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State |
Status/Date |
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Summary |
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 | 21st Century Skills |
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| Accountability |
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| Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
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| Accountability--Reporting Results |
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| Accountability--Rewards |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Learnfare |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Play |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers |
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| Accountability--School Improvement |
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| Adult Basic Education |
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| Assessment |
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| Assessment--Accommodations |
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| Assessment--College Entrance Exams |
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| Assessment--Computer Based |
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| Assessment--End-of-Course |
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| Assessment--Formative/Interim |
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| Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
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| Assessment--Legal Issues |
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| Assessment--NAEP (NAEP Results and NAEP Organization) |
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| Assessment--Performance Based/Portfolio |
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| Assessment--Value Added |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
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| Attendance |
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| Attendance--Compulsory |
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| Attendance--Statutory Ages (Upper and Lower) |
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| Attendance--Truancy |
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| Background Checks |
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| Bilingual/ESL |
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| Brain Research |
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| Business Involvement |
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| Career/Technical Education |
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| Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship |
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| Cheating |
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| Choice of Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Charter Districts |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Closings |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Cyber Charters |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Research |
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| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
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| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment--Research |
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| Choice of Schools--Innovation Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers--Privately Funded |
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| Civic Education |
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| Civic Education--Character Education |
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| Civic Education--Civic Knowledge and Literacy |
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| Civic Education--Curriculum/Standards |
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| Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance |
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| Class Size |
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| Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Alignment |
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| Curriculum--Arts Education |
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| Curriculum--Censorship |
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| Curriculum--Core Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Drivers Education |
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| Curriculum--Environmental Education |
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| Curriculum--Excusal |
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| Curriculum--Family Living Education |
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| Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
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| Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
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| Curriculum--Geography Education |
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| Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education |
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| Curriculum--Home Economics |
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| Curriculum--International Education |
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| Curriculum--Language Arts |
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| Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling |
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| Curriculum--Mathematics |
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| Curriculum--Multicultural |
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| Curriculum--Physical Education |
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| Curriculum--Science |
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| Curriculum--Sex Education |
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| Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
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| Curriculum--Speech Education |
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| Data-Driven Improvement |
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| Demographics |
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| Demographics--Condition of Children/Adults |
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| Demographics--Enrollments |
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| Desegregation |
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| Economic/Workforce Development |
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| Education Research |
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| Equity |
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| Federal |
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| Finance |
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| Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
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| Finance--Aid to Private Schools |
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| Finance--Bonds |
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| Finance--District |
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| Finance--Does Money Matter? |
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| Finance--Equity |
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| Finance--Facilities |
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| Finance--Federal |
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| Finance--Funding Formulas |
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| Finance--Litigation |
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| Finance--Local Foundations/Funds |
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| Finance--Lotteries |
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| Finance--Performance Funding |
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| Finance--Private Giving |
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| Finance--Resource Efficiency |
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| Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
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| Finance--Student Fees |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
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| Governance |
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| Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
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| Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
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| Governance--Mandates |
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| Governance--Regional Entities |
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| Governance--School Boards |
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| Governance--School Boards--Training |
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| Governance--Site-Based Management |
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| Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
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| Health |
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| Health--Child Abuse |
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| Health--Mental Health |
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| Health--Nutrition |
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| Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
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| Health--Suicide Prevention |
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| Health--Teen Pregnancy |
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| High School |
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| High School--Advanced Placement |
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| High School--College Readiness |
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| High School--Credit Recovery |
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| High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
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| High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
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| High School--Early Colleges/Middle Colleges |
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| High School--Exit Exams |
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| High School--GED (General Education Development) |
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| High School--Graduation Requirements |
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| High School--International Baccalaureate |
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| Instructional Approaches |
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| Instructional Approaches--Constructivism |
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| Instructional Approaches--Grading Practices |
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| Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
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| Instructional Approaches--Homework/Study Skills |
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| Instructional Approaches--Official English |
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| Instructional Approaches--Problem Based Learning |
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| Instructional Approaches--Single-Sex Education |
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| Instructional Approaches--Time/Time on Task |
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| Instructional Approaches--Tracking/Ability Grouping |
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| Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
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| International Benchmarking |
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| Leadership |
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| Leadership--District Superintendent |
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| Leadership--District Superintendent--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation--Alternative |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Professional Development |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Recruitment and Retention |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Tenure |
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| Middle School |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--African American |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--Hispanic |
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| No Child Left Behind |
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| No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
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| No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
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| No Child Left Behind--Choice/Transfer |
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| No Child Left Behind--Consequences for Schools |
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| No Child Left Behind--Finance |
