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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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| CA | Signed into law 09/2012 | P-12 | Prohibits a public school from denying enrollment or readmission to a pupil solely on the basis that he/she has had contact with the juvenile justice system. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1051-1100/sb_1088_bill_20120919_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 1088
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2012 | P-12 | Provides a pupil who is a foster child who remains in his/her school of origin has met the residency requirements for school attendance (pre-existing requirements provided a student who is a foster child meets residency requirements if the student attends a school in the district in which his/her foster home is located). http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_1551-1600/ab_1573_bill_20120713_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 1573
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Revises the legal residency requirements for purposes of school attendance for children of divorced parents and children whose parents share decision making responsibility pursuant to a parenting plan.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2012/HB1325.html
Title: H.B. 1325
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Provides that when a student enrolls in a school operated by a school district, a school official with responsibility for admissions must provide the student's parent, during the admissions process, with a copy of the most recent public accountability report card. Pages 95-96 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Public Accountability Report Card at Student Enrollment
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Limits the window during which the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) can conduct Average Daily Membership (ADM) audits to three years from the time the monitoring or audit activity begins; Allows ADE to adjust funding for a school district or charter school that was overpaid or underpaid during the audit window if ADE issues those findings within two years of the beginning of monitoring or audit activity; Requires the correction of errors in the calculation of state aid or budget limits for a school district or charter school that are discovered within the previous three years, rather than the previous year.
Revises the method for calculating ADM from one that relies on counting the total enrollment of students on four dates each year to one that counts the total enrollment of each school day through the first 100 or 200 days in session, as applicable. Specifies that high school students are classified as either full-time or fractional students based on the number of classes they take, each of which, if taught each school day for the minimum number of days required in a school year, would meet for a minimum of 123 hours per year, or the equivalent.
Adjusts the transportation support level to provide additional support to school districts that elect to offer 200 days of instruction, rather than 180.
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/2r/laws/0357.pdf
Title: S.B. 1456
Source: azleg.gov
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Requires that declarations of intent and attendance records for home study programs be submitted to the department of education rather than local school superintendents; authorizes department to provide for electronic submittal of such records. Provides that notice by local school systems to parents relating to unexcused absences may be made by U.S. mail. Requires a district to send a notice to a parent or guardian via certified mail, return receipt requested, prior to to any action to commence judicial proceedings to impose a penalty for violating truancy provision. http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/127589.pdf
Title: H.B. 39
Source: www.legis.ga.gov
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| IL | Adopted 05/2012 | P-12 | Extends the School Success Task Force established during the 96th General Assembly and adds a member to the Task Force representing City of Chicago School District 299. Directs the School Success Task Force to submit a report before December 31, 2012. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/97/HJR/PDF/09700HJ0067lv.pdf
Title: H.J.R. 67
Source: www.ilga.gov
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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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| MA | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Provides definitions of military terms and provides that this legislation applies to active duty members of the uniformed services, members or veterans of the uniformed services who are severely injured and medically discharged or retired for a period of 1 year after medical discharge or retirement, and members of the uniformed services who die on active duty or as a result of injuries sustained on active duty for a period of 1 year after death.
Requires schools to provide to parents official (or unofficial) records to students for transfer purposes. Requires receiving schools to request official student records from a student's previous school, which should be furnished within 10 days.
Provides that students have 30 days to to obtain any immunizations required by the receiving state.
Provides that students be allowed to continue enrollment at the grade level in the receiving state that is equal with the grade level from the local education agency in the sending state at the time of transition, regardless of age. When a student transfers before or during the school year, the receiving state school shall initially honor placement of the student in educational courses based on the student's enrollment in the sending state school or educational assessments conducted at the school in the sending state if the courses are offered and space is available. This does not preclude the school in the receiving state from performing subsequent evaluations to ensure appropriate placement and continued enrollment of the student in the courses.
Requires the receiving state to initially provide comparable services to a student with disabilities based on: (i) the student's current individualized education program; (ii) the requirements of section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C.A. section 794; and (iii) title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C.A. sections 12131-12165. The receiving state is required to make reasonable accommodations and modifications to address the needs of incoming students with disabilities, subject to an existing 504 or title II plan, to provide the student with equal access to education.
Provides that local education agency administrative officials shall have flexibility in waiving course or program prerequisites or other preconditions for placement in courses or programs offered under the jurisdiction of the local education agency.
Provides that a student whose parent or legal guardian is an active duty member of the uniformed services and has been called to duty for, is on leave from or immediately returned from deployment to a combat zone or combat support posting, may be granted additional excused absences at the discretion of the local education agency superintendent to visit with that parent or legal guardian on leave or preparing for or returning from deployment.
http://www.malegislature.gov/Bills/187/Senate/S02254
Title: S.B. 2254
Source: http://www.malegislature.gov/
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| VA | Vetoed 05/2012 | P-12 | Allows a child receiving kinship care from a close relative to enroll in the school division where the kinship care provider resides. The bill also allows local school divisions to require one legal parent and the kinship care provider to sign affidavits detailing the kinship care arrangement as well as a power of attorney authorizing the close relative to make educational and medical decisions regarding the child.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+SB217ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 217
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/
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| GA | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Adopts the "Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children." Provides for the purpose and policy of the compact. Provides for student educational records and enrollment, placement and attendance, eligibility, graduation, and state coordination services. Creates the Interstate Commission on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Provides for the members of the interstate commission and their service. Provides for an executive committee and its membership and duties. Provides for the commission's powers, duties, organization, and operations. Provides for oversight, enforcement, and dispute resolution. Provides for financing of the interstate commission. Provides for member states, an effective date, and amendments; provides for withdrawal and dissolution; provides for binding effect and other laws. http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/127877.pdf
Title: S.B. 227
Source: www.legis.ga.gov
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| GA | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Clarifies that provisions for child's entry into kindergarten and 1st grade for a child who was a legal resident of one or more states two years immediately prior to moving to Georgia also apply to children residing in one or more countries two years immediately prior to moving to Georgia. Pages 3-4 of 11: http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/127649.pdf
Title: H.B. 706 - Age for Kindergarten or First Grade Entry for Children Moving from Abroad
Source: www.legis.ga.gov
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| MN | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Provides clarification on the district of residence for a homeless pupil, such that the pupil resides in the district where the parent or guardian resides unless parental rights have been terminated, the parent lives out of state or is an inmate at a correctional facility or halfway house. For students in this situation their district of residence will be the district the student resided when the qualifying event occured. Allowes the Commissioner of Education to determine residence in the event of a dispute. Provides that serving districts or charter schools are responsible for transporting homeless pupils to and from their districts of residence. [Article 1, Sec. 1, Subd. 2]
Allows a homeless student to continue to enroll in a nonresident district if his/her parent or guardian moves to another district, without the approval of the nonresident district or resident district. [Article 1, Sec. 13, Subd. 2a]
Repeals a provision that required, for all school purposes, a homeless pupil be a resident of the school district that enrolls the pupil. [Article 1, Sec. 34]
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/data/revisor/law/2012/0/2012-239.pdf
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=127A.47
Title: H.F. 2949
Source: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/
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| NE | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Changes provisions relating to compulsory attendance. Retains upper age of 16 but lays out an explicit process and requirements for early withdrawal by a parent.
http://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Slip/LB996.pdf
Title: L.B. 996
Source: http://nebraskalegislature.gov
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Provides for an interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children. Facilitates enrollment and placement of children of military families.
http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2012/Enroll/SF0078.pdf
Title: S.F. 78
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2011 | P-12 | From bill summary: Requires a school district to accept a wide range of documents and representations from the parent or legal guardian of a pupil living with his or her parent or legal guardian as reasonable evidence that the pupil meets specified residency requirements, including, but not limited to, property tax payment receipts, rental property contract, lease, or payment receipts, utility service contract, statement, or payment receipts, pay stubs, voter registration, correspondence from a government agency, or a declaration of residency executed by the parent or legal guardian of a pupil. If an employee of a school district
reasonably believes that the parent or legal guardian of a pupil has provided false or unreliable evidence of residency, authorizes the school district to make reasonable efforts to determine that the pupil actually meets the residency requirements. Specifies that it not be construed as limiting access to pupil enrollment in a school district as otherwise provided by state and federal statutes and regulations. Repeals provisions (1) providing that any school district that is adjacent to an international border may accept a wide range of documents and representations from the parent or guardian of a pupil for purposes of establishing residency in a school district, as specified, and (2) requiring those school districts to make reasonable efforts to determine whether a pupil meets the residency requirements if any employee of such a school district reasonably believes that the parent or guardian of the pupil has provided false or unreliable evidence of residency. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0201-0250/ab_207_bill_20111003_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 207
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2011 | P-12 | From bill summary: Includes spending time with an immediate family member who is an active duty member of the uniformed services and has been called to duty for, is on leave from, or has immediately returned from, deployment to a combat zone or combat support position, as a type of excused absence. Requires that absences granted pursuant to these provisions be granted for a period of time to be determined at the
discretion of the superintendent of the school district. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0351-0400/ab_387_bill_20111008_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 387
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2011 | P-12 | Directs the court, when issuing a stalking no contact order, to weigh specified considerations when the petitioner and the respondent attend the same public or private K-12 school, including any continuing physical danger or emotional distress to the petitioner. Permits the court to order the respondent to accept a transfer or change of placement or program, or place restrictions on the respondent's movements within the school attended by the petitioner. Provides that the respondent may not deny a transfer, change of placement, or change of program on specified grounds, including that the respondent fails or refuses to consent. Requires that a parent is responsible for transportation if a respondent is transferred to another attendance center or program. Permits the court to order the parents to take certain actions or refrain from certain actions to ensure the minor respondent complies with the order. Permits the court to hold the parents of a minor respondent in contempt for a violation of any provision of any no stalking order for conduct of the minor respondent if the parent directed, encouraged, or assisted the respondent minor in such conduct. Prohibits the court from holding a district or private school or any of its employees in civil or criminal contempt unless the school district or private or non-public school has been allowed to intervene. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/97/PDF/097-0294.pdf
Title: H.B. 192
Source:
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2011 | P-12 | Provides that at the time of annual enrollment or at any time during the school year, a school district or a recognized non-public school serving any of grades K-12 must provide, either on its standard enrollment form or on a separate form, the opportunity for the individual enrolling the student to voluntarily state whether the student has a parent or guardian who is a member of a branch of the U.S. armed forces and who is either deployed to active duty or expects to be deployed to active duty during the school year. Requires school districts and recognized non-public schools to report this enrollment data to the state board of education. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/97/PDF/097-0505.pdf
Title: H.B. 2870
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | From bill summary: Specifically requires a representative of school, county or community mental health personnel to be appointed to a county school attendance review board. Authorizes a representative of school, county or community mental health personnel to be appointed to a local school attendance review board. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0601-0650/ab_614_bill_20110708_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 614
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Until June 30, 2012, allows a county office of education, district governing board or charter school governing body to allow a student in grades 7-12 to conditionally attend school for up to 30 days if that pupil
has not been fully immunized with all pertussis boosters appropriate for the pupil's age if specified conditions are met. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0601-0650/sb_614_bill_20110725_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 614
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CT | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Sec. 16 - Requires boards of education to provide written notice to parents that unexcused absences could result in a complaint filed with the Superior Court.
Sec. 18 - Requires the State Board of Education to define ''excused absence" and ''unexcused absence." http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/ACT/Pa/pdf/2011PA-00136-R00HB-06499-PA.pdf
Title: H.B. 6499 - Sec. 16, 18
Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov
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| CT | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Allows the Probate Court Administrator to, within available appropriations, establish a pilot truancy clinic within the regional children's probate court for the district of Waterbury. Provides that the principal of any elementary or middle school in the Waterbury school district, or the principal's designee, may refer to the truancy clinic a parent/guardian with a child enrolled in such school who is a truant, or at risk of becoming a truant. Provides that the truancy clinic will operate for the purpose of identifying and resolving the cause of a child's truancy using nonpunitive procedures and after the initial appearance made pursuant to a summons, the participation of a parent/guardian in the truancy clinic shall be voluntary. Directs the truancy clinic to establish protocols for clinic participation and to establish programs and relationships with schools, individuals, public and private agencies, and other organizations to provide services and support for parents, guardians and children participating in the clinic. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/ACT/PA/2011PA-00177-R00SB-00982-PA.htm
Title: S.B. 982
Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov
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| IN | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Defines "attend" for purposes of the compulsory school attendance law. Requires school corporations to have a policy outlining both excused and unexcused absences. Bill indicates that attendance is excused only if it is in accordance with the governing body's excused absence policy. It specifies that to hold a parent accountable for an attendance violation, notice must be delivered personally to the parent. The bill also requires a superintendent or attendance officer to report a habitually absent child to the juvenile court or the Department of Child Services.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/FISCAL/SB0001.007.pdf
Full text: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0001.1.html
Title: S.B. 1--Attendance
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Makes permanent the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children. Deletes the definition of ''test period". Deletes provisions relating to the furnishing of unofficial education records and the principal's determination of available space. Makes mandatory previously optional provisions re: a student's continued enrollment at a grade level commensurate with their grade level in the sending state (regardless of age), waiver of graduation requirements if the student has completed similar coursework elsewhere. Clarifies military representation on the state council on educational opportunity for military children within the board of education. Effective June 30, 2011. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2011/Bills/HB4_CD1_.HTM
Title: H.B. 4
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Provides further detail on the procedure for resolving residency disputes. Excludes homeless children from the list of pupils whose residency can be determined by the commissioner of the department of education. Lengthens the time for determination of residency dispute by the commissioner to 30 days (from 14), except in the case where interruption of educational or related services has occurred. Allows period for determination to be extended with parental consent and provides that parents or legal guardians may submit a residency dispute for determination to the commissioner.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2011/SB0037.html
Title: S.B. 37
Source: www.gencourt.state.nh.us
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Relating to school attendance. Requires school districts to adopt attendance notification policies and specifies the required elements. Provides options for partents to determine method of notification. Effective July 1, 2011.
http://www.leg.state.or.us/11reg/measpdf/hb3100.dir/hb3197.en.pdf
Title: H.B. 3197
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| PA | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Section 1304 clarifies that districts must admit students during at least the first two weeks of school.
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=PDF&sessYr=2011&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=1352&pn=2227
Title: H.B. 1352
Source: http://www.legis.state.pa.us
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Provides that a foster care student who attends court proceedings relating to the student's foster care must not be counted as an absence, excused or unexcused, for the day or any portion of the day missed from school. http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/116565.pdf
Title: H.B. 314
Source: www.legis.ga.gov
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| IL | Adopted 05/2011 | P-12 | Extends the School Success Task Force established during the 96th General Assembly. Directs the task force to submit a report by December 31, 2011. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/97/HJR/PDF/09700HJ0007lv.pdf
Title: H.J.R. 7
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | States that a parent, guardian or other person who has control of a truant student commits educational neglect. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30.
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/107/Bill/SB0413.pdf
Title: S.B. 413
Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | States that attendance laws shall apply to remedial instruction for students who are determined to require such instruction, including summer school and after school programs.
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/107/Bill/SB0414.pdf
Title: S.B. 414
Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | From fiscal note: Generally, the criminal offenses of failure to attend school and parent contributing to nonattendance are adjudicated in justice and municipal courts. However, under current law, in counties with
populations of 2 million or more (Harris and Dallas counties), an option exists to file these cases in the constitutional county court. The bill expands this option to counties with populations of 1.75 million or more adding Tarrant County to the counties so authorized.
Bill text: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB00734F.pdf#navpanes=0
Fiscal note: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/fiscalnotes/pdf/HB00734E.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: H.B. 734
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Among other provisions, changes the compulsory school age from 7-16 to 6-16.
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2012/Acts/ACT058.pdf
Title: S.B. 100 - Compulsory School Age Provision
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us
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| WV | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Enables West Virginia to participate as a member of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Establishes the West Virginia Council for Educational Opportunity for Military Children for the purpose of coordinating entities in West Virginia regarding participation in the Interstate Compact. Designates the membership and establishing powers and duties of the West Virginia Council in order to facilitate the timely enrollment of children of military families in the public schools. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2550%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=2550
Title: H.B. 2550
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Arizona Revised Statute 15-821 is clarified. If a child who has not reached the age of five before September 1 of the current school year is admitted to kindergarten but withdraws and re-enroll the following year allows state age to be apportioned between the two years. Continues to limit funding to one year of kindergarten.
http://www.azleg.gov/legtest/50leg/1r/bills/sb1256s.pdf
Title: S.B. 1256--Kindergarten Finance
Source: http://www.azleg.gov/
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Creates a new section that defines attendance (absence) (15.1 - 20 - 02.1).
1. To be deemed in attendance for purposes of this chapter, a student may not be absent from school without excuse for more than:
a. Three consecutive school days during either the first half or the second half of a school
or school district's calendar;
b. Six half days during either the first half or the second half of a school or school district's
calendar; or
c. Twenty-one class periods.
Requires each district board and the governing body of each nonpublic school to adopt a policy that:
a. Defines an excused absence as any absence from school, if that absence is supported
by either a verbal or written excuse supplied by the student's parent, teacher, or school administrator; and
b. Articulates the type of documentation that may be requested to verify a student's absence.
Does not preclude a school district or nonpublic school from withholding credit, removing a student from a course, or taking other punitive measures against a student who does not arrive in a timely fashion or who exceeds a specific number of absences, as
determined by the school district or nonpublic school.
Requires districts and nonpublic schools to submit data on absences.
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/62-2011/documents/11-0124-04000.pdf
Title: S.B. 2226
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Authorizes parents to petition for special arrangments to address student absences prior to a student accumulating the maximum number of absences allowed under a district's attendance policy.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Bills/HB1995.pdf
Title: H.B. 1995
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Amends statute to state that once a parent or guardian of a child files an application with a school official for excusal,
the child shall be excused, without the necessity of school board action, subject to revocation as provided in this chapter. School boards of all school districts may excuse a child from public school attendance for the reasons set forth in §§ 13-27-6 and 13-27-6.1
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2011/Bill.aspx?File=HB1133ENR.htm
Title: H.B. 1133
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Adds a fifth citizen member to the Virginia Council on the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children and specifies that such member must be a representative from a military installation in Virginia. Such representative is to be appointed by the Governor.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0106+pdf
Title: H.B. 1976
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2010 | P-12 | Requires initial parental notification of child's status as truant to be made using the most cost-effective method possible, including e-mail or telephone. (Previous legislation required this notification to be made by first-class mail.)
Defines "conscientious effort", for purposes of defining a child as a habitual truant. (No child may be defined a habitual truant until truant three or more times per school year, and an appropriate district officer or
employee has made a conscientious effort to hold at least one conference with the pupil and his/her parent.)
