn.edu/doe/rules/6a-101.htm#6A-10.019
Title: FAC 6A-10.019
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 11/2005 | P-12 | Exempts schools from minimum 180-day school year for the 2005-2006 school year. Authorizes the state board of education to adopt rules for the 2005-2006 school year related to the minimum session required of any institution in order to be classified as a school.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=329560
Title: H.B. 21A
Source: Lexis-Nexis, http://www.legis.state.la.us/
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| LA | Signed into law 11/2005 | P-12 | Waives minimum instructional time requirements in the 2005-2006 school year for any city, parish, or other local public school or district that cannot meet the minimum requirements due to school closure for reasons of natural catastrophe or disaster as certified by the state superintendent of education and approved by the state board, in accordance with state board rules. Requires any entity not able to meet the minimum instructional time requirements in the 2005-2006 school year to submit to the state superintendent of education documented information explaining the reasons why it cannot meet such requirements and any efforts made toward meeting the requirements and a revised school calendar for the 2005-2006 school year. Requires schools and school systems subject to such certification and approval to comply with the revised school calendar. Requires the waiver provisions to apply to an entire school system only if every school within the system is forced to close due to natural catastrophe or disaster.
Effective for the 2005-2006 school year, waives the provisions relative to the requirement that teachers work not less then one hundred eighty-two days per school year. However, authorizes the state board to adopt rules effective for the 2005-2006 school year relative to the minimum number of teacher work days.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=329564
Title: H.B. 33A
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| RI | Adopted 09/2005 | P-12 | Establishes rules governing the length of the school day. Outlines requirements, and compliance for the length of elementary and secondary school day. RHODE ISLAND REG 2451 (SN)
Title: Sections 1 to 7
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2005 | Postsec. | An act to add Section 89005.7 to the Education Code, relating to the California State University. Requires every campus of the California State University to observe November 11 as a holiday by closing on that day. Also requires the university to observe the following Monday as the Veterans Day holiday when November 11 falls on a Sunday, and to observe the preceding Friday as the Veterans Day holiday when November 11 falls on a Saturday. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0701-0750/ab_720_bill_20050830_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 720
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Requires the select oversight committee on education to examine and study the dates for starting and ending the school year in public schools in Tennessee. http://tennessee.gov/sos/acts/104/pub/pc0454.pdf
Title: S.B. 516
Source: http://tennessee.gov
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | From bill analysis: Prohibits University Interscholastic League (UIL) area, regional, or state competitions from being held the week of, or prior to, TAKS testing. It also requires the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to provide UIL a calendar of expected testing dates of testing three years in advance to allow sufficient time to negotiate contracts and prohibits schools from obtaining a waiver from TEA. CSSB 658 gives the commissioner discretion to cancel testing dates and reschedule the tests in the event of extreme emergencies and allow for rules to be developed regarding UIL rescheduling. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=79&SESS=R&CHAMBER=S&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=00658&VERSION=5&TYPE=B
Title: S.B. 658
Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| NC | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | If, due to inclement weather, a local board of education complies with this subdivision by scheduling 1,000 hours of instruction on less than 180 days, the local school administrative unit is deemed to have a minimum of 180 days of instruction, teachers employed for a 10‑month term are deemed to have been employed for 180 instructional days, and all other employees shall be compensated as if they had worked their regularly scheduled hours for 180 instructional days."
http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/HTML/H415v5.html
Title: H.B. 415
Source: StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Senate Bill 94 eliminates a requirement that activities on instructional support and enhancement (ISE) days be scheduled in a certain order. Before this bill passed, activities on ISE days had to designate two hours for instructional activities for students, two hours for a faculty senate meeting and the remainder of the day for other professional activities for teachers. Now the activities can be performed in any order. Additionally, the bill allows up to three days of accrued instructional time to be used for professional development.
Title: S.B. 94
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Wrapup/2005/final/final.pdf
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Repeals provision that notation must be made on a student's transcript to indicate each special education class included on the transcript.
Establishes that school day must consist of at least rather than fewer than six hours of instructional time.
Allows a school district to include as part of the school day the travel time between public schools or other educational programs of those students attending classes or programs authorized by law.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1044.pdf
Title: S.B. 1044 (sections 14-15)
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Creates a legislative task force to examine the effect of school calendars on Kentucky's tourism industry and the potential effect that changes in school calendars may have on Kentucky's educational system. Establishes task force membership. Requires the task force to report its findings to the Legislative Research Commission no later than December 15, 2005.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HC55.htm
Title: H.C.R. 55
Source: lrc.ky.gov
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Includes the day of primary elections as a day in which schools are closed. http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/SB7.htm
Title: S.B. 7
Source: StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Relates to Flexibility in school calendar and PIRD.
http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/2005/billhtml/SB0170.htm
Title: S.B. 170
Source: StateNet
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Relates to reconfiguration of instructional days by school districts.
http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/59-2005/bill-text/FAIM0300.pdf
Title: S.B. 2066
Source: StateNet
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| NV | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | This bill provides a school district with various methods for scheduling the
contingent school days. The school district may schedule the 3 contingent school
days as full school days, an equivalent number of minutes of instruction added to
any school day or any combination of school days and minutes of instruction as
long as the total minutes of instruction equal at least 3 school days. If minutes of
instruction are added to a school day, at least 30 minutes must be added to the
school day.