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| No Child Left Behind--Parent Involvement |
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| No Child Left Behind--Reauthorization Issues/Waivers |
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| No Child Left Behind--Report Cards |
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| No Child Left Behind--School Support |
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| No Child Left Behind--Special Populations |
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| No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
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| Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
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| Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
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| P-16 or P-20 |
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| P-3 |
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| P-3 Brain Development |
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| P-3 Child Care |
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| P-3 Content Standards and Assessment |
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| P-3 Data Systems |
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| P-3 Early Intervention (0-3) |
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| P-3 Ensuring Quality |
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| P-3 Evaluation/Economic Benefits |
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| P-3 Family Involvement |
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| P-3 Finance |
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| P-3 Governance |
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| P-3 Grades 1-3 |
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| P-3 Health and Mental Health |
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| P-3 Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Kindergarten--Full Day Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Preschool |
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| P-3 Public/Private Partnerships |
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| P-3 Special Ed./Inclusion |
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| P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development |
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| Parent/Family |
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| Parent/Family--Parent Rights |
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| Parent/Family--Research |
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| Partnerships--University/School |
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| Postsecondary |
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| Postsecondary Accountability |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Diploma Mills |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Licensing/Program Review and Approval |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Student Learning |
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| Postsecondary Affordability |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Textbooks |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Undocumented Immigrants |
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| Postsecondary Faculty |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Compensation |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Intellectual Property |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Teaching Assistants |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Tenure |
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| Postsecondary Finance |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Efficiency/Performance-Based Funding |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Facilities |
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| Postsecondary Finance--Revenue and Expenditures |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures--Administrative/Leadership Issues |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures--State Executives/State Agencies |
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| Postsecondary Institutions |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Four-Year Baccalaureate |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--HBCUs/Minority-Serving Institutions |
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| Postsecondary Institutions--Private/Independent |
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| Postsecondary Online Instruction |
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| Postsecondary Participation |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Access |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Affirmative Action |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Enrollments (Statistics) |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Outreach |
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| Postsecondary Students |
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| Postsecondary Students--Adults |
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| Postsecondary Students--Disabled |
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| Postsecondary Students--Foster Youth |
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| Postsecondary Students--Graduate/Professional |
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| Postsecondary Students--International |
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| Postsecondary Students--Low-Income |
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| Postsecondary Students--Military |
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| Postsecondary Students--Minority |
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| Postsecondary Success |
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| Postsecondary Success--Completion |
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| Postsecondary Success--Completion--Completion Rates (Statistics) |
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| Postsecondary Success--Developmental/Remediation |
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| Postsecondary Success--Retention/Persistence |
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| Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
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| Private Schools |
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| Privatization |
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| Privatization--Education Management Agencies (EMOs) |
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| Proficiency-Based Approaches |
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| Promising Practices |
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| Promotion/Retention |
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| Public Attitudes |
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| Public Involvement |
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| Purposes of Public Education |
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| Reading/Literacy |
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| Reading/Literacy--Adult Literacy |
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| Religion |
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| Religion--Prayer/Meditation |
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| Religion--Scientific Creationism (Evolution) |
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| Rural |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar |
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| 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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| NY | Signed into law 07/2012 | P-12 | Increases from 3 to 4 the number of inservice days that may be included in 180 days that school must be in session. Allows districts to schedule teacher conference (inservice) days during the last two weeks of August, subject to collective bargaining agreements; provides any such teacher conference days must be counted toward the 180 days school is in session. Prohibits such scheduling from altering a district's obligation to provide transportation to students in non-public K-12 schools or charter schools. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=%0D%0A&bn=S07718&term=&Summary=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y
Title: S.B. 7718
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| CA | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | From section 27 of bill summary: Provides that, if a district, county office of education, or charter school reduces the number of days of instruction pursuant to a specified provision for the 2012–13 or 2013–14 fiscal years, the minimum standard for full time for purposes of calculating disability, retirement, and death benefits under the Defined Benefit Program are reduced to the number of days of instruction provided by that district, county office of education, or charter school and the number of hours of instruction equal to the number of days of instruction times 6. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1001-1050/sb_1016_bill_20120627_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 1016 - Benefit Calculation When Instructional Days Reduced
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | From section 40 of bill summary: Provides that if the Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2012 (Attorney General reference number 12-0009) is not approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide general election, or if the provisions of that act that modify personal income tax rates do not become operative due to a conflict with another initiative measure that is approved at the same election and receives a greater number of affirmative votes, commencing December 15, 2012, this bill, for the 2012–13 and 2013–14 school years, allows a district, county office of education, or charter school to provide an instructional year of not less than 160 days or the equivalent number of instructional minutes. Requires implementation of this reduction that is subject to collective bargaining to be achieved through the bargaining process. Provides this authority would become inoperative on July 1, 2015, and would be repealed on January 1, 2016. Provides that this bill, if that measure is not approved by the voters or does not become operative due to the conflict discussed above, for the 2012–13 fiscal year, reduces the amount of revenue limit funding received by each district, county office of education, and charter school by a combined total of $2,740,377,000 and requires the state superintendent to adjust the amount of categorical funding allocated to basic aid districts in the 2012–13 fiscal year to achieve the reduction in the amount of revenue limit funding. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1001-1050/sb_1016_bill_20120627_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 1016 - Potential Reduction of School Year to 160 Days
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Waives from calculation of full-time equivalency/minimum school calendar requirements for traditional public schools and community schools any hours or days that learning opportunities were not offered due to law enforcement emergencies.
Pages 159 and 173 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Schools Not Open Due to Law Enforcement Emergencies
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | From K-12 appropriations bill: Establishes legislative intent that local school systems be permitted to develop flexible school terms extending over the school year including late school start dates. School systems are encouraged to use late school dates to replace high cooling cost days in August with lower cost days later in the school year. Directs the state department of education to encourage and work with pilot school systems to determine the cost savings from a later start date.
Title: S.B. 318 - School Start Dates
Source:
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Creates the Flexible School Calendar Act of 2012. Permits the 180-day minimum school term requirement to be met through the hourly equivalent thereof, beginning with the 2012-13 school year and ending with the last day of the 3rd month of the 2013-14 school year. Requires the local school calendar to be annually established by the local board of education. Establishes limits on earliest by which the school year may start and the latest that the last day of instruction may be. Prohibits a local board from reducing the amount in any cell of any employee salary schedule based on these provisions or a future modification to its calendar or schedule. Requires salary allocations in all future Education Trust fund budgets to be based on the number of contact days allocated by the legislature, or the hourly equivalent thereof. Directs the legislative fiscal office to report, by the 10th legislative day of the 2014 session, on the impact of these provisions on state tax revenues, including state sales, use, and lodging tax revenues.
Title: H.B. 360
Source: Westlaw/StateNet