Pages 25-26 of 52: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1601-1650/ab_1610_bill_20101019_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 1610 - Truants
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2010 | P-12 | From bill analysis: Requires school districts to accept reasonable evidence that a pupil meets residency requirements for school attendance within the district. Specifies certain types of documents that must be considered reasonable evidence. Authorizes a school district, if a school employee believes a parent has provided false or unreliable evidence of residency, to make reasonable
efforts to determine whether the pupil actually meets the residency requirements. Bill text: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1851-1900/ab_1854_bill_20100830_enrolled.pdf
Governor's veto message: http://dl5.activatedirect.com/fs/distribution:letterFile/yvcee9xanplikz_files/z5mm14q1dntlzg?&_c=d|yvcee9xanplikz|z5msx9bcq0v1fm&_ce=1285799198.823394ce30a65d9a394ec66f14aac0d9
Title: A.B. 1854
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov/
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2010 | P-12 | From bill summary: Requires the department of education, contingent on federal funding for this purpose and in consultation with the department of finance and the legislative analyst's office, to prepare the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) to include data on a quarterly rate of pupil attendance. Requires that CALPADS be capable of issuing to local educational agencies periodic reports on district, school, class and individual pupil rates of absence and chronic absentees. States legislative intent to support the development of early warning systems to identify and support individual pupils who are at risk of academic failure or of dropping out of school.
Existing law requires the superintendent of public instruction annually to submit to the governor, the legislature, and the state board of education a report on dropouts using the data produced by CALPADS.
New provision requires the report to include chronic absentee rates when that data is available. Makes implementation of the provisions regarding the inclusion of pupil attendance data in CALPADS contingent upon the appropriation of federal funds specifically for such purposes. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_1351-1400/sb_1357_bill_20100930_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 1357
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2010 | P-12 | From bill summary: Defines a chronic truant as any pupil absent from school without a valid excuse for 10% or more of the school days in one school year, from the date of enrollment to the current date, provided that the appropriate school district officer or employee has complied with specified provisions of law. Provides that a parent or guardian of a pupil in grades K-6 who is a chronic truant, who has failed to reasonably supervise and encourage the pupil's school attendance, and who has been offered language accessible support services to address the pupil's truancy, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $2,000, or by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not exceeding one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment. Provides that a parent or guardian may not be punished for a violation of both these provisions and another specified law involving criminal liability for parents or guardians of truant children. Authorizes a superior court to establish a deferred entry of judgment program, meeting specified conditions, to adjudicate cases involving parents or guardians of elementary school pupils who are chronic truants. Authorizes a deferred entry of judgment program established under the bill to refer defendant parents or guardians for services, including but not limited to case management, mental and physical health services, parenting classes and support, substance abuse treatment, and child care and housing. Authorizes the deferment of entry of judgment in these cases upon the defendant's compliance with terms and conditions set forth by the court. Requires that funding for the deferred entry of judgment program come solely from nonstate sources. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_1301-1350/sb_1317_bill_20100902_enrolled.pdf
Title: S.B. 1317
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| GA | Adopted 08/2010 | P-12 | Amends provisions related to student enrollment and withdrawal. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-5-1-.28.pdf
Title: GA ADC 160-5-1-.28
Source: www.doe.k12.ga.us
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2010 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Requires principals, community colleges and universities to authorize a minimum of two excused absences each academic year for religious observances required by the faith of a student or the student's parents; provides that the student's parents may be required to give the principal written notice of the request for an excused absence a reasonable time prior to the religious observance; mandates that the student be given the opportunity to make up any tests or other work missed due to an excused absence for a religious observance. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H357v4.pdf
Title: H.B. 357
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2010 | P-12 | Permits public school entry of child who does not turn 5 by August 31 of the school year but whose parent is an active duty member of U.S. armed forces who is the sole legal custodian of the child, and is stationed in another state, and is deployed for duty away from the permanent duty station, and child living with an adult in North Carolina as a result of deployment away would be eligible for school enrollment in the other state. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1246v4.pdf
Title: S.B. 1246 - Enrollment of Child under 5 Who Is Child of Military Personnel
Source: www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| GA | Vetoed 06/2010 | P-12 | Requires a parent whose child is of compulsory school age and who becomes a new resident of a local school system to enroll his/her child in a public or private school within 15 days of such new residency (or by the start date of school if such new residency occurs prior to such start date). Provides that failure to do so constitutes a violation of this Code section. Authorizes local school system officials or other persons to make and file a report to the appropriate enforcement agency regarding any parent whose child (1) is subject to mandatory attendance requirements but not attending school or (2) has accumulated 30 days of unexcused absences. Requires local school systems to cooperate in the investigation and prosecution of mandatory attendance violations.
Bill text: http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/pdf/sb239.pdf
Governor's veto message: SB 239 ensures that families moving from one school district to another register their children for school in a timely manner. Unfortunately, the language of a floor amendment seeking to safeguard homeschooling families instead accomplished the opposite; as written, the bill would actually require homeschooling families to enroll their children in a public or private school upon moving to a new school district. Because of this unintended consequence, I VETO SB 239. From http://gov.georgia.gov/00/press/detail/0,2668,78006749_160096907_160291947,00.html
Title: S.B. 239 - Section 2
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12
Community College | Students who are 16 to 18 years old and are enrolled in an adult education program shall be considered to be in compliance with the school attendance provisions. Defines "effective" adult education program. Eliminate the division of adult and community education within the Department of Education and transfers the responsibility to the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges. Outlines responsibilities for adult education programs by the Board of Supervisors.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722559
Title: H.B. 1055
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Prevents a city, parish, or other local public school board from denying admission or readmission to students of suitable age who resides within the geographic boundaries of the school system unless such student is legally excluded from attending school.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722519
Title: H.B. 421
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/
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| NH | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Makes various changes to the laws on truancy; provides for excused absences, parental responsibility and petitions for children in need of services.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2010/HB0154.html
Title: H.B. 154
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Authorizes a prosecutor to allow parents or guardians of children violating truancy laws to attend parent education training and parent-teacher conferences as an alternative to criminal prosecution. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/SB3246.pdf
Title: S.B. 3246
Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov
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| WI | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | If a pupil attending the school district under open enrollment (OEP) is habitually truant (absent from school without an acceptable
excuse for part or all of five or more school days during any semester) during either semester in the current school year, the school board may then prohibit the pupil from attending school in the school district under the OEP in the succeeding semester or school year. (Act No. 304)
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/SB-342.pdf
Title: S.B. 342
Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12 | Requires the state board of education or any agency designated by the state board to manage interscholastic athletics to promulgate administrative regulations that permit the hiring of a nonteaching or noncertified person in a coaching position. Requires that a person employed in a coaching position be a high school graduate and at least 21 years old, and submit to a background check. Requires that the administrative regulations specify post-hire requirements for persons employed in coaching positions. Authorizes a local school board to specify post-hire requirements for personnel employed in coaching positions in addition to those specified in administrative regulations. Encourages the state board of education or any agency designated by the state board to manage interscholastic athletics to schedule athletic competitions outside the regularly scheduled school day. Permits a student on a school-sponsored athletic team competing during the school day in a regional or state tournament sanctioned by the state board or other agency designated to manage interscholastic athletics to be counted present during the days of the competition, for up to two days a year. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/HB327/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 327
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| NE | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Children are eligible for kindergarten if they are 5 years old by July 31, beginning with the 2012-13 school year. Previously, the cutoff date was Oct. 15. The bill includes an exception for children who turn 5 between Aug. 1 and Oct. 15 if they perform adequately on a school assessment. The bill also requires school boards to adopt an assessment procedure to determine if a child is capable of kindergarten-level work.
http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Final/LB1006.pdf
Title: L.B. 1006
Source: http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Clarifies that, in addition to the attendance officer, school personnel, and volunteers, the school principal or his designee is responsible for notifying parents concerning students' nonattendance at school; provides that the school principal or his designee is also responsible for arranging the conference with parents and in developing the student's attendance plan.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB196ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 196
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Requires local school boards to develop policies ensuring that any student's absence because of the observance of a religious holiday be recorded as excused on the student's attendance record and that a student not be deprived of any award or of eligibility or opportunity to compete for any award or of the right to take an alternate test or examination for any which were missed because of such absence.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB361ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 361
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| IL | Signed into law 01/2010 | P-12 | Requires the department of human services to operate a comprehensive professional development system called the Gateways to Opportunity program. Directs the department of human services to award Gateways to Opportunity credentials to early care and education, school-age, and youth development practitioners, based on a variety of professional achievements in field experience, knowledge and skills, educational attainment and training accomplishments. Specifies the Gateways to Opportunity program must identify professional knowledge guidelines that define what all practitioners working with children and youth need to know and be able to do to support children's and youth's development, school readiness and school success
Provides that a child who has attended a private preschool and attended a kindergarten class at that school taught by an appropriately certified teacher, who will turn 6 on or before December 31, may attend 1st grade in a public school at the beginning of that school year, upon an assessment of the child's readiness. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB0806lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 806
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| KY | Adopted 01/2010 | P-12 | Adds section providing definitions of: "full day of attendance" (student in attendance at least 65% of regularly-scheduled school day), "tardy" (student absent less than 35% of the regularly-scheduled school day), "half-day absence" (student absent 35-84% of regularly-scheduled school day), and "full-day absence" (student absent 85% or more of regularly-scheduled school day). According to the fiscal impact statement in the proposed rule change, "This change could increase individual local districts' average daily attendance (ADA) calculation, thus increasing SEEK [Support Education
Excellence in Kentucky] payments to districts[;] however, any increases will still remain subject to the aggregate SEEK appropriation."
Eliminates withdrawal code "W09" for a student who has graduated or completed a 504 plan or an individual education plan prior to the end of the school term or year. Adds the following withdrawal codes for indicating student enrollment status:
W28 - student has reached the maximum age for education services without receiving a diploma or certificate of attainment
C01 - student completes the school year in the school of the most current enrollment
G01 - student graduates in less than 4 years
G02 - student graduates in 4 years
G03 - student graduates in 5 or more years
G04 - studento graduates in 6 or more years
NS - student completed the prior year with a C01 and was expected to enroll in the district but did not enroll by October 1 of the current year whose enrollment elsewhere cannot be substantiated.
Adds that each student's ethnicity must be designated as either Hispanic/Latino or not Hispanic/Latino. Also clarifies that more than one racial codes may be applied to an individual student. Separates out "Pacific Islander" from "Asian" as a unique racial code. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/702/007/125reg.htm
Title: 702 KAR 7:125
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2009 | P-12 | Amends existing law that authorizes a pupil to be excused from school for specified reasons. Includes civic engagement activities offered by a nonprofit organization or a governmental entity among the types of absences that are excused. Provides a pupil may not be excused from school when the absence is due to participation in a demonstration or political campaign. Provides participation in civic engagement activities may not exceed 10 days per academic year. Defines "civic engagement activities" as volunteering to work in a community to help address a problem or interact with the institutions of representative democracy, and provides that such activities may include volunteering at a community-based nonprofit organization, serving on a neighborhood association, tutoring or mentoring young children, testifying before the local city council or appearing before a state or federal board or committee. Specifies that civic engagement activities do not include participation in a demonstration or political campaign, and prohibits a school from excusing a pupil from school when the absence is due to participation in a demonstration or political campaign. Bill: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0751-0800/ab_796_bill_20090910_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0751-0800/ab_796_vt_20091012.html
Title: A.B. 796
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| NV | Rule Adoption 10/2009 | P-12 | Revises provisions governing credit granted for a specific course of study without having attended regularly scheduled classes.
www.leg.state.nv.us/NAC/CHAPTERS.HTMl
Title: NAC 389.670
Source: www.leg.state.nv.us
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| NV | Rule Adoption 10/2009 | P-12 | Revises provisions governing the reasons listed in the master register of enrollment and attendance for withdrawal of a pupil.
www.leg.state.nv.us/NAC/CHAPTERS.HTMl
Title: NAC 387.048, .215
Source: www.leg.state.nv.us
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| WI | Signed into law 10/2009 | P-12 | Beginning on September 1, 2011, a school board may not enroll a child in the first grade in a school in the school district, including in a charter school located in the school district, unless the child has completed 5-year-old kindergarten. Requires each school board that operates a 5-year-old kindergarten program to adopt a written policy specifying the criteria for promoting a pupil from 5-year-old kindergarten to the first grade. Requires each board to establish procedures, conditions, and standards for exempting a child from the requirement that the child complete kindergarten as a prerequisite to enrollment in the first grade and for reviewing the denial of an exemption upon the request of the pupil's parent or guardian. A child must be admitted to first grade if before either commencing or completing first grade, the child moved into Wisconsin from a state, country, or territory in which completion of 5-year-old kindergarten is a prerequisite to entering first grade and the child was exempted from the requirement to complete 5-year-old kindergarten in the state, country, or territory from which the child moved. Act No. 41. http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act41.pdf
Title: A.B. 119
Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us
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| ND | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Requires teachers to notify administrators when a student is absent without an excuse. Requires administrators to investigate the absence. Provides for penalities. Unless the responsible party (parent, guardian) has made substantial and reasonable attempts to get student to attend, "Any person who fails to ensure that a child is in attendance as required by this chapter is
guilty of an infraction for a first offense and is guilty of a class B misdemeanor for a second or subsequent offense."
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/61-2009/bill-text/JBDE0300.pdf
Title: S.B. 2217
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov
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| ND | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Modifies 15.1-06-01. Changes the cut-off date for enrollment in grade one from September first to August first. For kindergarten, the cut-off date changes from five by September first of the year of enrollment to August first. Provides exception for children who are six by December first (changed from January 1) and who meet other readiness indicators. Schools are free, open and accessible to students who have not reached the age of 21 prior to August first (changed from September first). Effective July 2010. http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/61-2009/bill-text/JBCQ0300.pdf
Title: H.B. 1378
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Defines "extracurricular activity". Requires districts to provide students with up to four days of excused absence per school year for a student absence for the sole purpose of traveling out of state to participate in an enrichment activity approved by the local board of education or an extracurricular activity. Provides districts must require any such student to complete any classroom assignments that the student misses because of the absence. Specifies that if a student will be absent for four or more days due to an enrichment or extracurricular activity, a classroom teacher employed by the school district must accompany the
student to provide instructional assistance. Page 1406 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3321.041
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Spells out policies for habitual absence and tardiness of students, including penalties for violations by parents and legal guardians or custodians of such students. Addresses the crime of improper supervision of a minor as it relates to habitually absent or tardy students; penalties and minimum conditions of probation for certain violations by parents or legal custodians of such students, including fines, school or community service, attendance in parenting classes and family counseling programs, and the suspension of certain licenses.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=663977
Title: H.B. 731
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/
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| LA | Adopted 06/2009 | P-12 | Allows excused absences for students for visitation with a parent who is a member of the Armed Forces or the National Guard of a state and such parent has been called to active duty for or is on leave from overseas deployment to a combat zone or combat support posting.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v115/28v115.doc
Title: LAC 28:CXV.1103
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Allows districts to grant excused absences for juniors and seniors visiting institutions of higher education. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB02542F.pdf
Title: H.B. 2542
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Allows certain high school students to serve as election clerks. Provides an excused absence for such service. Adds new section 33.092 allowing a student election clerk to apply such time served toward a school service requirement or school project requirement, subject to local discretion. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/SB01134F.pdf
Title: S.B. 1134
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Adds Alabama to the Interstate Commission on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, an interstate compact to address the education transition issues of children of active duty military families. Allows for the uniform treatment at the state and local district level of military children for transferring between school districts and states.
Title: H.B. 438
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Provides for the transfer of students who are military dependents into a local school system. Provides that students must be placed in grade level commensurate with their grade level in the sending state at the time of transition, including in kindergarten, regardless of age. Requires local school systems to initially honor student placement in courses based on the student's enrollment in the sending state school or assessments administered at the school in the sending state, if the courses are offered, including Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, vocational, technical and career pathway courses. Also requires local school systems to initially honor education program placements in the sending state, including placement in English as a second language and gifted and talented programs. Directs local school systems to be flexible in waiving course or program prerequisites or other preconditions for placement in courses and programs.
Allows additional excused absences for students whose parent has been called to active duty for, is on leave from or immediately returned from deployment to a combat zone or combat support posting. Directs local school systems to facilitate the opportunity for transitioning qualified military children's inclusion in extracurricular activities, regardless of application deadlines. Adds provisions related to high school course substitution, and recognition of other states' exit exams, national norm-referenced achievement tests or alternative testing to facilitate on-time graduation. Provides that if a military student transferring at the beginning or during his or her senior year is ineligible to graduate from the receiving local education agency after all alternatives have been considered, the local school system must coordinate with the sending local education agency to ensure the receipt of a diploma. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/pdf/sb114.pdf
Title: S.B. 114
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Allows a student whose parent or guardian is employed by a school district or educational service cooperative to continue attendance at a nonresident school district in some circumstances.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Acts/Act1368.pdf
Title: S.B. 847
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Prohibits a principal from suspending or expelling a student from school solely for attendance-related offenses.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/hb/hb0660t.pdf
Title: H.B. 660; S.B. 241
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Deletes the requirement that the school superintendent must approve student absences for medical and dental appointments. Authorizes a designee of the superintendent to report unlawful absences to the school attendance officer.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2009/pdf/HB/0500-0599/HB0525SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 525
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Changes terms and notice provisions of compulsory attendance policies; clarifies how unexcused absences are determined; requires reports.
http://nmlegis.gov/Sessions/09%20Regular/final/SB0189.pdf
Title: S.B. 189
Source: http://nmlegis.gov/
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Allows a local board of education in a county identified as a federal disaster area because of Tropical Storm Ike and the severe weather storm of January and February of 2009 to request from the commissioner of education up to ten disaster days missed and require the commissioner to approve the request. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/HB322/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 322
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Relates to students of civilian military employees; provides students of civilian military employees the same rights as students of military families under the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children if the parents are required to move to perform their job responsibilities, resulting in the students changing schools. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/SB39/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 39
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Requires a school principal to give up to 10 days excused school absence for children of Armed Forces servicemembers if the parent is stationed out of the country and is granted leave. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/HB124/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 124
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Adds 53A-11-1401 through -1404, collectively known as Education Policies for Military Children. Provides definitions. Allows for certain exceptions when military children transfer schools, including the use of official and unofficial education records, time periods for producing official records, age of school enrollment, immunizations and graduation provisions. Provides that tuition may not be charged a military child in the care of a non-custodial parent or other person living in a jurisdiction other than that of the custodial parent. http://le.utah.gov/~2009/bills/hbillenr/hb0194.pdf
Title: H.B. 194
Source: le.utah.gov
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2009 | P-12 | Ensures consistent public school attendance laws.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Bills/SB295.pdf
Title: S.B. 295
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2009 | P-12 | Provides that the sufficient cause necessary to suspend a student cannot rest solely on instances of tardiness or truancy.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1794ER
Title: H.B. 1794
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2009 | P-12 | Provides for the suspension of the driver's license or learner's permit of any minor who has 10 or more unexcused absences from public school on consecutive school days.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1826ER
Title: H.B. 1826
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| CO | Adopted 01/2009 | P-12 | Provides specificity for consistency in reporting attendance and truancy data across school districts and BOCES. Allows the usage these indicators to leverage resources to support the complete success of children and youth in school.
http://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/NumericalSubDocList.do?deptID=4&deptName=300 Education&agencyID=109&agencyName=301 State Board of Education , Colorado&ccrDocID=3012&ccrDocName=1 CCR 301-78 RULES CONCERNING THE STANDARDIZED CALCULATION FOR COUNTING STUDENT ATTENDANCE AND TRUANCY
Title: 1 CCR 301-78
Source: http://www.sos.state.co.us
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| IL | Signed into law 12/2008 | P-12 | Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that if a code violation involves a municipal ordinance regulating truants, the hearing date must be 7 to 40 days after the violation is reported. Increases minimum child age for which certain truancy provisions apply from 10 to 13.