http://leg.state.nv.us/73rd/bills/SB/SB202_EN.pdf
Title: S.B. 202
Source:
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| NV | Temporary Rule Adoption 10/2004 | P-12 | Relates to school calendars.NEVADA REG 3637 (SN)
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/nac/nac%2D387.html#NAC387Sec120
Title: NAC 387.120, .140
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes specified school districts to operate one or more schools in their districts on a 4-day school week, so long as the school district complies with specified requirements. Revokes the authority of a school added by the bill to operate a 4-day school week if a school fails to meet its growth target on the Academic Performance Index. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1101-1150/sb_1138_bill_20040910_chaptered.html
Title: S.B. 1138
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes a school district that is implementing an early primary program to maintain kindergarten classes at different school sites within the district for different lengths of time during the school day. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2401-2450/ab_2407_bill_20040930_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2407_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 2407
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Commencing with the 2004-05 school year, bars a school district from operating a Concept 6 program unless the district operated such program continuously since the 2003-04 school year. Defines a Concept 6 program as one in which a district operates on a 3-track year-round calendar in which each track provides fewer than 180 days, but no fewer than 163 days, of instruction per school year. Requires a district, as
a condition of operating a Concept 6 program, to present to the State Department of Education a comprehensive action plan detailing the strategy and steps to be taken annually to eliminate the use of the Concept 6 program as soon as practicable and no later than July
1, 2012. Requires a district that plans to operate a Concept 6 program after June 30, 2006, and after July 30, 2009, to submit specified reports to the Superintendent of Public Instruction that establish substantial progress has been made toward meeting its annual goals stated in the comprehensive action plan and that it has developed a specific school building plan to provide adequate pupil capacity to eliminate the Concept 6 program. Authorizes the State Board of Education to appoint a monitor to oversee the district if it finds that substantial progress has not been made or a specific school building plan has not been developed and the reason for the failure is not due to circumstances beyond the control of the district. Prohibits the operation of a Concept 6 program after July 1, 2012. Requires the department to conduct a survey to determine whether school districts operating a Concept 6 program will phase out this program by the 2009–10 fiscal year, and to submit the survey to specified education committees of the Legislature and to the Department of Finance. Requires the Legislature to determine, based on the survey, whether to repeal the authority of a school district to operate a Concept 6 program prior to July 1, 2012. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1501-1550/ab_1550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 1550
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| NC | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Reduces the number of noninstructional teacher workdays by five; provides that public schools shall open after august 25 and close not after june 10, except in unusual circumstances or in year-round schools; provide that salaries not decrease as a result of the reduction in teacher workdays or to change the pay cycle for noncertified employees; defines year- round school; ensures teachers are paid in August. Directs the state board to study noninstructional work days. Effective with 2005-06 school year. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/html2003/bills/AllVersions/House/H1464vc.html
Title: H.B. 1464
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| CA | Vetoed 07/2004 | P-12 | Deletes the reduction in base revenue limit funding that results to certain school districts for offering less than 180 days of instruction. Conditions the entitlement to the same support from the State School Fund due to the average daily attendance on the districts operating under the provisions of law relating to the 180-day school year. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1101-1150/sb_1142_bill_20040701_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB1142Veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1142
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies that Veteran's Day is intended to be a legal holiday for students and employees of public schools. http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/LIS142.NSF/vwLegislation/SB+186/$file/1901420147.doc/?openelement
Title: S.B. 186
Source: Delaware Legislative Web site
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| AK | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Relates to the number of instruction days or hours in a school year; provides exceptions to the mandatory school year. http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill_text.asp?hsid=SB0239Z&session=23
Title: S.B. 239
Source: Alaska Legislative Web site
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| CT | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Provides that if a town, whose school district is the priority district with the largest student enrollment, uses federal funds to finance school construction projects, such funds shall be deemed to be part of the town's local share for such projects; provides any local or regional board of education that scheduled a graduation date for students and has been force to close the building for emergency repairs, may hold the graduation on that date, if certain conditions are met. http://www.cga.state.ct.us/2004/act/Pa/2004PA-00251-R00SB-00343-PA.htm
Title: S.B. 343
Source: Connecticut Legislative Web site
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires school districts that missed school days due to emergencies, including weather-related emergencies, to consider certified and classified personnel to have met the 185-day minimum contract with the district, for purposes of service credit for retirement, when specified criteria are met. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SB28/bill.doc and http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SB28/AA.doc
Title: S.B. 28
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us
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| ME | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires school administrative units to develop and approve plans for a regional school calendar in its career and technical center and school administrative units to develop a regional school calendar that aligns with school calendars of career and technical programs in the region.
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/billtexts/LD194602-1.asp
Title: H.P. 1446
Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/billtexts/LD194602-1.asp
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| WI | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Relates to special observance days and schools; adds March 17th to the list of special days for the The Great Hunger in Ireland from 1845 to 1850.
Title: S.B. 526
Source: StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | This bill: creates a pilot program to evaluate the effects on student academic achievement of reducing the minimum school term established by the state board by up to 22 hours for the purpose of conducting professional development for instructional staff; requires a local school board to submit a plan to the state board to participate in the pilot program; allows the state board to determine the number of schools and school districts that may participate in the pilot program; requires the state board to report to the Education Interim Committee on the findings from the pilot program; and sunsets the pilot program on July 1, 2008. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2004/bills/hbillenr/hb0100.pdf
Title: H.B. 100
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us
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| GA | Adopted 11/2003 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding instructional extension, a state-funded instructional program beyond the regular school day to address the academic needs of low-performing students. Allows local school systems to spend up to 15 percent of the designated funds on transportation costs incurred for transporting students who are attending the additional classes. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-4-2-.14.pdf
Title: GAC 160-4-2-.14
Source: Georgia State Department of Education Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2003 | P-12 | Conditions the authority to operate a school program of year-round scheduling on the governing board of the school district adopting a resolution at a regularly scheduled board meeting certifying that the number of annual instructional minutes is not less than that of schools of the same grade levels utilizing the traditional school calendar and that is not possible to maintain a multitrack schedule using a traditional school calendar. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0551-0600/ab_560_bill_20030925_chaptered.html
Title: A.B. 560
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| MI | Signed into law 08/2003 | P-12 | Establishes minimum number of annual instructional time for full state funding as 1,098 hours. (Previous state law, statute 380.1284, established that the minimum instructional year in hours for 2003-04 school year was 1,122, with incremental increases in successive years, finally reaching 1,140 in the 2006-07 school year and every successive year).