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| IA | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | This section requires the director of the Department of Education to appoint members to a school instructional time task force. The task force is to review and submit findings and recommendations pertaining to school instructional time by October 15, 2012.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/SF2284.pdf
Title: S.F. 2284 - Division X
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Creates the school start date act, provides that no public elementary or secondary school under the jurisdiction of the state board of education shall begin a new academic school year of instruction on or after the fourth Monday in August, exempts schools for the blind and deaf, provides for the repeal of section 37-13-61, Mississippi code of 1972, which authorizes the local school board to fix the date for the opening and closing of the school term on July 1, 2014.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2012/pdf/HB/0700-0799/HB0707SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 707
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | For the 2011-12 school year, directs the commissioner of education to waive up to 10 instructional days for a district in a county in which a disaster has been declared. Permits a district in a county in which a disaster has been declared, when submitting the Superintendent's Annual Attendance Report, may substitute attendance data for school year 2010-2011 for attendance data for school year 2011-2012. Directs instructional staff in a county in which a disaster has been declared to make up any student instructional days waived by participating in instructional activities or professional development or by being assigned additional work responsibilities. Provides this Act applies retroactively to the disaster occurring on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, to Saturday, March 3, 2012. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB255/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 255
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| MN | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Establishes a minimum number of hours for student instruction. Sets the hours at 425 hours per year for kindergarten pupils, 935 hours for pupils in grades 1 to 6 and 1,020 hours per year for pupils in grades 7 to 12. Clarifies that this section does not supersede the commissioner's approval authority of a four-day school week under section 124D.126. (Article 1, Sec 3)
http://wdoc.house.leg.state.mn.us/leg/LS87/1/HF0026.0.pdf
Title: H.F. 26
Source: http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us
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| TX | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Authorizes a district board of trustees to implement a furlough program and reduce the number of days of service otherwise required by law by not more than 6 days of service during a school year if the commissioner certifies that the district will be provided with less state and local funding for that year than was provided to the district for the 2010-2011 school year. Authorizes the board of trustees to reduce the salary of a furloughed employee in proportion to the number of days by which service is reduced. Sets out conditions and restrictions applicable to a furlough program, including among other provisions that (1) a furlough program must subject all contract personnel to the same number of furlough days, (2) an educator may not use personal, sick or any other paid leave while on furlough, and (3) implementation of a furlough program may not result in an increase in the number of required teacher workdays. Establishes the required process for the development of a furlough program or other salary reduction proposal. In developing a furlough program, requires a district to use a process that includes the involvement of the district's professional staff, and provides employees with the opportunity to express opinions on the furlough program or salary reduction proposal at a public meeting. Pages 12-14 of 19: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/821/billtext/pdf/SB00008F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: S.B. 8 - District Furloughs
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| CA | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Adds new Section 46201.3 to specify (only if subdivision (c) of Section 3.94 of the Budget Act of 2011 is operative) that for the 2011–12 school year, the minimum number of instructional days and minutes school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools are required to offer is reduced by up to seven days. Provides that implementation of the school calendar reduction must be achieved through the bargaining process. Establishes method for reducing each school district, county office of education, and charter school's revenue limit. Provides that this section does not affect the number of instructional days or instructional minutes that may be reduced pursuant to Section 46201.2. Pages 42-43: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/ab_114_bill_20110630_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 114 - School Calendar Reduction for 2011-12 School Year
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Specifies that Chicago collective bargaining agreements may address decisions to determine the length of the work and school day and length of the work and school year. Page 97 of 111: http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/97/PDF/097-0008.pdf
Title: S.B. 7 - Length of School Day and Year in Collective Bargaining Agreements
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| NC | Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 06/2011 | P-12 | Directs the state board to establish a school calendar pilot program in the Wilkes County Schools, the Montgomery County Schools, and the Stanly County Schools, to determine whether and to what extent a local school administrative unit can save money by consolidating the school calendar. Provides that the school calendar for the 2011-2012 calendar year for the pilot school systems must include a minimum of 185 days or 1,025 hours of instruction covering at least 9 calendar months; permits a participating school system to meet minimum 185 days of instruction by adding instructional hours to previously scheduled days. Directs the state board to report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee by March 15, 2012, on the administration of the pilot program, cost savings realized, and its impact on student achievement. Provides that if the state board finds that it will enhance student performance to do so, the state board may grant a pilot school system a waiver to use up to 5 instructional days or an equivalent number of instructional hours as teacher workdays. Bill text (page 53 of 342): http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H200v9.pdf
State board report: http://www.ncleg.net/documentsites/committees/JLEOC/Reports%20Received/2012%20Reports%20Received/School%20Calendar%20Pilot%20Program.pdf
Title: H.B. 200 - School Calendar Pilot Program
Source: www.ncleg.net
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Permits a local board, or the governing authority of a chartered nonpublic school or a community school, prior to the start of the school year, to submit a plan to the department to require students to complete classroom lessons posted to the district's or nonpublic school's Web portal or Web site to make up for days lost due to school closures in excess of the number of days permitted in statute. Permits up to three days or the equivalent hours to be made up via online lessons. Defines elements that the plan must provide for.
Pages 165-167 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Making Up Lost Instructional Days Online
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Permits a district to begin instruction before the fourth Monday of August at a single campus or at not more than 20% of campuses in the district if the district has an enrollment of 190,000 or more, provides with local funds additional days of instruction at the campus or at each of the multiple campuses, the campus(es) are undergoing comprehensive school reform, and a majority of the students at the campus or campuses are educationally disadvantaged. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB01555F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: H.B. 1555
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| HI | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Excludes multi-track public schools from the 180-day school year requirement. Repeals provision requiring the 180-day instructional year to include 915 instructional hours for the elementary grades and 990 instructional hours for the secondary grades. Repeals provision requiring a 915-hour instructional year for elementary schools and 990-hour instructional year for secondary schools beginning with 2011-13 school years. Provides that for the 2011-12 school year, 50% of public elementary schools (excluding charter schools and multi-track public schools) must implement a 915-hour instructional year, which must be implemented by all public elementary schools beginning with the 2012-13 school year. Requires all public secondary schools, excepting charter and multi-track public schools, to implement a 990-instructional hour school year for the 2014-16 school years. Permits the board of education to grant any individual school a waiver to the instructional hours or instructional days requirement; requires the board of education to adopt policies and procedures related to the granting of such waivers.
Directs the department of education, with the board of education and office of the governor, and in consultation with representatives of the affected collective bargaining units, to submit to the legislature before the convening of the regular sessions of 2013 through 2018, a report on its progress and efforts to meet certain requirements related to length of the school year. Moves the requirement that the department submit a plan for extending the school year from 2012 to 2015. Provides that the plan must be for increasing the instructional day to 190 days beginning with the 2018-19 school year, rather than 2015-16 school year, as previously required.
Directs the department of education to re-examine what constitutes student instructional hours, determine current levels of student instructional hours at each school, and assess the ability of all schools to comply with the requirements of certain statutory requirements, and report such findings to the legislature by September 2011.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2011/Bills/HB945_CD1_.HTM
Title: H.B. 945
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| HI | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Provides that the single school calendar for all public schools does not apply to schools designated by the board of education in furtherance of a plan to improve educational outcome in students. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2011/Bills/SB1171_.HTM
Title: S.B. 1171
Source:
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| OH | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | To amend sections 3313.482, 3314.08, and 3317.01 of the Revised Code to excuse up to five, instead of three, calamity days for the 2010-2011 school year, to broaden schools' authority to make up calamity days by lengthening remaining days in the school year, to waive the number of hours a community school is closed for a public calamity if it meets certain requirements, and to declare an emergency.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_36_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 36
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| CA | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Extends through 2014-15 school year the provision allowing a school district, county office of education or charter school to shorten its instructional year by up to 5 days without incurring fiscal penalties.
Page 45 of 81: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0051-0100/sb_70_bill_20110324_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 70 - Sec. 46201.2
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Section 2: Permits the commissioner of education to grant up to the equivalent of 10 instructional days for school years 2010-11 and 2011-12 for districts that have missed an average of 20 or more days in the previous three years and use alternative methods of instruction, including virtual learning, on days when the school district is closed for health or safety reasons, on nontraditional days, or during nontraditional time. Provides average daily attendance for purposes of supporting education excellence in Kentucky funding during the instructional time granted must be calculated in compliance with administrative regulations promulgated by the state board of education.
Section 3: Provides that if the days in the approved calendar designated as makeup days are used, the commissioner of education must grant a request made by a local board of education to waive the makeup of all remaining instructional days scheduled to occur on or after June 21.