Provides that local officials or authorities that enforce, prosecute, or adjudicate municipal truancy ordinances or that work with school districts to address
truancy problems are designated as (i) part of the juvenile justice system, established by the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, and (ii) "juvenile authorities" as defined in the Illinois School Student Record Act. Authorizes a district to disclose student attendance records to juvenile authorities if the district determines that the disclosure will enhance the juvenile justice system's ability to effectively serve, prior to adjudication, the student whose records are released. Also provides that a
district may make such a disclosure only if the juvenile authority certifies in writing to the district that the information will not be disclosed, without the student's parent prior written consent, to any other individual or entity, except as otherwise provided under state law. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB2743lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 2743
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| WY | Adopted 10/2008 | P-12 | These emergency rules amend the existing rules related to the school foundation program. The emergency rules provide additional definitions for terms used throughout the rules. The emergency rules add a new section 8 which provides a process for a school district to apply to the department of education for a modification of a school's grade configuration. The emergency rules amend the process for attendance taking by the schools and require that attendance be taken every period in middle schools, junior high schools and high schools. The emergency rules provide regulations for the calculation of average daily membership for distance education students and require that school districts choose one of three methods of calculation of average daily membership for all part-time students. The emergency rules provide for the adjustment of prior school year average daily membership if a new school opens, a district changes boundaries, a school's grades served are reconfigured or a district moves programs and students from one school to another. The emergency rules require certain data from the school facilities commission and provide a method for the calculation of groundskeeper full time employee resources based on the lesser of actual site acreage or school facilities commission guidelines except for certain land acquired on or before July 1, 1997. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/ARULES/ER08-23.htm
Title: Chapter 8
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/ARULES/ER08-23.htm
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2008 | P-12 | Requires a school district to accept any documents and representations from the parent or guardian of a pupil that reasonably provide evidence that the pupil meets the residency requirements. Provides examples of the types of documents or representations that are acceptable to include pay stubs, utility service contracts, rental contract, lease or payment receipts, voter registration, and other evidence using the state as a permanent address.
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm
Title: S.B. 1735
Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2008 | P-12 | Revises provisions related to habitual truancy and habitual tardiness. Requires a student's parent to enforce the student's attendance at the school to which the student is assigned. Requires a school principal or designee to provide a parent with written notification upon the student's third unexcused absence or unexcused occurrence of being tardy, and to hold a conference with such student's parent. Requires the student's parent to sign a receipt for such notification. Establishes fines and penalties for parents of habitually truant or habitually tardy students in grades K-8.
Defines "tardy" for purposes of this section as including leaving or checking out of school unexcused prior to the regularly scheduled dismissal time at the end of the school day but not including reporting late to class when transferring from one class to another during the school day.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=502040
Title: H.B. 1133
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Relates to notification of the parents of a student who is enrolled in an elementary school of an unexcused absence; relates to notifying parents of such students of their responsibility to any absence of the pupil and to notify the school in advance or at the time of the absence; authorizes a high school school to refuse to admit a child who has already graduated from another high school with a recognized diploma. Chapter No. 267
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/48leg/2r/bills/hb2368h.pdf
Title: H.B. 2368
Source: http://www.azleg.gov
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Provides that a child whose parent is a member of the U.S. Armed Forces or the National Guard and such parent has been called to duty for or is on leave from overseas deployment shall be granted up to five excused absences from school per school year for the child to visit with his or her parent. Provides that upon returning to school, the student must be permitted to complete all class assignments, including all tests, missed while the child was absent. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=497665
Title: H.B. 200
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Establishes a committee to study the truancy laws; provides for membership and compensation, duties, chairperson and quorum, and report of findings and any recommendations for proposed legislation to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President of the Senate, the House Clerk, the Senate Clerk, the Governor and the State Library by a certain date.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2008/HB1161.html
Title: H.B. 1161
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us
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| MI | Signed into law 05/2008 | P-12 | Establishes that a student's absence because a parent, legal guardian or sibling is being deployed or returning from active duty is an excused absence.
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/publicact/pdf/2008-PA-0141.pdf
Title: S.B. 747
Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Requires the State Board of Education to adopt guidelines for the standardized calculation of unexcused absences of students; requires a school district to report annually to the department concerning the number of students who are habitually truant; requires the department to post this information on the Internet; allows a school district to include truant students when identifying students who are at risk of suspension or expulsion from school; allows for grants for services to serve truant students.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2008a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/A22AB294A072C406872573A700643FE1?open&file=1336_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1336
Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Defines "nonoffender" as a child alleged to be dependent, neglected, or abused and who has not been otherwise charged with a status or public offense. Specifies that "status offenses" by a minor include beyond the control of the school or parents, habitual truancy and tobacco and alcohol offenses. Prohibits a nonoffender or child in violation of a statute or local ordinance pertaining to curfew from being detained in a secure juvenile detention facility or a juvenile holding facility. Allows a status offender or alleged status offender to be detained in a secure juvenile detention facility, a juvenile holding facility, or in a nonsecure setting approved by the Department of Juvenile Justice, for up to 48 hours pending the child's next court appearance. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/HB384/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 384
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Requires a county board of education to require elementary schools with certain truancy rates to implement a positive behavioral interventions and support program or certain behavior modification programs in collaboration with the State Department of Education under certain circumstances; requires certain schools to expand certain programs under certain circumstances; clarifies language.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/hb/hb0285t.pdf
Title: H.B. 285; S.B.96
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/
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| VT | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Prohibits employers and schools from penalizing employees and students who are absent in order to attend town meeting; provides an employee shall have the right to take unpaid leave from employment for the purpose of attending a town meeting provided the employee notifies the employer prior to the meeting date; provides a student of voting age will have the right to attend a town meeting and school will not penalize or report student as a truant.
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2008/bills/passed/S-045.HTM
Title: S.B. 45
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | Allows certain law enforcement officers to inspect student attendance records and to enforce the attendance laws and requires an affidavit against a parent to enforce the compulsory school attendance law be filed in a court with jurisdiction in the county in which the student resides.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2008/PDF/HE/HE1234.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1234
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | Relates to youth detained in juvenile detention centers; requires Youth Detention Staff to notify School Districts if a detained child misses one or more days from school due to such child's detainment.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2008/pdf/HB/0300-0399/HB0348SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 348
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| LA | Adopted 11/2007 | P-12 | Makes changes to Bulletin 741 - Louisiana Handbook for School Administrators:
1103: Allows students in danger of failing due to excessive absences to make up missed time in class sessions held outside the regular class time. The make-up sessions must be completed before the end of the current semester and all other policies must be met.
2323: Allows students who have failed a course to take a proficiency exam for that course. Prior policy did not allow students who had taken a course to take
a proficiency exam to earn credit for the course.
2324: Adds section allowing districts to implement credit recovery programs for students who have failed a course.
Note from Rules: These two revisions are the result of a recommendation from the High School Redesign Commission that policy changes be considered to help students who are failing or who are in danger of failing to recover credit. The revision to Section 1103 assists students who are in danger of failing due to
excessive absences. The revision to Section 2323 and the addition of Section 2324 provide ways for students to recover credit after they have failed a class.
http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0711/0711.doc
Title: LAC 28:CXV.1103, 2323, and 2324
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov
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| NH | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Raises from 16 to 18 the age for compulsory school attendance and provides a procedure for a pupil who is at least 16 years of age to obtain an attendance waiver from school.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2007/SB0018.html
Title: S.B. 18
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us
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| NH | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Allows a parent or guardian of twins or other multiples to request a classroom placement for the children. Provides that a parent or guardian of twins or other multiples in elementary school may request that the twins or multiples be placed in the same classroom or in separate classrooms. Provides that this request shall be granted unless the principal decides that a different placement is necessary.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2007/SB0078.html
Title: S.B. 78
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us
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| NH | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | Inserts clarifications to the exceptions to the compulsory school attendance statute.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2007/HB0087.html
Title: H.B. 87
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/
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| TX | Signed into law 07/2007 | P-12 | House Bill 2455 amends the Education Code to require a school district to grant an excused absence for a student ordered to make a court appearance.
http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/HB02455F.pdf
Title: H.B. 2455
Source: http://www.legis.state.tx.us
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Strengthens the truancy laws by making it a Class E crime for parents who fail to take corrective measures for truant children from kindergarten to grade 6.
http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/externalsiteframe.asp?ID=280022908&LD=454&Type=1&SessionID=7
Title: H.B. 353
Source: Maine Legislature
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Modifies school admission requirements. Moves cut-off date for enrollment to August 31 from October 16.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H150v0.html
Title: H.B. 150
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Expands the annual reports of accountability information to include the rate of pupils who drop out of school in grades 6, 7 and 8. Requires the State Board to prescribe alternative criteria that a pupil may satisfy to receive a standard high school diploma if that pupil passes the mathematics and reading subject areas of the high school proficiency examination but has not passed the examination in its entirety after taking the examination at least three times before 12th grade. Provides that a pupil may be granted credit for a course without attending the course if he passes an examination, as prescribed by the State Board, demonstrating competency in the subject area of the course. Requires the board of trustees of each school district to adopt a policy for a pupil to be placed on academic probation and to earn credits required for high school while the pupil is completing the requirements for promotion to high school. Expands the age of compulsory school attendance to 18 years.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/74th/Bills/SB/SB312_EN.pdf
Title: S.B. 312
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Defines "Person in parental relationship" as an adult who has physical custody of a child or resides in the same household as the child, interacts with the child daily, provides the
child with food, clothing, shelter and incidental necessaries and provides the child with necessary care, education and discipline. "Person in parental relationship" does not mean a
person with a power of attorney or other written delegation of parental responsibilities if the person does not have other evidence of a parental relationship.
Also, this bill authorizes a district to admit an otherwise eligible person who is not receiving special education and who has not yet attained 21 years of age prior to the beginning of the current school year if the person is shown to be in need of additional education in order to receive a diploma.
http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/sb0200.dir/sb0215.en.pdf
Title: S.B. 215
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Adds a new section: A pilot project of mandated attendance in an alternative school for students who have been suspended shall be established by the department for the school year 2007-2008 in any county having a metropolitan form of government and a population in excess of five hundred thousand (500,000) according to the 2000 federal census. Such pilot project shall be subject to alternative school staffing and space availability. The department shall monitor and review the pilot project and shall report the results of the review to the senate and house education committees and the state board of education by February 16, 2009.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0455.pdf
Title: H.B. 2138
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Increases the time frame required for a school district to report to certain authorities, from seven to 10 days, if a student has not attended school on 10 or more days without an excuse.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/SB01161F.pdf
Title: S.B. 1161
Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| DE | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Provides for enhanced Truancy Court activities in the Justice of the Peace Court. Eliminates the need to transfer a case of contempt by a juvenile to the Family Court for adjudication when that contempt has arisen in relation to a refusal to obey an order of the Justice of the Peace Court associated with an ongoing case of truancy; provides that the Justice of the Peace Court would have full authority to adjudicate that contempt charge, including any rehabilitative measures or penalties.
http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/lis144.nsf/vwLegislation/SB+26/$file/legis.html?open
Title: S.B. 26
Source: http://www.legis.state.de.us
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Concerns compulsory school attendance. This bill adds to the duties of the attendance coordinator serving as the liaison between the school and the local law enforcement agency in matters pertaining to student absenteeism.
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/billpdfs/LD046801.pdf
Title: S.B. 155; L
Source: Maine Legislature
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Require a report of pupils who drop out of school in grade 8 to be included in the reports of accountability prepared by the State Board of Education and the boards of trustees of school districts. Requires the board of trustees of a school district located in a county whose population is 100,000 or more (currently Clark and Washoe Counties) to establish a school attendance council. Requires the board of trustees of each school district to establish procedures to monitor the attendance and truancy of pupils within the school district. Makes the inducement or attempt unlawful if the person knowingly induces or attempts to induce the child to be unlawfully absent from school. Clarifies that a parent or guardian may be in violation of this law if the parent knowingly induces or attempts to induce a child to be unlawfully absent from school. Authorizes the juvenile court to order the parent or guardian of the child to pay a fine if the parent or guardian knowingly induced the child to be a habitual truant.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/74th/Bills/AB/AB485_EN.pdf
Title: A.B. 485
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Permits students who are at least 21 years of age and under 26 years of age on the first day of September of any school year to be eligible for funding under the Foundation School Program for the purposes of completing the requirements for a high school diploma. Persons are not eligible if they engage in conduct that would require a disciplinary placement if the person were under the age of 21. Clarifies the eligibility for public school prekindergarten programs of certain children who are or were in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services. School districts would be prohibited from placing a student who is 21 years of age or older who has not attended school in the three preceding school years in a classroom, cafeteria, or school activity with students who are 18 years of age or younger.
http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/HB01137F.pdf
Title: H.B. 1137
Source: http://www.legis.state.tx.us
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| MT | To governor 04/2007 | P-12 | Relates to services for individuals who are developmentally distabled, clarifies that such individuals may return to high school after graduation if they are not 19 years of age.
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2007/billhtml/HB0195.htm
Title: H.B. 195
Source: http://data.opi.mt.gov
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Provides for high school redesign. Directs the department of education to establish a readiness assessment system to measure the readiness of every New Mexico high school student for success in higher education or a career no later than the 2008-2009 school year. Raises the compulsory school age in the state and changes high school graduation requirements and creates a middle and high school literacy initiative. Eliminates certificates of employment and part-time schools as they related to previous compulsory school-age law.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/SB0561.pdf
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/HB0584.pdf
Title: H.B. 584/S.B. 561
Source: http://legis.state.nm.us/
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| TX | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | H.B. 566 authorizes school districts to require persons who voluntarily enroll in school or voluntarily attend school after their 18th birthday to attend school until the end of the school year (to help districts reduce the number of dropouts). The bill also makes certain truancy laws applicable to these students, but does not provide for the imposition of sanctions on the parents of these students.
http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/HB00566F.pdf
Title: H.B. 566
Source: http://www.legis.state.tx.us
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Finds that the state's commitment to providing a basic education for all public school students under the age of twenty-one should continue until a student earns a diploma.
Therefore the legislature intends to expand high school completion programs at community and technical colleges for older students who have not yet received a diploma but are eligible for state basic education support. Provides that, in accordance with this act, each community or technical college shall make available courses or a program of study, on the college campus, designed to enable students under the age of twenty-one who have completed all state and local high school graduation requirements except the certificate of academic achievement or certificate of individual achievement to complete their high school education and obtain a high school diploma. The governor vetoed a section petaining to a path to recieve an alternate diploma that would be given without passage of the state's exit exam.
http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202007/1051.SL.pdf
Title: H.B. 1051
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Changes the minimum age for compulsory education from seven to six years, on or before August 1 of each year. Compulsory attendance ages therefore would be six through seventeen years.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics/Clics2007A/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/9396E573D25C481487257251007B74B0?Open&file=016_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 16
Source: Colorado Legislature
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Amends 13-28-2 to read: Any child who is five years old on the first day of September is eligible for enrollment in kindergarten during that school year. Any child who is six years old by September first is eligible for enrollment in first grade during that school year. Any child who transfers from another state may proceed in a continuous educational program without interruption.Deletes the provision that any child in a kindergarten or prekindergarten program who was in compliance with the statutory eligibility dates in effect at the time of his enrollment (5 by September 1) may proceed in a continuous educational program without interruption.Deletes provision that any child who is six years old by September first is eligible for enrollment in first grade during that school year. Deletes provision "Any child under the age of five is eligible for admittance to a nursery school."
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2007/bills/SB33SED.pdf
Title: S.B. 33
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Increases the compulsory attendance age for school attendance from 16 to 18, unless the child has graduated or is excused per certain provisions.
http://www.legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2007/bills/SB199enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 199
Source: http://www.legis.state.sd.us
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| UT | Adopted 11/2006 | P-12 | Allows exceptions to the minimum number of instructional hours and schools days per year for individual students and schools; requires Local Education Agencies (LEAs) and Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs to ensure that accurate records of daily student attendance and school entrance and completion are maintained in each school, as well student disability status; requires each school to contract with an independent auditor to review attendance/completion records; provides new eligibility standards for funding students, including electronic high school students; provides new guidelines for indicating the high school completion or exit status of each student who leaves the state's public education system; provides new guidelines for the student identification and tracking system. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/bull_pdf/2006/b20061001.pdf (see pg. 15)
Title: R277-419
Source: http://www.rules.utah.gov/main/
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2006 | P-12 | Amends existing law that specifically authorizes a court to order a person who is convicted for failing to comply with compulsory attendance laws to immediately enroll the child in the appropriate school or educational program and provide proof of enrollment to the court. Deletes the limitation date, thereby extending indefinitely that authority of a court to order or punish a person for failing to comply with the compulsory attendance laws.
Title: A.B. 2181
Source: California Legislature
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| GA | Adopted 07/2006 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding the following:
Remedial education for students in grades 6-12: http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/docs/160/4/5/01.pdf
Charter schools: http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/docs/160/4/9/04.pdf
Class size: http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/docs/160/5/1/08.pdf
Student attendance: http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/docs/160/5/1/10.pdf
Title: GAC 160-4-5-.01; -4-9-.04; -5-1-.08, -.10
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Concerns the age specifications relating to compulsory school attendance. Every child who has attained the age of seven years and is under the age of seventeen years (changed from 16), except as provided by this section, must attend public school for at least the following number of hours during each school year: (I) One thousand fifty-six hours if a secondary school pupil; or (II) Nine hundred sixty-eight hours if an elementary school pupil during each school year; except that in no case shall in a grade other than kindergarten; (III) Nine hundred hours if a full-day kindergarten pupil; or (IV) four hundred fifty hours if half-day kindergarten pupil.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2006a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/1617BA178EE19B4F872570CA0062EC9C?Open&file=073_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 73
Source: Colorado Legislature
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | If a student decides to leave school at age 16, several procedures must be followed. This bill adds the following requirements:
The student's guidance counselor or other school personnel must conduct an exit interview with the student to determine the
reasons for the student's decision to terminate school enrollment and actions that could be taken to keep the student in school. The student must be informed of opportunities to continue his or her education in a different environment, including, but not limited to, adult education and GED test preparation. Additionally, the student must complete a survey in a format prescribed by the Department of Education to provide data on student reasons for terminating enrollment and actions taken by schools to keep students enrolled.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 18)
Source: Florida Legislature
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Establishes a Task Force to Study Raising the Compulsory Public School Attendance Age to 18; requires the Task Force to evaluate and make recommendations regarding certain issues by a certain date and to submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly. Chapter No. 449
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb0036e.pdf
Title: H.B. 36; SB 741
Source: Maryland Legislature
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| MD | Vetoed 05/2006 | P-12 | Increases the age range for compulsory public school attendance in Baltimore City to between the ages of 5 years old and 18 years old; requires persons with legal custody or care and control of children who reside in Baltimore City and who are between the ages of 5 years old and 18 years old to see that the children attend school as required.