Also allows a district to count up to 51 hours of professional development for teachers, including the 5 hours of online professional development provided by the Michigan virtual university under section 98, as hours of pupil instruction. A district that elects to use this exception shall notify the department of its election.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/billenrolled/house/pdf/2003-HNB-4401.pdf
See governor's comment on this section (page 9/36): http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/journal/house/pdf/2003-HJ-08-13-064.pdf
Title: H.B. 4401 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.michiganlegislature.org
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Existing law requires the minimum day in specified vocational education programs to consist of 4 periods totaling at least 180
minutes in duration. This bill would additionally provide that for a pupil who attends a school, as specified, in which the regularly scheduled period is greater than 60 minutes in length, the minimum day is one or more periods totaling at least 180 minutes in duration. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_774&sess=CUR&house=B&author=wiggins
Title: A.B. 774
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Specifies that for the 2002-03 school year and thereafter, the requirements governing the minimum length of the school day and year do not apply to any district or school that was unable to meet minimum instructional time requirements due to school closure within the last thirty calendar days of the school year, when such closure was the result of natural disaster as defined by the state superintendent and state board. State board must adopt regulations requiring any school or district that was unable to meet the minimum instructional time requirements, due to circumstances specified above, to submit to the state superintendent information on why the school or district was unable to meet the requirements and any efforts made by the school or district to meet the requirements. Provisions apply to a district only if every school in the district was forced to close due to natural disaster. For the 2002-03 school year, these provisions do not apply to the New Orleans system and which in 2002-03 school year cannot meet the specified minimum instructional time requirements due to school board's action providing professional development activities during the school day in every school in the system and the reduced instructional time does not exceeed one hundred eighty minutes.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB457&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 457
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| AL | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Foundation Program revised: minimum school days increased to 180 days by 2008, allocation for professional days and leave, additional instructional support allowance, average daily membership based on first 20 school days after Labor Day, pupil-teacher ratios for funding, assignment of teachers based on enrollment with waiver provisions; contingent on voter approval of constitutional amendment (HB1). http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp?SESSION=1027
Title: S.B. 4
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site
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| AZ | Line item vetoed 06/2003 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Creates budget reconciliation for education and includes the following provisions: Prohibits the State Board of Education from sponsoring additional charter schools in FY 2003-04, and requires the State Board for Charter Schools to provide oversight for existing state board of education-sponsored charter schools during FY 2003-04;Repeals a FY 2002-03 transfer of monies to the Parental Choice for Reading Success Program and deposits the monies in the General Fund; Allows school districts and charter schools to complete the minimum number of instructional hours in less than 180 days; Repeals the State Board of Directors for Community Colleges (SBDCC), transfers any remaining SBDCC funds to the General Fund, applies this change retroactively to July 1, 2003, and requires the Legislative Council to prepare proposed legislation conforming the repeal of the SBDCC throughout statute.
Title: H.B. 2534
Source: Arizona Legislation Web site
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| MI | Vetoed 06/2003 | P-12 | For purposes of eligibility to receive state aid, changes minimum day requirements to minimum hour requirements, thus requiring each district to provide at least 1,098 hours of pupil instruction per school year. Specifies that before a district changes its schedule to a 4-day school week, the local board must hold at least two public hearings on the issue of a 4-day school week. If the board decides to make the change, it must adopt a resolution that includes all of the following: (a) A statement in writing pledging that the costs savings from the change will be allocated to classroom instruction and will not be used for pay increases. (b) A statement in writing indicating that the change is being made because the board has determined that it will result in budget savings and stabilize or enhance pupil performance in the district.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/billenrolled/senate/pdf/2003-SNB-0364.pdf
Title: S.B. 364
Source: www.michiganlegislature.org
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| MO | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Eliminates provision requiring first day of school to be on September 1 or later. http://www.senate.mo.gov/03INFO/bills/SB686.htm
Title: S.B. 686 (§ 171.031)
Source: www.senate.mo.gov
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Revises provisions relating to payment of fees for advanced placement tests; revises provision relating to the release of certain test questions; deletes provision that students with alternate assessments shall not count for accountability purposes; changes provisions regarding expenditure controls for the 2003-2004 school year; changes provisions regarding maximum class size for the 2003-2004 school year and provides for automatic repeal; changes provisions regarding funding for additional days of instruction; provides that when certain sales taxes for educational purposes are imposed, each board of education expending proceeds of the tax undergo a performance audit or performance review of the expenditures and provides for performance audit or review contracts. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/sum/sb249.htm
Title: S.B. 249
Source: Georgia Legislative Web site
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| NC | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Makes veterans day a holiday for school personnel.