Section 4: Permits a local board of education to amend its 2010-11 school calendar by adding at least 30 minutes to any remaining instructional day to make up time missed due to weather or illness. Requires that all instructional time added pursuant to this section be fully credited toward the calculation of the equivalent of 177 six-hour instructional days, and prohibits a school calendar amended pursuant to this section from being deemed an innovative calendar during the 2010-2011 school year
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB427/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 427 - Lost Instructional Days
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Defines "student instructional hours" as time during which students are engaged in learning activities, including regularly-scheduled instruction and learning assessments within the curriculum, and excludes lunch, recess or passing time. Directs the department of education to maximize the amount of student instructional hours provided at all public schools, except charter schools, under relevant collective bargaining agreements in effect during the 2010-11 school year. For the 2011-13 school years, directs all public schools, except charter schools, to implement a 180-day school year (excluding professional development and other non-instructional days) that includes 915 student instructional hours for the elementary grades, and 990 student instructional hours for the secondary grades. For the 2013-15 school years, requires all public schools, except charter schools, to implement a school year of 1,080 days (excluding professional development and other non-instructional days) that includes 1,080 student instructional hours for both elementary and secondary school grades.Directs the department of education to submit to the legislature, within 20 days of the convening of the regular 2012 session, a plan to implement a 190-day school year (excluding professional development days and other non-instructional days) that includes 1,140 student instructional hours for both elementary and secondary school grades at all public schools, except charter schools, for school years beginning with the 2015-2016 school year. Adds provision that if the implementation of student instructional hours results in varying student transportation schedules, the department must consider pick-up and drop-off times that optimize the department's transportation services while minimizing costs to the state. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2010/Bills/HB2486_CD1_.HTM
Title: H.B. 2486
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| ME | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Establishes a working group of K-12 school officials, primarily superintendents and career and technical education directors, to prepare draft model academic year calendars that account for regional differences within the state to be submitted to the joint standing committee of the legislature having jurisdiction over education matters. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_124th/chapters/RESOLVE154.asp
Title: H.B. 1100
Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org
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| | Vetoed 03/2010 | P-12 | Requires each county superintendent to create a county school calendar committee to develop multiple school calendar options for presentation to all employees for vote; requires the generation of new calendar options if the county board or state board rejects the selected calendar; requires the process to continue until a school calendar is approved by the county board and state board; requiring county board approval of school calendar prior to June 1 of each year. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4652%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2010&sesstype=RS&i=4652
Title: H.B. 4652
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Amends provisions concerning average daily attendance under the state aid formula. Makes changes with respect to days that are used for an in-service training program for teachers and parent-teacher conferences. Authorizes a school board to hold school or schedule teachers' institutes, parent-teacher conferences, or staff development on the third Monday in January (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday); February 12 (Abraham Lincoln's birthday); the first Monday in March (known as Casimir Pulaski's birthday); the second Monday in October (Columbus Day); and November 11 (Veterans' Day), provided that (1) the person(s) honored by the holiday are recognized through instructional activities conducted on that day or, if school is not in session, the school day before or after that day, and (2) a public hearing is held for educators and parents. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB1956lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 1956
Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | From legislative analysis: Existing law prescribes the minimum length of time for the instructional school year and the minimum number of instructional minutes per schoolday. Existing law imposes fiscal penalties on school districts and county offices of education that fail to maintain those minimum instructional times per school year or schoolday.
Effective 2009–10 through the 2012–13 school years, would authorize a school district, county office of education, and charter school to reduce the equivalent of up to 5 days of instruction or the equivalent number of instructional minutes without incurring the fiscal penalties.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/abx4_2_bill_20090728_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2D - Section 21
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov/
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | **No funds allocated in the current budget for this center, according to the DOE's H.B. 1 summary document http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635**
Authorizes the state superintendent to create the center for creativity and innovation in the department of education. Provides that, if created, the center must help schools in districts, educational service centers, community schools and STEM schools with any of the following:
(1) Designing and implementing strategies and systems that enable schools to become professional learning communities, including:
(a) Mentoring and coaching teachers and support staff
(b) Enabling school principals to focus on supporting instruction and engaging teachers and support staff as part of the instructional leadership team so that teachers and staff may share the responsibility for making and implementing school decisions
(c) Adopting new models for restructuring the learning day or year, such as including teacher planning and collaboration time as part of the school day
(d) Creating smaller schools or smaller units within larger schools to facilitate teacher collaboration to improve and advance the professional practice of teaching and to enhance instruction that yields enhanced student achievement.
(2) Using strategies in collaboration with the teach Ohio program to promote, recruit and enhance the teaching profession, including:
(a) Designing and implementing "grow your own" recruitment and retention strategies to support individuals in becoming licensed teachers, to retain highly qualified teachers, to assist experienced teachers in obtaining licensure in subject areas for which there is need, to assist teachers in earning senior professional educator and lead professional educator licenses, and to assist teachers to grow and develop in the profession
(b) Enhanced conditions for new teachers
(c) Incentives to attract qualified math, science or special education teachers
(d) Developing and implementing a partnership with teacher preparation programs at colleges and universities to help attract teachers qualified to teach in shortage areas
(e) Implementing a program to increase the cultural competency of both new and veteran teachers.
(3) Identifying state policies that impede the adoption of innovative practices and making recommendations to the superintendent of public instruction for the repeal, revision, or waiver of those provisions
(4) Identifying promising programs and practices based on high quality education research and developing models for their early adoption, including research and practices in arts education and creativity
(5) Other duties as assigned by the superintendent of public instruction.
If created, directs the center to promote collaboration between districts and community schools to enhance the academic programs of both and to broaden the application of successful and innovative academic practices developed by community schools. In doing so, directs the center to (1) Study and serve as a clearinghouse of best practices and innovative programming developed and utilized by community schools that could be adopted by school districts; and (2) Identify circumstances in which students could benefit from collaboration between the complementary programs of school districts and community schools.
Pages 1044-1045 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.82
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Directs the state superintendent, by December 31, 2010, to submit to the general assembly a report on the superintendent's findings and recommendations on extending the school year. Page 2839 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.70.23
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Section 3306.29: Establishes the Ohio school funding advisory council. Directs the council, by December 1, 2010 and every other year thereafter, to provide recommendations to the state board, the general assembly and the public for revisions to the adequacy components of the evidence-based school funding model . Requires that the recommendations be based on current, high quality research, information provided by school districts, and best practices in operational efficiencies. Requires that the December 2010 recommendations include analysis of the funding model's adequacy in financing for special education, gifted education services, career-technical education, arts education, services for limited English proficient students, and early college high schools.
Also requires the 2010 report to include:
(1) Recommendations for a student-centered evidence-based model that uses a per-pupil level of funding to follow a student to the school that best meets the student's individual learning needs
(2) A study of the extent to which current funding for joint vocational school districts and compact and comprehensive career-technical schools is responsive to state, regional and local business and industry needs, and recommendations for revisions to career-technical education programming and funding
(3) A study of the extent to which the current educational service center system supports school districts in academic achievement, teacher quality, shared educational services, and the purchasing of educational services and commodities, and recommendations for a new regional service delivery system, the educational service system governance structure, and accountability metrics for educational service centers
(4) A study of existing teacher compensation and retirement benefits structures, and recommendations for changes to the systems of teacher compensation and retirement benefits to improve the connections between teacher compensation, teaching excellence and higher levels of student learning
(5) A consideration of whether community schools (charter schools) and STEM schools should be subject to the expenditure and reporting standards and accountability requirements that apply to school districts
(6) An analysis of the effects of open enrollment on students and districts, and recommendations for ensuring that open enrollment policies and financing are equitable for students and districts.