Title: S.B. 741
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Concerns Education; revises the age of children to whom the compulsory school attendance requirements for blind children apply from between seven and 16 years of age to between six and 17 years of age.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB3917.pdf
Title: S.B. 3917
Source: Tennessee Legislature
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| GA | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Provides that a student whose parent or legal guardian is in military service is granted up to 5 excused absences per school year to visit with his or her parent or legal guardian prior to deployment or while on leave. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/pdf/hb984.pdf
Title: H.B. 984
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.legis.state.ga.us
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| LA | Adopted 04/2006 | P-12 | Establishes procedures for hospital/homebound instruction for a student who is enrolled in regular or special education and who, as a result of health care treatment, physical illness, accident, or the treatment thereof, is temporarily unable to attend school. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0604/0604RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.1103
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.doa.state.la.us
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| TN | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Excuses children from school on days of deployment and return from deployment for military service of a parent or guardian. Provides that if a student's parent, custodian, or other person with legal custody or control of a student is a member of the United State Armed Forces, including a member of a state national guard or a reserve component called to federal active duty, a public school principal shall give the student and excused absence for one day and an additional day when the member returns from deployment.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB3379.pdf
Title: S.B. 3379
Source: Tennessee Legislature
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| WV | Rule Adoption 04/2006 | P-12 | Amends rules regarding half-day attendance and specific ages for compulsory school attendance. Identifies the specific number of days in which a parent, guardian or custodian of children with excessive unexcused absences must attend a school-based conference, and defines satisfactory attendance related to the revocation of drivers' licenses. http://wvde.state.wv.us/policies/p4110_ne.pdf
Title: Title 126, Series 81
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Allows a district to authorize the absence and excuse of a student who attends any educationally related nonclassroom activity. Requires any educationally related nonclassroom activity and nonclassroom activity to meet all the following conditions:
(1) Is consistent with and promotes the educational philosophy and goals of the school corporation and the state board.
(2) Facilitates the attainment of specific educational objectives.
(3) Is a part of the goals and objectives of an approved course or curriculum.
(4) Represents a unique educational opportunity.
(5) Cannot reasonably occur without interrupting the school day.
(6) Is approved in writing by the school principal.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2006/HE/HE1347.1.html
Title: H.B. 1347 Section 14
Source: www.in.gov/legislative/bills
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Clarifies that a school district may advance a child through the primary program if he or she is at least five but less than six years old; allows the child to be classified as other than a kindergarten student for purposes of funding if the student is determined to have acquired the academic and social skills taught in kindergarten as determined by local board policy. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/SB35/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 35
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Clarifies the summons or warrant and complaint process when a parent, custodian or guardian fails to comply with compulsory attendance laws and a magistrate finds probable cause to believe that a parent, custodian or guardian has committed the offense. Allows more than one parent, guardian or custodian to be charged in a complaint. Initial service of a summons or warrant issued is to be attempted within ten calendar days of receipt of the summons or warrant and subsequent attempts at service shall continue until the summons or warrant is executed or until the end of the school term during which the complaint is made, whichever is later.
http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2006_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/sb631%20enr.htm
Title: S.B. 631
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2006 | P-12 | Provides that any person who knowingly makes a false statement concerning the residency of a child for the purpose of avoiding tuition charges shall be liable to the school division in which the child was enrolled as a result of such false statements for tuition charges for the the student was enrolled in the school division.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+HB1222ER
Title: H.B. 1222
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| MD | Adopted 01/2006 | P-12 | Requires a county superintendent to allow a child who is a Maryland resident to attend a public school free of charge in a county other than the county where a child is domiciled with the child's parent or legal guardian, provided certain criteria are met.
Title: COMAR 13A.08.05.01 thru .07
Source: Lexis/Nexis, StateNet
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| NV | Adopted 01/2006 | P-12 | Establishes rules regarding maximum age for a high school pupil in Nevada -- to allow for basic support apportionment for pupils who are over the normal age of a high school senior where an 18, 19 or 20 year old may need an extra year to complete required credits for high school graduation.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/register/2005Register/R211-05A.pdf
Title: NAC 387.345
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
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| LA | Emergency Rule Adoption 10/2005 | P-12 | Re-establishes Truancy Assessment and Service Centers to identify, assess and intervene to ensure K-6 students attend school regularly. While established under TANF provisions, rules specify that eligibility for services is not limited to needy families. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0510/0510EMR.pdf
Title: LAC 67:III.5539
Source: www.doa.state.la.us
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2005 | P-12 | Provides that by the beginning of the 2006-2007 school year, the State Board of Education shall by rule establish a parental participation pilot project to provide grants to the lowest performing school districts to help these districts improve parental participation through certain activities, including parent-teacher conferences, open houses, family nights, volunteer opportunities, and family outreach materials. Requires the pilot project to be for a period of at least 4 school years. Allows a school district to apply to the State Board for the establishment of a parental participation pilot project for the entire district or for a particular school or group of schools in the district. Requires the state board to select 4 school districts in specified geographic areas to participate in the pilot project. Requires the board, when selecting participants, to consider the following criteria:
(1) whether the district or school has any of the following problems and whether those problems can be mitigated or addressed through enhanced parental participation:
(A) low rates of satisfactory performance on state assessments;
(B) high rates of low-income students, limited English proficient students, dropouts, chronically truant students, and student mobility; or
(C) low student attendance rates; and
(2) the methods the district or school will use to measure the progress of the pilot project in the district or school.
Requires each participating district or school to establish a parental participation committee to assist in developing and implementing the parental participation pilot project. Requires the committee to develop an academic improvement plan that details how the pilot project should be implemented in the participating district or school, and to make recommendations to the local board on specified matters. Requires local boards to submit annual progress reports to the state board detailing the effect of the pilot project on the district or school. Provides for a review and final evaluation of the project. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Parental Participation Pilot Project Fund as a special fund in the state treasury. Repeals these provisions on December 31, 2010. Effective immediately. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0507
Title: S.B. 10
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Amends 2728 and 2729 of Title 14 to clarify that when both parents are listed on a student's school records and both parents are Delaware residents, they each are responsible for their child's school attendance. Reflects the view of the Truancy Task Force that both parents should be charged in this situation, not just the parent with whom the student primarily resides, since residence does not necessarily reflect legal custody. http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/lis143.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+109/$file/0801430123.doc?open
Title: H.B. 109
Source: http://www.legis.state.de.us
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Provides that if a pupil's change of residence is due to the military service obligation of a person who has legal custody of the pupil, then, upon the written request of the person having legal custody of the pupil, the residence of the pupil is deemed for purposes of enrollment, for the duration of the custodian's military service obligation, to be the same as the residence of the pupil immediately before the change of residence caused by the military service obligation. Provides that a school district is not responsible for providing transportation to or from school for a pupil whose residence is determined under these provisions. Effective immediately. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0309
Title: H.B. 156
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 06/2005 | P-12 | Under existing law, a county school attendance review board may be established in each county to propose and promote the
use of alternatives to the juvenile court system for pupils with school attendance problems or school behavioral problems.
Existing law authorizes county school attendance review boards to adopt rules and regulations as are necessary for their own
government and to enable them to carry out their duties and powers. This bill provides that those rules and regulations may include a procedure for the submission of any recommendation of the board to the appropriate school district personnel. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0651-0700/ab_656_bill_20050617_enrolled.pdf
Title: A.B. 656
Source: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| NV | (H) APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR. CHAPTER 47. 05/2005 | P-12 | AN ACT relating to education; authorizing the board of trustees of a school district to accommodate certain pupils who are physically or mentally unable to attend school in the policy for attendance of pupils at school.
Title: H.B. 76
Source: StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2005 | Postsec. | From bill analysis: Requires an institution of higher education to excuse a student from attending classes or engaging in other required activities, including examinations, in order for the student to participate in active military service to which the student is called. Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Board to adopt rules to establish the maximum period for which a student may be excused under this section. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=79&SESS=R&CHAMBER=H&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=01630&VERSION=5&TYPE=B
Title: H.B. 1630
Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Provides an excused absence from school for the one day a student is serving as a page for the general assembly. States that the student may be allowed additional instructional assignment days at the discretion of the school district.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2461.pdf
Title: H.B. 2461
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| GA | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Repeals the authority for the Governor to suspend all or any part of compulsory attendance requirements because of a riot, insurrection, public disorder, disturbance of the peace, natural calamity, or disaster. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/versions/hb26_HB_26_AP_5.htm
Title: H.B. 26
Source: StateNet
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Relates to compulsory school attendance; requires that school district attendance policies use withdrawal of students pursuant to the definition of membership in the Public School Finance Act only after exhausting efforts to keep students in educational settings.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/05%20Regular/bills/house/HB0955.html
Title: H.B. 955
Source: StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Revises the definition of a "habitual truant." Revises the provisions applicable to proceedings against parents and guardians whose children are habitual truants. Allows proceedings to be brought against any parent of a habitual truant who is found to have knowingly allowed such pupil to become an habitual truant. Identifies such parent or guardian as guilty of a misdemeanor. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1066.html
Title: S.B. 1066
Source: www3.state.id.us
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Relates to nonresident student contracts; allows two local school districts to enter into a nonresident student contract for more than one year. http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB197.htm
Title: H.B. 197
Source: lrc.ky.gov
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Establishes that any student enrolled in a public school who is over 18 but not 21 years of age and who has been absent from school without valid excuse for three or more days, or tardy without valid excuse on three or more days, is a truant. Reduces from three to two the number of times a student must be reported truant during a one-year period to be identified as a habitual truant. Deletes provision allowing student who is absent for less than half a school day to be regarded as tardy.
Provides that any of the following who intentionally fails to comply with the attendance requirements set forth in KRS 159.150 must be fined $100 for the first offense and $250 for each subsequent offense:
(a) A student enrolled in a public school who is at least 18 but not yet 21 years old, for whom a guardian has not been appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction, whether or not that student is identified as an exceptional child;
or youth under KRS 157.200(1)(a) to (m);
(b) A parent, guardian, or custodian of a student enrolled in a public school who has not reached his or her 18th birthday; or
(c) A guardian appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction of a student who is enrolled in a public school, has been identified as an exceptional child or youth under KRS 157.200(1)(a) to (m), and is at least 18 but not yet 21 years old.
Requires any person described in paragraph (a), (b), or (c) above to be informed by district staff that a public school student who has not reached his or her twenty-first birthday is subject to truancy laws.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB72.htm
Title: H.B. 72
Source: lrc.ky.gov
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| ND | To governor 03/2005 | P-12 | Relates to contract terms for the cross-border attendance of elementary and high school students.
http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/59-2005/bill-text/FAKJ0200.pdf
Title: H.B. 1194
Source: StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Allows the Department of Education to enter into certain enrollment agreements with the State of North Dakota; compensates certain school districts for lost revenue due to the agreements. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2005/bills/HB1149enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1149
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Creates a Class 4 misdemeanor charge for making a false statement concerning the residency of a child in a particular school division or school attendance zone. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0178
Title: H.B. 2382
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Clarifies that the public schools in a school divisions shall be free to children in foster care living in that school division in the same manner as provided to homeless children and youth pursuant to the McKinney-Vento Act and state law. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0343
Title: S.B. 1006
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| IL | Signed into law 01/2005 | P-12 | Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code to allow a child with a disability who has completed four years of high school to participate in the graduation ceremony and receive a certificate of completion under specified circumstances. Further amends the School Code to make changes to the ballot forms for school board elections. Amends provisions concerning enrollment of pupils below or above the compulsory school age; specifies circumstances under which a school or school district may deny enrollment to a student 17 years of age or older for one semester for failure to meet minimum attendance or academic standards. Defines "reenrolled student". Changes eligibility age for graduation incentives program to "below the age of 20". http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09300HB0757enr&GA=93&SessionId=3&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=1162&DocNum=757&GAID=3&Session=
Title: H.B. 757
Source: StateNet
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| NJ | To governor 12/2004 | P-12 | Permits municipalities to adopt school-time curfew ordinances for juveniles.
Title: S.B. 155
Source: StateNet
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| NM | Rule Adoption 12/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules regarding compulsory school attendance. http://www.nmcpr.state.nm.us/nmac/parts/title06/06.010.0008.htm
Title: NMAC 6.10.8
Source: StateNet
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| OH | Rule Adoption 10/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules relating to the establishment of an education program for parents of truant students. OHIO REG 11546 (SN)
Title: OAC 3301-47-01
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Prohibits a school district governing board from denying a charter school petition, unless it makes findings that the petition lacks a description of the procedures by which a pupil may be subject to discipline and the procedure employed by the school to safeguard the due process rights of pupils and unless it makes findings showing a lack of compliance with the Ralph M. Brown Act. Provides that charter schools are subject to the open meeting requirement of the Ralph M. Brown Act. Prohibits a charter school from expelling a pupil based solely on his or her academic performance. Requires a charter school to notify the governing board of the school district of residence and the county superintendent of schools within 14 days if a pupil is expelled and to notify the governing board of the school district of residence within 14 days of the last day the pupil attended school if a pupil leaves the charter school without graduating or completing the school year for any reason. Requires a charter school to provide the district of residence of a pupil who is expelled or leaves the charter school without graduating or completing the school year for any reason with a copy of the cumulative file of that pupil. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1851-1900/ab_1860_bill_20040826_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1860_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 1860
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Section 12: Existing law deems a pupil to have complied with the residency requirements for school attendance in a school district if the pupil meets specified requirements, including, among others, that the pupil lives in the home of a caregiving adult that is located within the boundaries of that school district. Existing law contains a caregiver's authorization affidavit which, when completed and signed by a caregiver 18 years of age or older, authorizes the caregiver to enroll the minor in school and consent to school-related medical care on behalf of the minor. Under existing law, the affidavit is not valid for more than one year after the date on which it is executed. This bill would eliminate the one-year expiration date for the affidavit and would provide that the affidavit is invalid once the school, health care provider, or health care service plan receives notice that the minor is no longer living with the caregiver. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2851-2900/ab_2855_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2853_2855_2856_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 2855 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Extends authorization to January 1, 2006 for a court to order a person who is convicted for failing to comply with compulsory attendance laws to immediately enroll the child in the appropriate school or educational program and provide proof of enrollment to the court. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2525_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| GA | Adopted 08/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding class size, absences and excuses. Renames chapter on absences as Student Attendance. Provides definition of truant and outlines policies and procedures to reduce unexcused absences. Permits a maximum individual class size of 30 for grades 9-12 science classes for school year 2004-05. GEORGIA REG 4246 (SN). http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-5-1-.08.pdf and http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-5-1-.10.pdf
Title: GAC 160-5-1-.08; -.10
Source: Georgia State Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2004 | P-12 | Increases the compulsory school age from 16 to 17 years of age, with exceptions. Provides that certain provisions that apply to truant officers apply to the regional superintendent of schools or his designee in a school district that does not have a truant officer. Makes changes concerning the compliance procedure for persons who fail to send a child to school. Allows certain students to enroll in graduation incentives programs. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0858
Title: S.B. 2918
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Amends the School Code. Allows a school or school district to deny enrollment to a student 16 years of age or older for one semester for failure to meet minimum academic or attendance standards if certain conditions are met. Requires a district to identify, track, and report on the educational progress and outcomes of reenrolled students (defined as dropouts who have reenrolled full-time) as a subset of the district's required reporting on all enrollments. Provides that a reenrolled student who again drops out must not be counted again against a district's dropout rate performance measure. Requires the State Board of Education to set performance standards for programs serving reenrolled students. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0803
Title: S.B. 2115
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Provides that each school district shall have the power to require minors from sixteen to seventeen years of age to attend upon full time day instruction. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A01892&sh=t
Title: A.B. 1892
Source: http://assembly.state.ny.us
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| AK | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Amends the required age of a child for school attendance. http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill_text.asp?hsid=HB0338Z&session=23
Title: H.B. 338
Source: Alaska Legislative Web site
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| AR | Rule Adoption 06/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules regarding mandatory attendance requirements for grades 9 - 12. http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/ade%20169%20mandatory%20attendance%20req.pdf
Title: ADE 169
Source: Arkansas State Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes any parish in the state, not just pre-existing pilot program parishes, to create truancy and assessment and service centers. Louisiana State University's office of social services research and development to develop and implement a monitoring and evaluation program for all parishes with truancy and assessment and service centers subject to state funding. Extends end of truancy and assessment and service center pilot program from 2005 to 2007. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT5/OUT/0000LV53.PDF
Title: H.B. 1527
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| RI | Became law without governor's signature 06/2004 | P-12 | Would set eligibility requirements for school attendance to obtain a driver's license for minor students. This act would take effect on January 15, 2005.
Title: H.B. 7397
Source: StateNet
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| RI | To governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Provides that if a minor accumulates fifteen (15) unexcused absences within ninety (90) calendar days, they are ineligible for driving privileges and would provide for enforcement, notification, compliance, reinstatement and jurisdiction of this provision. This act would take effect upon passage.
Title: S.B. 2594
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/gen_assembly/genmenu.html
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Provides for the revision of certain provisions regarding education flexibility and accountability; requires the State Board of Education to create a single state-wide accountability system by December 31, 2004; amends provisions regarding school councils; amends the history curriculum requirements; amends provisions for early intervention programs; amends provisions related to effectiveness assessments, including end-of-course assessments; amends parental notification concerning compulsory attendance requirements; requires Department of Motor Vehicle notification of students 14 years of age and older who are in violation of attendance requirements; amends student discipline policies; changes the name Office of Education Accountability to Office of Student Achievement. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/search/hb1190.htm
Title: H.B. 1190
Source: Georgia Legislative Web site
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12
Postsec. | Section 1: Allows student age 16 or 17 to be exempt from compulsory attendance requirements if student is regularly enrolled in a school and is concurrently enrolled in a postsecondary educational institution. Makes provisions applicable to children from and after July 1, 1997. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2004/2795.pdf
Title: H.B. 2795 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes the establishment of a Truancy Reduction Pilot Program in certain counties; establishes that failure of children to attend school without a lawful excuse is a code violation; authorizes school officials to petition the juvenile court alleging that a child who is required under law to attend school fails to attend school without lawful excuse; requires the court to hold an adjudicatory hearing after the petition; requires a separate disposition hearing.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2004rs/bills/hb/hb1443t.rtf
Title: H.B. 1443
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Deletes repealer on the Office of Compulsory School Attendance Enforcement.
Extends the repealer on the Office of Compulsory School Attendance Enforcement within the Department of Education to July 1, 2009.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/pdf/HB/0600-0699/HB0663SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 663
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Relates to Adequate Education Program; deletes repealer on high growth school district formula.
If during the year for which adequate education program funds are appropriated, any school district experiences a three percent (3%) or greater increase in average daily attendance during the second and third month over the preceding year's second and third month and the school district has requested a minimum increase of four percent (4%) in local ad valorem revenues over the previous year as authorized in Sections 37-57-104 and 37-57-105, an additional allocation of adequate education program funds calculated in the following manner shall be granted to that district, using any additional funds available to the Department of Education that exceed the amount of funds due to the school districts under the basic adequate education program distribution as provided for in this chapter:
The State Department of Education shall study and develop a report to the Chairmen of the Senate and House Committees on Education by January 1, 2005, with options for legislative consideration that will insure that the Mississippi Adequate Education funds are distributed to school districts based on current year student attendance or enrollment. This subsection (4) shall stand repealed on July 1, 2006
Title: H.B. 741
Source: StateNet
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| NJ | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Establishes the Task Force to Study Attendance in Public Schools to study current practices within school districts in the state regarding student attendance, including, but not limited to absences, tardiness, procedures for addressing students with patterns of unauthorized absences or excessive tardiness, and to investigate what other states are doing with respect to student attendance.