Title: H.B. 421
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Provides teachers with additional time for instructional purposes. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2655.pdf
Title: H.B. 2655
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| AR | Emergency Rule Adoption 04/2003 | P-12 | Amends required time for instruction and school calendar; establishes emergency rules regarding the amendment to Standards of Accreditation. ARKANSAS REG 3455 (SN)
Title: Uncodified
Source: StateNet
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| AR | Emergency Rule Adoption 04/2003 | P-12 | Allow the Arkansas State Board of Education to waive the minimum of 178 days required in the Standards for Accreditation of Arkansas Public Schools for the purposes of professional development or natural necessity due to inclement weather, fire, natural disaster or
other catastrophic event which makes conducting required student-teacher interaction time impossible or would create imminent
danger to the health or safety of students or school personnel. Regulation is effective April 14, 2003 and expires August 10, 2003. http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/waivers%20school%20days.pdf
Title: ADE 153
Source: Arkansas State Web site
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| MO | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Allows a district to be exempt in the 2002-03 school year from the requirement to make up school days canceled due to inclement weather after November 20, 2002, in the school district. Waives the requirement to make up two-thirds of the missed days in the 2003-04 school year. http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills03/biltxt/truly/HB0554T.HTM
Title: H.B. 554
Source: www.house.state.mo.us
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Exempts schools from the required 180-day minimum school calendar for time missed due to emergencies; continues to pay school districts full allotments.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2003/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2404SG.htm
Title: S.B. 2404
Source: billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Applies the 6-hour school day requirement to first grade. (Section 1-111. A. A school day shall consist of not less than six (6) hours devoted to school activities, except that a school day for nursery, early childhood education, kindergarten, extended day program, and alternative education programs shall be as otherwise defined by law or as defined by the State Board of Education.) Exemptions formerly applied to first grade. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04SB/sb289_enr.rtf
Title: S.B. 289
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Allows the state commissioner of education to approve five disaster days for a school district that was closed at least ten days due to disastrous weather conditions during the 2002-03 academic year. Certified staff are required to report to work and engage in instructional activities or professional development during the five disaster days. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/SB132/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 132
Source: http://www.lrc.state.ky.us
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Provides time for home visits and parent-teacher conferences in kindergarten through grade five.
Title: H.B. 68
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Authorizes a school board to approve a four-day school week under certain conditions, so long as a minimum of 990 hours of instructional time is provided for grades one through 12 and 540 hours for kindergarten. No alternative plan that reduces the instructional time in the core academics shall be approved. The Standards of Accreditation (SOA) (8 VAC 20-131-150) set the standard school year at 180 days, with the standard school day for students in grades one through 12 to "average at least 5-1/2 hours, excluding breaks for meals, and a minimum of three hours for kindergarten." The SOA permit school divisions to develop alternative schedules for meeting these requirements as long as a minimum of 990 hours of instructional time is provided for grades one through 12 and 540 hours for kindergarten. Such alternative plans must be approved by the local school board and by the Board of Education under guidelines established by it. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?031+ful+CHAP0724
Title: H.B. 2806
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/
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| MT | Signed into law 02/2003 | P-12 | Transfers the authority for approving the conduct of school on Saturday in the case of an emergency from the Superintendent of Public Instruction to the school district trustees. http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/2003/billhtml/HB0078.htm
Title: H.B. 78
Source: StateNet
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| NJ | Signed into law 02/2003 | P-12 | Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to change any date in the school budget and election calendar due to a conflict with a day of religious observance.
Title: S.B. 861
Source: StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 01/2003 | P-12 | One provision allows the state board to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to define school day and other appropriate units of the school calendar (previously was "shall adopt").
Title: L.B. 67
Source: StateNet
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| SC | Adopted 12/2002 | P-12 | Establishes a 10-day window in late August and early September during which all South Carolina public schools would have to open. Schools would have to begin no earlier than the last Monday before Labor Day and no later than the Wednesday after Labor Day. Schools that operate on a year-round calendar will be exempted from the new rule.
Title: 43-142
Source: http://www.sde.state.sc.us/
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2002 | P-12 | Relates to existing law which authorizes the Board of Education to waive the fiscal penalties for a school district or county board of education that fails to maintain the prescribed minimum length of time for the instructional school year, minimum number of instructional days, or both. Authorizes a waiver to be granted for fiscal penalties for any shortfall in the 2000-01 fiscal year or thereafter under certain conditions.
Title: A.B. 1227
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2002 | P-12 | Continues to allow school districts to operate a program of multitrack year-around scheduling for as few as 163 days in each fiscal year only until July 1, 2008.
Title: A.B. 2027
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2002 | P-12 | Amends the State aid formula provisions of the School Code. Provides that in districts in which all buildings hold year-round classes, days of attendance in July and August shall be added to the month of September and any days of attendance in June shall be added to the month of May. Makes other calculations of the Average Daily Attendance for year-round school buildings.
Title: S.B. 1524
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 06/2002 | P-12 | Allows Fresno Unified School District to apply for a waiver from certain regulations so as to allow the district to use designated funds for pupils at Cooper Middle School performing below basic or far below basic in math and reading on the California Standards Tests an instructional day 60 minutes longer than at other middle schools in the district instead of offering supplemental instructional programs the monies were originally intended to provide. Cooper Middle School may also offer an instructional day 60 minutes longer than at other district middle schools to students who have scored above below basic on the math and reading portions of the California Standards Tests. Includes parental opt-out, which requires that children be placed in a regular program at another district middle school. Program must be evaluated by state superintendent and reported on to general assembly by December 31, 2004. Section repealed as of January 1, 2005. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1251-1300/ab_1285_bill_20020621_chaptered.html
Title: A.B. 1285
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Requires school districts and charter school operating on approved alternative calendars to comply with annual hours of instruction requirements; permits counting pupils as having attended full-time in any week for which the pupil was enrolled in and physically attending 20 hours of instruction. Defines "full-time instructional program" as at least 120 hours a year in at least four subjects in FY 00-01 or 122 hours per subject or a total of 704 instructional hours in FY 01-02. Minimum number of hours increases by four hours each successive fiscal year through 05-06, when minimum number of instructional hours for all subjects is 720. Minimum number of hours per subject increases to 123 in FY 03-04. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/laws/0189.htm
Title: H.B. 2484
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| AL | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Requires K-12 public schools and public 2-year postsecondary institutions to be closed on Memorial Day. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb24.htm
Title: H.B. 24
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Permits school closings for primary elections.