Authorizes the council's analyses and recommendations for 2010 or subsequent biennia to address (but not be limited to):
(1) Strategies and incentives to promote cost-saving measures and efficiencies
(2) Options for adding learning time to the learning year, such as moving educator professional development to summer, adding learning time for children with greater educational needs, accounting for learning time by hours instead of days, and appropriate compensation to districts and staff for providing additional learning time
(3) The adequacy of the model's accounting for and financing of operational costs, including district-level administration and administrative and transportation challenges experienced by low-density and low-wealth school districts, and the effect of those costs on student achievement
(4) The accuacy of the calculation of each component of the funding model, and the model as a whole, in light of current educational needs and practices, and best practices
(5) Options to encourage districts and schools already attaining "excellent" ratings under the state accountability system to go beyond state standards and aspire to higher international norms.
Section 3306.291: Establishes a subcommittee of the Ohio school funding advisory council to study and make recommendations to foster collaboration between school districts and community schools. Directs the subcommittee to recommend fiscal strategies, including changes to the evidence-based funding model, that will provide incentives and compensation for districts and community schools to enter into collaborative agreements resulting in creative and innovative academic programming, and academic and fiscal efficiency. Directs the subcommittee to report its findings and recommendations to the general assembly by September 2010, and periodically thereafter at the direction of the state superintendent.
Section 3306.292: Permits the Ohio school funding advisory council to establish additional subcommittees. Leaves the membership and duties of the additional subcommittees to the discretion of the advisory council. Provides that up to one-half of the members of each additional subcommittee may be individuals who are not members of the council.
Pages 1103-1106 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.29, 3306.291 and 3306.292
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| MO | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Defines "school term" as a minimum of 174 school days for schools with a 5-day school week or a minimum of 142 school days, as that term
35 is defined in section 160.041, for schools with a four-day school week. 160.041 defines the "minimum school day" as three hours for schools with a 5-day school week or four hours for schools with a 4-day school week in which the pupils are under the guidance and direction of teachers in the teaching process. A "school month" consists of four weeks of 5 days each for schools with a 5-day school week or four weeks of four days each for schools with a 4-day school week.
http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB291.pdf
Title: S.B. 291 - School Calendar
Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov
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| NY | Adopted 06/2009 | P-12 | Amends rule to extend to 2013 the provision allowing use of up to two professional development days for teacher scoring of state assessments. Adopted as published on pages 21-22 of 43: http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2009/apr8/pdfs/rules.pdf
Title: Title 8 NYCRR 175.5
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Section 17: Directs the commissioner, in reviewing a funding application for an extended year program, to give priority to districts with high concentrations of educationally disadvantaged students.
Section 18: Brings provisions related to flexible school day program applications in line with provisions outlined in 2009 H.B. 1297 (http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB01297F.pdf)
Section 19: Directs the commissioner of education to distribute funds for life skills programs for student parents. Directs the commissioner to give priority to applicant districts that received funds for such a program the preceding year, and then to districts with the highest concentration of students who are pregant or parents. Specifies that a life skills programs for student parents is required only in districts that receive a state grant for this purpose and any other funds available for the program. Pages 13-16 of 108: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03646F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3646 - Sections 17-19
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Directs the Department of Education to provide by rule for a school calendar that is based upon a minimum annual number of hours that is equivalent to the current 180-day school calendar, or for an equivalent amount of hours annually in accordance with rules adopted by the department. At least 175 days or the equivalent must be used for instruction. In meeting the requirement of a 180-day school year or the equivalent, no more than 5 days or the equivalent may be used for in-service education of teachers, administrative meetings, parent-teacher conferences, records' days and similar activities.
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_124th/billpdfs/SP008601.pdf
Title: S.B. 86
Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org/
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Over a period of eight years, starting in 2011:
Section 104 states that each school district shall make available to students the following minimum instructional offering each school year:
(2) (a) For students enrolled in grade one through twelve, at least a district-wide annual average of one thousand hours...which shall be increased to at least 1080 instructional hours for students enrolled in each of grades seven through twelve and at least 1000 instructional hours for students in each of grades one through six according to an implementation scheduled adopted by the legislature. (b) For students enrolled in kindergarten, at least 450 instructional hours, which shall be inceased to at least 1000 hours according to the implementation schedule under RCW 28A.150.315 (3) The instructional program of basic education provided by each school district shall include: (a) Instruction in the essential academic learning requirements under RCW 28A..655.070; (b) Instruction that provides students the opportunity to complete 24 credits for high school graduation, subject to a phased-in implementation of the 24 credits as established by the legislature. Course distribution requirements may be established by the state board of education under RCW 28A.230.090; (c) If the essential academic learning requirements include a requirement of languages other than English, the requirement may be met by students receiving instruction in one or more American Indian languages; (d) Supplemental instruction and services for underachieving students through the learning assistance program under RCW 28A.165.005 through 28A.165.065; (e) Supplemental instruction and services for eligible and enrolled students whose primary language is other than English through the transitional bilingual instruction program under RCW 28A.180.010 through 28A.180.080; (f) Opportunity for an appropriate education at public expense as defined by RCW 28A.155.020 for all eligible students with disabilities as defined in RCW 28A.155.020
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2261-S.PL.pdf
Title: H.B. 2261--Section 104--Calendar and Credit Hours
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2008 | P-12 | Provides for the phase out of the Year-Round School Grant Program by reducing the grant amounts each fiscal year until a specified fiscal year. Prohibits the approval of new grants. Requires the funds for the grant program be augmented in the annual Budget Act in a specified amount and transferred to the Department of Education. Provides for the transfer of a specified amount of funds appropriated for the grant program to the Charter School Facility Grant Program to accomplish the reallocation of funding. Chapter 271. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0651-0700/sb_658_bill_20080924_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 658
Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov
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| AL | Adopted 05/2008 | P-12 | Increases the minimum number of teaching days in the school year from 175 to 180 (in compliance with 2003 S.B. 4). Permits secondary school students (in both summer school and regular school year) to demonstrate mastery of Alabama course of study content standards without specified instructional time. Authorizes local boards to create honors curricula that include rigor above that of the Advanced Academic Endorsement. Provides that effective with the ninth grade class of 2009-2010 (Class of 2013), the Alabama High School Diploma with Advanced Academic Endorsement becomes the first-choice diploma option for high school students. Permits local boards of education to voluntarily implement this endorsement as the first-choice diploma option for the 2008-2009 school year. Provides that effective with 9th grade students during the 2008-2009 school year, students will be required to complete one distance-learning course prior to graduation. Allows exceptions through Individualized Education Plans.