Introduced - 5 pages PDF Format HTML Format
Statement - AED 1/26/04 - 1 pages PDF Format HTML Format
Technical Review Of Prefiled Bill - 5 pages PDF Format HTML Format
Statement - SED 3/29/04 - 1 pages PDF Format HTML Format
Advance Law - 3 pages PDF Format HTML Format
Title: A.J.R. 68
Source: StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Requires the state board to formulate policy for attendance and transfer of students whose custodial parents reside in two local education agencies.
Title: S.B. 3305
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires a school principal to give a student an excused absence of up to ten days to pursue an educational enhancement opportunity of significant educational value, and provides for an appeal of a negative decision to the local board of education. Specifies that an "educational enhancement opportunity" may include an educational foreign exchange program or an intensive instructional, experiential, or performance program in English, math, science, social studies, foreign language or the arts, including programs not sponsored by the district, but may not include nonacademic extracurricular activities. A student's grades may not be adversely affected for lack of class attendance or participation. Provides for an appeal process to the district superintendent, and subsequent appeal process to local board, if an excused absence request is denied by a building principal. Bars a student from receiving an excused absence during state or district assessments, unless the principal determines that extenuating circumstances render an excused absence appropriate. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SB80/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 80
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Provides that an exemption from compulsory attendance student may be granted to 1) a child certified by specified professionals to have a chronic physical condition that prevents or renders inadvisable attendance at school, and which is unlikely to improve substantially within a year, or 2) a student with a disability may be granted if the student's individual education plan specifies that his or her placement in home or hospital is the least restrictive environment. In the case of a child whose licensed physician, advanced registered nurse practitioner, psychologist, psychiatrist, chiropractor or public health officer certifies that the child's chronic physical condition is unlikely to significantly improve within three years, the child's admissions and release committee must annually evaluate the child's condition and documentation to determine whether updated evidence is required. Updated evidence must be presented upon committee need or at least every three years. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB10/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 10
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Provides the State Auditor with authority to establish effective and efficient policies and procedures for auditing student attendance and data in local school districts. In particular, the State Auditor will have more flexibility regarding on-site audits and authority to establish specific policies and procedures to audit the processes, accuracy, validity and procedures used by local school districts to submit electronic student data and other data to the State Department of Education.
Reviews and audits shall be conducted with advance notice, except that unannounced audits may be made upon determination of the State Auditor based on complaints or valid concerns. In addition, examiners shall make every effort to work with school districts in scheduling audits in consideration of instructional activities such as statewide testing.
The State Board of Education shall include reporting standards for school districts as part of the accreditation process to include penalties within the accreditation system for adverse findings resulting from reviews or audits.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/pdf/HB/1200-1299/HB1251SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 1251
Source: StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | LB 868 changes the mandatory ages for compulsory education. From the fiscal note: Currently, ages are from age 7 through
age 15. Beginning in the 2005-06 school year, children will be required to attend school if they will reach the age of 6 by January 1st of
the current school year unless they are attending an alternative education program that will allow them to enter the first grade the
following school year. Children also must attend through the age of 17 unless they have obtained a diploma, have completed an
alternative education program or have reached the age of 16 and the parent or guardian has signed a waiver form.
It is assumed the bill will result in a one-time increase the number of children in kindergarten in the 2005-06 school year. The bill
requires children who will turn age 6 by January 1st of the next year to start school in the current year. The state department does not have statewide data on the number of age-eligible children who delay entrance to kindergarten. However, the
National Center for Education Statistics reports that about 9% of age-eligible kindergarten children postpone their entrance to
kindergarten each year. Using this estimate it is assumed that up to 920 more children will enter kindergarten in the public schools in
the fall of 2005 than would have in the absence of the bill. (This number is derived by taking half of the public school children in
kindergarten in FY03 times 9%. Delayed entrance is assumed for only half of the number of kindergarten students because the bill still
allows delayed entrance for half of the 5 year olds.)
The fiscal impact of additional children in kindergarten in 2005-06 will vary by school district depending upon whether the district can
absorb additional students into existing classrooms without hiring teachers or expanding the number of classrooms. Due to a statewide
decline in elementary membership in the last decade, this fiscal note assumes that most of the additional children will be absorbed into
existing classrooms. It is assumed that very few, if any, new teachers will be hired to meet the one-time influx of additional students in
kindergarten. There may be minimal additional expenses for school textbooks and materials for these students. If this is the case,
then overall "need" in the state aid formula may minimally increase, two years later. The student count used in the state aid formula
will increase one year later. These changes will result in a minimal shift in state aid between school districts to those districts that
receive additional students, one year after the increase occurs, or in 2006-07. The 2007-08 computation of state aid will include any
increased expenditures pursuant to the bill which will increase overall aid for school districts by a minimal amount. http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/legal/SLIP_LB868.pdf
Title: L.B. 868
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Strengthens the mechanisms for enforcement of the compulsory school attendance law; removes the restriction on the court's use of contempt power in enforcing compulsory school attendance and parental responsibility provisions; clarifies and reinforces the court's authority to order the child or the parent, or both, into programs, such as extended day programs and summer school or other educational programs and treatment, such as counselling. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+HB1326ER
Title: H.B. 1326
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Directs local school boards to notify parents of the educational rights of students who fail to graduate or who have failed to achieve the number of verified units of credit required for graduation as provided in the standards of accreditation or who have been identified as having limited English proficiency or who have been identified as disabled and receive special education of their right to a free public education through age 21. Pursuant to §§ 22.1-1 and 22.1-5, public schools are free to "persons of school age" (at least age five on or before September 30 of the school year and under 20 years of age on or before August 1). In addition, subsection D of § 22.1-5 sets forth for students for whom English is a second language the opportunity for a free public education through the age of 21. Finally, persons who have been identified as disabled who receive special education are entitled to a "free and appropriate education" through 21 years of age pursuant to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and § 22.1-213. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0509
Title: S.B. 438
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Requires a school corporation or an accredited nonpublic school to report to the local health department the percentage of student absences above a threshold determined by the department rule. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2004/HE/HE1202.1.html
Title: H.B. 1202
Source: Indiana Legislative web site
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| ME | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Requires the superintendent to send a notice to the parent of a truant informing the parent that the child is truant and the child is required by law to attend school; requires the superintendent to report the truancy of a child to the local law enforcement agency if a parent has not complied with the notice; makes it a class E crime if a parent fails to enroll a child in school.
Title: H.P. 800
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | Excuses from compulsory school attendance requirements persons 16 through 18 years of age who are housed in adult correctional facilities and who are actively pursuing a general education development certificate but who are not enrolled in an individual student alternative education plan.
Title: S.B. 404
Source: StateNet
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| NM | Rule Adoption 12/2003 | P-12 | Establishes rules amending language to remove school attendance requirements for children under 18 years of age. Clarifies school attendance requirements for children 18 years of age. NEW MEXICO REG 3931 (SN)
Title: NMAC 8.200.420; Section 10
Source: StateNet
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| WI | Signed into law 11/2003 | P-12 | Provides for the specifications for school attendance of a dispositional order for truant or habitual truant and the disclosure of juvenile court records by a juvenile court or a municipal court for children of certain age groups.
Title: A.B. 62
Source: StateNet
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| TX | Rule Adoption 10/2003 | P-12 | Amends rules concerning student attendance accounting. Adopts by reference the 2003-2004 Student Attendance Accounting Handbook which provides student attendance accounting rules for school districts and charter schools. TEXAS REG 86427 (SN)
Title: 19 TAC 129.1025
Source: StateNet
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| OH | Signed into law 08/2003 | P-12 | Requires the department of education, by January 1, 2004, to provide to the General Assembly a feasible standard for measuring school district attendance rates.
Title: H.B. 3 - Omnibus Bill -- Attendance Rates
Source: Digest of Enactments 2003
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| DE | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Relates to truancy; permits local school districts and charter schools to define what constitutes a valid excuse from attending school and to excuse students with a valid excuse from attending school; requires that persons acting as caregivers must ensure that pupils are enrolled in and attend school; defines the term school year.
http://www.legis.state.de.us/Legislature.nsf/fsLIS?openframeset&Frame=Main&Src=/LIS/LIS142.NSF/Home!Openform
Title: H.B. 186
Source: Delaware Legislative Web site
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Enhances the state's ability to protect children; after a student has 10 absences, if a principal finds that the parent has not made a
good faith effort to comply with the law, the principal is required to notify the district attorney and the director of social services of the county where the child resides. Upon receiving notification by the principal, the director of social services must determine whether to undertake an investigation. Relates to child welfare service worker training; creates a registry of all family foster and therapeutic foster home applicants; relates to the Child Fatality Review Team. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/html2003/bills/AllVersions/Senate/S421vc.html
Title: S.B. 421
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| NH | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Relates to legal residency for the purpose of public school education; changes the definition of legal residency for homeless children and youths; provides that disputes regarding residency shall be resolved by the commissioner of the department of education, or a designee.
Title: H.B. 568
Source: StateNet
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | This act would provide that a child, who has or will have completed six (6) years of life on or before September 1, rather than December 1, of any school year, shall be eligible to attend first grade. This act would take effect on January 1, 2006.
Title: S.B. 593
Source: StateNet
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Provides that a child, who has or will have completed six (6) years of life by September 1, rather than December 1, of any school year, and has not completed sixteen (16) years of life, must regularly attend school.
Title: S.B. 594
Source: StateNet
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| DE | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | This legislation is in response to the report by the Homeschool Committee as created by SJR 9. This legislation defines the types of homeschools, provides that students who are educated in the defined types of homeschools are exempt from the public school compulsory attendance requirement, and clarifies the enrollment and attendance reporting requirements for non-public schools. http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/LIS142.NSF/c6fe685e20e98b2b882569a60053971e/0783ba9d9139e14185256d20005d86c1?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,103
Title: S.B. 103
Source: Delaware Legislative Web site
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Requires that disciplinary, attendance and health records be included in the records that follow a student who transfers to another school either within or outside the state. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/billtexts/LD026201-1.asp
Title: S.P. 96 (LD 262)
Source: www.mainelegislature.org
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Regards age eligibility for enrollment in a public secondary school; authorizes the Commissioner of Education to waive on a case-by-case basis waivers of age requirements to allow students who have reached 20 years of age before the start of the school year to enroll as public secondary school students. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/billdocs/LD059201.doc
Title: S.P. 201
Source: StateNet
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Provides that a pupil must be in attendance for a minimum number of days to obtain credit or to be promoted to the next higher grade; requiring each school to provide notice to the parent or legal guardian of a
pupil before the pupil is denied credit or promotion to the next higher grade; providing that a pupil and his parent or legal guardian may request a review of a decision to deny credit or promotion to the next higher grade. http://www.leg.state.nv.us/72nd/bills/SB/SB253_EN.pdf
Title: S.B. 253
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Prohibits out-of-district or out-of-state enrollment within a school system. Restitution for out-of-district or out-of-state enrollment would be based on an amount equal to the local per pupil expenditure for students identified by the Tennessee department of education for the district in which the student is fraudulently enrolled; and the parent, guardian or other legal custodian of a fraudulently enrolled student would be liable for costs and fees, including reasonable attorneys' fees, incurred by the school district. Also, specifies that no action can be brought more than six years after the date on which the fraudulent enrollment occurred. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Summary.asp?BillNumber=SB0396
Title: S.B. 396
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | To facilitate the transfer of military personnel and their dependents to and from the public schools of this state, the agency is required to pursue reciprocity agreements with other states governing the terms of those transfers. Reciprocity agreement must permits a student to satisfy the requirements of Section 39.025 through successful performance on comparable exit-level assessment instruments administered in another state. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=78&SESS=R&CHAMBER=H&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=00591&VERSION=5&TYPE=B
Title: H.B. 591
Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Concerns a juvenile's right to counsel at proceedings under the School Attendance Law of 1963. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/C38AB5E15B8915CF87256CAB000098EF?Open&file=1226_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1226
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Expands "residency" for purposes of attending Washington public schools. Any child who is of school age and otherwise eligible, residing
in a home that is located in Idaho but that has a Washington address for the purposes of the United States postal service, shall be admitted, without payment of tuition, to the nearest Washington school district and shall be considered a resident student for state apportionment and all other purposes. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2003-04/House/1450-1474/1470-s_pl.pdf
Title: H.B. 1470
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Requires high school students in grades 9 -12 to attend a full school day. Beginning with the 2004-2005 school year, students in
grades nine through twelve (9-12) shall be required to schedule and attend a full school day. (b)(1) No later than January 30, 2004, the State Board of Education shall promulgate regulations that require students in grades nine through twelve (9-12) to enroll in no fewer than three hundred fifty (350) minutes of planned instructional time each day as a requirement for graduation. Allows boards to develop policies that require students to be assigned to no more that one (1) class period each day for a study hall period which the student shall be required to attend and participate in a full class period of self-study or organized tutoring in the school building; and (ii)(a) No more than one (1) class period each day for organized and scheduled student extracurricular classes to be included as planned instructional time. (b) If the extracurricular class is related to a seasonal activity, the class must continue to meet after the season ends to be counted toward the requirement of planned instructional time. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB1439.pdf
Title: H.B. 1439
Source: State legislative web site
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Amends the compulsory attendance law to reflect changes in the general education diploma requirements.http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB1457.pdf
Title: H.B. 1457
Source: State legislative web site
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Provides that the Compulsory School Attendance Law shall apply to any 5-year-old as of September 1st of an academic year, and who is already enrolled in a full-day public school kindergarten program (minimum compulsory school age remains 6 for those children who are not enrolled in full-day public kindergarten programs.) Parent may disenroll child from full-day kindergarten program once, and such child will not be a compulsory-school-age child until the child's sixth birthday. Specifies that no child may be admitted to kindergarten who has not turned 5 on or before September 1 of that academic year, and that no child may be admitted to first grade who has not turned 6 on or before September 1 of that academic year. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2003/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2394SG.htm
Title: S.B. 2394
Source: billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2003
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Allows a juvenile who is found to be in need of services or in need of supervision for failure to comply with the compulsory school attendance requirements to be deferred for a period of 120 days and admitted to a truancy program approved by the court; provides this does not limit the court's authority to order other dispositions for the supervision, care and rehabilitation of the juvenile in addition to the services provided by a truancy program.
Title: H.B. 1559
Source: StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Expunges motor vehicle license information for nineteen-year-olds when suspensions or revocations of their licenses are due to school attendance.
Title: S.B. 162
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2002 | P-12 | Makes, commencing 7/1/2004, the Compulsory Attendance Law apply to a child, and the parents or guardian of a child between the ages of 5 and 6 who is enrolled in a public school kindergarten and attends the kindergarten for at least 30 days during the school year, unless the child is otherwise exempt as provided.
Title: A.B. 634
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2002 | P-12 | Requires the school accountability report card to include the rate of pupils who earn Governor's scholarship awards. Deletes provisions which limit the amount of compensation of a school board member. Deletes the certification requirement regarding charter school revenue limits. Relates to the computation of average daily attendance. Permits a county superintendent of schools to grant an exemption from minimum expenditures for classroom teacher salaries.
Title: A.B. 1818
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| DE | Signed into law 06/2002 | P-12 |
This Act requires the building principal to notify a visiting teacher when a student in grades 6 through 12 has ten or more unexcused days from school. The current statute provides a procedure for a visiting teacher to follow for students in grades K through 5. http://www.legis.state.de.us/Legislature.nsf/fsLIS?openframeset&Frame=Main&Src=/LIS/LIS141.NSF/Home!Openform
Title: S.B. 404
Source: http://www.legis.state.de.us
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| DE | Signed into law 06/2002 | P-12 | Permits civil charges to be brought against a student at the same time that criminal charges are brought against the parent, if the student is age 12 or over; amends both the truancy statute and the probation before judgment statute to permit the use of probation before judgment when a parent is charged. http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/LIS141.NSF/vwLegislation/
Title: H.B. 380
Source: www.legis.state.de.us
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| OK | Vetoed 06/2002 | P-12 | On or before September 1, 2002, the state board must adopt rules to ensure that students who transfer into an Oklahoma school district from out of state after the student's junior year of high school shall not be denied, due to differing graduation requirements, the opportunity to be awarded a standard diploma. Creates the "Oklahoma Social Studies Stimulus Program" to be administered by the state department. The purpose of the program is to provide incentives to encourage innovative ways of educating students through the social studies and to prepare students to become active, engaged participants in the democratic process.
Title: S.B. 701
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2001-02SB/sb701_enr.rtf
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| RI | To governor 06/2002 | P-12 | Requires children between 16 and 18 years of age to obtain permission from a custodial parent or guardian in order to be exempt from mandatory school attendance.
Title: S.B. 2108
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2002 | P-12 | Relates to truancy; mukes state-wide present authorization limited to Shelby County for local education agency to enter into agreement with its local law enforcement agency to enforce compulsory attendance.
Title: H.B. 2650
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Establishes legislative intent that 1) every K-12 public school student attend school throughout the school year and comply with the school's code of conduct; and 2) parents of every public K-12 student "comply with the school's reasonable and time-acceptable parental involvement requests." See bill section 114, page 318, line number 23 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us
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| AL | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Extends active duty military protections and rights to members of the National Guard called or ordered by the Governor to State active duty for 30 consecutive days or more for emergencies or federally funded duty, other than training for homeland security; relates to the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act; provides for a military leave of absence from educational institutions.http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb464.htm
Title: H.B. 464
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Allows the court to impose incarceration to juvenile detention facility for violating a valid court order under the "School Attendance Law of 1963" after finding the child is guilty of the charges; or child found in contempt of court may be placed in community service, supervised activities, or other educational activities http://www.leg.state.co.us/2002a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/719E6F76D74235F087256B1800501083?Open&file=1079_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1079
Source: www.leg.state.co.us
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| LA | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Adds a judicial district to the truancy and assessment and service center pilot program. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/021ES/CVT5/OUT/0000JIZA.PDF
Title: S.B. 32A
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Reenacts sections relating to Office of Compulsory School Attendance Enforcement and school attendance officers. Creates a Task Force to Conduct a Best Financial Management Practices Review of the State Department of Education. Requires the development of best practices for specified areas. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2002/html/HB/0400-0499/HB0492SG.htm
Title: H.B. 492
Source: billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | Provides a procedure for the board of trustees of a school district when a child is determined to be in violation of school attendance requirements.
Title: H.B. 657
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | Clarifies that school districts may require a parent, guardian or custodian to accompany child seeking to enroll in the school district.
Title: H.B. 1030
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | Relates to the counting of students in net enrollment when the transfer of students between counties is effectuated without the agreement of both boards by official action as reflected in the minutes of their respective meetings.
Title: H.B. 4428
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 01/2002 | P-12 | Any minor who is required to be reported as a truant may be required to attend makeup
classes conducted on one day of a weekend and is subject to the following: (a) The first time a truancy report is required, the pupil may be personally given a written warning by any peace officer specified in Section 830.1 of the Penal Code. A record of the written warning may be kept at the school for a period of not less than two years, or until the pupil graduates, or transfers, from that school. If the pupil transfers, the
record may be forwarded to any school receiving the pupil's school records. A record of the written warning may be maintained by the law enforcement agency in accordance with that law enforcement agency's policies and procedures. (b) The second time a truancy report is required within the same school year, the pupil may be assigned by the school to an afterschool or weekend study program located within the same county as the pupil's school. If the pupil fails to successfully complete the assigned study program, the pupil shall be subject to subdivision (c).