Title: H.B. 529
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Provides that minors who are seventeen years old and who will become eighteen years old on or before the day of the regular election may serve as an election officer for the primary and general election in which he or she is qualified to vote; provides that students who serve as election officers shall be granted one day of excused absence for each election day served. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/record/02rs/HB251/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 251
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | Establishes a burial honor guard program for veteran's funerals; establishes the veterans' service organization burial honor guard trust fund to offset costs; authorizes local school boards to provide academic credit and excused absences for secondary students participating in the Burial Honor Guard Program.
Title: H.B. 231
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 11/2001 | P-12 | Public Act 167., Provides that the board of a school district, local art school district, public school academy or intermediate school district shall ensure that the district's schools are not in session on the Friday before Labor Day, unless a local collective bargaining agreement provides otherwise; provides that the provisions in the act shall not apply to that school district until after the expiration of that agreement.
Title: H.B. 4491
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | Authorizes a pupil in a kindergarten in a school operating on a program of multitrack year-round scheduling to be kept in school on any day for 265 minutes of instruction, exclusive of recesses.
Title: A.B. 764
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | , Increase the minimum number of instructional school days per school year in public elementary and secondary schools form 175 to 177.
Title: H.B. 458
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | , Requires make-up days when school board closes school as the result of school employees threatening or failing to appear for work.
Title: S.B. 702
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Requires that school districts adopt a school calendar designating opening and closing dates and instructional days and permitting the scheduling of school breaks outside of the minimum school term; requires that schools allow teacher delegates to attend statewide professional meetings and hire substitute teachers if schools are scheduled to operate on meeting days; allows Federal School Breakfast Program to provide students with 15 minutes to eat breakfast.
Title: S.B. 108
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Public Law No. 100., 96 (LD 988) Provides for the observance of Veterans' Week each year in each political subdivision, school system and school administrative district in the State.
Title: S.B. 277
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MO | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Requires the Governor to annually proclaim February lifelong learning month; recommends that the month be observed with appropriate activities in the public schools.
Title: S.B. 201
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | A school district may not begin instruction for students for a school year before the week in which August 21 falls. Sunday is considered the first day of the week.
Title: S.B. 108
Source: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Establishing the Maryland Educational Opportunity Summer Pilot Program; authorizing a county board of education to develop a proposal for educational curriculum and activities during the summer; requiring the State Board of Education to review a proposal and approve or disapprove the proposal based on specified priorities; requiring the State Board to distribute funds to cover the costs of implementing and operating the Pilot Program; applying the Act to Baltimore County and Prince George's County; etc.
Title: H.B. 53
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Provides for all school districts to implement flexible school calendars.
Title: H.B. 35
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2001 | P-12 | Section 30, requires that by 2001-2002 budgets reflect a school year of at least 190 days. 180 days are for instruction and ten days are for teachers' professional development, provided that there is legislative appropriation to implement this requirement.
Title: S.B. 308
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site
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| SC | Signed into law 08/2000 | P-12 | Adds 3 days for the next 2 school years and 2 more days for all school years thereafter; provides that the State Board of Education shall review and make necessary revisions to criteria for requesting out-of-field teacher permits; provides that the Board shall consider establishing for principals a recertification requirement; provides that the Board and the Department of Education shall review and refine certain professional performance dimensions in the state's teacher evaluation program.
Title: S.B. 1111
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2000 | P-12 | Adjusts the prescribed dates, and would provide that the school action plan pursuant to the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program may propose to increase the number of instructional days and may propose to increase up to a full 12 months the amount of time for which certificated employees are contracted if prescribed conditions are met.
Title: A.B. 2162
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MN | Signed by governor 05/2000 | P-12 | For the 2000-2001 year only, a school district must not begin the elementary or secondary school year prior to Labor Day. However, a district may begin the school year on another date if necessary to accommodate a major school construction or remodeling project.
Title: H.B. 3800
Source: MN Department of Children, Families and Learning
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12
Postsec. | State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Director of the State Department of Vocational and Technical Education, and the Chancellor for Higher Education shall coordinate spring break dates for the public schools, area vocational-technical schools, and institutions within the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education beginning with the 2001-2002 school year.
Title: H.B. 2728 (Omnibus Bill)
Source:
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Amends existing law to delete noninstructional from recess time as it relates to the option of a local school board or trustees to approve a reduction in annual instructional hour requirements as allowed by law; maintains the restriction that recess time shall not be included in the reduction.
Title: H.B. 636
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Requires schools to be closed on the third Monday of January in observance of the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.; permits districts to designate the day as one of the four holidays or to not include the day in the minimum school term; requires school closure on day of the general election and on Veteran's Day.
Title: H.B. 347
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Vetoed 03/2000 | P-12 | Establishes President's Day as a public school holiday in the State.
Title: H.B. 415, SB 648
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | This bill changes the minimum required time in school for 4th through 12th graders from 175 days to 962.5 hours. The Board of Education will set rules for the minimum number of hours in school for grades one through three.
Title: S.B. 178
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Creates the Extended School Year Incentive Program and Fund, from such funds as may be appropriated, to be administered by the Board of Education, for incentive grants for public school divisions for the operation of schools beyond the 180-day school year required by the Standards of Accreditation;establishes procedures for calculating amounts for incentive grants to school divisions.