Eliminates the Alternate Adult High School Diploma, which allowed students who did not pas all sections of the graduation exam to earn a high school diploma by completing all course requirements and passing the GED.
Establishes the Alabama High School Diploma with Credit-Based Endorsement for students who have taken the Alabama High School Graduation Exam through the 12th grade and have passed the reading, mathematics, and one of the science, language, or social studies subject-area tests of the exam. Provides that effective for students in the 12th grade during 2007-2008 school year, to earn an Alabama High School Diploma with Credit-Based Endorsement, eligible general education students and students with disabilities must complete the required credits in the core curriculum for an Alabama diploma and earn one additional Career/Technical Education (CTE) or academic credit related to the student's career objective consistent with any guidelines established by the State Department of Education and local boards of education.
Authorizes local boards to establish Credit Recovery programs allowing certain students learning opportunities to master concepts and skills in one or more failed courses. Requires course content for credit recovery courses to be composed of standards in which students proved deficient rather than all standards of the original course. Provides schools may offer these courses using computer software, online instruction, or teacher-directed instruction. Requires the curriculum to align with state board courses of study content standards in which students are deficient.
Eliminates provision that a secondary school student may earn no more than ten credits during a school year.
Title: 290-3-1-.02
Source: www.lexis.com
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | Establishes the Utah Science Technology and Research Initiative (USTAR) Centers Program to provide a financial incentive for charter schools and school districts to adopt programs that result in a more efficient use of human resources and capital facilities.
Enumerates the potential benefits of the program:
(1) Increased compensation for math and science teachers by providing opportunities for an expanded contract year which will enhance school districts' and charter schools' ability to attract and retain talented and highly qualified math and science teachers
(2) Increased capacity of school buildings by using buildings more hours of the day or more days of the year, resulting in reduced capital facilities costs
(3) Decreased class sizes created by expanding the number of instructional opportunities in a year
(4) Opportunities for earlier high school graduation
(5) Improved student college preparation
(6) Increased opportunities to offer additional remedial and advanced courses in math and science
(7) Opportunities to coordinate high school and post-secondary math and science education
(8) The creation or improvement of science, technology, engineering, and math centers (STEM Centers).
Directs the State Board of Education to solicit proposals from the State Charter School Board and from districts, and to award competitive grants from monies appropriated for the USTAR Centers Program to pay for costs related to the adoption and implementation of the program. Specifies criteria the state board must consider when selecting grant recipients.
Provides that a school district or charter school must use at least 95% of grant monies received to provide full year teacher contracts, part-time teacher contract extensions, or combinations of both, for math and science teachers. Up to 5% of grant monies may be used to fund math and science field trips, textbooks, and supplies. Provides that Participation in the USTAR Centers Program must be voluntary for individual teachers and for a charter school or school district.
Directs the state board to make an annual report during the 2009, 2010 and 2011 interims to the Public Education Appropriations Subcommittee describing the program's impact on students and its effectiveness at achieving the benefits enumerated in legislation.
Pages 33-35 of 43: http://le.utah.gov/~2008/bills/sbillenr/sb0002.pdf
Title: S.B. 2 - Section 22
Source: le.utah.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 11/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Amends the Election Code. Allows high school juniors to serve as election judges. Allows an individual not entitled to vote in a precinct or county to serve as an election judge if the individual is a student at a community college or public or private Illinois university or college and meets other specified criteria. Provides that high school or college students appointed as election judges shall not be counted as absent from school on the day they serve as judges.
Deletes provision that no school board may designate or observe as a special holiday on which teachers or other school employees are not required to work the days on which general elections for members of the Illinois House of Representatives are held. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB0662lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 662
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Revises the definitions of standard school, elementary school, high school, and the number of days of school.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2007/HB0126.html
Title: H.B. 126
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us
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| VT | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Directs the commissioner of education to announce a uniform statewide school calendar each year. Creates a "calendar committee" to develop a uniform statewide school calendar and sets membership: (1) The commissioner of education, or the commissioner's designee, who shall serve as the committee's chair and who shall ensure that the first committee meeting occurs on or before July 15, 2007.
(2) Two representatives of each of the following entities to be selected by the entities:
(A) The Vermont superintendents association. (B) The Vermont school boards association. (C) The Vermont principals' association. (D) The Vermont-national education association.
(3) Two regional technical center directors to be selected by the Vermont association of career and technical education directors.
(4) Two members of the business community to be selected by the Vermont business roundtable.
(5) Two high school students, who shall not be the students sitting on the state board of education, one of whom shall be selected by the speaker of the house of representatives and the other shall be selected by the president pro tempore of the senate.
Any calendar developed must require at least 175 common student attendance days. A majority of students in each grade must be in attendance or participating in a school-sponsored academic activity for a minimum of five and one-half hours, including recess and excluding lunch, for a day to constitute one full student attendance day. If a majority of students in any grade is in attendance or participating for fewer than five and one-half hours, the day shall be counted as one-half of a student attendance day. The calendar must require the first three student days of the academic year to occur on the Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in the week preceding Labor Day.It must allow for waivers and may include a provision that there be a sole vacation period between January 2 and April 30, to occur during the week of town meeting.
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2008/bills/passed/H-015.HTM
Title: H.B. 15
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2006 | P-12 | Revises the requirement for instructional hours in school code to conform to school aid act. The bill would delete provisions in the Revised School Code regarding the minimum required number of hours of pupil instruction and instead require that school districts and public school academies (charter schools) provide at least the minimum number of hours of pupil instruction each school year required under the State School Aid Act.
Currently, the code requires the board of a school district or charter school to increase the number of days and hours of instruction each school year. For example, in 2005-2006, the code required 189 days of instruction and 1,134 hours of instruction; in 2006-2007, schools must offer 190 days and 1,140 hours of instruction, with some exceptions. The bill would delete these provisions, and instead would require the boards of public schools, including charter schools, to provide at least the minimum amount of pupil instruction each school year required under the School Aid Act. ACT 534
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/publicact/pdf/2006-PA-0534.pdf
Title: S.B. 95
Source: Michigan Legislature
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| OH | Signed into law 12/2006 | P-12 | Changes school year from not less than 182 days to 455 hours (for half-day kindergarten; 910 hours for full-day kindergarten); 910 hours for pupils in grades one through six; and 1001 hours for pupils in grades seven through twelve. Ten hours in K-6 and 11 hours per year in grades 7-12 may be for parent-teacher conferences. Ten hours in K-6 and 11 hours per year in grades 7-12 may be for professional meeting of teachers. Morning and afternoon recess periods of not more than 15 minutes duration per period are allowed in grades K-6.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_311
Title: S.B. 311 -- Sec. 3313.48
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| 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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| MI | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Allow an exception to the post-Labor Day starting date requirement for intermediate school districts.