(c) The third time a truancy report is required within the same school year, the pupil shall be classified a habitual truant and may be referred to, and required to attend, an attendance review board or a truancy mediation program. If the district does not have a truancy mediation program, the pupil may be required to attend a comparable program deemed acceptable by the school district's attendance supervisor. If the pupil does not successfully complete the truancy mediation program or other similar program, the pupil shall be subject to subdivision (d).
(d) The fourth time a truancy is required to be reported within the same school year, the pupil shall be within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court which may adjudge the pupil to be a ward of the court pursuant to Section 601 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. If the pupil is adjudged a ward of the court, the pupil shall be required to do one or more of the following:
(1) Performance at court-approved community services sponsored by either a public or private nonprofit agency for not less than 20 hours but not more than 40 hours over a period not to exceed 90 days, during a time other than the pupil's hours of school attendance or employment. The probation officer shall report to the court the failure of the pupil to comply with this paragraph.
(2) Payment of a fine by the pupil of not more than one hundred dollars ($100) for which a parent or guardian of the pupil may be jointly liable.
(3) Attendance of a court-approved truancy prevention program.
(4) Suspension or revocation of driving privileges. This subdivision shall apply only to a pupil who has attended a school attendance review board program, a program operated by a probation department acting as a school attendance review board, or a truancy mediation program.
Title: A.B. 804
Source: California Legislative Web Site
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | , Requires with certain exceptions, persons having control of a child to send such child to school from the child's seventh birthday until his eighteenth birthday rather than his seventeenth birthday.
Title: H.B. 19
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Relates to truancy and the authority of justice and municipal courts in relation to children; provides criminal penalties for contributing to a truancy.
Title: S.B. 1432
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IA | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Relates to the compulsory attendance age and attendance at school during the regular school calendar by a child who has reached the age of 16.
Title: S.B. 412
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | The state board shall adopt rules no later than July 1, 2001, to provide for the implementation of remote internet-based courses. Each district board of education shall adopt policies and procedures that conform to rules for internet-based courses as adopted by the State Board. Students participating in approved remote courses are considered to be in attendance.
Title: S.B. 595
Source: Oklahoma Legislative Web Site
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| WV | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Prohibits suspension as discipline for failure to attend class; stipulates other methods of discipline may be used for the pupil which may include, but are not limited to, detention, extra class time or alternative class settings; abolishes corporal punishment; gives teachers authority to exclude from classrooms or school bus any pupil who is guilty of disorderly conduct, who in any manner interferes with an orderly educational process, who threatens, abuses or otherwise intimidates or attempts to intimidate a school employee or a pupil, who willfully disobeys a school employee, or who uses abusive or profane language directed at a school employee. Any pupil excluded shall be placed under the control of the principal of the school or a designee. The excluded pupil may be admitted to the classroom or school bus only when the principal, or a designee, provides written certification to the teacher that the pupil may be readmitted and specifies the specific type of disciplinary action, if any, which was taken. When a teacher excludes the same pupil from his or her classroom or from a school bus three times in one school year, and after exhausting all reasonable methods of classroom discipline provided in the school discipline plan, the pupil may be readmitted to the teacher's classroom only after the principal, teacher and, if possible, the parent(s), guardian(s) or custodian(s) of the pupil have held a conference to discuss the pupil's disruptive behavior patterns, and the teacher and the principal agree on a course of discipline for the pupil and inform the parent(s), guardian(s) or custodian(s) of the course of action. Thereafter, if the pupil's disruptive behavior persists, upon the teacher's request, the principal may, to the extent feasible, transfer the pupil to another setting.
Title: S.B. 439
Source: West Virginia Legislative Web Site
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Institutes a monitoring program for students obtaining waivers of school attendance requirements to attend adult education programs.
Title: H.B. 2300
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Any person having responsibility for a child between the ages of seven and sixteen years
shall ensure that the child is in attendance at a public school for the duration of each
school year. If a person enrolls a child of age six in a public school, the person shall ensure that the
child is in attendance at the public school for the duration of each school year. The person
may withdraw a child of age six from the public school. However, once the child is
withdrawn, the person may not reenroll the child until the following school year. This
subsection does not apply if the reason for the withdrawal is the child's relocation to
another school district.
Title: H.B. 1371
Source: http://www.state.nd.us/lr
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Raises compulsory school attendance age from 16 to age 17.
Title: H.B. 781
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Relates to school districts; requires districts to excuse students participating in the state fair from school attendance.
Title: S.B. 86
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NY | To governor 12/2000 | P-12 | Increases the age after which a minor may not be required to attend school from 16 to 17.
Title: S.B. 8071
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Became law without governor's signature 06/2000 | P-12 | Requires State to deny drivers license or permit to student withdrawn from secondary school who has 5 or more unexcused absences while attending course leading to a GED certificate.
Title: S.B. 3152
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VT | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | The age of compulsory school attendance is lowered from age seven to six.
Title: H.B. 270
Source: http://www.state.vt.us/educ/legupdate.htm
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| CT | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Starting July 1, 2001, this act requires students to stay in school until age 18, instead of age 16, unless their parents consent to their leaving school before they turn 18 or graduate. The parent must appear at the school district office to sign a form withdrawing the student from school, at which time the school district must provide the parent with information about educational options available in the school system and in the community.
The act extends local school districts' existing responsibility for ensuring that all school age children who live in the district attend school to cover 16- and 17-year-olds who do not have permission to drop out. It does not change the requirement that local districts to offer alternative educational opportunities to expelled students only if they are under age 16.
Title: H.B. 5276
Source: http://www.cga.state.ct.us/olr/2000MPA/education.htm
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Establishes standard by which school pupils subject to mandatory attendance are found to be habitual truant or truant; authorizes law enforcement officers and school attendance officers to pick up and deliver truant to parent, guardian, school principal or truancy center; provides such officers with civil immunity for such actions unless found to be outside scope of employment or performed with gross negligence or willful misconduct.
Title: S.B. 2425
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Provides that certain law enforcement officers shall be authorized to investigate and file petitions in the proper court against parent or child under the provisions of the State Compulsory School Attendance Law.
Title: S.B. 3043
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NH | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | In cases where New Hampshire is party to an interstate school agreement with another state, this bill allows New Hampshire pupils to attend a school which meets the standards established by one of the 2 states.
Title: S.B. 319
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | The compulsory attendance age is lowered from seven to six.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education
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| GA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Allows parents or guardians of students who live closer to a school other than the one to which they are assigned to request to attend the closer school, even if the school is across county lines. The State Board of Education decides if the school is actually closer. If crossing county lines, the receiving system can bill the sending system for the costs of the student. The receiving system may petition the state to pay any difference between what that system expends to educate the child and the amount paid by the sending system.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Requires the juvenile and domestic relations court to order the denial of driving privileges for at least 30 days to any child at least 13 years of age upon a finding that the child has failed to comply with certain school attendance and parent-school conference meeting requirements.
Title: H.B. 490
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2000 | P-12
Postsec. | Revises the provision authorizing school boards to admit nonresident students and charge such students tuition, to provide that persons of school age who reside beyond the boundaries of the Commonwealth but near thereto in a state or the District of Columbia which grants the same privileges to residents of the Commonwealth may be admitted and so charged.
Title: S.B. 499
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 07/1999 | P-12 | Creates truancy assessment and service center pilot programs in certain parishes.
Title: S.B. 1008
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OH | Signed into law 07/1999 | P-12 | Requires a child under the age of 6 who attends kindergarten to be considered of compulsory school age.
Title: H.B. 281
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/1999 | P-12 | Requires approved private schools and other approved programs to notify public schools of the enrollment of students who leave public school in grades seven through 12.
Title: S.B. 252
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 06/1999 | P-12 | Establishes the Commission to Study Children in Need of Services; requires the Commission to review truancy problems, children who run away from their homes, emancipation of children and other factors that cause children to be in need of services; requires the Commission to report to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services by December 1, 1999.
Title: S.B. 643
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 06/1999 | P-12 | Relates to the age at which a student may take the high school equivalency examinations and the age of compulsory attendance in public schools.
Title: S.B. 1472
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 06/1999 | P-12 | Relates to fines collected for thwarting the compulsory school attendance law.
Title: H.B. 1961
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Signed into law 05/1999 | P-12 | Superintendents are responsible for enforcing attendance, including recommendations to the school board. Board policies must require that absences have parental justification, and must provide for tracking of absences and contacting parents. Revises court procedures and penalties for habitual truancy cases. Superintendent may file a truancy of Children-in-Need-of-Services petition for a habitual truant. Revises definition of habitual truant and creates provisions for truancy petition, prosecution, and disposition.
Title: H.B. 751
Source: Academic Excellence Council 1999 End-of-Session Report
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| ME | Signed into law 05/1999 | P-12 | Permits the Superintendent of the school district to meet with the parents or guardian of a truant student and explain the benefits of attending alternative education programs as well as school; allows the superintendent, instead of the school board, to notify the local law enforcement department that a student has been declared habitually truant, thus enabling a police officer to transport the student.
Title: H.B. 1211
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MN | Signed into law 05/1999 | P-12 | Extends juvenile court jurisdiction over children who are habitual truants.
Title: S.B. 1180
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/1999 | P-12 | Creates community truancy boards.
Title: S.B. 913
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12 | Amends Arkansas Code 6-18-203 to permit children of employees of non-resident school districts attend the district where the parent is employed.
Title: H.B. 2049
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12 | Changes cutoff date for compulsory attendance from September 1 to September 15 (ages 5-17). Allows parents to elect not to send child to kindergarten if child is not age 6 on September 15 (changed from 5).
Title: H.B. 1197
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12 | Amends Sec. 70-201 to require every person with legal or actual control of a child who is younger than 7 and is enrolled in any public school to be subject to the truancy provisions in Sections 79-201 to 79-210. Previous law stated that a child less than 7 or more than 16 was not compelled under truancy statutes to attend school. School boards are required to adopt policies that allow the discontinuation of enrollment for students younger than 7.
Title: L.B. 152
Source: Nebraska Legislature
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| UT | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12 | Clarifies the compulsory education requirements; and makes technical corrections.
Title: H.B. 85
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12 | Relates to truancy; allows intake officers to proceed on a complaint that a child is in need of services or supervision; requires attendance officers to obtain an explanation for the absence; requires principals to ensure contact between parent and attendance officer; requires conference to resolve non- attendance; empowers officer to enforce provisions by instituting proceedings against the parent; prohibits failure of student for nonattendance without conference.
Title: H.B. 1817
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12
Postsec. | Clarifies that no person may be charged tuition for admission to enrollment in public schools, whether on a full- or part-time basis, who meets the various residency criteria; includes the enrollment of public and nonpublic school students in Governor's Schools, as well as the part-time enrollment of nonpublic school students in other public schools.
Title: S.B. 1284
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12 | Authorizes local school boards to waive compulsory attendance requirements; provides that home-schooled students need not have 3 consecutive years of home instruction to be eligible to take the GED test; combines and reorganizes sections addressing compulsory school attendance; contains technical amendments.
Title: H.B. 2384
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12 | Establishes Community-Based Program for Suspended and Expelled Students to provide interim instructional programs, intervention and supervision for students in public schools who have been suspended, excluded or expelled from regular school attendance.
Title: S.B. 1128
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12 | Strikes the requirement that local school boards verify as a condition of school admission, the citizenship of students for whom English is the second language who enter public school in Virginia for the first time after reaching their 12th birthday.
Title: S.B. 559
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VT | Signed into law 02/1999 | P-12 | Promotes a safe learning environment in public schools; provides for compulsory school attendance for children between the ages of 6 and 16; provides for unexcused absences; decriminalizes truancy; provides for suspension and expulsion; prohibits possession of a firearm or other deadly weapon on school property; provides for delinquency prevention programs; provides training for teaching and non-teaching staff; appropriates funds.
Title: H.B. 270
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 01/1999 | P-12 | Creates parental responsibility for providing a false address for purpose of public enrollment in an unauthorized school district.
Title: H.B. 1207
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 01/1999 | P-12 | Authorizes law enforcement officers and attendance officers, who pick up a child for truancy to deliver the child to a truancy center, defined as a facility or site operated by a school division, sometimes jointly with the law enforcement agency, and designated for receiving or placing children who have been retrieved by a law enforcement office or attendance office for truancy from school.
Title: H.B. 2698
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| RI | Signed into law 07/1998 | P-12 | Requires that children placed in foster care receive the same appropriate public education available to all other eligible residents of the city or town where the child is placed.
Title: S.B. 2481
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| RI | Signed into law 07/1998 | P-12 | Permits a school committee to suspend a student's working papers because of absenteeism or conduct that would justify a suspension from school.
Title: H.B. 7310
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| AK | Signed into law 06/1998 | P-12 | Relates to part-time public school students; provides for an effective date.
Title: H.B. 367 Part-time Public School Students
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| CT | Signed into law 06/1998 | P-12 | Expands duties of judicial branch in truancy cases; authorizes a demonstration project to establish a school and community based truancy prevention initiative; generally relates to programs and services concerning truancy.
Title: S.B. 448
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| LA | Died 06/1998 | P-12 | Repeals provision permitting a student between the ages of 16 and 17 to withdraw from school prior to graduation with written consent from parent, tutor, or guardian.
Title: H.B. 451 Withdrawal from School Prior to Graduation
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NJ | Died 06/1998 | P-12 | Requires absence from school resulting from suspension to be counted as unexcused absence.
Title: S.B. 2182
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| OK | Signed into law 06/1998 | P-12 | Relates to schools and driving privileges; requires for issuing certain driver licenses; restricts driving privileges for certain holders or restricted licenses.
Title: S.B. 1429 School/Driving Privileges
Source: Information for Public Affairs, inc.
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| WI | Signed into law 06/1998 | P-12 | Relates to compulsory school attendance; relates to habitual truancy; relates to penalties for contributing to truancy; relates to truancy planning committees; relates to school district truancy plans.
Title: WI 686 School Attendance
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/1998 | P-12 | Expands truancy statute to cover charter schools and students attending home school; states the school principal or his designee takes over duties of deciding whether or not reason exists for a child not to be required to attend school; defines "truant" to mean unexcused absence for at least one class period during the day.
Title: H.B. 2218
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| MN | Died 05/1998 | P-12 | Gives school district the authority, by annual board action, to compel students to attend summer school, based on criteria adopted at the time of taking such action; defines habitual truancy, in such cases, as five days' absence from summer school.
Title: H.B. 2276
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Died 05/1998 | P-12 | Provides that a second offense of truancy on the part of a child shall constitute a delinquent act.
Title: S.B. 2003
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 05/1998 | P-12 | Allows children of teacher to attend school at which such parent or guardian teacher is employed, either in same or different district.
Title: H.B. 2867
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| TN | Signed into law 05/1998 | P-12 | Revises procedure for minor withdrawn from school to appeal revocation of driver license.
Title: S.B. 3048
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| MS | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | Creates the Division of Compulsory School Attendance Enforcement under the State Department of Education to effectuate a uniform, statewide system of enforcement of the Mississippi Compulsory School Attendance Law; Provides for the appointment by the state superintendent of education of a director for the division; establishes the powers and duties of the division; creates the position of school attendance officers in his supreme court division.
Title: H.B. 1443 School Attendance
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | Provides that the notice to parents of a pupil's absences from school for three consecutive days or five days in one calendar month shall be given to both parents when they have been awarded joint physical custody.
Title: H.B. 1278
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WI | Died 04/1998 | P-12 | Relates to truancy planning committees and school district truancy plans; requires each school board to revaiew and, if appropriate, revise its truancy plan at least once every two years; county truancy planning commission must consist of representatives of school districts; the district attorney, attorney, sherrif's department, another local law enforcement agency, the circuit court, the county social services agency, and the juvenile court intake unit.
Title: S.B. 273 Truancy Plan
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WI | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | Relates to the Minnesota-Wisconsin student reciprocity agreement.
Title: S.B. 346
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/1998 | P-12 | Appropriates $500,000 from the general fund to the State Board of Education for grants to districts to establish a Truancy Support Center.
Title: H.B. 106 Truancy Support Center
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WY | Signed into law 03/1998 | P-12 | Relates to compulsory school attendance; provides for an appeals process to release the compulsory school attendance requirement for parents of a child who has reached his 16th birthday but has not completed 8th grade.
Title: H.B. 51 Compulsory School Attendance
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MO | Died 12/1997 | P-12 | Requires compulsory school attendance until age eighteen; conditions the issuance of driving privileges; requires parental permission to apply for a driver's license or learner's permit; applies to students in home schools, vocational schools, public and nonpublic secondary schools and high school equivalance course, and special education programs.
Title: H.B. 928
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MA | Died 09/1997 | P-12 | Relates to establishing certain school attendance requirements for minors to obtain a driver's license.
Title: H.B. 4145 Driver's License Issues
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 07/1997 | P-12 | Amends the School Code. Adds provisions applicable in Chicago that supplement and operate independently of existing truancy laws. Requires the principal of each attendance center to create a 5 member Truancy Board from representatives of local police , community service organizations, staff of the attendance center, parents, and students (in Secondary attendance centers).
Title: H.B. 53 Attendance and Truancy
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CT | Died 06/1997 | P-12 | Requires children between the ages of sixteen and eighteen to have parental consent before leaving school.
Title: H.B. 6675 Compulsory School Attendance
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CT | Died 06/1997 | P-12 | Increases from sixteen to eighteen the age when students can drop out of school; prepares students to become employable citizens by providing them with the necessary academic and vocational skills.
Title: H.B. 5011 Increase from 16 to 18 (Age) When Students Can Drop Out of School
Source:
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| LA | Died 06/1997 | P-12 | Requires continued enrollment in school and a 2.0 GPA to have and maintain a driver's license.
Title: S.B. 952 Incentives for Driver's License
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 06/1997 | P-12 | Builds on current literacy incentives which require a person under the age of 18 to be enrolled in school or a GED program in order to obtain a driver's license. Effective for driver's licenses issued after 1/1/98, persons under 18 must also have successfully passed the criterion-referenced reading test required for all eighth-grade students in the public schools, or an alternative reading proficiency test approved by the State Department of Education. The Board must also administer the test to any student not enrolled in a public school.
Title: S.B. 81
Source: 1997 Session Highlights--Oklahoma House of Representatives
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| TN | Signed into law 06/1997 | P-12 | Sets kindergarten age at five and mandatory school attendance age at six rather than seven years of age; exempts certain home school or non-public school students.
Title: S.B. 901 Compulsory School Attendance Age for Kindergarten
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Died 05/1997 | P-12 | Lowers mandatory school attendance age.
Title: H.B. 887 Compulsory School Attendance Age
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CT | Signed into law 05/1997 | P-12 | Requires each local and regional board of education furnish, by transportation or otherwise, school accommodations so that each child five years of age and over and under twenty-one years of age who is not a graduate of high school or vocational school may attend public school, except as provided in section 10-233c, and subsection (d) of 10-233d.
Title: S.B. 472
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| DE | Signed into law 05/1997 | P-12 | Modifies the existing provisions of the law to require execution of an attendance contract between the parent or guardian and the school only in cases where the student has reached the threshold of ten unexcused absence.
Title: S.B. 34
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| FL | Died 05/1997 | P-12 | Revises the provisions regarding habitual truancy; revises definition of terms "habitual truant" and "dropout"; provides that a child over the age of 16 must file a formal declaration of intent to terminate school enrollment in order to be exempt from the compulsory school attendance requirements; revises procedures relating to habitual truancy.