Title: S.B. 545
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 10/1999 | P-12 | Public Act 141., Relates to education and the calendar; requires that school not be in session on Friday before Labor Day; provides exceptions for school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts and local act school districts subject to collective bargaining agreements.
Title: H.B. 4099
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 07/1999 | P-12 | Requires summer school be offered to all students who fail the state tests required for promotion to 5th and 9th grades and provides for the funding of such programs.
Title: S.B. 249
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OH | Signed by governor 07/1999 | P-12 | Creates standards for state-funded summer remediation services offered by school districts.
Title: H.B. 282 (Part of Omnibus Bill)
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12 | Repeals mandatory summer school for underperforming students in kindergarten through grade 3 (Section 6-16-703). Replaces it with: Students in K-3 not performing at grade level during the regular school year shall participate in a department of education approved remediation program or a summer school remediation program to be eligible for promotion to the next grade. Those schools electing to not offer a summer school program shall offer a department of education approved remediation program during the regular school year to students in kindergarten through grade three not performing at grade level.
Title: H.B. 1212
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12 | Request the House and Senate Interim Committees on Education to conduct a study of instituting year-round school for public schools or instituting alternative sessions of public schools in order to extend the school year.
Title: H.C.R. 1012
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 08/1998 | P-12 | Extends school year for K-12 to 180 days. Eliminates the 8 days of staff development, provides funding for up to three days for optional staff development for certified teachers and one day for instructional aides.
Title: S.B. 1193
Source: "EDCAL," September 7, 1998
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/1998 | P-12 | States persons over 22 years old can not attend vocational programs in high school buildings during regular class hours; appropriates $1.2 million to the Department of Education for extended year and summer school programs.
Title: H.B. 2168
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| LA | Signed into law 05/1998 | P-12 | Provides relative to length of school day, length of school year, and additional staff development days for teachers under certain circumstances.
Title: H.B. 119
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Died 05/1998 | P-12 | Provides that all public school terms shall open on the Tuesday following Labor Day and shall end on the last day of May.
Title: S.B. 2045
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 05/1998 | P-12 | Implements the recommendations of the Legislative study Commission on Public Schools to encourage local boards of education to provide year-round schools.
Title: H.B. 1478
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WA | Died 05/1998 | P-12 | Relates to the summer school jump start program; makes an appropriation.
Title: S.B. 6401 Summer School Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SC | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | (Joint Resolution) Approves regulations of the Department of Education to summer program.
Title: S.B. 1109
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 03/1998 | P-12 | Directs level I and level II school districts to provide extended day and extended school year programs as required by the State Board of Education as part of the Districts corrective action plan; prescribes the components and the procedures to be followed by level I and level II school districts and the State Department of Education in devleoping and implementing a corrective action plan for the district.
Title: S.B. 2944
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MI | Died 12/1997 | P-12 | Requires the school year to start after Labor Day.
Title: H.B. 5080
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MO | Died 12/1997 | P-12 | Repeals Labor Day startup for schools; removes restrictions on the opening date for school.
Title: H.B. 962 School Year
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 10/1997 | P-12 | Declares the intent of the Legislature to increase the number of schooldays in a school year by providing funding to school districts to conduct staff development activities, as specified. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide each eligible school district with staff development allowance of $ 220 per day for each certificated employee of the school district who participates in staff development. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/97-98//bill/sen/sb_0051-0100/sb_85_bill_19971012_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 85 Instructional Time
Source: California Association of School Administrators
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| TX | Died 08/1997 | P-12 | Relates to the first instructional day of a school year for public school students.
Title: S.B. 433/H.B. 1219 Schedule of a School Year
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CT | Died 06/1997 | P-12 | Provide additional time for instruction in the public schools.
Title: S.B. 39, S.B. 41 & S.B. 74 Additional Time for Instruction in the Public Schools
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MN | Signed into law 06/1997 | P-12 | Charter school provisions (removes the cap of 40 schools; $50,000 start-up grants for charters are made available; separate grants are available to help repair facilities; private colleges can now serve as sponsors); requires that, beginning with the 1998/99 school year, school district calendars must be three days longer than the number of days of student instruction adopted by the district at the beginning of the 1996/97 school year, the first year without a minimum number of days; based on the results of a standardized eight-grade test, postsecondary institutions which determine that students are not prepared for college level courses, and need remedial courses, are allowed to "bill-back" the fees necessary to provide those courses to the school district which graduated the student, unless the high school can show the student did meet basic skill requirements; nonpublic school students are now eligible for the Postsecondary Enrollment Options program through their nonpublic school; TAX CREDITS AND DEDUCTIONS: Current maximum tax deduction for each dependent in grades 7-12 increases from $1,000 to $2,500 and from $650 to $1,625 for dependents in grades K-6. Deductions are allowed for currently deductible expenses (tuition, fees, nonreligious textbooks and instructional materials, and transportation expenses paid to others) as well as for academic summer school and summer camps, tutoring, and personal computer hardware and educaitonal software, with a limit of $200 for computer hardware and software. The existing working family credit increases form 15 to 25 percent of the federal earned income credit for families with qualifying children. The maximum credit for a family with one child increases from $332 to $553. For a family with two or more children, the maximum credit increases from $548 to $914. A new credit is created for education-related expenses for families with gross income less than $33,500 per year. Creditable expenses are the same as deductible expenses, with the exception of private school tuition or fees, which are not creditable.