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/publicact/pdf/2006-PA-0235.pdf
Title: H.B. 5977
Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Beginning with the 2007-2008 school year, the opening date for schools in Florida districts may not be earlier than 14 days before Labor Day each year.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 11)
Source: Florida Legislature
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| SD | Active 05/2006 | P-12 | (Initiated Measure 3) Restricts the start of a regular school term prior to the last day of August. On 11/07/2006 Ballot.
http://www.sdsos.gov/electionsvoteregistration/upcomingelection_ballotquestionstatus.shtm
Title: Measure 3 (V. 6)
Source: South Dakota Secretary of State
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| WI | Vetoed 04/2006 | P-12 | Eliminates provision that school year include 180 school days. Replaces with provisions defining school year as minimum hours of instruction. Provides that scheduled hours in the school year may include no more than 35 hours on Saturdays. http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/acts/05enAB0084.pdf
Title: A.B. 84
Source: www.legis.state.wi.us
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| FL | Adopted 11/2005 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Each district school board, each community college district board of trustees, and each university board of trustees must adopt an annual calendar prior to the beginning of each fiscal year that will be observed by all schools or post high school educational institutions. This rule spells out objectives for the annual calendars, including: (a) minimal loss of time between student exit from one public institution and entry into another; b) opportunity for students to move through the educational system at their respective paces; c) opportunity for effective and efficient utilization of resources; and (e) opportunity for family activities. The rule also establishes starting times for common entry periods at community colleges and four-year institutions. Other specifications are mentioned as well.
http://www.firn.edu/doe/rules/6a-101.htm#6A-10.019
Title: FAC 6A-10.019
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 11/2005 | P-12 | Exempts schools from minimum 180-day school year for the 2005-2006 school year. Authorizes the state board of education to adopt rules for the 2005-2006 school year related to the minimum session required of any institution in order to be classified as a school.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=329560
Title: H.B. 21A
Source: Lexis-Nexis, http://www.legis.state.la.us/
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| LA | Signed into law 11/2005 | P-12 | Waives minimum instructional time requirements in the 2005-2006 school year for any city, parish, or other local public school or district that cannot meet the minimum requirements due to school closure for reasons of natural catastrophe or disaster as certified by the state superintendent of education and approved by the state board, in accordance with state board rules. Requires any entity not able to meet the minimum instructional time requirements in the 2005-2006 school year to submit to the state superintendent of education documented information explaining the reasons why it cannot meet such requirements and any efforts made toward meeting the requirements and a revised school calendar for the 2005-2006 school year. Requires schools and school systems subject to such certification and approval to comply with the revised school calendar. Requires the waiver provisions to apply to an entire school system only if every school within the system is forced to close due to natural catastrophe or disaster.
Effective for the 2005-2006 school year, waives the provisions relative to the requirement that teachers work not less then one hundred eighty-two days per school year. However, authorizes the state board to adopt rules effective for the 2005-2006 school year relative to the minimum number of teacher work days.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=329564
Title: H.B. 33A
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Requires the select oversight committee on education to examine and study the dates for starting and ending the school year in public schools in Tennessee. http://tennessee.gov/sos/acts/104/pub/pc0454.pdf
Title: S.B. 516
Source: http://tennessee.gov
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| NV | (H) APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR. CHAPTER 151. 05/2005 | P-12 | AN ACT relating to education; authorizing the boards of trustees of school districts to apply to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for additional days or minutes of instruction for certain programs of remedial education; authorizing the board of trustees of a school district to prescribe the minimum attendance requirements for pupils who are enrolled in kindergarten or the first grade and for pupils who are enrolled in certain programs of remedial education; revising related provisions governing the attendance and truancy of pupils.
Title: H.B. 518
Source: StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Creates a legislative task force to examine the effect of school calendars on Kentucky's tourism industry and the potential effect that changes in school calendars may have on Kentucky's educational system. Establishes task force membership. Requires the task force to report its findings to the Legislative Research Commission no later than December 15, 2005.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HC55.htm
Title: H.C.R. 55
Source: lrc.ky.gov
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Includes the day of primary elections as a day in which schools are closed. http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/SB7.htm
Title: S.B. 7
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 07/2004 | P-12 | Deletes the reduction in base revenue limit funding that results to certain school districts for offering less than 180 days of instruction. Conditions the entitlement to the same support from the State School Fund due to the average daily attendance on the districts operating under the provisions of law relating to the 180-day school year. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1101-1150/sb_1142_bill_20040701_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB1142Veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1142
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2004 | P-12 | This bill: creates a pilot program to evaluate the effects on student academic achievement of reducing the minimum school term established by the state board by up to 22 hours for the purpose of conducting professional development for instructional staff; requires a local school board to submit a plan to the state board to participate in the pilot program; allows the state board to determine the number of schools and school districts that may participate in the pilot program; requires the state board to report to the Education Interim Committee on the findings from the pilot program; and sunsets the pilot program on July 1, 2008. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2004/bills/hbillenr/hb0100.pdf
Title: H.B. 100
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us
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| MI | Signed into law 08/2003 | P-12 | Establishes minimum number of annual instructional time for full state funding as 1,098 hours. (Previous state law, statute 380.1284, established that the minimum instructional year in hours for 2003-04 school year was 1,122, with incremental increases in successive years, finally reaching 1,140 in the 2006-07 school year and every successive year).