Title: H.B. 1309/S.B. 586 Compulsory School Attendance
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Died 05/1997 | P-12 | Relates to compulsory school attendance and age; revises age at which students must begin school.
Title: S.B. 2022 Compulsory School Attendance
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IA | Signed into law 05/1997 | P-12 | Requires an attendance cooperation meeting process prior to designating truant a child who has not completed the sixth grade; provides for a truancy-related grant reduction sanction under the Family Investment Program; provides for a civil penalty for truancy.
Title: H.B. 597
Source: Iowa Legislative Service Bureau
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| KS | Signed into law 05/1997 | P-12 | Changes the maximum boundary of the compulsory age requirement to "the age of 18 years and has not attained a high school diploma or a general educational development (GED) credential." Also, provides that if the child is 16 or 17 years of age, the parent or person acting as parent, by written consent, or the court, pursuant to a court order, may allow the child to be exempt from the compulsory attendance requirements. If the child is 16 or 17 years of age, the child shall be exempt from the compulsory attendance requirements if (1) the child is regularly enrolled in a program recognized by the local board of education as an approved alternative education program, or (2) the child and the parent or person acting as parent attend a final counseling session conducted by the school during which a disclaimer to encourage the child to remain in school or to pursue educational alternatives is presented to and signed by the child and the parent or person acting as parent. The disclaimer shall include information regarding the academic skills that the child has not yet achieved, the difference in future earning power between a high school graduate and a high school dropout, and a listing of educational alternatives that are available for the child.
Title: S.B. 38 Compulsory Attendance Age of Children
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 05/1997 | P-12 | Requires specified individuals to initiate certain investigations regarding truancy under specified circumstances; authorizes specified individuals to provide specified counseling and to notify the Department of Juvenile Justice that students have been habitually truant; requires school officials to provide to local education agencies information on habitually truant students.
Title: H.B. 519
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| MO | Died 05/1997 | P-12 | Requires compulsory school attendance until age 18.
Title: H.B. 240 Compulsory School Attendance Age
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 05/1997 | P-12 | Deletes requirement that any person other than parent or guardian having custody or control of school age children shall cause such children to be enrolled in school.
Title: S.B. 777 Responsibility for Enrollment
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| TN | Signed into law 05/1997 | P-12 | Permits nonresident elementary or secondary student to attend school where parent teaches.
Title: H.B. 1848 Attendance Issues
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/1997 | P-12 | Relates to school attendance requirements; relates to participation in interscholastic activities by children instructed at home.
Title: H.B. 2057
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| CA | Died 04/1997 | P-12 | Requires that a child be admitted to the kindergarten of an elementary school during the first month of a school year if the child will have his or her 5th birthday on or before December 2 of that school year. Requires that each person between the ages of 5 and 18 years is subject to compulsory full-time education unless exempted.
Title: S.B. 893
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| MD | Died 04/1997 | P-12 | Establishes a school attendance classification of individuals between the ages of 15 and 18 years who may not participate in a driver's education course or apply for or retain a learner's permit, provisional driver's license, or driver's license; requires principals or ther administrators to report to county boards of education and county boards to the Motor Vehicle Administration concerning these individuals.
Title: H.B. 73 School Attrendance and Driver's Education
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 04/1997 | P-12 | Requires that, subject to certain exceptions, a child shall attend a public school in county where the child is domiciled with a parent or guardian; authorizes a county's superintendent to allow a nonresident child to attend school in that county; subjects the child's parent or guardian to a penalty if the child fraudulently attends a public school in a county where the child is not domiciled with the parent or guardian.
Title: H.B. 364
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| MT | Died 04/1997 | P-12 | Allows a child to leave school after completing the eighth grade.
Title: H.B. 245 Compulsory Attendance
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Signed into law 04/1997 | P-12 | Removes the compulsory school attendance exemption for a person judged to be unable to benefit from instruction because of learning disabilities or mental, physical, or emotional conditions.
Title: S.B. 382 Compulsory School Attendance
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| VA | Signed into law 04/1997 | P-12 | Clarifies the educational and procedural requirements for the issuance of driver's licenses and learner's permits to minors; requires that only minors under the age of 15 years and 6 months demonstrate "good academic standing" to obtain a learner's permit is applied to all minors and parental consent for obtaining either the learner's permit or the driver's license will override this requirement.
Title: H.B. 2066
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| AR | Died 03/1997 | P-12 | Reduces the age for compulsory school attendance from 17 to 16 years of age.
Title: H.B. 1067 Compulsory School Attendance Age
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 03/1997 | P-12 | Requires that the compulsory school attendance laws apply to a six-year-old child who is enrolled in a public school in the first grade or in a higher grade level. If a legal proceeding to compel attendance of any student is brought, the bill would authorize the court to compel the parent to take reasonable steps to assure the child's attendance. Current law (School Attendance Law of 1963) requires that, with certain exceptions, every child who has attained the age of seven years and is under the age of sixteen years shall attend public school.
Title: S.B. 13 Compulsory School Attendance
Source: Colorado Legislative Council Staff
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| ND | Passed 03/1997 | P-12 | Directs the Legislative Council to study the truancy laws of this state and whether there are sufficient options and alternatives available to schools and school districts that have high incidences of truancy.
Title: H.C.R. 3040 Truancy Laws of the State
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/1997 | P-12 | Appropriates $100,000 to the State Board of Education for distribution of grants to local districts. The money will be used to establish truancy support centers in the districts to deal with truant students and their families.
Title: H.B. 392 Truancy Prevention
Source: Utah Education Association
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| AR | Died 02/1997 | P-12 | Repeals A.C.A. 6-18-222 (b), which authorizes revocation of driving privileges of minors with excessive unexcused absences from school.
Title: H.B. 1536 Revocation of Driving Privileges With Unexcused Absences
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Died 02/1997 | P-12 | Relates to compulsory school attendance; provides that school attendance is compulsory until the age of 18 years.
Title: S.B. 1185 Compulsory School Attendance
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| RI | Signed into law 08/1996 | P-12 | Permits police officers to prosecute violations of school attendance laws.
Title: S.B. 2628 Prosecuting violations of attendance laws
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| DE | Died 06/1996 | P-12 | Provides that when a student is expelled from a public school, that person also loses his or her driver's license.
Title: H.B. 449 Expelled Students Lose Their Driver's License
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| HI | Signed into law 06/1996 | P-12 | Requires a child to attend a public or private school only until the age of 16 years rather than 18 years (with some amendments: need parental/principal signature and proof of an alternative education program).
Title: S.B. 2380 Lowers the Compulsory School Age Requirement
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MI | Died 06/1996 | P-12 | Increases compulsory school attendance to the age of eighteen.
Title: H.B. 5962 Compulsory School Attendance Age
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MO | Signed into law 06/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 07/01/97) Repeals current law requiring school districts to evaluate the readiness for entry into kindergarten or first grade of students whose birthdays fall within 3 months after the July 1 cut-off, and establishes a new "date certain" of August 1. A child must turn age 5 before this date in order to be eligible to enrollin kindergarten; a child must turn age 6 before this date in order to enroll in first grade. However, the school districts of the cities of St. Louis and Kansas City may establish a date certain of any specific date between August 1 and October 1.
Title: S.B. 572 School Enrollment Age
Source: House Research Staff--MO House of Representatives
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| NC | Died 06/1996 | P-12 | Provides that high school age children who do not attend school are not eligible for driver's licenses. (DPI Legislative Review 4/6/95, Vol. XII, No. 12)
Title: H.B. 109 No Driver's License for Dropouts
Source: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
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| PA | Died 06/1996 | P-12 | Amends the Vehicles Code. Restricts person eligible for operator's licenses who have not graduated high school or who have below a c+ average in school.
Title: H.B. 2684 Eligibility for Operator's License
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SC | Died 06/1996 | P-12 | Relates to suspension of a minor's driver's license for possessing beer, wine, or alcoholic liquor and for certain other offenses, so as to provide that the driver's license of any child less than 18 years of age who has not graduated from high school and who is not enrolled in school shall be suspended.
Title: H.B. 4760 Suspension of Minor's Driver's Licenses
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Died 05/1996 | P-12 | Requires every child to attend school until the child reaches age 17.
Title: S.B. 150 Compulsory School Age Requirements
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Died 05/1996 | P-12 | Requires school districts to prepare a written individual school attendance plan for each habitually truant student, specifying measures to ensure the student's attendance. Authorizes peace officers to take a child into custody and return him or her to the school district when there is reasonable cause to believe the student is truant. Expands the options for responding to a child's or parent's noncompliance with a court order compelling the child to attend school. The court can find the child or parent in contempt and order: community service; the parent to accompany the child to school; the parent to take parenting classes; conflict resolution training or substance abuse counseling, as appropriate.
Title: H.B. 1175 Compulsory School Attendance
Source: CO Association of School Boards, Legislative Newsletter - Billboard, January 19, 1996, 5/10/96
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| CO | Died 05/1996 | P-12 | Requires the school district to enforce the compulsory school attendance laws for 6 year olds. Amends the attendance law by removing any reference to an academic penalty for nonattendance. Mandates that school boards set policies regarding attendance and truancy. Allows for the creation of a school attendance review board by school boards for the district or for each school in the district for the purpose of reviewing cases of truancy and meeting with parents to develop a plan to correct truancy problems. Authorizes law enforcement officers who believe that a child is violating the attendance laws to issue a notice of possible truancy to the child and forward a copy of such notice to the school district. Permits a law enforcement officer to take a child into temporary custody for the purpose of releasing the child to the school district.
Title: S.B. 119 Truant Children
Source: CASB Legislative Status Report; CASB Bill Board 5/10/96
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| DE | Died 05/1996 | P-12 | Takes into account situations in which a child does not live with a parent but lives with someone to whom custody has been awarded by the Family Court; requires that legal guardianship must be obtained before a child be enrolled in school; prevents persons who have been awarded custody from having to return to Family Court for guardianship order in order to enroll the child in school.
Title: S.B. 379 Legal Guardianship to Enroll Children in School
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MI | Died 05/1996 | P-12 | Requires the department of social services to establish an AFDC program to provide grants for teens to encourage school attendance; requests a federal waiver.
Title: H.B. 5885 Establishment of AFDC Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 05/1996 | P-12 | A pupil who has been absent without excuse for five consecutive days shall be taken off the school rolls. Modifies state aid support levels for schools. Modifies formula for calculation of mid-term supplemental funding for schools. Requires the State Ed Dept to develop, and all school districts to implement, a student identification system to be used specifically for reporting enrollment data.
Title: H.B. 2055 Absent students taken off school roles, student id system
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Signed into law 04/1996 | P-12 |
Title: S.J.R. 71 Boards of Ed & City and County govts are urged to enforce truancy laws
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Passed 04/1996 | P-12 | Clarifies that motor vehicle license or permit will be denied if a student who is enrolled in a secondary school of this state or any other state is not making satisfactory academic progress.
Title: H.B. 2296/S.B. 2414
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Became law without governor's signature 04/1996 | P-12 | Requires compliance with compulsory school attendance laws for minor to be eligible to obtain a driver's license unless the Commissioner finds, in accordance with regulations, that there is a hardship.
Title: H.B. 1068
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Became law without governor's signature 04/1996 | P-12 | Reduces the number of unexplained consecutive absences from five to three for a child to be reported to the attendance officer. Requires child be reported if his unexplained absences total five school days per month or an aggregate of 10 days per semester. The bill increases the penalties for i) inducing a child to be absent, (ii) violating compulsory school attendance laws, and (iii) permitting a child to be habitually absent from school to a Class 3 misdemeanor from a Class 4.
Title: H.B. 375 Reporting of truancy
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/1996 | P-12 | Prohibits persons under the age of fifteen year and six months from obtaining a learners' permit if they are not in good academic standing.
Title: H.B. 520
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Became law without governor's signature 04/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 07/01/96) Relates to require compliance with compulsory school attendance for a minor to be eligible to obtain a driver's license unless the Commissioner finds there is a hardship as provided in regulations.
Title: H.B. 1284
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 04/10/96) Reduces the number of unexplained consecutive absences from five to three for a child to be reported to the attendance officer. A child must also be reported if his unexplained absences total five school days per month or an aggregate of 10 days per semester.
Title: S.B. 324 Unexplained Consecutive Absences
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WA | Signed into law 04/1996 | P-12 | Reduces the number of unexplained consecutive absences from five to three for a child to be reported to the attendance officer. A child must also be reported if his unexplained absences total five school days per month or an aggregate of 10 days per semester.
Title: S.B. 324 Reporting unexplained consecutive absences
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | Amends and adds to existing law to provide for the suspension of a driver's license for any person under the age of eighteen who drops out of school.
Title: S.B. 1472 Suspension of a Driver's License
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Died 03/1996 | P-12 | Requires specified school officials, upon receipt of a report that a student has been absent more than ten times in one month, to initiate an investigation into cause of the child's truancy or file a complaint with the Department of Juvenile Justice alleging the student is a child in need of supervision.
Title: H.B. 903 Process for Truancy
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Expired 03/1996 | P-12 | Requires a county school superintendent or private school principal to send notice to the Motor Vehicle Administration when a student is suspended or expelled from a public school for disruptive behavior or truancy; alters the term "provisional driver's license" to be "Provisional driver's permit".
Title: H.B. 1020 Alters the Term " Provisional Driver's License" to be "Provisional Driver's Permit" When a Student is Suspended. Expelled from Public School
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 03/04/96) Allows a student to be assigned to whichever school is requested if there is no school in that student's district within ten miles of the student's residence and bus service and dormitories are not provided.
Title: H.B. 1145 Choice
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | Authorizes the court to suspend, restrict, or deny the issuance of a driver's license for students who have five unexcused absences from school in any one school year and against whom proceedings as a child in need of supervision have been instituted. License suspensions and denials of issuance shall be no less than 120 days and no more than one year. The court may permit the child to have a restricted license.
Title: H.B. 230
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IA | Died 02/1996 | P-12 | Establishes a truancy school in each area education agency; defines certain truants as children in need of assistance or as delinquents; makes an appropriation; provides for properly related matters; provides a conditional effective date.
Title: S.B. 2143 Truancy School
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 02/1996 | P-12 | Amends existing law to allow children who have completed out of state kindergarten to attend first grade even though they are only five years old.
Title: H.B. 837 Five Year Olds Attend First Grade
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Died 02/1996 | P-12 | Permits local boards of education to adopt a policy requiring students to attend at least 90% of a class in order to receive credit; requires those local boards of education adopting the policy to appoint attendance committees to hear petitions for credit from students; establishes review procedure.
Title: S.B. 257 Compulsory School Attendance
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Died 02/1996 | P-12 | Amends KRS 159.130, relating to the powers of the directors of pupil personnel, to authorize them, their assistant, and police officers to take children who are in violation of KRS Chapter 159, into custody without a warrant; requires that the child be taken immediately to the school's principal and that the parents be notified, and permit them to schedule a meeting to discuss the violation.
Title: H.B. 668 Enforcement of Compulsory School Attendance
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Died 02/1996 | P-12 | Relates to the reduction of truancy, establishes programs to cooperate with local and state law enforcement to identify habitual truants for their identification, citation, and return to school; requires every law enforcement agency, upon request of the pupil personnel officer of a school, to cooperate in such a program.
Title: H.B. 759 Habitual Truants
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Died 02/1996 | P-12 | Creates the Department of Compulsory School Attendance Enforcement under the administration of the State Auditor; provides for a system of enforcement; provides for the appointment of a Director; creates the position of school attendance officer in each congressional district. (Defeated by committee)
Title: H.B. 696 Enforcement of Compulsory School Attendance
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Died 02/1996 | P-12 | Relates to motor vehicles. Amends and enacts certain sections of the NMSA 1978 to provide for suspension of a driver's license if the licensee withdraws from school.
Title: H.B. 611 Dropouts and Suspended Driver's License
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Died 02/1996 | P-12 | Provides that the academic good standing required for participation in driver's education and for the issuance of a driver's license will be based on certification by the school principal of the student's academic effort as indicated by satisfactory completion of at least 70% of all assigned homework and other course-work for the current academic year.
Title: H.B. 582
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WI | Died 02/1996 | P-12 | This bill reduces the age of compulsory school attendance from 18 to 17 years of age. Under this bill, upon the request of any child who is at least 17 years old, the school board may allow the child to participate in an alternative program.
Title: S.B. 300 Compulsory Attendance Age Lowered
Source: Wisconsin Association of School Boards, Legislative Alert, 2/17/96; 4/3/96
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| HI | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Requires a child to attend a public or private school from the age of 3 years, rather than 6 years. Requires a child to attend a public or private school only until the age of 16 years, rather than 18 years.
Title: H.B. 96-2703 Compulsory School Age Requirements for Public and Private
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| HI | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Lowers the age of compulsory education from 18 to 16; requires DOE to be responsible for providing alternative education to alienated and at-risk students.
Title: S.B. 96-3073 Compulsory Age Requirement
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Raises the maximum age of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18. Provides specified exceptions. Raises the age at which an individual may receive a high school diploma by examination. (Reported unfavorably from House Committee on Ways and Means)
Title: H.B. 96-303 Compulsory School Ages
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Expired 01/1996 | P-12 | Requires a County Board of Education to notify the Motor Vehicle Administration of an individual who drops out of high school; requires the Administration to determine whether the individual holds a driver's license issued by the State; requires the Administration to revoke or not to issue a driver's license.
Title: H.B. 483 Dropouts and Driver's License
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MO | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Compulsory school attendance until 18.
Title: H.B. 917 Compulsory School Attendance
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Changes cutoff date for six year old enrollment from September 1 to January 1.
Title: H.B. 1246 Age Cut Off Dates
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Revises the age for compulsory school attendance.
Title: H.B. 1116 Age for Compulsory School Attendance
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Relates to public education. Lowers the compulsory education and requirement from 18 to 14. Makes certain technical changes.
Title: S.B. 81 Compulsory Education Age Requirement
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VT | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Requires that a child be at least five years old before 9/1 to enter a public school kindergarten that year and at least six years old before 9/1 to enter a public school first grade that year.
Title: H.B. 633 Kindergarten and First Grade Ages
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WA | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Lowers the age for mandatory school attendance from eight to six. (From Senate Committee on Education: Do pass as substituted)
Title: H.B. 2737/S.B. 6660 Mandatory School Attendance
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WV | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Requires school attendance until 18 years of age and provides alternative classrooms for disruptive students.
Title: H.B. 4177 Compulsory School Age Requirement
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NJ | Died 11/1995 | P-12 | Provides parent of child failing to attend school is subject to community service.
Title: A.B. 3145/S.B. 2330 Parents Subject to Community Service
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WI | Signed into law 11/1995 | P-12 | The bill contains a number of provisions that increase the exchange of otherwise confidential information about juveniles between law enforcement agencies, courts, corrections agencies, social services agencies and school districts.
Title: A.B. 130 Confidential Information Concerning Juveniles
Source: Legislative Council Staff
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| WI | Signed into law 11/1995 | P-12 | Creates a juvenile justice code.
Title: A.B. 130 Habitually Truant
Source: Legislative Council Staff
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| NH | Died 10/1995 | P-12 | Provides that a parent who sends a child to a school which the child has no right to attend shall pay to the school district a fine equal to double the amount of the annual tuition charged by the school district.