Title: H.B. 1 & S.B. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| VA | Signed into law 06/1997 | P-12 | The Board of Education shall establish standards for remedial summer school programs, which shall be designed to strengthen and improve the effectiveness of such programs in increasing the scholastic achievement of students with academic deficiencies. Such standards shall require (i) an evaluation of the remedial summer school program, and (ii) that school divisions report on such forms as may be required by the Board. Data submitted to the Board shall include, but not limited to, the number of students failing the Literacy Passport Test, any or all components, for each administration of the test; a demographic profile of the students attending such programs; the academic status of each such student; the types of instruction offered, the length of the program, and the local costs of the program; the number of ungraded and disabled students, and those with limited English proficiency (ESL); and the number of students failing the literacy tests who attend remedial summer school.
Title: VA 22.1-199.2 Standards for remedial summer school
Source: Code of Virginia
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| ME | Signed into law 05/1997 | P-12 | Changes the school calendar; relates to vacation and training days for teachers.
Title: H.B. 1275
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| MO | Died 05/1997 | P-12 | Eliminates a specified opening date for the school term. Currently, schools must not open before September 1st, except in districts where school operates year-round and districts where an agricultural exemption for an earlier start is granted.
Title: H.B. 594 Scheduling School Year
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NY | Died 05/1997 | P-12 | Allows school districts to schedule regular school sessions during July and August without being penalized by loss of state aid, in order to provide more flexible programming based on individual pupil needs and to miximize the use of school facilities.
Title: A.B. 5022
Source: New York School Boards Association
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| AR | Signed into law 04/1997 | P-12 | Requires Summer remedial instruction progrms for students in K-3 who do not perform at grade level during the regular school year.
Title: H.B. 1029 Summer Remedial Instruction Programs
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 04/1997 | P-12 | Allows for a pilot program summer term in secondary school. Provides students the option for acceleration, remediation and enrichment. Participation is voluntary for students, parents and teachers.
Title: H.B. 35 Summer School for Secondary Students
Source: Utah Education Association
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| SC | Signed into law 03/1997 | P-12 | (Joint Resolution) Relates to summer program.
Title: S.B. 525 Summer Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/1997 | P-12 | Relates to public education; provides for a four-day school week pilot program in selected rural high schools; provides components for the program; provides for evaluation; provides for termination of the program.
Title: H.B. 341 Four-Day School Week Pilot Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/1997 | P-12 | Requires the Board of Education to establish standards for remedial summer school, including an assessment component to evaluate program effectiveness, and by July 1, 1998, standards for full funding of such programs which meet Board standards for remedial summer school programs.
Title: H.B. 2633 Remedial Summer School
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| AR | Died 02/1997 | P-12 | Requires summer remedial instruction programs for students in k-3 who do not perform at grade level during the regular school year.
Title: S.B. 357 Summer Remedial Instruction Programs
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MN | Died 02/1997 | P-12 | Relates to education; repeals after Labor Day school year start date; repeals Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 126.12, subdivision 1.
Title: S.B. 570 Scheduling School Year
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Died 02/1997 | P-12 | Requires all school districts school day hours to be from 8: 00 to 4: 00.
Title: H.B. 708 School Day
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MI | Died 01/1997 | P-12 | Requires the school year to start after Labor Day.
Title: H.B. 4190 School Calendar
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| MN | Died 01/1997 | P-12 | Repeals law prohibiting schools from starting prior to Labor Day.
Title: S.B. 220 Scheduling of School Year
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/1996 | P-12 | Authorizes a school district to include in summer school instructional programs courses for pupils who have not yet graduated that address remediation issues or developmental instruction, or both, and that will provide pupils with skills required to eliminate the need for remedial coursework at the postsecondary level. Requires the Department of Education, the UC Regents, and the CSU Trustees to prepare a report indentifying their goals for reducing remedial or developmental instruction.
Title: A.B. 649 Remedial Instructional Programs
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| HI | Signed into law 06/1996 | P-12 | Relates to education; summer schools and financing.
Title: H.B. 3434 Related to summer schools and financing
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Passed 05/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 05/12/96) Prescribes how local educational agencies will ensure the provision of summer school students in grades kindergarten through fifth grade.
Title: K-5 Summer Supplemental Instructional Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 04/1996 | P-12 | Relates to the school calendar and adjustments necessary to deal with the severe winter of the 1995-96 school year and declares any emergency; allows a local school board to extend schools days, allows a local board whose schools have been closed up to 20 days to eliminate up to 5 low attendance days from the average daily attendance calculation to make up instructional days missed due to severe conditions during the 1995-96 school year.
Title: H.B. 513 School Calendar
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Became law without governor's signature 03/1996 | P-12 | Authorizes the division superintendent to seek compliance with the compulsory school attendance law for any student required to attend a special program during the summer school session, or if he determines that (i) improvement in the student's academic performance is related to his attendance in the program, and (ii) the student's parents or guardian have not been notified of the attendance requirement, and (iii) the parents have failed to cooperate in the matter.
Title: H.B. 890 Summer Remedial Classes
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WI | Died 03/1996 | P-12 | This bill provides that, beginning in 1996, no public school may commence its school term until September 1.
Title: A.B. 369 Fall Semester Start
Source: Wisconsin Association of School Boards, Legislative Alert, 2/17/96; 4/3/96
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| KY | Signed into law 02/1996 | P-12 | Relates to the school day, to clarify that for purposes of calculating the allowable length of lunch duty, a teacher's noninstructional time does not include the time a teacher must be at school prior to the student's instructional day; permits the Commissioner of Education, as opposed to the State Board, to approve a program of less than six hours for students with disabilities and children attending a primary program; relates to the school term instructional days; relates to truancy.
Title: H.B. 100 School Day Provisions
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Passed 01/1996 | P-12 | States that starting in the fall of 1998 all school districts are to operate year round.
Title: H.B. 2160 Year Round Schools
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Relates to establishment of the length of the school year and changes the length of the school year.