Also allows a district to count up to 51 hours of professional development for teachers, including the 5 hours of online professional development provided by the Michigan virtual university under section 98, as hours of pupil instruction. A district that elects to use this exception shall notify the department of its election.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/billenrolled/house/pdf/2003-HNB-4401.pdf
See governor's comment on this section (page 9/36): http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/journal/house/pdf/2003-HJ-08-13-064.pdf
Title: H.B. 4401 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.michiganlegislature.org
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2003 | P-12 | Specifies that for the 2002-03 school year and thereafter, the requirements governing the minimum length of the school day and year do not apply to any district or school that was unable to meet minimum instructional time requirements due to school closure within the last thirty calendar days of the school year, when such closure was the result of natural disaster as defined by the state superintendent and state board. State board must adopt regulations requiring any school or district that was unable to meet the minimum instructional time requirements, due to circumstances specified above, to submit to the state superintendent information on why the school or district was unable to meet the requirements and any efforts made by the school or district to meet the requirements. Provisions apply to a district only if every school in the district was forced to close due to natural disaster. For the 2002-03 school year, these provisions do not apply to the New Orleans system and which in 2002-03 school year cannot meet the specified minimum instructional time requirements due to school board's action providing professional development activities during the school day in every school in the system and the reduced instructional time does not exceeed one hundred eighty minutes.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB457&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 457
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| MI | Vetoed 06/2003 | P-12 | For purposes of eligibility to receive state aid, changes minimum day requirements to minimum hour requirements, thus requiring each district to provide at least 1,098 hours of pupil instruction per school year. Specifies that before a district changes its schedule to a 4-day school week, the local board must hold at least two public hearings on the issue of a 4-day school week. If the board decides to make the change, it must adopt a resolution that includes all of the following: (a) A statement in writing pledging that the costs savings from the change will be allocated to classroom instruction and will not be used for pay increases. (b) A statement in writing indicating that the change is being made because the board has determined that it will result in budget savings and stabilize or enhance pupil performance in the district.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/billenrolled/senate/pdf/2003-SNB-0364.pdf
Title: S.B. 364
Source: www.michiganlegislature.org
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| MO | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Eliminates provision requiring first day of school to be on September 1 or later. http://www.senate.mo.gov/03INFO/bills/SB686.htm
Title: S.B. 686 (§ 171.031)
Source: www.senate.mo.gov
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| MO | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Allows a district to be exempt in the 2002-03 school year from the requirement to make up school days canceled due to inclement weather after November 20, 2002, in the school district. Waives the requirement to make up two-thirds of the missed days in the 2003-04 school year. http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills03/biltxt/truly/HB0554T.HTM
Title: H.B. 554
Source: www.house.state.mo.us
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Allows the state commissioner of education to approve five disaster days for a school district that was closed at least ten days due to disastrous weather conditions during the 2002-03 academic year. Certified staff are required to report to work and engage in instructional activities or professional development during the five disaster days. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/SB132/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 132
Source: http://www.lrc.state.ky.us
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Provides time for home visits and parent-teacher conferences in kindergarten through grade five.
Title: H.B. 68
Source: StateNet
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| SC | Adopted 12/2002 | P-12 | Establishes a 10-day window in late August and early September during which all South Carolina public schools would have to open. Schools would have to begin no earlier than the last Monday before Labor Day and no later than the Wednesday after Labor Day. Schools that operate on a year-round calendar will be exempted from the new rule.
Title: 43-142
Source: http://www.sde.state.sc.us/
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2002 | P-12 | Relates to existing law which authorizes the Board of Education to waive the fiscal penalties for a school district or county board of education that fails to maintain the prescribed minimum length of time for the instructional school year, minimum number of instructional days, or both. Authorizes a waiver to be granted for fiscal penalties for any shortfall in the 2000-01 fiscal year or thereafter under certain conditions.
Title: A.B. 1227
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2002 | P-12 | Continues to allow school districts to operate a program of multitrack year-around scheduling for as few as 163 days in each fiscal year only until July 1, 2008.
Title: A.B. 2027
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12 | Requires school districts and charter school operating on approved alternative calendars to comply with annual hours of instruction requirements; permits counting pupils as having attended full-time in any week for which the pupil was enrolled in and physically attending 20 hours of instruction. Defines "full-time instructional program" as at least 120 hours a year in at least four subjects in FY 00-01 or 122 hours per subject or a total of 704 instructional hours in FY 01-02. Minimum number of hours increases by four hours each successive fiscal year through 05-06, when minimum number of instructional hours for all subjects is 720. Minimum number of hours per subject increases to 123 in FY 03-04. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/laws/0189.htm
Title: H.B. 2484
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| MI | Signed into law 11/2001 | P-12 | Public Act 167., Provides that the board of a school district, local art school district, public school academy or intermediate school district shall ensure that the district's schools are not in session on the Friday before Labor Day, unless a local collective bargaining agreement provides otherwise; provides that the provisions in the act shall not apply to that school district until after the expiration of that agreement.
Title: H.B. 4491
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | , Increase the minimum number of instructional school days per school year in public elementary and secondary schools form 175 to 177.
Title: H.B. 458
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | , Requires make-up days when school board closes school as the result of school employees threatening or failing to appear for work.
Title: S.B. 702
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Concerns school districts; provides for waivers from duration of the school term due to disaster; allows the state board of education to waive the requirements of law relating to the duration of the school term in any school year upon application for such waiver by a school district; defines the term disaster to mean the occurrence of widespread or severe damage, injury or loss of life or property resulting from any natural or manmade cause.
Title: H.B. 2155
Source: Kansas Legislative Web Site
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| KY | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Requires that school districts adopt a school calendar designating opening and closing dates and instructional days and permitting the scheduling of school breaks outside of the minimum school term; requires that schools allow teacher delegates to attend statewide professional meetings and hire substitute teachers if schools are scheduled to operate on meeting days; allows Federal School Breakfast Program to provide students with 15 minutes to eat breakfast.
Title: S.B. 108
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MO | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Relates to inclement weather exceptions for mandatory days of school attendance; amends an exception to the mandatory days of school attendance that currently refers to exceptions allowed because of flooding in specific past years to apply to inclement weather in the 2000-2001 school year; amends section that currently permits districts to reduce the year by 11 days and changes this to up to 5 days when a district has missed more than 7 days overall after November 20, 2000; the reduction of days will be on a one-for-one basis, from one day for 8 days missed up to 5 days for 12 or more days missed; waives the requirement for scheduling two-thirds of the missed days into the next year's calendar for the 2001-2002 school year; permits certain school districts that remained open when neighboring districts closed to use their previous year's average daily attendance count for those days; bill contains an emergency clause.
Title: H.B. 274
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | A school district may not begin instruction for students for a school year before the week in which August 21 falls. Sunday is considered the first day of the week.
Title: S.B. 108
Source: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/
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| SC | Signed into law 08/2000 | P-12 | Adds 3 days for the next 2 school years and 2 more days for all school years thereafter; provides that the State Board of Education shall review and make necessary revisions to criteria for requesting out-of-field teacher permits; provides that the Board shall consider establishing for principals a recertification requirement; provides that the Board and the Department of Education shall review and refine certain professional performance dimensions in the state's teacher evaluation program.
Title: S.B. 1111
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Amends existing law to delete noninstructional from recess time as it relates to the option of a local school board or trustees to approve a reduction in annual instructional hour requirements as allowed by law; maintains the restriction that recess time shall not be included in the reduction.
Title: H.B. 636
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Requires schools to be closed on the third Monday of January in observance of the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.; permits districts to designate the day as one of the four holidays or to not include the day in the minimum school term; requires school closure on day of the general election and on Veteran's Day.
Title: H.B. 347
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Creates the Extended School Year Incentive Program and Fund, from such funds as may be appropriated, to be administered by the Board of Education, for incentive grants for public school divisions for the operation of schools beyond the 180-day school year required by the Standards of Accreditation;establishes procedures for calculating amounts for incentive grants to school divisions.
Title: S.B. 545
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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