Title: H.B. 1622 Tuition for Child Who Has No Right to Attend
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WI | Died 09/1995 | P-12 | This bill authorizes a school board to notify the department of transportation (DOT) that a pupil enrolled in the school district is a habitual truant. DOT is required to suspend the pupil's operating privilege for not less than 30 days not more than 90 days, as provided in the notification from the school board. The pupil is not eligible for issuance by DOT of an occupational license (a license that permits limited operation of a motor vehicle for purposes of an occupation or trade, including full time or part time study.)
Title: S.B. 322 Habitual Truants' Driving Privileges Suspended
Source: Wisconsin Association of School Boards, Legislative Alert, 2/17/96
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| CT | Signed into law 07/1995 | P-12 | (Effective: 07/01/95) This act requires superintendents to bring a truant child's case to Superior Court if his parents fail to meet with school personnel and cooperate in solving the truancy problem and makes other changes to the truancy laws. It extends the law's expulsion requirement for possessing a weapon on school grounds by requiring a one year expulsion with exceptions on a case by case basis, requires a report to police, and specifies that a school board may expel someone for conduct that is seriously disruptive of the educational process even if it occurred off school grounds. The act allows a special education student to be expelled for weapons related conduct or distributing illegal drugs at school, if the misconduct was found not to be caused by his disability, but requires that he be offered an alternative educational opportunity during the period of expulsion. It removes the requirement that expelled students between the ages of 16 and 18 be offered an alternative educational program if they are expelled more than once, even if one of the expulsions occurred before they turned 16. It allows boards to include placement in an adult education program as an alternative for expelled students who are at least 16 years old and specifies that they may reassign pupils to regular classes in another school without it constituting a suspension or expulsion. The act requires police who arrest any 7-20 year old student for a misdemeanor to notify the superintendent of the school district where the student lives, as they must already do for students arrested for a felony. It prohibits students from using beepers in school except in specified circumstances. It also makes other minor, technical, and conforming changes.
Title: PA 95-304, sH.B. 6898 School Safety
Source: Connecticut General Assembly, 1995 Legislation
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| ME | Signed into law 07/1995 | P-12 | This bill permits law enforcement officers who see identified truants off school grounds during school hours to transport the truant students to the appropriate school.
Title: LD 263 An Act to Permit Law Enforcement Officers to Transport Truants Back to School
Source: Maine State Legislature Office of Policy and Legal Analysis
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| CA | Signed into law 06/1995 | P-12 | Provides that pupils are truant if they are absent without valid excuse 3 full days in one school year or tardy or absent for more than any 30-minute segment during the schoolday without a valid excuse on 3 occasions in one school year, or any combination thereof.
Title: S.B. 102 Defines truancy
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/1995 | P-12 | Relates to the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program; prohibits payment of AFDC benefits to or on behalf of certain children; provides school attendance requirements for receipt of AFDC benefits; requires the Department of Social Services to apply for the appropriate federal waiver; provides duties for the Department of Education and the Department of Social Services; provides for effective date of these provisions; provides for related matters.
Title: S.B. 585 AFDC Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 06/1995 | P-12 | Under current law, a person who has under his or her control a child who is at least 5 years old, but under 16 years of age, is responsible for ensuring that the child attends school or receives instruction. A person who fails to see that a child attends school is guilty of a misdemeanor and is subject to a fine not to exceed $50 per day of unlawful absence or imprisonment not to exceed 10 days, or both. Legislation was introduced to climinate the defense that a person is unable to control a child and therefore does not have the child under his or her control and, accordingly, should not be subject to the penalty. H.B. 132 makes a person who has legal custody or care and control of a child who is at least 5 years old, but under the age of 16, responsible for seeing that the child attends school or receives instruction. The bill also increases the penalty for a second conviction.
Title: H.B. 132, chapter 350 School Attendance
Source: Department of Legislative Reference
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| RI | Signed into law 06/1995 | P-12 | Enables city or town school boards/committees and/or councils to adopt programs of early intervention and mediation in an effort to address the problem of truancy.
Title: H.B. 6045 Early intervention programs for truancy
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KS | Signed into law 05/1995 | P-12 | H.B. 2109 authorized law enforcement officers to deliver children subject to the compulsory attendance law but not in shcool to the school the child attends or the child's parent or custodian and added to the definition of the term "inexcusably absent" (used for purposes of enforcing the compulsory attendance law) the situation in which the child has inexcusable absences on seven or more days in a school year.
Title: H.B. 2109 Enforcing Compulsory Attendance
Source: Kansas Legislative Research Department
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| KY | Passed 05/1995 | P-12 | (Effective: 05/01/95) Defines average daily attendance of pupils for funding purposes under the Support Educational Excellence in Kentucky Program; bases state funding upon average daily attendance; defines the minimum age for school attendance; defines attendance credit for moral instruction and 4-H activities; requires attendance records to be kept by teachers.
Title: 702 KAR 7:050 & 702 KAR 7:125 Average Daily Pupil Attendance
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 05/1995 | P-12 | Law Enforcement Officers who see identified truants off school grounds during school hours may not take action except to notify the school or designated school personnel. Permits an officer to transport the truant student to the appropriate school.
Title: H.B. 204 Law Enforcement Officers notifying school of truants
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MO | Died 05/1995 | P-12 | This bill raises the age for compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18. The bill requires any person under 18 years of age who wishes to obtain a motor vehicle operator's license or temporary permit to present to the Director of Revenue a high school diploma or a general education development certificate (GED), or documentation that the applicant is attending high school and has earned a minimum of 2.25 units of credit the preceding semester, is enrolled in a special education program for the handicapped, is enrolled in a private or home school program, is enrolled in an approved alternative curriculum for students at risk, or is attempting to obtain a GED. The bill requires superintendents of schools or chief administrative officers of nonpublic schools or parents in the case of home school students to provide documentation of enrollment status and progress toward graduation on approved forms. If a student drops out of school, has 10 or more consecutive unexcused absences, or has 15 unexcused absences in a semester, the school or parent of a home school student is required to notify the Department of Revenue, which will then notify the student that his or her operator's license will be suspended within 30 days if he or she does not provide required documentation. Persons knowingly submitting false information are guilty of a class C misdemeanor. The bill permits local school boards to decline to pursue revocation of an emancipated minor's driver's license if they determine that it is in the minor's best interest to have a license. The bill also requires parental approval before individuals under the age of 18 who are not emancipated minors may receive an operator's license and contains provisions whereby parents of such children may petition the circuit court to revoke their childrens' operator's licenses.
Title: H.B. 158 School Attendance
Source: House Research
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| OK | Signed into law 05/1995 | P-12 | Allows truant officers to give warnings orally or in person that the attendance of a child is required at school. Requires that if a child is absent without valid excuse for four days or parts of days within a four-week period or for 10 days or parts of days within a four-week period, the attendance officer must report such absences to the district attorney for juvenile proceedings. Modifies the list of persons who can detain a truant for certain purposes to include any peace officer.
Title: H.B. 1975 Truant Officers' responsibilities
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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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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| TN | Signed into law 04/1995 | P-12 | Expands penalties to parents of habitually truant children to apply to parents of children in grades K-12.
Title: S.B. 1343 Expands penalties to parents of truants in K-12
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/1995 | P-12 | Requires school districts to notify parents when their children accumulate excessive "unexcused" absences.
Title: S.B. 525 - Parent Notification
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KS | Signed into law 03/1995 | P-12 | Concerns children and minors; relating to law enforcement officers taking such children into temporary custody if not attending school.
Title: H.B. 2109 Relating to law enforcement officers taking truant children into custody
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Died 08/1994 | P-12 | The bill would: a) make the parents of pupils who have an arrest record for truancy, guilty of an infraction and punishable by a fine of $100 to $500, if that pupil is subsequently arrested for being absent from school as a truant. b) authorize a school district to require truants to attend Saturday school, summer school, intersession, after school instruction or to perform community service. c) require that truancy notices be in a language that is understandable by parents or guardians. d) require the notice to inform parents that they may be guilty of an infraction and subject to prosecution. (Passed Assembly; died in Committee in Senate) (SELL, 3/94)
StateNet Summary: Pupils: truancy Authorizes a school district to require truants, as defined, to attend Saturday or after-school instruction or perform community service, as specified. Provides that the school district may require a pupil who is deemed an habitual truant, as defined, to attend Summer school or intersession or to perform community service.
Title: A.B. 2707 Truancy; Bills would change pupil discipline laws
Source: Sacramento Education Legislative Letter (SELL)
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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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| KS | Signed into law 06/1994 | P-12 | Amends a law which permits boards of education of two or more school districts to enter into agreements providing for attendance of pupils residing in one district at school in any of the grades of another district. Under this law, the boards may provide for the combination of enrollments for kindergarten or one or more grades, courses, or units of instruction. The law also provided that pupils who satisfactorily completed grade 12 while in attendance at school in a district in which the pupil did not reside would, nonetheless, be certified as having graduated from the school district of the pupil's residence. The amendment continued this policy unless the agreement between or among districts specifies otherwise. (Legislative Summary 1994)
Title: H.B. 2899 High School Diplomas
Source: Legislativ Research Department
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| KS | Signed into law 06/1994 | P-12 | Changes from Sept 1 to Aug 31 the date on or before which a child must reach age five in order to be entitled to attend kindergarten or reach age six in order to be entitled to enter the elementary grades of a school district. This change becomes effective for kindergarten attendance commencing with the 1995-96 school year and for elementary school attendance in the 1996-97 school year. The limited exceptions to these requirements in the law remain unchanged. (Legislative Summary 1994)
Title: H.B. 3087 Age of Entrance
Source: Legislative Research Department
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| TN | Signed into law 06/1994 | P-12 | This bill provides that the school superintendent shall provide written notice to parents of students who accumulate 5 days of absences. A new notice will be sent for each 5 days of absences. (Legislative Summary 1994)
Title: S.B. 2375 Notice to Parents of Truant Student
Source: Senate Education Committee
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| CO | Signed into law 05/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 05/19/94) Bars a child who is habitually truant in public school in the prior six months from participating in any non public, home based education program unless the parents submit a written description of the curricula to be used. Requires each district's attendance policy to specify the number of unexcused absences which may trigger a compulsory attendance enforcement preceeding. (Bill Board 5/19/94)
Title: S.B. 72 School Attendance
Source: CO Assoc of School Boards
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| WY | Signed into law 05/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 03/22/94) Expressly authorizes school districts to refuse admission to students suspended or expelled by other districts located within or outside of the state. (Legislative Summary 5/94)
Title: SF0083B Public Education Amendments 2
Source: WY State Legislature
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| IL | Died 04/1994 | P-12 | Provides for a $50 per month AFDC grant decrease for teenage parents who fail to maintain acceptable school attendance. (The Legislature and the Schools Vol XV, No 5, 4/6/94)
Title: H.B. 2806 Teenage Parents and Unacceptable Attendance
Source: IL State Board of Education
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| IL | Died 04/1994 | P-12 | Amends law authorizing denial of reenrollment to dropouts who, because of age and lack of credits, could not graduate with normal attendance by age 21, porvides that such student must be offered a due process meeting before they may be denied reenrollment; provides for certain exceptions. (Reported favorably as amended from House Committee on Elementary and Secondary Education) (The Legislature and the Schools Vol. XV, No 5 , 4/6/94)
Title: H.B. 2528 Compulsory School Age
Source: IL State Board of Education
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| NE | Signed into law 04/1994 | P-12 | Relates to schools and school districts; provides for services relating to truancy; names the Student Discipline Act; authorizes additional disciplinary actions; requires compliance with certain other laws as prescribed; changes provisions relating to giving notice; provides for reassignment agreements among schools; provides for suspension of an expulsion as prescribed; changes provisions relating to grounds for long term suspension, expulsion, or reassignment. (Statenet 4/7/94)
School districts are required to: a) take greater responsibility for early intervention for truant behavior; b) develop policies regarding opportunities for completion of assignments and tests for students suspended short term; c) work with probation officers to develop conditions for probation as they relate to the school environment for individuals under the age of 19 who may have been suspended from such school; d) notify law enforcement authorities if principal "knows or suspects" that an act of a student which is grounds for expulsion is a violation of the Nebraska Criminal Code; and e) notify a parent/guardian/relative of the release of a minor to a peace offficer and the place where the minor is reportedly being taken. Other provisions include: 1) A school district that has expelled a student may suspend the expulsion and, as a condition of such suspension, assign the student to a school, class, or program appropriate for rehabilitation of the student. Districts are encouraged to join together to develop & implement alternative programs for students. Those involved in alternative programs will continue to earn credit towards graduation. Students satisfactorily completing requirements of alternative program may be allowed to return to the regular school setting. 2) Grounds for expulsion have been expanded to include possession, selling, dispensing, or use of an imitation controlled substance, a substance represented to be a controlled substance, or being under the influence of a controlled substance or alcoholic liquor. 3) If the misconduct occurred wihtin 10 days of the end of the first semester, the student may be expelled for the following semester. It occurred within 10 days of the end of the second semester, the expulsion may remain in effect during summer school and the first semester of the following school year. In the second scenario, a mandatory review hearing will be scheduled by the hearing examiner to consider new evidence which may cause the school board to suspend the expulsion for the upcoming school year. 4) Expulsion of a student for the "knowing and intentional use of force in causing or attempting to cause personal injury to a school employee, volunteer, or student" OR "the knowing and intentional posession, use, or transmission of a firearm or other dangerous weaon" SHALL be for the remainder of the school year if misconduct occurs first semester, and for summer school and the first semester of the following year if second semester. A review hearing is still required under the second scenario. The board may suspend the expulsion if it chooses. 5) Each provision continues to apply only to misconduct occurring on school grounds. The only exception in Nebraska is for first or second degree sexual assault of any person. (Legislative Summary 1994)
Title: LB 1250 Student Discipline Act
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 04/1994 | P-12 | Authorizes judge to assess fine of up to $50.00 on parent or legal guardian of K-6 children if child is absent more than five days during each six week period. Allows parent to show proof of illness of child but benefits from the government may be reduced for unexcused absences if family receiving assistance. (Statenet 4/13/94)
This bill permits juvenile judges to assess a $50 fine or 5 hours of communtiy service against the parents of K-6 students who are absent more than 5 days during the year, unless excused. (Legislative Summary 1994)
Title: H.B. 1876/S.B. 2227 Holding Parents Accountable for Student Attendance
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/1994 | P-12 | Revises the definition of "person of school age" to include students for whom English is a second language who enter school for the first time after reaching their twelfth birthday and have not reached twenty two years of age. This provision also clarifies that "person of school age" includes children with disabilities aged two through twenty one.
Title: H.B. 348 - Defines "person of school age"
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WI | Signed into law 04/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 05/04/94) This law allows a county, city, village or town to enact an ordinance prohibiting any pupil who is 16 or 17 years of age from being a school dropout and permitting suspension of the dropout's motor vehicle operating privilege until the child reaches the age of 18. The dispositional order suspending the dropout's operating privilege may be dismissed if the child enrolls in a school program or high school equivalency program. If undue hardship would result from suspension the dropout's operating privilege until the child attains 18 years of age, any of the dispositonal alternatives available for ordinances prohibiting habitual truancy may be substituted. The law provides that an applicant for an instruction permit or a driver's license who is under the age of 18 must submit written verification that he or she has graduated from high school, successfully completed a high school equivalency program or is enrolled in a school program or high school equivalency program and is not a habitual truant. (A New Law 5/4/94)
Title: A.B. 280
Source: WI Assoc of School Boards
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| CO | Died 03/1994 | P-12 | This bill lets a district or group of districts create special schools for suspended and expelled students. Districts could apply for exemptions from district policy and state regulations in the same manner as a charter school. No funding is attached to H.B. 1072, but the sponsor wants the Legislature to pass the bill to deal with the increased number of students suspended and expelled from schools under H.B. 1093 passed during the 1993 legialative session. (CO Education Assoc Journal Mar/Apr 1994, Vol 109, No 4)
Title: H.B. 1072 Schools for Suspended or Expelled Students
Source: Colorado Education Association Journal
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| CO | Signed into law 01/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 04/19/94) The bill bars a child who is habitually truant in public school in the prior six months from participating in any non public home based education program without permission of the superintendent of the child's school district of residence. Allows a child who is participating in home school to participate in interscholastic activities in any public or private school if the child lives within the attendance boundaries of the public or private school. Requires each district's attendance policy to specify the number of unexcused absences which may trigger a compulsory attendance enforcement proceeding. (Bill Board Vol. 5, #1, 1/94)
Title: S.B. 94-72 School Attendance School Attendance
Source: Bill Board Vol. 5, #1, CO Dept. of Education
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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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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Day/Class Length |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Summer School |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Week |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Year |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Year Round |
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| School Climate/Culture |
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| School Safety |
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| School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
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| School Safety--Code of Conduct |
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| School Safety--Corporal Punishment |
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| School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
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| School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension |
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| School Safety--No Child Left Behind--Safe Schools |
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| School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
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| School Safety--Special Education |
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| School Safety--Uniforms/Dress Codes |
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| School/District Structure/Operations |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--District Consolidation/Deconsolidation |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--District Size |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Libraries |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Org. (K-3/K-8 etc.) |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--School Size |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Shared Services |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Staffing Ratios |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
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| Service-Learning |
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| Special Education |
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| Special Education--Federal Law/Regulations |
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| Special Education--Finance |
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| Special Education--Inclusion (Mainstreaming) |
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| Special Education--Placement |
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| Special Education--Transition |
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| Special Populations--Corrections Education |
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| Special Populations--Foster Care |
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| Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
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| Special Populations--Homeless Education |
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| Special Populations--Immigrant Education |
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| Special Populations--Migrant Education |
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| Special Populations--Military |
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| Standards |
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| Standards--Common Core State Standards |
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| Standards--Implementation |
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| State Comparisons/Statistics |
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| State Longitudinal Data Systems |
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| State Policymaking |
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| State Policymaking--Ballot Questions |
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| State Policymaking--Constitutional Clauses |
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| State Policymaking--Politics |
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| State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
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| STEM |
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| Student Achievement |
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| Student Achievement--Closing the Achievement Gap |
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| Student Achievement--State Trends |
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| Student Supports |
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| Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
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| Student Supports--Mentoring/Tutoring |
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| Student Supports--Remediation |
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| Student Surveys |
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| Students |
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| Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
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| Students--Employment |
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| Students--Incentives |
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| Students--K-12 Exchange Students |
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| Students--Mobility |
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| Students--Records/Rights |
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| Teaching Quality |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Assignment |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds. |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--State Prof. Standards Bds. |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Substitute Teachers |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
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| Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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| Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
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| Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals |
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| Teaching Quality--Preparation |
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| Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--High-Needs Subjects |
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| Teaching Quality--Reduction in Force |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Attitudes |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Contracts (Not Tenure) |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Rights |
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| Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
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| Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
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| Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining--Strikes |
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| Teaching Quality--Working Conditions |
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| Technology |
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| Technology--Computer Skills |
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| Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
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| Technology--Equitable Access |
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| Technology--Funding Issues |
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| Technology--Internet Safety |
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| Technology--Research/Evaluation |
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| Technology--Teacher/Faculty Training |
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| Textbooks and Open Source |
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| Urban |
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| Urban--Change/Improvements |
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| Urban--Governance |
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| Whole-School Reform Models |
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| Whole Child |
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