Title: H.B. 1143 Length of School Year
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WV | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Relates to authorizing county boards of education to establish mandatory remedial summer school programs; compels attendance in such programs of students who meet specific criteria set out herein; prohibits county boards from charging tuition for such mandatory summer programs.
Title: H.B. 4150 Remedial Summer School Programs
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| UT | Passed 12/1995 | P-12 | (Effective: 01/02/96) Requires school districts to provide a minimum number of hours (990) in a minimum number of days (180). Provides for short-term variances and directs districts to work toward compliance with the 180-day minimum.
Title: R277-419 Pupil Accounting
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NV | Signed into law 09/1995 | P-12 | Allows the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to authorize a reduction in the required minimum number of school days per year up to 15 days. The reduction may be allowed only if the new schedule provides for an equivalent or greater number of minutes of instruction than is provided in a 180 day school year.
Title: S.B. 87 Chapter 651 Number of School Days Per Year
Source: Legislative Counsel Bureau
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| AR | Passed 08/1995 | P-12 | (Effective: 08/14/95) Provides guidelines under which local school districts may be allowed to provide summer instruction for students in K-4 grades not performing at grade level during the regular school year. Provides remediation for those students below grade level.
Title: Summer Supplemental Instructional Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| PR | Passed 06/1995 | P-12 | In 1994-95 the school calendar was 185 days, which means an additional week of class for students. The school calendar for 1995-96 was extended to 190 days.
Title: School Calendar
Source: Department of Education
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| ND | Signed into law 04/1995 | P-12
Postsec. | Relates to uniform accounting and reporting, family transportation, definition of a high school student, meetings of County committees regarding tuition hearings, students placed for reasons other than education, and length of school term. If a school district does not provide educational services to an entire grade level, the students in that grade level may attend school at a public school of their choice, outside their district of residence without going through the procedures outlined in section 15-40.2-05. The school district of residence shall pay tuition to the admitting school district. The student may exercise the provisions whether the school district of residence ceased to provide required grade level before or after the effective date of this Act. The public schools must be equally free, open and accessible at all times to all children who have reached the age of six by midnight August thirty first for school districts that do not provide kindergarten or the age of five for schools districts that provide kindergarten and have not reached the age of twenty one. The school board of a pubic school district may, upon approval by a majority vote of the electors of the school district at any regular or special election, dedicate a tax levy for purposes of this section (long-distance learning and educational technology levy) not to exceed five mills on the dollar of taxable valuation of property within the district. All revenue accruing under this levy must be used only for purposes of establishing and maintaining long-distance learning and purchasing and maintaining educational technology. Educational technology includes computer software, computers and computer networks and other computerized equipment which must be for student instruction.
Title: S.B. 2159
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 02/1995 | P-12 | Provides summer school programs for K thru 5th grade students who do not perform at grade level.
Title: H.B. 1152 and S.B. 99 - Summer School for K-5
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IA | Signed into law 06/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 03/30/94) This Act permits a school district to excuse a graduating senior from attending school on a day or days added to the regular school calendar to make up for school days lost when inclement weather caused the district to close school. (Legislative Summary 1994)
Title: SF 2237 School Attendance Requirements
Source: Legislative Service Bureau
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| TN | Signed into law 06/1994 | P-12 | For the current year, permits public, private and church related schools to make up lost days due to weather by adding 30 minutes extra to the school day. If the system has gone an additional 30 minutes for the entire school year, the mandatory 3 day requirement is waived. Beginning in the 1994-95 school year, public, private, and church related schools who go an additional 30 minutes for the entire school year, can accumulate up to 13 days to make up days missed due to weather. The mandaroty 3 day requirement is repealed. (Legislative Summary 1994)
Title: S.B. 1698 Lost Days Due to Weather
Source: Senate Education Committee
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| WV | Signed into law 06/1994 | P-12 | 1) Allows American Sign Language to be accepted as credited course of study in foreign language. 2) Gives counties option to start school year August 26 instead of September 1. 3) Requires full day, everyday kindergarten by 1996-97 school year. 4) Establishes plan to eliminate unfunded liability of teachers retirement system. 5) Establishes professional standards board to develop standards for teacher licensure. (State Ed 6/94)
Title: S.B. 1000 Formula Bill
Source: WV Dept of Ed
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| AL | Signed into law 05/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 05/17/94) Establishes the number of instructional days for students in Alabama's public schools and prescribes the minimum length of contracts for employees. (Legis. Link, First Special Legislative Session 1994)
Title: H 84 (Act 94-822) Instructional Days
Source: Alabama State Department of Education, Division of Legislative Services
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| KY | Signed into law 05/1994 | P-12 | Authorizes a school board to make up school days missd due to inclement weather by extending the school day if certain conditions are met; allows local board to determine whether to make up Jan 18, 19, 20, 21; permits a board to exclude up to five days from the calculation of average daily attendance if low attendance was due to weather conditions and the state board approves the request. (KY Teacher 5/94)
Title: S.B. 242 Making up School Days Missed
Source: KY Dept of Ed
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| KY | Signed into law 05/1994 | P-12 | Requires public schools to close on the day of an election; allows designation of election days for professional development. (KY Teacher 5/94)
Title: S.B. 281 Election Days used as professional development
Source: KY Dept of Ed
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| AL | Signed into law 04/1994 | P-12 | Legislation which passed in the special session: 1) a bill to lengthen the school year by one day a year for 10 years. 2) legislation to allow accumulation of up to 225 days' sick leave. 3) a school violence package. (Alabama School Journal 5/6/94)
Title: Special Legislative Session
Source: Alabama Education Association
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